About the role:

We seek a full-time Engagement and Fundraising Officer to engage supporters, build effective relationships, raise funds, and enhance the profile of Lead Scotland’s work through marketing, engagement, and communication with supporters. This role will also assist in engaging the interest of potential volunteers across Scotland.

About you:

You will be passionate about the transformative power of adult learning in Scotland and engaging positively with adult learners, staff, volunteers, and wider stakeholders. This will require that you are confident in communicating one-to-one, with groups, with partner organisations, and have a flexible, dynamic, and creative approach to problem-solving.

You will be adept at using your creative skills to tell the story of our work in different ways to a range of audiences using a range of media. As such you will be digitally agile, comfortable in deploying technology across different online platforms to engage people.

A capable fundraiser and project manager, you will be able to demonstrate your ability to raise funds and create new relationships and partnerships with stakeholders. In doing so, you will be inclusive in your approach: someone who is committed to working in a way which is inclusive by default.

The Engagement & Fundraising Officer post involves travel throughout Scotland. It could be based at Lead Scotland’s headquarters in Edinburgh, but homebased working could be considered depending on location.

Applications from disabled people:

Lead has Disability Confident status, and we encourage applications from disabled people. All disabled people meeting the minimum requirements will get a guaranteed interview. Information about our commitment to recruit disabled people is available on our website. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this in the online form. This will in no way disadvantage you in the recruitment process. All job application information can be made in alternative formats on request, including braille, large print and audio and people can make applications in alternative formats.

Recruitment paperwork is kept for 6 months before it is destroyed. Please complete our anonymous equal opportunities form to help us ensure we are attracting a broad range of candidates.

As SNAPs first ever Fundraising Engagement Officer, you will seek to increase individual and group contributions by building relationships and exploring new fundraising opportunities.

About you

This new role will entail building relationships to allow SNAP to forge new funding streams, as such you will be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, as well as having a proven track record in putting together funding applications to trusts and foundations. Experience in community fundraising will be a bonus, as will management of events of any description. You will be energetic and inspiring and have knowledge of the reality of life for children and adults with severe and complex needs and their families.

Role Purpose

SNAP is embarking on an ambitious chapter of its journey. Having been created in 1996 initially as a parent support group, we have grown with the needs of the children and young people and their families who benefit from the variety of services we now run. We currently benefit over 100 children and young people aged between 5 and 37 who live in or go to school in Inverness through our After School Clubs, Holiday Clubs, Saturday outings, Weekend Breaks, Youth Clubs, Transitions Services and a monthly Adults Club. Next year we are set to expand into a purpose built centre, the first of its kind in Scotland. We will double the number of children and young people able to access our existing services and will create many new, much needed services and activities. Crucially, young people from all over the Highlands will have access to our new services.

This role is crucial to our plans – without new funding streams and communicating the benefits of SNAP to a wider audience, we will not be able to flourish.

Networking is an important part of the role since success depends heavily on being able to forge positive relationships with supporters old and new.

• You will aim to raise the profile of SNAP through the Highlands’ Business Community in various ways – talks, organising payroll giving, Corporate Fundraisers, Legacy Giving or gaining sponsorship for specific activities or events.
• You will assist with funding applications, research new trusts and foundations and build relationships with funders new and old.
• You will be the point of contact for community fundraising initiatives, e.g 5k fun runs, sponsored walks
• You will use your initiative and imagination to create new and exciting ways to help raise funds for SNAP, recruiting volunteers to assist in any way they can

SNAP is a small charity and as such you’ll be made to feel a part of the family right from the start. You’ll see for yourself the impact your role has on the organisation

We aim to be flexible for the right candidate, so hours can be flexible and pay is negotiable. This post can also be home based, although one catch up a day in our office in Inverness will be required.

Scottish Autism seeks to promote and provide care, education, support and opportunities for people with autism of all ages throughout Scotland. We work tirelessly to create a world where autistic people are understood and enabled to lead meaningful, fulfilling and happy lives as valued members of the community.

A key expectation of everyone who works for Scottish Autism is that they live and breathe our values; Collaboration, Change Makers, Compassion and Contribution. Our values come into play throughout everything we do at work – how we work together, and how we deliver services to the people we support and to the people we work alongside.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Income Generation Partner to join our team. You will assist the Income Generation Lead to develop and implement the income generation strategy, stewarding donors and generating income from key funders, partnerships, projects and events

In this role you will:

• Develop new and existing relationships and partnerships with businesses, foundations and grant-makers
• Develop and steward corporate partners and key supporters
• Identify and research income development opportunities for training and consultancy services
• Work with the Marketing and Communications Team on internal and external marketing activity, maximising opportunities to publicise the name and work of Scottish Autism
• Identify marketing opportunities to drive fundraising and income development

The successful candidate will:

• Be committed to and demonstrate our organisational values
• Have the ability to work collaboratively across the organisation and with external partners
• Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and be able to influence
• Be self-driven, proactive, self-motivated and goal-orientated
• Have strong customer service/relationship management skills and be able to present effectively
• Be flexible to step up and take on additional coordination or overseeing specific income streams when required

You will be educated to at least Higher level and ideally have fundraising experience, including trusts, foundations and corporate fundraising, plus account management experience. However transferrable skills will also be considered

Scottish Autism offers you:

• 32 days holiday (which increases with your length of service)
• Non-contributory life assurance scheme
• Workplace Pension
• Discounts at high street retailers, travel and gyms

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure check.

Scottish Autism is a smoke free organisation. Our aim is to protect the Health and Wellbeing of our employees and the individuals we support by providing a smoke free environment.

The Volunteer Co-ordinator role demands a pro-active approach and the ability to work independently and on own initiative to achieve agreed objectives. The current team works very flexibly to maximise the impact of this small organisation across Scotland, raise awareness of the impact of speech, language and communication disabilities and improve services for families and their children. This position will be best suited to someone who can work flexibly, enjoys a challenge and does not need a highly structured framework to manage their own, and other people’s work effectively.

SLCo provides information, supports local parent groups, develops resources and offers a programme of training, workshops and conferences to support parents and CYP (and professionals). We are a registered provider of C.P.D. in Scotland. SLCo seeks to develop a small team of volunteers who will engage with our services and local authority community planning partnerships and develop volunteer networks for parents and families across multiple geographic areas.

This role is ideal for a self-starter with a range of key skills; a dynamic individual who is able to work independently within the communities covered by our project. You must demonstrate experience in volunteer management and possess disability and equalities awareness, have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and evidence considerable experience in person-centred working. You will value the people you engage with as the experts and be familiar with community engagement principles and local authority partnerships.

You will be responsible for supporting and developing a new volunteer programme to help build a volunteer base to support service delivery and act as a local voice for children and their families.

The post-holder must be proficient in the use of internet and social media, and wider I.C.T. is desirable. This is an exciting, new opportunity for someone with the relevant experience who can make a considerable impact. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and actively seek to promote equality and diversity within the organisation. The Volunteer Co-ordinator will be responsible to the Director. The post is pensionable in line with Automatic Enrolment.

Fixed-term post, funded by Scottish Government through Volunteering Support Fund.