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The University Court is seeking to appoint a Chair to succeed Dr Frances Dow CBE in March 2020.

The Court plays a crucial role in the development of the University’s vision and strategic direction. This appointment provides a significant opportunity for an experienced individual to lead the Court, and to work with the incoming Principal, Sir Paul Grice, on positioning the University’s future strategic direction.

The Chair of the Court is responsible for the leadership and effectiveness of the Court, and for ensuring that the University is well connected with its stakeholders, including its staff and students. The Chair leads the Court in observing the highest standards of corporate governance, including those set out in the Scottish Code for Higher Education Governance.

To fulfil this important role, we are seeking an individual with a distinguished record of successful leadership at a senior and strategic level within a large and complex public, private or third sector organisation. Ideal candidates will be able to demonstrate excellent leadership and interpersonal skills, coupled with a strong commitment to, and affinity for, higher education.

Expressions of interest are invited from individuals with experience of chairing boards and committees responsible for managing strategic issues, with knowledge of the Scottish higher education sector, or with experience of key bodies relating to education in general.

If you share our values and vision, are able to subscribe to the commitments set out in the role specification, and consider you meet the person specification, we would like to hear from you.

Queen Margaret University is committed to ensuring that its Court represents the staff, students and community which it serves. As such, we would welcome applications that reflect the breadth and diversity of those communities, and that would further enhance the diversity of the Court. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of personal background.

Are you passionate about delivering great services? Do you have expertise in leading teams to improve processes and deliver excellent customer care? You may be just the person we are looking for.

There are over 40,000 organisations in the voluntary sector in Scotland, employing over 100,000 paid staff across a huge range of specialisms, activities and locations. As the national membership body for voluntary and community organisations our purpose is to support, promote and develop a confident and sustainable voluntary sector in Scotland, by delivering services, giving the sector a voice at a national level and promoting and supporting innovation and improvement.

We deliver payroll services to over 400 organisations. We help our customers fill hundreds of jobs every year and we run Community Jobs Scotland which helps create over 700 jobs a year. We want to make these services even better, more joined up and expanding, so that the charities and voluntary sector organisations we support can focus on the people and communities they exist to serve.

To help us achieve this we have created a new senior post and we are keen to hear from people with experience of delivering and improving high quality services, who can make the most of digital technology and take our services to the next level. It would help if you had a good understanding of the voluntary sector, and it’s crucial your values are as important to you as the bottom line.

We are looking for an inspiring leader to lead an established team of 35 staff to deliver a high quality, customer-focused service managing the Home Energy Scotland service in South East Scotland. You’ll have a proven track record in a senior management role with experience of contract and project management. The role requires excellent communications and systems skills.

You will proactively seek opportunities to promote the advice centre and be driven to find new and innovative approaches to working in partnership across many sectors.

This opportunity offers a challenging and stimulating position in the environmental and charity sector.

Home Energy Scotland is a national service with five regional centres providing impartial advice and support to householders and small businesses on energy efficiency, renewables and low carbon transport. A particular focus of the service is for those in fuel poverty. The service is funded by the Scottish Government, managed by the Energy Saving Trust and delivered under contract by Changeworks in South East Scotland and the Highlands and Islands.

Changeworks is one of Scotland’s largest environmental charities with over 30 years’ experience in sustainability. We develop and deliver high impact solutions to make low carbon life a positive reality for everyone. We have over 200 employees and volunteers across Scotland.

Myeloma UK is the only organisation in the UK dealing exclusively with myeloma, an incurable blood cancer.

We help myeloma patients live longer and with a better quality of life, offering a broad and innovative range of services, from providing information and support to patients, their families and healthcare professionals, to improving standards of treatment and care through research, education, campaigning and raising awareness.

We are seeking to appoint an inspirational Chief Executive who will build upon the successes of this charity, help shape its future with clear purpose and ensure Myeloma UK continues to “punch above its weight”.

The Chief Executive will provide visible, inspiring and effective senior leadership, direction and oversight to Myeloma UK and all of its staff in the development of the organisation’s vision, strategic direction and implementation of clearly prioritised plans. Building an effective partnership with the Chair and leveraging the experiences of a diverse Board, the Chief Executive will enable the rapid and on-going growth of Myeloma UK.

Myeloma UK is open to candidates from the private and public sectors with relevant experience that includes considerable leadership experience at board level in a sizeable, multi-faceted organisation including contribution to the development and delivery of strategy and organisational change, and oversight of effective business operations. The appointee will have a passion for leading We want to work together to progress towards our ultimate goal of finding a cure and making myeloma history.

Children 1st is Scotland’s National Children’s Charity.

We exist to prevent abuse and neglect, to protect children and keep them safe from harm. We work to make sure children in Scotland live in safe, loving families and in strong communities. We help survivors of abuse, trauma and other adversity to recover and we work tirelessly to protect the rights of children in Scotland.

Our approach to all aspects of our work is to capture and understand the experience and voices of the children and families we support and ensure that they have opportunities to influence policy, practice and service design.

We now have an exciting new opportunity at a senior level to join our team. We are seeking to recruit a Director of Strategic Planning and Campaigns to lead the development and implementation of an integrated approach to our national campaigns and planning framework.

If you are passionate about Children’s rights and have the leadership and communication skills required we want to hear from you. You will work alongside colleagues across all parts of the organisation to deliver on our ambitious strategic priorities plan to reach and transform children’s lives and will provide leadership and direction to the organisation’s Policy and Communications teams, and over see the transformational development of the Charity’s Parentline service and other national initiatives as agreed.

You will be committed to working through positive relationships and have significant experience of successfully developing and implementing organisational strategy at a senior level.

You will also have a proven track record of working relationally and collaboratively to deliver strategies that support complex organisations to achieve a lasting difference for the people we support, maximum impact through clear public campaigns that build understanding and support for our work and deliver sustainable change in children’s policy and practice.

One Parent Families Scotland (OPFS) is currently recruiting for Trustee positions to fill a variety of areas of expertise to join our skilled and experienced Board. We're looking for new trustees who want to drive change and help us shape and communicate our new strategic direction.

OPFS is the leading charity working with single parent families in Scotland. We provide expert advice, practical support and campaign with parents to make their voices heard to change the systems, policies and attitudes that disadvantage single parent families.

Our vision is of a Scotland in which single parents and their children are valued and treated equally and fairly.

Our mission is to work with and for single parent families, providing direct support services that enable them to achieve their potential and help create lasting solutions to the poverty and barriers facing many single parents and their children. We support all single parent families whether headed by mothers, fathers, young parents or kinship carers.

If you share our mission and have a drive to see positive social change for single parent families, then this is a great opportunity for you play a role in the success of an established charity with an excellent and unique model that makes a real difference.

If you have experience of any of the following, please apply.

· Legal/charity governance,

· Finance,

· HR,

· Policy and strategy,

· Fundraising, third sector and government (local or Scottish)

· Digital

Period of appointment is initially for three years, after which you will be eligible for re-election for a further period of three years.

Equal Opportunities and Family Friendly Employment. We have Investors in People status and Living Wage accreditation.

Kids Operating Room is a global health charity focused on delivering safe surgical services for children in the developing world.

Currently working in 22 countries and committed to developing an ambitious program of growth across Africa in particular, but elsewhere too, we are seeking a Head of Fundraising to join our team, deliver our income generation strategy and help hundreds of thousands of children access the emergency and urgent care they need.

Our founders currently fund all of our work and will continue to fund our running costs as well as a wide range of our charitable activities. However, as we now look to grow our impact beyond this we are looking for someone who can deliver a broad fundraising strategy that will see more regular donors, more trusts and foundations and more community fundraising contribute to our work.

The successful candidate will be able to build a team to help them achieve this but will be expected to have experience in these fundraising areas and to be personally responsible for generating income too. In time, and once a solid foundation of income has been achieved, we expect to develop corporate fundraising, legacy income and will be open to developing other income streams too.

Working closely with the Chief Executive and the Chair, you will also contribute to a major donor strategy that is currently underway.

Skills and experience:

• You will likely be an existing senior fundraiser or high performing fundraising manager looking for an opportunity to lead a team.
• You will have a results-focused mindset and a proven track record of achieving exceptional income results. High standards of donor care, an understanding of the need to build long-term relationships with our donors and a clear understanding of GDPR in fundraising are essential.
• You’ll also know the Code of Fundraising and the importance of its role in ensuring our fundraising is of the highest standard.

Qualifications:

You will almost certainly be degree educated and may well have completed fundraising qualifications with the Institute of Fundraising.

Role location:

The job is located in our Head Office in Edinburgh. Occasional travel elsewhere in the UK or abroad is expected.

Remuneration:

A wide range of benefits are available to the successful candidate including private healthcare, opportunities to travel and a fully paid sabbatical after certain lengths of service. The salary applicable for the role is £30 - £35K per annum.

Kids Operating Room is a global health charity focused on delivering safe surgical services for children in the developing world.

Currently working in 22 countries and committed to developing an ambitious program of growth across Africa in particular, but elsewhere too, we are seeking a Head of Communications to join our team, develop and deliver a Communications Strategy and ensure our profile is sustained across a number of channels and audience groups.

Our founders currently fund all of our work and will continue to fund our running costs as well as a wide range of our charitable activities. However, as we now look to grow our impact beyond this, and therefore our fundraising activities, we are looking for someone who can develop our public profile as a leading UK Aid charity, an organisation that can be trusted to deliver and an organisation that is making a very significant difference in low- and middle-income countries.

In time, the successful candidate will be able to build a team to help them achieve this but they will be expected to have experience in developing Communication Strategies, delivering success communications across a wide range of different media and of personally achieving objectives and delivering successful communications campaigns - both short and long-term.

Working closely with the Senior Management Team, you will direct our day-to-day communications but will also contribute to fundraising campaigns and build relationships with key media personnel, both in the UK and overseas, to ensure the sustainment of our positive profile.

Skills and experience:

• You will likely already work in communications and be a high performing account executive (or similar) looking to step up into a more senior role.
• You will focus on results - knowing the importance of every article, every social media post, every publication and you’ll have a track record of achieving exceptional outcomes.
• You’ll be an excellent writer, capable of producing quality content for printed media and on-line use.
• You’ll have a high degree of attention to detail in your writing.
• You’ll be given control of our website and a budget to replace it.
• You’ll be capable of delivering large projects like this on time and on budget and you’ll ensure the new site more accurately reflects our global reach and impact.

Qualifications:

You will be degree educated and may well have completed further studies in Communications, PR or Media.

Role location:

The job is located in our Head Office in Edinburgh. Occasional travel elsewhere in the UK or abroad is expected.

Remuneration:

A wide range of benefits are available to the successful candidate including private healthcare, opportunities to travel and a fully paid sabbatical after certain lengths of service. The salary applicable for the role is £30 - £35K per annum.

For too long consumers have been blamed for not reusing and repairing enough when the facilities and services do not exist to allow them to behave differently.

Remade Network is a social enterprise building a repair economy by collaborating with local communities to set up reuse and repair centres and advocating for one planet living and goods that are built to last. Creating a circular economy is not just about efficiency gains – it’s about system change. Our work aims to tackle climate breakdown and rising inequality by designing practical projects and consumer engagement that respond to local need.

With new projects being seeded in Glasgow, across the UK and several internationally, the role of the Commercial Director will be to deliver on the business plan, secure major income streams and develop commercial contracts in order to scale up the impact of our work.

The post holder will have overall responsibility for developing our commercial partnerships and managing the company’s operations in Scotland and throughout the UK. The successful candidate will have experience of working at a similar level, with a track record of success, ideally with a combination of not-for-profit and commercial expertise. A background in engineering, architecture, civic planning, or the IT sector would be an advantage, but it not essential. The role will be based in Glasgow, working across Scotland.

We are seeking new Trustees to join QNIS Council.

We’re looking for people who share our vision and are committed to good governance. We are particularly keen to find new Trustees with experience of fundraising and digital strategy, as well as a current community nursing leader.

The QNIS was established by Royal Charter in 1889 and has a proud tradition of serving the communities of Scotland. Our Patron is HM The Queen. The charity has a programme of activity which reaches across the whole of Scotland. We exist to promote excellence in community nursing to enable the health and wellbeing of the people of Scotland, and you can read more on our websitewww.qnis.org.uk.