Jobs in Fountainbridge & Craiglockhart, Edinburgh

Blackwood are looking for a Compliance Officer to join our Housing Services team and play an important role in ensuring our customers live in safe, well-maintained homes. You’ll take day-to-day responsibility for monitoring allocated landlord health and safety compliance programmes, making sure actions are progressed, records are accurate and potential risks are identified and escalated. You’ll monitor compliance activity across key areas including gas, electrical safety, fire safety, asbestos, water hygiene and legionella, lifting equipment, damp and mould, and other landlord compliance requirements. You’ll work closely with contractors, colleagues and customers to ensure inspections, servicing, certificates and follow-up actions are completed on time.

We’re looking for someone who is reliable, methodical and proactive, with the confidence to take ownership of allocated work and see things through to completion.

A CIH Level 3 qualification, or equivalent relevant property management/maintenance experience, is essential.

At Blackwood, you’ll be part of a team where customer care, equality, inclusion, confidentiality, data protection and safe working are central to how we operate.

You’ll have the flexibility of our hybrid working model, with two days a week in the office, alongside virtual and in-person collaboration. Occasional travel to offices and developments across Scotland will be required.

If you’re organised, detail-focused and passionate about delivering high standards of compliance and customer service, we’d love to hear from you.

Blackwood offers a range of employee benefits, including:

• Enhanced Well-being package including 24 hour GP service, physiotherapy and mental health support
• Company sick pay scheme on completion of probationary period
• 34 days’ holiday per annum, pro rata for part-time hours
• Company pension scheme and other benefits
• Development and Learning opportunities

Do you enjoy bringing order to busy systems, keeping records accurate and helping other people get the information they need? This could be a great opportunity to use your administration, data and digital skills in a role that supports learning across CHAS.

We’re introducing a new Learning Management System and need some extra support during this important stage. You’ll join our Learning & Organisational Development (L&OD) team and help us manage learning records, reporting, course administration and everyday enquiries.

No two days will be the same - you might be updating learner records, arranging workshops, producing a compliance report, responding to an enquiry or checking that our learning information is clear and up to date. You’ll also help maintain the spreadsheets, dashboards and systems that allow us to see how learning is progressing across CHAS.

About you

To do well in this role, you’ll need:

• strong administrative and organisational skills, gained in a busy working environment

• strong Microsoft Excel skills, as well as experience using Outlook, Teams and other Microsoft 365 applications

• confidence working with data and producing accurate reports

• experience of maintaining systems, databases or electronic records

• experience of coordinating training, events, meetings or similar activities

• the ability to organise competing priorities and meet deadlines

• clear communication skills and a helpful, responsive approach.

Experience in Learning & Development, HR or workforce development would be particularly useful. Experience of a Learning Management System or SharePoint would also be welcome.

About CHAS

At CHAS, we support families during the toughest of times. Reaching every family in Scotland who needs our care depends on having capable, compassionate and highly skilled colleagues. In this role, you’ll help colleagues and volunteers access the right learning, helping us understand where training has been completed and where more support is needed. This will ensure our people can thrive in their roles and make a meaningful difference to children and families every day.

You’ll be joining our small and friendly L&OD team during an exciting and busy piece of work. The role offers a chance to build your experience of learning systems, data, reporting and digital tools while doing work that has a clear purpose.

What’s in it for you

• flexible and family-friendly working

• hybrid working, with some time at our Edinburgh office

• health and wellbeing support

• fantastic opportunity to develop your systems, reporting and learning administration experience - while working in one of Scotland’s leading children’s charities

The role is a 4 month fixed term contract, offered on a part-time basis of 17.5 hours per week (2.5 days). We are happy to consider flexible working patterns, although we would ideally like the hours to be spread across the week, including Monday as a working day to support key operational activities.

Advertised salary will be paid on a pro rata basis, calculated against a 35 hour full-time working week.

Travel to the Edinburgh office may be required around one day a week, with occasional travel to other CHAS locations.

I am seeking a Constituency Support Officer to help build stronger, more resilient connections within and between communities across Edinburgh South West.

I am looking for a proactive and confident individual who is passionate about making a positive, enduring/sustained difference in the lives of local people. Candidates could come from the charity sector, or private/public sectors, you do not need to have experience of working in an MPs office.

The successful candidate will work collaboratively with residents, community groups and other local stakeholders to help make Edinburgh South West an even better place to live, work and raise a family.

This community role will focus on ensuring that local people have opportunities to make their voices heard on decisions that affect them, while also encouraging constructive dialogue between individuals and communities across the constituency.