Do you have proven fundraising experience, a passion for proactive Community Fundraising and a real desire to be part of Shelter’s campaign against homelessness and for social justice? Then join us as Community Fundraising Area Manager and you could soon be playing an important role at the heart of our Community & Events team.

About Shelter Scotland

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet over a million people in Scotland struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change, with individuals, in communities, across society, and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

At Shelter Scotland we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent.

We have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter Scotland and welcome you on our journey to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.

About the team

Community & Events is made up of Community Fundraising, Challenge & Bespoke Events and Culture, Entertainment & Sports sub-teams. Together, we look after a wide variety of fundraising activities that encourage supporters to raise money and provide them with excellent support to do so. We’ve made a significant investment in Community Fundraising to grow the team from five in 2019 to 24 currently, despite the pandemic. That’s because increasing engagement in local communities is a central part of both our fundraising and organisational strategy. We now have 12 Regional Fundraisers across England and Scotland; a central Community Fundraising National Relationships team and a robust and supportive management team which, should you join us, you’ll be part of.

About the role

An exciting opportunity with lots of existing and new avenues to explore, you’ll have every chance to really make your mark. That’s because, we have a strategy in place, but there’s still lots to do - and you‘ll be key in developing what we do and how we do it, as well as leading direct reports and the wider team to deliver on your plans. One of your main challenges will be to develop an overarching Community Fundraising team strategy to ensure a clear plan of projected growth and agreed objectives over the next five years. We’ll also look to you to significantly increase Community Fundraising income by enabling the team to proactively engage key audiences and improve the supporter stewardship experience. Creating and delivering an annual budget, taking the lead role for key income streams or activities, helping to create new fundraising products and engaging and influencing key stakeholders – these are just some aspects of this interesting, varied and vital role.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

About you

To succeed, you’ll need to be creative, innovative and able to learn from failure as much as from success. The opportunity to lead, support, coach and empower a team to get out there and achieve success really appeals to you too. You’re also a great believer in putting the supporter experience at the heart of everything you do and eager to engage new and diverse audiences and build authentic relationships – both externally and internally. Adept at influencing and negotiating and great at carrying out detailed analysis or making data-driven decisions, you’re also resilient and, crucially, keen to create a strong, supportive and aspirational culture where the team are motivated by exceeding targets.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.

The Opportunity:

Four Square have an exciting opportunity for a qualified and experienced female to become

our new Senior Community Development Worker. The role is vital to help us achieve our aim of ensuring every woman accessing Womanzone’s services feels safe and secure and has access to the right support to help them recover from trauma and adversity and move on to a positive future. Our aim is that women have a safe and secure home, have a place in their community and a network of positive relationships that support them to build the life they want.

The Role:

The Senior Community Development Worker role has a number of key elements.

Firstly, it is to deliver a holistic programme of individual and group support and activities in collaboration with partners in the voluntary and statutory sector, volunteers, peer mentors and social work students on placement.

Alongside service delivery a key part of the role is to undertake research, stakeholder consultation and seek funding opportunities to develop Womanzone into a sustainable project into the future.

To deliver the programme and achieve the outcomes we set at Womanzone, the worker will support social work students on placement by acting as their link worker; they will recruit, train, and support women to become peer mentors and; they will recruit, induct, and support volunteers who are offering their skills to the project.

Other tasks of the role include gathering and evaluating feedback and any complaints, data entry on CRM and other IT systems and preparing quantitative and qualitative data reports regularly to funders commissioners and Four Squares Leadership Team to demonstrate the impact of the service and the direction of the project.

To be a Senior Community Development Worker you will need:

• Strong personal and professional values that align with our Organisational values of integrity, excellence, dignity and support;
• Excellent interpersonal skills with people who use our services, colleagues and partners;
• In-depth understanding of gender-based violence, domestic abuse, homelessness, trauma and adversity and how it impacts life outcomes for those we support and ensure the staff team stays up to date with research and policy developments;
• Excellent group work skills and knowledge of community development approaches;
• A commitment to learning and developing and putting this into practice;
• Be a reflective practitioner and be an active participant in regular reflective practice group supervision;
• A commitment to individual supervision and appraisal processes and motivation to action the personal development plan;
• To support students, peer mentors and volunteers to engage in regular support and supervision;
• To ensure students, peer mentors and volunteers undertake the induction programme;
• Ensure Womanzone meets the standards set down by the Organisation, funders and regulatory bodies;
• Membership of regulatory bodies required of the role and application of the codes
• and standards to their practice;
• To demonstrate leadership skills be an active participant of the wider management team; To be engaged in the wider Organisation’s activities;
• To demonstrate honesty, integrity, trustworthiness and be respectful to all – colleagues, people they support, partners, commissioners etc. and encourage this in the staff team;
• Be committed to excellence and engage in improvement plans for the services or Organisation;
• Be creative in their approach to supporting people;

Requirements:

• Must be qualified to degree level in a relevant subject i.e. social work, social sciences, psychology, community education or equivalent etc.;
• To comply always with Four Square’s Code of Conduct, together with its policies and procedures with regards to the maintenance of professional relationships between colleagues, the People We Work With and external organisations;
• To adhere to and maintain, all health and safety standards;
• To work in accordance with Four Square’s core values and mission statement.
• To undertake any other reasonable duties as directed (including providing cover for colleagues, as directed);
• To comply always with the Safeguarding Policy and Procedure;
• To attend conferences/seminars/training, as required.

The Organisation’s Offer:

• Competitive salary
• Supportive work environment
• Learning and development opportunities

Terms & Conditions:

This is a full time, permanent position:

• 35 hours per week, flexibly between Monday to Sunday to ensure the services meet their contractual requirements;
• £30,100 per annum;
• 35 days annual leave entitlement.

Are you passionate about the Arts, and understand the benefits they can have for young people’s wellbeing?

Do you want to do a job where you can make a real difference to other people’s lives?

Are you looking for a role where every day is different and to work in a team with other creative people?

If so, this new role working with young people may be the perfect opportunity for you.

About the post

The Senior Keyworker will lead the delivery and implementation of arts-based activities at Creative Natives designed to support wellbeing as well managing a small team of keyworkers. Central to the role will be a passion for art and a belief in the importance of creativity to promote wellbeing in young people.

We support young people to explore their next steps in life through the medium of creativity in all its forms including art, music, fashion, animation, photography, graphic design and web design.

It's an exciting time to join Creative Natives as the service is expanding to provide support to young people experiencing eating disorders through a programme of arts/creativity-based activity and where possible also to their siblings and families to improve wellbeing through art.

About you

You will be an outgoing individual with a creative and innovative approach. Experience of working with young people and a background in, or understanding of, mental health issues in young people is essential.

Ideally you will have some knowledge of, or experience of working with, young people with eating disorders.

You should be passionate about helping young people reach their potential and experienced in building positive relationships.

You’ll have an interest in art and creativity, and keen to use your excellent relationship-building and organisational skills to make ‘small differences’ to improve the wellbeing of others.

You will have experience of managing a team and be an approachable and responsible individual.

How we’ll support you

You’ll be working independently, managing a team of keyworkers with a supportive service manager. You will have access to wider Cyrenians support, including our learning and development programme, and staff wellbeing services.

About the service

Creative Natives is an art-based project that uses creativity to promote positive mental health and wellbeing with young people aged 12-24 in a safe creative studio. This includes those who have disengaged from school and need additional support, and those who have left school with no positive destination. Many of the attendees have experienced poor mental health due to a number of factors including neurodiversity, gender identity, social anxiety and exclusion, often aggravated by social isolation caused by the pandemic.

About us

At Cyrenians we tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness. We understand that there are many routes into homelessness, and that there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach to supporting people towards more positive and stable futures. That’s why all our work is values-led and relationships-based.

Our values

• Compassion: We believe that everyone should have the chance to change, no matter how long that might take.

• Respect: We believe in tolerance, acceptance, valuing diversity and treating each other as equals.

• Integrity: We are committed to the highest quality of work, grounded in honesty, generosity, sincerity and professionalism.

• Innovation: We are willing to take risks, challenge convention and be creative in our search for new ways of working, in particular by taking account of the environmental impact of our decisions.

Are you passionate about working with older people and supporting them to have more ‘good days’? Are you creative in your approach and enthusiastic about system change? Do you believe that people are experts in their own lives?

Our Community Resilience Worker role may be the one for you.

Come and join our new and innovative City-Wide Resilience Service, and be part of an exciting and ambitious team supporting older people across Edinburgh.

About the City-Wide Resilience Service (Older People)

The Resilience Service aims to work holistically and person centred with people aged 60 plus living in Edinburgh. Providing comprehensive keywork to individual clients, helping break down the barriers which are preventing them from living healthy fulfilled lives and becoming more resilient in coping with life adversities. We will also work with colleagues in client/patient facing roles to help them access vital support for the older people they support.

The Edinburgh Community Resilience Programme will fund this work delivered in partnership with QMU, making positive futures a reality.

About the Role

You’ll be:

• Building trusted relationships with older people, providing one-to-one holistic case work in their home environment including income maximisation, housing needs awareness, access to health and well-being services, re-connecting with local community.

• Learning of their needs, interests, the challenges they face, and what matters most to them.

• Engaging and creating partnerships with the wider community (residents, other professionals, volunteers, business owners, etc.)

· Working in close partnership with Queen Margaret University researchers to support the research processes.

About you

You will be a people-person and relationship focussed. You’ll be a good listener and passionate about the rights of older people.

You’ll be solution focussed, and enjoy developing and implementing new ideas.

You will be values led in your approach and be committed to acting as an advocate for the people you support.

You’ll have experience of working with older people in community-based settings as well as the confidence to work autonomously.

You’ll also be highly organised, proficient in the use of Microsoft Office and have experience of using database systems.

How we’ll support you

This role will be fully supported by the service manager and team and our partners (QMU, Thrive). You will be given full training on all aspects of your role. You’ll also have access to wider Cyrenians support, including our learning and development programme, and staff wellbeing services.

About us

At Cyrenians we tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness. We understand that there are many routes into homelessness and that there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach to supporting people towards more positive and stable futures. That’s why all our work is values-led and relationships-based.

Our values

Compassion: We believe that everyone should have the chance to change, no matter how long that might take.

Respect: We believe in tolerance, acceptance, valuing diversity and treating each other as equals.

Integrity: We are committed to the highest quality of work, grounded in honesty, generosity, sincerity and professionalism.

Innovation: We are willing to take risks, challenge convention and be very creative in our search for new ways of working, in particular by taking account of the environmental impact of our decisions.

This post is initially funded for 3 years by The Edinburgh Community Resilience Programme.