Jobs in Southside & Newington, Edinburgh

We’re looking for confident and influential people who want to be at the heart of their local community looking for an opportunity to have control of creative merchandising within managing a Shelter shop. Do you have experience of managing a team whilst also empowering and motivating individuals? If so, then this could be the role for you at our Edinburgh Nicholson Street shop.

About you

You will need to be an active team player and be able to demonstrate how you’ve managed and motivated a team previously beyond expectations and experience of providing excellent customer service in a face-to-face role.

Have a good knowledge of recruiting and developing a diverse team and how you have supported and motivated teams to progress and how you would bring these skills into this position.

You will need to have good communication skills to engage with the local community to seek out new opportunities to increase the shops contribution to help further Shelter’s cause. You will develop your own and your teams’ interests in merchandising the shop attracting customers and continually develop yours and your team’s knowledge of Shelter, who we are and what we do.

About Shelter Scotland

Home is a human right. It’s our foundation and where we thrive. Yet everyday millions of people are being devastated by the housing emergency.

We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Because home is everything,

We need ambitious, passionate people to join us. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. To win this fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, equitable and transparent. We are committed to combating racism both within and outside Shelter Scotland. We welcome you on our journey to becoming truly anti-racist.

About Us

The Greyfriars Charteris Centre is a vibrant community and events venue in the heart of Edinburgh, hosting a wide range of cultural, arts, and community activities. We are committed to providing a safe, welcoming, and well-managed space for all our users.

Purpose of the Role

The Core Duty Manager role exists to ensure the safe, clean, welcoming and well-managed delivery of evening and weekend bookings and events at the Greyfriars Charteris Centre.

During evenings and weekends, the Duty Manager is the on-site operational lead, responsible for the smooth running of events, the safety and security of the building, and maintaining high standards of cleanliness and presentation throughout the Centre.

When not directly supporting hirers or managing events, the Duty Manager is expected to proactively undertake cleaning, housekeeping, stock monitoring and basic maintenance tasks, ensuring the Centre is left clean, safe and fully ready for the next day’s use.

This is a hands-on role combining event support, customer service, building oversight and cleaning, typical of a hospitality-style Duty Manager position in a busy venue.

Since 2011, Edinburgh Garden Partners (EGP) has developed a unique approach to addressing social isolation in our communities. By matching volunteers who are looking for a space to grow, with Garden Owners who have a space to share, our garden partnerships create meaningful and lasting social connections between people of different ages and backgrounds. The shared interest in gardening and exchange of skills, knowledge and life experience make our garden partnerships so special and rewarding for everyone involved.

In October 2025, we gathered to renew our strategy. We remain committed to our Vision, Mission and Values which make EGP who we are and have revised 5 key workstreams which we structure our work around - these will develop the quality, depth and strength of the work we do, and are used to frame our board meeting agendas and reporting structures.

We are hoping to recruit two new trustees to join our current board of six. Trustees are required to attend quarterly full board meetings (usually held on weekday evenings) and to actively contribute to sub groups between these. We are particularly interested in hearing from people with experience in the 3rd sector, health and social care and IT. However, this is not a requirement. Most of all, we are looking for people who are committed to the values and ethos of EGP, and who have the time and energy to contribute to our thriving community of volunteers and garden owners.

The bringing together of people with different life experiences is at the core of what makes EGP successful. Our Garden Partnerships represent a broad range of diversity, with many different combinations of age, disability, sex, religion, race, colour, class, income, education, sexuality and gardening knowledge both represented and flourishing because of the differences. This is what EGP is all about.

We are very keen that the board also reflects this diversity and would be particularly interested in welcoming trustees from under-represented groups, including those from black and minority ethnic backgrounds.