Jobs in Southside & Newington, Edinburgh

We are looking for a Treasurer to join our Board

Our current Treasurer has recently moved away from Edinburgh, and our Board of Trustees is therefore seeking a new Treasurer to oversee the Associations finances. The turnover has recently increased to approximately £100,000 pa and is rising due to our increased activity and our ability to attract substantial external funding.

The Treasurer is also a Trustee and a member of the Association’s Board of Trustees. The responsibilities of Treasurer and Trustees are set out below.

Our Association oversees and promotes a diverse range of activities within the Southside Community Centre. Situated in central Edinburgh, the Centre serves the diverse local community. Its activities also attract individuals from across the city and South-East Scotland. Supported by major grant-funding from a broad range of organisations, including sizable financial support from the National Lottery, the Association is currently extending the use of the Centre’s facilities to more community activities A major opportunity has emerged to develop the Centre as part of the recently issued Community Development plan issued by the City of Edinburgh Council. We now wish to take advantage of this Council initiative to support a greater range of ways with which to enhance the well-being of the community.

This is an exciting time to join our charity as we have celebrated various successes over the past two years including; recruiting our first Chief Executive, extending our community centre opening hours to include weekends, expanding the range of services we deliver, and significantly increasing the amount of external grant funding we receive. We look forward to continuing to achieve further success as we continue to develop our services, including re-launching our new in-house community café and developing a long-term strategic plan.

It is also a challenging and rewarding time to join our charity as we look towards the future. Over coming months, we need to; agree a new lease arrangements with our landlord, City of Edinburgh Council, explore and decide upon the long-term future of how our building is managed and continue to sustain (and also grow) the range of services we currently provide.

We are looking for Trustees to join our Board

Our Association oversees and promotes a diverse range of activities within the Southside Community Centre. Situated in central Edinburgh, the Centre serves the diverse local community. Its activities also attract individuals from across the city and South-East Scotland. Supported by major grant-funding from a broad range of organisations, including sizable financial support from the National Lottery, the Association is currently extending the use of the Centre’s facilities to more community activities. A major opportunity has emerged to develop the Centre as part of the recently issued Community Centre Strategy issued by the City of Edinburgh Council. We now wish to take advantage of this Council initiative to support a greater range of ways with which to enhance the well-being of the community.

The Association is led by a Board of Trustees. We are seeking to recruit a small number of motivated individuals to help govern our growing charity. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from those with specialist knowledge, skills and experience in:

• Community learning, development and stakeholder engagement
• Business or legal background
• Governance and leadership
• Strategic planning
• Finance

This is an exciting time to join our charity as we have celebrated various successes over the past two years including: recruiting our first Chief Executive, extending our community centre opening hours to include weekends, expanding the range of services we deliver, and significantly increasing the amount of external grant funding we receive. We look forward to continuing to achieve further success as we continue to develop our services, including re-launching our new in-house community café and developing a long-term strategic plan.

We are keen that our Board reflects our diverse local community and we therefore welcome individuals from all minority and disadvantaged groups.

This is therefore a challenging and rewarding time to join our charity as we look towards the future. Over coming months, we need to: agree a new lease arrangements with our landlord, City of Edinburgh Council, explore and decide upon the long-term future of how our building is managed, while continuing to sustain and grow the range of services we currently provide.

Care and Repair Edinburgh (CRE) is an independent charity offering a range of practical services to help older people and those living with disabilities in Edinburgh to repair, improve or adapt their homes so that they can live safely and independently for as long as possible.

We have been serving Edinburgh’s older and disabled residents since 1985 and in 2025 completed over 6,000 jobs in homes across the city. Our services include minor home adaptations to improve accessibility, comfort and energy efficiency as well as a handyperson service that uses volunteers to complete DIY tasks and help with technology in the home.

CRE aim to deliver the highest quality for our clients, so you will be required to show enthusiasm for standards and best practice, demonstrate patience and empathy with older people and understand the impact of loneliness and isolation.

The work will include installing handrails, curtain poles and battens, pipe boxes, shelving systems, home safety equipment, repairs to sash & case windows, re-roping pulley systems, replacing handles and door locks and other small repairs around the home.

If you have the skills, experience and ambition required to fulfil this role, then please apply now.

Full details of the role are available from our website: cre.scot/home/get-involved Alternatively, you can email allison.strachan@cre.scot

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE

Salary: £33,345 per annum, rising to £35,000 on successful completion of probation.

Pension: 4% employer contribution. Employees may opt out of this contractual enrolment at any time by notifying the Operations Manager.

Annual Leave: 25 days per year, plus 12 public holidays, of which 3 are fixed statutory days to be taken on the following public holidays: January 1, and December 25-26. Up to one working week of annual leave may be carried over each year. Pro-rata for part-time employees.

Hours: Normal working hours are 0800-1715hrs Mon-Thur with 30 minutes for lunch.

Sick Leave: Sick pay relates to length of service. Further details available on request.

Eligibility to work: Successful candidates will be required to produce proof of their eligibility to work in the UK.

Probation: 1 year

Notice: Notice period 6 weeks

Care and Repair Edinburgh (CRE) is an independent charity offering a range of practical services to help older people and those living with disabilities in Edinburgh to repair, improve or adapt their homes so that they can live safely and independently for as long as possible.

We have been serving Edinburgh’s older and disabled residents since 1985 and in 2025 completed over 6,000 jobs in homes across the city. Our services include minor home adaptations to improve accessibility, comfort and energy efficiency as well as a handyperson service that uses volunteers to complete DIY tasks and help with technology in the home.

CRE aim to deliver the highest quality for our clients, so you will be required to show enthusiasm for standards and best practice, demonstrate patience and empathy with older people and understand the impact of loneliness and isolation.

The work will include installing Key Safes and showing clients how to operate them. The handyperson element includes, building flat pack furniture, installing roller blinds/curtain rails, grabrails, silicone baths/showers – jobs that can be done within one appointment/day.

If you have the skills, experience and ambition required to fulfil this role, then please apply now.

Full time job share considered

Details of the role are available from our website: cre.scot/home/get-involved Alternatively, you can email allison.strachan@cre.scot

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE

Salary: £27,300 per annum (pro rata).

Pension: 4% employer contribution. Employees may opt out of this contractual enrolment at any time by notifying the Operations Manager.

Annual Leave: 25 days per year, plus 12 public holidays, of which 3 are fixed statutory days to be taken on the following public holidays: January 1, and December 25-26. Up to one working week of annual leave may be carried over each year. Pro-rata for part-time employees.

Hours: Normal working hours are 0800-1715hrs with 30 minutes for lunch. Working pattern to be discussed

Sick Leave: Sick pay relates to length of service. Further details available on request.

Eligibility to work: Successful candidates will be required to produce proof of their eligibility to work in the UK.

Probation: 6 months

Notice: Notice period 6 weeks

The Advice Place is a free, professional, impartial and confidential advice service for students at the University of Edinburgh, operated by Edinburgh University Students’ Association. The service deals with a wide variety of topics (finance, accommodation, academic and personal issues) and provides basic information as well as more complex casework advice, advocacy and support.

The role of Deputy Manager is to ensure effective service delivery on a day-to-day basis and to act as a clear point of responsibility and decision making for the team and to represent the service in external and cross departmental working in clear areas of responsibility and as delegated by the Advice Place Manager.

You will line manage our Frontline Advice team and our Academic Caseworker. You will support the team to deliver a consistent and high standard of service to students. You will support the frontline team to deliver initial service responses in line with our service delivery plan.

Alongside this you will have a caseload of specialist cases, providing support and advice to individual students on a range of issues. This will involve advocacy and representation for students at University meetings and in navigating university policies and processes. You will offer practical support to students in very challenging emotional circumstances, always operating in the best interests of the student.

You will manage the delivery of our volunteer programme, recruiting, training and supporting a team of advice volunteers to provide customer service, information and frontline advice to students.

You will coordinate our outreach activities, arranging for staff or volunteers to attend events, run information stalls and promote the work of the service

The role is predominantly in-person/on site at our main Potterrow office on central campus and occasionally at our King’s Buildings campus office. Some home working can be accommodated when service demand allows.

Water Witness is seeking a Senior Communications Lead

We are seeking an energetic and enthusiastic individual to lead our communications function in our small but mighty team.

We need an experienced, innovative and proactive comms all-rounder with a passion for our mission, and the ability to reach audiences with the right information, in the right way, in the right place and at the right time to activate public demand and political action- for a fair water future for all.

This senior role will lead our press, social media, content and digital approaches to grow awareness in key audiences, build our brand, land our policy asks, collaborate with our partners and networks, and deliver measurable public and political engagement.

You’ll bring your talent for identifying and landing press stories, your experience of creating great content that cuts through, and your expertise in purposeful storytelling that informs, inspires and engages target audiences. We’ll support you with development opportunities, trust in your authority, and a brilliant working culture with a bundle of staff benefits. We live our core values: Justice, Tenacity, Truth and play to our strengths: Strategic, Resilient, Influential &Trusted.

If you’re an experienced NGO comms professional or journalist who can demonstrate a track record of comms that influence real world change, we want to hear from you. Even if you don’t match every single one of the items on the person spec, please tell us about your relevant experience and transferrable skills.