We’re on a journey to create fairer communities by facilitating 10 million social entrepreneurs globally by 2030. Do you want to help make this a reality?
We are looking for a talented and values-driven Head of Adult Learning to join our highly skilled, motivated and supportive team in a maternity cover position.
This is a rare opportunity to join an organisation with a global footprint and a deeply local purpose — helping individuals unlock their potential and drive change in their communities. As Head of Adult Learning, you will take on a senior leadership role in shaping how we deliver transformational learning to thousands of social entrepreneurs, community leaders and changemakers.
At the Academy, we believe learning should do more than transfer knowledge — it should change how people see themselves. Our approach is built on practitioner-led, peer- learning, where skilled facilitators — who are themselves social change practitioners — create the conditions for real, human-centred transformation. We support people develop their leadership practice. Please read our manisfesto – if it chimes with you, please get in touch. This is learning that removes barriers, unlocks confidence, and helps people step fully into their purpose.
We’ve seen how powerful this can be — not just in individual growth, but in the collective impact that ripples out when people see their own potential clearly and feel equipped to act on it. Since 2004, we’ve supported over 28,000 adult learners in more than 30 countries, and our ambition is to reach 10 million social entrepreneurs by 2030.
If you have a strong grounding in adult learning and facilitation and share our belief in the power of learning to create lasting social change, we’d love to hear from you.
Job Purpose:
The role plays a pivotal role in championing, embedding, and promoting transformational learning principles, ethos, and skills internally and across the sector, positioning the Academy as a leading provider of transformational learning.
It will lead the sales and delivery team responsible for adult learning programmes, including large-scale contracts and projects and manage key client, funder, and sector stakeholder relationships. The role will ensure the continuous innovation and impact of the adult learning offer, ensuring impactful learning and building the organisation’s reputation for learning excellence and long-term sector influence.
The role will provide leadership, mentorship, and performance management to the Strategic Partnerships and Delivery Leads. It will play an active role in driving and supporting sales, proposals, and funding bids in collaboration with the Sustainability Lead, Strategic Partnership and Delivery Leads and CEO, including attending key sales meetings and pitches.
The post-holder will work at a senior specialist level across the organisation, contributing to the long-term business sustainability, strengthening the organisation’s reputation, and ensuring excellence and innovation in the design and delivery of experiential learning interventions.
Main Responsibilities:
For a full set of criteria please download the recruitment pack below.
Organisation profile:
At the Social Enterprise Academy, we believe social entrepreneurs play an essential role in changing the world.
We strengthen their role in local communities through transformational learning programmes that will increase their community impact.
Our programmes are accredited, responsive to learner needs, and are delivered by experienced Facilitators who are social change leaders themselves.
Since 2004, we have delivered over 1,900 learning programmes to 28,000+ learners in over 30 countries. We have also engaged over 55,000 young people around the world, using social enterprise as a tool to help them reach their full potential and create positive change in their communities.
Every day people with chest, heart and stroke conditions are leaving hospital scared and alone. You can be part of our mission to make sure that there is no life half lived in Scotland.
Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland (CHSS) is on an exciting journey to extend its influence and support across Scotland, aiming to reach over 175,000 people per year living with chest, heart, and stroke conditions. With a bold and ambitious strategy, CHSS is dedicated to ensuring that no life is half lived, advocating for, and providing support to those in need.
To spearhead this mission, CHSS seeks to appoint a Head of External Engagement and Peer & Participation. This critical role is at the heart of CHSS's strategic plan to enhance its community health care support services, amplifying our relationships, reach and income.
The role will be responsible for:
External Stakeholder Engagement
The role will be responsible for delivery of our external engagement strategy, implementing comprehensive engagement strategies with stakeholders and embedding an external engagement culture across the organisation.
To deliver our No Life Half Lived Strategy we need to increase our relationships, reach and income through identifying new and amplifying our existing external stakeholders.
The role will lead on mapping, building and maintaining an extensive network of NHS, Health & Social Care, Primary and Secondary Care and Third Sector partners to promote our CHSS No Life Half Lived and Community Health Care offer.
Evidencing the value, we can contribute to their strategic and operational ambitions to help us reach everyone who lives with our conditions who needs us.
Our ambition is to be fully recognised as the leading provider of supported self management through our Community Health Care Support Model in Scotland by 2028.
Peer & Participation
The role will also lead our participation and engagement function and ambition to expand our peer reach from 3,000 to 10,000 over the next 3 years.
Leading on our Participation and Involvement Framework, ensuring that all of our activities are informed by those affected by our conditions and embedding the lived experience across the organisation and services.
The role functions at both strategic and operational levels to ensure that there is early engagement, connection and long-lasting buy-in from both internal and external stakeholders, as new and creative solutions are developed, proposed, implemented and evaluated.
Verture is looking for a new Training Programme Manager to drive the development and delivery of our ‘Becoming Climate Resilient programme’ and wider training and skills development portfolio. We are seeking someone who is passionate about climate education, has experience in training development and delivery, and the ability to design and deliver engaging training to diverse audiences.
Are you a finance professional who thrives on purpose as much as performance? Do you want your financial expertise to make a real difference in people’s lives, not just the bottom line? Join us as our Head of Finance and help steer a unique organisation that blends the heart of a charity with the ambition of social enterprise.
Established since 2010, the Grassmarket Community Project (GCP) in Edinburgh City is a medium sized charity, incorporating income generating social enterprises. We are a vibrant, inclusive community of more than 600 people working together to overcome wide-ranging societal challenges and support positive changes in one another’s lives.
We’re looking for a committed and skilled Head of Finance to lead our finance function with integrity, clarity, and vision. This is a unique opportunity to apply your financial expertise to an organisation that genuinely changes lives — every single day.
The Head of Finance will oversee, manage and maintain the finances across our social enterprises and charitable activities. You will ensure robust financial controls and reporting, support strategic decisions with sound financial insight, and champion best practices in governance and financial administration. Reporting to the CEO and working closely with the Senior Management Team (SMT) and Board of Trustees, you’ll be a key player in ensuring our ongoing sustainability, impact, and growth.
Key Responsibilities:
The role of Head of Finance is critical to our success. Your skills and experience will enable us to ensure ongoing good financial management and admin systems, governance, due diligence, and strategic planning to support our work and future sustainability. Above all, your work will support the charity to continue to transform the lives of many of our city’s most vulnerable.
Scottish Book Trust is a national charity that believes books, reading and writing have the power to change lives. A love of reading inspires creativity, improves employment opportunities, mental health and wellbeing and is one of the most effective ways to help break the poverty cycle. We work towards a Scotland where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive through literacy.
This is an excellent opportunity for you to join Scottish Book Trust as Director of Programme. The position offers full time working within our Senior Management Team.
What we offer
• Part time, permanent role
• Competitive salary
• Flexible hybrid working between home and our Edinburgh City Centre Office, with great access by train, bus, and tram
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Company Sick Pay
• Pension with additional 5% employer contributions
• Death in service benefit
• Free access to employee assistance programme
Are you a strategic and creative thinker?
Do you have at least 5 years’ experience at a senior level in programme development and management?
Do you have experience of delivering innovation and change and engaging staff in a culture of creative excellence and continuous improvement?
You could join our organisation as a member of the senior management team and contribute to the success of our nationwide programmes, which include Bookbug, Book Week Scotland, Reading Schools, supporting writing and authors, and effective, valued research and evaluation.
The Director of Programme (DP) works with the CEO, Director of Finance & Operations and Director of Marketing to establish and deliver the strategic direction of Scottish Book Trust. The DP is responsible for overseeing the creative direction of all SBT programmes, leading on their strategic development and continuous improvement and has overall accountability for delivery. The DP will be a key lead negotiator for funding arising from Scottish Government departments.
The post holder line manages five heads of teams for Early Years, Reading Communities, Research and Evaluation, School Communities and Writing Communities, ensuring programmes are effective, impactful, and delivered to the highest standards.
Amnesty International UK (AIUK) has a simple aim: an end to human rights abuses. Independent, international and influential, we campaign for justice, fairness, freedom and truth wherever they are denied. If you want to use your skills, knowledge, and experience to help fight for human rights, you could be our Advocacy Manager – Scotland. This role is temporary, fixed-term job cover available from July 2025 until mid-January 2026.
Due to the nature of this contract, the ideal candidate will be available for an immediate start.
About the role
The Nations and Regions team help us achieve our goal of protecting, defending and advancing human rights at home and around the world. The Advocacy Manager – Scotland (fixed-term cover) is accountable for Amnesty’s advocacy at the Scottish Parliament and with various Scottish Government departments. You will work with colleagues in the Nations & Regions team and our UK and international headquarters to develop and deliver advocacy strategies with MSPs, MPs in Scotland, civil servants and other government and public body officials.
More details can be found by downloading the job description from our careers portal.
The role may be for you if:
Our Commitment to you
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) are at the core of our values. We want to be an organisation that tackles structural inequality and prejudice as well as be an actively anti-racist organisation. This means taking a meaningful and equitable approach to supporting and developing you and others during your time with us.
New colleagues receive 27 days leave annually (29 after five years), as well as bank holidays (pro rated for part time) and 3 wellbeing days. 2-5% employee pension contributions are matched at 6-9% and we offer 6 months full pay for family leave. We offer flexible working such as compressed work patterns and job shares.
This is an exceptional opportunity to play a key role in the conservation of the city’s rich heritage through developing sensitive and practical solutions to support the transition of historic buildings located in the Old and New Towns of Edinburgh World Heritage Site (WHS) towards net-zero and to adapt them to climate change.
We are looking for an Energy Retrofit and Adaptation Specialist to deliver innovative energy retrofit and adaptation pilot projects which preserve the historic and architectural significance of these buildings. The role involves conducting targeted research, producing and disseminating guidance on reducing carbon emissions of historic buildings and improving their resilience against the impacts of climate change.
This is a rare opportunity, at an exciting time for the organisation, to play a key role in our leading Climate Emergency Programme, working with skilled and passionate staff, Trustees, communities and partners.
Click here to read the full job description.
About Edinburgh World Heritage
Edinburgh World Heritage is an independent charity dedicated to ensuring that our World Heritage status is a dynamic force that benefits everyone – those who live, work or study in the city, and those who visit.
Edinburgh is a unique place – steeped in history, with iconic topography and stunning historic buildings and public spaces. The ‘Old and New Towns of Edinburgh’ was designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1995.
Our mission is to connect people to their heritage. We work in partnership with Historic Environment Scotland and the City of Edinburgh Council to ensure that the management and conservation of the WHS preserves it for future generations to enjoy.
We do this through distributing grants and working with partners to deliver active conservation of historic buildings, conservation and creative interpretation of historic public spaces, developing solutions and guidance through our new Climate Emergency Programme and engaging people directly with the rich heritage of their city.
For more information on Edinburgh World Heritage, please visit our website at ewh.org.uk.
What We Offer
· 25 days annual leave plus 10 public holidays
· 8% employer pension contribution
· Flexible and hybrid working (min 2 days in the office)
· Historic office just off the Royal Mile
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
We are an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone is treated fairly, equitably and respectfully.
Research shows that underrepresented groups apply only if they fully meet the criteria in a job description. We are committed to levelling the playing field, and we encourage anyone from any background to apply even if they don’t tick every box.
We believe flexibility is important, and we’re happy to chat to you about flexible and remote working.
Please note:
• The staff team work a minimum of 2 days per week in the office (currently Monday and Thursday).
If you need any flexibility or adjustments in our interview process - to help set you up for success - then please let us know too.
Foundation Scotland is an independent charity that provides funding to charities, social enterprises and community organisations. We do this on behalf of over 400 individuals, charitable trusts and companies.
Our Communities Team enables and empowers communities across Scotland to devise and implement their own strategies for local funds coming from a range of sources, notably renewables businesses. We provide fund governance, grant administration and related services for a range of commercial and community-sector clients, combined with a commitment to community-led approaches.
We are seeking a Community Funds Advisor to support the team delivering a portfolio of work in south-west Scotland for a 12 month fixed term contract. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives on variety, challenge, and meaningful impact to join our team.
Reporting to the Community Fund Manager, you will bring experience in grant making, community development or related environments, coupled with excellent interpersonal and facilitation skills, the ability to learn and adapt quickly and a strong commitment to community-led approaches.
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 recruiting for a Skills Development Manager who encourages good practice and drives continuous improvement in skills development and promotes a culture of learning and development within the sector.
The Skills Development Manager is a key interface between MGS and the sector, building rich and valuable networks and delivering a wide range of skills development programmes and activities for the benefit of the sector. The Skills Development Manager develops and manages partnerships with key stakeholders across the heritage landscape that maximise the quality of our products and programme delivery.
A core focus of this role is the development , delivery and evaluation of all our workforce development programmes. This will involve coordinating and codesigning with the Museums and Galleries sector, existing partners and exploring new partnership opportunities.
The post holder is joining MGS as we launch an exciting new programme aimed at building sector resilience, exploring new delivery models and facilitating more entrepreneurial approaches. Part of the role will be developing skills development activity in relation to this programme in collaboration with colleagues from across MGS teams.
A skilled communicator who is self-motivated, shows initiative and builds strong and effective relationships, the Skills Development Manager continually seeks out opportunities and more agile ways of working to develop content and enhance the MGS skills offer.
Overview of Responsibilities
The above mentioned tasks and responsibilities constitute an overview and not an exhaustive list. Workload and priorities are ultimately determined by the annual MGS Operational Plan.
Relationships
Skills and Experience
Essential
Preferred
We work with staff to help everyone reach their potential in the workplace and welcome conversations with individuals about their needs, circumstances and aspirations.
HOW YOU WORK
MGS has a behavioural competency framework which describes how we expect people to go about their work day-to-day. Staff must demonstrate the following skills areas at an appropriate level:
All staff are expected to champion and help deliver MGS’s commitments to anti-racism and climate.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
Travel – regionally is required. Approx. 40 days per year.
Do you have experience of supporting senior leaders in a fast-paced, high-profile environment? Are you highly organised, proactive and confident managing complex diaries, high-level communications, and senior stakeholder relationships? If so, join as the Executive Assistant to the Director of Shelter Scotland, and you’ll play a vital role in keeping our leadership team running smoothly.
About the role
The Executive Assistant (EA) is responsible for the efficient running of the Director’s office and for providing executive support for the Directorate Leadership Team. The EA also provides full secretariat support for the Shelter Scotland Committee and ensures effective communication between the Directors of Shelter, the 6 Directorate Leadership Teams and with the Shelter Executive Leadership Team.
Role specifics
We are looking for a highly organised and discreet individual to provide executive-level support to the Director and Assistant Directors of Shelter Scotland, as well as wider senior management. You will manage the Director’s office, coordinate a busy diary, handle confidential communications, and act as a key point of contact both internally and externally. You will also provide secretariat support to the Shelter Scotland Committee, ensuring smooth planning and delivery of meetings, agendas, and follow-up actions. The role involves liaising with internal teams such as Media and Policy Advocacy, supporting internal communications, managing documentation and systems (including SharePoint), and offering project and administrative support across the leadership team. A proactive approach, excellent written and verbal communication skills, and experience of working in a fast-paced environment are essential.
About the candidate
We’re seeking someone who:
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.
We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.
About the team
The Directorate Leadership Team (DLT) comprises the Director and the 2 Assistant Directors and meets fortnightly, ensuring oversight of all aspects of the development and delivery of Shelter Scotland’s plans.
Intercultural Youth Scotland (IYS), a leading voice for Black and People of Colour (BPoC) young people in Scotland, is looking for a passionate and experienced Mental Health Service Manager to lead our intercultural counselling and mental health support programme for BPoC youth aged 12–29.
Our Mental Health Service offers free, specialist intercultural counselling and mental health support for young PoC and minority ethnic groups in Scotland, aged 12-29.
Within this role, you’ll oversee service delivery, manage a small team of service providers, build relationships with schools and stakeholders, and ensure the programme continues to deliver measurable impact.
This is an exciting opportunity to take forward a recently restructured service and shape it to become a leading provider of intercultural mental health support for young people in Scotland.
For more information about this job, please refer to the full job description.
A clinical qualification (BACP/UKCP), and experience scaling health or wellbeing services would be advantageous but not required.
What we offer:
About the Role
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 recruiting for a Capacity Programme Officer who will work with the Senior Capacity Programme Manager in the Museum Development team to facilitate delivery of a new capacity-building programme designed to support Scotland’s museums to become more resilient organisations.
The programme aligns with Scotland’s Museums and Galleries Strategy which 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.
The new programme will have a particular focus on the Resilience strand of the strategy, particularly on Financial Resilience and Collaboration but the postholder will support the interconnected nature of the strands through working collaboratively with staff across the MGS team.
The postholder will support the development of new ways of working that will strengthen the resilience of the whole sector. The postholder will engage directly with museums and galleries in Scotland, supporting and gathering information on common challenges. They will collaborate with colleagues across MGS to support the delivery of programmes to address development needs. The role will involve working with existing partners and support agencies as well as assisting in building new strategic relationships.
Overview of Responsibilities
The above mentioned tasks and responsibilities constitute an overview and not an exhaustive list. Workload and priorities are ultimately determined by the annual MGS Operational Plan.
Relationships
Skills and Experience
Essential
Preferred
We work with staff to help everyone reach their potential in the workplace and welcome conversations with individuals about their needs, circumstances and aspirations.
How You Work
MGS has a behavioural competency framework which describes how we expect people to go about their work day-to-day. Staff must demonstrate the following skills areas at an appropriate level:
In particular this role requires someone who is self-motivated and solutions-focused, positively welcomes opportunities for change and learning, readily shares experience and ideas and has a passion for supporting museums and galleries to become more sustainable and resilient.
All staff are expected to champion and help deliver MGS’s commitments to anti-racism and climate.
Special Requirements
Travel – regionally will be required occasionally (estimated 15 days a year)
SYP has a proud history of championing youth-led projects and campaigns that drive meaningful policy change. Our programmes and participation activities use a youth work ethos to support young people across Scotland to develop skills and experiences, discuss the issues that are important to them, and influence change.
Working within SYP’s youth-led structure, our Participation and Programmes Officer will work with young people and the Participation and Programmes team to plan, deliver, amplify, and evaluate our activities, in line with the organisation’s strategic objectives.
If you are passionate about amplifying young people’s voices and have the skills to support young people’s meaningful participation in decision-making, we would love to hear from you.
Every day people with chest, heart and stroke conditions are leaving hospital scared and alone. You can be part of our mission to make sure that there is no life half lived in Scotland.
By joining Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS) as a Communications & Media Manager you can be the difference between people just surviving and really living.
You will be part of Scotland’s leading health charity providing support to people with chest, heart and stroke conditions and Long Covid to live life to the full again. Our Community Healthcare Support Service provides access to a range of supported self management and community recovery services to support people across Scotland to manage their health as well as possible and adjust to life after a diagnosis of a chest or heart condition or after a stroke.
About the role:
Are you a passionate and strategic media professional ready to contribute to shaping public awareness and influencing health policy across Scotland?
Join Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland (CHSS) as our Communications & Media Manager and play a pivotal role in amplifying our voice, strengthening our brand visibility, and helping us reach 175,000 people each year by 2028.
In this management role, you’ll drive the delivery of our media strategy - creating impactful campaigns and securing proactive and reactive press coverage. Working closely with teams across CHSS, you’ll position us as a trusted authority on stroke, chest, heart and Long Covid conditions, all in alignment with our bold No Life Half Lived strategy.
CHSS also supports flexible recruitment through Working Families and we are “Happy to Talk Flexible Working”.
In line with our commitment to safeguarding, this role is subject to a Basic Disclosure check. CHSS is committed to equality of opportunity and to providing a service which is free from unfair and unlawful discrimination. We therefore aim to ensure that no applicant, volunteer or member of staff is unfairly treated on the grounds of offending background.
Background
Edinburgh Communities Climate Action Network (ECCAN) is a network of over 160 group members and over 300 individual members. We aim to engage and empower individuals and community groups in taking meaningful action to address the climate and nature emergency, working towards a just, thriving and resilient Edinburgh. Our membership is open to any community group and individual in Edinburgh. You can become a member here.
ECCAN was launched by the Scottish Communities Climate Action Network (SCCAN) in 2022 and submitted a successful funding application to the Scottish Government in Autumn 2023 to establish the Edinburgh Communities Climate Action Hub. This is part of a strategic Scotland-wide network of regional Climate Action Hubs.
At ECCAN, we aim to cultivate an organisational culture that is diverse, equitable, and fosters belonging. The post holder will play a pivotal role in supporting us to achieve this vision.
The Role
This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who is passionate about climate action, good governance and charity management to take a key supporting role in building the community-led network and ensuring its ongoing success.
This person will be an excellent administrator with a keen eye for detail, tech-savvy and able to support the organisation in achieving its aims and objectives, through the management of everyday operations.
This will include ensuring compliance with all policy and related expectations of a publicly-funded organisation, managing HR strategies and day-to-day finances such as payroll and expenses.
As part of a fast-paced environment and collaborative team, there will be an opportunity for you to grow and develop in your role. While the role is focused on the finance and policies of the charity you will be able to contribute to the direction of our sub-networks or other activities you may have an interest in.
Join the Board of Friends at the End (SCIO)
Are you passionate about human rights, dignity, and compassionate choices at the end of life? Friends at the End SCIO is looking for committed and values-driven individuals to join our Board and help steer our work at this pivotal moment in Scotland’s journey toward assisted dying legislation.
About Us
Friends at the End (FATE) is a Scottish charity that supports individuals' choices at the end of life. We advocate for a change in the law to allow assisted dying for mentally competent adults. Our mission is to provide information, support, and guidance on end-of-life options, empowering people to make informed decisions.
Following the historic Stage 1 vote in favour of Liam McArthur’s Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill, we are entering a crucial new phase of our work. As a Board Member, you will help us build on this progress, ensuring the charity remains strong, strategic, and focused on delivering impact.
Role Overview
As a Board Member, you will contribute to the strategic direction, governance, and development of FATE. You will bring your knowledge, experience, and passion to help us achieve our goals, support our staff and volunteers, and represent the charity’s values in all that we do.
Key Responsibilities:
What We're Looking For:
We welcome applications from individuals with a variety of backgrounds, particularly those with experience in:
Above all, we're looking for people who are passionate about our mission and committed to helping us achieve meaningful change.
Why Join Us?
About Us
Outer Spaces supports artists, professional development, artist-led activity, and studio provision by repurposing empty commercial properties. Our programming and partnerships focus on visual artists, using vacant and disused spaces as platforms for research, experimentation, and creative exchange.
Since launching in 2021, the response to our work—and to our growing portfolio of spaces—has been overwhelming. We have supported over 1,000 resident artists and groups across 139 spaces in 13 local authority areas. These spaces are currently located in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Greenock, Inverness, Motherwell, Newton Mearns, and Paisley. They include former shops and offices in diverse settings—from busy city centres and commuter towns to post-industrial areas and communities heavily affected by austerity, Brexit, the pandemic, and now the cost-of-living crisis.
All our spaces are rent-free. By removing what is often an artist’s highest monthly cost, Outer Spaces plays a vital role in supporting creative practice, particularly now, as rising living costs put further pressure on already fragile incomes. Our goal is to ensure that artists, especially those at early stages of their careers, have access to affordable space, a peer network, and opportunities to collaborate, share work, and engage with the public.
This is a new, hands-on finance role in a small, dynamic charity. The Finance Manager ensures effective cash flow management, timely monthly management accounts, and oversight of pledged income, while maintaining high standards of financial control and compliance. Working closely with the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) the Finance Manager supports both day-to-day operations and strategic planning.
Key Responsibilities
Cash Flow Management
Monthly Management Accounts
Credit Control & Donor Income Tracking
Cash Control & Financial Operations
Budgeting & Strategic Support
Compliance & Audit
Essential Skills and Experience
Desirable Skills and Experience
Personal Attributes
Main Purpose of Job: Development Worker
We are looking for a Development Worker to deliver our range of our employability and mentoring programmes. The role will support young people and adults to access and sustain integrated employability programmes, and one to one support.
Move On offers:
Key Functions and Responsibilities:
Creativity:
Key Relationships:
Internal:
External:
Canongate Youth’s mission is to provide high quality youth work services that support children and young people to flourish. We aim to nurture aspirations, build relationships, provide opportunities, and strengthen wellbeing. Throughout our history we have put children and young people at the heart of what we do to deliver services to those who need it most. Across the organisation we support children and young people to:
As part of our ongoing commitment to supporting children and young people we are seeking to recruit for the following post:
Sessional Youth Worker
Canongate Youth provides a range of services, opportunities and support to children and young people aged 5-24 over the South East locality of the city. As part of our ongoing commitment to empowering children and young people and providing quality youth work services we are seeking to recruit for the following post:
Sessional Youth Workers @ £16 per hour
Various hours available
We are looking for an enthusiastic, creative, and fun person who can support the delivery of our youth work services. The post holder will have experience of working with young people, delivering high quality activities and building relationships with young people and their families.
Sessional staff may be required to deliver innovative and creative one-to-one and group work support, actively helping young people (YP) in schools and/or in the community. This may include working outdoors and delivering play-based activities with children and young people.
Additional responsibilities may involve covering our Open All Hours provision at the Commonwealth Pool on Friday evenings—facilitating activities such as swimming, providing a chill-out space, supporting sports sessions, and working alongside personal trainers in the gym. Sessional staff may also be asked to support our universal youth work provision for young people aged 5–18.
We are looking for individuals with excellent communication skills who can demonstrate the ability to build positive relationships. The ideal candidate will help us work towards our outcomes and uphold the values of the organisation.
The post is subject to the receipt of two suitable references and membership of the PVG Scheme.
We are currently seeking a compassionate and committed Support Worker to join our dedicated support team in Edinburgh.
As a Support Worker you will provide housing and care at home related support tailored to address the individual needs of the women in our supported living environment to maximise their independence.
If you’re looking for a role where you can truly make a difference, then we want to hear from you.
Verture is seeking a highly organised and collaborative individual to support our "Becoming Climate Resilient" training and to assist with project support for other flagship programmes.
Working across a range of projects and teams – assisting with training support, project coordination and process improvement.
Everyday people with chest, heart and stroke conditions leave hospital scared and alone. You can be part of our mission to make sure that there is no life half lived in Scotland.
By joining Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS) as Advice Line Call Coordinator you can be the difference between people just surviving and really living.
You will be part of Scotland’s leading charity providing support to people with chest, heart and stroke conditions to live life to the full again. The Advice Line service is a free and confidential helpline that supports people living with our conditions to ensure that no life is half lived.
The Advice Line Call Coordinator will develop a team of volunteers who will respond to incoming phone calls/e-mails/text messages and direct service users to the appropriate people/team within CHSS and be responsible for administration duties related to the Advice Line.
We are seeking an enthusiastic individual with good communication skills, experience working in a health/social care setting and a basic understanding of medical terminology.
Experience of recruiting and line managing volunteers is desirable.
In support of Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland’s No Life Half Lived #2 Strategy, the Advice Line has recently expanded to include a new structure and variety of skill sets to enable a sustainable service that aligns to CHSS’s future vision and
strategy. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the expansion of the Advice Line and to be part of a friendly team.
All roles at OPFS contribute to our mission of working with and for single parent families, providing support that enables them to achieve their potential and help create lasting solutions to the poverty and barriers facing many single parents and their children. Our core values of Justice, Equity, Trust, Collaboration and Compassion are at the heart of everything we do and underpin all aspects of our work.
Roles and responsibilities:
The Development Worker for the Lone Parent Positive Workplaces Programme will provide support and guidance to lone parents in securing, maintaining and advancing employment opportunities. The role involves creating and inclusive, supportive work environment for lone parents, ensuring they have access to resources and networks that enable them to balance work and family responsibilities successfully. Working collaboratively as part of the national project to test and demonstrate opportunities and contribute to the wider objectives.
As our Patient Research and Policy Coordinator, you’ll be at the forefront of Prostate Scotland’s efforts to amplify the voices of men with prostate disease, shaping impactful research and policy to transform lives. Based in our Edinburgh office, you’ll design and lead research programmes, conducting surveys, focus groups, and interviews to capture the perspectives and needs of men, their families, and carers across Scotland. You’ll develop mechanisms to ensure patient views inform our work, collaborating with the CEO to craft policy solutions and advocate for change with key audiences.
You’ll work closely with our team and Board, liaising with support groups and representing Prostate Scotland at external events, delivering talks and training on prostate health. Staying abreast of research and policy trends, you’ll produce bulletins and briefings, collaborating with our Information and Advice Manager to keep our materials current. You’ll build networks with health policy and research organisations, monitor developments, and highlight critical issues to our leadership, ensuring our mission remains responsive and influential.
We seek a passionate, collaborative individual with strong research, analytical, and communication skills, and a commitment to health equity. Experience in research, policy, or charity work is desirable. This two-year contract, reporting to the CEO, may involve some Scottish travel.
Join Our Board as Treasurer / Trustee and Contribute Your Financial Expertise
Are you an experienced finance professional looking to make a meaningful contribution to the lives of older people and their families? We are currently seeking a skilled individual to act as the Treasurer on our Board of Trustees. If you possess financial expertise and our organisation’s mission resonates with you, we invite you to apply for this important role.
Why Become Our Treasurer?
As Treasurer, you will play a crucial role in overseeing our finances, ensuring financial health, and supporting our mission to reduce loneliness and isolation, and promote physical and cognitive wellbeing for older people; and provide respite for their families and carers in South Edinburgh. Find out more about us at: theopendoor.org.uk This voluntary role offers the chance to use your expertise without requiring a significant time commitment.
Key Responsibilities:
What We’re Looking For:
What’s in It for You?
Commitment
For more information on becoming the Treasurer on the Board of Trustees of The Open Door Edinburgh please email simon.warr@theopendoor.org.uk
The Human Rights Consortium Scotland (HRCS) is recruiting to this role for the first time which has been created to build on the successes of the Consortium’s current income generation strategy and develop a new, long-term one focussed on sustainability and growth.
Our new DD/IG strategy must have a focus on diversification of funding linked to creative and innovative business development which embodies and delivers the Consortium’s strategic development in line with its mission, vision and values.
This is an exciting opportunity and would suit someone who has previous experience of business development and/or income generation and is keen to apply this experience to the Human Rights sector and is perhaps looking for more flexibility in terms of part-time work to supplement consultancy work.
We know this is an extremely challenging time for the voluntary sector, hence our investment in this role in order to meet current and future financial requirements, both for the core of the organisation and new projects and developments.
Our new Strategy will build on successes to date, maintaining existing relationships with our funders and promote diversification of funding and sustainability.
Based at our Edinburgh office space at 66 Hanover Street, Edinburgh EH2 1EL.
HRCS is a hybrid organisation and all requests for flexible working will be considered.
Can include homeworking with at least 1 day per week in Edinburgh office.
Everyday people with chest, heart and stroke conditions are leaving hospital scared and alone. You can be part of our mission to make sure that there is no life half lived in Scotland.
You will be part of Scotland’s leading charity providing support to people with chest, heart, stroke and Long Covid conditions, to live life to the full again. Our Community Healthcare Support Service model forms a nationwide network of local support groups, health care professionals, volunteers and one-to-one support teams helping families adjust to life with a heart or lung condition, long covid or after a stroke.
To support the delivery of our ambitious NLHL strategy, CHSS is seeking to appoint a Quality Assurance Manager. In this role, the post holder will play a pivotal role in driving a culture of excellence across CHSS Community Healthcare Support services. This leadership position will be accountable for the strategic oversight and continuous enhancement of quality assurance (QA) frameworks, ensuring robust governance is embedded throughout the Service Delivery department. The role will champion the alignment of service standards with best practices, regulatory requirements, and contractual obligations, while proactively identifying opportunities for quality improvement. This role will serve as a subject matter expert in clinical governance, quality assurance and quality improvement and in collaboration with the senior management team, will support the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service performance to ensure optimal outcomes for service users and stakeholders.
CHSS is seeking an experienced leader with proven experience in quality assurance across health & social care and third sector environments. Applicants will have a recognised professional qualification/registration within health and/or social care and have excellent leadership, communication and organizational skills. Confidence in IT skills and experience working to a high professional standard using own initiative is essential.
Are you a qualified accountant with excellent business acumen? Rowan Alba Ltd, is a charity working across Edinburgh to support those who are, or are at risk of homelessness.
We provide services to people who are marginalised due to their homelessness and affected health and wellness. Our supported accommodation provides trauma-informed support and care in a settled environment. Our supported, temporary accommodation services ensure we are supporting those who are in immediate need. Our community services are built on our proven track record and success in preventing homelessness for those who need our one-to-one support.
We are looking for a Business Manager to join our developing organisation. You will be a qualified accountant and will lead on our financial health and frameworks, as well as overseeing the needs of the business to ensure we continue our growth and comply fully in our sector. You will have a proven track record of efficient financial management as well as the ability to apply business management with skills which include analysing and managing risks to the organisation.
The Night Worker will provide positive, practical, and emotional support to the residents of our service that promotes choice and encourages personal responsibility
To maintain a clean environment for all.
Please note: this post is restricted to female applicants only under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, Part 1, as it is an occupational requirement for the postholder to work within a women-only service.
A full Job Description is available for download below.
Overview and aims of the role
The Press and Communications Lead will play a key role in ensuring that Stop Climate Chaos Scotland (SCCS), its members and partners are as coordinated and effective as possible in promoting ambitious climate policy in the media and shaping political and public narratives ahead of the Holyrood elections in 2026.
The Press and Communications Lead will:
• Enable better coordination of media outputs by SCCS and its networks
• Increase the volume of both proactive and reactive press outputs by SCCS and its networks
• Develop and share communications resources with partners, such as strategic communications advice, messaging guides and polling.
Core responsibilities
Media
• Monitoring morning press and wider media, identify opportunities for reactive comment , and coordinate responses from SCCS and/or members and partners with key messages and available spokespeople
• Identify and forward plan reactive press moments on behalf of SCCS, members and partners in order to increase the volume of positive climate pieces in the media
• Coordinate proactive press activity from SCCS, members partners to maximise impact, identify overlaps, opportunities to coordinate
Communications
• Provide strategic communications advice to SCCS and its members, and create communications resources, such as messaging guides on topical issues and advice for spokespeople.
• Ensure that SCCS campaigns, events, digital communications and policy work have consistent and impactful messaging, based on the latest research and best practice.
• Draft SCCS press releases, campaigns and other public facing content.
Engagement and coordination
• Act as the primary point of contact for SCCS media and communications work
• Work with the Coalition Manager and group chair to coordinate the SCCS Press and Communications Group, facilitating discussions, and ensuring the smooth operation of the group
This scope of work is not exhaustive and you may be asked to carry out additional relevant tasks where appropriate.
Person specification
Essential
• Proven experience working with the media, securing coverage and developing and overseeing communications strategies
• Strong understanding of how to use strategic communications to shape public narratives and influence politics
• Experience in digital communications
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Experience in meeting planning and facilitation, and the confidence to coordinate multiple stakeholders to achieve a shared objective
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams to tight timescales and react quickly to opportunities
• Understanding of Scottish politics and media
Desirable
• Understanding and experience of NGO and coalition working
• Familiarity with climate campaigning in Scotland
Qualifications
No formal qualifications are required for this role - the competencies and experience of the successful candidate will be more important.
Equality and diversity
SCCS is committed to working in a way in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To help us achieve our vision of climate justice for all, we need more diverse people involved. People of colour, working class and disabled people are currently underrepresented across the environment, climate, sustainability, and conservation sector, so we are particularly interested in receiving your application. Please contact us to discuss any additional support you may need to complete your application.
Unfortunately, at present, we are unable to sponsor visas so all applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
The Young Women’s Movement is Scotland's national organisation for young women and girls' leadership and rights: working collectively, leading meaningful change and creating a more equal society. Young women are at the heart of everything we do. Our movement is informed, shaped and led by and for young women. We are a collective force that has and will continue to change things for the better for all young women across Scotland.
2024 marked 100 years of The Young Women’s Movement, formally known as YWCA Scotland. To mark this momentous event, we embarked on a new project, funded by the National Heritage Lottery Fund, to explore young women’s heritage and stories within the history of our movement.
Our Heritage Research Coordinator will continue to develop and lead our 100-year heritage project ‘Young Women Remember’ which has been ongoing for the past 12 months. This will include coordinating project activities, supporting young women volunteers to co-design the project, conduct oral history research and create the final digital archive.
Everyone who works at The Young Women’s Movement:
If this sounds like you, please consider applying for our Heritage Research Coordinator role. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and levels of experience.
Why you should want to work with us?
The Young Women’s Movement is Scotland's national organisation for young women and girls' leadership and rights: working collectively, leading meaningful change and creating a more equal society. Young women are at the heart of everything we do. Our movement is informed, shaped and led by and for young women and for over 100 years, we have been a collective force that has and will continue to change things for the better for all young women across Scotland.
Our Policy and Participation Coordinator will play a key role in the delivery of an exciting two-year initiative aimed at increasing young women’s political literacy, engagement in democratic processes, and participation in national influencing efforts. This will include coordinating project activities and supporting our broader influencing and policy agenda, ensuring young women are at the heart of all our work.
Everyone who works at The Young Women’s Movement:
If this sounds like you, please consider applying for our Policy and Participation Coordinator role. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and levels of experience.
Why you should want to work with us?
Reports to: OPFS Edinburgh Regional Coordinator.
Roles and Responsibilities
The Employability Support Worker will contribute to the organisation’s vision of a Scotland in which single parents and their children are valued and treated equally and fairly, by supporting the delivery of various components which contribute to the Edinburgh service, including proactively supporting single parents to enter or re-enter employment, training, or education.
The Employability Support Worker will be responsible for community engagement, outreach, and registration of parents onto the programme, and delivering quality employability support, whilst also engaging with partners in the community and undertaking employer engagement duties to improve outcomes and referral pathways for Single parents accessing the service.
They will report to the Edinburgh Regional Coordinator and will work as a member of OPFS Employability Team, within the wider OPFS Edinburgh Family Support Service, to provide employability services for single parents facing barriers to
entering suitable employment.
All roles at OPFS contribute to our mission of working with and for single parent families, providing support that enables them to achieve their potential and help create lasting solutions to the poverty and barriers facing many single parents and their children. Our core values of Justice, Equity, Trust, Collaboration and Compassion are at the heart of everything we do and underpin all aspects of our work.
Key Tasks
The job description is a broad picture of the post at the time of preparation. It is not an exhaustive list of all possible duties, and it is recognised that jobs change and evolve over time.
Personal Specifications
Essential
Desirable
Practical Skills
Personal Qualities & Attributes
Terms & Conditions
Every day people with chest, heart and stroke conditions are leaving hospital scared and alone. You can be part of our mission to make sure that there is no life half lived in Scotland.
By joining Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS) as Community Support Services Geographic Manager (East) you can be the difference between people just surviving and really living.
You will be part of Scotland’s leading charity providing support to people with chest, heart and stroke conditions and Long Covid to live life to the full again. Our Community Healthcare Support Services model forms a nationwide network of local support groups, nurses, volunteers and one-to-one support teams helping families adjust to life with Long Covid, a heart or lung condition or after a stroke.
The postholder will have the responsibility to lead the delivery and ongoing development of CHSS community-based support services, as well as its evidence-based 6-week SMRC Supported Self-Management and 12-week Living Well with Aphasia programmes, with a focus on enabling people with our conditions to live with, and beyond, their new reality. Core to this will be the requirement of the postholder to manage the Community Support Service and Supported Self-Management offers and be a visible and vocal advocate for the charity that ensures our position as the key 3rd sector partner within geographic systems of health and social care. The active and continuous development of senior system relationships will underpin the delivery of the role and ensure the long-term success of the charity and the delivery of our No Life Half Lived Strategy.
CHSS employees enjoy a variety of organisational benefits including: Company pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, company sick pay, employee welfare support and life assurance.
CHSS also supports flexible recruitment through Working Families and we are “Happy to Talk Flexible Working”.
In line with our commitment to safeguarding, this role is subject to a PVG check. CHSS is committed to equality of opportunity and to providing a service which is free from unfair and unlawful discrimination. We therefore aim to ensure that no applicant, volunteer or member of staff is unfairly treated on the grounds of offending background.
Join us in making a difference!
Are you enthusiastic about forging connections with supporters and collaborating with communities to generate funds for an important cause? If so, we are looking for a highly organised and dynamic individual to help raise income by engaging with individuals, businesses, schools, and community groups across the north of Scotland, including Aberdeenshire, Angus, Inverness-shire and Perthshire.
About you
You will possess outstanding interpersonal skills and a deep passion for community fundraising that rivals our most dedicated supporters, ensuring we raise the funds needed to deliver our specialist services for every family impacted by Huntington’s disease. We welcome applicants from a variety of backgrounds including (but not limited to) community fundraising, account management, marketing, or sales, and candidates who live permanently in any of the following postcode areas: AB, DD, IV or PH.
We Offer:
Place of Work
This position follows a home-working model. You will be required to travel within our north region of Scotland to support fundraising efforts. A full driving licence and daily access to a car are essential requirements for this role.
Working hours
The is a part-time role (28.5 hours). Some hours will need to be worked outside of standard working hours, including evenings and some weekends.
You will be joining a friendly and passionate organisation at an exciting time for Scottish Huntington’s Association, now in the third year of Standing Tall: A Strategy For Growth 2023 - 2028. If you are interested in this role and can demonstrate you meet most of the criteria, we would love to hear from you.
At Scottish Huntington’s Association, we celebrate diversity and the innovative ideas it brings. We actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.
Join us in making a difference!
Scottish Huntington’s Association is the only charity in the country exclusively dedicated to providing expert and personalised support for those impacted by Huntington’s disease.
We are seeking a proactive, confident and dynamic individual with experience in event fundraising who shares our values as an organisation and is driven to make a difference. Your role will play a vital part in our Community and Events Income Generation Team, helping to realise our vision of providing the best possible care and support for everyone impacted by Huntington’s disease in Scotland.
In this role, you will manage both third-party and Scottish Huntington’s Association-organised events from start to finish, which include runs, walks, abseils, zipslides, firewalks, and our flagship event, Dance 100.
Your responsibilities will include:
Your goal will be to create positive experiences that generate essential unrestricted income, ultimately transforming one-time event participants into lifelong supporters.
If you are passionate about event management and eager to connect with supporters while collaborating with communities to raise funds for a meaningful cause, this opportunity is perfect for you.
We offer:
Place of work
This position follows a home-working model, with the option for a hybrid arrangement from our National Office located at Business First, Burnbrae Road, Paisley, PA1 2FB. You will be required to travel on occasion to support fundraising efforts. A full driving licence and daily access to a car are essential requirements for this role.
Working hours
The is a part-time role (30 hours). Some hours will need to be worked outside of standard working hours, including evenings and some weekends, for which time off in lieu will be agreed.
You will be joining a friendly and passionate organisation at an exciting time for Scottish Huntington’s Association, now in the third year of Standing Tall: A Strategy For Growth 2023 - 2028. If you are interested in this role and can demonstrate you meet most of the criteria, we would love to hear from you.
At Scottish Huntington’s Association, we celebrate diversity and the innovative ideas it brings. We actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.
Culture Counts are recruiting for a new Engagement and Communications Manager (0.6FTE). This role is a vital part of our small team. They will lead communications and engagement with the Culture Counts network (which spans arts, heritage and creative industries organisations), and with wider stakeholders, which includes members of the public, Scottish Government, elected representatives and parter organisations.
The postholder will be knowledgable and active in gathering, assessing and sharing knowledge across the network, consulting widely on key issues and advocacy priorities, and ensuring that a wide range of voices are heard in informing and influencing cultural policy.
Please download the Job Description & Person Specification below.
About the role
Children in Scotland is recruiting for an Administrative Assistant to support the work of our national services. The candidate will play an important part in these services by providing efficient administration support including dealing appropriately with enquiries received, co-ordinating internal and external meetings and events, supporting evaluation activity and supporting the Service Managers in the fulfilment of their duties.
This role will primarily support the work of the Enquire and Children’s Views services, both of which focus on children and young people with additional support needs and their rights within education.
We are looking for someone with experience in an admin role, with excellent organisational and communication skills to provide high quality support to our staff teams.
About Children in Scotland
Giving all children in Scotland an equal chance to flourish is at the heart of everything we do.
By bringing together a network of people working with and for children, alongside children and young people themselves, we offer a broad, balanced and independent voice. We create solutions, provide support and develop positive change across all areas affecting children in Scotland. We do this by listening, gathering evidence, and applying and sharing our learning, while always working to uphold children’s rights.
Our range of knowledge and expertise means we can provide trusted support on issues as diverse as the people we work with and the varied lives of children and families in Scotland.
Diversity
Children in Scotland values the contribution of all our staff, whatever their background. Our recruitment decisions are based on fair, open processes, with appointment on merit. We welcome applications from everyone.