Inclusion Scotland seeks a self-motivated and pro-active individual for a brand new opportunity to lead an innovative project promoting disabled people’s lived experience leadership. Funded by the National Lottery Community Fund’s Leaders with Lived Experience Pilot programme, this pilot project aims to develop an accessible leadership training programme and bespoke training and capacity building products, in co-production with disabled people with lived experience of leadership.

We are now looking for a suitable candidate to run this project. They will have experience in managing a successful project and excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

We are looking to recruit a Youth & Community Fitness Coach in Edinburgh. You will be required to deliver fitness and multi-sports sessions and to deliver a sports-related qualification on the Street League Academy. You will also be responsible for carrying out outreach for sessions and to recruit and sustain participants on the Academy to ensure delivery targets are met.

Minimum requirements are either SFA Level 3 or similar and / or Level 2 Fitness Instruction (GYM) plus experience in delivering various group exercise classes.

Health in Mind is a leader within Scotland offering support, befriending and counselling for survivors of childhood trauma. Our trauma services support survivors of childhood abuse and neglect in a variety of ways to live the life they want to live. Our approach is values based and works alongside people, drawing on their personal strengths.

We are seeking an experienced Project Worker to provide therapeutic support for men and women who are adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse and neglect whilst in care.

Do you have at least two years’ experience working in a role supporting people experiencing mental health difficulties and with survivors of childhood sexual abuse? Are you a good communicator, resilient and able to use your initiative, as well as being passionate about supporting people? If so, we’d like to hear from you!

We’re looking for an experienced Payroll Administrator to join our busy team working in the centre of Edinburgh. Recent payroll experience, working knowledge of RTI, excellent customer service skills and the ability to work to strict deadlines are essential skills required for this role. Flexible working, defined contribution pension and other benefits available.

Deaf Action is a leading Scottish voluntary organisation providing a range of services to deaf people.

We are looking for an experienced Personal Assistant with excellent secretarial skills to provide support to our Chief Executive. You should possess confidence and the ability to multi-task, be a great team player, have a good knowledge of Microsoft Office, BSL Level 3 Sign Language qualification, or working towards.

For an informal discussion on the Personal Assistant post, contact Paul Mills, Finance Manager on paul.mills@deafaction.org or 0131 556 3128

Sacro in partnership with YPeople is delivering ‘Your Home’ a Homelessness Preventative Service in Edinburgh, which includes a Rapid Access Accommodation Project. The service aims to have a positive impact by providing help to prevent homelessness and promote and encourage independence.

We are currently seeking a team member to assist in the development and provision of the day to day services of Sacro’s Edinburgh Your Home Service.

The post holders will provide support to service users who are at risk of future homelessness at the earliest possible stage with the aim of preventing escalation of issues which can lead to homelessness. The service also provides support in service user’s current accommodation, for those who have immediate unmet needs.

Support needs vary enormously but examples include: providing assistance to access benefits and health services/ training/education and employment opportunities; addressing antisocial behaviour, resolving conflict and improving relationships, developing social support networks and general living skills e.g. budgeting, cooking, shopping etc.

You should be able to demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills. The ability to work both as part of a team and independently is required experience of partnership and inter-agency working is essential.

A commitment to Sacro’s value base is crucial, as this type of work can be challenging.

Experience of working: with people with complex needs, in a mentoring or mediation role, supporting people who have offended or in a health or social care environment would be preferred.

You may have supervisory responsibility for volunteers and student placements.

A relevant qualification is desirable but is not essential.

Work patterns will vary and may include days, evenings and weekends.

You must be prepared to work within equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory standards and adhere to Sacro’s policies and procedures.

Membership of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme (PVG) will be a requirement for this post.

Registration with the Scottish Social Service Council is desirable for this post.

A valid driving licence and access to a car is desirable for these posts.

Prostate Scotland, Scotland’s prostate disease charity is looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Finance, Accounts and Office Administrator to accurately maintain the charity’s bookkeeping and also provide office administration services. This post has a valuable and important role in helping take forward the effective running of Prostate Scotland – ensuring the upkeep of its books and financial systems, liaison with suppliers and service providers for this small but busy charity. The role will include looking after the ledgers, utilising SAGE, producing management accounts, and ensuring the provision of office supplies and services. With an understanding of accounts processes and procedures, you will have some experience of Sage 50 and knowledge of Excel and Word, as well as good administrative skills.

Prostate Scotland is a small, dynamic and award winning charity working on prostate cancer and disease in Scotland. The post is available on a 2 Year fixed term contract for 17.5 hours a week. Some flexibility of hours may be possible.

Change Grow Live Edinburgh Recovery Services provides recovery focused psychosocial interventions to service users experiencing drug and alcohol related issues across the city of Edinburgh. We work within a hub model with partners who include NHS Lothian, CEC Social Work and other voluntary agencies to ensure individualised packages of care to enable service users to achieve their recovery goals.

We are looking for an experienced and proactive support worker to join our team, to assist in provision of high-quality delivery of recovery focused interventions to service users across Edinburgh. The services are delivered from our offices, based at Craigroyston Health Centre and on an outreach basis in a variety of venues across the localities that we cover. Support is provided in one to one and groupwork settings.

The successful candidate will have a good understanding of drug and alcohol issues and experience of working within a related field. Also necessary is a commitment to multi-agency working, excellent communication skills, and a practical approach to facilitating service user involvement.

This post is subject to an Enhanced CRB check and Counter Terrorism Clearance.

Please note: if you haven't heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has not been shortlisted on this occasion.

Birthlink is a small city based charity helping adults affected by adoption with a Scottish connection. We are currently also working in partnership with Future Pathways assisting survivors of in care abuse access their care records and support the reading of these documents.

The senior administrator will be responsible for primarily supporting the Office & Business manager, one other administrator and 5 social work staff. In addition we have two charity shops with permanent and sessional staff along with many Volunteers throughout the organisation.

Administrative and financial experience is essential. Relevant further education qualifications in administration, Microsoft Office and databases are desirable although consideration will be given to applicants who can demonstrate experience and ability in these fields. A good telephone manner is essential as is the ability to relate readily and quickly to a wide range of different individuals, service users, volunteers and colleagues.

Applicants should note that their personal details will be processed through Disclosure Scotland. Birthlink is an equal opportunities employer.

Are you also passionate about redressing social inequity, and do you view education as one of the most effective ways of achieving that goal? Would you like to join a supportive, inclusive, collaborative team? If so, Light Up Learning (LUL) is looking for someone who is enthusiastic and driven, to be its full-time Head of Mentoring.

This is an important and new role at LUL, with a focus on the quality of mentoring and the safeguarding of young people. You will act as our lead child protection officer and be responsible for delivering the Mentoring strand of our new strategy, which includes the establishment of a new youth forum.

The charity is in an exciting growth phase: in December 2018 we appointed a new full time Director and we are about to approve our future strategy for 2019–2022. Your role will be essential in helping us to grow the organisation and deliver on this strategy: including expanding into new schools, developing our mentoring model, running our evaluation process and being part of the leadership of the organisation. We are looking for the newest member of our small and friendly team, who is as passionate as us about achieving these ambitious goals.

We have a commitment to diversity and challenging all forms of inequality and are particularly keen to receive applications from Women, Black Minority and Ethnic, LGBTQI, disabled, migrant, and other backgrounds currently underrepresented within leadership roles in the third sector.

We are looking for an energetic and passionate individual who will contribute significantly to our work with clients and partners all over the world, providing outstanding customer service. This role will support the International Team and the Head of International in the development of a global network of learning and development Hubs and the coordination of our direct delivery programmes.

With a 15 year track record of successful delivery in Scotland, the Social Enterprise Academy has been sharing its business and learning delivery models for the past 6 years with international partners through a social licence approach. We now have 13 Social Enterprise Academy Hubs at different stages of development in South Africa, Malawi, Rwanda, Zambia, Egypt, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Wales. This new role will build on this outstanding foundation.

Having the right values fit, attitude and approach is as important for us as having the right experience and skills. We appreciate that the best person might not have all the listed criteria yet so if you feel your experience and skills will help you to make a great contribution in this role and you have the right mind-set, we would welcome an application from you.

Job Purpose

· To provide effective administrative and coordination support to Account Managers, facilitators and learners in the ongoing development and delivery of Academy learning programmes

· To ensure Hub systems and processes are followed and maintained to a high standard

· To make all administrative arrangements connected with the Southern Scotland Hub programmes, providing a professional and efficient level of service

Main responsibilities

Hub Network Coordination/ Customer Service

· To support the International team in delivering outstanding learning and development around the world.

· To be an efficient and welcoming point of contact for SEA International, ensuring that the Hub network in particular, is well served. This may include scheduling webinars and securing newsletter content.

· To be a resourceful, self-starter who can troubleshoot issues across the Hub network.

· To support annual data collection from the Hub network.

Programme Coordination

To work with the International Managers, overseas partners and clients to:

· Make the arrangements for learning programmes, activities and events including collating learning materials, booking venues, catering and equipment.

· To liaise closely with and support facilitators to effectively deliver learning programmes.

· As required, recruit and support suitable learners, onto learning programmes and help ensure key learner targets are delivered.

Programme Administration

· To coordinate the administration for learners undertaking City and Guilds qualifications.

· To update programme monitoring documents, feedback and evaluations.

· To administer and input all necessary data onto the Learning Management System.

· Book travel, accommodation and arrange visas for the International team and facilitators.

· To contribute, as an integral member of the team, to the development and success of the SEA International.

For a full set of criteria please download the job pack below

Around since 1923, SAMH is Scotland’s national mental health charity. Today, SAMH operates 60 services in communities across Scotland providing mental health social care support, homelessness, addictions and employment services among others. These services, together with our national programme work in See Me, respectme, suicide prevention and active living; inform our policy and campaign work to influence positive social change.

We have vacancies for support worker 2’s in Edinburgh. As a key worker we expect you to establish positive relationships and offer practical and emotional support to the people who use our services and have severe and enduring mental health problems. The successful candidates will be able to demonstrate a mature and caring attitude and possess excellent listening and communication skills. You should already have extensive experience of working in the field of mental health or social care, and must be able to demonstrate a high degree of skill in report writing, assessing client need and developing professional support plans. SVQ Level II in care or equivalent is highly desirable. Whatever your background, a flexible caring approach combined with good practical skills will be essential. You should be flexible in the hours you are available to work, which includes weekends, and evenings.

This is a full time, permanent post working within YouthLink Scotland’s Communications and Public Affairs Team. The key purpose is to develop the company’s diverse range of digital communication channels and projects.

We are looking for a Senior Digital and Communications Officer with a mix of experience in communications, digital development, media and ICT to support and enhance our digital footprint and overall communications offer. You will be creative and enthusiastic and able to manage and deliver work, working collaboratively with colleagues on different national projects, advising and providing content through our communications channels.

The post-holder will be responsible for creating and implementing a digital and communication’s strategy and plan to support cross-organisational priorities. They will contribute to the operational management of all digital projects and communication channels including: websites, content management systems, social media channels - ensuring quality of content, brand and messaging. They will lead on the organisations Digital Evolution Strategy to embed digital across the organisation and make the most of new technologies to support business needs and goals. They will line manage a Design and Multimedia Officer.

This will involve providing the technical knowledge and support to enable YouthLink Scotland to sustain and improve upon its current digital and communications offer.

A Job Description and Person Specification is available for download below.

We are seeking to recruit an experienced and enthusiastic person to help deliver a range of new projects.

Consideration will be given to any candidate who wishes to apply for a secondment from another organisation

The project is working towards ensuring the understanding of LGBT issues in relation to dementia. As the project enters its final year of funding this new post will support the development and dissemination of the LGBT and dementia toolkit as well as producing materials and training that highlights the issues and best practice.

Join us if you are passionate about the issues faced by LGBT people in Scotland, are committed to community development, and want to help us to deliver our ambitious vision for LGBT health, wellbeing and equality in Scotland.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Do you have a passion for HR and the role HR plays in creating a positive work environment?

We’re looking for an HR Intern to work within our small HR team to update SCVO’s policies and procedures, including researching best practice and modern/flexible approaches to supporting staff. Interested? Find out more and apply now!

Sacro’s Mission is to create safe and cohesive communities by reducing conflict and offending.

This is an exciting role to help Sacro improve engagement and communications within our services. We’re looking for someone who is creative and has a strong understanding of digital communication and creating engagement strategies.

In addition to strong technical ability, we’re looking for someone who can engage with the subject matter and help us understand and communicate with our service users and wider stakeholders. Experience of creating communications strategies is essential for this post.

This role will be based in Sacro’s National Office in Edinburgh, working with a range of staff across different teams.

This is an excellent opportunity to work for a national children’s charity in a vibrant, supportive environment and help make a positive difference to the lives of children in Scotland.

You will work at the heart of a busy Communications and Marketing team within our Engagement & Learning Department, supporting the charity’s communications output and using your design flair to strengthen its message and engage new audiences.

Working across print and digital with a focus on creativity and quality, this exciting new role will build on the success of Children in Scotland’s recent rebranding and 25 Calls campaign.

Based within our Haymarket office in Edinburgh, you’ll be ready to hit the ground running, offering ideas, energy and design expertise. We’ll encourage you to identify areas where you’d like to develop your skills and knowledge, and support you to do so.

About Children in Scotland

Giving all children in Scotland an equal chance to flourish is at the heart of everything we do.

By bringing together a network of people working with and for children, alongside children and young people themselves, we offer a broad, balanced and independent voice. We create solutions, provide support and develop positive change across all areas affecting children in Scotland. We do this by listening, gathering evidence, and applying and sharing our learning, while always working to uphold children’s rights.

Our range of knowledge and expertise means we can provide trusted support on issues as diverse as the people we work with and the varied lives of children and families in Scotland.

If this sounds like the role for you, then we’d love to hear from you.

You can find more about Children in Scotland here.

Do you have a strong track record in business development?

The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) is the national membership organisation for Scotland’s voluntary sector. Our purpose is to support, promote and develop a confident and sustainable voluntary sector in Scotland, by delivering services, giving the sector a voice at a national level and promoting and supporting innovation and improvement.

Currently, around half of our annual income comes from grants to deliver services with and for the sector, and half from income generated by providing services for individual organisations, such as payroll, recruitment, office space and IT services.

We’ve created a new Business Development Manager role to help us maximise the potential of our income generating activities in a way that is consistent with our values and purpose. If you have experience of developing corporate partnerships, strong marketing skills and an entrepreneurial spirit, find out more and apply now!

greenspace scotland worked with NHS Lothian, Edinburgh & Lothians Health Foundation and a wide range of partners and stakeholders to develop the Greenspace and Health Strategic Framework for Edinburgh & Lothians. This was published on 28 June 2019 and we believe it is the first Scottish health board-led Green Health Strategy.

We are now looking to recruit a Green Health Programme Manager to lead, coordinate and support delivery of the Strategy. This is an exciting and ground-breaking opportunity to realise the Vision and ambition of the Strategy: ‘Longer lives, better lived through our GreenSpace: Lothian’s natural health service’.

The ideal candidate will have a strong track record of delivery in health, greenspace and/or community development settings. You will be a strong team player, with excellent interpersonal skills, and extensive experience of managing and coordinating partnership projects.

The Green Health Strategy, action plan and other supporting documents can be accessed here greenspacescotland.org.uk/greenspace-nhs-lothian

The postholder will be employed by greenspace scotland and co-managed by the Edinburgh & Lothians Health Foundation. The post is based with the Edinburgh & Lothians Health Foundation at the NHS Lothian offices at Waverley Gate, Edinburgh.

greenspace scotland is looking for an experienced communications and marketing manager (employed or freelance role) to lead the public facing phase of our exciting programme to develop an Endowment Fund for Scotland’s parks.

We’ve secured a match-funding grant from National Lottery Heritage Fund towards the first £1million and our ambition is for a multi-million endowment fund to help keep Scotland’s parks in good heart for future generations to enjoy. We are now looking to engage in creative and meaningful ways with parks and greenspace lovers across Scotland and beyond.

You will be responsible for leading the development and delivery of an integrated marketing and communications strategy and events plan to support the public-facing phase of Scotland’s Parks Endowment Fund campaign. With a strong track record in communication and marketing, the ideal candidate will be an exceptional communicator, experienced in delivering creative, successful and cost-effective marketing and fundraising campaigns. You will bring creativity, innovation, enthusiasm and passion to work with our team and partners.

Closing date: Sunday 28th July 2019 at 11.30pm

Interviews: 7th August at Scotiabank House

Do you have lots of drive and initiative and proven experience in advice/customer service work involving a range of client bases? Then join Shelter Scotland as an Empty Homes Adviser and you could soon be playing an important role within our Scottish Empty Homes Partnership.

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.

Part of an award-winning Communication & Policy Department, our Scottish Empty Homes Partnership is a Scottish Government funded project aimed at enabling private sector empty homes to be brought back into use across Scotland. The Partnership achieves this via a mix of policy work, capacity building, training, best practice sharing and awareness raising with councils, community groups and others. It’s also home to the national Empty Homes Advice Service - a public facing advice line that anyone can call for help or to report an empty home.

About the role

Your challenge will be to provide first level advice and referrals to empty home owners, those with concerns about empty homes, people interested in buying and renovating empty homes and empty homes practitioners. Indeed, we'll rely on you to deliver a professional, impartial, pragmatic and outcome focussed telephone and email advice service. As well as handling initial enquiries, you’ll get involved in some of the more complex enquiries or cases, for which you’ll be supported by a line manager and other members of the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership team.

About you

Commercially aware, client focused and totally at home collaborating with others, you have great organisational and time management skills too. What's more, you respect other people’s opinions, are comfortable answering enquiries both over the phone and via email and have the communication skills it takes to empower clients to self-help where appropriate. Proficiency using case management systems and Microsoft Office applications is important too, together with the ability to type.

Benefits

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 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 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.

Around since 1923, SAMH is Scotland’s national mental health charity. Today, in over 60 communities we work with adults and young people providing mental health social care support, services in primary care, schools and further education, among others. These services together with our national programme work in See Me, respectme, suicide prevention and active living; inform our policy and campaign work to influence positive social change.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Trusts and Foundations Executive to join SAMH. Help us to maximise income from trusts and foundations, while cultivating and maintaining relationships with current and potential funders. You will work within the wider Fundraising Team and with colleagues in Delivery and Development and Finance.

The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate experience of managing a portfolio of trusts and foundations, experience of producing proposals, have excellent written and verbal communications skills, and have strong planning and time management skills.

The role can be based in Edinburgh or Glasgow.

Get paid to meet people in your community and carry out important studies including the Scottish Health Survey, Growing Up in Scotland and the Scottish Crime & Justice Survey.

As a ScotCen interviewer you’ll visit people in their homes to ask them about all sorts of interesting topics.

What you find out will ultimately contribute to future social policy in Scotland.

We offer full training with a competitive rate of pay and travel expenses. We normally offer you work three months in advance.

What we offer:

High quality initial training with ongoing support

Flexible working hours

Competitive rates of pay, including a bonus scheme, travel expenses and holiday pay

Opportunity of pay progression

Opportunities to develop your skills and work on a wide variety of surveys

What you need:

Internet broadband at home

Able to work at least 6 hours a day, including evenings and weekends, for at least 3+ days a week.

You need to be available for a minimum of 20 hours per week including weekdays/evening and weekends

Use of a car is essential

Documents to verify your identity and to show you’re eligible to work in the UK

Comfortable with using computer equipment

About The Next Chapter

Would you like to join a dynamic, growing not-for-profit social enterprise focused on emotional and psychological wellbeing?

We have a specialist bookshop stocking titles on personal development, mental health, social and psychological wellbeing subjects. In our four therapy rooms, we offer counselling, coaching and therapies such as massage and reflexology.

All profits from our enterprise go back into supporting our reduced fee counselling service.

Future plans include developing a programme of talks, workshops and events around wellbeing, personal development and mental health.

Coordinator role

Responsibility for the day-to-day running of the bookshop and therapy rooms, for developing and growing our bookshop, coaching and therapy offering, and planning, promoting and delivering a new programme of talks, workshops and events around wellbeing.

Please see the attached job description for more information.

Applicants will have experience in completing grant funding applications, be highly organised and have excellent research and presentation skills. The role requires the person to be creative, enthusiastic and have excellent written and verbal communication skills. An understanding of CRM management and social media would be an advantage.

Personal skills and attributes:

• Proven success record in achieving and exceeding targets
• Ability to manage and prioritise workload
• Energetic in spirit, highly organised and have the ability to engage with stakeholders on every level
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills
• Experience of analysis/analytics e.g Excellent skills across main MS Office applications (Excel, Word, PPT) and Google Analytics
• Experience of creating and producing budgets
• Ability to research potential funders and write compelling cases for financially supporting the Foundation
• Experience using a fundraising database (ideally eTapestry) to record information and generate reports

Main purpose:

To maximise potential income for the PBC Foundation

Undertake detailed research into funding organisations and match funding priorities to the Foundations projects and activities. To complete and submit applications to grant funding bodies

Produce timely reports to funders, including outcomes and evaluation, also solicit repeat funding.

Regular reporting on income, website and social media trends and provide quarterly reports for trustees of the Foundation.

Liaise with staff, volunteers and service users to identify new fundraising activities.

Advise, encourage and support service users of the Foundation with fundraising activities.

Assist in social media activities and ongoing development of our digital platforms

Attend fundraising courses, activities and networking events as agreed with the CEO.

Bright Light is a Member of Relationships Scotland, regulated by COSCA. Established in 1947, based in the centre of Edinburgh’s New Town, we launched our new name on 29th February 2016 as Bright Light Relationship Counselling as this accurately reflects our energy as a professional counselling health and wellbeing organisation and the wider range of services we provide. – we are no longer predominantly couple counselling. A meteor streaked through the skies of Scotland the night of we launched Bright Light. Hopefully a good omen.

Relationships are what matter most to us all and at Bright Light relationship counselling we help over 6000 people living in Edinburgh and the Lothians per year get the most out of the relationships that they recognise matter most to them – we support individual people, couples, children of all ages, grandparents, siblings, kinship carers, adult children with their parents, looked after children, aunties, uncles, friends …. Whoever needs us. Helping with relationship challenges – trust, communication, parenting, physical and/or mental health issues, abuse, addiction, gender identity, physical illness, loss, disability, separation, divorce – supporting people before issues reach crisis point and family/relationship breakdown whenever possible but if things have gone beyond that point we help with positive separation/parenting apart.

Based in the centre of Edinburgh with frequent public transport.

Are You ?

A pro-active, energetic, creative, systems and problem solving person who likes to shape things and strives to deliver first class customer care? Do you have excellent organisational and communication skills, can multi task and lead our committed, dynamic admin team?. It’s a must that you have extensive administrative and staff management/leadership experience and comfortable using your own initiative. Our current Lead Administrator has been promoted and are you that special person we are looking for to shape the next step of our successful front of house client experience.

The Role -

Reporting to the CEO and working closely with our Counselling Manager, you will be a key member of our Bright Light small but dynamic Senior Management Team.

The role has distinct areas:

• ensuring every client who contacts Bright Light receives first class customer care from you and your front of house team, direct management/leadership of that team, social media person and volunteers;
• developing systems to ensure every counselling room is used to capacity and client uptake of appointments; develop, maintain, and monitor admin systems for smooth and efficient daily delivery of this
• production of quality data for reports and data management;
• daily building management
• admin support for the CEO as required

In return we offer a warm family-like environment as internal relationships within Bright Light matter to us. A place to grow your skills, shape our front of house experience, lead and develop your committed and energetic team, be part of a charity that is helping people with real life challenges and is making a real difference.

Annual Leave : 22 days per year plus 8 public holidays (pro rata)

Further information about Bright Light can be found on our website bright-light.org.uk

Humanist Society Scotland is looking for someone with a proven talent for engaging and effective communications. The successful candidate will lead the wide-reaching communications of Scotland’s national charity for people seeking an ethical, rational and secular future.

This is an exciting role that focuses on the Society’s aim to grow awareness of Humanism in Scotland to new audiences, as well as focussing on our key campaigns.

The Communications Manager role will lead on:

• Planning, delivering and evaluating our public affairs strategy to deliver change in priority campaign areas;
• Managing our media and digital communications strategy to ensure a high profile for both Humanism and Humanist Society Scotland

We are looking for a strategic thinker who can utilise digital technology to connect with supporters to get our message across in the media and to Government. You will be passionate about progressive change and share our vision for an ethical, rational, secular Scotland.

The successful candidate will have experience of working on recent influencing campaigns. They will have excellent writing skills and an understanding of the role media relations plays in raising awareness of a cause. They will have an aptitude for data led campaigning and understand how to utilise a CRM system such as CiviCRM (as used by Humanist Society Scotland). A strong understanding of social media, bulk emailing and web platforms would be an advantage.

They will be an excellent communicator who is competent across a range of disciplines, including public awareness campaigning, political lobbying and media. They will thrive in the creative environment of tight budgets and tight deadlines and enjoy the challenge of crafting messages that reach the widest possible audience.

A Job Description is available for download below.

An exciting opportunity to coordinate and manage Scotland’s largest civil society coalition, bringing together over 40 organisations committed to ending Scotland’s contribution to climate change within a generation.

You will help lead the coalition and its campaigning network and identify and deliver activities to support our members’ shared aim to achieve local, national and international action on climate change.

A full Job Description is available for download below.

We have live vacancies across various locations in Scotland. And they’ll be a steady flow of new vacancies released over the coming months. Please search for a job in your postcode by clicking apply, and if there’s not a job near you right now then remember to sign up for alerts and we’ll notify you when we have one in your community.

We’re looking for member pioneers to join Co-op, in communities across the country. In this unique role you’ll be focused on bringing people together to make a difference in your community. That means talking to Co-op members, colleagues in stores and funeral homes, and representatives of the many local causes we support. By building relationships with and connecting these people you’ll be the catalyst for new ideas, initiatives and projects that will make our communities better places to live.

We plan to have a member pioneer dedicated to each of our communities and you’ll be a part of this ambitious plan for a better future. Everything you do will contribute to our community plan, making sure we make the biggest impact possible across the UK by increasing community co-operation. It’s an opportunity to make a visible difference where you live, supported by an organisation with nearly 70,000 colleagues.

What you’ll do:

• develop an action plan to improve community wellbeing, aligned to key themes
• establish and run a local community forum, or make connections with one that already exists
• build a strong group of contacts locally, making use of social media platforms to help with listening to and getting involved in community conversation
• get activities off the ground and encourage lots of involvement from members in your community
• prioritise your time, making your hours count and focusing on opportunities to make the biggest difference

This role would suit someone who:

• has lots of enthusiasm with the ability to get things moving
• is interested in all things community focussed
• can inspire and motivate people through their communication style
• loves working with and connecting people
• can prioritise their time and remain focussed on a long term goal
• is confident using social media
• has good basic IT skills (ideally with experience using collaborative tools like the Google suite or Skype)
• is both committed and dedicated
• lives within or very close to the community you’ll support, detailed above

Why Co-op?

As a member pioneer you’ll have the chance to support local communities, making a visible difference by encouraging people to work together. As a Co-op colleague you’ll also receive a competitive salary and a wide range of benefits including:

• 24 days holiday (rising to 30 with service)
• discounts on all kinds of Co-op products and services
• a pension with up to 10% employer contributions

Building an inclusive work environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone. But simply having a diverse workforce is not enough. We want to build an inclusive environment, where everyone can develop to their full potential. We celebrate our differences, and recognise the importance of teams reflecting the communities they serve.

We can make adjustments to the interview process according to your needs. And we offer a flexible working environment so you can adjust your hours to suit your personal circumstances. You can find out more about Co-op people policies at coop.co.uk/peoplepolicies

As part of your application you’ll need to complete an online assessment. It will take you around 12 minutes to complete this test.

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.