We are looking for a talented International Projects Manager (Maternity Cover) with the focus and energy to help us deliver transformational learning programmes in across Europe, Asia and elsewhere.

This is a critical international project management role in the business and we are therefore looking for someone who is keen for a challenge, up for working with vibrant, entrepreneurial and dedicated people and colleagues and has a good value-fit with our organisation.

This role will work within a small International team and will account manage current programmes in several countries. You will be supported to develop and build strong relationships across the organisation, working particularly closely with the Global Learning Lab. This recruitment pack will provide you with more information on the role.

You will be joining the Academy at an exciting time as our international work continues to grow, and we are privileged to support the work of ever more inspiring social entrepreneurs across the world.

Having the right mind-set, attitude and approach is as important for us as having the right experience and skills. We appreciate that the best person might not have all the criteria we have listed, so if you feel your experience and skills will help you to make a great contribution in this role and you have the right mind-set, we would welcome an application from you.

For more information and a full set of criteria please download the recruitment pack from our website.

Social Enterprise Academy profile:

The Social Enterprise Academy is a social enterprise that connects changemakers with transformational learning and development.

Created in 2004, we deliver innovative leadership and entrepreneurship programmes that empower individuals, communities, and organisations in Scotland and internationally to become more sustainable and have greater impact.

Through our Social Enterprise Schools programme created in partnership with The Scottish Government, we will provide every young person in Scotland the opportunity to run their own social enterprise by 2024. By stepping up to solve the issues that matter most to them, young people of all ages and abilities also develop essential skills for life, learning and work.

ROLE

Project Trust is an educational charity based on the Hebridean Isle of Coll. We have over fifty years’ experience in international volunteering for young people, organising challenging, long-term placements with partnership organisations in Africa, Asia and the Americas. We annually select around 260 young people from across the UK for eight to 12-month teaching and youth development projects around the world. Our Volunteers are provided with training and support before, during and after their international placements, and return home with broadened horizons and an impressive range of transferrable skills, true Global Citizens.

Our International Programmes have recently re-opened and an exciting opportunity has arisen for a talented Country Co-ordinator to join our team on the Isle of Coll. The Country Co-ordinator is responsible for the day-to-day running of a number of international country programmes and is the first point of contact in the UK for Volunteers and their parents. The role involves supporting our Volunteers on their international placements from the UK and undertaking visits to projects abroad, as well as participating in the selection and training of our Volunteers. The successful applicant will have a flair for customer service, the ability to work autonomously, and excellent organisational skills.

Main areas of responsibility include:

• Providing support and guidance to a cohort of Volunteers, pre-departure and during their international placements

• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with Volunteers, their families, international representatives and project hosts

• Visiting Volunteers abroad and assisting with sourcing potential new projects

• Responding to urgent situations occurring abroad, with support of senior staff

• Administration of international placements, including visa applications

• Participating in Selection, Training and Debriefing of Volunteers

Essential skills & experience include:

• Excellent customer service skills, with a commitment to providing an outstanding service to Volunteers and third parties

• Excellent planning and organisational skills and the ability to work on own initiative

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

A recognised qualification or equivalent experience in mental health/counselling or education is desirable, as is experience of living or working in an international environment.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the international programme strategy and operations of an innovative and ambitious charity at an important time in its 50-year history.

The role is based in the Project Trust office on the Isle of Coll.

We are recruiting a full-time Participation & Development Officer for a fixed-term period until the end of August 2024. This role will help us facilitate our JustCitizens migrant advisory panel and connect our team of lawyers with our migration sector partners in community-based and grassroots organisations across Scotland.

Launched in 2020, our JustCitizens panel (justcitizens.scot) is a group of 15 migrants living in Scotland from a diverse range of countries and backgrounds, working to build a broad and inclusive vision of citizenship in Scotland.

This is a new role, and you will be responsible for facilitating our JustCitizens panel, identifying barriers to participation and ensuring that our panel members are supported and empowered to shape our policy, influencing and campaigning strategies.

You will also work to connect our team of lawyers with community-based and grassroots organisations across Scotland, sharing frontline experience from our casework and our legal expertise, and building partnerships that secure migrants’ rights and promote a more inclusive approach to migrants in Scotland.

If successful, you will work under the supervision of our Legal Director & Head of the Scottish Refugee and Migrant Centre (SRMC), as well as working closely with our Director of Policy & Strategy at JustRight for All, which is our policy, research and training hub.

Candidates must have two or more years of relevant experience in an equivalent role, or a degree or qualification in a related field, such as community organising / development, advocacy or project management as well as a commitment to tackling inequality, promoting human rights and working to achieve social justice.

This is an exciting new role with the opportunity to help us shape how we communicate about our work publicly, how we can empower people and organisations by sharing our lived experience and professional legal expertise and how we campaign effectively for positive social change.

Our dynamic team supports children into primary schools in rural north-east Ghana. We need a creative self-starter and team player with a proven talent in marketing and networking to help develop fundraising initiatives and grow our membership.

The Voluntary Role

As one of the trustees on our aptly named Executive Committee or EC (board of trustees), which includes our other officers - Chair, Secretary and Treasurer - you will help to shape the strategy that your ongoing communications and outreach responsibilities will help us to realise. In this role you will receive full support from our EC members, wherever in the UK you are based. Our EC meets on Zoom (evenings) and we work from home.

After your induction, tailored to suit your knowledge, skills and experience, and working closely with your fellow trustees and our external contacts in the UK, you will:

• Help us to generate a wider range of attractive fundraising initiatives, making full use of the interests and skills of our current membership and supporters, liaising with your fellow trustees and contributing items for discussion at our EC meetings

• Enable us to reach out as effectively (and cost-effectively) as possible to our membership and supporters and their networks of friends and relatives, so as to maximise their interest and engagement in our key purpose - fundraising in the UK

• Take a leading but supported role in developing and enhancing our embryonic social media and website presence. Since 2016, when we launched our website, we have shared it with our partner organisation in Ghana, with whom we are in regular contact online, primarily through our Chair, and our donors are naturally interested in how our funding assists the work on the ground which our partners are engaged in, which is changing many young lives.

• Ensure that our fundraising events have a longer-term impact on our success by using these precious opportunities to enhance awareness of our charitable object, attract people into our membership and retain them through subsequent communications

• Maintain our contacts with traditional media - local newspapers (including their online presence), radio and television - and help us gradually to widen that network

• As a trustee, make recommendations to our EC, based on your experience before and after your appointment which will enable us to prioritise our activities as effectively as possible. Like you, we are unpaid and with limited time to fulfil our own voluntary roles and we contribute ideas based on our own professional areas of expertise, our local knowledge and feedback from supporters.

As hands-on trustees with shared legal and practical responsibilities we are open to fresh ideas and work very much as a team, pooling our talents and energy.

A full Role Description is available for download below.

We are looking for a talented International Network Support Officer with the focus and energy to help us provide support to our diverse Hub Network.

This is an exciting role for someone passionate about working across different cultures and contexts, and supporting global teams to deliver on their mission of supporting social entrepreneurs through learning and development. This role will help to build a strong sense of community across the International Hub Network, working to ensure that insights and innovations are captured and shared internally and across the network.

This role will work within a small International team and will be the first point of contact for Hubs. You will be supported to develop and build strong relationships across the organisation, working particularly closely with the Global Learning Lab. This recruitment pack will provide you with more information on the role.

You will be joining the Academy at an exciting time as we work to strengthen our Hub Network and expand the social franchise model into new territories. Having the right entrepreneurial mind-set, attitude and approach is as important for us as having the right experience and skills. We appreciate that the best person might not have all the criteria we have listed, so if you feel your experience and skills will help you to make a great contribution in this role and you have the right mind-set, we would welcome an application from you.

For more information and a full set of criteria please download the recruitment pack from our website.

Social Enterprise Academy profile:

The Social Enterprise Academy is a social enterprise that connects changemakers with transformational learning and development.

Created in 2004, we deliver innovative leadership and entrepreneurship programmes that empower individuals, communities, and organisations in Scotland and internationally to become more sustainable and have greater impact.

Through our Social Enterprise Schools programme created in partnership with The Scottish Government, we will provide every young person in Scotland the opportunity to run their own social enterprise by 2024. By stepping up to solve the issues that matter most to them, young people of all ages and abilities also develop essential skills for life, learning and 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 meal in a place of education. We continue to change the lives of more than two million children who today will receive Mary’s Meals.

The finance officer will work with the Mary’s Meals UK Finance Team in providing day-to-day financial accounting and ensuring accurate, timely and efficient delivery of services for Mary's Meals.

Key principles include:

• Supporting each directorate for all expenditure related matters as the first point of contact.

• Administering the purchase ledger, ensuring that all invoices and credit notes received have been checked and approved in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

• Preparing quarterly VAT returns for submission to HMRC and preparing the annual VAT partial exemption adjustment.

• Providing cash balance information to the finance manager for the monthly funds transfer to Mary's Meals International.

• Accurately record material aid transactions in liaison with the warehouse team.

• Maintaining the charity’s fixed asset register, including preparing depreciation, addition and disposal journals and supporting the operations directorate in the annual fixed asset verification.

• Analysing monthly expenditure against budget, investigating and documenting explanations for any significant variances.

• Assisting the finance manager in the preparation of the expenditure elements of the monthly management information.