Light Up Learning (LUL) is a registered Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation providing one-to-one mentoring for high school students in Edinburgh and the Lothians to help them ignite a love for learning. As we rapidly expand the size of our organisation, we now have a vacancy for a Development Manager to support the growth and delivery of our service.

The Development Manager role will support the growing administrative workload at Light Up Learning created by our expanding network of schools and will assist the Head of Mentoring and Operations in the day-to-day running of the organisation. The Development Manager will also play a key role in our grant management and fundraising, as well as assisting with our ongoing evaluation processes and support our expansion into new schools.

The Development Manager will have four key areas of responsibility:

● Administration: Supporting with the day-to-day administration of the organisation as well as managing and maintaining records of our service take up and evaluation.

● Fundraising: Supporting with fundraising efforts and grant management, including maintaining records, communicating with funders, gathering information for funding bids and monitoring targets.

● Development: Working with the wider Light Up Learning team to achieve our long-term strategy by providing support with events, networking, recruitment and assisting with communication to new partner schools.

● Financial: Assisting with the financial management of the organisation including supporting our processes for invoices and expense claims and providing information for our annual accounts and budget.

For full details of the job description and person specification, please refer to the application pack attached.

Glasgow Street Pastors is a Christian inter-denominational organisation with a mission to serve, support and assist vulnerable individuals on the streets of Glasgow thus making a positive contribution to society as an active expression of the Christian faith of its members.

The role of the coordinator is to –

• support and develop the ministry of Glasgow Street Pastors in cooperation with the Management Team of volunteers;

• enable, support and affirm the work of Glasgow Street Pastors;

• communicate and liaise with Glasgow Street Pastors (Team Leaders, Street Pastors, Prayer Pastors and Safe Zone Pastors) and with partner agencies.

This new post will support the smooth and effective running of the Amma office and will support Amma’s growing staff team. The postholder will manage the smooth and efficient day-to-day running of the Amma office and will oversee all administration and finance tasks and processes.

Main duties:

Office management

• Ensure the smooth day-to-day running of the office
• Act as main point of contact for people contacting Amma by phone, email or via the website
• Oversee office-based health & safety checks and issues
• Maintain Amma’s policy review schedule and governance calendar, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation
• Manage equipment sign out sheet and conduct weekly check of equipment and arrange returns
• Conduct purchasing for services, equipment, office supplies, marketing, and fundraising activities
• Liaise with contractors to book in repairs and maintenance
• Set up and attend staff and board meetings as required, write and share agendas and meeting minutes

Administration & finance

• Oversee financial administration, including acting as a banking signatory
• Oversee and support with all team and office administration
• Streamline and ensure consistency in procedures and systems
• Collate and analyse reports to facilitate monitoring and evaluation, funding applications and reports
• Oversee IT systems and filing systems, ensuring data security and GDPR compliance
• Manage administrative duties for Amma’s groups and clients, including bookings and supplies
• Oversee administration and preparations for events and training, including logistics, AV and IT, and venue layout

Staff and volunteer management

• Line manage and support the Administrator
• Support with the recruitment of staff and volunteers
• Ensure HR systems, policies and procedures are administered effectively, including staff hours, leave and rotas
• Support with volunteer recruitment and administration
• Manage phones and on call rotas

More details:

Amma believes in fairness, equity, diversity and inclusion. We recognise the importance of an inclusive and diverse workforce and we strive to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to everyone.

We welcome and actively encourage applications from people with a diverse range of experiences, regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We also welcome and encourage applications from people with lived experience of our client group.

This role will be subject to references and a Protection of Vulnerable Groups check.

Due to programme expansion, there is an exciting opportunity to bring outdoor learning and play to the heart of communities: encouraging, supporting, and motivating children and young people to gain the life skills required to thrive in the modern world.

OutLET: Play Resource is looking for someone who is passionate about supporting children and young people to succeed. You should have experience of working with young people from a wide range of backgrounds and will have an in-depth knowledge of the play work principles, Forest School ethos and trauma informed practice. The Play Ranger role position is predominantly outdoors so you must be comfortable working outdoors in all weathers.

In this role you will join a small team of outdoor practitioners who work with children and young people who need additional support in accessing and achieving in mainstream education, including care experienced children and young people and those with additional support needs.

As part of the team you will deliver outdoor learning programmes such as bushcraft, environmental programmes and nurture groups.

We are seeking a kind individual, who can be consistent in their interactions with young people. They will have excellent communication skills with both children and adults and work well in a small team.

This post will involve occasional evening and weekend work.

Essential – Driver with access to a car, PVG check.

Play Ranger Position - 35 hours per week with options of overtime.

1 year contract with possibility of extension.

Our main office is based in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire; travel across Lanarkshire and other areas will be required.