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At Beatson Cancer Charity we support and enhance the treatment, care and wellbeing of current, former and future cancer patients and their families. We work in partnership with the NHS, The Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre and all related facilities. We also offer the wider community a unique opportunity to contribute to the fight against cancer in the broadest possible sense.

We are currently seeking a Director of Finance and Corporate Services to join our Senior Leadership Team on a permanent basis. The post-holder will maintain an overview of the organisation’s financial and corporate affairs, ensuring its financial viability and to ensure proper fiscal management. Working closely with the Chief Executive and the Executive team the post-holder will participate as an integral member of the Senior Leadership Team and actively contribute to the organisation’s strategic planning, implementation, and delivery.

Essential Candidate Criteria

• Membership of one of the major professional accountancy bodies or equivalent.

• Proven track record in financial management at a senior level.

• Experience of accounting for a charity (of medium size) or similar organisation including knowledge of the Charities Statement of Recommended Practice, HMRC regulations and VAT as applied to charities.

• Experience of providing finance and corporate services to a medium sized organisation.

• Understanding of financial impact of decisions and proposals.

• Ability to interpret and challenge information and projections.

• Knowledge and understanding of the voluntary sector.

• Ability to provide effective leadership and build a positive team spirit and inspire, motivate and support colleagues.

• Ability to analyse complex and diverse information and from that make clear and effective presentations and financial reports to the Board, senior managers and external funders.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills ensuing an ability to work and communicate with members of staff at all levels and across all disciplines (ensuing clear and concise communication of financial information to non-financial personnel) to achieve outcomes.

As an organisation, named after Mary the mother of Jesus and shaped by Christian spirituality, we feel that the way we do things is as important as the end results and we welcome all who wish to play their part in our important work. Mary’s Meals is a global movement supported by people from all walks of life and we are focused on one goal – that every child receives a nutritious daily meal in a place of education. We continue to change the lives of over 1.6 million children who today will receive Mary’s Meals. Our organisation is experiencing rapid growth and as we stand on the cusp of our next strategic period, there has never been a more exciting time to join

Due to internal progression we are recruiting for an inspirational and impactful leader to join Mary’s Meals International, as Director of Affiliate Development.

Reporting to our CEO and working in close collaboration with our National Affiliates and Trustees, you will lead on the strategic planning and development of our National Affiliate network to enable the long-term financial sustainability and growth of our movement, as we strive to reach the next child waiting for Mary’s Meals.

Enabling and supporting the growth of our movement, which consists of many independent entities who are united in the mission of Mary’s Meals, will be your key focus and you will be a passionate advocate for our work and demonstrate a strong vocational attitude that shows competence, commitment and contribution to the global movement.

Other key priorities will include:

• Provide strong strategic leadership to our Executive Directors and other leaders across our National Affiliate network to drive growth;

• Support our National Affiliates in building strategies for growth, through effective business planning and capacity building;

• Work closely with our National Affiliates to establish a portfolio of large, long-term partnerships that provide sustainable income;

• Provide strong leadership for our global Affiliate Development team in support of our National Affiliates; and

• Build strong relationships and oversee the management of key partnerships and grants.

With fantastic experience of working in and with international organisations, developing strategies to enable growth and successfully delivering complex global change projects. With exceptional organisational skills, a proactive approach to planning and the ability to work across multiple projects with diverse groups, you will thrive in a fast-paced strategic role.

You will also be able to demonstrate:

• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to develop strong relationships and extensive experience of coaching and mentoring;

• Robust experience of developing and implementing strategies, policies and procedures and translating these into action;

• Experience of working with boards and trustees;

• A culturally sensitive approach and the ability to influence and build trust across a wide variety of stakeholders;

• A proven track record in building capacity and developing and leading high performing teams; and

Experience of leading successful projects in a global environment.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do at Mary’s Meals; we believe in the innate goodness of people, respect the dignity of every human being and family life and believe in good stewardship of the resources entrusted to us. In line with our values, Mary’s Meals is fully committed to a culture of safeguarding.

We offer so much more than a role, in taking on this amazing role, you will have the opportunity to support our global movement in a dynamic and inclusive environment with a real focus on personal development and collaboration. We are a truly global movement, working across 37 countries and are happy to support a fully remote working arrangement for this opportunity.

If you are inspired to join our movement and our vision, mission and values resonate with you, we would love to hear from you. Please tell us why you want to join Mary’s Meals and why you would make a great Director of Affiliate Development?

Do you have significant experience of community engagement, including locally responsive delivery and evaluation, coupled with a proven track record in managing people in a large-scale organisation, ideally in the third sector? Then join Shelter Scotland as Head of Community and you could soon be responsible for the strategic and operational oversight of our Community Engagement programme.

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet thousands of people across Scotland 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, best-in-class 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 Community Hub model is a mechanism to deliver progressive impact, working within, and with, the community to help people to keep, find and improve their home. We have Hubs in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee. Each unlocks the potential to transform local housing and homelessness issues by aligning the expertise of Shelter Scotland with local partners. Our ambition is to build on our community engagement work in partnership with local organisations, groups and activists to drive change at local level, but striving to ensure that it's people who have lived experience who are at the centre.

About the role

A key member of our Leadership Team, you'll have senior management responsibility for Shelter Scotland's Community Hub and Volunteering programmes. We'll also rely on you to lead and inspire a team of managers to deliver high quality, integrated community responses to local housing and homelessness issues. Delivering a change programme with your managers to ensure Hubs inspire and enable people to support us in delivering change for individuals and communities will be important too. Indeed, influencing systemic change and driving improved practice will be at the heart of the role, as will developing internal and external networks and partnerships that support the delivery of an ambitious strategy. Undertaking and leading on key projects, providing strategic leadership and promoting and representing our services at all levels - all are facets of this challenging role.

About you

You'll need a proven relevant track record, possibly gained in a range of sectors where you operated at a senior level with external audiences and engaged with, and influenced, a variety of stakeholders. You'll also need demonstrable experience in financial planning and budget and contract management. Someone who thrives on working collaboratively with others for the good of the business, you're adept at building a network of good relationships and have an innate ability to quickly develop a thorough understanding of an organisation and the wider sector. Last but not least, you're a good listener and positive influencer who communicates clearly verbally and in writing and, where appropriate, is able to persuade others to change their views, intentions or actions.

Benefits

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, payroll giving, 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.

INDEPENDENT SECTOR LEAD – Scottish Borders

PARTNERS FOR INTEGRATION AND IMPROVEMENT

Health and Social Care Integration

Do you have an interest in improving the quality of care, can you COLLABORATE, INNOVATE AND COMMUNICATE, and would you like to join a successful, committed and highly motivated team?

This could be the opportunity you have been waiting for.

We are seeking to engage an Independent Sector Lead to support the Integration of Health and Social Care in the Scottish Borders. Hosted by Scottish Care and working closely with care providers and partners, the post involves ensuring sector involvement in the delivery of the integrating of health and social care in Scotland’s HSCPs

The post holder must be highly motivated, be able to use initiative, possess excellent communication and networking skills, demonstrate success and experience working at strategic level with policy makers, providers, regulators, people supported by services and carers. Qualifications and experience at a senior management level would be a significant advantage.

The post holder will be expected to create and support significant collaborations across the independent care sector while contributing to the development of new care pathways which will result in the delivery of improved outcomes for people who access care and support. The post holder will ensure the Independent sector’s contribution is fundamental to integrated services and transformational change and be able to evidence their impact. The role requires considerable and skilful collaboration with our key partners in the NHS, Local Authority, Carers, third sector organisations and other forums.

The post is home based with travel where necessary, based and is hosted by Scottish Care.

ARK is a major provider of Care and Support to people with long term and enduring conditions such as learning disability, mental health issues, dementia and autism. As a housing association we are one of the smaller providers. Our aim is to ensure that those who use our services get the very best out of ARK to enable them to live a good life and to provide the best quality of housing to our tenants, some of whom we provide support to.

As a member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), reporting to the Director of People & Organisational Development this role is responsible for leading the Organisational Development Team (Human Resources, Learning & Development & Payroll) to develop, deliver and embed OD strategies to build an Ark culture that aligns to our values and aims and will achieve sustained high performance. There will be a key focus for ensuring that Ark develops and implements policies, procedures, systems and processes that will deliver continued improvement.

The Head of People and Organisational Development will ensure that the OD Team are central to Arks ambition to be the best employer we can be and offer rewarding careers to our teams. Integral to this will be the development of talent in individuals and teams, to ensure we are attracting, developing and inspiring skilled and enthusiastic staff who share our vision and values and so create a culture of excellence throughout the organisation.

This is an exciting role for the right applicant and comes at a time where Ark have undertaken a major piece of work where we have reviewed and developed the Business Plan for the next 5 years and beyond. This is an exciting time to join the team where you will have the opportunity to deliver the ambitions of Ark within an already well established Senior Leadership Team.

The aim of the revised business plans is to:

• Have a reputation for excellence and be recognised as a high quality provider of housing and care

• Be known as an excellent employer where employees will enjoy rewarding careers

• Build our technological and digital capability to support a successful business

• Have in place Leadership to create a culture of excellence throughout the business

We are looking for dynamic and passionate applicants that have significant prior experience operating at a senior management level in an HR/OD/L&D related role with excellent employment law knowledge and that of the regulatory environment in which ARK operates. If you have extensive experience in these areas, then we would like to hear from you.

The history of CrossReach stretches back 150 years to the formation of the Church of Scotland Committee on Christian Life and Work in 1869. Throughout this time CrossReach and its predecessor bodies have worked in communities all over Scotland and beyond, providing social care for those most in need. Over the years the services provided have been vast and varied, which have been adapted as time moves on to respond to the needs and requirements in current times.

In 2005 the name of the organisation was changed to CrossReach. The name Crossreach was chosen to convey the need and desire to reach out to people across Scotland who require support, all while making it clear that faith is the motivation for their work.

As mentioned, CrossReach offer a wide variety of services that are currently broken down into three key areas adults, older people, children and families. Within each key area there are various different support services available ranging from early years through to care homes, mental health support, creative art groups and everything in between. All services provided are working towards CrossReach’s overall mission which is ‘In Christs name we seek to support people to achieve the highest quality of life which they are capable of achieving at any given time’ while keeping in line with their ethos which is ‘We aim to show the practical side of our Christian faith by reflecting Christian love to those we support, through our leadership, management and working relationships’.

As the Head of Fundraising you will lead a significant expansion of the fundraising function and take the lead role in writing the fundraising strategy and supporting the team to deliver against all targets. You will also be part of the senior management team so strong strategic as well as operational acumen is required.

CrossReach aspires to grow its fundraised income so you will need to show that you have the skills, experience, tenacity and determination to succeed in this role while proving that you have overseen growth in voluntary income in a previous role. Experience in a similarly sized and complex organisation would be an advantage.

You will be CrossReach’s fundraising expert and will need to have the broad range of skills associated with a Head/Director of Fundraising role. This includes everything from creating the strategy, structure and skilled team required for successful fundraising as well as reaching new audiences, devising creative campaigns and writing compelling Cases for Support that engage and motivate donors. You will also be adept at managing a budget and producing fundraising reports for the CEO and Board.

This is a high profile role for a national charity which is greatly valued by those who benefit from its services. You will have the opportunity to make your mark by taking fundraising from a relatively low level to new heights.

All while demonstrating and sharing Christian love and support including sharing with others the leading of worship in accordance with CrossReach policy and by ensuring all staff meetings are opened with prayer and Bible reading.

It is important to note that as the work CrossReach do and their work in Christ’s name this job requires you to have a Christian faith and be able to work within and uphold our Christian Ethos (this is an ongoing occupational requirement under the Equality Act 2010).

We’re looking for a new Chief Executive, someone who as a visionary leader and motivator, can lead the organisation to deliver our strategic plan. The post is accountable to a Board of Directors, and is responsible for working with the Board to ensure clear strategic direction, driving the organisation’s vision, mission and strategic aims, developing operational plans and managing the resources that deliver against these.

You will be a strong leader, politically astute and skilled networker. You will be committed to supporting community led approaches to address inequality and social justice. You will have a track record of doing the right thing rather than the easy thing. You will be passionate about the voluntary sector and its role within civic society.

Scotland’s Bravest Manufacturing Co. is an exciting new social enterprise situated in the Erskine Veterans Village Estate in Bishopton, Renfrewshire who are now looking to recruit a Senior Bid Writer to join our team.

Main Purpose of the Job

To secure grant funding and sponsorship for Scotland’s Bravest Manufacturing Co. achieving the annual income target. This fundraising is largely for employability support for Scotland’s most disadvantaged veterans including those with severe physical disabilities and mental health challenges. There are also other capital opportunities for SBMC including facilities, machinery and transport, and other RBLI activities such as LifeWorks and STEP IN that are relevant.

You will produce persuasive grant applications and sponsorship proposals, mainly for charitable trusts and statutory funding opportunities, although needs to be flexible to undertake corporate and HNWI approaches and occasionally engage RBLI’s community supporters in Scotland.

Experience of working closely with colleagues across delivery/operational departments to develop service proposals and a successful track record in generating income through writing competitive bids is essential. An ability to work independently is a prerequisite.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Lead on regional fundraising planning and activity to achieve annual income targets for Scotland’s Bravest Manufacturing Co.
• Pursue varied income sources including trusts, statutory, corporate partnerships and HNWI, to ensure the annual targets can be met.
• Pursue opportunities at different giving levels to ensure targets are met.
• Ensure bid writing and other fundraising activities align with SBMC income requirements.
• Liaise with SBMC’s Director, and with operational and welfare colleagues at SBMC to ensure that all content required to support applications achieves the highest possible quality.
• Provide creative input into bids and supporting business case documents, to ensure they are appealing to a wide range of funders including trusts, statutory, corporate and HNWI.
• Engage RBLI’s senior stakeholders including CE, Exec Team and Advisory Board, in support of funding applications wherever impactful and appropriate.
• Establish, develop and maintain relationships with funders and other influential external stakeholders to ensure greater support for SBMC, high levels of donor retention, and the highest quality relationship management.
• Write quality project reports to secure pledged funds and achieve repeat gifts.
• Record details of all of the applications submitted and the outcome of each on RBLI’s database ThankQ
• Record details of all relevant networking, e.g. senior stakeholders for statutory bids.
• Provide RBLI’s Director of Strategic Development with regular updates, response analysis, and recommendations for growing regional support for SBMC.
• Attend events, presentations, pitches, Trustee meetings and arrange site tours in support of winning applications.
• Other duties as may be reasonably required, including occasional communications and events activity with community fundraisers in Scotland.

Working Environment

This role will be based in Scotland. It will be mainly home based with some time at Scotland’s Bravest Manufacturing Co. at Erskine in Renfrewshire e.g. for donor tours.

Personal Attributes

• A ‘can do’ attitude, proactively looking for new opportunities.
• Organised and systematic ways of working on long term plans.
• Winning writing ability, in a range of different styles.
• Able to communicate complex issues and projects clearly and concisely.
• Ability to work to multiple deadlines and manage a varied workload.
• Strong interpersonal skills and experience of working well with a range of departments within a large organisation.
• A flexible team player able to go the extra mile to service supporter needs, and win for RBLI’s beneficiaries

Skills & Experience Required:

Essential:

• An evidenced track record of successful grant, trust or statutory funding applications including 6 figure gifts and multi-year commitments
• Track record managing programmes of mixed activity to deliver on annual financial targets
• Experience working on corporate partnerships or securing corporate sponsorship
• Ability to work at a fast pace, to multiple deadlines, and across a variety of projects
• Ability to work independently while regularly checking in with operational teams and senior managers
• Excellent written communication skills
• Ability to brief and involve staff at all levels, including CE and Board level.
• Evidence of flexibility in writing styles – ability to write differently for different audiences
• Strong understanding of trust and statutory stakeholders
• Good knowledge and understanding of the issues and debates important to trust and statutory stakeholders, their professional pressures and priorities
• Good knowledge and understanding of the Scottish charity sector, and statutory trends specific to Scotland
• Face to face presentation skills

Desirable:

• Education to degree level or specialist IoF training across several relevant disciplines or to Diploma level.
• Experience working for a social enterprise
• Experience in statutory business development roles
• Experience of capital fundraising campaigns

Benefits:

RBLI offer a competitive holiday allowance, a Group Flexible Retirement Plan and Life Assurance.