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Edinburgh and Lothian Trust Fund SCIO is a long-established grant making charity whose purpose is the prevention and relief of poverty in Edinburgh and the Lothians. We operate a number of funding streams providing support to individuals and families as well as a fund for small local charities who share our aims.

We are recruiting for a Trust Administrator due to the retirement of our longstanding Administrator. We are looking for a candidate with strong understanding of and commitment to reducing poverty and inequality who is able to work on their own initiative. The role is extremely varied ranging from assessing and deciding on funding applications to advising the Charity Trustees on policy and strategy. Key responsibilities include:

• Managing the grant application processes

• Supporting Trustees meetings including drafting minutes and agendas and writing papers

• Managing grant expenditure against budget

• Developing new areas of income to enable the Trust to meet growing demand for grants

• Building partnerships with referring agencies and other trusts

Previous experience of grant making is desirable but not essential.

The Dunblane Development Trust (DDT), a community development trust based in Dunblane, is seeking a part time Volunteer Co-ordinator to support and take forward our work with volunteers.

Our activities are almost entirely managed and carried out by volunteers mainly through the operation of our working groups which cover a range of activities from environmental, handy person and supporting vulnerable members of our community.

We currently have nearly 200 volunteers from all walks of life. We are now looking to expand both the numbers of volunteers we have, the types and range of volunteering opportunities available to people, and through our volunteers, expand the services which we can provide to the local community. This post, funded through Big Lottery, will allow us to progress our ideas.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed person to work alongside the board and our working group leaders.

Age Scotland is the national charity for older people. We work to improve the lives of everyone over the age of 50 so that they can love later life.

We support and enable hundreds of community and older people’s groups across Scotland. We provide information, friendship and advice through our free helpline and publications. We tackle loneliness and isolation with our Community Connecting Service and much more.

We work in Scotland with older people’s groups who provide vital activities and services for older people in their local community. We campaign on the issues that older people tell us are important to them.

Our HR team are looking for a part-time HR & Payroll Administrator to:

• Support the HR Adviser & Head of Resources (HoR) with all administration associated with the employee life cycle from recruitment through to end of employment.

• Provide an effective and efficient administrative support function to ensure smooth and effective customer service is delivered to both internal staff and external clients in compliance with the Charity’s policy and procedures.

• Support the HR Adviser and HoR with monthly payroll and pensions processing for the Charity and its subsidiaries, in line with agreed SLAs.

The post will be a blend of office based (in Edinburgh) and home based work.

Due to the Covid outbreak in the UK, we have adapted our way of working in an effort to ensure the ongoing delivery of services, while minimising risk to our employees. Depending on guidance from the Scottish Government regarding the lifting of lockdown restrictions, this role may initially be completely home based, incorporating office work and face to face contact when it is safe to do so.

Deafblind Scotland is a specialist charity working with adults living with dual sensory impairment. Our ambitions are high for members and we are therefore at the cutting edge of finding ways to support people to lead their most meaningful life.

The Touching Lives Take 2 (TLT2) project is a peer-led approach to addressing the social isolation experienced by many older adults living with deafblindness. TLT2 will enable deafblind people to acquire the necessary skills to become trainers in 1) deafblind awareness and 2) deafblind manual communication/guiding.

The Deafblind awareness and deafblind manual communication/guiding workshops will be provided to groups and organisations whose membership or remit supports the wellbeing of older people within Fife and East Dunbartonshire.

The Project Officer will work with a steering group of deafblind people to market, plan and deliver peer lead deafblind awareness training within East Dunbartonshire. The successful candidate will support the training of deafblind people as well as identifying suitable groups, partners and organisations to receive the Deafblind awareness training. The project officer will co-ordinate and manage all aspect of delivery within East Dunbartonshire and implement a monitoring strategy ensuring all project aims and objectives are met.

Age Scotland is the national charity for older people. We work to improve the lives of everyone over the age of 50 so that they can love later life.

We support and enable hundreds of community and older people’s groups across Scotland. We provide information, friendship and advice through our free helpline and publications. We tackle loneliness and isolation with our Community Connecting Service and much more.

We work in Scotland with older people’s groups who provide vital activities and services for older people in their local community. We campaign on the issues that older people tell us are important to them.

Will you help us to achieve this by becoming a member of our team?

We are currently recruiting a Telephony Assistant Manager to line manage, lead, and motivate the Age Scotland Telephony Services Team. Providing support, training and development to a team of information, advice and friendship advisors.

You will support the Telephony Manager in the development of new systems and partnerships.

We are looking for someone with current or recent supervision and line management experience in a call centre environment and who is customer and people centric. You will have the ability to support and help develop new partnerships to enhance and expand telephony systems and processes. While previous knowledge of information and advice subjects is not a pre-requisite, you will be expected to understand what information resources are available and how to access them in order to support your team and clients with complex queries.

An opportunity has arisen to join VSA as a Trust and Foundation Co-ordinator.

This is an interesting time to be joining the organisation as we are in the planning stages of shaping the provision of our future services, which includes re-designing, expanding, and opening new services to enable us to support more vulnerable children and adults living across the North East of Scotland. Models of social care are rapidly evolving, and we aim to be at the forefront of transforming services to deliver better outcomes for the people who need and use our services.

VSA operate across the full spectrum of social care and support children, young people, adults and older adults. We support people from birth to end of life across a range of residential and community-based outreach support services. Now more than ever, more people need our help and support.

This role is pivotal to our ambitions' of driving forward our position as a leading provider of social care services. We seek a highly skilled and creative storyteller who can write compelling grant funding bids. The role is responsible for securing funding from a wide range of sources and will involve taking ownership of securing funding to support a wide range of projects across the organisation.

You will be building relationships with funders, writing applications, networking and providing first-class stewardship to a range of stakeholders. You will need a track record of raising significant funds from trusts and experience of multi-million-pound bids.

You will have excellent communication skills and an ability to assess impact, costs, and added value.

Our latest annual report can be viewed here:https://issuu.com/vsa1870/docs/421707_vsa__annual_review_2020_draft_071020_issuu

A Job Description is available for download below.

We are seeking a Service Manager who will take responsibility for the management and co-ordination of our busy independent advocacy service which covers the whole of Dumfries and Galloway. Independent Advocacy is about helping to support people to express their thoughts and wishes and ensure that their views are expressed clearly. We support clients with mental health issues, intellectual disability, physical disability, older adults, families at risk and much more. We carry out this work through paid staff and volunteers and part of this role will be to supervise, train and support the independent advocates.

Rocket Science is a specialist research and consultancy organisation focusing on poverty and welfare, health and social care, and employability and skills. We work across the UK from our three offices in Edinburgh, Newcastle and London. We work closely with our clients including central and local government, charities and community organisations to review and evaluate services, conduct social research including understanding needs, exploring lived experience, setting strategies and governance structures and conducting quantitative impact analysis such as cost benefit analysis and SROI.

We are looking for a consultant to join our Edinburgh and Newcastle Team to support contracts across the UK. We are looking for an enthusiastic team member with experience in research, social research, or in one of our specialist areas. This post will be based in either our Edinburgh or Newcastle office depending on the preference of the successful candidate.

We are now looking for a consultant to join our Edinburgh/Newcastle team. Our Edinburgh and Newcastle based staff work closely together to support primarily Scottish and NE England contracts but also participate in projects across the UK.

We offer a highly supportive work environment centred around an intent based leadership approach that empowers Rocket Scientists to be leaders in everything they do. In 2019 we were accredited at Gold level as both Investors in People and Investors in Young People. We were one of the first companies to sign up to the Scottish Business Pledge and we are an accredited Living Wage employer.