We are seeking a visionary Chief Executive Officer with exceptional leadership qualities to spearhead our charity, Concrete Garden, though a new and exciting period of growth and transformational change. The ideal candidate will be bold and brave and embody a passion for community empowerment and sustainability, driving forward our community’s ambition and charity mission with dedicated commitment and innovative thinking.

This role presents a unique opportunity to make a tangible impact, leading our community and team towards a brighter future for all those we serve.

Overview of the Position:

The Chief Executive Officer will play a pivotal role in shaping the strategic direction of Concrete Garden, working closely with the Board of Trustees to ensure the organisation's long-term success and impact.

And leading on the recruitment for a number of new posts to build capacity in leadership and drive forward community growth and regeneration. This position demands a dynamic individual with a proven track record in fundraising, asset management, financial management, strategic planning, and team leadership.

Start Date: Immediate or must be able to start by 27th May for a one-month handover with the incumbent CEO.

Reporting to: The Board of Trustees

An exciting new opportunity has arisen for someone passionate about making a difference to people’s lives and helping to tackle the climate change emergency. Changeworks, Scotland’s leading environmental charity delivering high-impact solutions for low carbon living, is recruiting for a Retrofit Coordinator to join our expanding EcoCosi retrofit service and team. If you have lived experience of domestic retrofit and the field of energy efficiency and retrofit measure installations, this is a fantastic, career-making role.

You’ll be joining Changeworks at a very exciting time as we’ve recently launched a new strategy to help us scale our work and achieve our ambitious goal of accelerating the decarbonisation of homes across Scotland. As an EcoCosi Retrofit Coordinator, you’ll be pivotal to the success of this.

This is a new role within an existing and expanding team to deliver the EcoCosi service supporting homeowners to decarbonise their homes. Homeowners face multiple barriers to improving the carbon footprint of their homes, this is where our retrofit service comes in. We work with homeowners to enable them to improve the energy efficiency of their homes through tailored advice, support and services. You’ll be joining us at an exciting time as we expand the service.

The successful candidate will be a highly organised individual with experience of coordinating domestic retrofit projects from customer engagement and initial whole house survey to handover, completion and after care. As a skilled communicator with outstanding customer service skills, you will excel in helping homeowners to identify which retrofit measures are needed and suitable for achieving their individual requirements and support them through installation projects. You’ll collaborate with colleagues from across the organisation to deliver a quality service and will always protect the clients’ interests and make sure works and processes comply to the relevant standards.

At a time when climate change is the most significant threat to the environment and our way of life, there is substantial market need and growing demand for these services this is an important role that delivers real job satisfaction.

Changeworks is a great place to work. We hold Investors in People Platinum accreditation (something only a few organisations in Scotland have), and we were nominated for employer of the year by the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce this year. Our staff overwhelmingly would recommend us as an employer too.

The Climate Emergency has resulted in ambitious national targets to reduce carbon emissions from the built environment and reduce rates of fuel poverty. This has driven a significant increase in the number of pilot and large-scale interventions delivered by Changeworks and external organisations in this area. These include area-based domestic energy efficiency retrofit and decarbonisation projects and programmes.

We are a growing organisation, and this role is crucial to the delivery of our ambitious objectives. We want to decarbonise homes in Scotland on a massive scale, and that needs talented individuals like you to help us deliver on our objectives. You’ll receive full training plus coaching and mentoring.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits including flexible working, bike to work scheme, an excellent pension scheme and 26 days paid holiday plus 9 public holidays per year.

At Changeworks, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone.

The Community Links Worker programme, funded by EVOC & Edinburgh Health & Social Care Partnership, is delivered in partnership with GP Practices and the 3rd sector to support people to live well through strengthening connections between community resources and primary care.

The Community Link Worker will be employed by Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust and will work as part of three practice teams (Gracemount, Liberton and Inch Park) in the South East locality of Edinburgh to provide 1:1 person-centred and practical support to people in contact with the GP practice team.

Taking a person-centred approach, you will work with individuals to enable them to identify personal outcomes and priorities for their health and well-being and link them to local, city and national activities and support services.

The postholder must have experience of working with people who are facing complex social and emotional circumstances, a strong understanding of the challenges affecting people living in areas of disadvantage in relation to living well, extensive effective interpersonal skills in working with people on a 1:1 basis as well as experience in networking and relationship building with other professionals and organisations.

PVG: This post requires membership of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. Application will be processed for the successful candidate.