The Dewar Arts Awards is seeking a Charity Co-ordinator to help manage and develop its programme of support for talented young people in Scotland.

Are you an organised, energetic professional with a passion for supporting the next generation of creative talent in Scotland?

The Dewar Arts Awards is seeking to appoint a new Charity Co-ordinator to join our team. Reporting to the Chair, you will be the main point of contact for applicants and award holders across Scotland, helping them access funding for their artistic development. You will help support a programme that has provided funding to more than 1,300 young people since the Awards were established.

About the Role

This is a flexible and remote part-time position (averaging 17.5 hours per week). While day-to-day duties are carried out from home, you will need to attend four main Trustee meetings each year, alongside key stakeholder meetings, typically held in Edinburgh or Glasgow. Because our work is focused primarily in the Central Belt, this role is ideal for someone living within a two-hour travel radius of these cities.

Key responsibilities include:

• Applications and Nominations: Handle nominations received by email, prepare applications for Trustee meetings, circulate required financial and communication papers, notify applicants of decisions, and update partner organisations.
• Managing Awards: Setting up paper and electronic files for successful awardees, arranging payment of awards (primarily by BACS), keeping accurate records, and following up each year with successful awardees to secure annual/final reports.
• Trustee Meetings: Organising four Trustee meetings each year in Glasgow or Edinburgh, securing venues and catering, scheduling meetings, and creating agendas in consultation with the Chair of Trustees. The role also includes progressing matters arising, promptly producing and circulating minutes, preparing AGM documentation, and ensuring the Annual Report & Accounts are ready for approval at the August meeting.
• General Administration: Respond to enquiries, maintain award schedules, submit signed accounts to OSCR, liaise with advisers, manage tenders, maintain backups and statutory registers, purchase supplies, and ensure timely invoice payments, in adherence with GDPR.

Package & Terms

• Salary: £23,000 per annum (reviewed annually)
• Hours: Part-time, 17.5 hours per week (flexible hours, though workload varies across the year)
• Holidays: 15 days / 105 hours inclusive of bank holidays, taken flexibly
• Location: Remote (Scotland), with meetings in Glasgow/Edinburgh
• Prerequisites: Two references, a Disclosure Scotland check, and the right to work in the UK.