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Harris Hill Scotland is working with Lifelink to recruit a Head of Services & Development on behalf of a Glasgow based mental health charity. Lifelink has a 25-year track record of providing support to adults and young people helping them to make positive personal changes in order to lead a happier, healthier stress-free life.
This role is an important senior position within the organisation and is responsible for the development of new and existing services and the design of current and strategic delivery plans.
Key responsibilities will include:
- To provide strong leadership ensuring that effective management and performance systems are in place
- To monitor, direct and lead all operational service contracts ensuring full compliance and quality of service delivery
- To lead strategic planning and implementation of service improvements to support Service areas and ensure consistency of practice
- To line manage and be accountable for services and development personnel, ensuring they are appropriately line managed and supervised in accordance with the organisations performance management framework
- To work with the Head of Corporate Services to develop a fair and transparent succession planning strategy which recognises and hones potential expertise and skills
Experience and skills required:
- The preferred candidate for this role must have strong operational and service delivery experience with previous knowledge and experience of change management
- The successful candidate must have experience of delivering against challenging targets supporting team members to do so
- The role requires an individual with strong operational experience as well as strong strategic implementation skills
- Previous knowledge and experience of charity governance and regulations would highly desirable
- The successful candidate must have excellent leadership skills with the ability to effectively man manage and lead staff members
- The role requires a candidate with strong project management skills as well as IT knowledge with exposure to Microsoft packages
About You
We are looking for a marketing officer to co-ordinate marketing, communications and engagement activities to support and strengthen the delivery of the Carer Positive employer awards in Scotland.
Working from the Carers Scotland office in Glasgow, you will play a crucial role in helping promote awareness of Carer Positive and growing participation in the initiative amongst organisations across Scotland. You will be a motivated self-starter with excellent IT and communication skills with experience in developing social media channels.
About Carer Positive
The Carer Positive initiative is operated by Carers Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Government. It is an employer recognition scheme which raises awareness of the need to support staff with caring responsibilities and works with organisations across Scotland to meet this aim. Over 140 organisations are currently recognised as ‘Carer Positive Employers’ in Scotland. It is an exciting time to join this project, building its capacity to reach and support a growing number of employers and working carers.
For more details about Carer Positive visit: carerpositive.org
About Carers Scotland
Carers Scotland is part of Carers UK, and is the national membership charity for the 795,000 people in Scotland who are unpaid carers. As an organisation we provide expert advice and information for carers, campaign for greater recognition and support for carers, and use our experience and expertise to help other organisations do more for carers.
For more details about Carers Scotland visit carersuk.org/scotland
Regional Fundraising Manager
- Full time
- £28,631 – £30,000
- Home-based, and Barnardo's Glasgow Office based (circa 1/2 days per week), also working throughout Scotland
- Closing 9th April 2019
At Barnardo's, we believe in children. Our purpose is to transform the lives of the UK's most vulnerable children and our vision is to realise Thomas Barnardo's dream of a world where no child is turned away from the help that they need. Now we need you to play your part in making that vision a reality.
We are looking for an experienced Regional Fundraising Manager with a demonstrable background of community fundraising and networking to deliver across our Scotland fundraising campaigns and programmes. You will be an integral member of the Scotland Fundraising team and UK Regional Fundraising team, working closely with the Scotland Fundraising Lead and Senior Regional Fundraising Manager to build our community support base and increase our income in Scotland.
You will have experience of driving excellent supporter experience and generating income growth through the delivery of fundraising partnerships and relationships, with substantial experience in the community fundraising field. You will be a first-rate communicator, and confident in managing a portfolio of supporters and organisations, delivering high value stewardship in order to increase life-time value to Barnardo's. You will have an excellent understanding of working with fundraising volunteers and community groups. You will be confident acquiring new businesses, partnerships and supporters and exploring new opportunities, working to objectives and KPIs to deliver increased income and support across Scotland.
You will adopt a proactive approach, utilising initiative and actively relationship building with existing/new funders, colleagues and volunteers to positively impact projected income. While your creativity and enthusiasm will enable you to pioneer, test and refine effective fundraising activities to suit Scottish audiences.
Reporting to the Scotland Fundraising Lead, with additional reporting responsibilities to the Senior Regional Fundraising Manager, this role will offer the successful candidate a great opportunity to work in a supportive working environment with lots of potential for learning and development. If you are an ambitious and driven networker and fundraiser, we are looking to hear from you.
Community Renewal is a social enterprise and registered charity that works to build community, improve quality of life and alleviate poverty by engaging individuals and families and supporting them to achieve sustainable employment, improved health and to become more involved in their community.
The role of Benefits Support Worker is to support the Local Conversations Project Lead.
The role will combine effective leadership of current projects and contracts ensuring they operate and deliver on targets as well as pursuing the broader company strategy of embedding existing projects within their respective neighbourhoods and supporting in the development of new initiatives.
Personal Development Worker (Social Care Worker) for Danny, Glasgow East
- Part time
- Sessional
- Glasgow
- Closing 1st April 2019
Recruiting three positions.
My name is Danny, I live in the Riddrie area of Glasgow. I am outgoing and active. I enjoy playing sports, going to the gym and fishing. DJing is my passion and i would like to start my own DJ business.
I am recruiting for Personal Development Workers to support me to live a good life. The role will have a focus on supporting me to contribute to my local community, to be healthy and safe, to support me in planning for the future and widening my horizons.
My new team members must be male, positive role-models,mature outlook and good at building and maintaining boundaries.
*For genuine occupational requirement reasons we are looking to appoint a male only for this post (exemption under the Equality Act 2010 Part 1 Schedule 9)
Qualifications: Appropriate SSSC required qualifications or have a willingness to work towards these.
Holiday Entitlement: 30 days annual leave (inclusive of public holidays).
A PVG (Protection of Vulnerable Groups Scheme) check is required for this position.
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ENABLE Scotland is a dynamic and vibrant organisation dedicated to improving the lives of people with learning disabilities and we have an exciting opportunity across our Glasgow, Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire services for a dynamic and motivated Regional Administration Manager.
The Regional Administration Manager will be responsible for supporting our Services team who deliver direct services to people with learning disabilities. The nature of the role is diverse and highly autonomous. Acting as key business partner to the Regional Manager and Services Managers, the post holder will manage day to day administration management functions, whilst aligning to a shared vision with the operations management; enabling the deliver high quality services to people we support.
This is a new Regional role with Enable and reflects our drive to develop a high quality, service led organisation.
What's also great about ENABLE Scotland is that we believe in developing all our staff and provide an extensive training programme, combined with a commitment to create career development opportunities.
Remember this is #morethanajob - it's the first step to you making a difference and continuing your career with an award winning charity with its values at its core.
If you would like further information on this exciting opportunity, please refer to the job description onour websiteor please feel free to contact Joanne Diver on 07840649120 or email recruitment@enable.org.uk
Moogety Foods Limited is a thriving health improvement organisation which aims to improve the health outcomes of residents in Greater Govan by providing healthy affordable and where appropriate locally grown food.
Working with local residents we have an established community Green Grocers, called Dig In and work in partnership with Urban Roots and Propagate to provide numerous healthy cooking projects, community meals and outdoor learning activities for children and young people.
We are passionate about promoting community cohesion and supporting the health and well-being of people of all ages.
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic person to provide administrative support to the organisation. This purpose of the job is to support the Committee to provide good governance.
The Preshal Trust is a fast-growing charity based in Govan that has been making a difference to the lives of vulnerable people within the local population for over 17 years. The Trust requires an Operations Manager with skills and experience to help develop the opportunities and manage the day-to-day operations of this dynamic charity. We are currently looking for an energetic and passionate individual to fill this position.
The role:
To provide operational and day-to-day management of the project and lead a team of staff delivering family services.
Skills & Experience required:
- Commitment to the Christian values and ethos of The Preshal Trust
- A record of good working practice with adults, children and families in a relevant setting
- An ability to show leadership skills including inspiring and developing individuals to maximize their capabilities
- Good analytical mind for developing effective and robust systems and procedures
- The ability to thrive in a busy environment
Following a successful probationary period the post has three-year funding and will then be reviewed with the potential for extension
For more information about the Preshal Trust please see our website at preshaltrust.org.uk
To book an informal chat please phone 0141-445-3689 and ask for Alan Nicholson, the Preshal Centre Manager or email admin@preshaltrust.org.uk