We are seeking a first-class Communications Manager to join our Diabetes Scotland team. This post will lead the strategic development, planning and delivery of communications in Scotland.

Role Responsibility

The Communication Manager will play a key role in helping us reach and engage new audiences, increase our profile and influence and raise awareness and understanding of diabetes and the need for prevention. The role will also help influence the wider policy agenda and play a key role in mobilising people living with diabetes to get involved in our campaigns and activities as well as ensuring that lived experience is at the heart of everything we do.

The Ideal Candidate

You will have proven experience of working in a similar Communications Manager role and be able to demonstrate first class strategic thinking, communication and writing skills with a good news sense and the ability to work under pressure, at your own initiative and as part of a team. You will also be an excellent public speaker, skilled at building relationships and working in partnership and have excellent organisational skills.

Closing date: 28th September 2020 at 11.30pm

Do you have service or project design accreditation, Prince 2 or project management equivalent and proven experience of delivering digital products in a service led environment? Then join Shelter Scotland as a Digital Product Owner and you could soon be playing a vital role at the heart of our Telephone and Online Advice Services (TOAS) team.

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.

Shelter Scotland TOAS provides a free telephone and online chat service for housing advice that covers all of Scotland. We also deliver a second-tier advice service for frontline professionals; providing them with housing advice to empower them to help their service users. Housed within this team is our digital advice function which services the Get Advice pages on our website. Our aim? For as many people as possible to be able to access digital tools and content on our Get Advice pages that provide them with the guidance they need to take action on their housing issue.

About the role

This brand new role has been created to help us advance our ambitions to create and maintain high-quality, user-focused content that enables those who need to address their housing and homelessness issues to self-serve using our digital resources. Your key responsibility will be to lead the planning, delivery, maintenance and optimisation of digital products for people who seek advice from Shelter Scotland and for professionals who support people struggling with bad housing or homelessness. As well as developing digital products that will help professionals to provide accurate advice on housing and homelessness to their clients, you’ll also have line management responsibility for a Content Writer and Legal Writer. Ensuring an integrated approach to understand our audiences, identify opportunities, develop and test ideas and manage products through their lifecycle will be important too. And, when it comes to developing a Digital Content Strategy and roadmap to guide product development and asset selection, again, we’ll count on you.

About you

You’ll need a good understanding of Agile methodology, product and service design, a flair for business development and ideally some knowledge of Housing legislation. We’ll also be looking for excellent time management, presentation and communication skills and experience of working and delivering in a matrix management service environment. A great people manager, with proven project management skills, you’re commercially aware, proactive, creative and innovative. What’s more you like nothing better than collaborating with others and are not afraid to challenge the status quo and introduce new ideas, methods and processes where appropriate.

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, payroll giving, 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.

Children’s Panel Members are trained to take part in children’s hearings and make important decisions with and for infants, children and young people.

We are looking for committed and enthusiastic people across Scotland to take on the volunteer role of Depute Area Convener. Depute Area Conveners play a key role by supporting the local Area Convener in the leadership of local volunteers.

What will you be doing?

Supporting the local Area Convener, you’ll be managing a team of volunteers to recruit, select, quality assure and manage concerns or complaints in your area. You’ll be working with local partners, communicating with Panel Members and leading on and implementing national improvements at the local level. You will also make sure that the views of young people are heard and acted upon within your area.

Who are we looking for?

You’ll be enthusiastic and committed to securing the rights of children and young people and improving their outcomes and experiences; able to lead and be part of a team; a strong communicator. You should also be familiar with working with volunteers and be able to demonstrate a strong commitment to and understanding of the ethos of the children’s hearings system.

Where should you be based?

We are looking for Depute Area Conveners in East Renfrewshire, Glasgow and West Dunbartonshire.

Who are we?

Early Years Scotland is Scotland’s leading national Third Sector specialist organisation that supports our youngest children from birth to 5 years of age. Our fully qualified early years staff work directly with children and their families to deliver our unique Stay Play and Learn sessions in a variety of settings including nurseries, community halls, schools and prisons. We work increasingly in prisons, and areas where there are children and

families who have the greatest need and will benefit most from our services.

We have been established for over 50 years, and we are very proud of our long and ever-growing track record in supporting Scotland’s youngest children to have the very best start in life.

The role

We are currently looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Finance Assistant to join our busy finance team based at the Early Years Scotland Main Office in Glasgow. You will be a first class communicator who is confident working independently while being comfortable, eager and willing in a team context.

What skills does the post require?

You will be a highly numerate person with an eye for detail who is comfortable and experienced in

book-keeping and financial recording procedures.

Duties will include:

• Purchase ledger and sales ledger processing
• Processing all income and expenditure through Sage Accounts
• Ensuring all income for Professional Learning activity is invoiced and recorded
• Bank reconciliation
• Working as an integral member of the Finance Team
• Assisting with the checking of payroll calculations

You will bring:

• Competent bookkeeping knowledge, experience and expertise
• Experience using Sage 50 Accounts, or similar, and accessing helpline support
• An understanding and reasonable experience of payroll processes
• Experience using internet banking
• Experience of bank reconciliation procedures
• A commitment to the highest standards of reliability, honesty and confidentiality

Qualifications

Although there is no requirement for a specific qualification, any relevant, recognised qualifications

will be valued.

Around since 1923, SAMH is Scotland’s national mental health charity.

SAMH has represented the voice of people most affected by mental health problems in Scotland for more than 90 years.

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.

SAMH is dedicated to mental health and wellbeing for all: with a vision of a society where people are able to live their lives fully, regardless of present or past circumstances.

The SAMH National Employment Team operates high quality services to support customers to access and sustain employment. An opportunity has arisen to join the team and make a positive impact on the lives of the customers we support.

Working as a member of the management team you will drive the delivery and performance SAMH employment solutions services, programmes and contracts. You will manage a staff team across Scotland and will be responsible for contract compliance, performance management, designated budgetary and financial matters and health and safety. You will also be responsible for liaising with contractors and partners and providing reports and management information on a regular basis.

You will have experience of working to tight deadlines in a target driven environment and of working/liaising with employers. Although based in the above stated locations the post involves travel across Scotland therefore a full driving licence and access to your own transport is essential.

If you would like to discuss the role further please contact Oxana MacGregor-Gunn on 07711 389680

Scotland’s women and labour market expert, Close the Gap, is looking for new trustees. Committed to women’s labour market equality, you’ll have the ability to think strategically and creatively, and to respond to the needs of the organisation. You’ll also be able to commit the time to fulfil the role of trustee, and help us meet our strategic objectives.

Close the Gap is strongly committed to equality, and recognises that diverse boards are more effective, and result in better governance practice. We would particularly welcome applications from Black and minority ethnic people, disabled people, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people who are currently under-represented on our board. We’re also particularly interested in receiving applications from people that have knowledge and experience in finance and fundraising.

Organisation profile

Close the Gap is Scotland’s expert policy and advocacy organisation working on women’s labour market participation. We work strategically with policymakers, employers and unions to address the causes of women’s inequality at work. Close the Gap was established as a partnership initiative in 2001, and became a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation in 2016.

The Workplace team supports this work through delivering training to organisations both big and small, helping them learn how to support the mental health of their staff.

Reporting to the Workplace Service Manager, you’ll be responsible for the smooth, effective and efficient co-ordination and administration of all aspects of a large scale Workplace training contract. You’ll provide a professional, customer focussed information and response service to our Workplace clients.

You are an experienced and qualified coordinator/administrator, dedicated to providing a great customer experience. Your communication skills are exemplary, and you’re used to managing a busy and variable workload.

Benefits;

- Staff wellbeing is a priority at SAMH

- As well as promoting a healthy work-life balance, we offer the following:

- Annual leave 30 days (under 5 years service); 33 days (over 5 years service)

- 4 days public holidays

- Life cover 1.5 times annual salary

- Learning and development opportunities

Work for SCVO and support Scotland’s never more needed voluntary sector.

We’re passionate about the voluntary sector and we believe that charities, social enterprises and voluntary groups make Scotland a better place. With initial funding provided by The National Lottery Community Fund, SCVO’s new HR and Employment Support Service has been established to provide HR support and guidance for voluntary sector organisations, so that they can focus on vital frontline services.

We’re looking for an experienced HR professional to support this new service, develop resources and provide support with leaving lockdown, flexible working, restructures, redundancies and supporting positive employee mental health.

If you have recent experience of working in a generalist HR role and an understanding of the impact of COVID-19 on voluntary sector employers, we’d like to hear from you. The closing date for receipt of applications is the 21st September, with the option of an immediate start date for the successful candidate.

The Glasgow School of Art Students’ Association (GSASA) is a student and creative led student union in Glasgow, offering space, activities, support, advocacy and representation for the students of the Glasgow School of Art. We are a non-profit charity that funds student representation projects, student exhibitions, and societies, as well as events and other programmes dedicated to members’ interests and development. As the students’ representative body we advocate for student interests and welfare. We try to make everybody feel comfortable and welcome, and have an ongoing and self-critical commitment to accessibility, safe(r) spaces and actively opposing all forms of discrimination.

Glasgow School of Art Students’ Association (GSASA) is recruiting a new Communications and Digital Engagement Co-ordinator to lead on the development and implementation of the a communications and digital strategy for the organisation.

The role will entail devising, developing, and evaluating new and existing digital and communications platforms; developing the Association’s use of online learning tools and developing a fit-for-purpose website for the Association.

Money Advice Scotland (MAS) – Scotland’s money charity is seeking to appoint 2 new independent Trustees/Directors to augment its existing Board. This is a very exciting point in the history of Money Advice Scotland, as we have recently introduced new governance arrangements.

We are seeking 2 dynamic individuals who share our passion in being “the driving force towards wellbeing for the people of Scotland”. See our strategy document and impact report.

See our strategy report

See our impact report

Money Advice Scotland has a membership drawn from local authorities, CABx, housing associations, voluntary sector projects, insolvency practitioners, all of whom have an interest in the provision of debt advice and/or financial capability.

These posts are well positioned, to provide a real opportunity to shape, and shift the money advice and financial inclusion sector, to meet the demands of the new strategic and operational environment we now face.

MAS holds the Investor in People Gold standard reflecting our own continued commitment of developing the staff who are at the heart of the services we provide to members.

We are a relatively small organisation (employing 18 people), which punches well above its weight, and always delivers on its promise. We need Trustees who really want to make a difference across the communities in Scotland, and beyond.

We particularly wish to appoint Trustees from the following areas of expertise: skills in digital infrastructure, and applications and have a depth of knowledge in cyber security. Other skills preferred include experience in the political climate in Scotland, and familiarity with the machinery of government. Ideally past experience in working with Holyrood and Westminster Parliaments, and at local level. The Board is also short of HR knowledge, and experience. Acquiring these additional competencies will complement the existing skills on the Board, which relate to debt advice, and financial education provision across Scotland. In addition, through our Independent Trustees we have skills in financial and legal services, accountancy, and public relations.

Whilst the posts are not remunerated individuals will play a significant role in the future of Money Advice Scotland’s development, and its sustainability. We are a relatively small organisation (employing 18 people), which punches well above its weight, and always delivers on its promise.

We are currently seeking to appoint a Lead Practitioner for Attainment for our Child & Family Centre in Govan.

Glasgow City Mission’s Child & Family Centre provides a number of valuable services to the local community from nursery provision and parenting support classes, to counselling and confidence building activities. Working with over 100 children and their families, our aim is to break the poverty cycle and give children in Govan the best start in life. By investing in safe guarding and supporting families, we help children and parent alike grow to become confident and ‘life equipped’.

As part of the childcare team of the nursery, this role will provide additional support for children who need it most in order to close the attainment gap, through helping boost cognitive development and reduce any disparity that opens up before children start primary school.

Applicants should hold or be working towards the BA Childhood Practice, PDA, Certificate / Diploma in Early Childhood Studies or other relevant advanced qualification. Candidates should be in sympathy with the ethos of Glasgow City Mission.

The Wild Olive Tree is a busy social enterprise café situated in the heart of Glasgow city centre, within the Sanctuary of St George’s Tron Church of Scotland. We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and skilled Café Manager who has the motivation, passion and energy to take the café forward. You will have excellent customer service and leadership skills and will understand the importance of combining efficiency with excellence. You will also be able to work with a variety of individuals from differing backgrounds, treating everyone with respect and dignity. The successful candidate will display a willingness to buy into the vision of the café.

The Wild Olive Tree is a registered Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO). We partner with Glasgow City Mission and Bethany Christian Trust to provide workplace employability placements within the café to their clients, and we donate profits from the café to Glasgow City Mission and Bethany Christian Trust to further their work inGlasgow amongst the most vulnerable in our city. We also have a gifted scheme which allows customers to make donations towards the cost of providing free soup and tea/coffee to anyone unable to pay.

The Wild Olive Tree contributes to making St George's Tron Church of Scotland open and accessible to members of the general public, through providing a welcoming and affordable city centre café facility. Applicants should therefore be in sympathy with the Christian ethos of St George’s Tron Church of Scotland as a place of Christian worship, witness, mission and service.

Please note that this position is a 12-month maternity cover contract in the first instance, with the possibility of extension thereafter.

Our mission at Victim Support Scotland is to ensure that those affected by crime receive high quality support that will help them to recover from their experiences. We want victims and witnesses to be at the heart of everything we do so they have improved health and well-being, feel safer, more secure and informed and that we are an effective organisation, that makes a lasting difference. We aim to do this by adhering to our own organisational values of being supportive, striving for excellence and offering personalised and accessible services and these are reflected in the behaviours expected of all staff and volunteers.

To help achieve this mission, VSS have designed implemented a new National Service: Supporting Families Bereaved by Crime from 1st April 2019.

As a member of this team and reporting to the National Co-ordinator, the role of Key Support Worker will be to provide comprehensive support to families bereaved by murder or culpable homicide. This will involve providing structured social support, practical support, information, liaising with other justice and community organisations, supporting the family as they interact with the criminal justice system and helping them to reach a new balance in their lives after trauma.

You will play a key part in the ongoing evaluation, development and improvement of the service. You will work closely with Police Scotland and representatives from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.

As this is national role travel to all parts of the country will be required in order to support families at appropriate locations to best meet their needs. This may involve travelling out of hours with limited access to public transport. A current, clean driving licence is therefore essential to the post.

The base for the team is in Glasgow, and whilst all VSS employees are working flexibly at the moment, it should be noted that to support the implementation, development and delivery of the national service, it will be a requirement of the role to attend the Glasgow office at times.

This post will be subject to a satisfactory PVG check.

Around since 1923, SAMH is Scotland’s national mental health charity.

SAMH has represented the voice of people most affected by mental health problems in Scotland for more than 90 years.

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.

SAMH is dedicated to mental health and wellbeing for all: with a vision of a society where people are able to live their lives fully, regardless of present or past circumstances.

Scotland’s National Suicide Prevention Action Plan sets out a new approach to preventing suicide; it is led by the National Suicide Prevention Leadership Group (NSPLG). An important part of delivering this new approach is building a social movement of people with a shared belief in preventing suicide.

gov.scot/publications/scotlands-suicide-prevention-action-plan-life-matters

On behalf of the NSPLG and Scottish Government, we are looking for a Social Movement Development Manager who will be responsible for establishing and managing activity to build a people powered movement using campaigns and communications, community organising, peer networks and wider change approaches.

The Social Movement Development Manager will be a key ambassador for suicide prevention work in Scotland. This will include developing key partnerships and relationships with a range of national, regional and local stakeholders. Building a social movement led by people with a range of experiences is a powerful catalyst for change that will inspire all of us to believe that we could benefit from being more aware, confident and equipped.

Passionate about social justice? Organising experience under your belt? Living Rent is looking for an experienced organiser to lead our staff team and grow the organisation. We believe in starting local, focussing on building up neighbourhood level branches of paying members that can then take on campaigns using a wide range of tactics including direct action.

We’ve already won major housing reform such as the private tenancy act, improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of tenants in Scotland. Alongside this, we have fought and won countless local campaigns to win justice for our members, whilst our recent work to support members during the Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated our ability to respond to changing circumstances.

We are looking for someone with previous experience of organising, who can demonstrate how they have grown an organisation and who has ideas for how they could support Living Rent build more power for working-class residents in Scotland. This post involves directly line managing the staff team, composed of field organisers and a member defence coordinator, training and mentoring them, liaising with the National Committee to implement Living Rent’s organisational goals, ensuring Living Rent’s financial health and developing a national organising strategy for Living Rent.

This post can be based in either Edinburgh or Glasgow with regular travel between the two cities expected and a degree of flexibility in working hours required.

Given the lasting impacts of the pandemic, an organised working-class is ever more needed. As a small and young organisation, you could have a massive impact of building the future tenants’ movement in Scotland and establishing it as a beacon for community organising around the world.

About Living Rent

Living Rent is Scotland’s Tenants’ Union. We seek to unite and represent all tenants whether you rent from the private or social sector. We are not affiliated to any political party and only answer to our members. We are ordinary people campaigning for better rights for tenants, protections against rent increases, evictions and poor-quality housing and we represent and defend our members when they are having housing problems.

By building tenant power and challenging landlords collectively, we not only win for our members but we also fight for a housing and political system that puts people before profit. We believe in the collective power of tenants to come together to fight for their rights, and use diverse tactics – including direct action when necessary – to achieve this.

Living Rent is affiliated to ACORN International and the International Union of Tenants.

Due to continuous growth in our workplace wellbeing area, SAMH are now recruiting to our Workplace team to help us improve Scotland’s mental health by training and building capacity in organisations to enable them to effectively supporting their staff needs around mental health and wellbeing.

Around since 1923, SAMH operates over 50 services in communities across Scotland providing mental health social care support, addictions and employment services, among others. These services, together with national programme work in See Me, respectme, suicide prevention, physical activity and sport; inform SAMH’s policy and campaign work to influence positive social change.

The Workplace team supports this work through delivering training to organisations both big and small, helping them learn how to support the mental health of their staff.

You’ll deliver training in mental health and wellbeing to various organisations in order to inspire them and to support them to establish and sustain a culture of positive mental health in the workplace with our bespoke training products. You’ll also help us develop our materials, making sure they meet the needs of all of our clients.

You should be a highly experienced trainer, able to deliver training face to face and on line and hold the attention of a group of busy people! You are confident to use technology, organised and flexible. You’ve developed great training that delivers the right outcomes, and you’re happy to deliver training to all levels of staff and management. Come and join us.

Benefits

Staff wellbeing is a priority at SAMH

As well as promoting a healthy work-life balance, we offer the following:

· Annual leave 30 days (under 5 years service); 33 days (over 5 years service)

· 4 days public holidays

· Life cover 1.5 times annual salary

· Learning and development opportunities

· Employee Assistance Programme – confidential support should you need it.

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 £9.30 - £9.76 per hour;
• guaranteed rota hours working between 7.30am & 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.