The Scottish Ornithologists’ Club, one of Scotland’s leading wildlife bodies and a registered charity, is excited to be seeking to fill its newly created post of Club Manager.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who is keen to lead and drive strategic direction for the Club and its members. We are looking for a manager who can lead our team of staff and work with our trustees (“Council”) and committees to share and promote members’ passion and commitment to the study and enjoyment of birds in Scotland.

The successful candidate will have responsibility for our eight staff and for our headquarters property at Waterston House, Aberlady, East Lothian. They will support our 15 volunteer-led branches and 3,500 members. They will lead staff involvement with forward and operational planning and development of the Club and ensure the Club meets all legal requirements as a charitable body working to high professional standards.

To deliver all elements of our constitution and our programme of events and activities, the Club Manager will have excellent organisational, team management, communication and project management skills. They will have an understanding of budget planning and management, and be confident with IT.

It is expected that the successful candidate will be able to demonstrate experience relevant to all these functions and competencies.

Best of all, the successful candidate will recognise the tremendous scope offered by the Club to its members to enjoy and learn about birds, to contribute to national monitoring schemes, to deploy and develop their skills and to maintain and develop the SOC’s role in the wider field of ornithology in Scotland. The Club is about both the rewards and benefits of birdwatching and the science and protection of birds.

WorkingRite seeks to stop the cycle of deprivation and poverty that occur in so many communities across Scotland. We do this through our award-winning, youth employability programme, which sees practical work skills coupled with personal development, strengthened through a mentored work placement with a small, local business of the young person’s choice.

Our flexible, person-centred programme of training, support and work placements puts the young person at the heart of their future, helping those 15 – 24 years old who are furthest from the job market, to gain real skills and a foothold on the employability ladder. We have been operating as a charity since 2011 and in that time have supported over 3,500 young people into a positive destination. We currently operate programmes in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Argyll & Bute, Aberdeen and East Ayrshire.

WorkingRite have recently secured significant investment that will see us grow our work across the country. We have also recently appointed a new CEO who has a vision to see us increase our work in the 5 local authorities we already work in and expand into new areas of Scotland where the needs of young people are greatest.

All this means it is a very exciting time to be joining WorkingRite.

This exciting role will support young people from East Ayrshire to achieve employment and a positive future. Using WorkingRite’s work-based mentoring method and through the delivery of our in schools model Rite to Work; our Project Coordinators prepare young people for work placements with local businesses and support them in their placements while they learn new skills and gain confidence. It’s a simple model that works with large numbers of young people who complete the WorkingRite programme progressing to full time jobs or apprenticeships.

We require a Project Co-ordinator who can:

• Self-start and work on own initiative

• Work as part of a high functioning team

• Engage and motivate young people in groups and 1:1

• Build strong relationships with businesses

• Work to targets

• Offer new and creative ideas

• Deliver accredited and certificated learning opportunities

• Support young people with challenges and barriers to progression

You will be confident, have excellent communication skills and be well organised. Above all, you must be enthusiastic and want to support young people.

(This role is suitable for hybrid working in the East Ayrshire area. We offer Flexible Working by default.)

We are looking for enthusiastic people who share our values (Kind, Passionate and Creative) to join our services accommodating and supporting people experiencing homelessness and empowering them to thrive.

The support we provide is always person-centred, trauma-informed and wellbeing focused. As a Support Worker, you’ll work as part of a team in providing safe, secure, supported accommodation for the people who use our services. You’ll do this by providing practical and emotional support and encouraging them to achieve their own personal outcomes in all aspects of their daily lives.

If successful, you will be required to register with the Scottish Social Services Council within 6 months of your start date. After registration, there is a requirement to be qualified and to maintain professional learning, which we will support you to achieve.

Blue Triangle recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.

Our services at Kilmarnock are supporting those aged 16-25.

Do you have experience of working with vulnerable children & young people? Are you passionate with the energy to provide high quality individual and group support for children who have experienced or are experiencing domestic abuse? Are you able to demonstrate a flexible, practical and positive approach to working with children and young people? Do you have an understanding and awareness of domestic abuse and a reflective, sensitive, non-judgmental approach? Can you work in a way that promotes equality and empowerment? If so we would like to hear from you.