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Inverclyde Women’s Aid is seeking to recruit suitably experienced, qualified, and skilled women to join our existing Board of Directors.

We offer refuge accommodation for 11 families, 1:1 support, group work, information, counselling, and advocacy to women and their children who experience domestic abuse and sexual abuse. We are currently based in 9 George Square, Greenock, although we provide our services Inverclyde wide.

The role of the Director is highly rewarding but unpaid, although any expenses incurred will be reimbursed. Training on domestic abuse and its effects will be available. This is a unique opportunity for women who have expertise, time, and commitment to join the Board of Directors to provide strategic guidance and leadership to support the current management structure in the future development of the organisation.

We are keen to recruit women who have experience and knowledge of working with vulnerable women, children, and young people. We have identified skills and experience required including: Operational and Strategic Development; Financial Management; Human Resource Management, Marketing and Fundraising.

Inverclyde Women’s Aid is an Equal Opportunities Employer and positively welcomes applications from women from all sections of the community. Only women need apply under Schedule 9, Part 1 of the Equality Act 2010. Successful applicants will be subject to PVG checks.

FUSE

The St James Quarter (SJQ) is due to open in Spring 2021 and in a unique private and public partnership between CCP and SJQ, FUSE Recruitment & Skills Hub has been developed to support recruitment & training for both the incoming St James Quarter tenants and the current businesses within the local Business Improvement District (BID) managed by Essential Edinburgh. The project is also supported through close partnership working amongst the Joined up for Business and Joined up for Jobs organisations and stakeholders.

The FUSE Recruitment & Skills Hub operates as a centre of excellence for recruitment, training and advice, ensuring an exceptionally high level of service to both candidate and employer. We advocate and work to, best-practice, and our service to local employers enables accurate and efficient job matching, access to a wider candidate pool and to expert support within our network. We work with jobseekers to tailor support where needed, provide access to unique opportunities and are active within schools, higher education organisations and local communities to highlight careers within Retail & Hospitality.

The Job Purpose

This is Fixed Term Position until October 2021 (with potential to be extended pending review) which is part of the Employer Engagement Team at Capital City Partnership (CCP). It will be primarily based within the FUSE offices at The Cube, 45 Leith Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3AT.

The post will require a flexible approach (including occasional evening or weekend working). It will require a strong recruitment skillset and elevated level of employer and partnership working to grow and deliver the Strategic Vision of the FUSE Steering Group.

The Employer Engagement Executive is pivotal to the success of the FUSE Recruitment & Skills offering and will work directly to the FUSE Manager to ensure the smooth and successful implementation and running of FUSE, supporting recruitment and consistently delivering high level engagement with employers.

Scottish Book Trust is a national charity changing lives through reading and writing.

We are seeking a creative and experienced events programmer to join our team & deliver tremendous book events to schools.

Scottish Book Trust is a national charity that believes books, reading and writing have the power to change lives. A love of reading inspires creativity, improves employment opportunities, mental health and wellbeing and is one of the most effective ways to help break the poverty cycle. We work towards a Scotland where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive through literacy.

Do you want to help us transform lives through reading and writing?

We are seeking a creative and experienced events programmer to join our team & deliver tremendous book events to schools.

The School Communities Manager curates and delivers Authors Live, in partnership with BBC Scotland Learning and manages high profile Book Awards. They also oversee the children’s touring and events programme and line manage the School Communities Events Manager and School Communities Administrator.

The role works closely with the Head of School Communities on the development, management and delivery of the School Communities Programme which inspire children and young people to engage with reading and writing. The post also works closely with the School Communities Managers to ensure co-ordinated delivery and optimum impact for our school community audiences.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who has a good understanding of issues around adoption and social media. You need to be flexible and adaptable and have excellent administrative skills with a great telephone manner

Helpline Advisor Responsibilities:

• Responsible for operating a helpline and support service which includes online support.

• Responsible for administrative duties to support the Adoption UK core team and ongoing work and delivery of AUK core services

• Assist in training or webinar delivery sessions.

• Responsible for co-ordination of digital and printed communications for AUK Core services in Scotland, including Scottish newsletters, Scottish social media, Scottish input to the AUK website and Adoption Today Magazine.

• Support with Adoption Week promotion and co-ordination.

• The post holder will be responsible for updating adoption.scot

Requirements:

• Good standard of education

• Significant experience in administrative tasks

• An excellent understanding/knowledge of managing social media platforms

• Experience of working in a helpline environment and using a range of IT applications that support customer-based services

About Adoption UK:

Adoption UK is the leading charity providing support, awareness and understanding for those parenting or supporting children who cannot live with their birth parents.

Created over 40 years ago by adopters for adopters; now with over 7000 members we provide a strong supportive community and the largest voice of adoption in the UK. Our community is connected by the need to understand the challenges of adoptive parents and to celebrate the rewards together.

We work closely with our colleagues in local authorities and voluntary agencies to provide the best support, and have recently become Ofsted registered.

Adoption UK is required to comply with a pre-employment vetting process for all prospective employees. Prospective employees of Adoption UK are to meet the following requirements;

• Provide eligibility to work in the UK and identity documentation

• Complete a satisfactory employment/education history check

• Complete a satisfactory basic PVG disclosure check

Benefits:

Pension provision equivalent to 3% of salary, 25 days’ annual holiday rising to 31 with length of service, Enhanced entitlement to sick pay, Enhanced entitlements to maternity, paternity and adoption leave and pay after a qualifying period.

Are you passionate about carers of people with dementia having their voices heard – we are!

An exciting opportunity has arisen and tide are looking for a dynamic Learning and Development Coordinator to join our team to help us continue strengthening and increasing the impact of tide in Scotland.

The Role

As Learning and Development Coordinator, you will work with the team in Scotland to deliver our inspiring and exciting Carers Development Programme (CDP) featuring our On Line learning sessions via zoom. You will work with the Head of tide Development and National Lead for tide in Scotland to co-ordinate and manage all aspects of the Carer Development Programme including; development and design of new content, scheduling, registration of participants, delivery of content, follow up and after care, promotion of CDP and the capturing of evidence of impact from carers participating in the CDP and integrating that both in our internal and external evaluation processes.

Our work ethos and values appeal to people, who are passionate, values driven, self-directed and flexible team players, who have great interpersonal skills, learn quickly, and relish the opportunity to deliver real social change for people who are caring for or have cared for someone living with dementia.

Location: Home based in the first instance but the role is based within our Glasgow Office in Robertson House and we expect to return to office working as soon as it is safe to do so

The Membership Outreach Assistant will contribute to Together (Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights)’s

mission to inspire and enable everyone in Scotland to put children and young people’s human rights at the

heart of everything they do in line, with the Strategic Plan. Throughout the role, the post-holder will be

expected to involve Together’s membership – including children and young people – whenever possible and

appropriate.

The Scotland Malawi Partnership is looking to recruit a highly motivated, energetic, adaptable and productive individual to lead the Partnership’s media and communications work.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to deliver on the media and communications needs of the Scotland Malawi Partnership and help direct an essential leading voice in the Scottish international development sector. The post-holder will help to deliver high quality communications in support of key event events as well as continuing to respond to and communicate with the SMP’s membership and other target audiences.

This role requires a highly motivated, energetic, quick, adaptable and productive individual who has the experience and ability to work for a fast-paced organisation with a degree of autonomy where necessary, who is resourceful and is keen to contribute to the life and work of a busy team that is both strategic and opportunistically responsive to its members’ needs.

Through the Covid crisis, digital communications are of paramount importance, and are an integral part of the SMP’s Covid-19 Response Strategy. We are looking for an individual that can think innovatively about how best to use the digital space to disseminate key information, engage members and stakeholders, and share the Partnership’s core narrative.

We need someone with proven experience with a range of digital tools and platforms, who has a keen eye for detail, a passion for internationalism, and the personal drive and determination to succeed even in challenging, changing environments. If this sounds like you, and if you are excited about being the mouthpiece of arguably the the UK’s largest cross-community international development network, we encourage you to apply..

Age Scotland is the national charity for older people. We work to improve the lives of everyone over the age of 50 so that they can love later life.

We support and enable hundreds of community and older people’s groups across Scotland. We provide information, friendship and advice through our free helpline and publications. We tackle loneliness and isolation with our Community Connecting Service and much more.

We work in Scotland with older people’s groups who provide vital activities and services for older people in their local community. We campaign on the issues that older people tell us are important to them.

Will you help us to achieve this by becoming a member of our team?

We are currently recruiting a Telephony Assistant Manager to line manage, lead, and motivate the Age Scotland Telephony Services Team. Providing support, training and development to a team of information, advice and friendship advisors.

You will support the Telephony Manager in the development of new systems and partnerships.

We are looking for someone with current or recent supervision and line management experience in a call centre environment and who is customer and people centric. You will have the ability to support and help develop new partnerships to enhance and expand telephony systems and processes.