To be the strategic lead for the co-ordination and collaboration of third sector employability services and represent the sector strategically. To work collaboratively with statutory and third sector partners to maximise the impact of the third sector on improving employment outcomes in Fife.

Strong candidate sought to represent and build capacity of third sector employability services and improve employment outcomes in Fife. The successful applicant will work closely with the Local Employability Partnership (Opportunities Fife) and other key strategic partners to develop policy and commissioning of employment services in Fife. They will manage a small team to deliver an established programme of training and events as well as offering one to one support for third sector employability providers to improve collaboration, capacity and skills. Knowledge of co-production and lived experience work would be a bonus.

To provide high quality financial support within the organisation thereby aiding and enhancing the delivery of the organisation’s services to voluntary and community organisations in the area. The post involves producing and processing invoices, payroll and pensions data for FVA and our clients.

As the third sector interface, Fife Voluntary Action has an essential and complex role to play locally: informing, developing, and supporting a diverse, vibrant third sector comprising thousands of organisations, with thousands of employees and tens of thousands of volunteers. We support the development and implementation of public policy, including bringing public and third sector providers together to deliver improved outcomes for the people and communities in Fife.

To provide high quality support within the organisation to unpaid carers and carer organisations across Fife thereby aiding and enhancing the delivery of the organisation’s services to voluntary and community organisations in the area.

As the third sector interface, Fife Voluntary Action has an essential and complex role to play locally: informing, developing and supporting a diverse, vibrant third sector comprising thousands of organisations, with thousands of employees and tens of thousands of volunteers. We support the development and implementation of public policy, including bringing public and third sector providers together to deliver improved outcomes for the people and communities in Fife.

The purpose of the post is to help promote volunteering to the general public, recruit volunteers to opportunities across a range of organisations operating in Fife, and develop volunteers- including supporting individuals facing barriers in their lives. You'll work with organisations to support them in providing meaningful volunteering opportunities that deliver good outcomes for volunteers and the organisation.

Do you have lived experience of unemployment? Do you want to help improve employment policy, funding and service delivery in Fife through raising the voice of others like you?

FVA’s Lived Experience Team supports strategic partners and others to make sure the policies they create, and the services they fund are best designed to meet the needs of those they aim to help.

Lived Experience Team Facilitators are paid to attend strategic and partnership meetings in relevant policy areas, and to both represent and support engagement of others with lived experience in policy development, service design and training. The LET supports a co-production approach wherever possible so that decisions are made together for the best outcomes for Fife.

Do you have experience of engaging with children, young people & families? Are you passionate about creating meaningful change in how we design and deliver support services to create the best possible outcomes for children, young people, and families?

If this sounds like you then we want to hear from you.

As the Participation Co-ordinator, you will have a lead role in bringing together children, young people, and families with lived experience, third sector organisations and public sector partners to develop a review of family support services as part of the Whole Family Wellbeing developments progressing in Fife.

The role will help shape a better understanding of the current experience of services, what needs to improve, and how change can be facilitated by working together. The learning from this will inform future planning, design, and commissioning of services in Fife.

We are looking for someone who has a proven ability in developing meaningful relationships at all levels and can demonstrate an ability to develop and lead new and innovative work.

The postholder will work closely with the Children’s Services Development Manager and will work alongside third sector organisations and the children, young people, and families who use their services. They will also engage with public sector partners to ensure all relevant voices inform the co-production journey and recommendations for whole family wellbeing and holistic family support.

Fife Voluntary Action (FVA) is the third sector interface for the Fife Council area. We are an independent charity that receives funding from key public sector agencies to ensure the third sector is robust, resilient, and delivers high-quality services for the people of Fife.

Reporting to: Children’s Services Development Manager

The Co-production Coordinator will have a lead role in developing a co-produced review of family support services as part of the Whole Family Wellbeing developments progressing in Fife. This role will help shape a better understanding of the current experience of services, what needs to improve, and how change can be facilitated by working together. The learning from this will inform future planning, design, and commissioning of services in Fife.

The co-production coordinator will manage funding for and work closely with third sector organisations and the children, young people, and families who use their services. They will also engage with public sector partners to ensure all relevant voices inform the co-production journey and recommendations for whole family wellbeing and holistic family support.

The role will also influence wider policy and practice in Fife by sharing learning on the experience of co-production in the whole family wellbeing context.

Fife Voluntary Action (FVA) is the third sector interface for the Fife Council area. We are an independent charity that receives funding from key public sector agencies to ensure the third sector is robust, and resilient and delivers high-quality services for the people of Fife.

To help promote volunteering to the general public, recruit volunteers to opportunities across a range of organisations operating in Fife and develop volunteers, including supporting individuals facing barriers in their lives. To work with organisations to support them to provide meaningful volunteering opportunities which deliver good outcomes for volunteers and the organisation.

Reporting to: Head of Volunteering Development

This role represents an exciting opportunity to shape strategic children's services in the third sector in Fife, in partnership with colleagues in the public sector. This is the next key step in our ongoing work to strengthen partnership working, achieve collaborative gain and deliver best value as a partnership for the children and families of Fife. As part of the Whole Family Wellbeing agenda in children’s services , the postholder will be the strategic lead for the co-ordination and collaboration of children’s services within Fife's third sector. The role will involve, working collaboratively with leaders at a local level to support whole system change in terms of holistic family support maximising the impact of the third sector on Children’s Services Plan outcomes in Fife.

Fife Voluntary Action (FVA) is the third sector interface for the Fife Council area. We are an independent charity that receives funding from key public sector agencies to ensure the third sector is robust, resilient and delivers high quality services for the people of Fife.

Reporting to: Chief Executive

The Lived Experience Team is an established team of active volunteers who aim to improve service design and delivery across Fife with a specific focus on mental health and employability. LET volunteers have lived experience of mental health challenges, trauma and/or unemployment made worse by a range of barriers or life experiences. They work closely and strategically with partners locally and nationally, within the public and third sectors as well as academia. To find out more visit the website Lived Experience Team.

The role of LET Coordinator is an exciting one, being engaged in supporting and expanding the work of the LET volunteers during a significant time of change in both the mental health and employability sectors in Fife. The successful candidate will have personal experience of mental health challenges as well as a strong commitment to improving services through co-production approaches. They will need to be able to work independently, as well as within a team and with strategic partners across Fife. Excellent communication skills are a must.

Whilst the work is based in Fife, from our offices, we can offer significant flexibility around homeworking.

Fife Voluntary Action (FVA) is the third sector interface for the Fife Council area. We are an independent charity that receives funding from key public sector agencies to ensure the third sector is robust, resilient, and delivers high-quality services for the people of Fife.

Fife Voluntary Action (FVA) is the third sector interface for the Fife Council area. We are an independent charity that receives funding from key public sector agencies to ensure the third sector is robust, resilient, and delivers high-quality services for the people of Fife.

From Struggle to Strength supports people with lived experience of poverty or trauma as a result of poor mental health and/or unemployment through the combined work of our Lived Experience Team and Mental Health Peer Support Network. The successful applicant will have personal experience of both mental health challenges and unemployment and will work closely with the project team to deliver practical and administrative support to the project.

Reporting to: Lived Experience Team and Peer Support Network Coordinators

Fife Voluntary Action (FVA) is the third sector interface for the Fife Council area. We are an independent charity that receives funding from key public sector agencies to ensure the third sector is robust, resilient and delivers high quality services for the people of Fife. A significant proportion of the third sector exists to deliver health and social care services to our citizens and this post will lead on strategic engagement, policy development and representation with statutory partners on behalf of third sector interests in Fife. Health and social care is an area which is seeing a lot of pressure, increased investment and a need to transform services at this exciting time.

Fife Voluntary Action (FVA) is the third sector interface for the Fife Council area. We are an independent charity that receives funding from key public sector agencies to ensure the third sector is robust, resilient and delivers high quality services for the people of Fife. One of the main things we do is develop, support and promote volunteering in Fife and we have an exciting opportunity to appoint somebody to manage the team and become strategic lead for volunteering for the Fife Council area.

Reporting to: Chief Executive

Reporting to: Head of Volunteering Development

Main Purpose of Post

To recruit, support and develop volunteers in Fife, including supporting individuals facing barriers in their lives. To support Fife Voluntary Action’s partnership contribution to Fife Employability and Training Consortium (Fife-ETC), promoting volunteering as a route to employment. To work with organisations to support them to provide meaningful volunteering opportunities which deliver good outcomes for volunteers and organisations.

Main Duties / Key Responsibilities

1. To maintain and develop Fife Voluntary Action (FVA) as the centre of excellence for volunteering and to support the delivery of volunteering development activities across Fife;
2. To support FVA’s partnership contribution to Fife Employability and Training Consortium (Fife-ETC) which is funded by Opportunities Fife and European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF);
3. Work with organisations and services to promote Fife-ETC and ensure supported referrals to the service;
4. To provide appropriate support and guidance to customers wishing to volunteer with volunteer involving organisations, and actively identify new voluntary opportunities in Fife;
5. Work closely with individuals facing multiple barriers and who are requiring additional support to achieve their individual goals; with a particular focus on people experiencing mental health problems;
6. Work collaboratively with organisations, projects, community groups and other statutory and third sector bodies to enhance their capacity to recruit, manage and retain volunteers and to highlight gaps in provision in local services, where volunteering can fill this void;
7. To promote and develop good practice models for volunteer involving organisations covering all aspects of volunteer involvement including policies, practice, PVG and managing difficult situations;
8. To work on the development and promotion of peer mentoring opportunities as part of the volunteering experience;
9. To represent the organisation at meetings e.g. Local Planning Groups and other external partnership meetings and actively promote and publicise the benefits of volunteering to stakeholders, client groups and referring agencies through attendance at events and delivery of workshops/presentations;
10. Deliver training to professionals and customers on a range of topics including volunteer management and taking first steps into volunteering;
11. To update records of work with customers and partners on our database system as well as Fife Online Referral Tracking System (FORT);
12. Actively support FVA’s work to promote and celebrate volunteering, with a focus on embracing diversity and inclusion in volunteering and to ensure volunteering is accessible for all and reflects the diversity of communities across Fife;
13. To monitor and evaluate service provision including producing reports and customer case studies;
14. Undertake training related to the post as appropriate and with agreement from the Head of Volunteering Development.

This job description does not represent an exhaustive list of responsibilities and tasks but indicates the main responsibilities required from employees in the role. The organisation reserves the right to require employees to perform other duties from time to time and to vary or amend the duties and responsibilities of the post holder at any time according to the needs of the organisation’s business.

There is a requirement to work evenings and weekends as necessary to ensure appropriate fulfilment of duties.