Top job! CEO
- Full time
- £56,562 – £63,092
- This post can be based in our Inverkeithing and/or Glasgow office.
- Closing 14th March 2020
Are you looking for a new challenge to help in the continuous growth of a successful grant manager in Scotland?
Are you interested in creating a stronger collaboration between the public, private and third sector to create a positive social, economic and environmental impact within communities across Scotland?
Then this is a great opportunity for you as CEO of Impact Funding Partners (IFP).
Impact Funding Partners (formerly known as Voluntary Action Fund) are looking for a new Chief Executive with a proven track record of income growth and organisational development.
We are looking for a passionate individual with experience of working across a range of sectors including Government. You will have the opportunity to create positive social, economic and environmental impact within communities while helping to shape the funding landscape in Scotland.
About us
This is an exciting time to join IFP (formerly known as the Voluntary Action Fund) following our rebranding, the recruitment of new board members creating a dynamic and proactive Board of Directors and the launch of our new strategy – Together we can create a Fairer Future – aimed at creating a fair, inclusive society where communities thrive and people are engaged, connected, and able to shape their own lives.
We are a successful grant manager with 37 years of experience, driven by our core values of equality, relationships, authenticity, openness and dynamism.
Our proven approach is to help funders make the most of their investment so that it has the greatest impact. This can be achieved by distributing funding, increasing capacity and building trusting relationships, which helps organisations achieve even more with their funding.
Our area of expertise is managing funds which tackle inequality in all its forms. Equality and diversity are core to our work and drives everything we do and how we do it.
Role
As IFP has entered a new phase of growth following its rebranding and has initiated a new business strategy, you will have proven experience in successfully forming partnerships and promote cross-sectoral collaboration. You will be dealing with senior stakeholders in the public, private and/or third sector, and therefore you will need to demonstrate the ability to engage with public sector funding bodies, potential new funders in the private sector, as well as understand the nuances of the third sector.
A natural leader, you will have excellent communication and negotiation skills with the ability to adapt your management style in a changing environment, and lead through example and inspiration. As the CEO of IFP you will act as brand ambassador and convey IFP’s strengths, values and priorities to a diverse audience. For that you will have the vision, strategic insight and ability to understand the environment in which IFP operates and raise its profile.
In the current changing socio-economic and political environment in Scotland, it is imperative that you value and promote innovative thinking that allows for the identification of sustainable solutions with a positive social, economic and environmental impact. Finally, you are a decision-maker who is not afraid to take calculated risks in order to support the continuous growth of IFP.
BTA (Bruce Tait Associates) are delighted to be working with Carnegie Dunfermline and Hero Fund Trust in their search for a Chief Executive.
Andrew Carnegie’s story is one of rags to riches. Born in Dunfermline in 1835 to a father who was a handloom weaver, the arrival of the power loom had a devastating impact on this trade, causing the Carnegies to immigrate to the United States in 1848. Young Andrew began work at age 12 as a bobbin boy in a cotton factory but educated himself by reading and writing and attending night school. Through great entrepreneurial acumen, he was to become one of the wealthiest men in America.
Carnegie wrote frequently about political and social matters, and his most famous article, “Wealth,” published in 1889, outlined what came to be called the Gospel of Wealth. This doctrine held that a man who accumulates great wealth has a duty to use his surplus wealth for “the improvement of mankind” in philanthropic causes. A “man who dies rich dies disgraced.”
Carnegie is one of the world’s most renowned philanthropists. His charitable giving benefitted people across the world in his lifetime and continues to do so today in a myriad of ways.
A rare opportunity has arisen to lead the Carnegie Dunfermline and Hero Fund Trusts. This comprises the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust, which gives grants to local causes and which also runs the world famous Carnegie Birthplace Museum, as well as the Hero Fund Trust. This operates across the UK and recognises civilian heroes by providing long term financial and other support for them and/or their families.
The Board of Trustees is looking for an exceptional person to become the next CEO. You will need to have all the usual skills and attributes required for running a diverse organisation including: strategic leadership and financial management experience, project leadership, experience of working with a Board (though this need not necessarily be in a third sector context), excellent stakeholder management skills and exemplary communication ability in all forms. This is as well as a strong belief and commitment to the Trusts’ vision and values, a motivational team leadership style and a knowledge of how to provide support services for vulnerable people.
If you would love the opportunity to be a grant giver that enhances and changes people’s lives for the better and have what it takes to be an inspirational leader for this fantastic and much valued organisation, then please request a candidate pack today.
The Carnegie UK Trust currently has a vacancy on its Board of Trustees for someone with financial expertise.
Could you contribute to the work of one of the UK’s longest-established foundations? The Carnegie UK Trust, set up in 1913 by Scots-American industrialist Andrew Carnegie, has a mission to improve wellbeing for people in the UK and Ireland. As a modern operating trust, we seek to influence ideas and policy while also being active in testing and delivering real-life solutions.
Due to a retirement, we are now looking for a new Trustee with financial expertise to help shape and support the work of the Trust as we develop our Strategic Plan for 2021-2025.
Working with the CEO and the Finance and Corporate Services Manager, this Trustee will take a lead role for the Board in ensuring that the Trust’s financial obligations are met, bringing an external perspective and supportive challenge to our financial planning and management.
Candidates should have a strong interest in promoting individual and community wellbeing, with a background in finance and/or accounting in the public, private or voluntary sector. You will be willing to represent the Trust, and to commit time to the governance of the Trust’s wide-ranging work on policy and practice. The Trust is headquartered in Dunfermline, Scotland and works across the whole of the UK and Ireland. We welcome applications from all jurisdictions.
The closing date for applications is 7th February at 5pm and interviews will be held in Dunfermline during the week beginning 2nd March 2020.
We are a voluntary sector organisation that provides information, advice and support service to lone parents and families in need all over Fife.
Our aim is simple: to provide accessible, approachable and non-judgemental support, advice and information to lone parents. We are the only voluntary sector organisation in Fife with charitable status that has lone parent families as the primary focus. Based in Glenrothes, we cover the whole of Fife, providing a variety of services to lone parent families, in their local communities.
We seek to empower lone parents and families in need to promote their wellbeing and opportunities. We offer holistic support through our various projects, working at the pace and timescale that is right for the parent to overcome barriers such as poverty, isolation and poor mental health. Throughout all projects our ethos is the same: Engage – Support – Progress.
Trustees are responsible for the financial and corporate governance of Fife Gingerbread. To oversee the running of the organisation and to ensure we comply with charity law, remain financially solvent, and act within our charitable purposes. We also work to develop and improve the organisation so that we can deliver even better services in future.
Assistant Short-term Housing Support Worker SAP (STHS)
- Full time
- £16,380
- Kirkcaldy
- Closing 31st January 2020
In response to the government’s new agenda for ending homelessness and the Fife Rapid Rehousing Transition Plan, we are now seeking to recruit individuals wishing to participate in furthering our work in homelessness prevention and trauma informed housing support practice. If you can actively demonstrate a commitment to client focused working, are keen to develop your professional skills and want to be part of a team which works to achieve the best possible outcomes for people then, why not consider working with us.
As an Assistant Short-term Housing Support Worker the postholder will provide STHS to clients identified as requiring low level support and assist support workers as part of a case management approach to service delivery. The post holder is expected to facilitate and assist individuals using a strength based approach therefore, it is essential for the postholder to understand each individual’s unique position, the skills they have and the opportunities they choose to achieve their goals.
Please note all the above posts benefit from an additional 1.5% salary increase, effective as at 1st April 2019
All the above posts are offered initially as Fixed Term Temporary contracts which may be extended in line with future funding secured.
Employee Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- 32 days annual leave per year with 1 day additional per year served up to 5 years (pro rata)
- Working Monday to Friday (9 to 5pm) and flexible working policy
- Competitive employer/employee Pension Contribution Scheme
- All travel mileage paid at 42p per mile
- Commitment to professional learning and development planning and training.
- Free access to an all employee assistance programme with confidential advice/counselling support.
- Company mobile phone
- Discounts on lifestyle benefits e.g. Discounted Gym Memberships
- Where appropriate, welcome payments for SSSC registration fee, PVG and other accreditation and disclosure checks
Successful candidates taking up a client facing role are subject to PVG Disclosure checks and must have a current driving license, business insurance and the use of a car for work. Successful candidates securing a post regulated by the Care Inspectorate must register with the SSSC and must meet the required standards for the post within the permitted time as directed by the SSSC.
Digital Support Development Worker (STHS)
- Full time
- £16,776 – £18,810
- Leven
- Closing 31st January 2020
In response to the government’s new agenda for ending homelessness and the Fife Rapid Rehousing Transition Plan, we are now seeking to recruit individuals wishing to participate in furthering our work in homelessness prevention and trauma informed housing support practice. If you can actively demonstrate a commitment to client focused working, are keen to develop your professional skills and want to be part of a team which works to achieve the best possible outcomes for people then, why not consider working with us.
This post will deliver Short-term Housing Support (STHS) through social media and face to face contact. This is a developmental post which seeks to utilise a variety of approaches to sustain contact with hard to reach groups/individuals identified as requiring housing support. A key aspect of the post is to develop good practice when applying the new Care Standards to digital engagement. The post holder will be line managed by the Lead for STHS and supported indirectly by the Lead for Homelessness Prevention.
Please note all the above posts benefit from an additional 1.5% salary increase, effective as at 1st April 2019
All the above posts are offered initially as Fixed Term Temporary contracts which may be extended in line with future funding secured.
Employee Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- 32 days annual leave per year with 1 day additional per year served up to 5 years (pro rata)
- Working Monday to Friday (9 to 5pm) and flexible working policy
- Competitive employer/employee Pension Contribution Scheme
- All travel mileage paid at 42p per mile
- Commitment to professional learning and development planning and training.
- Free access to an all employee assistance programme with confidential advice/counselling support.
- Company mobile phone
- Discounts on lifestyle benefits e.g. Discounted Gym Memberships
- Where appropriate, welcome payments for SSSC registration fee, PVG and other accreditation and disclosure checks
Successful candidates taking up a client facing role are subject to PVG Disclosure checks and must have a current driving license, business insurance and the use of a car for work. Successful candidates securing a post regulated by the Care Inspectorate must register with the SSSC and must meet the required standards for the post within the permitted time as directed by the SSSC.
Senior Short-term Housing Support Worker (STHS)
- Full time
- £21,600 – £23,697
- Kirkcaldy
- Closing 31st January 2020
In response to the government’s new agenda for ending homelessness and the Fife Rapid Rehousing Transition Plan, we are now seeking to recruit individuals wishing to participate in furthering our work in homelessness prevention and trauma informed housing support practice. If you can actively demonstrate a commitment to client focused working, are keen to develop your professional skills and want to be part of a team which works to achieve the best possible outcomes for people then, why not consider working with us.
This post reports to the Lead for Short-term Housing Support and will provide first line supervision to staff carrying out the delivery of Short-term Housing Support (STHS) within geographic teams. The post holder will have day to day responsibility for client centred service delivery and management responsibility for Short-term Housing Support Assistants. As part of the wider change to homelessness services in Fife, it is anticipated that the postholder will dedicate an agreed apportion of their time, working with PSP partners to deliver outcome-based support.
The post holder is expected to actively promote solution focused service delivery which is strength based and meets the desired quality and compliant standards as directed by the organisation, CI and funders.
Please note all the above posts benefit from an additional 1.5% salary increase, effective as at 1st April 2019
All the above posts are offered initially as Fixed Term Temporary contracts which may be extended in line with future funding secured.
Employee Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- 32 days annual leave per year with 1 day additional per year served up to 5 years (pro rata)
- Working Monday to Friday (9 to 5pm) and flexible working policy
- Competitive employer/employee Pension Contribution Scheme
- All travel mileage paid at 42p per mile
- Commitment to professional learning and development planning and training.
- Free access to an all employee assistance programme with confidential advice/counselling support.
- Company mobile phone
- Discounts on lifestyle benefits e.g. Discounted Gym Memberships
- Where appropriate, welcome payments for SSSC registration fee, PVG and other accreditation and disclosure checks
Successful candidates taking up a client facing role are subject to PVG Disclosure checks and must have a current driving license, business insurance and the use of a car for work. Successful candidates securing a post regulated by the Care Inspectorate must register with the SSSC and must meet the required standards for the post within the permitted time as directed by the SSSC.
In response to the government’s new agenda for ending homelessness and the Fife Rapid Rehousing Transition Plan, we are now seeking to recruit individuals wishing to participate in furthering our work in homelessness prevention and trauma informed housing support practice. If you can actively demonstrate a commitment to client focused working, are keen to develop your professional skills and want to be part of a team which works to achieve the best possible outcomes for people then, why not consider working with us.
This post is responsible for delivering impartial, confidential and professional housing advice under the Scottish National Standards for Information and Advice Providers (SNSIAP) and under Frontine Fife’s policy directives/procedures.
The post holder will assist those experiencing housing difficulties towards the achievement of positive outcomes using a strength-based approach to ensure they are better informed about their options, rights and responsibilities.
We are a team of compassionate and unique individuals, which aim to end homelessness by taking preventative action and by assisting and supporting people to choose the life they aspire to. Our team endeavours to build on people’s strengths through facilitating the promotion of self-valuing and wellbeing by assisting them to achieve their own goals and to seek out developmental opportunities.
Please note all the above posts benefit from an additional 1.5% salary increase, effective as at 1st April 2019
All the above posts are offered initially as Fixed Term Temporary contracts which may be extended in line with future funding secured.
Employee Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- 32 days annual leave per year with 1 day additional per year served up to 5 years (pro rata)
- Working Monday to Friday (9 to 5pm) and flexible working policy
- Competitive employer/employee Pension Contribution Scheme
- All travel mileage paid at 42p per mile
- Commitment to professional learning and development planning and training.
- Free access to an all employee assistance programme with confidential advice/counselling support.
- Company mobile phone
- Discounts on lifestyle benefits e.g. Discounted Gym Memberships
- Where appropriate, welcome payments for SSSC registration fee, PVG and other accreditation and disclosure checks
Successful candidates taking up a client facing role are subject to PVG Disclosure checks and must have a current driving license, business insurance and the use of a car for work. Successful candidates securing a post regulated by the Care Inspectorate must register with the SSSC and must meet the required standards for the post within the permitted time as directed by the SSSC.
Fife Centre for Equalities is the leading equality organisation in Fife. We work with partners and communities to make Fife a fairer place to live, work and study. We are seeking an experienced Development Officer to provide temporary cover while the current post holder is on secondment.
The post holder will be responsible for maintaining publicly accessible equality statistical information and conducting research/consultation in key public policies.
You will have experience of data gathering, research and community consultations. You will have either relevant qualifications or training and bring a sound practical knowledge of equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights from a public policy development perspective.
Applications for part-time or job share can be considered.
Who we are looking for
We’re looking for dedicated, enthusiastic and motivated individuals who share our mission of empowering young adults with additional support needs to lead fuller lives.
You will be a strong team player with great communication skills, have the ability to work under pressure, and above all be passionate and committed to the development of the young adults within the project.
You will need to be willing to undergo training and to work under the guidance of the project leaders.
Job Purpose
The role involves managing a kitchen session where the purpose is to enable a group of up to six young adults with additional support needs to prepare food items which will be for sale at local markets and events. In this role you will work with one other supporting member of staff and, when appropriate, volunteers, to facilitate the smooth and safe running of the session. You will provide excellent support to the young adults using agreed methods, and will ensure that other staff do likewise. Training in supporting adults with additional support needs in this setting will be given to the successful candidate. You will demonstrate high standards of food hygiene and kitchen safety at all times.
You will need
- An interest in working with young adults with additional support needs including autism.
- Competency in the kitchen and a knowledge of food preparation.
- To be educated to FE level or above
- Emotional and physical resilience to meet the challenges and demands of the role.
- Experience of working with children and/or adults with additional support needs (desirable).
- To be able to work effectively in a team environment.
- REHIS Elementary Food Hygiene qualification or above (or willing to undertake this qualification prior to starting the role)
- The Sunshine Kitchen is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced disclosure will be conducted for the successful applicant.