Aberdeen Foyer’s vision is for everyone to have a safe place to call home and what they need to thrive. We are on a mission to end poverty and prevent youth homelessness. We do this by supporting young people and adults across Northeast Scotland discover their potential, transform their lives, and shape their own positive futures.

Aberdeen Foyer is looking for a passionate, driven and creative individual to join us as a Fundraising Co-ordinator, supporting our Funding Manager. Working with colleagues across the Foyer you will engage, inspire, and collaborate with individuals, communities, and businesses to deliver fundraising initiatives and events to support achieving key fundraising targets.

You will be able to build positive relationships locally with individuals, businesses, groups, and associations and maintain these with thank you letters, updates, and invitations to events. You will be a compelling storyteller, able to motivate and influence others through presentations, conversations, and formal and informal written formats. You will understand the needs and motivations of fundraising volunteers and oversee volunteering opportunities for fundraising, and you will be able to track and report income for all fundraising activities. You will help us to increase our online presence and expand on our use of social media platforms to raise our profile within the community and meet our fundraising targets.

Fundraising allows us to add the sparkle to our services, to innovate and be agile in creating opportunities that meet people’s needs and aspirations. We are seeking someone who is passionate about the work of Aberdeen Foyer, our mission and our values and takes pride in delivering a great experience.

We would love if you can bring fundraising experience to the role, however we appreciate the role also may suit someone who is starting out in their career or wants to use their existing skills in a different way. The role will involve being present in the local area of Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire. We trust our staff to do the best job possible and so the role offers autonomy and an opportunity to be creative.

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The Project Worker will work as part of the Fife team to develop and deliver housing support to young people aged 16-25 who have experienced homelessness. The focus is on homeless prevention wherever possible, helping young people transition to permanent accommodation, and advising on the skills necessary to sustain a tenancy.

The post holder will be expected to:

• Build trusting, lasting relationships with young people
• Support young people to manage and thrive in their new home
• Provide flexible, person centered, strengths-based support for as long as is required
• Adopt a ‘whatever it takes’ and rights based approach
• Work in a psychologically and trauma informed manner
• Promote and share evaluation, learning and best practice

Project workers will work across the Fife local authority area, and as such access to a car and a full driving license are essential.

Rock Trust are delighted to be recruiting a new Team Leader for our Housing Services in Edinburgh and East Lothian. The Team Leader (Technical Apprenticeship) provides the opportunity to lead a team of experienced frontline staff and to gain the skills and work experience to achieve the SVQ4 in Health and Social Care.

These services will support young people who are homeless to transition to permanent, independent accommodation. The Team Leader will be expected to:

• Play a leading role in the continuing development of our services
• Lead and manage a team of high performing service delivery staff
• Build and maintain positive working relationships with key partners
• Promote and share evaluation, learning and best practice
• Provide high quality housing support to a reduced caseload

We are Rock Trust and our vision is an end to youth homelessness in Scotland Who we are For 30 years we have been working to prevent youth homelessness and to support young people to build better futures. We aim to ensure that every young person in Scotland has access to expert youth specific services to assist them to avoid, survive and move on from homelessness. We work to ensure that the public, policy makers, commissioners and practitioners understand the issues, make decisions and take action which will help us to end youth homelessness.

The Health and Wellbeing Worker will be working along side two art therapists and a peer mentor project worker in the team. The team’s focus is supporting young people’s mental health who are at risk of or experiencing homelessness. They will receive individual and group clinical supervision. The Health and Wellbeing Worker will be based within the Youth Development Team but will work with other teams in the organisation. The Health and Wellbeing Worker will use a person-centered approach with young people to build trust and enable them to improve outcomes with a focus on:

• Mental and emotional health, self-esteem, and confidence
• Relationships, boundaries, and safety

The Health and Wellbeing Worker will work with young people within drop ins, one-to-one support, and group work. Where appropriate they will support young people to gain additional support from statutory services.