Jobs in Cupar, Fife

YMCA-YWCA Cupar is a local charity in North East Fife working with its communities to offer a broad range of opportunities and experiences to build confidence, encourage learning, and to enhance individuals lives and well-being.

The YMCA-YWCA offers a full weekly programme of activities – youth work, adult learning, family learning and has its own youth café facility. It works closely with locally partners to deliver activity sessions and workshops, and there’s community based one-to-one support and counselling sessions available too.

The YMCA-YWCA is a member of the YMCA international young people’s movement, which has adopted its Vision 2030. This Vision is underpinned by the key pillars of Community Wellbeing, Just Work, Meaningful Work and Sustainable Planet.

This post focuses on the development of local initiatives under the ‘Sustainable Planet’ theme. The post holder will be part of a Scotland wide project, where 8 local YMCAs will employ staff to deliver community-based climate action initiatives with children, young people, adults and families. The project is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund and commences in early 2026.

As the Development Worker, you will be employed by the YMCA-YWCA Cupar and based at their headquarters at Marathon House, Bonnygate, Cupar. This is a part-time post of 20 hours per week, with flexible working hours during daytime, evenings and some weekends. The post will end 30th June 2028.

You will work within a small team of staff and volunteers. Whilst there will be a real community focus for this post, you will have opportunities to develop young people and community led activities at the YMCA-YWCA and at its outreach project, at Cupar Youth Café at Castlehill.

STAND is a Fife charity which exists to provide peer support to people who are living with a diagnosis of dementia and their families and friends, also to support people to live well with dementia taking an asset-based approach, valuing and building on members skills and experiences. It does this through a range of approaches including provision of Dementia Friendly Meeting Centre Spaces across the Kingdom. STAND members are also involved in raising awareness about dementia and do this through connections with local schools, businesses, organisations and through the provision of information sessions at public events. STAND’s Board of Trustees is made up of people with lived experience of dementia and their supporters.

Climate Wisdom is a dementia friendly climate action project that will support people living with dementia, their care partners and their communities to feel inspired, empowered and confident to take positive, practical action on climate change. Climate Wisdom is a partnership project led by Outside the Box, a community development charity. The project will work in partnership with STAND to support the delivery of the project in Fife. The Development Worker will be part of STANDs small staff team, supported by Outside the Box. For more information about the project please visit: otbds.org/projects/climate-wisdom

Frequent travel around Fife will be required; you must have the ability to travel within Fife, a full and current driving license and access to own transport.