Jobs in George St & Harbour, Aberdeen

Caf4e@Credo is a coffee shop for the whole community set on the ground floor of a three-storey building known as The Credo Centre, formerly a church. The coffee shop is a company within a registered charity, with a staff of 4 employees and a team of volunteers.

It aims are …

• To offer hospitality, space and a Christian presence within the city centre.
• To provide meeting space for Christian churches, charities and other organisations.
• To be supportive of those who are willing to volunteer whilst developing the skills and confidence to seek a range of employment.

On the upper floor of the Credo Centre is an open plan office floor accommodating many local charities and on the middle floor there is a large hall along with a multi-purpose room with a mix of soft furnishing and office furniture. There are two additional meeting rooms and a suite of four, 2 person counselling rooms.

The café manager currently has responsibility for letting out these rooms for meetings, events and conferences, liaising with users and organising the cleaning. The owners of the building are local and take an active interest in the usage of the space as well as maintenance and upkeep.

Since Covid-19 the coffee shop is open five days a week 9.30am - 3pm with the hope of re-opening on a Saturday in the near future. We remain closed on a Sunday.

The role

The newly created role of Hospitality and catering co-ordinator will have lead responsibility for the meeting room floor, with the aim of growing this area of the business. The successful candidate will be a motivated and organised individual who can combine efficient running of the meeting and events space and marketing and promotional activities with excellent customer service and being a reliable and effective team player. Tasks include managing bookings, liaising with users to plan their event, meeting and greeting on the day, agreeing catering with the café manager, and organising the room set up and cleaning schedule. The person will have a key role in building the reputation of the meeting room facility, through delivering excellent customer care, and will also actively seek new opportunities to promote the business with the support of the coffee shop manager.

This new role will provide additional capacity within the Caf4e Credo team and the person will work closely with the café manager as well as staff and volunteers. At times this will include providing the catering for meeting room users on the day and filling in as a member of the coffee shop team where required. The right candidate will be flexible and responsive, with the ability to be hands on in the café as required, to problem solve when challenges arise, and to proactively identify opportunities to add value to the team. The Hospitality and catering co-ordinator will also provide holiday relief for the manager and other staff members as required.

The post is being introduced initially on a temporary basis of 18 months, with the possibility of extension should the business continue to grow.

Working Hours

The post is for a total of 20 hours per week at £13000 per anum. Hours are expected to be Monday – Thursday, 9.30am – 2.30pm, but working pattern can be negotiated and we are open to the possibility of a flexible working pattern. A pension and paid holiday hours included.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Advancing the reputation of the Centre and promoting the meetings and events space through:
  • Excellent customer care
  • Seeking marketing opportunities such as developing promotional leaflets or social media material to bring new customers to the business
  • Developing new interest in the business through other creative routes
• Taking lead responsibility for the successful running of the meeting and events space at The Credo Centre which will include:
  • Co-ordinating bookings
  • Liaising with users to plan their event
  • Arranging catering if required with the Caf4e Credo team
  • Setting up the meeting rooms as required for the meeting or event
  • Meeting and greeting the meeting room customers and ensuring the requirements of the booking are met to a high standard
  • Tidying after an event and organising the cleaning (cleaning done by separately by professional cleaners)
• Enhancing the capacity of the Caf4e team through
  • Working closely with Caf4e staff and volunteers to organise and provide catering for meetings and events
  • Filling in for Caf4e staff as required, in and around the primary focus of running the meetings and event space
  • Providing holiday cover for the Caf4e manager and other members of staff

Person specification

• Leadership qualities
• Hospitable and able to interact with people on all levels
• To be self-motivated but also a team player as the role demands
• Good time-keeper and attention to detail
• Competent with social-media and computer skills

Aberdeen Association of Social Services (T/A VSA) is currently seeking to appoint a Philanthropy & Partnerships Manager to join our Philanthropy & Income Generation Department on our ambitious journey as we scale up for success. This is a great opportunity for an ambitious individual to take ownership of this pivotal role in support of the strategic aims of the department and VSA.

Working closely with the Director of External Relations you will be responsible for developing relationships with a portfolio of individual and corporate prospects who have the propensity to give high five, six and seven figure gifts with multi-year commitments.

To be successful, you will need to have expertise in corporate and philanthropy fundraising, including evidence of new business and account management successes in generating income. You will need to be a strong relationship builder, with both external and internal stakeholders and have exceptional written and verbal communication skills with an ability to tell stories that inspire people to support our work.

We are a small, but agile, team that prides itself on creating an exceptional supporter experience. The successful candidate will need to be able to work independently to manage and prioritise your own workload in order to meet competing deadlines and deliver against annual financial targets.

About VSA

At VSA we help change the lives of over 20,000 vulnerable children and adults each year. We support a person's physical, mental, emotional, and social wellbeing through a range of residential and outreach support services. Across all our services, we support people living with learning disabilities, a mental health diagnosis, loneliness and isolation, additional support needs, poverty, addiction, and long-life conditions such as Parkinson's and Dementia.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact, Jennifer Mitchell, Director of External Relations on 01224 358613.

Aberdeen Association of Social Services (T/A VSA) is currently seeking to appoint a Community Engagement and Supporter Experience Manager to join our Philanthropy & Income Generation Department on our ambitious journey as we scale up for success.

This is a busy and varied role and you will be the main point of contact for supporters raising money in aid of VSA or those who are taking part in VSA led or mass participation events. You will be responsible for growing our unrestricted income across multiple income streams

Reporting directly to the Director of External Relations, the Community Engagement and Supporter Experience Manager will be responsible for supporter led acquisition, maximising donations from individual supporters and the administration and delivery of our supporter experience and events.

To be successful you will need to have expertise in Developing and Managing high quality relationships with fundraisers to cultivate, engage and nurture prospects and existing supporters. In addition, you will need to evidence your ability to create new and appealing fundraising activities, to appeal to and recruit new audiences and supporters.

We are a small, but agile, team that prides itself on creating an exceptional supporter experience. The successful candidate will need to be able to work independently to manage and prioritise your own workload in order to meet competing deadlines and deliver against annual financial targets.

About VSA:

At VSA we help change the lives of over 20,000 vulnerable children and adults each year. We support a person's physical, mental, emotional, and social wellbeing through a range of residential and outreach support services. Across all our services, we support people living with learning disabilities, a mental health diagnosis, loneliness and isolation, additional support needs, poverty, addiction, and long-life conditions such as Parkinson's and Dementia.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact, Jennifer Mitchell, Director of External Relations on 01224 358613.

MCR Pathways is a transformational secondary school mentoring and talent development programme supporting care-experienced (CE) young people (including those previously), and other vulnerable young people experiencing disadvantage (for example those with a social worker or on the periphery of the care-system) to realise their full potential through education.

MCR was founded to reverse the education and life-chances outcome gap that exists between CE young people and their peers, and to achieve equality of educational outcomes, career opportunities and life chances for all young people. Focused on need, not label. Developed with and by young people over the past 14 years, MCR’s programme dramatically improves educational achievement, wellbeing and post-school destinations.

At its heart, MCR’s model is relationship-based mentoring that has evolved into an integrated programme supporting primary school transition and delivering weekly group work in S1 and S2. Young people from S3 upwards are carefully matched with a volunteer, trained mentor to meet one-to-one on a weekly basis. Young people also have the opportunity to access an offer of employment, college and university experiences.

MCR young people tell their stories far better than us. Hear them in their own words in these short films of young people who have participated in the programme, reflecting on how mentoring has helped them create better futures for themselves:

Watch Emily's Story

Bridges that Transform

We currently work with 72 schools across Scotland and are delighted that the Scottish government has recently announced £19.4 million funding to bring the programme to every secondary school in Scotland. These are really exciting times and we are looking for an exceptional Programme Manager to lead programme implementation and manage our school-based Coordinators across a group of Aberdeen schools.

The role is an exciting and varied one. As part of our Education & Schools team, you will lead the regional team of school Pathways Coordinators and be supported by our Mentor Services, Marketing and Digital teams.

For this role, you’ll need to be relentlessly driven to ensure all care-experienced and disadvantaged young people in the region are supported to find, grow and use their individual talents and that their education, employment choices and life chances outcomes are maximised. You’ll have experience of managing a team, be highly organised and ambitious to ensure all young people in scope have the opportunity to access the YST Aberdeen programme.

Read the Person Specification