Responsible for the safe and effective delivery of Social Bite’s pipeline of support and opportunities for vulnerable people affected by homelessness that might be a symptom of various issues, e.g. mental and physical health issues, exploitation, addictions etc. that we engage via our shop in Glasgow.

Motivating and working alongside Social Bite shop staff, Social Bite volunteers and a range of external partners to deliver high quality training, employment and volunteering opportunities to people affected by homelessness that help individuals to transform their own lives.

We are looking for a client-focused individual with experience of advice work with a specific focus on housing issues, money and debt and welfare benefits to join us as an Adviser and provide vital advice to our clients in the Dundee area.

About Shelter

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change, with individuals, in communities, across society, and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

At Shelter we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent.

We have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter and welcome you on our journey to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.

About the team

Our advice and support Hubs located in Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Edinburgh provide a range of services, including money and debt advice and legal advocacy and representation. There are also support services in Glasgow, Dumfries and South Lanarkshire delivering housing support for vulnerable people and families who are homeless and a dedicated service working with Young Runaways in Tayside. In addition, we have services focussing on specific client groups such as prisoners, older people and veterans, as well as a free telephone helpline. This particular role is based at our Dundee hub.

About the role

As an Adviser, we'll rely on you to deliver a professional, impartial, pragmatic and outcome focussed service to our clients which will include providing advice on all areas of housing law, homelessness, money and debt and welfare benefits and specialist casework related to these areas. You'll also get to undertake work on aspects of complex advocacy cases. Contributing to local and national policy and practice development will be important too, as will representing clients at reviews, tribunals and appeals, with relevant training provided if needed. Conducting initial interviews, agreeing clients' needs, writing case plans and keeping accurate records - all are part and parcel of this interesting and varied role.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

About you

To succeed, you’ll need demonstrable relevant experience, a proactive, collaborative and client-focused approach, sensitivity to others’ needs and the communication skills it takes to positively influence others. We’ll also be looking for a flair for getting to the root of clients’ underlying issues and persuading them to change their views. Someone who is happy to challenge the status quo when appropriate, you enjoy actively contributing new ideas and approaches too. What's more, you have good typing skills, are able to use a case management system and are proficient using Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, Email and Internet.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter Scotland helps over half a million people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help.

Do you have proven experience in participation, community engagement and/or development work plus an understanding of the community that enables you to facilitate and promote local community empowerment? Then join Shelter Scotland as a Development Worker and you could soon be playing a key role within a vital initiative aimed at tackling homelessness and housing issues in the Dundee locale.

About Shelter

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change, with individuals, in communities, across society, and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

At Shelter we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent.

We have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter and welcome you on our journey to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.

About the team

Shelter Scotland operates four Community Hubs in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen, each offering a range of advice and support services linked to our campaigning, volunteering and fundraising activities. One of those services is Time for Change - our core methodology for the involvement of people with lived experience in our work that has now been embedded across each community hub. Its focus is on identifying issues facing homeless people in their locale and, through involvement and wider consultation, co-producing the design and delivery of a local response to tackle those issues. This is your opportunity to be part of its future.

About the role

As well as supporting the development and delivery of Time for Change in Dundee, we’ll rely on you to support the wider work of the project, including outreach, rights awareness and consultation. You’ll also need to build relationships with individuals with lived experience, help grow a group of peers and provide continuous support and encouragement. Consulting with individuals and stakeholders across the city to determine ‘what better looks like’ will be important too. And, when it comes to developing relationships with relevant external agencies, again, we’ll count on you. Helping to design and develop plans and processes to manage the initiative, collecting and collating service user data and sharing knowledge and information throughout the project – all are part and parcel of this interesting and challenging role.

About you

The success of the project is dependent on assertive outreach, so you’ll need to be a confident individual with great communication skills, who can self-manage and self-motivate. The ability to work with a variety of stakeholders and deal effectively with change is also essential, as is a proactive, client-focused and collaborative approach, great relationship building skills and respect for others’ opinions. Housing and homelessness work experience isn’t essential, but you’ll need to bring a passion for Shelter Scotland’s issues and be willing to learn and gain experience to provide advice on all areas of housing, homelessness, money and debt and welfare benefits.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter Scotland helps over half a million people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help.

Are you excited by the thought of working for an organisation whose mission is to change behaviour to improve our environment, the quality of people’s lives, their wellbeing, and the places that they care for?

If you answered yes to the above question, please read on……

Who we are

Keep Scotland Beautiful is your charity for Scotland’s environment. We work with you to help combat climate change, reduce litter and waste, and protect and enhance the places we care for. We support the ambitions of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

What the role is

Our Campaigns Support Officer will play a key role in supporting the development, administration, and delivery of a range of our campaigns, in particular Clean Up Scotland, Upstream Battle and Treasure Your River. This is a varied and interesting role that will see you assisting with activities such as engagement with community groups and stakeholders, campaign specific communications and marketing, event organisation, campaign monitoring and data management.

What you’ll need to have

We are looking for an enthusiastic and creative individual with an understanding and/or experience of campaign development and delivery who has the ability to develop positive working relationships and influence people.

You will have experience of managing a complex workload and an understanding and/or experience of a range of communication activities including social media techniques and applications. An understanding and/or experience of administration processes and procedures is also an essential element of this role as is experience of data management.

Apex Scotland is the leading employment and training organisation specialising in work with people with convictions.

The expanding services Apex deliver in the highlands are diverse, comprised of a range of partnerships with organisations such as DWP, Criminal Justice Social Work, Scottish Prison Service, Skills Development Scotland, NHS Highland, and many more, supporting a range of client groups to access training, volunteer and employment opportunities.

The Apex highland Unit provides a range of services to individuals who face multiple barriers to returning to work and individuals who may be long term unemployed.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic individual who has effective communication skills and an understanding of the nature of issues that unemployed individuals may present with. The right candidate will have the ability to engage with service users on a one to one basis to assist them to overcome barriers to progression. An understanding of local employability pipelines would be an advantage, as would knowledge of the network of support agencies in the area. We envisage this post holder getting involved in a range of activities including outdoor groupwork activities, one to one mentoring and managing a caseload of service users.

For this post you should be able to demonstrate good communications skills, be approachable and compassionate and have knowledge or experience of employability. Experience of working to deadlines and targets is desirable. A keen eye for detail and understanding of good record keeping is essential as information is recorded in paper files and on our database. You would need to demonstrate flexibility and the ability to deal with targets. Some travel and work with our outdoor teams, taking part in team activities and challenges will be required therefore a driving licence or access to a means of transport would be an advantage. This service is currently funded until June 2022.

CEMVO Scotland is a leading national intermediary in the EM 3rd Sector, our aim is to build the capacity and sustainability of the EM 3rd Sector and its communities. Our work is underpinned by race equality and we seek to level the playing field for ethnic minority individuals through empowerment initiatives and support.

We are looking for an employment coordinator to work on the Young Confident and Connected (YCC) Programme funded by The National Lottery Community Fund (Young Start). As the YCC Coordinator you will work with 15 ethnic minority young people a year providing a range of support in their journey towards, and into, employment.

You will work closely with young clients each year, profiling their skills and experiences, and using coproduction principles, enable them to set goals and achieve them, build their confidence through PX2 training or equivalent, upskill through training and placements and achieve employment.

You will have significant working knowledge of employability issues faced by EM young people and help them overcome barriers to employability. You will also have a strong understanding of the labour market and employer requirements.

You will work closely with local partners, including employers, training providers and other stakeholders, developing professional relationships that will offer a diverse range of experiences and opportunities for those on the programme. You will be able to collect and collate qualitative and quantitative data to provide an overall picture of EM young people and employment based on their lived experience and encapsulate that to develop future funding opportunities.

West Lothian Social Enterprise Network (WLSEN) is a membership organisation that aims to support and develop social enterprises in the area. WLSEN offers peer support, resource sharing, market development, promotion of local social enterprise and a focal point for issues specific to social enterprises in West Lothian.

The Network has been operating for over 7 years, is a registered Charity and a Company Limited by Guarantee and is governed by a voluntary Board of Directors. It is currently contracted to deliver support to social enterprises in the area by West Lothian Council and on behalf of Voluntary Sector Gateway West Lothian (VSGWL), it delivers the social enterprise support element of the local Third Sector Interface contract.

WLSEN has a good profile with local strategic partners and now boasts a membership of 66 social enterprises across West Lothian.

Accountable to: Network Manager

We are looking for someone to join our tight knit, and friendly team in one of our hosting roles:

• To be primarily responsible for the facilitation of our community building activities, including our event programme, our online communications and engagement with both members and the public
• To utilise community building to attract new customers and increase our profitability
• To deliver excellent service and client engagement across our Edinburgh venues, which meet our mission, retain and attract new business and engage people as advocates of our work

MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Hosting our coworking space, including

• Welcoming all members, guests and other clients into the space

• Answering all queries and troubleshooting any issues

• Maintaining the cleanliness of the space and access to resources

• Engaging with members to foster community

Engaging members and the broader community

• Work with the team to plan, promote and deliver our TMPEvents programme each month in order to maximise member engagement and generate income from public attendance

• Generate ideas and create opportunities to attract new customers into the space and to engage with our services

• Deliver on a range of internal and external communications with Members via our online portal, dedicated Slack, social media and regular mailings

• Create digital content to deliver our internal and external communications

Hosting events at our two locations (Calton Rd and The Crags Centre), including:

• Setting up the room and AV requirements as requested by the client –– this requires being able to move items of furniture unassisted

• Liaising with the client on the day to ensure all requirements are met

• Servicing the event; providing catering as ordered and on time, regularly clearing the room and assisting with any queries

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:

Experience in front--facing customer service role

Experience in creating communications and digital media content for internal and external stakeholders

Ability to foster connections, generate community engagement and spot and action opportunities to create collaborations

Organised with proven administration and time management skills, ability to self--manage and work to deadlines

CTG is a charity and company limited by guarantee and was established to provide relief to communities of Glasgow and its environs, who are in need due to age, mobility, mental and physical disability, illness and poverty. This is achieved by providing affordable, reliable, accessible transport solutions to the local communities we serve. CTG is one of the largest Community Transport Charities in Scotland.

Since March 2020, CTG has been working in collaborative partnerships with a range of organisations in Glasgow Food Programme to tackle the growing issue of food poverty. During the Covid-19 crisis, CTG was identified as an anchor organisation due to being an experienced transport provider with a remit to develop partnerships with other Third, Community and Commercial Sectors to assist with transport and logistic challenges.

One of the key collaborative partnerships developed was with the Scottish Pantry Network. This partnership has developed with CTG providing both passenger and non passenger transport solutions to the Network and its member Pantries throughout Glasgow.

Both organisations are continuing to work in partnership as we look to develop a long-term sustainable strategic partnership. Part of this is to develop a supplier and logistics framework for the pantry model to get more food into the surplus supply chain to help stop food going to landfill and to ensure the pantries are fully stocked so that people can access low cost healthy food.

Therefore, we are recruiting a Supplier Development Officer to be part of our team. The Officer will work closely with the Scottish Pantry Network.

If you like the sound of this challenge and want to be part of something that makes a difference to people’s life, have a good understanding of food poverty and insecurity, able to work across a number of partners and have project development skills, then we’d love to hear from you.