The ALLIANCE is excited to be recruiting a Senior Development Officer – Children and Young People.
This role sits within the strategic aims and outcomes of the ALLIANCE. This includes an emphasis on the voice of
lived experience, person centeredness and human rights. The ALLIANCE will be working with an increased focus on
empowering disabled children and children living with long term conditions and their families to make Getting it
Right for Every Child (GIRFEC) work for them, the incorporation of the United Nations Rights of the Child into
Scottish law, health and social care integration, the National Care Service and NHS recovery.
The successful candidate for this role should have:
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Excellent analytical skills and the ability to capture and convey
findings effectively
- Strong, evidenced experience of developing resources
- Experience of
facilitating accessible training and open exploratory discussions
- An understanding involvement of people
with lived experience
- An understanding of GIRFEC policy and service landscape and United Nations Rights
of the Rights of the Child
- Experience of partnership working
- An understanding of social research
methods and evaluation principles and approaches
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team and on
own initiative
- IT skills in word processing, spreadsheets, email and the internet
- Experience of
organising and presenting at events
- Experience of managing a budget
As an ALLIANCE employee you will benefit from:
- 210 hours annual leave (equivalent of 30 days) pro rata
- 91 hours of public holidays (equivalent of 13
days) pro rata that can be taken flexibly
- Additional leave between Christmas and New
Year
- Contributory pension scheme
- Open to flexible working (formal and informal)
- Hybrid
working – opportunity to work from home for part of the week
- Enhanced maternity and paternity
pay
- Enhanced sick pay
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Learning and development
opportunities
- Time off in lieu
- Cycle Scheme
- Carer Positive Employer
The ALLIANCE is a healthy working lives employer and encourages a healthy work life balance and is happy to talk
flexible working.
The ALLIANCE recognises that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. Even if you don’t meet
every point on the job description, if this role and our organisation feels like a good fit for you, we still
want to hear from you.