Top job! Appointment of Trustees to the Board
- Management Board
- Unpaid
- Perth
- Closing 14th February 2020
Perth and Kinross Countryside Trust (Scottish Charity SC 024781) is looking to appoint up to four positions on our Board of Trustees: an opportunity to help us conserve, promote and enhance the countryside and natural heritage of Perth and Kinross.
Perth and Kinross Countryside Trust (PKCT)
This is an exciting opportunity for the right person to contribute to the future of the countryside and natural heritage of Perth and Kinross. PKCT is a small but dynamic charity with a staff of 5 engaged in a wide range of projects in the area relating to public access and education, the many historic trees, and conservation in general. Details of our work and more about our organisation can be found at pkct.org
The Board of Trustees
We currently have eight Trustees but we are looking to recruit a maximum of four additional trustees. Perth and Kinross Council nominate two Trustees and additional Trustees are appointed based on the skills, experience and expertise they bring to our organisation.
The Trustees have collective responsibility for oversight and development of the Trust in line with OSCR guidelines, for agreeing the organisation’s strategy, its governance, and work with its professional staff to account for the effective management and delivery of agreed projects on time and within budget.
Skills
Our recent organisational review has identified it would be of benefit if additional trustees brought some of the following skills/areas of work:
Professional Skills and Experience
- Marketing and Communication
Sector Specific Skills and Experience
- Project planning, fundraising and delivery
Time Commitment
The full Board meets four times each year. These quarterly meetings last 2-3 hours and usually take place in Perth , with occasionally one on site at a recent project. Between full Board meetings, Sub-Committee meetings are held. There are three Sub-Committees – Finance and HR, Governance, and Development and Marketing – each meeting up to 3 times per year. Sub-Committee meetings are usually 2 hours long and are also held in Perth. Trustees will also be expected to contribute to one or two Sub-Committees. The basic time commitment is likely to average around eight days per year.
Remuneration
Trustees are not remunerated and your contribution will be on a voluntary/pro bono basis.
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.
The Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) is a global collaboration of organisations, alliances, movements and individuals formed in 2018. We work together to change the economic system so it delivers human and ecological wellbeing. WEAll’s strategy consists of the following three key components: narratives, knowledge and power bases.
Critically, change needed will not be brought about by any single entity on its own. It requires collaboration and inspiration, sharing and co-creation. Hence the creation of new powerbases in the form of a citizens’ movement, place-based hubs and thematic clusters (e.g. the Wellbeing Economy Governments – WEGo – partnership) at the heart of WEAll’s strategy. These powerbases need to be fed both by bringing together a coherent body of existing and new wellbeing economy theory and practice as well as a compelling positive new economic narrative.
What we offer:
An opportunity to work with a highly motivated team committed to accelerating economic system change. A team with a set of dedicated values: Togetherness, Care, Honesty, Equality and Passion. This is WEAll’s core ‘amplification’ (Amp) team.
The Knowledge Manager position offers the opportunity to work on economic systems change policy areas alongside professionals worldwide recognised as experts in the field of economic system change.
Contract type: 10-month self-employed contract with the intention to renew – funding dependent.
Remuneration: £3,250 to £3,750 per month dependent on experience. This figure is inclusive of all taxes for which the contractor will be responsible.
Hours of work: Full time role with the possibility of some international travel. The nature of this role is that flexibility in hours is both required by the role (for example, there will be some evening and weekend work) but also offered by WEAll.
Location: While we encourage applications from anywhere in the world (working from home), we understand and appreciate the value of human connection. As such, our preference is to recruit for a person to be based in either Glasgow [Scotland] or Madrid [Spain]. We have members of the Amp team based in both locations. In Glasgow, we can provide access to a co-working space, in Madrid it would be a home working scenario.
What we are looking for:
We are looking for an experienced, highly motivated individual that has a passion for policy work. The role has two foci. Firstly, to support WEAll to deliver a large project focussed on the development of resilience and just transition policies in a number of regions around the world. Secondly, to support the synthesis and dissemination of the wellbeing economy knowledge base in a clear, accessible way.
This role will be an important member of the Amp team and as such will be expected to contribute to overall WEAll activities such as members calls, organisational strategy development, member promotion, and so on.
Key activities and deliverables:
Resilience and Just Transition Policy project
Synthesise existing knowledge
- Policy audit: scope existing resilience (with a regenerative lens) and ‘just transition’ policies that are already proposed/enacted and supporting a wellbeing economy globally.
- Informal interviews with key policy makers in WEGo member countries (and other potential new members governments)
- Interviews with individuals and organisations with expertise in rapid transitions e.g. Rapid Transition Alliance, city leaders, unions.
Host spaces for policy innovation
- Be a member of the design team and provide input into the multi-stakeholder policy development forums in selected WEGo regions (likely to be six – Iceland, New Zealand, Scotland, California, Canada, Wales, Finland, but to be confirmed). These policy development forums will be executed by local WEAll partners and the Policy Coordinator will work closely with partners to bring to the forums the existing knowledge base (previously synthesised) to stakeholders from disaffected communities or those at risk of being stranded in a transition, together with other organisations suggested by local WEAll members, young people, policy experts and policy makers.
- Distil the messages from this to feed into policy papers (discussed below)
- Ensure feedback to forum participants
Create and promote policy papers
- Development of resilience/just transition policy papers and other relevant policy materials as appropriate
- Work with policy practitioners in relevant WEGo territories to accelerate the appreciation of the need for, adoption of, and implementation of policies necessary for a just transition to a wellbeing economy
- Work with WEAll communications team and other colleagues to promote and disseminate these papers
Knowledge synthesis project
Coordination
- Facilitate regular online meetings of the global membership of renowned academics and researchers that constitute the WEAll Knowledge and Policy cluster
- Identify key wellbeing economy issues collectively agreed by the cluster members as most important
Synthesis
- Produce and publish at least five
- ‘WEAll Ideas: Little Summaries of Big Issues’ synthesis papers during 2020. These papers will draw from the work, knowledge and resources of the members of the WEAll Knowledge and Policy cluster and WEAll Research Fellows Network.
- Work with WEAll communications team and other colleagues to promote and disseminate these papers
Toolbox
• Support the Organisation and Projects Lead (within the Amp team) to develop the concept of WEAll Toolbox intiative and promote a proposal amongst funders. The WEAll Toolbox is envisaged as an open, non-partisan interactive curated online platform designed to provide the most relevant best available material on a wellbeing economy (both theory and practice) to a range of decision makers and interested parties.
Skills and Experience:
Essential
- Excellent research and synthesis skills
- Extensive experience of government economic policy development processes
- Extensive knowledge of alternative (wellbeing) economic policies
- Demonstrable expertise writing and editing policy or advocacy-related text for a variety of audiences
- Ability to work on their own and showing initiative
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of a global team
- Available to travel and work with colleagues and stakeholders in different time zones
- Ability to operate in a challenging, fast paced environment, juggling competing demands
- Fluent in English
- High proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and other relevant applications
Desirable
- Experienced at multi-stakeholder engagement and project management skills
- Experience of resilience and just transition
- Work with economically disempowered communities
- Work experience and networks in any of the WEGo locations (and prospective members) – Iceland, New Zealand, Scotland, Wales, California, Canada, Finland, Germany
Top job! Knowledge and Policy Manager (Home based)
- Full time
- £39,000 – £45,000
- Glasgow
- Closing 20th January 2020
The Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) is a global collaboration of organisations, alliances, movements and individuals formed in 2018. We work together to change the economic system so it delivers human and ecological wellbeing. WEAll’s strategy consists of the following three key components: narratives, knowledge and power bases.
Critically, change needed will not be brought about by any single entity on its own. It requires collaboration and inspiration, sharing and co-creation. Hence the creation of new powerbases in the form of a citizens’ movement, place-based hubs and thematic clusters (e.g. the Wellbeing Economy Governments – WEGo – partnership) at the heart of WEAll’s strategy. These powerbases need to be fed both by bringing together a coherent body of existing and new wellbeing economy theory and practice as well as a compelling positive new economic narrative.
What we offer:
An opportunity to work with a highly motivated team committed to accelerating economic system change. A team with a set of dedicated values: Togetherness, Care, Honesty, Equality and Passion. This is WEAll’s core ‘amplification’ (Amp) team.
The Knowledge Manager position offers the opportunity to work on economic systems change policy areas alongside professionals worldwide recognised as experts in the field of economic system change.
Contract type: 10-month self-employed contract with the intention to renew – funding dependent.
Remuneration: £3,250 to £3,750 per month dependent on experience. This figure is inclusive of all taxes for which the contractor will be responsible.
Hours of work: Full time role with the possibility of some international travel. The nature of this role is that flexibility in hours is both required by the role (for example, there will be some evening and weekend work) but also offered by WEAll.
Location: While we encourage applications from anywhere in the world (working from home), we understand and appreciate the value of human connection. As such, our preference is to recruit for a person to be based in either Glasgow [Scotland] or Madrid [Spain]. We have members of the Amp team based in both locations. In Glasgow, we can provide access to a co-working space, in Madrid it would be a home working scenario.
What we are looking for:
We are looking for an experienced, highly motivated individual that has a passion for policy work. The role has two foci. Firstly, to support WEAll to deliver a large project focussed on the development of resilience and just transition policies in a number of regions around the world. Secondly, to support the synthesis and dissemination of the wellbeing economy knowledge base in a clear, accessible way.
This role will be an important member of the Amp team and as such will be expected to contribute to overall WEAll activities such as members calls, organisational strategy development, member promotion, and so on.
Key activities and deliverables:
Resilience and Just Transition Policy project
Synthesise existing knowledge
- Policy audit: scope existing resilience (with a regenerative lens) and ‘just transition’ policies that are already proposed/enacted and supporting a wellbeing economy globally.
- Informal interviews with key policy makers in WEGo member countries (and other potential new members governments)
- Interviews with individuals and organisations with expertise in rapid transitions e.g. Rapid Transition Alliance, city leaders, unions.
Host spaces for policy innovation
- Be a member of the design team and provide input into the multi-stakeholder policy development forums in selected WEGo regions (likely to be six – Iceland, New Zealand, Scotland, California, Canada, Wales, Finland, but to be confirmed). These policy development forums will be executed by local WEAll partners and the Policy Coordinator will work closely with partners to bring to the forums the existing knowledge base (previously synthesised) to stakeholders from disaffected communities or those at risk of being stranded in a transition, together with other organisations suggested by local WEAll members, young people, policy experts and policy makers.
- Distil the messages from this to feed into policy papers (discussed below)
- Ensure feedback to forum participants
Create and promote policy papers
- Development of resilience/just transition policy papers and other relevant policy materials as appropriate
- Work with policy practitioners in relevant WEGo territories to accelerate the appreciation of the need for, adoption of, and implementation of policies necessary for a just transition to a wellbeing economy
- Work with WEAll communications team and other colleagues to promote and disseminate these papers
Knowledge synthesis project
Coordination
- Facilitate regular online meetings of the global membership of renowned academics and researchers that constitute the WEAll Knowledge and Policy cluster
- Identify key wellbeing economy issues collectively agreed by the cluster members as most important
Synthesis
- Produce and publish at least five
- ‘WEAll Ideas: Little Summaries of Big Issues’ synthesis papers during 2020. These papers will draw from the work, knowledge and resources of the members of the WEAll Knowledge and Policy cluster and WEAll Research Fellows Network.
- Work with WEAll communications team and other colleagues to promote and disseminate these papers
Toolbox
• Support the Organisation and Projects Lead (within the Amp team) to develop the concept of WEAll Toolbox intiative and promote a proposal amongst funders. The WEAll Toolbox is envisaged as an open, non-partisan interactive curated online platform designed to provide the most relevant best available material on a wellbeing economy (both theory and practice) to a range of decision makers and interested parties.
Skills and Experience:
Essential
- Excellent research and synthesis skills
- Extensive experience of government economic policy development processes
- Extensive knowledge of alternative (wellbeing) economic policies
- Demonstrable expertise writing and editing policy or advocacy-related text for a variety of audiences
- Ability to work on their own and showing initiative
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of a global team
- Available to travel and work with colleagues and stakeholders in different time zones
- Ability to operate in a challenging, fast paced environment, juggling competing demands
- Fluent in English
- High proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and other relevant applications
Desirable
- Experienced at multi-stakeholder engagement and project management skills
- Experience of resilience and just transition
- Work with economically disempowered communities
- Work experience and networks in any of the WEGo locations (and prospective members) – Iceland, New Zealand, Scotland, Wales, California, Canada, Finland, Germany
TCV is an ambitious organisation seeking an exceptional individual with a financial background, preferably in risk and audit, to join on our Board of Trustees and to Chair our Audit and Risk Committee (ARC) soon after appointment. We are keen for our Board to reflect the diversity of the communities that we work in. Therefore we encourage applications from underrepresented groups.
We are specifically looking for someone with significant recent and relevant financial experience. As Chair of ARC, you will work in partnership with the Chair of the Board, Chief Executive and Finance Director, to provide leadership and direction to ARC in carrying out its governance and oversight role. Our current ARC chair will support the induction of this person to the role and ensure an appropriate handover period before they step down.
Candidates will ideally have experience of working on both local and national affairs and will be able to help advance and develop TCV’s interests at all levels of public and private life. In general, you will have an interest in the community, environmental and cultural diversity sectors, and the highest standards of ethical conduct and corporate governance. Previous board experience is essent ial , whether on commercial or not for profit boards.
Are you interested in International Development, Global Citizenship and Fair Trade?
We educate and enable people in the North East of Scotland to take action to create a fairer world and we need trustees!
About us
We are part of a vibrant, confident, voluntary sector. Apart from our overarching value of global justice, we are committed to transparency, diversity and inclusion.
Founded over 30 years ago as the Third World Centre, running the first solely Fairtrade retail outlet in the Kirk of St Nicholas, our activities grew as we led the Aberdeen Fairtrade City campaign, achieving Fair Trade status for the city in 2004. Alongside this work we established the Montgomery Development Education Centre (MDEC), offering training, support and resources for global citizenship education.
Currently we are:
- working with schools and teachers to promote and support global citizenship education, through our education section, the Montgomery Development Education Centre
- a leading member of the Aberdeen Fairtrade Steering Group, raising awareness of fair trade and initiating related activities
- a key member of the International Development Education Association of Scotland (IDEAS)
- a member of Scotland’s International Development Alliance
- facilitating initiatives in the Aberdeen community such as One World Week each autumn
In all of this work, we focus on the Global Goals for Sustainable Development, which aim to end extreme poverty, fight inequality & injustice and fix climate change by 2030.
We receive funding from the Scottish Government and DfID/British Council for our education work and have four part-time salaried staff, supported by other staff and volunteers.
We welcome interest from potential new trustees – anyone with commitment and enthusiasm for creating a fairer world, but particularly at the present time those with some experience in governance/legal compliance or in Human Resources and/or an interest in future chairing responsibilities.
Our Trustees manage the work of AFW, which is a SCIO. Currently we have nine trustees, but really do need more! We hold Board meetings every six weeks or so (on a weekday, usually 5pm – 7pm).
Opportunities for volunteers: Even if you can’t commit to becoming a trustee, we appreciate many forms of volunteer help in our activities. We have projects in the office and off-campus that always welcome outside help.
Project aims:
To support residents of Govanhill, in particular the most vulnerable gain control of their energy at home.
The project will provide impartial advice on energy efficiency, fuel bills and fuel poverty. Residents will be supported to take achievable actions following face to face meetings at South Seeds office and where required, home visits to take meter readings or demonstrate heating controls.
Responsible for: Supporting the senior energy officer to deliver this programme. Support the South Seeds team to engage residents in all projects.
Main relationships:Residents, Govanhill Community Development Trust, energy suppliers’ complaint teams, Warmworks, Home Energy Scotland and Govanhill Housing Association welfare rights team.
Funded by:Funded via the Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme, energredress.org.uk.
The Iona Community seeks a Programme Co-ordinator to work with our guests visiting the newly refurbished Abbey centre, on the beautiful Hebridean island of Iona. This is an opportunity to shape and lead the creative programme which attracts thousands of guests from around the world.
Job Purpose
This post offers an exciting opportunity for a creative, well-organised person who has extensive experience of working with groups and would like to share our life in community. A member of the resident staff group, the post holder will work with colleagues to plan and deliver a yearly programme, in line with the Iona Community’s priorities and values, consisting of a range of events and activities which offer an innovative, inclusive and hospitable experience; fulfilling the needs of guests and visitors to the Abbey Centre.
The programme will include organising and running creative and arts based activities, discussions and workshops expressing the Community’s commitments,
Developing and coordinating a team of programme volunteers and workshop facilitators, the post holder will ensure programme activities are well planned and delivered, and inspire participants to take their learning into the wider world.
Job Context
The Iona Community is an international, ecumenical Christian movement of over 2000 people working for peace and justice, rebuilding of community and the renewal of worship. As a movement, community and charitable organisation we pursue our Purpose through the activity of our members where they live and work and through our centres in Glasgow and on the Hebridean islands of Mull and Iona.
Following a £3.7million capital appeal, and a period of major refurbishment, we are re-opening our newly improved Iona Abbey Centre to guests in early June 2020, alongside our renovated Community Shop and Welcome Centre. An exciting Strategic Plan has been developed, refreshing the Centre as a place of hospitality, spiritual renewal and learning, for people of all ages, backgrounds and cultures, inspiring them to commit to action for justice and peace within their communities and throughout the world.
Friends of the Earth Scotland is looking for a new Climate Campaigner to work with our Climate & Energy Campaigner in this vitally important year of the UN climate talks (COP26) coming to Glasgow. This is a new key campaign role within Friends of the Earth Scotland to work on climate and energy policy and practice in Scotland, and to contribute to our work on Just Transition, the fossil fuel industry and the UN climate talks.
COP26 is a major opportunity to help strengthen the climate justice movement in Scotland and FoE’s central role in it. We will work in the run up, during and in the aftermath of the UN summit to strengthen the movement and use the COP as leverage for further climate action from the Scottish and UK Governments.
Managed by the Climate & Energy Campaigner, you will work closely with the Director, the Head of Campaigns and the wider team to help deliver our core Fossil Free Scotland campaign. A major part of your work will focus on the government and parliamentary processes of revising the Climate Change Plan and creating the new Scottish Energy Strategy, building on our successful campaigning to increase the ambition in the new Climate Change Act.
You will be a strong campaigner, with excellent communication skills, a good grip of technical issues and a good knowledge of climate and energy policy. You will have a naturally collaborative working style, and will thrive in a small, creative team. A good knowledge of the Scottish political context and of climate and energy policy would be a significant advantage.
You will work closely with the Stop Climate Chaos Scotland coalition and other Scottish partners.
Become part of People’s Postcode Lottery’s team!
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic and growing business where people are at the heart of everything we do. We live by our four core values - fun, sharing, courageous and sustainable - and we expect the same from our colleagues. Offering above the ‘average’ holiday allowance at 37 days per year, along with a generous pension scheme, free fresh fruit and refreshments in the office, we look after our team!
We encourage you to spend days volunteering with our charity partners and we commit to investing 4% of salaries into training each year. Perhaps that’s why our team voted us in the top ten in the Sunday Times Top 100 mid-size companies to work for in 2019!
What we do?
As one of the world’s top fundraising private charity donors, giving to good causes is our mission. We manage multiple society lotteries promoted by different charities supporting a wide range of causes. Since 2005, our players have raised more than £500 million for over 7,500 charities and good causes across Great Britain and internationally.
Role Summary
Charities are at the heart of the organisation and this position is crucial in helping to deliver the wide-ranging, exciting and incredible work funded by our players.
Our impact is focused on four keys areas; collaboration, capability, capacity and leverage. We are a true partner to our charities and our relationship offers far more than just funding. We are committed to ensuring that our players remain connected with the causes they help support. As a funder, we also remain faithful to our funding principles and ensure that we are an enlightened partner in our efforts to make the world a better place for people and planet.
As a part of the Charities Team, you must be able to support your direct colleagues as well as ensure that the wider Postcode Lottery team remains passionate about the good causes we support.
Each year, the Community Programmes Team process over 6,000 applications for funding received by People’s Postcode Trust, Postcode Community Trust and Postcode Local Trust. Over 2,000 good causes were supported last year by these Trusts for projects across Great Britain.
The right candidate will have experience in funding, fundraising or account/relationship management, be able to manage complex projects and processes, have a clear understanding of the charity sector and be able to learn quickly and maintain enthusiasm for the changes in the sector and our related support.
A full Job Description is available for download below.