An exciting opportunity has come up for a Community Fundraiser for Scotland. You will be joining a team of home-based relational fundraisers who are committed to delivering the very best fundraising and support.

Working independently as well as being a key member of a high-performing fundraising team, you will have proven experience of successful community fundraising and volunteer management. Using your insight, creativity, and innovation you will develop and deliver a programme of successful and sustainable fundraising activity/ campaigns and relationships within the region.

Your role will be to deliver high levels of stewardship to a variety of volunteers, supporters, and community events and to identify, develop, and support fundraising opportunities to maximise fundraising activity and income, whilst significantly raising regional profile to grow core income and supporter/donor involvement.

You will be responsible for the management and development of volunteer community fundraisers. You will be using your exceptional stewardship skills to guide, support and retain volunteers, supporters, and donors by demonstrating in-depth knowledge and understanding of the supporter/donor journey.

You will be attending and representing Cystic Fibrosis Trust at meetings and events when required and using existing and new networks to maximize potential fundraising activities, whilst deepening supporter/donor relationships to drive further engagement and support.

You will be working towards increasing regional visibility through effective marketing and communication of fundraising activities using a variety of media including but not limited to digital, white copy (e.g., newsletters, posters etc.), telemarketing etc., balancing cost and expected impact.

This role will be home-based, and you will be required to travel to our London head office, throughout the region and the UK to support events, meetings and attend training workshops. A full, valid UK driving licence or access to the use of a car with business insurance is a requirement of this role.

Benefits include 30 days annual leave, flexible working and opportunities for learning and development.

Please note you will need to have the right to work in the UK before starting work for us and we will check this.

Cystic Fibrosis Trust welcomes applications from candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from people with cystic fibrosis, disabled people, and Black, Asian and minority ethnic and LGBTQI+ candidates.

Applicants must be a law graduate or have equivalent qualifications, be enthusiastic and socially aware with excellent communication skills. The post requires the ability to provide a dedicated free legal advice service and in-court representation to CAB clients in Stornoway and Lochmaddy Sheriff Courts and to provide support and assistance to CAB clients on a variety of issues, including: benefit appeals, debt, mortgage repossession, rent arrears and eviction, consumer, and employment.

This is a demanding position and good organisational skills are essential, as is experience in advice work and knowledge of computer systems and their applications.

Current full driving licence is desirable with access to a vehicle. The successful applicant will be required to travel throughout the Western Isles.

The Western Isles is a wonderful place to live and work. It is a tranquil safe place with excellent schools, great leisure facilities, unique culture, wildlife and amazing scenery. To find out more about living and working in the Outer Hebrides visit visitouterhebrides.co.uk

Intro

Carers Scotland is looking for a new Policy Officer to be a part of the charity’s extensive policy and public affairs work supporting unpaid carers. Carers Scotland is a leading charity working toward improving the health and wellbeing of carers and ensuring that carers get the support they need. To achieve this, we work closely with Scottish Government ministers, civil servants, MSPs from across all the political parties, other charities, and civic Scotland. With so much public policy directly impacting on unpaid carers this will be an exciting role with a chance to influence and deliver meaningful change for one of Scotland’s most undervalued and unrecognised groups.

About you

We are looking for someone with a passion for policy, research and politics in Scotland. You should be enthusiastic, eager to learn and ready to work hard both on your own and in support of others. You will be an excellent communicator, with strong attention to detail and the ability to learn new issues fast. The ability to work in a team and on your own initiative to tight deadlines will also be important.

About the role

This is a rare chance to join Carers Scotland as we develop our team toward the charity’s 60th anniversary in 2025.The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring that the voice of carers is heard in all public policymaking circles from Scottish Government to the Scottish Parliament working on Government policy, legislation and issues relating to unpaid care.

We are a truly inclusive team, we offer flexibility and we live and breathe our values. We are Attentive, Ambitious and Achievers.

Diversity and inclusion

Carers Scotland is committed to becoming a diverse and truly inclusive organisation. We strive to create a workplace where our colleagues and volunteers can truly be themselves and feel like they belong and constantly seek to ensure all voices are heard.

To embrace this culture of diversity, our employee and volunteer recruitment should reflect our stakeholders and the society that we serve and support, regardless of age, race, gender, sexual orientation, physical abilities, disabilities or religious practices. We value individual diversity and are actively building diverse teams here at Carers UK and value our colleagues from a wide range of backgrounds.

As a membership charity for carers, we particularly seek employees and volunteers with a real understanding of the issues faced by carers. Reasonable adjustments can be made to the process and role dependent on the needs of the applicant.

Background information

Clackmannanshire Citizens Advice Bureau, based in Alloa, is an independent and innovative advice organisation providing holistic advice to the residents of Clackmannanshire at the bureau premises and outreaches at various partner locations. We have been delivering a valuable, high level service to the community of Clackmannanshire for over 50 years, dealing with issues including benefits, debt, energy and housing. Last year we dealt with over 33,000 issues. We currently have 27 paid staff and 25 volunteers working to deliver the general advice service and our projects and as Board members.

All bureaux are members of Citizens Advice Scotland (the Scottish Association of CABx), and as such must meet specific conditions of membership related to standards of service and other matters. Each operates as an independent charity. This bureau is a limited company as well as a registered charity, governed by a board of directors/trustees.

We offer additional working benefits, such as 5% employer’s pension contribution, free membership of an employer health plan, annual performance related salary increases, a flexible working scheme, ability to buy and sell annual leave, an e-bike loan scheme and a retail perks scheme.

About the role

This is a new role which offers an exciting development opportunity for the right applicant. You will work as part of a dedicated team providing support to the finance and HR functions of the bureau. Working closely with the Finance and Personnel Officers you will ensure that we maintain high standards in administrative and financial processes. The Administration Officer will ensure that finance processes are accurate and that tasks are completed on time and that HR systems work effectively and staff and line managers are supported. The post holder will also assist with other resource management activities. This is an evolving role therefore responsibilities are expected to change as it develops.

We are looking for a self-motivated, conscientious individual who has attention to detail, excellent organisational skills and ability to act with confidentiality and discretion. They should be able to demonstrate relevant experience but training can be provided for a candidate with the required skills and attributes.

We’re looking for a Fund Manager to join our CashBack team!

The CashBack programme is a unique Scottish Government initiative which takes money seized from criminals under the proceeds of crime legislation and invests them in Scotland’s young people. The ideal candidate will have excellent leadership skills and the ability to demonstrate impact with multiple stakeholders including charity partners and funders.

Are you passionate about helping churches near you to remain open and thrive? If you can respond to enquiries and engage with stakeholders, you could make a massive difference to the churches, chapels and meeting houses in your nation or region by joining our team.

We're hiring 3 Support Officers to undertake delivery of our new National Lottery Heritage Funded Cherish project. Reporting to the new Support Project Manager, the post holders will work full-time on a three-year fixed-term contract overseeing the project in either Scotland, Wales, or North-West England. You will work within your country or region, but occasional travel to our London office will be expected.

Background

We want to keep churches open and in use. Churches, chapels and meeting houses are impressive, exciting and surprising places. Whether seeking quiet reflection, access to critical community services, a warm welcome, a place to worship, or a space to explore, we believe they should be loved and supported.

In partnership with the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Cherish project will support capacity building and improve the condition of places of worship across Scotland, Wales and North-West England (Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cumbria). Alongside the core work of grant programmes for proactive repairs and maintenance, the project will offer support to churches and their stakeholders.

Cherish has been funded thanks to National Lottery players and benefits to churches will include:

• Grants
• Maintenance
• Crisis support
• Resourcing
• Digital Toolkits
• Training
• Visitor engagement

The role

As a Support Officer, you'll manage the day-to-day work of the project in either Scotland, Wales or the North-West of England (Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cumbria) and support churches to engage with it. Responsibilities will include overseeing a small grants programme, running training events and sector meetings, supporting churches with building and project enquiries and helping them on their development journey, raising the profile of maintenance, supporting church tourism and open church initiatives, writing content for the website, advocating the wider work of the Charity and identifying lessons learnt to share nationwide.

If you think that you are the ideal candidate for this role, we'd love to hear from you!

This is an exciting time to join the dynamic Community and Events Fundraising Team as a Community Fundraiser. A key driver within our charity’s strategy is that we fight diabetes together to achieve our vision of a world where diabetes can do no harm. As a Community Fundraiser, you will play a crucial role in delivering our exciting plans for growth to help us achieve this.

We have a friendly and inclusive working environment here at Diabetes UK and are proud of our hybrid approach which allows great flexibility in the way that we work. This means that you can balance your working time between home and the office, subject to the needs of your role.

Interview date: W/C 19 June 2023 (via MS Teams)

Role Responsibility

As one of our regionally dispersed Community Fundraiser’s, you’ll be joining a busy team, where you will manage relationships with our key supporters with the primary purpose of generating income across a geographical area, through community fundraising activities. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering income targets across the region by building strong relationships with individuals, local companies, community groups and volunteers, in line with our community fundraising strategy. You will also be responsible for the management of local third-party events in your region and in providing excellent stewardship to those supporters.

This role is home-based with regular travel across the region. There will also be regular travel to Diabetes UK offices for meetings.

The Ideal Candidate

You’ll be able to demonstrate a track record of meeting income targets through relationship fundraising. You’ll be experienced in building and maintaining relationships with supporters and colleagues. A proactive person, you’ll be self-motivated and able to work independently with a solution focussed approach. As an experienced fundraiser, you’ll be skilled in managing income and expenditure budgets and financial reporting. It is desirable that you have managed large third-party events before, however training will be provided, if not.

Role and Service Profile

Time 4 Us works across Forth Valley providing support to children, young people and families who have been impacted by substance use. The service aims to increase parenting capacity and enhance children’s self-esteem, confidence, and resilience, whilst supporting families to make positive choices. Time 4 Us aims to assist families to stay together, where it is in a child or young person’s best interest to do so.

Time 4 Us also offers an Early Intervention Service across Forth Valley responding to low level concerns, which have come to the attention of Police Scotland about children, young people, and families where substance use, mental health and other difficulties have been identified. We understand that from time-to-time family life can have its complications and in these times of crisis we offer early help to address the presenting challenges or problems being experienced.

The Senior Practitioner will oversee both the children, young people, and families Core Service and the Early Intervention Service.

Organisational Profile

Transform Forth Valley is a Scottish based registered charity limited by guarantee (SC033772).

Transform Forth Valley is governed by a Board of Directors and is strategically led, managed, and operated on a day-to-day basis by a Corporate Leadership Team consisting of a Chief Executive, Operational and Corporate Service Managers.

Transform Forth Valley offer a wide range of services to support individuals and families who are impacted by inequality, whether this be societal, financial or in relation to their health.

Transform Forth Valley is dedicated to empowering individuals and families to live a more fulfilled life. We work with partners to actively challenge inequalities and to achieve sustainable change.

You can find out more about Transform Forth Valley here: transformfv.org.uk.

Benefits:

Leave – For full time employees Transform Forth Valley offer 30 days of Annual Leave plus 9 days of Statutory Holiday per annum.

Pension – If eligible Transform Forth Valley will auto enrol you into our pension scheme where we will contribute 5%, and employee’s a minimum of 3%, of your pensionable salary.

Flexible Day – Non-Statutory Scheme – Transform Forth Valley offers a voluntary scheme where you can opt in to work extra hours to accrue a Flexible Day off every 4 weeks.

Wellbeing Days – For permanent members of staff, who have completed their probationary period, Transform Forth Valley offer two day’s paid leave of absence per annum as a ‘wellbeing day’ to support positive mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing for staff.

Death in Service Insurance – If eligible Transform Forth Valley will place you into the scheme upon commencement of employment and the lump sum benefit is 4 x Basic Annual Salary.

The Big Hoose Project was established in December 2021 to support children and families experiencing poverty across Fife with essential household items. We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated, highly committed and customer-focused Distribution Centre Manager to join our friendly and dynamic team.

The position would suit someone with experience in delivering outstanding customer service and leading people in a warehouse environment incorporating both inbound and outbound operations.

Responsibilities

• Engage, direct and support a small team to safely and efficiently receive, sort, check and pack customer orders for collection
• Develop processes and independently identify opportunities to improve the customer journey and operational efficiency
• Maintain and develop positive relationships with customers, suppliers, volunteers and visitors

Requirements

• Experience in customer facing roles across operations / supply chain / logistics / e-commerce or similar
• Ability to lead and motivate people in a fast paced, dynamic and customer-focused environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication, decision making, coaching and personal development skills.
• Experience of using and analysing data using Excel, and maintaining accurate stock records

What We Offer

• An opportunity to work in a very rewarding environment where you will see first-hand, the benefits that the project delivers on a daily basis
• An opportunity to receive mentorship and support from some of Fife’s leading business people and community leaders with a wide wealth of experience
• The potential for further career advancement in delivering this model and blueprint to other parts of the country accumulating in the potential for area/regional leadership and training others in the Distribution Centre Manager role

Order of Malta Dial-a-Journey Trust is a charitable organisation in the Community Transport Sector of the passenger transport industry. We safely provide over 30,000 passenger trips on our vehicles every year.

We deliver a range of transport services from our Door to Door passenger transport service for those who are unable to use conventional public transport, to social services transport; additional needs school transport and further education transport for local colleges.

We also assist the NHS in delivering patient transport, and provide transport for a number of voluntary organisations who aim to support others in local communities. We offer a self-drive vehicle hire service as well as driver training and assessment.

In addition we deliver the Shopmobility wheelchair loan and hire schemes on behalf of Stirling and Falkirk Councils from our bases in Falkirk’s Howgate Centre and Stirling Bus Station.

We re-invest any income generated in expanding our range of services and meeting unmet needs in the communities we serve.

The Job

Following a recent Organisational Review Order of Malta Dial-a-Journey Trust (Dial-a-Journey) is looking to recruit an experienced Office Supervisor to strengthen our Support Team

The Office Supervisor will be responsible for supporting the Finance and Service Delivery Manager and Chief Executive in delivering a consistently customer focused passenger transport service and internal support function.

Key responsibilities of the post will include the effective allocation of drivers and vehicles to the appropriate services while ensuring that demand is met and delivery standards are achieved.

The post holder will provide the necessary support and direction for a team of back office staff while ensuring the administrative infrastructure supports the safe and legal operation of all services while maintaining accurate recording systems to enable the Senior Management Team to provide accurate and timeous reports to funders and other stakeholders.

The post holder will undertake 1st line supervisory responsibilities for staff in our head office and 2 Shopmobility bases in Falkirk and Stirling.

The Working Environment

This is a key post in what can be a fast moving environment where the candidate needs to be able to be a self-starter with the ability to think on their feet while solving problems within very tight timescales. The Office Supervisor will be expected to lead, direct and support team members.

Every time a customer engages with us, they are wholly reliant on our staff meeting their expectations all the way through their journey with us. Although this is achieved through teamwork, the Office Supervisor will be the person that leads and gives clear direction to team members to ensure we meet customer expectations.

As a team we all accountable to our service users, funders and each other. Dial-a-Journey’s success and reputation has been built by providing caring and compassionate services for 35 years and the Service Delivery Supervisor will be key to continuing this.

Our environment is currently changing, and we’re looking to improve on our interactions with service users and funders over the coming year, by introducing new scheduling systems, reviewing our social media presence and reviewing our internal support systems.

At the present time, specific duties relating to this and other posts are under review as part of a general restructure as a result of the above and the Service Delivery Supervisor will play a key part in reviewing and allocating tasks. Therefore this is an excellent opportunity to join us at a time where you will have an opportunity to contribute to making these positive changes.