- Advertised from 13th December 2021
Role
Venture Trust believes no one should be left behind because they are struggling with adversity, inequality, or vulnerability. That is why we are supporting people to gain the life skills, stability and confidence needed to reach their potential – through intensive personal development in Scotland’s communities and outdoors.
The Covid-19 pandemic has emphasised the gap between those in the most and least deprived areas of Scotland. Unfortunately, Venture Trust’s work is never more needed to tackle inequality, reduce the harm of crime, improve people’s health, and help people reach their potential.
The Funding and Partnerships Officer is part of our wider Funding and Partnerships Team, which plays a key part in ensuring we can continue providing life-changing opportunities for people.
This is a great opportunity to join a highly collaborative and supportive team. You'll have a unique opportunity to advance your career developing new partnerships, inputting into programme design, and helping an ambitious team deliver Venture Trust’s new strategy for 2022-2025.
You will grow and manage internal and external relationships to generate income, working across departments and key income streams to develop, prepare and manage funding applications and bids. Key income streams include statutory, trusts & foundations and corporate.
This role is ideally suited to someone who loves collaborating with others to achieve great results, who will contribute ideas whilst also being able to work on their own initiative. Although experience in a fundraising role is desirable, the key skills we’re looking for are a proven ability in account management, great interpersonal skills in building strong relationships and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Full induction and in-house training will be provided with ongoing training and networking opportunities.
Application notes
For an informal chat about the role please contact hrteam@venturetrust.org.uk to arrange a call.
To apply for the role, please complete the application form, responding directly to the role specification and key responsibilities. Full application information accessed here: venturetrust.org.uk/about-us/work-us
Closing date for all applications: 9am on Monday 17th January 2022
Interviews will take place on Monday 24th January 2022
Please send completed application forms to hrteam@venturetrust.org.uk or mail to:
HR Team
Venture Trust
Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street
Edinburgh
EH3 9DR
Please note we do not accept CVs.
We are looking for a Fundraising and Operations Lead: a brand new role growing and supporting Hot Chocolate Trust’s outstanding youth work.
Hot Chocolate Trust have worked with young people, aged 12-25, from across Dundee since 2001. We support them on their own terms, grow their confidence and fullest lives, do extraordinary things together and amplify their voices to affect wider change.
This post will consolidate and build the fundraising and operational platforms of Hot Chocolate to support and improve effectiveness and innovation in our youth work.
Fundraising
- To support the Executive Director in ensuring the organization has sufficient funds for its planned operations and for its sustainable future.
- Writing grant funding applications and reports.
- Supporting Teckle Data trading venture.
- Developing relationships with actual and potential funders.
- Planning or supporting periodic community fundraising.
- Ensuring fundraising closely serves Hot Chocolate’s purposes and values.
Operations
- Leading and supporting implementation and development of effective, efficient practices and policies, serving the core purpose and values of the organization.
- IT systems (with contracted IT service).
- Health and safety (with Executive Director).
- Risk management (with Executive Director and youth work managers).
- PVG signatory (with Executive Director and Volunteering Manager).
- Resources & property management (with Executive Director, Finance Manager and youth work managers).
You will bring
- Experience of charity fundraising (especially grant-funding).
- Excellent bid and report writing skills.
- Excellent ICT knowledge and skills.
- Ability to handle confidential information appropriately.
- Commitment to best practice and effective policy in a purposeful, values-based organization.
- Able to work collaboratively and unsupervised with initiative, enthusiasm, and adaptability.
- Commitment to personal continuous learning, and ability to reflect on practice.
- Disclosure through membership of the PVG Scheme.
Hot Chocolate Trust has a Christian ethos in its roots and approaches. You will be part of a team who hold various faith positions and none. You should have a readiness to understand and work positively with this ethos, be yourself, and respect the spirituality of others.
If you have skills or experience in fundraising, especially grants, and are ready to play your part in a committed, creative, hands-on team we would love to hear from you.
Benefits:
- Annual salary will be £32,500.
- Hot Chocolate Trust pays contributions of 10% of salary while employees pay 3.75% of salary which is subject to tax relief.
- Salary exchange is available to support pension value.
- You will be entitled to two “Retreat days” supporting wellbeing each year, in addition to 33 days annual leave.
Are you passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people? Do you want a flexible, varied and meaningful job in a supportive team? Do you value great employee benefits such as 360 Wellbeing membership and an annual training budget? Apply to join us!
Bridges Project is a leading youth work charity that helps young people aged 12-25 in East Lothian and Midlothian overcome challenges and adapt to adulthood. For nearly 40 years, we have helped young people develop their life skills, improve their educational attainment and move into employment or further education.
We have a vacancy for an Educational Support Worker to deliver an effective casework and group work service to young people experiencing a range of challenges such as non-attendance at school, low attainment, poor mental health and family poverty.
The successful candidate will:
- Support young people to gain employability skills, life skills and accreditation; helping them in to work, apprenticeships, further education or vocational training
- Provide vocational/industry specific accreditation and training to groups of young people alongside individual support to address particular barriers
- Take the lead on the service and to provide an effective interface between young people, partners and stakeholders involved in the service.
This is an exciting position in which the successful candidate will take pride in developing a programme of delivery which will provide young people with clear pathways to positive destinations.
It is essential that candidates have a full, clean driving licence and constant use of a car. Membership of the PVG scheme will be an essential requirement of the post. A contributory company pension scheme is offered with a 10% employer contribution.
An exciting opportunity to make a significant difference to childhoods and life prospects of thousands of children in conflict-affected countries.
Lead on planning and roll-out of our £1m appeal for war-affected children in 2025
Independent Living Support Worker, Homemaker service
- Full time
- £24,000 – £26,000
- Musselburgh (On site)
- Closing 17th May 2024
Are you passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people? Do you want a flexible, varied and meaningful job in a supportive team? Do you value great employee benefits such as 360 Wellbeing membership and an annual training budget? Apply to join us!
Bridges Project is a leading youth work charity that helps young people aged 12-25 in East Lothian and Midlothian overcome challenges and adapt to adulthood. For nearly 40 years, we have helped young people develop their life skills, improve their educational attainment and move into employment or further education.
We have a vacancy for an Independent Living Support Worker to provide holistic, bespoke and person-centred one-to-one and group support to 40 young people aged 15-25 in East Lothian with the aim of:
• Supporting people to thrive within the home environment
• Preventing people from losing their home
• Helping people into a home
The successful candidate will deliver a professional homemaker service to young tenants and prospective young tenants on an outreach and centre basis. The post holder will work with partner agencies to ensure the homemaking needs of young people who are referred in to the service are met and will support young people to develop the skills required to live independently. The post holder will work with colleagues to ensure young people benefit from the range of services and activities within Bridges Project.
This is an exciting position in which the successful candidate will take pride in helping people referred in to the homemaker service to take their next steps towards rebuilding their lives by helping them develop the independent living skills necessary to thrive.
It is essential that candidates have a full, clean driving licence and constant use of a car. Membership of the PVG scheme will be an essential requirement of the post. A contributory company pension scheme is offered with a 10% employer contribution.
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