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Do you thrive on motivating a highly skilled team to achieve excellent customer service? We are looking for an inspirational manager with the drive to ensure the Affordable Warmth Services Team is an outstanding, quality driven team, operating as a role model in our field.

You will be an experienced project manager who is able to lead and inspire a passionate and dedicated team of outreach advisors working with vulnerable householders. A strong team player, you will be highly organised with excellent communication and interpersonal skills and a good working knowledge of the domestic energy and fuel poverty sectors. You will have a proven track record in coaching and developing employees to ensure they achieve their potential, identifying and suggesting process improvements and working collaboratively both internally and externally. A driving licence is highly desirable.

We offer an attractive staff benefits package which includes an excellent pension scheme and 26 days paid holiday plus 9 public holidays per year.

FUSE

The St James Quarter (SJQ) is due to open in Spring 2021 and in a unique private and public partnership between CCP and SJQ, FUSE Recruitment & Skills Hub has been developed to support recruitment & training for both the incoming St James Quarter tenants and the current businesses within the local Business Improvement District (BID) managed by Essential Edinburgh. The project is also supported through close partnership working amongst the Joined up for Business and Joined up for Jobs organisations and stakeholders.

The FUSE Recruitment & Skills Hub operates as a centre of excellence for recruitment, training and advice, ensuring an exceptionally high level of service to both candidate and employer. We advocate and work to, best-practice, and our service to local employers enables accurate and efficient job matching, access to a wider candidate pool and to expert support within our network. We work with jobseekers to tailor support where needed, provide access to unique opportunities and are active within schools, higher education organisations and local communities to highlight careers within Retail & Hospitality.

The Job Purpose

This is Fixed Term Position until October 2021 (with potential to be extended pending review) which is part of the Employer Engagement Team at Capital City Partnership (CCP). It will be primarily based within the FUSE offices at The Cube, 45 Leith Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3AT.

The post will require a flexible approach (including occasional evening or weekend working). It will require a strong recruitment skillset and elevated level of employer and partnership working to grow and deliver the Strategic Vision of the FUSE Steering Group.

The Employer Engagement Executive is pivotal to the success of the FUSE Recruitment & Skills offering and will work directly to the FUSE Manager to ensure the smooth and successful implementation and running of FUSE, supporting recruitment and consistently delivering high level engagement with employers.

Move On works with disadvantaged people, supporting them to achieve positive change in their lives and preventing homelessness. From our four bases in Glasgow and Edinburgh we provide a range of services including: training, community based intensive support, employability, mentoring, volunteering opportunities, guidance, advice and information.

Move On has a growing turnover and staff team and is increasingly operating a more complex social enterprise service delivery model.

We require an enthusiastic and experienced person to ensure the efficient and effective running of Move On's financial, administrative and HR systems, enabling the organisation to deliver greatest possible impact for service users and volunteers.

Leading a small team of three part time staff, you will have responsibility for Move On’s day to day financial systems, preparation and processing of monthly payroll, as well as preparation of management accounts. Working with the Executive Director you will also prepare budgets, forecasts and annual audit information.

This is an adoption leave cover post with an anticipated start date in November, for an initial period of nine months with possible extension.

You will have excellent organisational and communication skills, a commitment to Move On’s values, be a self-starter, bring relevant experience to the role and experience of working with volunteers and disadvantaged people.

Training and Evaluation Tender Opportunities for NLHF-funded Business Support Programme

We invite tenders for the training provision and summative evaluation for the NLHF-funded Business Support Programme, ‘Surviving to Thriving’ (StT). The programme has been developed by MGS, Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS), and greenspace scotland to support heritage organisations in Scotland to develop sustainable business models.

The programme will deliver a comprehensive resilience and leadership training programme for approximately 40 heritage organisations (approx. 80 individuals) across Scotland. The training should be tailored to the needs of participants, focusing on four main themes of leadership, governance, business planning and community engagement.

The programme delivery will commence April 2021 and run for 18 months, with the expectation that participating organisations participate in between 20-30 days training within that time period. Eligible organisations will be awarded a community grant to enable them to fully participate in the skills programme. It is expected that training will be delivered using a variety of methods such as small cohorts, directly at organisation’s locations (where possible) and digitally.

This project is designed to upskill and support the work of the heritage workforce across Scotland, including representatives from at-risk organisations in all fields, but with a specific focus on those organisations with tangible assets.

We are recruiting 3 Youth and Community Coaches for the following areas, Glasgow, Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire and Inverclyde. You will be required to deliver football, fitness and multi-sports sessions and to deliver a sports-related qualification on the Street League Academy. You will also be responsible for carrying out outreach for sessions and to recruit and sustain participants on the Academy to ensure delivery targets are met. Monitoring and reporting are central to the role.

Minimum requirements are Coaching certificates such as FA Level 2, SFA Level 1.3, Gym Instructor Level 2. Even though these qualifications are listed as the essential criteria we would consider applicants with alternative coaching qualifications if you can demonstrate the required experience and skills.

As part of your application please state at the top of your cover letter your preferred location of work.

Please see attached the full Job Description and Person Specification

The Centre was set up in 2018, in response to the need for an independent voice to champion the better use of rigorous evidence in preventing and tackling homelessness in its widest sense, going well beyond rough sleeping. The work therefore involves both policy and practice, and working with a range of other organisations and perspectives: we will only achieve our goals by drawing on the expertise both of academics and of people with lived experience of homelessness themselves, and by securing change in both policy and practice across a range of services, ie not just the “homelessness sector” itself.

To complement the skills and experience already on the board, we are looking particularly for members with the following attributes:

• For one role, we want to appoint a current senior leader in work related to homelessness in a local authority – this could be a role in the prevention and addressing of homelessness itself, or in housing or social care or a related service, as a commissioner or in delivery.
• For the other role, we are more open about the background. We want to ensure we are strong at assessing how our activity translates into impact on the ground. So someone with experience of looking constructively and rigorously at performance and impact would be valuable – this might be someone with a background in finance or analysis or operations, but technical skills matter less than mindset.

In addition, we are keen to strengthen the diversity of the board in a number of ways, to ensure we have as wide a range of perspectives as possible to make for better decisions:

• We encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates, as these groups are currently underrepresented on the board;
• The same applies to people who have experience of housing insecurity;
• We would like to extend the geographical reach: we would welcome applications from people based in Scotland, where we do quite a bit of work, and within England are particularly interested in people who aren’t London-based.

We are looking for board members with the following qualities:

• passion and commitment to the strategic objectives and cause of the Centre;
• ability to devote sufficient time and effort to the charity, including travel and attending events out of office hours;
• influence and networks within your sector or field and willingness to leverage this for the charity;
• sound, independent judgement;
• experience of working as part of a team;
• commitment to the importance of high quality research and its application to policy and practice;
• understanding of charity governance and of the duties of a charity trustee (see “The Essential Trustee” from the Charity Commission, gov.uk government/publications/the-essential-trustee-what-you-need-to-know-cc3/the-essential-trustee-what-you-need-to-know-what-you-need-to-do).

If you would like to help shape and drive an organisation which is starting to make a real impact on one of the major challenges of our time, we’d be delighted to hear from you.