Urban Uprising improves the life chances of disadvantaged young people using rock climbing. Our programmes deliver physical, social and personal development, and gives the young people access to highly trained positive role models through our coaches.

We give young people who wouldn’t normally have the chance an opportunity to experience the transformational personal change that rock climbing can bring.

We work in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Cambridge and Bristol, and partner with local youth organisations to reach young people experiencing disadvantage, often from deprived communities. We also partner with climbing centres who provide instructors and entry at a reduced cost.

As Programme Coordinator, you will work alongside the Programme Manager in developing the charity and managing the delivery of quality climbing programmes for young people. This will be done in partnership with local youth charities and schools, climbing centres and volunteers. You will be skilled in project management and partnership working, have great communication skills and be motivated to help young people reach their full potential.

A full Job Description is available for download below.

This is an exciting opportunity to fill a significant role with Community Enterprise. We are a leading provider of support and consultancy to third sector groups across Scotland and beyond and work with communities to build and sustain projects for the benefit of local people.

We pride ourselves on our very strong reputation, the impact we have made and what we have learnt across Scotland over 30 years, but this is not well documented, articulated or communicated. We are therefore seeking someone with knowledge and experience to help us pull together our stories, our impact and our learning and communicate that across the sector in Scotland and beyond.

We also have important support programmes that need to be communicated nationally to ensure good uptake.

Job Purpose

The key roles are:

To lead on communicating key messages and to raise awareness about Community Enterprise and all our divisions, nationally, UK-wide and internationally. This will include the work of our development team, Bold, Creative Natives and any future project or programme. To manage our presence, communicating our core work and services to the sector clearly and with a high level of engagement.

To specifically help us market initiatives such as the Social Enterprise Support Map and our Accelerate programme.

3. To use our impact measurement story capture to articulate the difference we are making, short, medium and long term. This will involve taking the learning from our work, both historically and on an ongoing basis and cascade that to the broader sector and to our partners and stakeholders.

4. To support and resource the development and admin team to deliver communication in their day to day work (e.g. helping our development staff to increase survey response rates, attendance at events etc.)

Organisation Details

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.

It takes a flexible approach to changing economic conditions, needs and opportunities but its core functions comprise:

· The management of all employability related grants and contracts awarded to external providers by the council and other key partners

· The provision of policy advice, research, and development support (including secretariat functions) to the city’s Jobs Strategy Partnership and partners

· The provision of services and interventions that help alleviate poverty and inequalities and provide opportunities for testing and piloting new approaches

· The development and maintenance of common communications and management information infrastructure for the Jobs Strategy Partnership

· Development and support of the Joined Up for Jobs network and the Joined Up for Business partnership to tackle poverty and inequalities

· Provision of support to the Edinburgh and South-East Scotland City Region Deal skills programme.

Job Purpose, Role, and Duties

CCP leads on the pioneering Whole Family Equality Project (WFEP), which is built and expanded on the already established Maximise! service in Edinburgh, ensuring that the offer is extended to those in *BAME communities affected by poverty and disadvantage.

* We acknowledge that the BAME term has been recommended to be phased out and replaced going forward by Commission of Race and Ethnic Disparities and intend to use recommended alternatives when these are clarified.

The post of Young Start Officer is funded by National Lottery to improve life opportunities of 80 young people from BAME communities. Delivering a bespoke service for BAME communities, we are seeking someone who has a good level of insight into and is empathetic to the needs of BAME young people, who are facing multitude barriers to fulfilling their potential. The successful candidate will directly and intensively engage with 80 of the most disadvantaged BAME young people over a period of 21 months in Edinburgh. Participants will be at high risk of not getting a better and fairer start in life and who face long-term unemployment, poorer skills (including life skills) and outcomes as a direct result of social, economic and systematic disadvantages and lack of equity of opportunity.

Working in an integrated service, the Young Start Officer will engage with key stakeholders, a citizen’s panel, and delivery partners (Children1st and CHAI) who are working with the older members of families to tackle poverty and income maximization. The focus will be on supporting BAME young people to access services and linking them with employability providers to ensure that successful outcomes and positive destinations are achieved. The post holder will ensure that the young people’s voices are heard and placed at the heart of the service delivery, development and improvement.

The Young Start Officer will be led and supported by the Strategy and Development Manager, working as part of an integrated team with other officers and partners, each with a specific focus on achieving positive outcomes for BAME communities include job outcomes, work experience/ internships, vocational training, volunteering and further and higher education. The post holder will deliver mentoring and advocacy support that is tailored to the needs of each individual young person to link them with employability providers, to ensure sustainable social and economic outcomes for young people. The post holder will work with the team to develop appropriate targets and measures of success.