- Advertised from 30th March 2022
- 35 hours a week
Role
Are you interested in joining an award-winning Scottish charity whose aim is to provide support to people whose lives are affected by mental ill-health? Our fundraising team in Edinburgh is looking for someone with a passion for and an understanding for fundraising and looking to use their skills and experience to make an impact.
Support in Mind Scotland provides support throughout Scotland and offers a range of services to people directly affected by a mental health issue and to those who care for them, whether family, friend or supporter.
We are committed to delivering services shaped by the lived experienced of people affected by mental health. We believe in a holistic approach to providing support and aim to empower our service user to make the best use of what help and support is available to them.
For us fundraising is about maximising our impact to support more people, in new and exciting ways, with their mental health. We have an exciting opportunity for a Fundraising Manager to join our expanding and friendly fundraising team.
The Fundraising team is responsible for generating income for Support in Mind Scotland across a range of sources. In this role you will work across a range of different fundraising functions including trust and foundations and supporter giving and be responsible for growing, developing and in some places initiating those new streams of new income. The role will work with charitable trusts and foundations and statutory grant-makers, such as central government departments, developing relationships to bring in income to support our strategic plans and ambitions.
Fundraising works closely with teams across a very person-centred and value driven organisation to communicate the need for support, telling the stories of the work our charity delivers and how we’re changing lives for people affected by mental illness.
We are looking for someone with trust and foundation experience but also who is open to developing and delivering new income streams. Someone who doesn’t mind a bit of desk work but understands the importance of building powerful relationships in an increasingly competitive fundraising environment.
You will be friendly and outgoing with an eye for building systems and processes that work. You will be an excellent writer and happy to write bids and proposals. You will be a problem solver, someone who is ambitious to grow and develop new income streams and doesn’t mind mucking in and getting things done.
Who are we looking for?
As Fundraising Manager you will:
- engage trusts and grant-makers in our plans to help us secure and deliver on our annual targets
- plan and manage your own workload, organising a range of internal and external-facing projects and prioritising relationship development with trusts and grant-makers.
- submit compelling funding applications with detailed budgets containing confidential information.
- take proactive steps to understand the funding environment and make plans accordingly.
- interpret complex internal information for specific trusts and grants audiences to engage them and maximise relationship development.
- proactively develop stewardship of trusts and grant-makers, including identifying the best ways to engage them face-to-face with colleagues from across the organisation.
- carry out prospect research regularly.
- maintain and improve internal records to help improve relationships with trusts and grant-makers.
- forecast income and expenditure, report on these and take early mitigating action when necessary.
- possibly, in future, manage staff - recruiting, supervising, listening to and improving this team.
- disseminate information to the National Management Team, specifically area managers and advocate for them.
- support the Director of Fundraising and Business Development with wider fundraising activities and strategy
- work with colleagues across fundraising and communications
- work highly persuasively with colleagues, at all levels across the organisation, to help them to
- understand how to develop projects and proposals that will develop relationships with trusts and grant-makers to maximise long-term income.
- contribute to regular reports on activity and income and expenditure against budget.
- contribute to a culture of consistent improvement through ongoing analysis: monitoring, testing, refining and evaluating the success of all new and existing activity.
Reporting to: Director of Fundraising and Business Development
If you are passionate about enabling Support in Mind Scotland to deliver a valuable service to Scotland and
feel your profile matches this role’s criteria, then we want to hear from you!
Why join us
This is a great opportunity to join a thriving charity and help shape its future. In return for your work, passion and dedication, we offer scope for development, a benefit package including 37 days’ holiday, enhanced sick pay, season ticket loan, regular support & supervision, flexible as well as blended working pattern to help with work-life balance, additional leave for care and dependent responsibilities, and 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme giving free legal, financial and medical advice, and support when coping with life's difficulties and challenges.
We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds and value the unique experience that each individual brings to our organisation. We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion within our workforce, and to building a team made up of diverse skills, experiences and kinds of life experiences.
Find out more about us on our Website at supportinmindscotland.org.uk and on Social Media.
Application notes
Please email your completed application pack to join@supportinmindscotland.org.uk by midday 18-04-2022. With: Recruitment– Fundraising Manager in your email subject line.
Interview date: w/c 02 May (Held via video call)
We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
If you consider yourself to have a disability, please complete the relevant section within the application pack to inform us of any arrangements that we may make to the interview process.
We reserve the right to close this advert earlier or later than stated, so please don’t delay your application to avoid any disappointment.
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Freelance Operations Consultant working with and reporting to interim CEO
- Full time
- Sessional
- Edinburgh or Glasgow (or nearby). You will be invited to work from our working space one day per week, with the option to co-work more often (Hybrid)
- Closing 8th April 2024
Tiny Changes is Scotland’s first national young people’s mental health charity. We run projects with young leaders that help young minds feel better. The charity was set up in memory of artist and Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison. Through his music and art Scott made tiny changes that had a big impact on people from all walks of life.
We believe that Scotland’s young people deserve great mental health, and we believe in their insight and innovation to make this possible. We exist to nurture the talent of young people to find solutions that work for them.
In three years, we’ve funded 69 innovative mental health ideas - from bubble therapy with refugees to peer-led crisis prevention cafe and d/Deaf youth wellbeing resources - supporting over 4,000 children and young people, with many of them leading change in their communities. You can read more about our strategy here.
The Tiny Changes team is growing all the time. We currently have 6 Trustees and will be looking to recruit another 2 trustees to join the Board later this year. The Tiny Changes Team is made up of 3 employees and 1 consultant, creative partners and young advisors. You can read more about our team over on our blog.
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As a freelance operations consultant at Tiny Changes, you will support the interim CEO with the management of all charity and day to day operational activities, continuing the development of the charity in line with organisational objectives and strategic direction. Working closely with our small team, you will contribute to the overall direction of charity-wide operations. Supporting the management of co-production (youth lead projects), fundraising, human resources, health and safety and equality diversity and inclusion, to ensure our processes are up to date, compliant, meet the overall needs of the organisation and reflect our values.
What will you bring to Tiny Changes?
We are looking for applicants with the following characteristics:
1. Share our vision and values - we are Hopeful, Brave, Honest and Kind
2. Have knowledge of or interest in mental health issues affecting children and young people in Scotland
3. Active listener, equalities driven and self-reflective
We particularly welcome applications from the following groups:
• Young people under 30
• Young people with experience of mental health issues
• Disabled people
• Neurodiverse people
• People with experience of caring roles
• Care experienced people
• People from minority ethnic communities
• Asylum seekers or refugees
• People who identify as any gender that’s not cisgender
• People who identify as LGBTQIA+
• People from gypsy traveller communities
• People from a wide range of religious and cultural backgrounds
You can find more information in the Job Description and Person Specification linked below.
Role Accessibility: This role requires frequent travel and use of your own vehicle
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The role of Fundraising Manager at Hearts & Minds offers an incredibly exciting opportunity to drive meaningful change and support our impactful programmes at this momentous time in the charity’s history. As a pivotal member of the team, you'll spearhead the development of a comprehensive fundraising strategy that directly fuels the organization's initiatives. This role isn't just about securing funds; it's about crafting compelling narratives and fostering connections to inspire individuals, communities, and corporations to support a cause that truly matters. The dynamism lies in the ability to shape the future of Hearts & Minds by creating sustainable income streams that directly translate into tangible support for their programmes.
The Job Description and Person Specification is available to download below.
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- £36,839 – £39,704
- Home based - regular travel for work and meetings/supervision in Glasgow (Remote)
- Closing 29th March 2024
We’re hiring for an Evaluation Coordinator!
We’re recruiting for an Evaluation Coordinator who will work with colleagues and partners to embed evaluation in our team and across our network.
Innovation and impact are central themes of our work as we seek to promote and support the development of recovery approaches, share learning, inform and influence. We are keenly interested in the impacts of our activities and also to better understand the wider impacts of the many recovery approaches we promote and support.
You will be committed to values-based practice, mental health recovery and excited by the opportunity to work with others to bring about much needed change in our mental health system.
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“Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling the heart of another”
Alfred Adler
| Compassion | Integrity | Respect | Realising Potential | Inclusion |
Health in Mind is one of Scotland’s best-known and trusted Mental Health Charities. Established in 1982 we have evolved in response to need which means we actively promote positive mental health in local communities across Scotland. Our vision is straight forward, we build hope and live life through our values because people are at the heart of what we do.
We have a great opportunity for a number of experienced practitioners to join our team. You will bring compassion, integrity, positivity and reflection, delivering effective and high-quality support to those individuals who access support from Future Pathways.
Future Pathways offers support to people who were abused or neglected a child when they were in the Scottish care system. The service was established alongside the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry and has expanded considerably since its start in 2016. Future Pathways’ aim is to help people live well. To change paths, enjoy life, succeed and grow.
Reaching our shortlist is straightforward providing you can say ‘yes’ to our list of ‘must haves’. You can start your journey now by simply downloading an application pack from our website but before you start your travels, please kindly make sure the following ‘fits’ into your career and personal attributions rucksack because life is a journey.
- We’d like a degree in Health and Social Care, Social Work or equivalent but, if you hold a recognised, relevant professional qualification at a minimum SVQ Level 4 with relevant workplace experience this works too.
- Up to date child and vulnerable adult protection knowledge together and ideally completion of suicide prevention training such as ASIST.
- You are an exceptional compassionate individual with experience of working with those in society who’ve faced personal challenges, childhood disturbance, abuse, separation, institutional care and trauma
- Curiosity, empathy and a focus on learning, empowerment, collaboration and self- awareness.
- Experience of personal outcomes focused approaches, working in partnership with people to set goals, agree plan and support people to achieve their potential.
- Able to hold hope and walk alongside someone on their journey, you are good at nurturing self confidence and supporting people to make positive changes in their lives
- Worked with staff in accordance with the statutory framework and requirement including GDPR, BACP, the SSSC and the Care Inspectorate.
- Knowledge of and positive engagement with Impact Evaluation and Quality Assurance Frameworks for the purposes of continuous improvement. and practice development.
With a great range of benefits including 30 days annual leave plus 10 public holidays and 2 wellbeing days, we work fulltime 36.25 hours per week.
Committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, we embrace and encourage people from all walks of life, including welcoming applications from Neurodiverse individuals. It is important to us that you feel comfortable and confident and, as such, we are willing to adjust or adapt our application, interview and selection process to suit your needs, including working patterns and hybrid working wherever and whenever we can. Simply contact us and we’ll come back to you.
This role does, however, require periodic but not continuous office presence.
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