The Robertson Trust is the largest independent grant-making trust in Scotland with the vision of a fair and compassionate Scotland where everyone is valued and able to flourish. It has donated more than £263 million to charitable causes in Scotland since 1961. It is currently finalising a new exciting strategy to address some of the most intractable social issues in Scotland which will see it adopt new ways of working and building new partnerships to deliver greater impact in Scotland.
The summer of 2020 will see the launch of a new strategy for the Trust. After extensive review and stakeholder engagement, the Trust has sought to develop a strategy which will best fit the current challenges facing communities in Scotland and enable the Trust as a funder to work alongside communities to address these challenges. This is an exciting time for a new Chief Executive to deliver this new strategy. We are looking for a strong, inspiring and empowering leader who is ambitious about maximising the Trust’s undoubted potential.
The Role
·Reporting to the Chair and working closely with the Board of Trustees, the Chief Executive will deliver the newly developed strategic plan.
·Embody and demonstrate the Trust’s values to the whole organisation, leading and developing the team and promoting a culture of diversity and continuous improvement.
·As a key ambassador, the Chief Executive will nurture, build and maintain positive relationships with a range of key stakeholders.
The Individual
·Proven leadership experience at board level within a complex, growing organisation and with a record of achievement in developing and delivering organisational strategy. This can have been gained in any sector (but any candidate should recognise that the dynamics of the charity sector are different).
·Demonstrable experience of leading transformation and driving cultural change to achieve operational excellence, including digital transformation.
·Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of impact of poverty, trauma and inequalities.
This is an exciting opportunity to provide operational leadership and develop and maintain positive partnerships with schools and other partners in East Renfrewshire.
Children 1st is looking for someone who is passionate about doing the right thing for children with an in-depth understanding and experience of operational management of services in the fields of child wellbeing, child protection, and trauma sensitive family support. You should also have experience of working in partnership with colleagues from several agencies including schools, social work and health.
The post holder will support Family Wellbeing staff who are connected to schools across East Renfrewshire through day-to-day connection as well as formal support and supervision and professional development. By joining our existing leadership team in East Renfrewshire, the post holder will contribute to the on-going development of our services. The post holder will also manage the relationships and contracts with schools in East Renfrewshire.
Transport Planning and Engineering (TP&E), the social enterprise established by Cycling Scotland, delivers infrastructure for walking, cycling and wheeling across Scotland.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed engineer who would like to work in transportation, active travel and community engagement to head up the TP&E team and help accelerate the current increase in cycling levels.
Reporting to the TP&E Board, the Head of TP&E leads and manages the work of the social enterprise, including business planning and development, client relationships and overseeing the delivery of projects by the team, helping achieve TP&E’s mission. If you’re an engineer, or other suitably qualified individual, looking for a challenge with social and environmental aims we’d love to hear from you.
Please read the job description for full details.
The Iona Community is a faith based organisation working towards justice and peace. It was founded in Glasgow and Iona in 1938 by George MacLeod, minister, visionary and prophetic witness for peace, in the context of the poverty and despair of the Depression. From a dockland parish in Govan, Glasgow, he took unemployed skilled craftsmen and young trainee clergy to Iona to rebuild both the monastic quarters of the mediaeval abbey, sharing skills and effort as well as joys and achievement. That task became a sign of hopeful rebuilding of community in Scotland and beyond. The experience shaped – and continues to shape – the practice and principles of the Iona Community.
Iona Community has a vacancy for an Executive Director, who will plan and develop commercial activities and collaborate with the Leader on the Community’s work to develop and implement its strategic goals of sustainability, inclusion and mutual accountability. The key responsibilities include:
- Work with the Leader and Council to guide and develop the Community’s strategic planning.
- To develop and implement an ongoing fundraising strategy and overseeing donor support.
- Overall responsibility for the finances, in consultation with the Leader and the Finance Team.
- Shared annual revenue budgetary responsibility of £1.4 million.
- Attend Council and Community Resources Committee meetings.
The successful candidate should have senior management experience, experience of financial management and the ability to think and plan strategically.
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Top job! Community Outreach Officer
- Part time
- £24,000 pro-rata
- Perth (with responsibilities in Perth and Dundee)
- Closing 8th June 2020
The post will engage with communities in Perth and Dundee, finding practical ways that people can participate in active travel; mapping these out in co-designed events with 3rd Sector, council and community organisations. We will offer support and resources to facilitate a range of activities including Dr Bike, Led rides, Cycle Training, Bike Loans, as well as skills and maintenance training.
The post will be responsible for building relationships with these communities and key stakeholders to articulate these barriers as an Active travel Action Plan and a key role in empowering these communities to start walking cycling and wheeling more often as a first choice for travel thereby empowering their communities to reduce heath and transport inequalities and build stronger communities.
The Officer will work with the Cycle Friendly Officer, Social Cycle Officer and Communities Manager to provide advice to organisations on opportunities to dovetail with this programme in schools, campus and community settings to share cycling and infrastructure best practice, as well as funding opportunities.
The work is based in Perth Bike Station with travel to Dundee.
Key Responsibilities
- Set up an Active Travel Action Plan with a Perth and Dundee Community.
- Support the Bike Station’s membership scheme.
- Develop and deliver activities to support the Bike Station’s Community as a Cycle Friendly Community.
- Providing advice to these Communities on cycling opportunities, cycling best practice, in combination with the Cycle Friendly Award Officer.
- Utilising social media to support the delivery of the programme.
- To operate within a set delivery budget that is prescribed and monitored.
- To comply with all current legislation and Recycle to Cycle policies.
- Work with the Bike Station team.
- Provide advice to organisations on the Cycle Friendly programmes in schools, campus and community settings to promote cycling and infrastructure best practice, as well as on available funding opportunities.
Person Specification
Experience:
- Delivering behaviour change programmes using a community development approach.
- Partnership working with local authorities, community planning partners and the community and voluntary sector.
- Ability to work independently and make decisions with minimal supervision; enthusiastic and self-motivated.
- Good level of IT literacy including use of MS Office suite.
- Good understanding and experience of community development theory and practice.
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of the workings of the community and voluntary sector.
- Understanding of local and national social policy.
- Developing and delivering projects in seldom heard communities.
- Excellent track record of organising, promoting and carrying through events.
- Leading group workshops and training activities.
- Contributing to successful funding applications.
Skills:
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Understanding of the community and voluntary sector.
- Good time-management skills and attention to detail.
- Innovative, analytical and a great problem solver.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Experience of participatory processes of community engagement.
Community Engagement Officer
- Part time
- £33,375 – £36,648 pro-rata
- Linwood, Renfrewshire
- Closing 29th June 2020
Linstone is a registered social landlord based in Linwood, Renfrewshire. We are a charity that owns and manages approximately 1,600 properties, providing affordable rented and supported housing as well as providing factoring services to a further 2,000 owner occupiers.
We have a vacancy for a Community Engagement Officer following on from very successful funded Community Engagement projects. Linstone have developed this role to continue to grow the Community Engagement and to work collaboratively with the wider staff team to add value to our engagement with tenants, communities and partner organisations to develop our strategic objectives.
Main duties will include:
• To assist in the delivery of Linstone’s Community Engagement Strategy, prioritising activities that support customers and local communities, particularly the more marginalised or disadvantaged
• Work collaboratively with colleagues, developing creative ways to encourage positive engagement with people
• Develop and nurture relationships with customer and community partners and other partner organisations
• Be a positive ambassador for Linstone Housing Association at various local forums, proactively networking to influence opportunities for joint partnership projects
• To provide a wider community insight that contributes to our future Business Plans
The successful applicant should be able to demonstrate:
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation and communication skills, both verbally and in writing
• Clear thinker and effective decision maker
• Experience of line management or staff supervision
• Excellent project management skills and the ability to deliver successful projects
• Proven ability to develop, monitor, review and implement policies and procedures
• Ability to develop and sustain good working relationships with external agencies and partners at appropriate external meetings including evening meetings
• Experience of setting up management information and reporting systems
• Proven ability to plan and manage a varied and challenging workload with minimal supervision
• Numerate, IT and social media literate with a good knowledge of Microsoft Office (for example, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Publisher and Excel)
• Commitment to providing a high quality customer centred service
• Proven track record of achieving individual objectives and contributing to overall team performance
• Effective problem solving and decision making skills
• Experience of providing advice, training and support to other members of staff
• Demonstrate an ability to assimilate, collate and analyse information quickly with attention to detail
We are looking for an experienced service manager for the delivery of three Edinburgh based services that make a difference to peoples’ lives.
As a Service Manager you will combine a thorough knowledge of social care practice with leadership, team management, achieving financial targets and service development.
Our Service Managers are responsible and accountable for maintaining high quality standards across services and the leadership and management of teams to ensure safe and effective provision of support through the promotion of outcomes focused person-centred approaches. Ensuring compliance with relevant, legislation, contracts and service specifications, policies and ensuring practice reflects the requirements of key stakeholder and external partnerships.
If you think you have what it takes to join our team, we would like to hear from you, we welcome applications from all sections of the community.
With a clear Strategic Plan in place, a highly motivated staff team and a dedicated Board of Trustees, this is an excellent opportunity to fulfil a leading role in a respected national body with an exciting agenda. The Trust is delivering innovative and sector-leading actions that are aimed at celebrating Scotland’s built environment, taking action for its improvement, and empowering its communities.
The new Chair will be someone who is passionate about Scotland’s communities, built environment and heritage. Whilst they are likely to have a strong interest and affinity with Scotland’s built heritage and its conservation, the Trust is increasingly involved with a wider range of issues, such as community empowerment and quality of life in relation to our built environment more broadly.
The core responsibilities of the Chair are to lead our Board of Trustees, to act as an ambassador for the Trust where required, and to support our ambitious and dynamic professional team. We envisage that the new Chair will be enthusiastic for our mission and vision, a recognisable figure in their field and able to commit sufficient energy to the Trust in the years ahead.
The role is unremunerated but covers travel costs and other out-of-pocket expenses.
Partnership Manager
- Full time
- Negotiable
- Flexible – office or home-based within the Moray Firth region
- Closing 22nd June 2020
The Moray Firth Partnership plays a unique role as a neutral, independent charity in promoting and facilitating sustainable solutions to marine and coastal challenges faced by the Moray Firth and its communities. This is an exciting time for the organisation. We have developed a new, ambitious vision to be the most sustainable marine region in Scotland.
We are seeking a self-starter with knowledge of marine and coastal management or planning issues and a passionate commitment to the Moray Firth to become our new Partnership Manager.
Partnership Manager
- Full time
- Negotiable
- Flexible – office or home-based within the Moray Firth region
- Closing 22nd June 2020
The Moray Firth Partnership plays a unique role as a neutral, independent charity in promoting and facilitating sustainable solutions to marine and coastal challenges faced by the Moray Firth and its communities. This is an exciting time for the organisation. We have developed a new, ambitious vision to be the most sustainable marine region in Scotland.
We are seeking a self-starter with knowledge of marine and coastal management or planning issues and a passionate commitment to the Moray Firth to become our new Partnership Manager.