Scottish Book Trust is a national charity changing lives through reading and writing.

Do you want to help us transform lives through reading and writing?

We are seeking an enthusiastic CRM Assistant to support the CRM Manager in administrating our new CRM system.

have the power to change lives. A love of reading inspires creativity, improves employment opportunities, mental health and wellbeing and is one of the most effective ways to help break the poverty cycle. We work towards a Scotland where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive through literacy.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is experienced and enthusiastic in data management. We are looking for someone who can use initiative and creative approaches to help staff get the best from our CRM in delivering programmes efficiently and effectively.

Everyone has the right to live life to the full. After a diagnosis of a chest or heart condition or a stroke, many people experience fear and isolation and struggle with the impact on their lives. Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland won’t stand for that. The care and support we deliver every day ensure everyone can live the life they want to.

CHSS is seeking someone to undertake the organisation’s payroll and pension administration tasks. The successful candidate will have experience of payroll administration and will be expected to contribute to improving processes and procedures. As well as a sound knowledge of payroll the ability to work to tight deadlines and deal with sensitive matters professionally is important. Sage payroll experience would be an advantage. As important is bringing a positive can-do approach and working well with the broader team.

CHSS employees enjoy a variety of organisational benefits including: Company pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, company sick pay, employee welfare support and life assurance.

Girlguiding Scotland is the leading charity for girls and young women in the Scotland, incorporating Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Rangers. Our vision is an equal world where all girls can make a positive difference, be happy, safe and fulfil their potential.

Girlguiding is looking for an experienced communications professional to join our senior leadership team for this exciting maternity cover opportunity. You will lead on delivering our ambitious communications strategy including a developing and launching a brand new website, refreshing the marketing strategy for our training and activity centre, Netherurd and continuing our exciting PR and advocacy work, you’ll also head up our brand new fundraising work stream.

You’ll be working with an experienced and dedicated team on exciting work streams that reflect a modern, energetic youth charity.

Do you want to work for a caring organisation that believes in people?

Do you want to make a difference?

As a Recovery Coordinator with Change Grow Live, you’ll work with people who use our services, helping them get to where they want to be.

Responsibilities

With this role you’ll be working as part of Recovery Services in Edinburgh (South East, South West and North West)

The team supports people with their or their loved ones’ drug and/or alcohol issues.

No two days are the same and we treat every person who comes into our service as an individual, so being flexible, curious and a good listener are key.

You’ll have to record information about what you do, so enjoying a bit of paperwork and attention to detail is important. But most of the time you’ll be enjoying working with people from all backgrounds, making a difference to their lives.

This is what one of our Recovery Co-ordinators had to say “I like the diversity of the work we do. I like meeting new people and I appreciate the camaraderie in my team".

Our values are to be compassionate, open and bold. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.

The Scottish Youth Parliament is the democratic voice of all of Scotland’s young people. Our vision for Scotland is of a nation that actively listens to and values the meaningful participation of its children and young people. Our members listen to and recognise the issues that are most important to young people in every community across the country and ensure that decision-makers listen to their voices.

SYP is seeking a Policy and Public Affairs Manager to support this vital work. The successful candidate for this role will work with our members in communicating the views of young people to Scotland’s elected representatives and in developing and support all policy work across the organisation.

Senscot is now seeking to recruit a Social Enterprise and Sport Co-ordinator to facilitate and support the growing volume of activity of the Sport SEN. The SE and Sport Co-ordinator will be employed and hosted by Senscot with their remit and work-load being guided by sportscotland and members of the Sport SEN.

Purpose of Your Job

To lead the delivery of our contracts at a local level, ensuring teams engage with participants in line with eligibility criteria and support programme start delivery

Principal Accountabilities / Key Result Areas

• Lead, motivate, develop and performance manage the team to continuously improve and increase their capability and deliver against their targets.
• Performance manage a team of engagement advisors in line with internal budgets and funder expectations
• Ensure engagement plans are in place for team to deliver on monthly basis
• Support team to use various methods of engagement including social media etc.
• Ensure customer service standards are understood and observed by all Advisers (e.g. through Adviser observations and coaching) so that all customers are provided with the same high standard of service that maximises their chances of securing sustainable employment.
• Undertake regular reviews with Advisers, prioritising those who are underperforming so that all advisers have the capability to deliver according to our customer service standards.
• Manage day to day contact with key stakeholders at a local level, maintaining a positive working relationship to ensure we receive sufficient customer flows to deliver according to service level agreements.
• Promote positive brand recognition by engaging with stakeholders and local providers
• Ability to support a performance team using a multi-site / outreach approach
• Manage the office(s) to ensure appropriate physical and human resources exist to ensure performance is delivered to quality, compliance and contractual requirements.
• Ensure advisers maintain paperwork and customer records to ensure the customer journey is documented in accordance with our quality standards.
• Ensure compliance with our company policies (including Health & Safety, Safeguarding and Data Security) so all teams operate in a way that protects customers and colleagues at all times.

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience of working in a customer focused, results driven environment
• Experience of/ability to coach and performance manage a team in a similar environment
• Experience of/ability to understand key financial drivers from the P&L
• Knowledge of the local labour market
• Knowledge of recruitment legislation
• Knowledge of appropriate IT systems.

Key Interfaces

Internal; Performance Managers, Advisers, Internal service providers

External: Customers, Key stakeholders, other external bodies (e.g. Local Authority) Employers.

Everyone has the right to live life to the full. After a diagnosis of a chest or heart condition or a stroke, many people experience fear and isolation and struggle with the impact on their lives. Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland won’t stand for that. The care and support we deliver every day ensure everyone can live the life they want to.

Do you have a talent for creating innovative and engaging digital content? This is your chance to use your skills to help people across Scotland live life to the full. Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland is Scotland’s largest care charity for people with chest, heart and stroke conditions. We help people do more than survive – we help them really live.

Our network of support groups, rehabilitation teams and advice line nurses are here to make sure that there is no life half lived in Scotland. We’re looking for a creative digital marketing and content development professional to join our dynamic Communications team. You will be at the heart of the charity’s efforts to tell the inspirational stories of those we support. You will be a source of expertise in helping to market our fundraising activities, volunteering opportunities and our services online and through our social media platforms.

If you’re looking for a job where you can be creative and use your digital skills for good – this is the job for you.

The main purpose of the post of Content and Digital Marketing Officer is to deliver emotive and engaging communications to promote the charity’s work and ambition that there should be No Life Half Lived in Scotland.

CHSS employees enjoy a variety of organisational benefits including: Company pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, company sick pay, health insurance, employee welfare support and life assurance.

Purpose of Your Job

To lead the delivery of our contracts at a local level within Edinburgh, ensuring teams offer support to our customers in line with our customer service standards and performance targets.

Principal Accountabilities / Key Result Areas

• Lead, motivate, develop and performance manage the team to continuously improve and increase their capability and deliver against their targets.
• Ensure customer service standards are understood and observed by all Advisers (e.g. through Adviser observations and coaching) so that all customers are provided with the same high standard of service that maximises their chances of securing sustainable employment.
• Undertake regular caseload reviews with Advisers, prioritising those who are underperforming so that all advisers have the capability to deliver according to our customer service standards.
• Manage day to day contact with key stakeholders at a local level, maintaining a positive working relationship to ensure we receive sufficient customer flows to deliver according to service level agreements.
• Manage the office(s) to ensure appropriate physical and human resources exist to ensure performance is delivered to quality, compliance and contractual requirements.
• Ensure advisers maintain paperwork and customer records to ensure the customer journey is documented in accordance with our quality standards.
• Ensure compliance with our company policies (including Health & Safety, Safeguarding and Data Security) so all teams operate in a way that protects customers and colleagues at all times.

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience of working in a customer focused, results driven environment
• Experience of/ability to coach and performance manage a team in a similar environment
• Experience of/ability to understand key financial drivers from the P&L
• Knowledge of the local labour market
• Knowledge of recruitment legislation
• Knowledge of appropriate IT systems.

Key Interfaces

Internal; Performance Managers, Advisers, Internal service providers

External: Customers, Key stakeholders, other external bodies (e.g. Local Authority) Employers.

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) is a world leading youth charity which gives all 14-24 year olds the chance to develop skills for life and work. We engage, inspire and empower over 300,000 young people a year across the UK and from every possible background.

The DofE Award is a game-changer. We know that perseverance and passion for long-term goals is linked to success in education, life and work. Our structured programme of volunteering, physical and skills based challenges inspire, guide and support young people to achieve.

We believe that anything is possible and the possibilities are endless. The positive effects of the DofE are proven and far-reaching. Communities are enriched with passionate and driven volunteers, businesses benefit from work-ready, competent recruits and young people are given the confidence to shine.

We are looking for a maternity cover Administration and Finance Officer to join our Scotland Office in Edinburgh.

The Administration and Finance Officer will provide general administrative support to DofE Scotland staff and its partners, with specific responsibility for financial processing and licence administration.

Closing date: 2nd January 2020 at 11.30pm. Interviews: 14th and 16th January 2020

Do you have a good understanding of social and/or economic policy issues and a proven ability to undertake policy development or campaigning work on specific issues in a wider context? Then join Shelter Scotland as a Policy Advocacy Officer and you could soon be playing a vital role in helping us to deliver positive change for those affected by the housing emergency in Scotland.

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change — with individuals, in communities, across society – and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

Our Campaigns and Policy Team is part of Shelter Scotland’s Communication and Policy function. It is responsible for developing policy positions and campaigns on housing and homelessness issues and engaging with partners, decision-makers and our supporters who are critical to the success of our campaigns. As well as formulating proposals for policy change and responding to Government policy initiatives, we work closely with Shelter Scotland services and other teams such as Marcomms and Digital.

About the role

Your challenge will be to identify policy and campaigning issues by maintaining knowledge of relevant policy areas critical to Shelter Scotland’s strategic objectives. We’ll also rely on you to monitor issues emerging from our services, as well as external policy and political agendas, and to develop new campaigning and policy ideas and solutions. Carrying out research, producing high quality policy outputs and advocating our policy positions to a range of audiences – all are aspects of this interesting and varied role. Put simply, you’ll help fight the housing emergency through policy, advocacy and influencing, thus achieving long-term change on the ground for those experiencing homelessness and bad housing.

About you

Familiarity with housing and homelessness policy would be useful, but is not essential. However, you must have a good understanding of how the Scottish Government, the Scottish Parliament and Scottish Local Authorities are formed, operate and develop new policies. You’ll also need experience of linking policy outputs to communications activities, campaign objectives and the wider political context – linked to a theory of change. A flair for analysing evidence, assessing policy options and developing new ideas for policy or campaigning initiatives is important too. And, when it comes to working in partnership with other teams/departments within an organisation in order to take forward projects with a clear focus on objectives, again, you have what it takes.

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter Scotland helps over half a million people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help.

To find out more about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter Scotland please visit our website. Apply to be part of our Campaigns & Policy team and be the change you want to see in society.

Safeguarding is everyone’s business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

At Shelter Scotland, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We also encourage applications from people, who have been homeless or have been at risk of homelessness. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them.

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

Are you a highly organised and collaborative individual with a proven track record in using human resources to support our staff in an innovative and effective ways? If so, Young Scot is looking for a Human Resource Assistant to join us and ensure that our staff have access to the best, relevant and accurate human resources to support them to fulfil their potential.

About Young Scot

Young Scot is the national youth information and citizenship charity for 11-26 year old’s in Scotland. We provide young people with information, ideas and opportunities to help them make informed decisions and choices, helping them to navigate the challenges they face as they grow up, particularly during times of transition.

Young people are at the heart of everything we do, taking a lead role in designing and shaping our services. We are collaborative in our approach, working with cross-sector partners who share our values and belief in young people. This joined-up approach ensures we deliver the best value, including targeted and bespoke services where appropriate, whilst meeting the needs of the young people we serve.

To find out more about who we are and what we do, visit youngscot.net

Our digital information and membership platform for young people is at young.scot

About this opportunity

As the successful candidate you should have demonstrable experience in human resources and supporting employees. We are looking for someone who can contribute to continuous improvement activities to ensure our systems and process are employee focused and forward thinking.

Young Scot is the national youth information and citizenship charity for 11-26 year old’s in Scotland. We provide young people with information, ideas and opportunities to help them make informed decisions and choices, helping them to navigate the challenges they face as they grow up, particularly during times of transition.

Young people are at the heart of everything we do, taking a lead role in designing and shaping our services. We are collaborative in our approach, working with cross-sector partners who share our values and belief in young people. This joined-up approach ensures we deliver the best value, including targeted and bespoke services where appropriate, whilst meeting the needs of the young people we serve.

To find out more about who we are and what we do, visit youngscot.net

Our digital information and membership platform for young people is at young.scot

About this opportunity

The Digital Content Assistant will support the Digital Content Editor to enhance Young Scot’s digital information and social media services through the development of digital and social media information content. Your work will help to ensure that young people across Scotland have access to the best, accurate, most relevant and timely information they need to make informed decisions and fulfil their potential.

You will work alongside colleagues in the digital information team and together will optimise content for a range of social media channels, including young.scot, Snapchat, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, TikTok and Facebook.

Based within the communities of Edinburgh, East Lothian and Midlothian you will provide a mentoring service to women who are being liberated from custody and to women who are serving a community based sentence. You will establish a positive relationship with women and work one to one to support them to build capacity, enabling them to reintegrate positively within their community.

This is a diverse and multi-disciplinary role involving strong partnership working and effective communication skills.

The Shine partnership programme is led by Sacro. Access to Industry are a partner. This role is employed and managed by Access to Industry.

We seek a suitably experienced, dynamic individual with experience of working with marginalised young people, to support their mental health and wellbeing. Relevant qualifications, registration and PVG are essential.

Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it.

Our innovative education, employment, housing and well-being services address individual needs and help homeless people transform their lives.

About the role

Crisis is currently recruiting for a PRS Tenant Support Officer in Edinburgh to assess, advise, and support people who are experiencing homelessness to identify, establish, and sustain tenancies in the private rented sector.

Postholder will be responding to city of Edinburgh council referrals to assess eligibility and assist people who are homeless to access and sustain Private Rented Sector tenancies. You will provide high quality information, advice and guidance about the appropriate services and support for people accessing the service, and work in partnership with these services where required.

About you

The ideal candidate will have excellent knowledge of housing and homelessness legislation in Scotland. To be successful in this role you will need to demonstrate the ability to advocate effectively and have experience working with vulnerable and disadvantaged groups. You will have demonstrable knowledge of the welfare benefits system and will be able to provide high quality information, advice, and guidance around housing, preferably to IAG qualification level 2, or a relevant coaching qualification.

Benefits

As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:

• Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy
• Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8.5%
• 25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days

Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career.

The JSC is a consultative body comprised of representatives drawn from the main branches of the legal profession and the Universities, the aims and purposes of which are to act as a facilitator promoting the interests of legal education, both at the level of academic training and in relation to legal professional training. In recent years the Committee has been strengthened by the appointment of non-lawyers in its membership so that their views and experiences may contribute to discussions.

Applicants should have an interest in the practice of law in Scotland and the workings of the Scottish justice system, and also in professional education and training. Previous experience of committee work would be advantageous.

The International Development Association of Scotland is a network of organisations and individuals involved in Development Education and Education for Global Citizenship across Scotland. By raising awareness of global concerns and illustrating the potential for change, the IDEAS network aims to influence those in all sectors of formal and informal education and lifelong learning including teachers, policy makers, youth and adult education workers and a range of voluntary and statutory organisations.

We are looking for a highly qualified and experienced person to be responsible for the finance and administration functions necessary to support our work. This is an opportunity to work collaboratively and creatively as part of a small and highly motivated team.

You should have strong experience of financial reporting, budgeting and book keeping. You will have experience of supporting a small organisation to run smoothly with IT management and fundraising skills.

You will be based in our Edinburgh office.

Are you looking for a role where you can lead and develop a diverse team working on the streets of Edinburgh to deliver life changing quality services?

Can you create a culture which empowers your team and encourages their roles as leaders in every interaction and to take risk informed decision making at the front line?

If so, we have the position for you!

The rare opportunity to lead our Street Team has come up and we are looking for someone to join us who is passionate about making a difference for people facing homelessness on the streets. The Street Team’s work sits at the core of our model, taking our services out to reach people on the streets every day and night, and responding to people as individuals to help them find solutions which includes linking them in with other services, provided by us and others. We are constantly striving to improve and we are looking for a motivated, creative person to work with us as we keep on developing our work on the streets.

The successful candidate will need to believe in our frontline staff and the passion and commitment they bring to Streetwork at Simon Community Scotland, and find creative and innovative ways to empower them. The values of our organisation are not rhetoric, they are alive and kicking in all aspects of our work. We don’t always get it right but we try and try again so bringing those values to life in everything we do is important to us.

We’re looking for someone who is comfortable with detail, delegating appropriately to their team, and enabling leadership to flourish at all levels. We want to promote a culture of genuine participation which places the people who use our services at the heart of what we do and how we do it. You need to be confident in making decisions and in managing complex resources. You should have enough experience to bring technical knowledge of compliance and regulation, service planning and finance as well as strategic workforce planning. You need to always have service users in mind and focus on bringing value to them through smart, efficient, creative, reliable, consistent and effective services.

"A better world - equal, democratic and just; through adult education the WEA challenges and inspires individuals, communities and society"

The WEA is a unique adult education provider that works with hundreds of organisations at local, regional and national levels in Scotland to meet individual and collective learning requirements. It is also a strong and effective campaigner on the important role of adult education in today`s society. In carrying out its roles, the WEA looks to develop an equal, democratic and just world, inspiring individuals, communities and society.

The adult education sector is going through unprecedented change and the WEA must change with it, demonstrating the value of our offer, why it is special and different and that the organisation is fit for purpose. These are big challenges for the WEA Scotland management team, trustees and governance, and we are delighted to have made good progress to date.

Working in close co-operation with the Chair of the WEA Scotland Board, fellow WEA Scotland Board Members and the Director for WEA Scotland, you will have a key part to play in representing the WEA and WEA Scotland with key stakeholders and as such we are looking for individuals with the personal credibility and gravitas to perform this role influentially.

We want to hear from individuals who have a passion for education, an understanding and appreciation of the education and skills agenda, and an empathy with education`s ability to be transformative.

Through this recruitment process, WEA Scotland is trying to fill some gaps that have been identified in a recent skills audit of the WEA Scotland Board. We would therefore be particularly interested to hear from candidates with experience in one or more of the following areas: business development and income growth, recruiting and retaining members and volunteers, adult education.

The position is unremunerated, but the WEA will reimburse your expenses.

The Supported Housing Worker role requires assisting in the management of the development thus ensuring the tenants are able to enjoy an acceptable standard of living in an environment which is clean, safe and friendly. You will be responsible for overseeing the wellbeing of the tenants and for assisting them in maintaining their independence.

As housing care worker your role will involve working with our tenants to ensure they receive the support and personal care identified in their care plans. You will directly support tenants in their homes by providing individual advice, practical housing support assistance and personal care.

Both roles are to ensure that we are able to offer the best service to our tenants and make it possible for our tenants to continue enjoying as much independent living as they’re able.

As well as a competitive annual salary, our valued team also benefits from:

competitive hourly rates of £9.00 - £9.47 per hour;

guaranteed rota hours working between 7.30 am & 10pm

generous annual leave entitlement;

a choice of pension scheme with employer contributions;

flexible working policies;

access to extensive paid training and development opportunities; and

a supportive and inclusive culture.

We also have opportunities with our Trust Staff Agency - for employees who want to work across different locations, in various roles, with highly flexible hours to suit family commitments - it's a great opportunity with the same training and development that our other roles benefit from.

Previous experience working in social care or the housing sector would be an advantage but this is not always necessary. Our ideal candidate is someone with enthusiasm, a caring nature and willingness to learn as full training, support and ongoing development will be provided.