Jobs in Portobello & Craigmillar, Edinburgh

Lothian Community Transport Services (LCTS) is a small, but ambitious charity, providing community transport services to the City of Edinburgh and the Lothians. The community transport sector currently finds itself in an exciting time of change and progression, with a focus on sustainability and an emphasis on working towards net zero targets. LCTS is also undergoing changes, we have an organisational commitment to diversifying our services whilst maintaining our commitment to inclusion and accessibility.

Our Board of Trustees and our Committee members play a key role in the oversight of the charity, ensuring that it delivers against its charitable objectives, is financially sustainable, has strong governance and safeguards the reputation and values of the organisation.

If you have an interest in our services, our client base, or our mission, and would like to volunteer your time with us, we’d love to hear from you.

What are we looking for?

We currently have vacancies for the following roles;

• Chair of the Trustee Board
• Trustees
• Finance Committee members
• People and Operations Committee members

We are looking for inspiring people, who can join us and help ensure we are delivering our strategy and making a real impact and shaping the future of LCTS.

The Chair

We are looking to recruit a new individual with the skills and experience to act as a key individual for our organisation, lead the Board of Trustees while promoting good governance, and provide effective and empowering support to our CEO.

Trustees and Committee members will be expected;

• To assist the Chair in providing Board leadership on specific areas of strategic direction.
• To act as an effective champion for LCTS.
• To ensure that LCTS is representative of the communities we serve.
• To oversee and ensure the implementation of LCTS policies.
• To ensure effective corporate governance, risk management and financial management of LCTS.
• To uphold the highest ethical standards of integrity and comply with the Board’s Code of Conduct.

What can we offer?

We provide a full trustee induction and warm welcome to LCTS. We can offer opportunities for professional development and experience, alongside support from a well-established trustee board. We offer a hybrid meeting format, so you do not need to live locally to our office bases in Portobello or Dalkeith. WE ask that trustees and committee members attend our AGM in person and expenses are provided. We aim to provide a balanced workload and share tasks equally. Committee and board meetings take place on a quarterly basis.

LCTS is committed to increasing the diversity of our Board and team and welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and faith.

Smart Play Network is a dynamic, forward thinking play organisation and charity supporting and delivering a range of play services in Scotland.

PlayTalkRead is a Scottish Government Early Years campaign aimed at promoting positive parenting in order to give children the best start in life and a strong platform for healthy growth, development and attainment.

Are you a fun and enthusiastic individual who enjoys working as part of a high energy team? Do you like to travel? Are you passionate about making a positive impact on families and understand the importance of parent and child relationships? Then this may be the job for you.

Our PlayTalkRead Roadshow travels across all of Scotland’s 32 local authorities to inspire and support parents and carers to interact with their babies and little ones through fun, simple and inexpensive activities.

As a key member of our play worker team you will also be responsible for driving our converted vehicles to and from locations across Scotland (full training will be given). Working away from home is an integral part of the role and offers a great opportunity to see Scotland while making a difference!

Having the right mind-set, attitude and approach is as important for us as having the right experience and skills.

We appreciate that the best person might not have all the criteria we have listed, so if you feel your experience and skills will help you to make a great contribution in this role and you have the right mind-set, we would welcome an application from you.

Candidates must be over 25 years old, have held a Category B UK driving licence for a minimum of 2 years and have their own car.

If you would like an informal chat about the Play Worker role please call us on 0131 652 2655 or email us at recruitment@smartplaynetwork.org

The Finance Team are looking for a self-motivated and enthusiastic Finance Officer to join our busy National Service team.

The successful individual will be well-versed in the functionality of finance as a whole and have an ability to work to deadlines, whilst maintaining excellent accuracy in all aspects of your work. You will report to the Operations Manager (Finance).

Responsibilities

• Carry out Finance and administrative tasks of the Finance department e.g., bank reconciliations, assist with management accounts tasks, prepare and post weekly bank transactions, provide cover for/assist with Purchased Ledger, administer online expenses system, monitor email accounts and deal with any related queries
• Contribute to the development of the Finance department.
• Demonstrate and promote the Carr Gomm values on your day-to-day work, being those Choice, Control, Interdependence, Respect, Openness & Honesty and Efficiency, Joint Working and Involvement.

What makes a great Finance Officer

Successful Finance Officers come from different backgrounds and have a range of work and life experiences. All are logical with an organised mind and great attention to detail, ensuring fixed deadlines are met. Excellent organisational and planning skills are essential as is the ability to respond quickly to changing environments.