Jobs in West Dunbartonshire

Intandem, Scotland’s mentoring programme for young people brings together vulnerable young people with a mentor to build a consistent and trusting relationship, and improve their chances in life. The Scottish Government has appointed Inspiring Scotland to lead the development of the intandem programme.

Initially the programme will focus on providing mentoring for children and young people aged 8 – 14 years who are looked after at home. Intandem recognises a young person’s need to have at least one long term relationship with a positive adult role-model. The disruption looked after children face can make this difficult to achieve within a family setting.

Y Sort It is a Company Limited by guarantee, run by an elected board of directors who are young people aged between 16 and 25. Y Sort It provides a range of youth activities, groups and support services for young people throughout West Dunbartonshire on both a centre-based and outreach basis. We ensure young people are able to make informed choices relevant to their lives, and have support in doing so.

Mentors play a vital role in helping young people become independent, develop goals and find ways to achieve them. As intandem volunteer coordinator you will be responsible for recruitment, support and the motivation of volunteer mentors and overall service coordination. You’ll play a key role in changing young people’s lives for the better.

The focus in every mentoring relationship will be on developing the child, recognising and building their strengths, and providing support and encouragement to deal with difficult and challenging situations in their lives.

Your role as the Care Connections Coordinator will focus on developing a programme of support for young people who are looked after at home and their families. Care Connections will offer those young people an opportunity to access a programme of support and activities appropriate to their needs contributing to closing the poverty-related attainment gap.

The programme will focus on providing support for children and young people aged 8 – 14 years old who are looked after at home, supporting them through the transitional stages, and the challenges that they may face within school and the community.

As the Care Connections Coordinator you will play a vital role in helping children and young people develop goals and find ways to achieve them. You will be responsible for overall service coordination and development including working in partnership and liaising with key organisations.

The focus of Care Connections is supporting each child or young person, to recognise and build their strengths, and providing support and encouragement to deal with difficult and challenging situations in their lives. You will play a key role in changing children & young people’s lives for the better.

The post holder should be flexible as the actual times of work will involve working, evenings, school holidays and weekends. The post holder should be flexible as the actual times of work may change to respond to the demands of the work of the Care Connections Programme.

All eyes are on Glasgow as the UN’s Climate Change Conference, COP26, comes to the city this November. We’re looking for a climate-savvy, super-organised project manager to lead a team who will be bringing to life opportunities to tackle the climate emergency and the nature crisis here in Scotland’s first National Park, right on the doorstep of the host city.

This is an exciting time for Scotland with its commitment to be a Net Zero Nation by 2045, for Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park Authority whose Mission Zero aim is to be a Net Zero organisation by 2030 and for sister National Parks across the UK.

This is a rare opportunity for a dedicated, self-starter to join our Engagement & Innovation service to work exclusively on the COP26 climate and nature project between now and December 2021. With dedicated admin support provided, you will be the first point of contact for anything COP26 related and will coordinate multiple internal and external stakeholders to ensure that Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park’s presence in the run up to and during COP26 stands out.

Working with an existing core project team, your first job will be to pull together their work to date into a plan, which you’ll then coordinate delivery and evaluation of. You’ll have regular liaison with relevant partners with any official presence at COP26 to keep our project team up to date and aware of plans, and you’ll provide a vital link into the National Park Authority and local partners.

We’re looking for someone who understands the world of sustainability and the urgent need for action on both the climate emergency and nature crisis. You will have a proven track record of developing projects involving multiple partners that have been delivered within a tight timeframe. The ability to prioritise your work is crucial as will being able to juggle multiple elements of a project simultaneously…while staying calm and in control. You need to be comfortable presenting work to senior stakeholders and ensuring they are kept up to date on the project’s progress throughout. An agile approach to managing projects and an improvement mindset will help set you apart from others.

This is an exciting role that will suit a someone with high levels of determination and the ability to be a self-starter focused on the delivery of outcomes. Excellent storytelling, people and organisational skills are essential for this role.

The National Park Authority is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.