Jobs in Craigentinny & Duddingston, Edinburgh

Edinburgh Dog and Cat Home is seeking an enthusiastic and innovative Senior Individual Giving Officer to join our Fundraising team. In this exciting role, you will work with the wider fundraising and communications team to optimise giving from potential and current individual supporters. Reporting to the Legacy & Individual Giving Manager, you will be responsible for driving income through our digital platforms, running campaigns and events, and leading on the growth of the Home’s individual giving programmes.

We are looking for someone who is forward thinking, understands the digital marketing landscape, has knowledge of traditional marketing techniques and a hands-on approach with a good understanding of data and insights. Applicants should have a passion for fundraising, marketing and first class supporter experience.

You will be working for an award-winning organisation with a passion for animal welfare and a focus on staff wellbeing and development. We offer flexible, hybrid working within a friendly and supportive environment and the perks of cuddles with office dogs!

If you have any questions or would like an informal chat about this role, please contact Ella Wilson, Legacy & Individual Giving Manager on ella@edch.org.uk.

At Edinburgh Dog & Cat Home, love has no limits. We take a big picture view of what is best for dogs and cats; and a tireless, long-term approach to their care. Our mission is to protect loving homes, find loving homes and run a loving Home.

We are delighted to be recruiting for the role of Marketing Officer in the Edinburgh Dog and Cat Home communications team.

You will work with the Marketing and Communication Manager on the roll out of a marketing and communications strategy to position the charity as the key animal welfare organisation in East and Central Scotland. You will develop the Home’s marketing collateral, bringing our strategy to life and ensuring consistent brand and approach. You will also lead on copywriting for key publications and work with relevant teams across the Home to create valuable and relevant content to attract and retain supporters and prospects.

You will have a marketing qualification or relevant experience in a similar role. You will be experienced in executing a marketing strategy, have excellent oral and written communication skills and be able to demonstrate a hands-on and proactive approach.

If you thrive in a team environment, enjoy an energetic, dynamic, and supportive working environment and have empathy for animal welfare and tackling pet poverty this could be the role for you!

At Edinburgh Dog & Cat Home, love has no limits. We take a big picture view of what is best for dogs and cats; and a tireless, long-term approach to their care. Our mission is to protect loving homes, find loving homes and run a loving Home.

We are delighted to be recruiting for the role of Marketing and Communications Manager in the Edinburgh Dog and Cat Home communications team.

Reporting to the Director of Income and Engagement, you will be responsible for all marketing and communications throughout the Home. This will include creating and executing internal and external marketing and communications strategies, overseeing our website and rehoming app and responsibility for all social media activity in relation to the home’s operations and outreach. You will also oversee the Home’s digital marketing, advertising, and engagement as well as our brand, messaging, campaigns, and promotions.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who has experience in a similar role, is able to demonstrate a hands-on and proactive approach and has exceptional oral and written communication skills. You will work well in a team setting, have strong leadership and project management skills and the ability to develop and motivate a small team. Knowledge of digital communications and digital engagement platforms is essential.

Are you passionate about helping people to live a better life? Do you want to work for a charity where your health and wellbeing matter just as much as the people you support? Do you want to be part of a trauma-informed team where you will be supported to develop creative and flexible ways of working?

You don’t need to have previous experience or qualifications in this field. If you share our values, this could be the role for you!

At LinkLiving, our values and people are at the heart of everything we do including how we recruit our staff. It is important for us to find people who share our values, which are:

• Empathy (listen to and understand an individual’s needs and circumstances)
• Respect (treat others the way they wish to be treated)
• Integrity (be honest and have strong moral principles)
• Caring (show kindness and concern for others)

LinkLiving is a Scottish health and wellbeing charity that supports people to manage or overcome the effects of negative life experiences (including trauma, mental health challenges, poverty and inequality) so that they can build on their strengths and aspirations in order to live their best possible lives. We support people through a range of models including:

• Personal development and employability programmes
• Self-help coaching
• Supported accommodation
• Care at home
• Housing support
• Befriending
• Social cafes

The Service

Our Edinburgh Mental Health Services is made up of five teams of support workers who provide visiting tenancy support across Edinburgh to people experiencing mental ill health. The service also has a Core and Cluster accommodation service which provides more intensive support to people who have spent time in long-term hospital care. Our support enables the people we work with to live as independently as possible in their own home and improve their mental and physical health.

The Job

We have an exciting opportunity for ambitious and motivated Support Workers to join our team and improve the lives of people supported by our Edinburgh Mental Health Services.

In this role, you will be supported to work using a person centred and trauma informed approach and develop effective relationships with people affected by a range of mental health problems, supporting them to cope in difficult times and working towards recovery and a good life. You will provide emotional, practical and social support to enable people to live as independently as possible and make informed choices in all aspects of their lives.

This role involves the administration of medication to some of the individuals we support. Full training will be provided for this.

For a comprehensive list of the essential and desirable criteria required for this post, please refer to the Job Specification in the Job information Pack below

What’s in it for you?

The benefits of being a LinkLiving employee (subject to the policies and benefit terms and conditions) include:

• Competitive salary, reviewed annually, and opportunity for annual performance related salary increases and discretionary non-consolidated pay awards, subject to terms of the scheme
• 35 days’ holiday per year (inclusive of public holidays) pro rata plus additional 3 days pro rata after 3 years’ service, with an opportunity to buy and sell holiday
• temporary enhanced business travel mileage allowance to support employees with increased fuel costs
• access to paid SVQ qualifications and a wide range of learning and development opportunities and funded Disclosure Scotland and Scottish Social Services Council memberships
• defined contribution pension scheme with generous employer contributions plus salary exchange and additional voluntary contribution options
• life assurance scheme providing death in service benefits to named beneficiaries
• healthcare cash plan for employees (and dependents) to support health and wellbeing plus discounts on shopping, restaurants, and other services
• employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate household dependants to support health, mental and financial well-being
• discounted travel schemes including cycle to work scheme, monthly bus pass scheme and travel ticket loan and much more!

For a full list of benefits available to employees, please see the following link - linkliving.org.uk/about-us/work-for-us

Successful applicants will be required to register with SSSC within 6 months of their start date.

This post is subject to Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme registration. Link will meet the cost of any new PVG scheme membership or scheme record update.

Could you make a difference for members of the LGBT+ community in Edinburgh and beyond?

The Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive has grown out of Scotland’s first LGBT+ bookshops, Lavender Menace (1982-87) and West & Wilde (1987-97). They sold what we now call queer books – by, about or for LGBT+ people – at a time mainstream bookshops would not stock them. The bookshops also provided openly queer meeting places, where LGBT+ people were able to connect and felt affirmed and welcomed.

Bob Orr and Sigrid Nielsen, the owners of the original Lavender Menace Bookshop, in 2019 founded the Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive to keep this valuable LGBT+ book heritage alive and share it with the community. Through its amazing collection of books, the archive tells the story of queer people’s resistance, and the rise of what is now known as ‘queer pride’. These books told the stories of queer lives; they were written honestly and positively for the first time, and they changed lives.

We are looking for a creative and highly organised Community Programme Coordinator to work on all aspects of planning and delivering a wide range of projects and activity for the delivery of Lavender Menace’s Community Heritage Project activities, which aim to engage the LGBT+ community with the archive’s heritage and promote understanding of the early years of an out and proud queer community.

The Community Project’s key activities are:

• The Archive: to provide the LGBT community with regular access to the queer books archive, focused on books spanning the 1970-2000 period.
• Author readings and events: to deliver a programme of in-person and online events, run with a range of partners, which connect people to the archive’s collection and this heritage.
• Discussion and reading groups: to run groups and classes developed around particular themes in the collection and/or aimed at different sections of the LGBT community (e.g. older lesbians reading group, trans representation).
• Volunteering programme: to work with a team of volunteers involving them in all aspects of the archive’s work including community outreach, communications and social media, groups and events.

These activities build on the work Bob and Sigrid have developed with the team of volunteers. The post holder will thus be able to tap into their experience, contacts and knowledge in taking this work forward.

In addition, over the course of Year 2 and Year 3 the plan is to run a small-scale Oral History Project and Exhibition, focused on the impact and legacy of the Lavender Menace and West & Wilde Bookshops, which operated in Edinburgh between 1982 and 1997. We will be seeking partners and additional funding to help deliver this project.

Employee benefits package

• 35 days of leave (pro-rata including public holidays)
• Enhanced pension scheme
• Flexible working options
• Training and development opportunities