Do you want to change the lives of children across the UK? Join us as Director of UK Impact and play a lead role in one of the UK’s most influential children’s organisations. In this key role you’ll be leading staff across Save the Children to inspire policy-makers and practitioners to change the way that parents are supported and give the poorest children the best start in life.
Our country is at a cross-roads. As we enter a new decade, after a period of sustained growth in child poverty, we have the chance to reverse that trend and close the gap in early learning between the poorest children and their better-off peers. As Director of UK Impact, you will be required to generate strategic partnerships and to raise awareness of and to accelerate progress towards SCUK’s mission. Key responsibilities include:
· Securing substantial and sustainable change for children, achieving nationwide change to transform children’s early years and reverse the rise in child poverty
· Develop and lead innovative partnerships that show how change can be achieved, building a robust evidence base and case for policy and practice change
· Leading innovative campaigning to tackle child poverty and change the national conversation about the support we provide for children.
· Developing a clear vision and strategy for our UK impact and translating this into measurable objectives for teams and departments to deliver our overall mission
· Being an authoritative external representative with partners, the media, government, parliamentarians and other decision-makers, ensuring Save the Children’s work in the UK is visible and that SCUK is shaping relevant debates
· Ensuring that resources (people and financial) are managed to maximise impact against the agreed mission and that extraordinary talent is recruited, developed and retained to deliver impact for children
· Working with relevant functional leads to ensure that necessary resources are mobilised, including participating in fundraising as necessary
To be successful you will have experience in a significant, high profile leadership role and a track-record of significant impact at UK level or in any of the four nations of the UK. A visionary, disruptive and transformative leader, you will have the creativity and charisma to inspire colleagues and partners alike. Experience of managing teams (including the leadership of managers), alongside a track record of improving performance, is also essential. In addition you will:
· Be motivated by fairness and restless to dismantle the inequalities which disfigure our society
· Have a strong ability to look at external trends and to bring external challenge and learning into an organisation
· Have the presence and emotional range to be as comfortable advocating to a member of the cabinet, to working with national practice leaders, to meeting with a family living in poverty
· Have significant leadership experience in a complex or fast-growing organisation
· Have the ability and willingness to travel as needed across the UK.
At Save the Children we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work with children are recruited to work for us. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure.
SiMBA provides crucial bereavement support to anyone affected by the loss of a baby at any gestation, or after birth. SiMBA's mission is to ensure that every bereaved family is offered a memory box at the earliest opportunity, and provided with private comfortable spaces, with the facilities, that allow them to spend as much time as they need with their babies. To make timeless memories we work closely with healthcare workers so they feel informed, confident and supported in their roles so that they can provide the highest level of care to bereaved families. We also provide ongoing opportunities and events for bereaved families to honour their babies.
We are seeking to recruit up to three Trustees with established and active professional and influential networks to further enhance and complement the current SiMBA Board. We are particularly interested in applications from professionals with experience and skills in the following areas:
- Fundraising in the charity and corporate sectors
- Charity governance
- Previous experience of acting as a Trustee
- PR/Marketing/Digital
- Legal and Data Protection
- Property and Estates Management
At the Royal College of Nursing we're an optimistic organisation. And we've got good reason to be. We all share the same voice when it comes to changing the shape of the health policies of the future. And as the largest trade union of nursing staff and students in the UK - with around 435,000 members - all we can see are the infinite possibilities for a brighter future. Join us and you will too.
We're one of The Sunday Times 100 Best Not for Profit Organisations, with One Star Best Companies Accreditation for 2019, and are accredited with Investors in People Gold Standard.
Policy Manager (Scotland)
RCN Scotland HQ (Edinburgh), 35 hours per week, Permanent
As a Policy Manager you'll use your positive attitude, your extensive knowledge of the external policy landscape and your ability to identify and analyse domestic nursing and health policy and legislative developments.
It's a job full of possibilities as you could get involved in anything from leading the design, delivery and evaluation of programme work to contributing to the coordination of cross-organisational strategies. We'll look to you to ensure staff have clear work plans, to play an active role in RCN Scotland's management team, to ensure the development of a rigorous evidence base within the owned policy programme and keep abreast of the complex and fast changing policy debates. It's a great way to develop your potential.
As our Policy Manager you'll identify opportunities for partnerships and collaborations with external professionals, organisations and agencies as well as drafting and developing clear, consistent, high-quality, evidence-based policy positions.
What we offer you
We expect you to look after our members. And we expect you to be rewarded for it. As well as a whole range of learning and development opportunities we can also offer you an impressive range of benefits. We have a highly competitive pay structure, as well as flexible working, and annual leave of up to 32 days.
Balancing work and life commitments is important to us as an organisation. We are a diverse organisation and understand everyone has different needs. All employees can ask for flexible working and when personal circumstances change, we will work with you to find a smarter working solution that suits everyone. In fact, many of our employees enjoy home working, flexible working or compressed hours, enabling them to deliver results with minimum impact to their professional and personal commitments. We also offer generous Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave packages.
To join us, you'll need to be able to role model great management practice; foster high performing project teams; have proven financial and budgetary control skills; use critical thinking and system analysis; generate and commission high quality analysis; and experience of successful influencing for change as well as experience in designing, delivering and evaluating programmes of work.
The ability to foster strong professional relationships externally and encourage close collaboration between departments is at the heart of this role.
To succeed at the Royal College of Nursing all you need to do is think bigger, better and brighter. And with an attitude like that, anything's possible.
Trusts and Programmes Officer
- Part time
- £21,254 pro-rata
- Norton Park, 57 Albion Road, Edinburgh. EH7 5QY
- Closing 7th February 2020
You are a detail orientated, efficient and fantastic fundraiser up for the challenge of securing funding from charitable trusts and foundations for our life changing healthcare work in Malawi, India and Nepal.
The role
As Trusts and Foundations Officer, your rewarding role will help make a massive difference to sick people fighting to get out of poverty in remote parts of the world. Reporting to the Director of Fundraising, you will be responsible for the development and delivery of the Trusts and Foundation partnership programme against an agreed annual income target.
You will work closely with colleagues across the charity, with the Leadership Team, and Board members to nurture a Trusts and Foundations pipeline that helps us deliver our amazing programmes.
You will manage your own workload including the writing of high-quality applications within deadlines, as well as researching and cultivating new funding partners. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining strong relationships with existing and prospective Trust funders, especially those with the potential to give significant multi-year grants. You will place high importance on providing excellent donor care, producing clear and thorough reports.
About us
EMMS International (EMMS) is a Christian international healthcare charity that has provided health care to poor and marginalised people since 1841. With a vision for a just world in which all people have access to good quality and dignified healthcare, EMMS works with partners in some of the poorest communities of the world (in Malawi, India, Nepal and Scotland) to transform lives through compassionate, effective and sustainable healthcare. EMMS works with local partners in country, supporting organisations and people to develop health programmes that are appropriate to meet the needs of their own local communities and contexts.
EMMS has strong links with Trusts and Foundations and now we want to strengthen and grow it. We want to raise awareness of the incredible impact grants have on the sick and poor. We seek to inspire more funding partners to join this movement of change, improving lives where there is little hope for a better future and bringing holistic healthcare to those whose voice is not listened to.
About you
You will be an enthusiastic fundraiser and a curious researcher who takes the initiative to identify new funding opportunities, with a warm, relational ability to build strong links with new and existing partners. Ideally, you will have fundraising experience, preferably within the Trusts and Foundations field.
To thrive in this very rewarding role, you will need to be a self-starter happy to work within a team and manage multiple priorities to produce a high standard of work. You will have a proven ability to write compelling cases for support, quickly grasping complex technical programme information and turning it into winning grant applications.
You will be a competent and organised person able to multi-task and work to tight deadlines. You will be experienced in working with data bases and take your responsibilities seriously in managing confidential information and the Charity records on the Raisers Edge database.
During summer 2020, we will place approximately 200 students from Scottish universities on internships throughout Scotland and around the world. Roughly 60% of these individuals will be travelling outside of Scotland, which means we need to source accommodation for each person to ensure their placement is successful and their safety and security on placement is guaranteed.
The Accommodation Assistant will lead on sourcing appropriate accommodation for each of our interns and will be responsible for providing a professional and customer-orientated frontline service to our students and accommodation providers.
We are a small team who are passionate and work hard to deliver for the team and our customers. We’re looking for someone who would share this ethos and help contribute to our continued success.
The role will be a fixed-term 3-month contract beginning in early-March.
A full Job Description is available for download below.
Do you have proven experience of devising, managing and leading successful housing policy and research activity to influence Scottish or UK political institutions? Then join Shelter Scotland as our Senior Policy Advocacy Officer and you could soon be playing a vital role in helping us continue to tackle the root causes of Scotland’s housing emergency.
A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change — with individuals, in communities, across society – and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, talented individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.
Our Campaigns and Policy Team is part of Shelter Scotland’s Communication and Policy function. It is responsible for developing policy positions and campaigns on housing and homelessness issues and engaging with partners, decision-makers and our supporters who are critical to the success of our campaigns. As well as formulating proposals for policy change and responding to Government policy initiatives, we work closely with Shelter Scotland services and other teams such as Marketing, Communications and Digital.
About the role
This is a high-profile policy role which will be championing and driving forward policy development, project management and stakeholder engagement, as well as overseeing the delivery of our policy, advocacy and engagement activity across Scotland. For example, during this fixed-term contract you will be instrumental in helping to deliver a significant Shelter Scotland housing campaign and you will also help create a high-profile and effective housing manifesto for the run up to the 2021 Scottish Parliament election.
You will liaise with our four community hubs and other advice and support services to monitor local policy issues emerging from our services. You will responding to local policy and political agendas and developing new policy ideas, campaigns and solutions at a national and local level. Creatively designing new policy, as well as writing and overseeing the development of high-quality think pieces, briefings, content for social media, videos, consultation responses and reports will also be part of your job. You will be line managing two Policy Advocacy Officers.
About you
You’re someone with proven housing policy experience who can hit the ground running. You have an excellent understanding of Scotland’s public policy scenes, including a detailed working knowledge of the Scottish Government, and knowledge of the Scottish Parliament and Committee processes would be useful too. You’re familiar with how public policy is made, influenced and shaped, and are great at evaluating and reporting on the subject. Producing high impact written and verbal policy communication to influence decision makers and persuade key stakeholders will be part of your skill set. You will have some experience of managing a small team and motivating them to produce work to a high standard to maximise the impact we have.
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.
Shelter Scotland helps over half a million people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help.
Research & Evaluation Officer
- Full time
- £26,731 – £35,009
- Jubilee House, Stirling
- Closing 7th February 2020
Volunteer Scotland leads in developing new ways to grow and enhance volunteering in Scotland by providing advice and resources to volunteer involving organisations of all sizes and connecting Scotland’s people with volunteering opportunities.
Whichever part of Volunteer Scotland you’re joining, you’ll find yourself surrounded by a fantastic team, solid values, and lots of scope to grow and make a real difference. We are centrally located in Stirling with close proximity to transport links and offer a very flexible approach to working patterns.
We offer various benefits including 28 days holiday, Volunteer days off, life assurance, eye care vouchers, and an annual contribution towards personal learning of your choice. We are proud to have been awarded gold standard in our Healthy Working Lives and Investors in People accreditations.
We are looking for a Research and Evaluation Officer to provide maternity cover.
This role has a specific focus on the evaluation responsibilities in the ‘Research and Evaluation Officer’ role profile, with more limited engagement on research. Reporting to the Strategic Performance Manager, you will focus primarily on the evaluation of Volunteer Scotland’s projects and services (including data gathering, analysis and reporting), and contribute to the wider Volunteer Scotland research programme by carrying out research and data analysis which meets the needs of volunteering-related policy and practice communities.
You will support evaluation and impact assessment projects undertaken by Volunteer Scotland for funders and other external clients. In addition, you will be required to identify opportunities and help facilitate the exchange of knowledge between practice, public policy and research and evaluation communities. You will also organise and facilitate internal Volunteer Scotland Seminars and research events and assist the Strategic Performance Manager to co-deliver impact focused learning and development initiatives.
The Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights works to eliminate racial discrimination and harassment and to promote racial justice across Scotland. We are looking for an outstanding candidate to support the work of our policy team.
Key duties will include undertaking research to gather, analyse and interpret national and local data, identifying evidence based means of challenging and influencing policy and producing high quality briefing papers on race equality related issues.
The successful candidate will have outstanding research and analytical skills, a good knowledge of equality issues and legislation and previous research experience. Most importantly, they will have the desire and ability to make a real improvement to racial equality issues in Scotland.
Parliamentary & Public Affairs Officer
- Full time
- £28,656 – £32,233
- Glasgow
- Closing 10th February 2020
The Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights works to eliminate racial discrimination and harassment and to promote racial justice across Scotland. We are looking for an outstanding candidate to support the work of our policy team.
Key duties include undertaking effective policy analysis and producing briefings on key policy and parliamentary developments especially as they relate to racial equality, community cohesion and the application of human rights in Scotland.
The successful candidate will have an excellent knowledge of equality issues and legislation, excellent political awareness and demonstrable experience of previous work in informing public policy and the preparation of policy documents. Most importantly, they will have the desire and ability to make a real improvement to racial equality issues in Scotland.
Data Protection & Quality Officer
- Full time
- £25,500
- Edinburgh, Cardiff or Belfast
- Closing 3rd February 2020
The Energy Saving Trust (EST) has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and proactive Data Protection and Quality Officer to join their Compliance and Accreditation team.
EST is a leading and trusted organisation, helping people save energy every day. We deliver first class programmes for governments and provide consultancy to UK businesses and international companies.
The successful applicant should take a pragmatic approach to problem solving, be able to constructively challenge the business and support best practice in data governance. They will have practical experience of working in a data protection role and be keen to take the next steps in your career progression.