- Advertised from 7th June 2022
- 21-month fixed term until March 2024. 21-month fixed term until March 2024. Applications for secondment are welcomed).
Role
Capital City Partnership is delighted to share this exciting job opportunity with all partnership agencies (applications for secondment are welcomed).
Capital City Partnership (CCP) is an arm’s length company of the City of Edinburgh Council and is tasked with the operational development, management and support of local and regional employability and poverty reduction measures.
Funded by National Lottery Young Start, the Youth Engagement Officer will play an integral role in shaping and developing the pioneering Whole Family Equality Project (WFEP), ensuring that the joined-up support is offered to those from minority ethnic backgrounds who are affected by poverty and disadvantage.
The Youth Engagement Officer role will be an exciting and varied role: including engagement with young people, families and communities, participation in our Citizen’s panel, multi-agency working with delivery partners, and contribution to shaping the evolving Joined Up for Families strategy with the aspiration to lift ethnic minority families out of poverty.
For details, please find the attached Job Description. We are keen to hear from organisations who have staff that would be interested in a secondment opportunity and welcome the chance to work with voluntary and community-based organisations in partnership. Should you require further information, please contact Ying Zhang, Strategy and Development Manager on 07513 233614 or ying.zhang@capitalcitypartnership.org .
Application notes
An application pack is available for download below.
Closing date: 30th June 2022
Interviews to be held 7th July 2022
CCP actively encourage applications from people with Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds
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Facilitator
- Full time
- £28,000 – £35,000
- Staffin, Isle of Skye with some travel around Scotland. (On site)
- Closing 29th April 2024
At Columba 1400 we enable young people, especially from tough realities, and the key adults in their lives to lead lives of meaning, purpose, and contribution. Since 2000 we’ve helped more than 12,500 young people and adults transform their lives.
Through our bespoke values-based leadership experiences, we create a nurturing environment where participants can explore their strengths, build confidence, and embrace their unique talents.
Our founding principles of warmth of welcome, warmth of hospitality, and the sense of being on a shared journey guide everything we do.
Participants emerge from our academies with greater confidence, clarity about their goals, and a renewed sense of purpose, ready to make a positive difference.
Overall Purpose of Role
The purpose of this role is to facilitate the delivery of our Young People’s Leadership Academies and to be alongside participants as they realise their true potential.
The successful candidate will work in partnership with the Columban Team to ensure the highest standards of delivery are maintained throughout our leadership academies as well as supporting the information and data gathering to demonstrate our impact.
In this post you will help to provide a supportive, warm, and nurturing environment for young people, and key adults. Through your compassionate approach and values-based leadership, you will inspire and uplift young people, helping them to realise their inherent strengths and capabilities.
Top job! Chief Executive Officer
- Full time
- £65,000
- Merchiston Campus in Edinburgh, with regular travel to Craiglockhart and Sighthill Campuses within the city. (On site)
- Closing 22nd April 2024
Edinburgh Napier Students’ Association (‘ENSA’ to our friends) exists to enable students to make the most of their university experience. We do this by representing, supporting, and developing Edinburgh Napier students to be successful in their studies; to try out new things; to engage in, and contribute to university life; to be healthy and happy; to bring about positive change; and most importantly have fun to make it an unforgettable experience.
As our CEO is moving on to pastures new, we are now looking to recruit a new Chief Executive Officer who will lead a motivated and dynamic professional staff of 14 and develop and support our three sabbaticals who, each year, are elected by the student community at Edinburgh Napier. The post-holder will have the opportunity to lead on the development and delivery of a new strategic plan as our Strategy 2021 – 2024 comes to an end.
About the Role:
Under the direction of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer is accountable for the leadership, management, and sustainability of the Students’ Association, alongside providing support to the Elected Officers enabling them to fulfil their duties to the best of their potential.
In this role, you will be required to coach, develop, and provide leadership to the Students’ Association’s staff and to take responsibility for ENSA’s management and administration within the accountability frameworks established by the Board of Directors.
The role holder will not only be forward-looking, with a continuous focus on improvement but also have a deep understanding and appreciation for student issues and student experience.
We truly believe in the power of diversity and understand that different viewpoints are important to achieving goals, that's why we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences.
For a comprehensive list of duties and full job description, please see the Recruitment Pack PDF.
What we will need from you:
• Experienced working at a board-level, either reporting to, or serving on a Board
• Excellent leadership, coaching and influencing skills to drive change forward.
• An excellent understanding of governance, compliance and university structures
• Writing high-quality reports and policy pieces
• Managing budgets and setting and overseeing internal controls
• Developing strategies and implementing strategic change Forging productive partnerships with stakeholders
SCOREscotland is based in South West Edinburgh. Our mission and purpose for existence is to work in partnership with others to address the causes and effects of racism and to promote race equality and break down barriers to the full participation of local black and minority ethnic communities in all aspects of civic life. As a small organisation we offer the benefits of working in a team that is committed to making a difference to the people that we work with.
We are looking for skilled and experienced youth project worker who is passionate about engaging with young people (11 – 18 years) old and about supporting them to make progress on our outcomes.
Are you passionate about working with young people?
Are you interested in working with the black and minority ethnic (BME) communities?
Are you professional and positive?
Are you a creative team player?
Do you have skills that you would like to share with young people?
We are based at WHALE Arts Centre, Wester Hailes but we take our young people throughout the city and beyond.
Please see attached job description for more details.
The Post
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the University of Stirling Students’ Union as Sports Development Coordinator to plan, coordinate and deliver our comprehensive sports development programmes, in conjunction with the Sports President. You will manage and develop the Sports Administrator. You will also support sports union members, with particular focus but not exclusively, in the areas of Club Development, Participation, Health and Wellbeing and Finance & Funding.
About Us
Stirling Students’ Union is the representative student body at the University of Stirling. We are a registered charity and exist to support students getting the best degree, helping students make friends, supporting students when they need support and building skills for the future. We do this by supporting academic reps, providing volunteering opportunities, societies and sports clubs. We also offer support, employability skills, advice and opportunities to influence our sustainability work. We are proudly student led and each spring elect four full time paid students to lead our work: President, Vice President Communities, Vice President Education and Sports Union President.
About You
We’re looking for a talented and passionate individual to join our organisation. You’ll be driven, using your initiative to support a wide range of organisational initiatives, programmes and projects. Specific duties of the role include:
Club Development
· Strategic approach to development and delivery of BUCS, ensuring improvement and effective use of funding.
· Develop and implement a comprehensive plan (actions, targets, responsibilities and resources).
· Increase club membership and participation.
· Ensure clubs are accessible and inclusive to all participants.
· Contribute to the formulation of policy and procedures as required, in collaboration with other Coordinators.
· Design and deliver training for committee members of Sports Clubs.
· Effectively engage students and provide ongoing support and assistance where appropriate.
· Coordinate and deal with member discipline and complaints, contributing to effective process development.
· Assist in the recruitment of coaches to ensure quality of sports provision within clubs.
Participation & Engagement
· Work in partnership with the University to provide opportunities for students to engage in physical activity and sports.
· Work closely with the Student Sport Development Officer on participation programmes for recreational sport.
· Develop mutually beneficial relationships with external partners, (BUCS, SSS, Community Clubs and National Governing Bodies) to increase the range, and quality of sports provision and coaching services provided.
· Work with BUCS, SSS and National Governing bodies to promote volunteering opportunities.
· To monitor, evaluate and report on club activities and identify opportunities for growth.
· To be a mentor on the panel of the Tier 2 programme.
Health & Wellbeing
· Promote and evaluate student wellbeing through engagement with student sport and club activity.
· Plan and take forward projects and campaigns that aim to use physical activity and sport as a method of improving Health & Wellbeing whilst positively impacting on the student experience.
· Engage with Union, University and national campaigns and initiatives for establishing healthy and resilient student communities.
· Embed innovative practices in engaging sports members with sustainability opportunities.
Finance & Funding
· Working with Sports President and Finance Manager to ensure club funds are managed appropriately.
· Oversee the effective running of the Sports Union budget.
· Responsibility for administration of funding requests for Coaches and Capital Equipment.
· In collaboration with Union colleagues deliver signature sports events such as Sports Ball and Varsity.
· Work with Stakeholders on the Kit Tender process.
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