VisionPK is a local charity offering support and services to people in Perth and Kinross with sensory impairments. We have recently moved to a new Sensory Hub in Perth town centre and will be developing our services and offer over the next twelve months. This is an opportunity to join us at exciting stage in our growth and contribute to our enhanced services!

If you have experience of assessing needs, setting priorities and managing your own workload, along with being a team player, well organised and using your own initiative, please get in touch!

You will also have an opportunity to work towards gaining a nationally recognised professional qualification as a Rehabilitation Worker in visual impairment, which we would fully fund.

PVG membership, or willingness to become at member with a check at enhanced level is essential.

VisionPK is a small, long-established charity providing support and services to people in Perth & Kinross who have sensory impairments.

We are looking for an experienced, successful fundraiser to continue our fundraising in Perth and Kinorss, with opportunities to develop a team in future.

Alongside your fundraising experience, you will also need to be enthusiastic, motivational and self motivated, with excellent people and communication skills, experienced in using social media to promote fundraising support and be able to plan, monitor budgets and think creatively and constructively.

CHAS are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic and innovative events professional to join their events team. Do you want to go to work every day in a fun, exhilarating, varied and glamorous job, which also makes a difference for some of the most vulnerable children in our society? As a member of the CHAS fundraising team you will support the income generation which enables us to deliver critical services to ensure that no family should have to go through the death of their child alone.

Our CHAS high profile events have a reputation for being some of the best charity events in Scotland, providing all little surprises and moments of sparkle that our guests have come to expect. We would love for YOU to become a part of the team to lead and deliver top quality, engaging and exciting events across the country. As part of the Partnerships and Philanthropy team, within the fundraising department, you will work in a focussed and driven environment. You will be given the opportunity to support exciting projects in the organisation and add value to partnership working across CHAS. If you think you are the person to add that extra sparkle to our events then please read on.

Key Responsibilities

• Project management of 3 CHAS high profile events generating £150,000 towards supporting children and families across Scotland
• Leading and chairing event committee meetings and training event volunteers
• Managing complex conversations with numerous suppliers and negotiating opportunities to minimise expenditure.
• Managing the event budget to ensure it is in line with budgetted income and expenditure
• Taking responsibility for fulfilling all necessary actions to ensure a successful event. Planning and delivering a broad range of fundraising activities to enable a fun, seamless event whilst maximising all fundraising opportunities.
• Managing a complex set of administration tasks throughout the process, prior and post event.

About You

• HNC level qualification or equivalent in Event Management or related discipline
• Experience of working on large scale fundraising events
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office 2010 and information databases
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team
• Good communication skills required, to deal with staff, volunteers and general public in an appropriate and effective manner
• Demonstrable attention to detail
• Full driving licence

About CHAS

At CHAS, staff and volunteers work together as one team, focused on the common goal of reaching every family in Scotland who needs our support. We have a 3:1 ratio of volunteers to staff members in CHAS. All CHAS staff will at some point work with or alongside volunteers and will be expected to support volunteers.

Our ambition is to reach every family in Scotland who is living with the heart-breaking prognosis that their child is dying, and offer them our care and support to empower them to make the most of the short time they have together. As an Events Fundraiser, you will be instrumental in achieving this vision.

Through our diversity and inclusion strategy, we have made a commitment to increase the diversity of our charity and we welcome candidates from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees, volunteers and trustees to represent the broad diversity of the communities of which we are a part.

Summary

We are recruiting to our award-winning Young People and Families Service. This role will deliver our one-to-one clinic work embedded in the multi-disciplinary teams across Scotland, as well as our peer support self-management events alongside our team of youth volunteers.

About the role

We are looking for dynamic, creative, innovative team players to join our Young People and Families Service in Scotland. The role will support service delivery across Scotland.

As a Young People & Families Worker, you will work with colleagues, partners, healthcare professionals, schools, volunteers, families and - most importantly young people - to co-plan, deliver and evaluate a high-quality, holistic support offer locally and nationally.

Using a community development/youth work approach, you’ll put children and young people at the centre of decisions about their journey. Using youth accessible approaches, you will help young people build their confidence, make friends and achieve their personal goals. This will be achieved by providing one-to-one support, creating peer networks and working with volunteers to co-deliver self-management activities on a variety of topics from sleep management to self-advocacy.

You’ll also co-design an exciting programme of social events, youth voice opportunities, digital content and residential events. You will act as the bridge between young people, their families and professionals – especially in healthcare settings, where you will play a unique role working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to meet a range of needs in a relatable and youth friendly style as young people learn to live well with their condition. You will support young people during the pivotal transition from paediatric to adult services and life, ensuring it is a time of empowerment and growth.

Key requirements

Essential:

• Experience of working within the third and/or public sector, preferably within the fields of youth/community development work and/or health and social care - with a passion for improving the lives of young people.
• Understanding the importance of self-management and experience of delivering interventions to people living with long-term conditions. Experience of taking a person-centred approach when providing support.
• Experience of using a community development/youth work approach to co-design and deliver a quality service/project that is inclusive, inspiring and makes a difference. Engaging colleagues, funders, supporters and partners to make it happen.
• Knowledge and experience of embedding safeguarding and safe working policies and procedures.
• Experience of basic project skills, including supporting evaluation work, writing reports, developing project proposals and managing activity budgets.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and evidence of good relationship management with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Good IT skills; thorough working knowledge of MS Office Suite especially Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint and digital working skills including experience of using databases.
• Sound organisational and time-management skills and the ability to prioritise workload effectively.
• Understanding of the importance of diversity, inclusion, and accessibility.
• Willingness to travel across the UK as required to attend meetings and events, and to attend occasional weekend events and meetings.

Desirable:

• Knowledge and understanding of arthritis and other musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions.
• Understanding of the ‘social model of disability.’
• Experience of using/delivering over virtual communication platforms; Microsoft Teams, Zoom, social media, etc.