Campaign and Events Manager
- Full time
- Circa £30,000 – £35,000
- Social Bite, 1 Leith Walk Edinburgh EH6 8LN. Flexibility with remote working.
- Closing 3rd August 2023
- Advertised from 13th July 2023
- 37 hours per week
Role
This role is key to driving forward our ambitious and highly successful annual fundraising campaigns. From our first ever Sleep in the Park event in 2017 to last year’s Break the Cycle and Festival of Kindness campaigns, this role is pivotal to the delivery and success of large-scale events working closely with all teams across the organisation to make each event a resounding success. This is a unique and exciting opportunity to bring together your creative and strategic thinking to help shape the growth and impact of a ground-breaking organisation as we embark on the next steps towards our vision.
We’re looking for someone who is creative, enthusiastic, highly collaborative, positive and solutions focussed. You will have a track history of leading successful campaigns and thrive in a high-pressured environment. The ideal candidate will enjoy:
• Making a difference – each campaign provides significant funds to support the mission of homelessness and has direct tangible impact on the people we support.
• Making it happen – using problem-solving skills and a can-do attitude to get things ‘over the line’ while maintaining the highest professional standard with great attention to detail.
• Building excellent internal and external relationships, working with colleagues and third parties to meet campaign targets and maximise engagement.
• Both the big picture and the finer details.
• Planning, evaluating and reporting – continually building on success by leading meetings and processes for thinking ahead, capturing insights and learnings, implementing improvements and so on.
This position will report into the Head of Individual Giving & Marketing, working closely day-to-day with the Senior Campaigns and Fundraising Executive, and the wider Fundraising and Marcomms team. You will also liaise regularly with our co-Founder and others in the Exec leadership team for strategic input and progress reporting.
About Social Bite
Our vision is a society where no one should have to be homeless.
We are a charity and social business providing homes, jobs, food, and support to empower people to transform their own lives. We challenge the status quo by pioneering solutions that create lasting change.
We began as a small sandwich shop in Edinburgh in 2012, offering jobs and free food to people affected by homelessness. We’re now expanding our projects across the UK, on a collaborative mission – a movement to end homelessness.
We help people break the cycle of homelessness through innovative supported employment programmes (Jobs First) and housing solutions (Social Bite Villages) and give out over 250,000 items of free food year-round through our coffee shops (across Scotland and in London) and community networks.
We build lasting relationships, as we believe that through positive connections people can transform their lives. We use food, homes, and jobs as tools of engagement that can enable everyone to reach their potential. Our national and global campaigns have shifted the cultural dial on homelessness and our work has been championed by George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sir Chris Hoy and the Princess of Wales. A number of our team have been homeless themselves.
Thank you for your interest in this role! We’d love you to apply.
Application notes
Application process: please send your CV and a covering email to recruitment@social-bite.co.uk by 9am on Thursday 3rd August 2023.
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Fundraising Assistant
- Full time
- £23,000
- Working virtually with occasional travel for to meet with other VF colleagues, and to undertake other business as required. (Remote)
- Closing 26th April 2024
What is the VF?
The VF is a charity passionate about supporting the vulnerable veterans and it has paid out in grants over £20M since inception in 2016. It operates as an independent grant-making foundation offering targeted support to a broad range of charities and charitable organisations that support those in need among serving armed forces’ personnel, veterans, operationally qualified seafarers, and their immediate families.
Funded projects include those that tackle homelessness, increase employment, overcome poverty, and provide welfare and medical support. It also supports initiatives that increase confidence and social integration, as well as reducing dependence on alcohol and drugs.
The VF gives priority to well-run small and medium-sized charities and organisations in need of funds that help the target beneficiaries.
To date the majority of funds raised by the VF have come from the highly successful Veterans' Lottery (VL). However, individual donations are growing significantly and show potential for further development. We now need a member of staff to support the VF’s Fundraising Manager in building a broader fundraising base.
More information about the VF can be found at: veteransfoundation.org.uk.
A summary of the VF’s work can be seen here: Impact Film 2024
About the post
The position of Fundraising Assistant has been created to support the Fundraising Team with administrative tasks, working with our donors and volunteer fundraisers to raise funds. The postholder will work under the direction of the VF’s Fundraising Manager, as well as working closely with other team members in the VF and partner organisations.
Top job! Head of Smart Works Scotland
- Full time
- £44,000 – £50,000
- Based across our Scotland centres in Edinburgh and Glasgow (Hybrid)
- Closing 19th April 2024
About Smart Works
Smart Works is a dynamic, high profile and fast-growing UK charity that dresses and coaches unemployed women for success at their job interview. We empower each woman by giving her the clothes and the confidence she needs to succeed. After visiting Smart Works, 69% of clients secure a job within a month, gaining financial independence and transforming their lives.
More information about who we are can be found on our website.
About the role
Smart Works is volunteer-powered and exists to empower all women who need help getting into work. As such, a fantastic opportunity has arisen for a proactive self-starter with outstanding leadership skills to take on the pivotal role of being the Head of Smart Works Scotland. Reporting to the Chair of the Trustee Board, the role is responsible for developing and delivering our core strategies and for the overall operation of our two centres in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
In practice, this involves leading a small staff team to thrive in their roles and deliver outstanding results, with direct line management responsibilities for 3 team members out of 8. It also includes representing our charity to a range of stakeholders across the region, contributing to our ambitious client targets and unlocking vital funds to deliver the Three Year Plan.
A major focus of this role will be to deliver, and support team members to aid delivery, of our annual fundraising target (c. £400k) via, grants and trusts, corporate partnerships, fundraising events, and identifying new income streams.
The Head of Smart Works Scotland must build strong working relationships with the staff team and Board of Trustees, foster excellent collaborations with a variety of stakeholders and have significant experience across multiple fundraising streams.
Whilst the successful individual will be supported by the Chair, Board of Trustees and colleagues in other centres, they will be expected to work autonomously and confidently in carrying out their duties. There may be occasional evening and weekend work in order to support fundraising, networking and key events as required.
The role will be based in our Edinburgh or Glasgow centre, and flexible working options are available.
If you are passionate about supporting women, are flexible, have excellent organisation and prioritisation skills and can liaise confidently and successfully with a broad range of stakeholders, then this is an ideal opportunity.
Duties and responsibilities
- Leading a staff team of 8 across two centres, ensuring all team members are thriving in their roles and continuing to develop their skills.
- Supporting each direct report with project deliverables and identifying continuous improvement opportunities in our ways of working.
- Oversee the smooth running of both centres, ensuring all client and service delivery targets are on track and all protocols such as safeguarding and governance are adhered to.
- Setting and delivering our core strategies, across all functional areas.
- Working with various staff members on targeted campaigns and corporate partnerships, providing guidance and support on the annual fundraising target c. £400k via our three revenue streams - Corporate, Community and Events, Grants and Trusts.
- Manage the day-to-day costs of the budget, contributing to timely process reconciliation with the Board Treasurer and Group Finance Team.
- Delivering financial activities to target, maintaining an up to date database with relevant income tracking and pipeline information to facilitate regular financial reporting to the Board of Trustees and timely process reconciliation with the Board Treasurer and Group Finance team.
- Supporting the team to raise awareness of our charity and increase our supporter community through social media campaigns and in-person events throughout the year.
Personal Specification
Essential Criteria
- Outstanding interpersonal and team management / leadership skills.
- Significant experience of generating income from a variety of sources, including Events, Trusts, Foundations, Community and Corporate sponsorship.
- Demonstrable experience of securing new business and onboarding new partnerships.
- Experience of managing four figure+ partnerships across the following activities: employee fundraising, sponsorship, commercial or grants.
- A strong networker, with relationship management experience across seniority levels and sectors.
- Strong presentation skills, with prior experience delivering engaging sessions to large audiences.
- Experience of balancing changing priorities and responding to delivery needs.
- Proactive approach to problem solving, with an entrepreneurial attitude towards fundraising strategy.
- Ability to work autonomously and also have a strong team focus and ethic.
- Good working knowledge and experience using Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, CRM systems.
- Target driven, with excellent organisation and time management skills to meet deadlines and monthly / quarterly KPIs.
Desirable Criteria
- An understanding of the employment and skills landscape in Scotland.
- Experience of working collaboratively with volunteer teams and / or in the not for profit sector.
- Financially aware, able to interpret basic financial accounts for reporting purposes.
Learning & Engagement Worker
- Full time
- £23,575 – £26,500
- Edinburgh/Glasgow with travel across Scotland (Hybrid)
- Closing 6th May 2024
The Young Women’s Movement is Scotland's national organisation for young women and girls' leadership and rights.
Young women are at the heart of everything we do and we work collectively to equip with them the resources, networks and platforms to lead meaningful change and create a more equal society.
We exist because we want young women and girls’ needs and rights to be met. We believe in a society where everyone has the opportunity to live their lives to their fullest and we will continue to strive until that society is secured.
To help us achieve this, the Learning & Engagement Worker role has been created to:
- Extend our reach to even more young women and girls through a range of engaging youth work programmes that build skills and create change
- Support the delivery of our programmes and training for both young women participants and our volunteers
- Create safe spaces for young women to engage and learn, encouraging supportive and meaningful relationships to develop
Everyone who works at Young Women’s Movement:
- Has equality at the heart of everything they do
- Takes a participatory approach to our work. We are for young women and by young women
- Builds communities of friendship and support networks, finding joy in our collective actions and connections
- Understands the impact of challenging inequality on those most affected by it. We lead with kindness and empathy, putting collective wellbeing at the core of our organisation
- Delivers our work with integrity and are proud of the work we do
- Are bold and brave. We do not shy away from challenging the status quo and taking radical steps to make gender equality a reality in Scotland
How you'll help to create a fairer Scotland for young women and girls:
- Deliver our Learning and Engagement programmes e.g. Empowering Pathways using a youth work approach to reach more young women and girls and support their participation in the movement
- Support the development, session planning and delivery of new youth work initiatives and activities that support young women & girls
- Support the Learning & Engagement Coordinator to reach and engage young women and girls in our spaces and services
- Work with young women and girls on our programmes and signpost them to opportunities for their continued engagement both within our movement and in communities/wider society
- Assist the Learning & Engagement Coordinator with support to our volunteers
- Undertake administrative tasks to support the planning, onboarding, preparation, delivery and evaluation of our Learning & Engagement programmes
- Gather Learning & Engagement content to share with our Comms Team e.g. photographs, stories, videos etc.
- Create safe, sustainable spaces with and for young women
- Commit to an intersectional feminist approach and break down the barriers to young women’s participation, ensuring our spaces and programmes are accessible and inclusive to all
- Comply with the YWM’s procedures and practice including Health and Safety, Safeguarding and Data Protection
- Work collaboratively across the organisation, and where appropriate support colleagues in other teams
- Undertake any other duties that may arise
Let’s talk about you - you will already have or be working towards:
Essential
- Experience working with young people
- Knowledge and commitment to an intersectional feminist way of working
- Commitment to delivering high quality and meaningful experiences for young women on our programmes and our volunteers
- Passionate about enabling change for young women and girls through a range of learning interventions and programmes
- Strong time management and organisational skills
- An engaging and warm facilitation approach to build confidence and opportunities for young women that have the potential to create positive change, locally and nationally
- Willingness to work flexibly and travel across Scotland when necessary - our delivery is often in the evenings or weekends. Currently most of our programmes are delivered in Glasgow and the surrounding areas
- Commitment to own continuing professional development
- A flexible and adaptable approach
Desirable
- Experience and knowledge of youth work principles and approaches
- Experience of youth participation / delivering programmes that are co-designed with and for young women
- Ability to evaluate projects meaningfully and effectively for maximum impact.
- IT skills and experience of using Microsoft Teams, Word, PowerPoint & Excel, and Canva
- Experience of using social media platforms for awareness raising and system-changing campaigns
- A full, clean driving license and access to a vehicle
Why you should want to work with us!
- We operate a 4-day working week, which means full-time is 28 hours
- We offer flexible working options and patterns, including the option to work hybrid from anywhere in Scotland (our co-working space is in Edinburgh)
- Our annual leave entitlement is 28 days a year, including public holidays
- We provide 1 additional day of annual leave for your birthday (or to take another time that you would like to celebrate)
- All staff members are enrolled in our Employer Life Assurance Scheme
- You can access a range of benefits and discounts through our life assurance app
- We are committed to supporting staff development through training and coaching opportunities
- Wellbeing and mental health support are a priority, all of our staff can access counselling through our EAP provider.
- We have a number of feminist policies to support our staff
- You’ll be joining an intergenerational team that will embrace your ideas and support and encourage you to bring your whole self to work
Due to the nature of our work with children and young people, successful applicants will be required to undergo a disclosure check through the PVG Scheme.
Don't meet every single requirement?
Studies show that women and Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic people are less likely to apply for a job unless they meet every qualification. So, if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within The Young Women’s Movement family.
Reporting to: Learning & Engagement Lead
Location: Hybrid – Our co-working space is in Edinburgh with delivery taking place across Scotland, specifically Glasgow and the surrounding areas.
Media & Communications Officer
- Full time or Part time
- £36,737
- Scotland - homeworking or based in Edinburgh office (Remote)
- Closing 30th April 2024
Christian Aid exists to create a world where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty. We are a global movement of people, churches and local organisations who passionately champion dignity, equality and justice worldwide. We are the changemakers, the peacemakers, the mighty of heart.
Learn about our vision, mission and values
About the role
This is a varied and exciting interim role which will help to build greater awareness and support for Christian Aid Scotland’s work through the media, social media and our website. During the assignment the role holder will sell in stories and react to media opportunities. In addition, the role holder will support the development of a number of communication projects including one featuring community photographers from Ethiopia.
About you
You are an experienced media officer with a track record in spotting opportunities to generate positive media coverage and an excellent knowledge and contacts with Scotland’s media. You’ll bring excellent writing skills and an ability to drive forward communications projects and campaigns. Above all you will use your media and PR insights to help us influence change and connect with churches and supporters across Scotland.
Further information
At Christian Aid we strive to be an inclusive and diverse employer and recognise the value that this brings in helping to build strong, creative and high performing teams.
We are actively encouraging racialised minorities, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people with caring responsibilities, people from low socioeconomic backgrounds, women, and older workers to apply. This is because these groups are under-represented within our teams, especially at senior level, and we recognise and value the contributions members of these groups make to strong, creative and high performing teams.
We have a strong Christian ethos and we encourage applications from all faiths and none (with the exception of Director positions where there is a genuine occupational requirement to be a practicing Christian - Exempted under the Equality Act 2010).
All successful candidates will require a DBS/police check appropriate to the role and location and a Counter Terrorism Sanction check as part of your clearance for commencing your role with us. We also participate in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information as part of the referencing process from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.
This role requires applicants to have the right to live and work in the country where this position is based and undertake the role that you have been offered. If you are successful and we make you an offer for the role, we will be required to conduct a right to work check on your immigration status in the UK. We will contact you regarding the documentation you will need to provide to evidence this.
You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance, a season ticket loan, and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.
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