About us

The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) Partnership is the independent organisation responsible for Scotland’s National Framework for Qualifications. The SCQF brings together quality assured assessed learning throughout life whether gained in school, workplace, college, university or online into one system for recognising achievement.

We are a Living Wage Employer and are accredited to Investors in People Gold level, working in ways that realise our values of Respect, Integrity, Collaboration and Enabling. As a small staff team of thirteen with national coverage, we also operate a Flexible Working Policy and offer hybrid working.

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team in the key role of Lead for Transnational opportunities within our Quality Enhancement and Recognition team. Your role will be critical to the relaunch of our transnational consultancy services offer promoting the SCQF globally, whilst also maintaining high standards of quality assurance for our credit rating bodies and contributing to capacity building and RPL activities.

About you

This role would suit a person with SCQF Level 9 equivalent skills or experience.

To be successful in this role you will need to be familiar with at least one aspect of the lifelong learning sector, have some knowledge and understanding of qualifications frameworks and/or quality assurance principles and ideally have a proven track record in business development and/or project management.

We are looking for someone who has excellent communication skills, including the ability to produce high quality reports and documents and present to external audiences. You need to be equally comfortable working on your own initiative or in a team setting, possess strong IT skills and show a commitment to our values of Collaboration, Integrity, Enabling and Respect. Travel, including overseas, may be required as part of the role.

Working at the SCQF Partnership

As a member of the team, you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:

• Pension scheme with an employer contribution of 12%
• Westfield Health benefits, including costs reimbursed for dental, physiotherapy and counselling services, optical fees and health club concession
• Death in Service Benefit worth 1 x annual salary
• 25 days’ annual leave rising to 28 days after 3 years’ service + 13 public holidays
• Flexible and hybrid working policy and a range of family-friendly policies to support work-life balance.

Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience, and career.

With support and investment from the National Lottery Community Fund the Westfield Park Community Centre (WPCC) (SCIO) Board of Trustees is now recruiting for a Centre Manager to take forward WPCC’s engagement with the community and local partners and support the development of a programme of events to meet the needs of the local community.

The position is 28 hours per week, with a degree of flexibility and incorporating occasional evening and weekend work. Salary is £30,000 per annum, pro rata. While the post is initially a fixed contract of 12 months it is anticipated future funding for the post will be secured.

The Centre Manager will oversee the day to day management and smooth running of WPCC, ensuring that WPCC is a vibrant, welcoming and well managed facility that operates for the benefit of the local community and the residents of the Falkirk District area. The successful candidate will have a key role in developing opportunities for income generation and successful partnerships, securing additional investment through grant funding opportunities, helping to ensure the long-term financial sustainability of WPCC as a result.

Applicants must be able to demonstrate relevant management experience and have a successful track record of delivering quality outputs. Relevant experience of the third sector would be beneficial.

Do you believe in the power of data to improve people’s lives and know that working with the public is vital to our mission? Research Data Scotland needs you!

We have an exciting opportunity to work in a multifaceted Business Management role to support the delivery of exemplary governance and operational excellence. This role works with stakeholders at every level in our organisation and as such we are looking to appoint a highly motivated and conscientious individual.

About us

Research Data Scotland (RDS) is a charity set up by the Scottish public sector and leading universities. We help researchers find and make use of data that can improve the lives of people in Scotland. Working in partnership, we do this by widening the range of data available, creating new data assets and providing a single point of contact for safe, secure and effective access to public data in a trustworthy manner.

Data is often locked away in lots of individual systems, across many different organisations, and isn’t in a format that makes access or integration easy. We can help researchers to unlock the potential of this data by giving them information and advice that speeds up and simplifies their work.

RDS aims to provide a step change in the service to researchers, whilst maintaining the high standards of information governance and data security already in place. We aim to work as openly as possible, maintaining standards in transparency and ethics. Our focus is on providing a streamlined service for researchers, as well as extending the range of data available through the service, particularly in the areas of Covid-19, NHS imaging, geospatial data, children and justice services.

Our partners include: Scottish Government, Public Health Scotland, National Records of Scotland (NRS), and the Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow. We work closely with the national and regional safe havens. And we are in contact with other organisations in Scotland and across the UK in the data research sector, including public sector, research and commercial bodies.

About the job

The Business Manager will work closely with the Chair, CEO and Operations Director to manage, coordinate and schedule the regular cycle of our governance and business activities. This will include coordinating board meetings as well as maintaining our internal registers and ensuring our reporting mechanisms are top-notch! This post will be highly varied and vital to the successful delivery of our Business and Delivery plans.

There is a strong focus on developmental projects, operational risk, records management, governance, improving our performance and delivering our day-to-day charity operations. You’ll be an important member of our Operations Team, sharing your expertise with colleagues and board members, as well as independently leading on activities.

Reports to Operations Director

About you

You are a self-starter, with experience of working with stakeholders at every level. You’ll understand the importance of engaging well with board members, senior leaders and your colleagues to get their input into your work and support great governance. You are highly organised and thrive on managing multiple projects with different deadlines. You are keen to deliver, with an eye for detail and the pragmatism to understand our context and environment.

Life at RDS

We are a small friendly and highly engaged team of people. We promote continuous learning and work hard to build an inclusive and supportive workplace culture. We live our values of; integrity, transparency, courage, collaboration and humility.

Our people typically work a 35-hour week, with hybrid working on offer from day one. You can choose to work flexibly from home or use one of our desks in the Bayes Centre in central Edinburgh. The whole RDS team meets one day per month in-person in Edinburgh or at an off-site away day in the Central Belt. Individual teams organise their own in-person days to collaborate, develop and socialise together.

We offer 33 days’ annual leave (including public holidays) and have no set closure days. We have a generous pension and enhanced pay for parental/adoption leave. This list of benefits is being added to as the organisation develops, and you can help shape it as part of the team. Our Culture Group helps us seek feedback from colleagues across the organisation to make RDS an even better place to work.