The Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland (QNIS) is a small charity making a big difference. QNIS supports, develops and inspires Scotland’s community nurses and midwives to be agents for health improvement and catalysts for social change. We help them develop their expertise to drive positive action to build a healthier, kinder, fairer, greener Scotland.

About the role

We are looking for a great communicator, well versed in digital media, to support the work of the charity. This will be a wide-ranging role that will see you involved in a variety of activities, from updating our website, maintaining our social media presence and developing our brand, to being the first point of contact for everyone contacting QNIS. Being a small team, we need someone who enjoys rolling up their sleeves up and pitching in, scanning documents, packing boxes, or running to the shops when required.

The post is 37.5 hours a week, 9am – 5pm Monday to Friday with a 30-minute lunch. The post is based mainly in our office in central Edinburgh, with some scope for flexible working from home. We are offering a salary of £21,963 - £24,835 depending on experience.

For more information about the role and the organisation, please download the Excellence Profile and visit the QNIS website.

About you

With an aptitude for digital media, you will have excellent writing skills, as well as be highly organised. You will be able to demonstrate highly proficient IT skills and an ability to cope with several tasks at once and constant interruptions. Crucial to success in the role is a high level of self-awareness, and the ability to communicate patiently, cheerfully and tactfully with everyone. This is an excellent opportunity to develop transferable skills within a small team whilst expanding your creative portfolio in digital communications. We work on Microsoft365 using the full suite of MSOffice programmes, the website is on WordPress. Familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud applications desirable, though not essential.

For more information about the role and the organisation, please download the Excellence Profile below or visit the QNIS website.

An opportunity has arisen to join Access to Industry’s project encouraging people into work in the data sector. You will be a self-starter and be creative to engage and support eligible clients across Edinburgh. Your role will include developing confidence and skills to progress into continued learning & employment and/or increase in-work prospects. You won’t necessarily know about the data sector or have those skills yourself, but you will have an interest and see the opportunities the sector can provide to clients.

Who are we, and what do we need?

The Glencorse Association is a charitable organisation that runs the Glencorse Centre, a community facility located in Auchendinny, about a mile north of Penicuik. We organise community-based activities, to promote the health and welfare of local residents and rent our facilities to local groups and businesses who offer services to the local community. We also operate a volunteer-run community café, including children’s play area, and garden. More information about the Centre can be found through our Facebook page, namely Glencorse Centre.

It is vital that we recruit new Board Members to help shape the future of the only service to the community in Auchendinny.

If you are passionate about sustaining a community led service and developing community spaces and would be interested in supporting the Glencorse Association in delivering its mission and vision, we would love to hear from you!

The Role

We are looking for new Board Members who can support with strategic development and augment the range of skills available in the current board so we can develop the community centre, community garden and the services that we offer. We would be particularly interested in new Board Members who have experience in one, or several, of the following domains:

• Third sector organisations and funding applications

• Organising events and fundraising

• A treasurer who can analyse financial performance

• Marketing

• IT and social media development

• Environmental/net zero in a workplace

• Managing volunteers

• Health and safety in the workplace

• GDPR

• Safeguarding

• HR

We are open to any other developmental ideas that you feel you could bring to the Glencorse Association and the local community.

Your skills and interests may have been developed through working for a small or large organisation, working for yourself, volunteering or simply by life experience. You don’t need to have prior experience on a board, we will provide a full induction and help you understand the role and responsibilities of being a Board Member.

A role on the Glencorse Association Board is flexible and we understand that individual personal circumstances may dictate the level of engagement you can offer.

The Board meets monthly for two hours and communicates remotely in between meetings to discuss any urgent matters that have been escalated. The Board holds an annual AGM and all Board Members are expected to attend to reflect on our work and to set strategy and plans for the coming year. Additional opportunities to support the Glencorse Centre's staff and community on specific areas of interest and priority are also available, depending on the Board Member’s interests and experience.

As a Disability Confident committed employer, we will commit to offering an interview to any applicant who declares he, she or they have a disability, if that applicant meets the minimum criteria for the role.

What are we offering?

You will have the opportunity to work as part of a welcoming, quirky team who are highly dedicated, committed and passionate about maintaining and developing our much-loved community hub. You will join a couple of Board Members with a wealth of experience and an interesting story to tell!

If this is your first time becoming a Trustee, you'll have the support to help to settle into your new role. For experienced Board Members, you have the opportunity to improve the lives of local residents and the wider community in Midlothian by contributing your innovative ideas for change and to the growth of our charitable organisation.

Who are we?

Newmilns Snow and Sports Complex is a dynamic and evolving organisation dedicated to changing people’s lives. As the only UK Charity Ski Slope, we are proudly different.

Using the power of the great outdoors and a ‘sport for change’ model we develop confidence, motivation and employment skills through snow sports. We work with children and adults, schools and youth groups delivering employability, personal development, volunteering and training opportunities at our rural, East Ayrshire site.

The most direct benefit of our work is delivered to disadvantaged or hard to reach groups. To achieve this we work with our community to identify the issues important to them, develop and deliver solutions to ensure everyone has access to opportunities to make the changes needed to live positive and fulfilling lives.

We also have a busy snow sports lesson schedule, offer recreational skiing and snowboarding, tubing (sledging) and children’s parties.

Opportunity Description

Our wonderful business is experiencing exciting change and growth, with an expending social impact portfolio, increasing staff team and specialisms, introduction of transformative digital solutions and a growing passion for increasing opportunities within our community.

Ready for a new challenge?

If you are looking for the opportunity to share your skills and experience to, inspire and empower our teams through this exciting growth period, read on.

Following the retirement of long serving Board members, we are looking for a new Chair and trustees to join our existing team to shape and drive our business strategy in pursuit of our charitable aims.

Skills and qualifications

If you can bring your professional background to the opportunities below, we can bring the excitement, adventure and thrill of the outdoors to your next opportunity!

Essentially you just need to be a great team player, enjoy working collaboratively to achieve shared goals and make a difference to the lives of other. You should be,

• A great communicator and comfortable contributing to senior level discussion.

• Inquisitive, happy to ask questions, challenge and clarify information.

• Confident to share a refreshed view on business processes.

• Have knowledge and experience of identifying and delivering solutions within your area of expertise.

• Share in our core values and ensure the strategic direction of the business is aligned with our vision, values and charitable aims.

• A background in the Charities or Social Enterprise sectors, desirable.

We have opportunities for a Chair, ideally with previous Board experience or perhaps even as a vice chair or current chair looking for a new role.

If you are professional in Finance, Social Change, Marketing, IT or if you have a Legal background we would love to hear from you.

Please download the relevant opportunity summary below, if you like what you read, please get in touch we would live to talk to you.

Why Join Us

You can expect to join a small, dedicated, volunteer team of passionate professionals who share our values and are committed to positive social change in our community.

• Shared and equal responsibility.

• Monthly online meetings.

• Appointment for a 2-years with opportunity for reappointment for a further 2 years.

• Develop Board and leadership experience.

• Be part of a vibrant growing business where fun under pins our lifechanging activities.

• Free slope access.

This is an exciting time to join Marie Curie in the role of IT Oracle Support Analyst. The IT Oracle Support Analyst role encompasses supporting the IT Oracle team in all technical solution development and support of Marie Curie’s Oracle platform. Working closely with the IT Oracle Platform Manager, HR, Finance and IT colleagues, you will drive service focused improvements to the Oracle system for Marie Curie.

The IT Oracle Support Analyst will allow you to provide application expertise and guidance to the business whilst supporting the operation and maintenance of the Oracle SaaS platform.

What we are looking for:

A individual with a strong focus on customer service and a wealth of experience resolving issues and supporting colleagues across an organisation. You will be able to demonstrate your knowledge of the Oracle HCM and EPM systems and how to configure them, your ability to understand complex business processes, and your ability to communicate clearly and influence key stakeholders across the charity.

The IT Oracle Support Analyst role will:

• Be a key member providing support for the Marie Curie (MC) cloud-based Oracle software as a service platform.
• Liaise with relevant 3rd party support (including, on occasion, Oracle) to monitor issues requiring escalation from Marie Curie to Oracle.
• Be first line support and respond to potential issues with the Oracle system or the configuration.
• Act as one of the first resolvers of any issues within the Oracle platform which affect the whole estate (e.g. security, performance, data integrity, configuration).
• Provide help and assistance to Marie Curie staff and volunteers directly or indirectly using the Oracle Finance, Procurement, HR and Payroll systems.
• Respond as required to users raising questions about the Oracle system.
• Assist training and provide knowledge transfer to MC staff as they transition from support of legacy back office systems to working on the new Oracle SaaS platform
• Provide support for quarterly Oracle patching and upgrades (working with IT Security to report security threats)

Why we need the role:

This role will drive forward Marie Curie’s vision to:

• Achieve operational efficiencies through improvements in Finance and HR though the adoption of best practice and contemporary operating methods
• Simplify and streamline our processes though end-to-end handling within the Oracle platform
• Improve decision making by providing high quality management information to decision maker

An effective Oracle platform is essential to support Marie Curie’s organisational strategy of ensuring that everyone affected by dying, death and bereavement has the best possible experience, reflecting what’s most important to them, and to deliver Marie Curie’s strategic goals:

• To build integrated place-based end of life services
• To strengthen our national voice and influence thinking around end of life experience
• To invest in our future capability
• To build financial sustainability

The role of IT Oracle Support Analyst will help us drive forward Marie Curie’s vision to:

• Achieve operational efficiencies through improvements in Finance and HR to adopt best practice and contemporary operating methods.
• Simplify and streamline back office processes
• Improve decision making by providing accurate and relevant management information to decision makers
• Reduce manual data preparation and imports

What’s in it for you:

• Continued access to NHS Pension Scheme (subject to eligibility)
• Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme
• Season ticket loan

Loan schemes for bikes; computers and satellite navigation systems

Continuous development

Industry leading training programmes

Employee Assistance Programme

Flexible Working

Our growing charity needs a suitably experienced person to lead Creative Carbon Scotland's financial and operational sustainability, efficiency and effectiveness whilst maintaining our creative and collaborative nature.

The finance and operations director is a new post created to help us deftly navigate an increased workload extending from our work to support Creative Scotland’s Climate Emergency and Sustainability Plan and new initiatives stemming from COP26 in Glasgow in 2021.

We need a friendly and experienced multitasker with skills in administration, finance, management, HR, IT and fundraising.