Trustee Treasurer
- Management Board
- Unpaid
- Edinburgh or remotely by video call
- Closing 31st January 2022
- Advertised from 14th January 2022
Role
Edinburgh Food Project was established in 2012 with the aim of reducing the effects of food poverty in Edinburgh by providing emergency food parcels to those in the community most in need. Over the last three years, we have been transitioning our 8 foodbank centres into “More than Food” hubs to allow our clients to access dedicated support to help them with their immediate and underlying problems to reduce/eliminate their need for food bank assistance and build their financial resilience for the future.
Edinburgh Food Project is overseen by the Board of Trustees, who have overall responsibility and accountability for everything the charity does. The Board consist of 12 individual volunteers (unpaid) who bring an array of skills and experience to help set the charities strategic direction and ensure good governance. Trustees have an opportunity to significantly contribute towards Edinburgh Food Project’s mission:
”To provide emergency food supplies and support to people in crisis, while working with people, communities, and our partner agencies to address the underlying causes of food poverty.”
Board meetings are held every 6 weeks on Monday evenings, at 5pm (6pm if in person), currently via Zoom. Between Board meetings you may be required to spend additional time on subjects such as setting strategic direction, dealing with staff matters, improving governance or making decisions on infrastructure.
Application notes
To find out more, please download the Information Pack below.
Application deadline: 5pm, 31 January 2022
If you are interested in the position please email your CV and a short cover letter to trustees@edinburghfoodproject.org
Alternatively if you would like to have an informal discuss about the role please contact: Emma Galloway, Chair of Trustees chair@edinburghfoodproject.org
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Comms and Admin Officer
- Full time
- £26,838 – £30,408
- New Lairdship Yards, Broomhouse Road, Edinburgh, EH11 3UY (On site)
- Closing 22nd April 2024
Edinburgh Food Project provide food and other everyday essentials, support, and advice, while working with individuals, communities, and partners to address the root causes of poverty.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join the fight against poverty.
We are looking for someone who is an amazing communicator, highly organised, and digitally savvy to help us end the need for foodbanks for good.
This is a varied and vital job at the heart of our growing team: you will lead on all our internal and external communications, develop a style guide and brand guidelines, create and manage our website and social media content, work on campaigns and appeals, support fundraising events, keep our database and admin processes up to date and shipshape, and get involved at the frontline of fundraising.
While this role sits within our fundraising team, fundraising or charity experience isn’t necessary - you may come from another background altogether or be looking to take your career in a different direction.
You will likely have some comms and admin experience, excellent working knowledge of social media, a positive attitude, and a commitment to the vision, mission, and values of Edinburgh Food Project.
If you think that any of the following describe you then we want to hear from you:
Well-organised
Helpful
Efficient
Kind
Enthusiastic
Problem-solver
Creative
Accurate
Confident
Adaptable
Edinburgh Food Project offers a range of benefits including generous annual leave, competitive salaries, flexible working, and training opportunities.
The main focus of this new role is to grow and develop supporter relationships that secure the longer-term sustainability of ELFB through grants, corporate donations and sponsorships.
This role would be suited to someone with strong written communication skills and relationship building skills who is driven and well organised.
Key responsibilities
Relationship development
- Respond positively and professionally to supporter enquiries
- Identify and research funders, develop and maintain a pipeline of prospects
- Build and maintain relationships with funders
- Make applications to funders ranging from letters to small family trusts to large and complex lottery or statutory body bids.
- Ensure funding bid and reporting deadlines are adhered to and maintain productive relationships with all funders
- Report on performance and social outcomes
- Actively promote and encourage fundraising activity within the community
- Represent ELFB at fundraising and networking events as required
Fundraising Strategy
- Work closely with the Foodbank Manager to establish fundraising targets and strategy
- Support the development of a calendar of fundraising events
- Lead the development of supporter communications to effectively engage with all areas of the community across all channels including digital media
- Ensure compliance with all regulations, codes of practice and best practice in the sector
- Positively represent ELFB and its work at events, meetings and strive to increase awareness of the Organisations work and need for support
- Embed a fundraising culture throughout ELFB that maximises all opportunities for engagement and support.
Other:
- Undertake any other duties that may be reasonably expected to fulfil the role.
Person Specification
Essential:
- Experience of working in a fundraising role
- Experience of securing funds/contracts
- Experience of developing and submitting successful written applications
- Excellent written and face to face communication skills and the ability to connect with a range of different people
- Able to support and contribute in a committed and diverse team
- Ability to manage time effectively including working to tight deadlines
- Computer literacy with a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
Desirable:
- Experience within the charity voluntary sector
- Understanding of GDPR and compliance re data handling
- Understanding of the causes and factors contributing to food insecurity and food poverty, and the need for crisis and more than food responses
- Knowledge of the funding landscape across Scotland
- Full Driving License
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Top job! Senior Consultant
- Full time
- £42,996 – £46,644
- Edinburgh or Inverness (Hybrid)
- Closing 7th May 2024
Changeworks has over 35 years’ experience in delivering high impact solutions for low-carbon living. We work collaboratively with partners, organisations and householders to drive transformation in energy efficiency and to tackle fuel poverty. An opportunity for a Senior Consultant has come up in our busy and growing consultancy team.
This role is based within our Consultancy Team and will report to the Principal Consultant. The team work across the sustainability agenda for internal and external clients. They specialise in energy efficiency, heat decarbonisation and renewables in the built environment, fuel poverty and pro-environmental behaviour change. As Senior Consultant you will grow Changeworks involvement in the low carbon energy transition, making a telling strategic contribution and developing and delivering related service, project and business opportunities.
You will develop and deliver services that build on building data analysis and incorporate best practice in energy efficiency retrofit, low carbon heat and wider energy systems to decarbonise homes. Identifying and developing business opportunities and securing work for Changeworks and the Consultancy team will be a key aspect of this role.
Using your project management skills you will manage the delivery of high quality services and projects. You will allocate work, lead, oversee, monitor and sign off on the work of the team. You will manage projects, ensuring they achieve their aims and objectives and are delivered on time and to budget.
You will have at least 3 years’ experience delivering in a relevant professional and/or project management role. Experience of working in a relevant environment is also essential (e.g. academic, business, technology or community).
You’ll be joining Changeworks at a very exciting time as we continue to drive forward our strategy to help us scale our work and achieve our ambitious goal of decarbonising homes across Scotland.
Changeworks is a great place to work. We hold Investors in People Platinum accreditation (something only a few organisations in Scotland have), and we were nominated for employer of the year by the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce this year. Our staff overwhelmingly would recommend us as an employer too.
The Climate Emergency has resulted in ambitious national targets to reduce carbon emissions from the built environment and reduce rates of fuel poverty. This has driven a significant increase in the number of pilot and large-scale interventions delivered by Changeworks and external organisations in this area. These include area-based domestic energy efficiency retrofit and decarbonisation projects and programmes.
We are a growing organisation, and this role is crucial to the delivery of our ambitious objectives. We want to decarbonise homes in Scotland on a massive scale, and that needs talented individuals like you to help us deliver on our objectives. You’ll receive full training plus coaching and mentoring.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits including flexible working, bike to work scheme, an excellent pension scheme and 26 days paid holiday plus 9 public holidays per year.
At Changeworks, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone.
Are you an exceptional leader, ambitious for change to improve victims’ and witnesses’ experiences of the criminal justice system? Leading charity VSS is looking for high calibre and committed professionals to join our Board of Trustees.
- We are looking for people with a proven track record in: Strategic planning or Strategic communications and business development or IT and digital or Health
- We welcome applications from individuals with lived experience, or from all backgrounds, cultures, and communities
- Download a Recruitment Pack today: victimsupport.scot/about-us/news-list/join-victim-support-scotland-as-a-charity-trustee
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