Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS) is the National Development Body for Scotland’s museums and galleries. We support a sector of 449 museums and galleries, through strategic investment, workforce development, advice and advocacy. We are a forward facing and inclusive organisation, committed to the ongoing development of a positive culture for our team.

We are looking for a Senior Museum Development Manager to work with the Head of Museum Development to facilitate and support development across the sector in line with Scotland’s Museums and Galleries Strategy. The strategy provides a framework for the sector and MGS to work to ensure the future relevance and resilience of the sector. It centres around three thematic strands of Connection, Resilience and Workforce.

You will have significant knowledge and understanding of the Scottish museums sector and current issues facing it in order to articulate the needs of the sector and turn that into action. Key to this role is direct engagement with museums and galleries in Scotland to build an understanding of diverse development needs. You will build strategic relationships, initiate development programmes and identify funding opportunities, working collaboratively to deliver impactful programmes and projects.

You will also have experience of addressing barriers to inclusion and driving positive change, with an understanding of anti-racism and anti-oppression in order to lead MGS’s work to support museums to become more inclusive.

As part of MGS’ senior management team, you will build and nurture effective working relationships across the organisation. You will manage a team of staff within the wider Museum Development Team.

The successful candidate will manifest MGS’s core values: collaboration, integrity, passion for museums, and courageousness.

About us

At Sound Lab, we believe ‘music matters’ and that music and creativity should not just be available for those who can readily access and afford it; it should be available to everyone.

Our vision is that, irrespective of age, gender, race, ethnicity or economic background, everyone should have equal access to the resources and support they need to fulfil their creative potential. We work to overcome barriers that can prevent people accessing opportunities in music by providing expert music-making education and mentoring support. We focus on children and young people who often do not receive the same opportunities as their peers, specifically care experienced young people; children with disabilities; and young people from an unaccompanied, asylum-seeking or refugee background.

In recent years, in a challenging external funding context, we are proud to have carefully maintained a steady growth as a small charity. We have recently recruited a fantastic new staff team who are taking our programmes and operations to the next level, and helping to accommodate the ever-increasing demand for our programmes.

We are recruiting for a new treasurer to help steward and maintain our financial good health at this exciting point in our journey. This is a voluntary role with travel and other subsistence expenses paid.

Role Summary

The Treasurer will help to monitor and steward the financial position of The Sound Lab, maintain processes to ensure financial stability and ensure that the Board of Trustees fulfils its duties in safeguarding the sound financial health of the charity. Detailed responsibilities can be found overleaf.

Who Should Apply?

You do not need to be an accountant, but it would help if you like working with numbers.

You do not need to be a musician, but it helps if you love music!

We would welcome candidates with previous Treasurer experience, however, would be happy to support the development of someone who is earlier in their career and hoping to gain further knowledge and skills. This extends to offering any training and support to develop in the role.

You come to Sound Lab at a point of financial health and with effective financial processes in place, proportionate to a charity of our size; however, we always look for continuous improvement, and an exciting facet of the role is looking proactively to continuously improve our financial infrastructure.

You will form a key part of a small board of trustees who, alongside the staff team, help to maintain and foster a culture of support and care for everyone involved with Sound Lab. We believe in the power music can have in people’s lives. If you share that belief, we’d love to hear from you.

Our current Treasurer is also happy to support your induction and walk-through of our financial systems. This role is expected to take 2-3 hours per week when the Treasurer is fully inducted.

Detailed Responsibilities:

• Oversight and strategic guardianship of Sound Lab’s legal and financial integrity

• Reporting to the Board of Trustees on issues of cash-flow, forecasting and the overall management of Sound Lab’s financial resources

• Preparation and approval of payment runs in conjunction with the Programme & Development Manager

• Lead on ensuring all Sound Lab’s strategic plans are financially appraised and budgets are aligned to both short-term and long-term objectives each year.

• Keeping accurate financial records and invoice management.

• Use of Bank of Scotland online platform for payment runs and updating account signatories as required

• Assisting in the preparation of grant funding applications on an ad-hoc basis.

• Ensure our annual accounts and report are prepared and submitted to OSCR on a timely basis

• Liaise with an external examiner in relation to the annual preparation of our financial accounts

• Develop and maintain reserves policy to safeguard the organisation’s finances, ensuring the board are kept informed of the position regularly and given financial forecasting advice

• Understand Sound Lab’s business plan for and support the Board of Trustees and other volunteers to help achieve its aims

• Attend six Board meetings per annum, or as required.

The Citizens Advice network in Scotland is the largest independent advice service in the country. Citizens Advice Scotland is a charity within this network – we act as a national organisation supporting and representing the service as a whole and the interests of citizens. At the heart of the network there are 59 individual citizens advice bureau across Scotland, all operating as independent charities in their own right, which focus on providing support and advice directly to clients. Each of these organisations is a member of Citizens Advice Scotland. We believe that every citizen should have access to free, impartial and confidential advice that helps them make informed decisions, whenever they need it and however, they choose to access it.

Our vision is for a Fairer Scotland where everyone has the advice and information they need to realise their rights, and that the barriers to accessing those rights are effectively challenged.

The advice provided by the Citizens Advice network in communities in every corner of Scotland is life-changing and often live-saving. We use that unique and unparalleled insight and evidence to advocate for people and secure change.

How we tell the story of our impact and the difference we make is critical – this role is a rare opportunity to shape the prevailing public and political debates and drive forward our strategic priorities to ensure that the Citizens Advice Network remains at the centre of decision-making.

Our brand is the most trusted of any advice network in Scotland. You will protect and enhance our brand and be alert to both risk and opportunity. You will retain and build on our sector-leading media presence. We will need you to be adept at identifying the stories that need to be told, and expert in terms of cultivating the relationships and platforms we need to tell those stories effectively and persuasively.

This role offers you the opportunity to work at the heart of supporting Scotland's largest independent advice network and to make an invaluable contribution to citizen’s lives.

Employee benefits

Citizens Advice Scotland offers excellent terms and conditions. We want our people to have a great work life balance and we have designed our working practices and benefits to support this. Here are some of things our employees benefit from: a 35-hour full time working week, 40 days annual leave, genuine flexibility in working hours with a flexi-time system, and blended/hybrid working opportunities for every role.

Citizens Advice Scotland is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies and flexible working arrangements to support all our staff. We are also committed to equality of opportunity for all and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

CAS provides options for blended working to allow employees to balance their time attending the office with time working from home. The number of days you will be able to work from home each week will be dependent on your job role and can be discussed as part of the recruitment process.

Victim Support Scotland – Empowering People Affected by Crime.

We put victims and witnesses at the heart of everything we do so they are heard, have improved health and well-being, feel safer, more secure, and informed and that we are an effective organisation, that makes a lasting difference.

Who We Are?

Victim Support Scotland provides support and information to people affected by crime and campaigns for victim and witness rights. Regardless of whether a crime has been reported, or when it happened, our services are free, confidential, and tailored to individuals’ needs.

Our vision is that people affected by crime – victims, witnesses, and their families – are treated with dignity and respect and are at the heart of the justice in Scotland. Our mission is to ensure that all those affected by crime receive high quality support that will help them to recover from their experiences. All our work is guided and underpinned by our six core principles of being engaging and compassionate; inclusive and accessible; person-centred; adaptive, flexible, and responsive; collaborative; and knowledgeable and skilled.

Now is the time to join Victim Support Scotland, helping us work towards the ambitions of our 5-year plan: Empowering people affected by crime: VSS Strategy 2021-2026.

What you’ll need to be successful

Do you want to work with an organisation that makes a difference to the lives of people affected by crime? A fabulous opportunity has arisen to come and join Victim Support Scotland as its Head of Finance and Estates.

We are looking for an ambitious candidate who is passionate about continuous improvement and able to contribute professional expertise to develop the service and support key projects.

The ideal candidate should be used to working independently and be able to demonstrate experience of managing a challenging workload in a busy environment to meet all deadlines. The postholder will be required to ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements is maintained at all times and must have experience of completing year-end accounts.

We are looking for an exceptional candidate with the required financial background and excellent people skills. A qualified accountant, you will head up a small team ensuring that appropriate procedures and controls are in place and you will play an important part in ensuring that the organisation manages its resources efficiently and effectively.

Salary: £47,266 - £62,420 (Pro-rata) Salary on appointment will normally be at the lower salary point, with progression subject to regular review - in line with VSS performance appraisal arrangements. A higher salary placing will be considered in exceptional circumstances subject to experience demonstrated.

What is the role

As a member of the Corporate Leadership Team (CLT) and reporting directly to the Director of Corporate Services, you will be responsible for overseeing all financial and estates activity within VSS, ensuring the beneficial use of all resources and capital to allow VSS to achieve its strategy and organisational objectives. You will provide financial and estates management information to the VSS Executive Leadership

Team (ELT) and will provide leadership to the Finance and Administration team in delivering a high quality and effective customer service.

You will create financial forecasting models, financial policies and procedures and lead on financial, estates and sustainability strategy and plans, in line with VSS overall strategy. You will ensure that all accounting and estates activity complies with regulations. You will work closely with other members of the CLT and will support business planning. You will be responsible for delivering recommendations from VSS’ estates management strategy by ensuring the physical needs of the organisation are met in a manner that is appropriate and cost effective, and ensures compliance with health and safety regulations for VSS employees and service users. You are also responsible for the lease management for VSS occupied premises.

We would consider Hybrid working and applications to work part-time in this role, this can be discussed at interview.

Further details of this role are available in the job description - Job description and Candidate Information Pack

Please note - This post will be subject to a satisfactory Standard Disclosure Scotland check.

What we offer?

When you work for Victim Support Scotland, your wellbeing is important to us. Not only do we offer an enhanced annual leave package of 42 days (Pro-rata), but you will also have access to our free health cash plan which includes cover for you and your family across a range of benefits, which include, dental cover, access to a virtual GP, counselling, legal support and discounts on gym memberships, cinema tickets, retail and much more. In addition we offer a generous pension, enhanced maternity and paternity pay and access to a credit union. Supporting employee development is important to us and we offer comprehensive learning and development opportunities.