SAHA Policy and Communications Officer
- Part time
- £33,840 pro-rata
- Hybrid working
- Closing 2nd February 2023
- Advertised from 24th January 2023
- 28 hours/week. Salary: £27,072 (based on 28 hour week)
Role
The Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance (SAHA) is a joint initiative of 14 Scottish Higher Education institutions, the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH).
As SAHA’s Policy and Communications Officer, you will be an organised collaborator who can drive forward the day-to-day work of the Alliance and support the delivery of its policy and communications strategy.
This role is integral to the delivery of SAHA’s vision and will require you to be knowledgeable of Scotland’s arts and humanities sector, confident in policy formulation, effective at communications and marketing and able to manage the secretariat of SAHA’s Steering Group and committees
SAHA was established in 2019 to promote the value of arts and humanities to society and provide a collective voice for the community within higher education. The strategic direction and activity of the Alliance is determined by a Steering Group comprising representatives from contributing organisations. This role is hosted and line managed by the RSE but with strategic direction of activity from the Steering Group. You can read more about the Alliance here saha.scot
We are looking for a talented individual to:
- Working with the SAHA co-chairs and RSE Head of Communications, develop and embed the Alliance and work with leading academics within the arts and humanities field in Scotland
- Support the development of SAHA’s strategy and help to build and maintain its communications network and profile.
- Deliver a policy advice strategy which ensures Scotland’s arts and humanities have an influencing voice and affect change with policy makers
- In conjunction with RSE Communications, identify appropriate opportunities to amplify SAHA’s work in external media channels
- Support SAHA leadership’s participation in engagement activities by providing thorough and comprehensive briefing materials
- Provide logistical and administrative support to SAHA leadership and committees and new members of the Alliance
If you are a dynamic, organised and driven individual who can help SAHA make a positive impact on Scotland’s arts and humanities sector, then we'd love to hear from you.
Application notes
To apply, simply send your CV and a cover letter, no longer than 500 words, detailing how your skills and experience would transfer and benefit the work of SAHA to: vacancies@therse.org.uk
The closing date for applications is 2 February 2023 at 17.00
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
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Top job! Transnational Opportunities Lead
- Full time
- £38,522
- Glasgow (Hybrid)
- Closing 30th April 2024
About us
The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) Partnership is the independent organisation responsible for Scotland’s National Framework for Qualifications. The SCQF brings together quality assured assessed learning throughout life whether gained in school, workplace, college, university or online into one system for recognising achievement.
We are a Living Wage Employer and are accredited to Investors in People Gold level, working in ways that realise our values of Respect, Integrity, Collaboration and Enabling. As a small staff team of thirteen with national coverage, we also operate a Flexible Working Policy and offer hybrid working.
About the role
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team in the key role of Lead for Transnational opportunities within our Quality Enhancement and Recognition team. Your role will be critical to the relaunch of our transnational consultancy services offer promoting the SCQF globally, whilst also maintaining high standards of quality assurance for our credit rating bodies and contributing to capacity building and RPL activities.
About you
This role would suit a person with SCQF Level 9 equivalent skills or experience.
To be successful in this role you will need to be familiar with at least one aspect of the lifelong learning sector, have some knowledge and understanding of qualifications frameworks and/or quality assurance principles and ideally have a proven track record in business development and/or project management.
We are looking for someone who has excellent communication skills, including the ability to produce high quality reports and documents and present to external audiences. You need to be equally comfortable working on your own initiative or in a team setting, possess strong IT skills and show a commitment to our values of Collaboration, Integrity, Enabling and Respect. Travel, including overseas, may be required as part of the role.
Working at the SCQF Partnership
As a member of the team, you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:
- Pension scheme with an employer contribution of 12%
- Westfield Health benefits, including costs reimbursed for dental, physiotherapy and counselling services, optical fees and health club concession
- Death in Service Benefit worth 1 x annual salary
- 25 days’ annual leave rising to 28 days after 3 years’ service + 13 public holidays
- Flexible and hybrid working policy and a range of family-friendly policies to support work-life balance.
Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience, and career.
Practice Learning Development Officer (PDAPL Co-ordinator)
- Full time
- £42,222 – £46,399
- Glasgow (On site)
- Closing 29th April 2024
Learning Network West is a unique organisation, supporting Social Work Education and developing practice learning opportunities across the West of Scotland. We work closely with HEI and Local Authority funding partners across the West of Scotland to fulfil three core functions: the Mental Health Officer Award Programme, The Professional Development Award in Practice Learning, and social work student placement matching and development. As part of this existing work, the Network is working closely with stakeholders, including Scottish Government, SSSC and our partners, to ensure continued contribution and commitment to the on-going development of social work education in Scotland.
Due to the ending of a secondment, we are excited to be seeking appointment for a Practice Learning Development Officer (PDAPL Co-ordinator). The post holder will be responsible for working in partnership, to plan, deliver and evaluate the PDAPL programme. The successful candidate will be responsible for the practice elements of the programme, including the strategic developments and operational oversight. The post holder will represent Learning Network West as a conduit in Social Work Education across Scotland.
Learning Network West is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. Secondments welcome.
Purpose of post: The post holder will be responsible for working in partnership, to plan, deliver and evaluate the PDAPL programme. The successful candidate will be responsible for the practice elements of the programme, including the strategic developments and operational oversight. The post holder will represent Learning Network West as a conduit in Social Work Education across Scotland.
Main responsibilities:
- Co-ordination of candidate selection, including standardisation between SQA centres, cohort adverts, facilitating information session, reading all applications and chairing selection panel, writing decision letters and providing one to one feedback for unsuccessful candidates.
- Undertake assessment and internal verification of candidates.
- Co-ordinate assessment and verification activities, including assessor and verifier induction and registration, annual CPD records, chairing portfolio and standardisation meetings (approx. 18 meetings a year), ensuring assessment and verification adheres to both award standards (SSSC) and validation requirements (SQA).
- Development and review of course materials, including assessment instruments, methodologies and portfolio, handbook, selection materials, teaching materials, policies and strategy documents. To be cognisant of legislative, policy and practice developments and ensure programme continues to meet the broad needs or partners, regulatory and validating bodies.
- Co-ordinating ongoing CPL activities for assessors and verifiers.
- Co-ordinating and tutoring on a taught programme (covering topics including assessment, supervision, adult learning, reflection, emotional intelligence, evidence based practice, leadership, evaluation and change processes).
- Evaluation of all programme activities.
- Maintaining accurate, up to date candidate and assessment records, including candidate progress and deferrals.
- Producing annual quality assurance monitoring, external verification and systems verification reports.
- Collating, analysing and producing a range of monitoring information for stakeholders, including the West Learning partnership (12 local authorities and 5 HEI’s).
- The design, facilitation and evaluation of assessor and verifier induction programmes.
- Chair Practice Learning Award Management Group and undertake any tasks allocated – over the next year this will likely include the implementation of revised Group Award Specification (following recent SQA review) and subsequent amendments to portfolio handbook and taught materials.
- Co-ordination and investigation of complaints and misconduct procedures.
- E-portfolio induction programme, monthly e-portfolio surgeries and ongoing/ as and when support for candidates, assessors and verifiers.
Top job! Venture Support Manager
- Full time or Part time
- £36,000 – £44,000
- Edinburgh (Hybrid)
- Closing 21st April 2024
We're on the lookout for a Venture Support Manager to join The Ventures Lab team at The Challenges Group.
This role is at Senior Manager level and part of our senior team in Scotland, reporting to the Chief Executive.
Download the full recruitment pack below or from our website:thechallengesgroup.com/jobs
About us:
Challenges Group is an international enterprise development organisation which improves organisational capabilities through learning and leadership development for people and strengthening enterprises and their ecosystems. The Ventures Lab by Challenges Group provides an inclusive, supportive path for aspiring or early-stage entrepreneurs to bring their purpose-led businesses to life.
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Do you believe in the power of data to improve people’s lives and know that working with the public is vital to our mission? Research Data Scotland needs you!
We have an exciting opportunity to work in a multifaceted Business Management role to support the delivery of exemplary governance and operational excellence. This role works with stakeholders at every level in our organisation and as such we are looking to appoint a highly motivated and conscientious individual.
About us
Research Data Scotland (RDS) is a charity set up by the Scottish public sector and leading universities. We help researchers find and make use of data that can improve the lives of people in Scotland. Working in partnership, we do this by widening the range of data available, creating new data assets and providing a single point of contact for safe, secure and effective access to public data in a trustworthy manner.
Data is often locked away in lots of individual systems, across many different organisations, and isn’t in a format that makes access or integration easy. We can help researchers to unlock the potential of this data by giving them information and advice that speeds up and simplifies their work.
RDS aims to provide a step change in the service to researchers, whilst maintaining the high standards of information governance and data security already in place. We aim to work as openly as possible, maintaining standards in transparency and ethics. Our focus is on providing a streamlined service for researchers, as well as extending the range of data available through the service, particularly in the areas of Covid-19, NHS imaging, geospatial data, children and justice services.
Our partners include: Scottish Government, Public Health Scotland, National Records of Scotland (NRS), and the Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow. We work closely with the national and regional safe havens. And we are in contact with other organisations in Scotland and across the UK in the data research sector, including public sector, research and commercial bodies.
About the job
The Business Manager will work closely with the Chair, CEO and Operations Director to manage, coordinate and schedule the regular cycle of our governance and business activities. This will include coordinating board meetings as well as maintaining our internal registers and ensuring our reporting mechanisms are top-notch! This post will be highly varied and vital to the successful delivery of our Business and Delivery plans.
There is a strong focus on developmental projects, operational risk, records management, governance, improving our performance and delivering our day-to-day charity operations. You’ll be an important member of our Operations Team, sharing your expertise with colleagues and board members, as well as independently leading on activities.
Reports to Operations Director
About you
You are a self-starter, with experience of working with stakeholders at every level. You’ll understand the importance of engaging well with board members, senior leaders and your colleagues to get their input into your work and support great governance. You are highly organised and thrive on managing multiple projects with different deadlines. You are keen to deliver, with an eye for detail and the pragmatism to understand our context and environment.
Life at RDS
We are a small friendly and highly engaged team of people. We promote continuous learning and work hard to build an inclusive and supportive workplace culture. We live our values of; integrity, transparency, courage, collaboration and humility.
Our people typically work a 35-hour week, with hybrid working on offer from day one. You can choose to work flexibly from home or use one of our desks in the Bayes Centre in central Edinburgh. The whole RDS team meets one day per month in-person in Edinburgh or at an off-site away day in the Central Belt. Individual teams organise their own in-person days to collaborate, develop and socialise together.
We offer 33 days’ annual leave (including public holidays) and have no set closure days. We have a generous pension and enhanced pay for parental/adoption leave. This list of benefits is being added to as the organisation develops, and you can help shape it as part of the team. Our Culture Group helps us seek feedback from colleagues across the organisation to make RDS an even better place to work.
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