Pauline Radcliffe has been appointed as the Office for the Scottish Charity Regulator’s next chair.
Radcliffe will join the regulator at the start of December and her term will run until the end of November 2030.
She succeeds Marieke Dwarshuis, who is leaving after the end of a four-year term.
Radcliffe will be paid a fee of £308.64 per day for a time commitment of four days a month.
She has run her own consultancy since March and was most recently chief executive of the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework Partnership, a position she held for three years until December 2025.
Radcliffe has also since May served as the chair of the CLD Standards Council for Scotland, which is the professional standards and registration body for people who work or volunteer in community learning and development.
She previously worked for the Scottish Government as its head of sponsorship between 2021 and 2022.
Radcliffe was a director at the Glasgow Clyde Education Foundation between 2014 and 2021.
She has also worked as a Scottish government policy adviser in tertiary education and has held accountable officer and company secretary responsibilities for several charitable and public sector organisations.
Between 1999 and 2004, Radcliffe was also head of the Scotland office at the New Opportunities Fund, a UK lottery-distributing body established under the National Lottery Act 1998.
Radcliffe was also a trustee at Scottish Action for Mental Health and was chair of the community music charity Givin’ it Laldie.
In a Linkedin post, Radcliffe said: “As a person who has been involved as a volunteer trustee, accountable officer and executive in the third sector throughout my adult life at both a community and national level in Scotland, I am looking forward to working with the OSCR board and staff team to deliver the proportionate and effective regulation set out in their strategy, giving an account for that work to the Scottish Parliament.”