Do you know charity finance inside and out? Do you get a buzz from helping others to understand it too? Do you want to work with a fab team in a beautiful location with trees, wildlife, and young people developing skills for life outside your office window?
We have an exciting opportunity to join Scouts Scotland as Head of Finance and you might just be exactly who we’re looking for!
The Role
As Head of Finance you’ll be a professionally qualified accountant with knowledge and experience of charity accounting. You’ll provide senior financial counsel to the Senior Leadership Team and have credibility to advise our Trustees. You will be a people leader, experienced at managing and motivating staff.
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.
Working closely with the Director of Supporter Engagement and Income, the role will support and lead on Supporter Engagement strategy development and implementation.
A large part of the role will involve leading a team of Supporter Engagement Managers who have significant responsibilities in prioritising the growth and nurturing of the volunteer network and our support across demographics and groupings, through management of their teams. This involves overseeing the attraction of new supporters, developing of relationships with existing supporters, and coordinating, empowering and inspiring our volunteers.
Working at a senior level, the Head of Grassroots Engagement will lead by example, encouraging consistently effective and efficient service across a UK-wide team, and ensuring that our staff, supporters and volunteers are recruited, inducted, trained, supported, recognised and retained in line with Mary’s Meals values.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing and growing Mary’s Meals grassroots support across the UK, ensuring our network is empowered and enabled, ensuring responsibility of the promotion of our campaigns and materials with our movement.
- Leading on volunteer strategy, management and support.
- Proactively identifying new opportunities for Mary’s Meals across all types of fundraising and support.
- Contributing to the development and execution of key fundraising campaigns in close partnership with the global fundraising team.
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.
This role will involve creating and stewarding opportunities with major donors, charitable trusts and corporate supporters, creating tangible and visible results to sustain and grow our school feeding programmes.
A large part of the role will be in leading and motivating the team who have significant responsibilities in coordinating the development of key relationships and opportunities. Working at a senior level, the role will involve leading by example and ensuring our work is managed in line with Mary’s Meals values.
Regius School is an Independent Christian School, situated in Newcraighall (69a Whitehill Street, EH21 8QZ), serving Edinburgh and the Lothians with a current roll of 26 pupils from P1 to S2, organised across three small class groups. There are two full time teachers with a class room assistant.
We are looking to appoint an experienced teacher to head up our small school community of learners, teachers and support staff within a Christian context. He or she will work closely with the School Board and existing parents’ groups.
Our school has a unique and exceptional atmosphere, providing a happy, caring and creative environment and a curriculum which inspires, engages and challenges our learners. We affirm the close relationship of home, church and school. Our curriculum policies and procedures have been developed from discussions about how to achieve our school vision that ‘each child will see themselves as God the Father sees them’, and for our children to dream big dreams and be the very best they can be!
Our head teacher will manage the day to day running of the school to the benefit of our pupils and families, ensuring all children flourish and achieve their full potential. Although fee paying, our aim has been that school fees are kept at an affordable level.
Membership of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups Scheme will be essential on taking up appointment along with GTCS Registration (Primary).
School Coordinator
- Full time or Part time
- £23,211 – £24,777
- Gowanbank, Darvel
- Closing 20th March 2020
We have a vacancy for a Schools Coordinator, based at our Christian Residential Activity Centre at Gowanbank, just outside Darvel.
Are you interested in reaching out to the children and young people of Scotland? Are you passionate about sharing your faith, young people and the outdoors? Here is an amazing opportunity to be creative and original in developing a new ministry at Gowanbank.
Gowanbank is a new outdoor centre which is part of SU Scotland. Our vision is to see the children and young people of Scotland exploring the Bible and responding to the significance of Jesus. We are a national charity, with almost 100 staff and over 2,000 volunteers. Our activities take place in schools, outdoor activity centres, churches and online.
This role offers a wonderful opportunity to build a new ministry at Gowanbank – developing, promoting and delivering a programme of outdoor learning. You will build positive relationships with children and young people, teachers, guests, fellow colleagues and volunteers and be fully involved in the life of the centre.
For this post, it is important that you are committed to SU Scotland’s ethos, working principles and vision and are able to demonstrate this through your commitment and motivation. It is also an Occupational Requirement (Equality Act – part 1, schedule 9), that the post-holder is a committed Christian.
The successful applicant will be required to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Scheme and the appointment will be subject to a satisfactory PVG Scheme Disclosure.
This is a re-advertisement and previous applicants need not apply.
Move On works in Scotland to unlock the potential of vulnerable young people, enabling a positive future and improving people lives.
From our bases in Glasgow and Edinburgh we provide a range of services including mentoring, employability, training, peer education, volunteering opportunities, support, advice and information.
This is an exciting opportunity to develop our highly successful Mentoring service by working alongside our Mentoring team to establish Move On as a Trauma-Informed organisation. Move On’s Mentoring for Wellbeing will build on our expertise in mentoring disadvantaged young people in Edinburgh, through increasing the capacity of our staff and volunteer mentors to support young people to improve their wellbeing and mental health.
The Glasgow School of Art Students’ Association is a student led charitable organisation, centred around supporting the needs of its members at the Glasgow School of Art. It is committed to ensuring that students at the Glasgow School of Art are represented academically, pastorally and creatively during their time at GSA. It has a Student Representative Council and works in partnership with GSA to deliver formal academic representation for students. The Trustee Board is made up of a combination of Sabbatical Officers and student trustees, who are members of the Student Representative Council.
We are seeking individuals with a good balance of skills and experience to support student trustees in their role, as well as to strengthen governance and leadership in the organisation.
Purpose of the Role
The role of an external trustee is to bring a professional perspective, informed by your experience and judgement, to decisions made concerning the governance and direction of the charity. You will ensure that the Association meets with all of its regulatory requirements as well as ensuring best practice in these areas. It is important that you align yourself with the aims and objectives of GSASA and its commitment to representation, accessibility, safe(r) spaces, equality, diversity and sustainability. You can find our recently updated Constitution here.
Further information about the role of Charity Trusteeship, legal responsibility and good practice within the role can be found on the OSCR (Scottish Charity Regulator)
Time Commitment
Given that the role of External Trusteeship is a new one for the Association, it is expected that external Trustees would be required to meet on a monthly basis for the first 4 months of their role. Thereafter, it is expected that the time commitment of Trustees would amount to 7 meetings a year as well as an Annual General Meeting, with additional meetings convened when necessary.
Board members are expected to serve a maximum of 2 terms of 3 consecutive years.
Person Specification
At this time we are particularly looking for candidates with a background in Law, and/or a background in management of cultural institutions or creative industries, however if you think you have skills and knowledge that would be of value to our organisation please do get in touch.
A career that's life-changing
Are you a naturally empathetic, focused and passionate about changing the lives of children and their families throughout the UK for the better? We have a unique opportunity for an experienced residential care worker to join our team in the East Lothian area. This is an exciting and rewarding role with the opportunity to make a huge personal impact.
Hope House is a residential service which supports a young lady within her own home in Haddington to be an active part of her community.
How Action for Children works
Action for Children does what's right, does what's needed and does what works for children across the UK. Every year, our team changes the lives of 301,000 children, young people and their families – but for every child who needs help to get help, there's plenty more to do. That's where you come in...
The difference
You'll significantly improve young people's lives:
- By providing a safe environment where they can enjoy time with their friends
- By working towards giving them a positive future
- By helping them in all aspects of their daily lives and supporting their health and happiness
The person
You'll need:
- Commitment to working on a 24-hour shift rota pattern, which includes evenings, weekends and some bank holidays
- Flexibility to have sleepovers
- Ideally, a HNC and SVQ 3 in a social care discipline, or a qualification in social care, nursing, education, which would meet the registration requirements.
- Applications from candidates with only a HNC qualification will be considered as the opportunity to undertake SVQ studies will exist.
- Experience of working with disabled young people
- The ability to use MS Office to record case notes
- Excellent communication skills
- Safeguarding knowledge
- A positive approach, providing a fun environment for all the children in our care.
The rewards
- Minimum 29 days' holiday (pro rata)
- Flexible working, including maternity, paternity and adoption packages
- Season ticket travel loans
- Company pension scheme
- Discounts at major high street retailers.
Plus, there's a lot more besides.
This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference to vulnerable children's lives and to build a fulfilling and meaningful career with a leading UK children's charity.
The Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s National Academy, is an educational charity that provides public benefit throughout Scotland through a diverse range of activity including awarding research funding, informing public policy and delivering events across Scotland to inspire knowledge and learning. The RSE is on a journey of change to enhance its impact and reach and has an exciting opportunity for a marketing officer to support the development and lead on the delivery of the RSE’s marketing activities.
Working closely with, and reporting to, the Head of Communications, your key responsibilities in this role will be to:
- Develop and lead marketing campaigns for the RSE public engagement, awards and venue teams’ activities across traditional and digital platforms
- Co-ordinate and deliver designed materials for marketing campaigns
- Engage with internal / external stakeholders and contractors to raise RSE profile
- Collaborate and support on RSE 2020 summer exhibition
- Maintain communication planning systems to manage trafficking and delivery
- Produce reports for marketing and other activity
- Prepare copy for range of internal and external publications
Requirements
The successful candidate will have relevant experience in leading and managing high quality marketing campaigns, excellent written and oral communication skills to engage with people in a creative and interactive way, excellent organisational skills and experience of working within a similar environment.
Marketing & Events Officer
- Full time
- £30,936 – £34,002
- Saracen House, 139 Saracen Street, Glasgow G22 5AZ
- Closing 13th March 2020
SHARE Is looking for an enthusiastic, energetic, quick-thinking Marketing & Events Officer, someone full of ideas and with a passion for marketing who is going to help SHARE grow and develop.
Reporting to the Marketing & Events Manager, you will develop and co-ordinate the marketing and promotion of SHARE’s learning & development services and you will help plan, organise and oversee SHARE’s events including its annual conference.
You will need to be highly motivated and able to work with minimal supervision. You must be able to multi-task and manage a complex workload. You should have excellent marketing and event management skills and be able to take an imaginative and creative approach to your work, including developing new services for changing markets.
About SHARE
SHARE is the learning and development organisation for Scotland's housing associations and co-operatives. Through a combination of accredited courses, training, events and organisational development, SHARE helps ensure staff and Committee/Board members have the knowledge and skills to deliver quality services, carry out the critical oversight of the business and are equipped to tackle today’s and tomorrow’s challenges.