Jobs in Southside & Newington, Edinburgh

The purpose of this role is to enable Nourish to use our money and data most effectively in order to further our aim of improving Scotland’s food system. The successful candidate will focus on the following areas of work:

• financial management, including bookkeeping, maintaining financial records, making payments, and liaising with external accountants and payroll

• financial reporting to funders, including working with the team and our project partners to maintain relevant records throughout the grant period

• data management, including helping us to use supporters’ contact details for effective communication, ensuring compliance with data protection law, and maintaining existing systems

• IT management, including managing passwords and access to the online server (with support from external IT consultant)

In time, this role has the potential to expand into new areas of work, such as monitoring and evaluation.

For more information about the post, please see the full job description.

We are looking to recruit to a new post of Public Affairs Officer to lead and enhance our work in Holyrood and Cardiff Bay. You will be collaborating with colleagues across the team and the wider Salvation Army to advance our public affairs activities, particularly our work around homelessness and addictions.

You will have excellent communication skills and a passion for tackling social justice issues; experience of working in a parliamentary setting and a knowledge of Scottish or Welsh parliamentary procedure and how they can be used to further campaigns.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a collaborative and innovative team and make a tangible difference to the lives of others.

Location: There is no set location for this role. This role will involve some travel across the UK with overnight stays.

For over 150 years, The Salvation Army has worked to see lives transformed and has fought the social inequalities affecting the most vulnerable in our communities. Today, through our network of frontline services and social programmes, we continue to support the most marginalised in society.

Age Scotland is the national charity for older people. We work to improve the lives of everyone over the age of 50 so that they can love later life.

We support and enable hundreds of communities and older people’s groups across Scotland. We provide information, friendship and advice through our free helpline and publications. We tackle loneliness and isolation with our Friendship Line and much more.

We work in Scotland with older people’s groups who provide vital activities and services for older people in their local community. We campaign on the issues that older people tell us are important to them.

Our About Dementia Team are looking for a Resource & Administration Officer to:

• To provide high quality administrative support to the team including managing and maintaining information and data storage systems in line with GDPR.
• To be the first point of contact for enquiries about the project and our events.
• To support the work of the About Dementia team.
• To support the administration of our grants programmes.

The post will be a hybrid blend of office based (in Edinburgh) and home-based work. At least 40% of the working week will be based at our office in Causewayside, Edinburgh.

In return for your expertise and commitment to our values you’ll receive a generous holiday allowance, a range of learning and development opportunities, optional healthcare benefits and a contributory pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 9%.

We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, creative, and dynamic Project Worker, to be part of our Dignity in School programme team.

The postholder will be engaged in the development, delivery and reporting on a range of adult learning/continuing professional development opportunities across the education system and with allied professionals. The postholder will be located in our Dignity in School team but have connections across Children’s Parliament in terms of our UNCRC implementation capacity building work.

This strand of work is rooted in our practice with children and focuses on raising awareness, instilling confidence and building the capacity of adults and organisations. Passionate about children’s human rights, an excellent communicator and highly organised, the post holder will contribute to our work to support the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and deliver human rights for children.

We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, creative and dynamic Project Worker for our Dignity in School project team.

Passionate about children, an excellent communicator and highly organised, the post holder will contribute to our work to support the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and deliver human rights for children, with a focus on the education system.

The postholder will be located in our Dignity in School team but have connections across Children’s Parliament in terms of our UNCRC implementation work.

This strand of work is rooted in our practice with children and focuses on raising awareness, instilling confidence and building the capacity of primary schools and early learning to deliver human rights for children.

We are auticon, an award-winning international technology company with a strong social mission – to create equal employment opportunities for autistic adults. We employ autistic people with technology skills to deliver high-quality projects for our blue-chip clients.

Founded in Germany in 2011, today we operate in 8 countries – Germany, UK, France, Italy, Switzerland, USA, Canada and Australia – and are supported by investors including Richard Branson and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

Autistic adults often have exceptional cognitive abilities in areas such as logical reasoning, sustained concentration, attention to detail and accuracy, making their skills uniquely placed in the work environment. Yet, research shows only 1 in 5 autistic adults are employed, many of whom are in roles that do not make good use of their skills and experience.

Your role

We are looking for an outgoing, enthusiastic Recruitment Marketing Specialist to join our Scotland team and help us drive top autistic talent to auticon via targeted recruitment marketing strategies. The ideal candidate will be a creative storyteller full of innovative ideas who knows how to reach and engage with their audience.

If you are looking for a role that makes a social impact, then this is it.

Job responsibilities

• Plan and implement a recruitment marketing strategy to attract high quality candidates in Scotland
• Identify the tactics and platforms that will be most effective in reaching a specified target audience
• Attend graduate recruitment events and form links with university careers advisors
• Plan, promote and run regular recruitment events in Scotland
• Participate in speaker events across Scotland to promote auticon and the value of having a neurodiverse workforce
• Work closely with the UK Marketing Manager to develop creative ways to address recruitment challenges
• Write regular blogs, promoting the work of auticon and the benefits of neurodivergent workers
• Create engaging recruitment promotional material both physical, eg Flyers and digital/social media material
• Keep abreast of marketing and advertising trends in the recruitment industry
• Research the autistic community in Scotland to understand the most effective ways to attract suitable candidates
• Create monthly reports on key recruitment and marketing metrics
• Work with the UK team to suggest new ideas for improving candidate experience and engagement

Additional

• You have a right to work in the United Kingdom
• You are within a commutable distance of Edinburgh to attend events and team meetings
• You can attend occasional auticon events in London

Skills, qualifications, and personality characteristics

Essential:

• Excellent understanding of recruitment processes and candidate selection methods
• Experience of in-house or external recruitment with focus on technology talent
• Ability to manage a portfolio of candidates by remaining in close contact with individuals actively and passively seeking a new position
• A good understanding of the Scottish technology sector
• Excellent presentation and oratory skills
• Ability to multitask and prioritise daily workload to meet competing demands
• Ability to communicate and build relationships at all levels
• Ability to think creatively and innovatively about how to do things better
• Experience using an online conferencing platform such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom

Desirable (but not essential)

• An understanding of the different neurodivergent conditions
• An undergraduate degree in Marketing, Human Resources, PR or similar relevant field
• Previous experience of managing digital advertising campaigns
• Experience of speaking at large conference events
• Knowledge and understanding of IT related skills and technologies

What makes this opportunity special

At auticon, you will meet and work with diverse people who think differently. It is a place where everyone is accepted and celebrated for who they are, a place buzzing with new ideas and creative energy. Most of all, auticon is a place that leads by example as it helps workplaces become diverse, inclusive and innovative.