Become part of People’s Postcode Lottery’s team!

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a forward-thinking, dynamic organisation where we understand that people are our greatest asset. Perhaps that’s why our team voted us one of the Sunday Times Top 100 best companies to work for in 2019! Our core values are fun, sharing, courageous and sustainable which are reflected in everything we do.

We recognise and reward hard work and performance, offering a variety of benefits and career progression opportunities. This includes a generous pension and private healthcare scheme, an above average holiday allowance of 36 days, your birthday off, discounted gym membership and fresh fruit in the office! We encourage you to spend two days each year volunteering with our charity partners and we are committed to investing 4% of salaries into training each year.

What we do?

As one of the world’s top fundraising private charity donors, giving to good causes is our mission. We manage multiple society lotteries promoted by different charities supporting a wide range of causes. Since 2005, our players have raised more than £950 million for over 9,000 charities and good causes across Great Britain and internationally.

Role Summary

Charities are at the heart of the organisation and this position is crucial in helping to deliver the wide-ranging, exciting and incredible work funded by our players.

We are committed to ensuring that our players remain connected with the causes they help support. As a funder, we also remain faithful to our funding principles and ensure that we are an enlightened partner in our efforts to make the world a better place for people and planet.

This role will work across 6 Community Programmes grant making Trusts which support smaller charities and good causes across GB. These trusts are People’s Postcode Trust, Postcode Community Trust, Postcode Local Trust, Postcode Neighbourhood Trust, Postcode Places Trust and Postcode Society Trust.

Our players have raised more than £950 million for more than 9000 charities and good causes and this is anticipated to increase in the years ahead. With this growth comes greater responsibility. We are committed to ensuring that our players remain connected with the causes they help support. As a funder, we also remain faithful to our funding principles and ensure that we are an enlightened partner in our efforts to make the world a better place for planet and people.

This is an exciting time in the charities team. The right candidate will have experience in administration and an understanding of the charity sector, you must be able to learn quickly and be able to adapt to the demands of this role.

Key Activities

• Answer enquiries from good causes by email, letter and telephone. This includes providing advice on our funding programmes and supporting applicants, including those that may be very disappointed that they have been unsuccessful
• Maintain the Trust websites and social media to ensure content is accurate and up to date
• Booking and setting up meeting rooms, including refreshments as required
• Use Salesforce effectively, efficiently and consistently to update records and run reports
• Provide up to date and relevant content on supported charities for all areas of the business
• Coordinate GB/international field trip preparations
• Arrange travel and accommodation for the team as required
• Assessing project and unrestricted applications ranging from £500 - £25,000 in value including analysing project budgets provided in application forms
• Support the Community Programmes team with general administration
• Assisting in organising ‘how to apply for funding’ workshop including presenting to potential applicants in front of audiences of up to 100 people
• Support the preparation and provision of papers required for the Board through Convene and take meeting minutes
• Support team delivery of special projects, including organising events
• Performing due diligence checks on organisations applying for funding including analysing annual financial accounts and governing documentation
• Processing funding agreements and financial documentation from funded organisations
• Undertake any other admin duties as required to support the Charities Team
• Processing evaluation forms from supported organisations

Required Skills

• Good oral and written communication skills, able to take minutes, draft reports and correspondence and prepare presentations
• Voluntary sector experience/ A good knowledge of the charity sector in Great Britain
• Ability to design new processes and documents
• Analytical and problem-solving skills and the confidence to make decisions within the parameters defined by the Community Programmes Advisor
• Working under pressure, managing own workload and juggling priorities
• A strong team player able to work effectively with others
• Experience of Salesforce or a customer database
• Working knowledge of Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Personal Attributes

• Experience in a similar role
• Extremely organised and able to manage a complex workload and tight deadlines
• Creative, pro-active approach bringing forward new ideas to engage colleagues or improve processes
• Experience assessing funding applications
• Ability to take on feedback and make changes pro-actively
• Must be passionate about charities / good causes
• Experience reviewing accounts and governing documents
• Strong presentation skills

Additional Information

Whilst the core hours of the role will be 37.5 hours per week, worked Monday – Friday 9am – 5:30pm, working out with these hours will be required around event times, where necessary time will be given in lieu.

*The successful candidate’s salary will be determined in line with their skills and experience. New employees are normally appointed at the lower end of the salary scale and potential candidates should not expect to be appointed above the midpoint of the salary scale.

The Citizens Advice network in Scotland is the largest independent advice service in the country. Citizens Advice Scotland is a charity within this network – we act as a national organisation supporting and representing the service as a whole and the interests of citizens. At the heart of the network there are 59 individual citizens advice bureau across Scotland, all operating as independent charities in their own right, which focus on providing support and advice directly to clients. Each of these organisations is a member of Citizens Advice Scotland. We believe that every citizen should have access to free, impartial and confidential advice that helps them make informed decisions, whenever they need it and however, they choose to access it.

Our vision is for a Fairer Scotland where everyone has the advice and information they need to realise their rights, and that the barriers to accessing those rights are effectively challenged.

Citizens Advice Scotland runs a series of national specialist services as projects which require centralised project support. You will work as an integral part of the national projects team, with your primary role being to support the continuous improvement, evaluation and review as well as the future execution and delivery of projects through proactive engagement, communication, planning and reporting with participating member organisations of Citizens Advice Scotland and other key stakeholders

As the Project Engagement Officer, you will ensure regular collaborative communication with both external and internal stakeholders on matters relating to service delivery and reporting, service development and changes, new projects and related implementation,. You will foster a member-focused culture, and support colleagues to communicate and engage members effectively on related matters.

This role offers you the opportunity to work at the heart of supporting Scotland's largest independent advice network and to make an invaluable contribution to citizen’s lives.

Employee benefits

Citizens Advice Scotland offers excellent terms and conditions. We want our people to have a great work life balance and we have designed our working practices and benefits to support this. Here are some of things our employees benefit from: a 35-hour full time working week, 40 days annual leave, genuine flexibility in working hours with a flexi-time system, and blended/hybrid working opportunities for every role.

Citizens Advice Scotland is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies and flexible working arrangements to support all our staff. We are also committed to equality of opportunity for all and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

CAS provides options for blended working to allow employees to balance their time attending the office with time working from home. The number of days you will be able to work from home each week will be dependent on your job role and can be discussed as part of the recruitment process.

Humanist Society Scotland is looking for someone with a proven talent for engaging and effective communications. The successful candidate will lead the wide-reaching communications of Scotland’s national charity for people seeking an ethical, rational and secular future. This is an exciting role that focuses on the Society’s aim to grow awareness of

Humanism in Scotland to new audiences, as well as focussing on our key campaigns and ensuring the public are aware of the services offered by the Society.

As part of a small team of national staff, the Communications Manager is responsible for managing all communications and marketing activities, both at a strategic level and on a day-to-day basis.

Humanist Society Scotland offer benefits of 6% employers pension contributions, 35 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time), winter flu jab and telephone counselling care.

Key responsibilities

• Develop new strategies and projects to increase knowledge and understanding of Humanism in Scotland.
• Plan and implement Humanist Society Scotland media strategy, with defined objectives and measurable outcomes.
• Supervise the production of content for all communication channels, including website, social media, magazine, podcast, campaign communications and supporter e-newsletter.
• Oversight of digital marketing and online messaging to strengthen knowledge of brand and work of the Society.
• Plan and arrange annual member and supporter in-person conference and other ad-hoc online events.
• Contribute to the production of content as required.
• Identify, plan and deliver effective online and offline campaigns that contribute to our strategic goals and objectives.
• Manage press and media activity, including working proactively with partners, internal and external stakeholders to boost awareness of the Society and its work.
• Drive fundraising activities and membership recruitment
• Line management responsibilities

Person Specification

Essential

• Minimum of five years of professional experience in communication and/or marketing / digital marketing.
• Experience of policy/campaign and/or public awareness campaigning.
• Ability to design communications that will recruit, engage and motivate members, supporters and other key stakeholders.
• Experience of working with the press and media.
• Experience of successful social media usage to promote a brand/organisation
• Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal.
• Ability to represent Humanist Society Scotland with the press/media.
• Ability to work flexibly and independently in response to rapidly changing external events.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Strong planning and strategy skills.
• Experience of project management.
• Strong computer, web and social media skills.
• Interest in Humanism and sympathy with aims and objectives of the organisation.

Desirable

• Experience of developing and implementing media strategy.
• Experience of managing budgets.
• Experience of fundraising.
• Experience of working in the charitable sector.
• Experience of using a CRM system.
• Relevant training/qualification.

The Alasdair Gray Archive (AGA) was created in 2020. We are registering for a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO). The AGA exists to enhance the reputation and understanding of one of Scotland’s most significant artists & writers of the 20th century, and through his legacy support others to fulfil their potential within the creative sector and beyond.

This year we published our Organisational Strategy and now is the right time for us to start shaping our board. We would love to find people who share our values and who have the capacity to help us grow the AGA over the next 2 years into a progressive centre for learning and a cultural destination within Glasgow. If you reflect our values and want to work in an open, responsive and exciting way then read on!

AGA has been led by me, Sorcha Dallas, for the last 2 years. I worked closely with Alasdair for 14 years where I managed and protected his visual archive. I captured Alasdair’s vision for the posthumous management and legacy of his archive, which drives and shapes the AGA to this day. I am looking for people who can help shape the future of AGA and maximise the potential of Alasdair’s legacy and enable growth in focused, collaborative and transparent ways. We need help to embed our governance structure, policy development, setting strategic goals and helping us grow our organisation in ambition and scale. We are keen for you to tell us about yourself and in practical terms how you identify and prioritise areas that will make the most difference.

If you’re passionate about the development and delivery of major Public Engagement programme activities, managing independent and collaborative events with eminent partners, then this is the role you have been looking for.

The RSE is looking for an ambitious Public Engagement Officer to join the team, working closely with the Public Engagement manager and key stakeholders. You will deliver a programme of activities to inspire audiences, stimulate debate, and educate the public through promoting our mission to ‘make knowledge useful’.

As Scotland’s National Academy with over 1600 Fellows from academia, business and public service who are among the most distinguished in their fields; we engage and connect nationally and internationally to share knowledge and tackle the most pressing challenges of the modern world.

We are looking for a talented individual to:

• Supporting the planning, co-ordination and delivery of RSE Public Engagement activities (both online and in person), specifically the RSE Signature Event series, partnership events and aspects of the Curious summer programme.
• Producing and processing forms and communications for events, attending internal and external meetings/events, researching methods of engagement and target audiences, liaison with RSE Fellows and organisational partners.
• Liaising with the RSE Communications team to support appropriate marketing of activities and the creation of suitable outputs to maximise the impact and profile of public engagement activities.
• Work on income and expenditure sheets for individual Public Engagement Events to ensure spend is compatible with budget and forecast.
• Provide advice and support to other RSE teams to allow them to deliver their public engagement activities
• Maintain files and records of RSE activities, ensuring RSE databases are kept up to date, in accordance with RSE policy.
• Carry out effective evaluation of activities, writing impact reports and analysing data to help generate improvements.
• To input to current strategies and business change across the team and organisation
• To provide support to the Public Engagement Manager, when required
• To keep up to date with emerging practices in public engagement and changes in legislation.

Role Requirements attached below.

This is who we are

The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow is a worldwide community of inspiring health professionals working together to advance the profession and improve patient care. At a time when the health service faces great challenges, we are determined to make a positive difference, and are passionate about speaking up for the profession. We play an active leadership role in influencing and shaping healthcare policy.

Our community is made up of the expertise and experience of our 15,000+ outstanding, hardworking members, supported by over 100 College staff and volunteer lay advisors. College staff work with clinicians, who give their time freely to the work of the College to provide an innovative and inspiring programme of activity across the College.

We are a global and inclusive organisation with members working across medicine, surgery, dental surgery, travel medicine and podiatric medicine. Many of our members are actively involved as educators, examiners and ambassadors for the College.

Role and Responsibilities

The College would like to recruit new Lay Advisors for six committees –

Fellowship Committee

Faculty of Podiatric Medicine Executive Board

Faculty of Travel Medicine Executive Board

Inclusion Advisory Group

Surgical Education Board

Surgical Exams Board

In particular we would like to recruit new members to increase the diversity of these committees and examiners in terms of demographics and knowledge of areas such as:

· Gender equality

· Ethnicity

· Age

· Inclusion and diversity

The role of a Lay Advisor is to provide non-medical input and perspective into the discussions and decision making of College committees and boards which support the charitable purposes of College.

Lay Advisors contribute to the openness, diversity and transparency of College affairs. Lay Advisors are not patients or public representatives.

The main responsibilities of the volunteer Lay Advisors shall be to: -

• Provide lay representation on one or more of the collegiate committees and boards

• Provide, as requested by the College’s committees and representatives, individual and collective lay input on matters relating to the work of the College and primarily in line with College’s key aims and objectives as detailed in the strategic plan.

• Represent, when required, the College on intercollegiate committees when specific lay representation is required.

• Comment on and/or respond to appropriate health related consultations and/or papers, policy documents from a lay perspective as directed by the Honorary Secretary and in line with the consultation process. The details of which are contained within the Terms of Reference for the Lay Advisory Group.

• Provide a pool of lay members who may, if required, serve on other professional medical bodies associated with the College e.g. Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) Patient Liaison Group.

• Provide a potential source of lay examiners for College and intercollegiate examinations.

• Identify members to contribute to any Lay Advisory Panel(s) i.e. reference group which may be established, from time to time, to deal with specific matters of importance/areas of expertise as and when required.

• Contribute to discussion and debate, within College, both directly and indirectly on matters which are of interest to the College and the wider general public.

• Respond to relevant requests from the Executive Board or College Council asking for comment.

Lay Advisor Person Specification

• No formal educational qualifications are necessary

• Genuine interest in training, health and social issues

• Good communication skills. Able to work effectively with people in groups and in formal meetings

• Ability to challenge, constructively, the views and assumptions of others

• Able to maintain confidentiality appropriate to the circumstances

• Willingness and/or experience to participate in and provide input to a wide range of public policy and health related consultations

• Able to attend College committee/board meetings– typically 3-4 times per year

• Able to attend Lay Advisory Group meetings – typically 3 per annum. Meetings are held in the College in Glasgow and normally run from 5:30pm until 7:30pm

Eligibility Criteria

• Lay Advisors must not be qualified in either medicine, dentistry, nursing, podiatry or travel medicine

• The current or immediate past employment of a Lay Advisor must not give rise to any potential conflicts of interest.

Remuneration

• The post of Lay Advisor is voluntary, however, expenses incurred in carrying out the role of Lay Advisor will be reimbursed in line with the College Travel and Expenses policy.

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