Jobs in Midlothian East, Midlothian

Newbattle Abbey College is Scotland’s life-changing adult education college, offering extensive support to adults and young people at points of transition.

The College is set within an historic 16th century building and 125 acres of woodland and parkland in Midlothian, on the site of the original Abbey which dates back to the 12th century. The estate was placed in trust by the 11th Marquis of Lothian in 1937 to become an adult residential college – and the Newbattle Abbey College story began.

As one of Scotland’s smallest colleges, Newbattle offers access to further and higher education, primarily in social sciences, rural skills and outdoor education. The College is also the national accreditation centre for two innovative awards: Forest and Outdoor Learning Awards and Adult Achievement Awards.

Background

The post of Business Development Manager is crucial to drive further growth in the College’s commercial activity.

The successful candidate will be responsible for increasing income from a range of activities and identifying and successfully implementing new income streams. You will embrace the College’s purpose and values and will thrive in a dynamic and unique environment. You will have demonstrable experience of setting and achieving growth income targets, developing successful marketing strategies, fundraising and maintaining effective external relationships. You will be highly adaptable and enjoy working as part of a small team to find creative solutions and achieve goals. You will work with a team of committed staff in unrivalled surroundings.

Reporting directly to the Director of Operations, and working closely with the Principal and Depute Principal, you will play a full part in the strategic leadership and direction of the college. You will also have an outward-facing role, supporting our commercial and other strategic partnerships. You will line-manage the newly introduced role of Marketing and Events Officer and work collaboratively across the whole College team.

Newbattle Abbey College is Scotland’s life-changing adult education college, offering extensive support to adults and young people at points of transition.

The College is set within an historic 16th century building and 125 acres of woodland and parkland in Midlothian, on the site of the original Abbey which dates back to the 12th century. The estate was placed in trust by the 11th Marquis of Lothian in 1937 to become an adult residential college – and the Newbattle Abbey College story began.

As one of Scotland’s smallest colleges, Newbattle offers access to further and higher education, primarily in social sciences, rural skills and outdoor education. The College is also the national accreditation centre for two innovative awards: Forest and Outdoor Learning Awards and Adult Achievement Awards.

Background

The Marketing & Events Officer is a newly introduced role responsible for acting as the first point of contact through to delivery for all College events, ensuring they are marketed, promoted, planned, managed and executed smoothly and to a consistently high standard.

The post holder will promote and market the College’s curriculum and commercial activity through effective, high quality, and engaging digital media content that aligns with and supports the College’s purpose and values. This role will also contribute to the business development and marketing strategy.

Through innovative marketing approaches and professional event management, the role contributes to student recruitment, income generation, and the continued development of the College’s reputation for excellence.

A requirement of the role is to support the delivery of events and associated commercial activities. The postholder will be expected to work outside standard business hours, including evening and weekend commitments. Working hours will therefore vary in line with operational requirements.

Midlothian Sure Start is a dynamic, award winning third sector organisation. It offers a quality support service to families with children up to age 12 across Midlothian. Midlothian Sure Start has been in existence since 2001 and employs over 70 members of staff providing a service in Family Learning centres and in the community. Our ethos is to provide a holistic, confidential community based service where families are at the heart of what we do.

We are looking for people who are as passionate about the services we provide as we are and in return we are keen to support professional development with excellent training and development opportunities, enhanced sick pay (following completion of probation), enhanced annual leave entitlement (we close completely for a well-earned break over Christmas and New Year) and we support our staff with an Employee Assistance Programme, Pension Scheme, Discounted Childcare, Health Cash Plan and Discounted Shopping.

In April 26 Parenting Across Scotland, Children in Scotland and Midlothian Sure Start received funding from the Scottish Government’s Whole Family Wellbeing Fund to deliver the next phase of Open Kindergarten in Scotland work. The central aim of Phase 4 is to build capacity for further roll out of Open Kindergartens across Scotland.

We are currently recruiting for a Training & Development Officer, To lead and support workforce development for practitioners delivering, or planning to deliver, Open Kindergarten provision across third sector and local authority settings, building a community of Open Kindergarten practice across Scotland.

Experience of working in Early Years, Family Support, Perinatal or Community Education settings is essential, alongside delivering training and supporting practitioner learning. Applicants must demonstrate trauma informed, strengths based practice, strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively, with experience of project delivery and reflective practice desirable.

Will be required to connect and coordinate across multiple local authority areas.