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SAFE stands for Support Advice Finance Education. The SAFE Team Advisor will be part of a team delivering a range of confidential financial advice and support services and activities for and with our beneficiaries.

The primary focus of this role is the provision of financial capability support to individuals across communities. This will involve connecting with residents attending the mobile pantry and locating in outreach settings to provide SAFE support in priority areas.

CFINE operates to cooperative, or ‘Community Development’, principles which underpin and permeate the organisation and its activities. The ethos and values are:

• inclusion, dignity, and respect
• equality of opportunity.
• collaboration and partnership.
• mutuality and reciprocity.
• recognising that everyone has something to offer those affected by an issue should be integrally involved in solutions; and
• enterprising

Are you an experienced finance professional looking to make a significant impact in the third sector? Avenue, a leading charity in the North East of Scotland, is seeking an exceptional Finance Manager to join our senior leadership team. This pivotal role will ensure our financial health and sustainability, driving our mission to support families, children, and individuals through life’s challenges.

About Us:

For over 70 years, Avenue has provided a range of services across Grampian, designed to help families and individuals overcome obstacles and improve their relationships and wellbeing. With values rooted in effectiveness, integrity, respect, credibility, innovation, and independence, we are committed to making a real difference in our community.

The Role:

As Finance Manager, you will lead all aspects of our financial operations, from strategic planning and budgeting to cash management and financial reporting. You'll work closely with the CEO and the Board of Trustees, providing insightful analysis and advice to support strategic decision-making. Your responsibilities will also include:

• Developing and implementing financial policies and controls
• Leading the annual audit process and preparing statutory accounts
• Supporting funding bids with excellent financial analysis and planning
• Supporting managers in budget management and financial literacy
• Ensuring compliance with financial, charity, and company legislation

What We’re Looking For:

• Fully qualified (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or part qualified with commensurate experience
• Proven success in a senior financial management role
• Strong knowledge of relevant legislation and financial regulations
• Excellent communication, organisational, and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency in finance software (preferably Xero) and advanced Excel skills
• Experience in strategic financial planning and risk management

Why Join Avenue?

This is an exciting opportunity to bring your expertise to a vibrant and impactful organisation. You'll work in a supportive and collaborative environment, with opportunities for professional development and to influence the financial direction of our charity.

The person specification gives a broad indication of expectations. Please get in touch if you

feel you would have a lot to offer even if it isn’t an exact match with our requirements.

Do you want to front an amazing team and the delivery of services health and care services which make a difference to the lives of people across the North and North East of Scotland?

This could be the role for you. We have a fantastic opportunity for a people leader, ideally with regulated service experience, to join our Health and Care team as a Health Operations Manager.

What does a day in the life of Health Operations Manager look like?

• You will guide the local management team producing a range of health and care services.
• You will also be a key part of our national leadership team. Here you will drive growth and development of our services so we can meet reach more people with greater impact across Scotland. This should help us to increase our reach of care and support to vulnerable people. Thus, enhancing the reputation and influence of British Red Cross in this field.
• You will oversee and lead the day-to-day function of all aspects of the British Red Cross Health and Care Services. This will include leading, managing and developing a service delivery team of staff and volunteers. These services focus on supporting people to get home from hospital and on enabling them to live freely at home. Ultimately preventing admission or readmission and tackling social seclusion.
• You will be a key strategic point of engagement with local stakeholders (including commissioners). You will be responsible for meeting our contractual obligations, including quality, KPIs and financial performance. You will also work closely with our business development team to develop opportunities across Scotland.

To be a successful Health Operations Manager, you’ll need:

• Experience of successful operational management of health / social care-related services. Ensuring regulated activities meet the required standards.
• Experience of developing services with NHS or Local Government partners and achieving agreed outcomes.
• Public speaking and presentation skills. Influencing people and making an impact with your message.
• IT literate. Experience of using Microsoft email, word processing and spreadsheet packages.
• Demonstrable experience of managing staff, volunteers, and projects.
• An awareness of the needs of vulnerable people, with the ability to improve the services we provide for them.
• Budgeting and financial management experience.
• Organisational skills and the ability to manage a demanding workload.
• Able to work and travel extensively throughout the North East & East of Scotland on a regular basis as appropriate, and more widely in Scotland as required.

In return for your commitment and expertise, you’ll get:

• Holidays –You’ll get 36 days annual leave (including bank holidays) and the option to buy an additional 5 days leave.
• Pension scheme – We offer up to 6% contributory pension.
• Flexible working – We will do what we can to make sure you work in a way that suits you.
• Learning & Development Opportunities – We are one of the UK’s largest charities and have a wide range of career opportunities. We also provide comprehensive learning opportunities for staff to develop themselves.
• Discounts – You’ll have access to brilliant discounts through the Blue Light Discount Card and our own employee benefits platform.
• Wellbeing Support – Staff wellbeing is always priority. You’ll have access to mental health and wellbeing support.
• Team Working – You will be working as part of a team that is supporting our mission of helping people in crisis.
• Cycle2Work – The cycle to work scheme enables you to lease a bicycle.
• Season ticket loan – We offer an interest free loan to buy a season ticket for travel between home and work.

Founded in 2000, Includem has grown and developed a wide range of services and projects for children, young people and families across Scotland. Initially focussed on bridging the gap between social care and criminal justice, we have expanded our offering of specialist support not just for young people in conflict with the law but for families as well.

We work with children and young people in care, and their caregivers, as well as supporting those facing challenges with education, their mental health or transitioning to adulthood. Regardless of who we are supporting, our commitment to relationship-based, 24/7 support, remains unchanged.

Our ambition is to continue to innovate, grow and provide the dedicated support that is needed by so many.

This is where you come in! Working for Includem means getting the chance to use your talents to the fullest, doing work that makes a real difference to the lives of many, in an environment where your contributions get noticed. Want to join us?

We have an experienced Team Manager to lead our services based in Aberdeen on a 12-month fixed-term basis, to cover a period of maternity leave. This is an exciting opportunity to join an established team that is co-located at Craigielea Children’s Centre, working in partnership with Aberdeen Children and Family Social Work.

The key responsibilities of the Team Manager include, but are not limited to:

• Manage service delivery to maximise capacity and ensure compliance with contract specifications.
• Maintain a young people focus in relation to services delivered by ensuring best outcomes achieved and recorded for young people.
• Lead a team of professionals, with responsibility for all elements of people management.
• Engage effectively with partner agencies on a day-to-day basis, in addition to seeking new opportunities for partnership/collaborative working.

About You

With proven experience of managing and supervising professional individuals delivering high quality services, you will be able to maximise service delivery resources efficiently and effectively to meet the needs of children, young people, and families. With knowledge of young people policies and legislation, you will put risk enablement at the heart of your decision making. In addition, you will possess:

• Educated to degree level in relevant qualification in Social Work or Social Care, or a willingness to work towards this.
• Ability to embrace challenges, take initiative, originate action, and work well with a great deal of autonomy.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to challenge and influence a variety of stakeholders with well-reasoned arguments.
• Excellent attention to detail with a focus on continuous improvement.

Volunteering Matters is a national volunteering and social change charity. We harness the unique power of volunteering to bring people together and build stronger, more resilient communities across the UK.

By bringing people together, we aim to resolve some of society’s most complex issues and have a real impact in communities. From tackling social isolation and loneliness; improving health and wellbeing; building skills, confidence and opportunities; and ensuring people can become change makers within their community.

And we won’t stop until everyone in the UK has the opportunity to thrive.

Volunteering Matters work to support people to get on in life, through the power of volunteering. We support people 16+, including those facing multiple barriers or disadvantages, to achieve positive outcomes for their future. We provide people with personalised emotional and practical support, meaningful and supported volunteering opportunities through charity partners, and access to a reliable and positive Volunteer Mentor.

Role Purpose

We are looking for a talented, dynamic, and professional Engagement Manager to join our team in Aberdeenshire. The right candidate would be someone who can work flexibly and demonstrate an understanding and total commitment to our organisational values.

As our Engagement Manager, you will directly support people aged 16+ who may have complex and challenging barriers preventing them from securing a positive pathway. The role will include identifying barriers and to help build the tools needed to remove them. Supporting with pre volunteering activity as well as volunteering placements in their local area.

Your role will also support them with identifying a dedicated volunteer Mentor should this be required, along with pre and post placement support. Your role will be a positive bridge to supporting into further employability programmes or opportunities.

You will play a key role in identifying, developing, and managing partnerships with stakeholders along with charitable and not-for-profit organisations across Aberdeenshire and the surrounding areas. You will develop and build an effective presence within the third sector locally. You will create diverse, high-quality, structured volunteering opportunities with partner organisations, ensuring that volunteering roles reflect the needs and interests of those you are supporting. You will work closely with partner organisations and create a strong referral pathway into our service, and beyond it, building on a knowledge of existing provision.

Role purpose:

The Partnership Manager will play a key role in diversifying the income of VisitAberdeenshire by researching, targeting, and securing new financial support for the organisation, with a gross income target of £200,000 to be raised annually.

Principal duties and responsibilities:

The Partnership Manager will be expected to:

Research & Sales

• Research, identify and build a pipeline of suitable partnership organisations that could partner with VisitAberdeenshire
  • Work with staff and Board Directors to map and engage with potential donors in their networks.
• Drive business conversation of sales pipeline to meet annual revenue targets.
  • Develop and negotiate complex and multi-faceted proposals, pitches, contracts, and agreements with Partners, working closely with colleagues such as the CEO and HR & Business Services Manager.

Account management

• Maintain excellent and proactive relationships with the organisation’s partners, sponsors, and prospects.
• Ensure the timely and accurate fulfilment of contractual obligations, deliverables, proposal & reporting requirements, and evaluations to partners and sponsors.
• Provide support and guidance to colleagues with the management of partnership relationships and ensure key relationships are stewarded by the most appropriate member of the VisitAberdeenshire staff or board.
• Control and manage expenditure for cultivation and delivery of partnerships in line with organisational fiscal policy

Strategy

• Work with the HR & Business Services Manager and CEO to create and implement the Partnerships fundraising strategy to meet or exceed partnerships net income targets year on year.
• Proactively seek to build and maintain an understanding of key activities within the organisation and how this might inform the Partnership fundraising strategy.
• Work with the Management team and Advertising Sales Executive to scope and define the organisations assets and opportunities, further develop our value proposition, and proactively identify and pursue strategic partnerships that align with our goals and objectives.

Reporting

• Work with the Insights & Evaluation Manager to develop a reporting tool to provide insights reports to partners and sponsors.
• Ensure Partners are kept up to date with our work and projects they may have supported
• Maintain all records of conversations and sales conversions within the CRM database.

The post holder will also be expected to:

• Act in accordance with any and all company values, processes, including quality, health, safety and environmental.
• Take a proactive stance to achieving set objectives with a solutions-led approach to overcome the unexpected.
• Takes responsibility and ownership for own performance, development and behaviour, learns from successes and failures and sets high expectations.
• Play an active part in the development of the VisitAberdeenshire team, including informal/internal coaching and mentoring of team members where appropriate to support their continued development.
• Maintain high levels of communication and dialogue with internal colleagues, external partners, and stakeholders.
• Manage time and resources effectively, prioritising efforts according to organisation goals.
• Undertake any other duties that may be required in order to ensure the smooth running of the organisation.

BTA is thrilled to work with Cornerstone in recruiting their new Lead Fundraiser. As one of Scotland’s largest charities, Cornerstone is a leading provider of care and support services for adults, children, and young people with disabilities and other support needs. Their mission is to enable everyone to live a valued life—'the life they choose.' Every day, Cornerstone supports individuals to become more independent and to live fulfilling lives in their communities.

This is a senior role within the organisation, reporting directly to the Director of Finance. The Lead Fundraiser will be responsible for developing and driving forward the fundraising strategy and increasing income across all streams, including individual giving, corporate partnerships, and grants. You will lead and inspire a dedicated team, ensuring that fundraising efforts are innovative, effective, and aligned with the strategic goals.

The key competencies for this role are:

• Strategic Thinking and Planning: The ability to develop and implement a comprehensive fundraising strategy aligned with the organisation's goals. This involves setting clear objectives, prioritising initiatives, and anticipating future trends in the fundraising landscape.
• Relationship Building and Stakeholder Management: Strong interpersonal skills to cultivate and maintain relationships with donors, corporate partners, and other key stakeholders. This competency is crucial for sustaining long-term support and increasing donor engagement.
• Leadership and Team Management: Proven ability to lead, inspire, and manage a fundraising team effectively. This includes fostering a collaborative environment, providing clear direction, and empowering team members to achieve their potential.
• Fundraising Expertise: Extensive knowledge and experience across various fundraising streams, including individual giving, corporate partnerships, grants, and digital fundraising. This also involves staying updated with current fundraising legislation and best practices.
• Communication and Persuasion: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to craft compelling cases for support and present them effectively to different audiences. This includes preparing persuasive reports and presentations that resonate with donors and stakeholders.

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced, passionate individual to join Cornerstone and help shape the future of their fundraising efforts, ensuring that they can continue to support people across Scotland to live their best possible lives.

We are recruiting a Community Development Worker - an exciting new role within our organisation, linked to the North East Culture Collective initiative. The role will support community engagement and development objectives, with a particular focus on exploring the role of creativity and culture in engaging and empowering communities.

No matter what your job is at shmu, everyone’s work is about the same thing – transforming the lives of individuals and communities across the North East. We are looking for an exceptional, passionate individual to join our team as Community Development Worker for an initial fixed term of 12 months, with the potential for a permanent post following the one-year period, dependent on funding.

As our Community Development Worker, in liaison with shmu’s Community Development Manager you will work closely with community and statutory partners, using creativity, community media and culture to engage and empower marginalised communities, giving a voice to those who are usually missed out.

You will have a specific focus on building on and developing relationships within communities of the regeneration areas of Aberdeen City, as well as with communities of interest who have experienced marginalisation and under/mis-representation. You will also support our work in testing out new ways of working between communities and public services (initially within Woodside and the Central locality area) with a view to establishing how a more creative approach can effectively be used to engage and empower communities in an Aberdeen context.

You will be a passionate advocate for the work of the organisation and our aim to transform the lives of individuals and communities across North East Scotland.

As an organisation, we passionately believe in supporting people to expand their horizons and achieve their full potential. Our approach, methods, projects and initiatives are nationally recognised, positioning us as a centre of excellence for the work we do. This approach also applies to our staff team. We believe in supporting the members of our team to achieve their full potential and offer:

- support to undertake relevant training and qualifications

- regular support and supervision

- flexible working hours and a TOIL system

- initial paid holiday entitlement of 34 days (inclusive of any public/bank holidays which you may choose to request)

- a company sick pay scheme, effective from the first day of employment

- a stakeholder pension, with an annually reviewed employer contribution (currently 5%)

- Cycle2work scheme

- a hybrid/office occasional working model to allow for working from home.

We appreciate the importance of good mental health and wellbeing amongst our team and strive to provide a working environment which supports people to achieve this. We are also committed to supporting the wellbeing of all those who engage with our services - hear more about the impact of our work in this area.

You will support the Housing Team Manager and wider colleagues with the development of the brand-new service(s) in Aberdeen city and you will work as part of a team to develop and maintain high quality supported plans for individuals in our Aberdeen Recovery Housing Service.

You will provide outreach across Aberdeen city centre supporting individuals with the aim to gaining their own tenancy.

The Role

To maintain safety and security within a designated housing managed project

To provide a community based service which enables the individuals within the local drug and alcohol treatment system and housing services to secure and maintain appropriate housing for support through their recovery journey.

Your Rewards

Starting salary of £24,250 per year, with opportunity to access potential yearly salary increments subject to appraisal, meaning potential salary increase up to £28,000

Generous annual leave, benefits package, and continuous training opportunities

Access to employee assistance programs and wellbeing activities

The chance to be part of a collaborative team dedicated to making a difference

About You

Experience of facilitating or co-facilitating group programmes

Experience of delivering 1 to 1 support

An understanding of the complex issues presented by individuals experiencing homelessness, housing support needs or drug and alcohol recovery.

Experience of working with individuals in the substance use sector or related field.

The ability to be innovative and be flexible in order to meet the needs of the service.

Be able to work effectively with multi-agencies, whilst maintaining the excellent reputation of the service.

Knowledge of adult and child protection essential as you will be working with vulnerable people in a community setting

The Service

We are opening an exciting new Recovery Housing service which will have multiple houses/flats based across Aberdeen city centre and are currently in the final stages of procuring these. Your office base will be in the city centre, however there will be a need to travel to the houses across the city. You will manage a small team providing tenancy support and delivering group work and 1 to 1 in our city centre office base.

About Phoenix Futures

Join a legacy of over 50 years in providing rehabilitation services. At Phoenix Futures, we're committed to rebuilding capacity in the residential rehab sector across England and Scotland. Your dedication will contribute to our mission of delivering hope and transformation to individuals and families affected by addiction. We believe in being the best, we are passionate about recovery, and we value our history.

Read more about our history and guiding principles on our website here

The Court of the University of Aberdeen is seeking to appoint a new independent member (non-executive director and charity trustee) to fill a vacancy that will arise during the Summer 2024.

The University was established in 1495 to serve the north-east of Scotland, today our university is a global presence in higher education. A dual focus on our region and the wider world is as important to us today as it was five centuries ago.

The University is now seeking an exceptional individual to fill a vacancy on Court to ensure the continued successful delivery of the University’s priorities and objectives, the setting of its strategic direction and commitment to its values and mission.

Members of the governing body need to have a keen interest in, and empathy for, Higher Education, and be willing to commit their time and expertise to helping the University deliver on its significant ambitions. Applications are invited from individuals with a record of successful leadership within a public, private or third sector organisation, who are passionate about supporting an internationally competitive, research-intensive and diverse University.

Interest would be particularly welcome at this time from individuals with skills and experience in in relation to sustainability and the environment as we seek to fully embed our commitment to net zero and addressing the climate crisis within our financial and strategic planning. Demonstrable expertise in strategic leadership of the implementation of corporate sustainability strategies, green finance, sustainability, or environmental policy leadership would therefore bring particular value to University Court and to the role of independent member.

The post is not remunerated, however reasonable expenses incurred as result of your role will be re-imbursed in line with the University’s expenses policy.