Our senior management team
One Parent Families Scotland (OPFS) has four members of staff on our senior management team.
Our senior management is backed up by departmental management and workers.
Satwat Rehman
Chief Executive
Satwat has more than 30 years’ experience in the voluntary and public sector in Scotland and England, working in the fields of equalities, education, employability, economic development/regeneration and early years and childcare. Since joining OPFS in 2011, she has been a member of several commissions and advisory groups and is a member of the Just Transition Commission. Satwat is currently leading OPFS’ work on how we can help Keep The Promise in Scotland.
Marion Davis
Director Policy, Communication & Strategy
Marion has 30 yrs experience working in the third sector in various roles including community development, welfare rights, policy & research and senior management. Marion is involved in various third sector partnerships aiming to influence change - Scottish Campaign on Welfare Reform, School Clothing Grants Campaign and the End Child Poverty Coalition. She works to ensure the OPFS sustains and strengthens the voice of single parents and their children in reaching policy makers.
Umar Ansari
Director of Support for Families and National Programmes
Umar's primary role is to lead the direct service provision with single parent families and their children. This includes managing all national services across OPFS centres. He brings over twenty years' experience as a community practitioner within Children & Families, with over a decade in senior roles across local and national charities as well as, more recently, in education and pastoral care.