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We are seeking to appoint a new Chair of the Board of Directors. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society is both a registered charity and a registered company and benefits from the strategic leadership of a board that comprises up to 17 individuals from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences, three quarters of whom are elected from the Society’s membership. This represents a unique opportunity for an exceptional individual to guide the organisation that supports the world’s greatest platform for freedom of expression.

The Fringe Society is committed to ensuring the Fringe is open, accessible, diverse, equitable, inclusive and affordable for everyone. We are encouraging people from all backgrounds to apply as we really want the Fringe Society – and the wider Fringe – to reflect these values.

Basis of appointment

The Chair of the Board is appointed by the board of directors, on the recommendation of the appointments committee. Appointment will be made at the Fringe Society’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in August 2020, for an initial period of four years. The current Chair is Professor Sir Timothy O’Shea, who has chaired the organisation since 2012.

The role

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society is a registered charity and is governed by its constitution and the board of directors. All potential directors should read the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) guidance on being a trustee – this sets out the legal duties of a charity director in Scotland. The guidance from OSCR provides clear and detailed insight into the liabilities, responsibilities and best practice for all charity directors.

Roles and responsibilities

It is the responsibility of all Fringe Society directors to:

• Ensure the mission statement of the Fringe Society is upheld.
• Establish the strategic vision of the Fringe Society.
• Set the medium and long-term strategy and structure of the Fringe Society.
• Appoint the Chief Executive of the Fringe Society.
• Effectively delegate operation of the Fringe Society to the executive.
• Exercise financial accountability to stakeholders and constituents.
• Exercise accountability for the actions of the Fringe Society to the public.
• Uphold the core values of the Fringe Society and reflect the Fringe in a positive way.
• Advocate for the Fringe Society and the Fringe in an impartial manner on a local, national and international platform.

Please see our website for more details: edfringe.com/learn/jobs/413

This role is responsible for coordinating service delivery for The Bike Station in Perth. Supported by the Senior Management team, you will ensure the successful day to day delivery of The Bike Station activity including, refurbishment and sale of donated bikes, the coordination and delivery of training and Fix Your Own sessions and the coordination and delivery of commercial and community events.

Duties and responsibilities

• Responsible for the administrative duties and tasks to support the day to day operations of the social enterprise and charity.
• Coordinate a smooth working environment through the management of IT and telephone infrastructure and support contracts.
• Oversee general maintenance and implement fire, health and safety recommendations.
• Assist in the coordination of regular training, events and activities hosted within The Bike Station.
• Provide high quality support to customers including the resolution and closure of complex queries with minimal supervision.
• Responsible for organising calendars, events and training for the staff team including coordinating training, Dr Bike, public and commercial events.
• Maintain good relationships with key stakeholders in the region, including suppliers, supporters, referral partners, customers and beneficiaries.
• Contribute to the development of operating procedures, under guidance from the Production Manager.
• Ensure best practice across all The Bike Stations systems especially with regard to data protection.
• Other duties as required.

Person Specification

Experience:

• Minimum of 4 years experience delivering administrative support, preferably within the retail or charity sector.
• Experience of coordinating projects and activities, and meeting targets and objectives within a strategic framework.
• Experience of managing external stakeholders and a demonstrated ability to cultivate and maintain good working relationships.
• High level of organisational skills with exceptional attention to detail and a thorough and systematic approach to diagnosing and solving problems.

Skills:

• Exceptional Administration skills
• Highly organised
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Initiative and problem solving
• Team working
• Conflict resolution
• Prioritising
• Ability to work under pressure

As part of the Senior Management team you will be responsible for ensuring The Bike Station achieves its commercial income targets. You will lead on the development of new business and sales opportunities, providing detailed information on clear commercial value. Responsible for the success of the Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee retail environments. In collaboration with the Senior Management team, provide direction and support to the on-site Coordinators to ensure the effective coordination of day to day activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement long term commercial income strategies in support of the charity’s overall strategic vision.
• Development of new business opportunities, demonstrating commercial value, a clear business case and how it furthers The Bike Station’s charitable objectives.
• Work in collaboration with Communications and Marketing Manager to support effective external communication and marketing strategies.
• Responsible for multi-site achievement of retail and sales targets across the organisation.
• Presentation of alternative sale options for refurbished bikes including pop-up sales, hub and spokes models.
• Development and maintenance of local partnerships including commercial, third sector and active travel stakeholders in Perth, Edinburgh and Dundee.
• In collaboration with the Production Manager develop, coordinate and deliver sales and new product training to the Production team.
• Oversee the activity of the Cycle Friendly Award Officers, developing new business opportunities as a result of their activity.
• Oversee the development, coordination and successful delivery of commercial offerings, including but not limited to commercial Dr Bike.
• Oversee the activity of local Coordinators, supporting the achievement of targets, delivering sales and new product training.
• In collaboration with the Senior Management team, provide direction and support to the on-site Coordinators to ensure the effective coordinators of day to day activities.
• Development of corporate partnerships to further our commercial and charitable objectives.
• Other duties as required.

Experience:

• Proven track record of a successful sales growth strategy within a local retail and sales
• Experience of developing new and commercial business opportunities
• Significant commercial experience within the bicycle trade (or equivalent) , including sales, and securing new products for sale
• Proven experience with accurate sales forecasting, costing and budgeting
• Strong partnership development, including from commercial, public and third sector organisation
• Experience of multi-site line management, motivating and supporting teams.
• Demonstrable experience of maintaining core organisational values when developing corporate partnership
• Good understanding of the third sector and the financial challenges within the sector

Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good financial acumen and commercial business sense
• An entrepreneurial approach
• Strong business minded individual with a desire to succeed in a fast-paced environment.
• Great interpersonal skills needed to understand dealers needs as well as develop and maintain positive working.
• Efficient time management is essential to effectively carry out the role.

The project manager is the person who is responsible for making sure a project is delivered on time, on budget and within scope. So, to be a good project manager, you’ll need to be a skilled planner with a real passion for organising people and resources.

All of the project’s stakeholders will look to the project manager to make sure what was promised will actually be delivered. This means you’ll need to manage expectations if issues crop up along the way, which may affect the delivery timeline or project costs.

We are looking for a responsible Project Manager to administer and organise all types of projects, from simple activities to more complex plans.

The Project Manager will manage a team of staff and volunteers, to ensure the smooth operation of Clyde Shopmobility, along with general administrative duties, like maintaining project documentation and handling financial queries.

Salary and hours

The Project Manager will work 35 hours each week, working on a flexible basis to accommodate the needs of the service. This may mean attending evening meetings or working on a Saturday. The salary will start at £24,000 per annum.

Responsibilities

• Create and deliver project work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
• Identify resources and assign responsibilities
• Manage day to day operational aspects of the projects
• Ensures project documents are complete, current and appropriately stored
• Works closely with relevant stakeholders to ensure effective and efficient implementation of the projects
• Understand basic revenue models, meets financial objectives by preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures
• Submits project status reports to stakeholders, review budgets, plans, anticipates and reacts to change

Skills and Qualities required

• Proven years of experience as a project manager or project coordinator
• Planning and organising
• Attention to Detail
• Communication and negotiation
• Budgeting
• Leadership
• Risk management and quality control
• Experience of working as part of a team
• Proficiency in appropriate software required for the position
• Experience in project management, from conception to delivery
• An ability to prepare appropriate documentation to comply with project regulations and requirements
• Solid organisational skills, including multitasking and time-management
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong service user-facing and teamwork skills
• Familiarity with risk management and quality assurance control
• Ability to assist in the preparation of grant applications

Foundation Scotland is an independent charity that provides funding to charities, social enterprises and community organisations. We do this on behalf of over 400 individuals, charitable trusts and companies.

Our Communities Team enables and empowers communities across Scotland to devise and implement their own strategies for local funds coming from a range of sources, notably community benefit arrangements with onshore wind farms. We provide fund governance, grant administration and related services for a range of commercial and community-sector clients, combined with a commitment to community-led approaches.

We are looking for a well organised, adaptable and motivated Administrator to join our South Scotland team.

Working closely with the Community Funds Manager and three Community Fund Coordinators the post will help ensure quality grant-making and fund distribution that serves clients and communities.

You will be the first point of contact for South Scotland grant application enquiries and implement a high volume of grant-making administration, working routinely with Salesforce and supporting ongoing systems innovation and development.

If you have excellent interpersonal, communication and IT skills, interest in grant-making and can work proficiently and with attention to detail – we’re keen to hear from you.

The post is based in our Gatehouse of Fleet office and involves a job-share arrangement with an already established job share partner.

Foundation Scotland offers a range of staff benefits including Pension Scheme, Life Assurance, 2 days volunteering per year (pro-rata), flexible working options and a progressive pay system.

Foundation Scotland is an independent charity that provides funding to charities, social enterprises and community organisations. We do this on behalf of over 400 individuals, charitable trusts and companies.

Our Communities Team enables and empowers communities across Scotland to devise and implement their own strategies for local funds coming from a range of sources, notably community benefit arrangements with onshore wind farms. We provide fund governance, grant administration and related services for a range of commercial and community-sector clients, combined with a commitment to community-led approaches.

We are looking for a well organised, adaptable and motivated Administrator to join our South Scotland team.

Working closely with the Community Funds Manager and three Community Fund Coordinators the post will help ensure quality grant-making and fund distribution that serves clients and communities.

You will be the first point of contact for South Scotland grant application enquiries and implement a high volume of grant-making administration, working routinely with Salesforce and supporting ongoing systems innovation and development.

If you have excellent interpersonal, communication and IT skills, interest in grant-making and can work proficiently and with attention to detail – we’re keen to hear from you.

The post is based in our Gatehouse of Fleet office and involves a job-share arrangement with an already established job share partner.

Foundation Scotland offers a range of staff benefits including Pension Scheme, Life Assurance, 2 days volunteering per year (pro-rata), flexible working options and a progressive pay system.

Advanced Procurement for Universities & Colleges Ltd (APUC) is the centre of procurement expertise and shared service provider for, and jointly owned by, all of Scotland’s Universities and Colleges, with offices in Stirling, Edinburgh and Glasgow, but with staff based throughout Scotland in member institutions.

Owing to ongoing organisational development, we are looking to expand our team. Successful candidates will be employed by APUC and work directly in client Institutions.

We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for a procurement administrator to work within a client University in Edinburgh providing a supporting role to the Procurement management team.

The purpose of the role is to assist in day-to-day supply chain / procurement management activities including tendering, contract management and managing e-procurement activity. The role will have a strong customer focus requiring daily engagement with University stakeholders and a requirement to work quickly and efficiently within the Procurement Team. This is a rare opportunity to work in a role that offers development opportunities to management level over time that can be worked on a part time basis. Experience of working in a procurement environment would be an advantage but strong organisation skills and attention to details are key.

Hours of work will be 20 hours per week over 5 days (4 hours per day). Whilst it is expected that the hours of work will cover the core times of 9.30am until 2.30pm or 10am until 3pm (assuming 1 hour for lunch), there is some flexibility around start and end times.

Desired skills for the role:

· Customer focused

· Excellent organisation & communication skills

· Proficient in the use of standard MS packages – MS Outlook, MS Excel, MS Word

· The ability to operate independently and effectively as well as being an integral member of the team

The above role offers competitive remuneration, a positive, flexible working environment and a HE/FE sector pension scheme with employee/employer contributions. APUC are an employee-centric organisation and offer a wide range of employee benefits including a generous annual leave entitlement.

In a nutshell

You will be part of the small and ambitious team at the Centre for Homelessness Impact, overseeing and delivering services and products that support the sector to use data and evidence to end homelessness.

‍Why is this role important for the Centre's work?

The Centre has three strategic priorities: filling the gaps in evidence and making it accessible; supporting evidence and data to be applied in practice; and mobilising a learning culture across the field. As the Centre’s Implementation and Product Lead, you will work across all three areas, helping the team to learn about the people who we serve (our core users are policy-makers, service commissioners, funders and practitioners in the field of homelessness and beyond) and making sure we design and build effective, accessible and user-centric products and services.

We are a What Works Centre that works with a startup spirit, and as a small team we strive to work in an open, collaborative, and optimistic way. The ideal team member would be someone who is comfortable hosting a user-testing session one day, facilitating a workshop with a local authority another day and working with a developer to build a new feature for our evidence tools on another.

The Centre for Homelessness Impact values both rigorous science and human-centred design, meaning we seek to combine great user experience with solid evidence throughout all of our work. As well as drawing on the expertise within our team, we collaborate with best-in-class partners such as IDEO, Johns Hopkins University, the Campbell Collaboration and the Behavioural Insights Team.

‍You will be responsible for:

Developing, operating and continually improving our evidence tools

Representing the voice of our users (i.e. policy-makers, service commissioners, funders and practitioners) on behalf of the team, and translating insights into opportunities for improvements to our products, programmes and overall offer to the field of homelessness

Planning, delivering and facilitating workshops with users, stakeholders and partners

Working with the Centre’s associates, freelance network and knowledge partners to bring in specialist expertise to support our work

Helping shape the Centre’s approach to implementation by anticipating the needs of our users

Collaborating with other What Works Centres to find opportunities to amplify our impact across policy fields

‍Your experience and skills:

You have 3-5 years of experience in a design-based role.

You have excellent project management skills, know when to challenge, when to listen, and when to lead. You'll be able to build relationships and juggle users, clients, sector leaders and the Centre’s partners. Above all, you get stuff done.

You’re a big picture thinker. You see opportunities where others see barriers, and you can confidently and optimistically articulate these opportunities to stakeholders and decision-makers.

You have a proven track record of delivering user-oriented solutions. You are passionate about uncovering user needs, identifying opportunities and translating them into products, services or programmes that meet those needs effectively.

You have experience delivering digital products or services, partnering with developers and designers, and leading product prioritisation and delivery of user-facing functionality. You are technically minded, and comfortable in technical conversations.

You think laterally, take inspiration from broad sources beyond the sectors you work in and approach the development of new solutions creatively.

You believe in the importance of using data and insights in decision-making.

‍Nice to have:

Expertise in visual design skills, including wireframing

Expertise in prototyping

Expertise in implementation science

We have live vacancies across various locations in Scotland. And they’ll be a steady flow of new vacancies released over the coming months. Please search for a job in your postcode by clicking apply, and if there’s not a job near you right now then remember to sign up for alerts and we’ll notify you when we have one in your community.

We’re looking for member pioneers to join Co-op, in communities across the country. In this unique role you’ll be focused on bringing people together to make a difference in your community. That means talking to Co-op members, colleagues in stores and funeral homes, and representatives of the many local causes we support. By building relationships with and connecting these people you’ll be the catalyst for new ideas, initiatives and projects that will make our communities better places to live.

We plan to have a member pioneer dedicated to each of our communities and you’ll be a part of this ambitious plan for a better future. Everything you do will contribute to our community plan, making sure we make the biggest impact possible across the UK by increasing community co-operation. It’s an opportunity to make a visible difference where you live, supported by an organisation with nearly 70,000 colleagues.

What you’ll do:

• develop an action plan to improve community wellbeing, aligned to key themes
• establish and run a local community forum, or make connections with one that already exists
• build a strong group of contacts locally, making use of social media platforms to help with listening to and getting involved in community conversation
• get activities off the ground and encourage lots of involvement from members in your community
• prioritise your time, making your hours count and focusing on opportunities to make the biggest difference

This role would suit someone who:

• has lots of enthusiasm with the ability to get things moving
• is interested in all things community focussed
• can inspire and motivate people through their communication style
• loves working with and connecting people
• can prioritise their time and remain focussed on a long term goal
• is confident using social media
• has good basic IT skills (ideally with experience using collaborative tools like the Google suite or Skype)
• is both committed and dedicated
• lives within or very close to the community you’ll support, detailed above

Why Co-op?

As a member pioneer you’ll have the chance to support local communities, making a visible difference by encouraging people to work together. As a Co-op colleague you’ll also receive a competitive salary and a wide range of benefits including:

• 24 days holiday (rising to 30 with service)
• discounts on all kinds of Co-op products and services
• a pension with up to 10% employer contributions

Building an inclusive work environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone. But simply having a diverse workforce is not enough. We want to build an inclusive environment, where everyone can develop to their full potential. We celebrate our differences, and recognise the importance of teams reflecting the communities they serve.

We can make adjustments to the interview process according to your needs. And we offer a flexible working environment so you can adjust your hours to suit your personal circumstances. You can find out more about Co-op people policies at coop.co.uk/peoplepolicies

As part of your application you’ll need to complete an online assessment. It will take you around 12 minutes to complete this test.

We have live vacancies across various locations in Scotland. And they’ll be a steady flow of new vacancies released over the coming months. Please search for a job in your postcode by clicking apply, and if there’s not a job near you right now then remember to sign up for alerts and we’ll notify you when we have one in your community.

We’re looking for member pioneers to join Co-op, in communities across the country. In this unique role you’ll be focused on bringing people together to make a difference in your community. That means talking to Co-op members, colleagues in stores and funeral homes, and representatives of the many local causes we support. By building relationships with and connecting these people you’ll be the catalyst for new ideas, initiatives and projects that will make our communities better places to live.

We plan to have a member pioneer dedicated to each of our communities and you’ll be a part of this ambitious plan for a better future. Everything you do will contribute to our community plan, making sure we make the biggest impact possible across the UK by increasing community co-operation. It’s an opportunity to make a visible difference where you live, supported by an organisation with nearly 70,000 colleagues.

What you’ll do:

• develop an action plan to improve community wellbeing, aligned to key themes
• establish and run a local community forum, or make connections with one that already exists
• build a strong group of contacts locally, making use of social media platforms to help with listening to and getting involved in community conversation
• get activities off the ground and encourage lots of involvement from members in your community
• prioritise your time, making your hours count and focusing on opportunities to make the biggest difference

This role would suit someone who:

• has lots of enthusiasm with the ability to get things moving
• is interested in all things community focussed
• can inspire and motivate people through their communication style
• loves working with and connecting people
• can prioritise their time and remain focussed on a long term goal
• is confident using social media
• has good basic IT skills (ideally with experience using collaborative tools like the Google suite or Skype)
• is both committed and dedicated
• lives within or very close to the community you’ll support, detailed above

Why Co-op?

As a member pioneer you’ll have the chance to support local communities, making a visible difference by encouraging people to work together. As a Co-op colleague you’ll also receive a competitive salary and a wide range of benefits including:

• 24 days holiday (rising to 30 with service)
• discounts on all kinds of Co-op products and services
• a pension with up to 10% employer contributions

Building an inclusive work environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone. But simply having a diverse workforce is not enough. We want to build an inclusive environment, where everyone can develop to their full potential. We celebrate our differences, and recognise the importance of teams reflecting the communities they serve.

We can make adjustments to the interview process according to your needs. And we offer a flexible working environment so you can adjust your hours to suit your personal circumstances. You can find out more about Co-op people policies at coop.co.uk/peoplepolicies

As part of your application you’ll need to complete an online assessment. It will take you around 12 minutes to complete this test.