Lead Finance. Shape Futures. Transform Lives.

At Quarriers, we believe in creating opportunities for people to live the life they choose.

We’re looking for a strategic, values-driven finance leader to join us as Head of Finance -someone who can combine strong financial expertise with a genuine passion for social justice and making a difference.

This is more than a finance role. It’s an opportunity to influence the direction of a national social care charity, lead and develop a talented finance team, and support services that change lives every day.

About Us

Quarriers is one of Scotland’s leading social care charities, with over 150 years of experience supporting children, adults, and families.

Our work spans the country—supporting people with disabilities, young people, individuals experiencing homelessness, those living with epilepsy, and carers. Everything we do is rooted in our commitment to challenging poverty, reducing inequality, and delivering compassionate, person-centred support.

Your new opportunity

As Head of Finance, you will play a key leadership role within Quarriers - working closely with the Director of Finance & Corporate Services to shape financial strategy, strengthen organisational performance, and ensure we can continue to deliver high-quality services.

This is a senior leadership role with significant people management responsibility, where you will lead and develop a skilled finance function and foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

You will:

• Lead the development and delivery of financial strategy aligned to our mission and long-term goals
• Work in close partnership with the Director of Finance & Corporate Services, contributing to organisational direction and decision-making
• Provide direct leadership, support, and development to two Senior Finance Managers and the Payroll Manager, ensuring strong performance, alignment, and progression
• Lead the wider finance team, building capability and supporting a positive, inclusive team culture
• Oversee all financial operations, ensuring robust systems, controls, and governance
• Provide clear, insightful financial reporting to support strategic decision-making
• Drive improvements to financial systems, processes, and ways of working
• Contribute to commercial activity, including contracts, funding, and tenders
• Act as a trusted finance partner to senior leaders across the organisation

This role is central to ensuring both financial sustainability and strong, values-led leadership within the finance function.

Who We’re Looking For

We are looking for someone who brings both professional expertise and strong, people-centred leadership.

You will have:

• Significant experience in financial management, including budgeting, cashflow, and reporting
• Experience working in complex organisations, ideally within the charity, public, or social care sectors
• Proven experience leading and developing high-performing finance teams, including managing senior staff
• A collaborative and supportive leadership style, with the ability to motivate, influence, and build capability in others
• Experience contributing to strategic decision-making at a senior level
• Confidence presenting financial information to senior stakeholders
• A recognised accountancy qualification (CCAB or equivalent) is desirable, however we welcome applications from candidates who can demonstrate the experience, leadership capability, and impact required for the role.
• A full UK driving licence and access to a car is required.

Why Join Quarriers?

At Quarriers, people are at the heart of everything we do - both those we support and those who work with us.

We offer:

• Generous holiday entitlement
• Competitive pension scheme
• Flexible and agile working (home, office, and service-based working)
• Life assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to physiotherapy and occupational health support

We are proud to be an Investors in People Platinum employer and a Scottish Living Wage organisation, reflecting our commitment to valuing and supporting our people.

Additional Information

• Full-time, permanent role (35 hours per week) Monday – Friday
• Agile working model in place which is a blend of office base and home working.
• Our finance office is located in Quarriers Village Bridge of Weir, you will be required to also attend meetings at our HQ in Govan when required.

Full details of these roles can be found in the attached Job Role Profiles.

Please note:Quarriers cannot guarantee visa sponsorship for this role. Candidates must have the right to work in the UK or be able to secure this independently.

About Us

Quarriers is one of Scotland’s leading social care charities. We provide practical care and support for vulnerable children, adults and families who face extremely challenging circumstances. We challenge poverty and inequality of opportunity to bring about positive changes in people’s lives.

Benefits

• Free Physiotherapy and Occupational Health
• 24/7 Access to Employee Assistance Programme
• Non-contributory Life Assurance Scheme
• Workplace Pension
• Savings Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Long Service Rewards
• Significant Discount Opportunities

The Chief Executive Officer provides strategic, operational, and values-led leadership for Vector24. The CEO is responsible for delivering the organisation’s mission, ensuring high-quality services for beneficiaries, maintaining strong governance, and leading the organisation’s people, partnerships, and financial sustainability. The CEO is accountable to the Chair of the Board of Trustees to shape organisational direction and ensure compliance with all regulatory, legal, and ethical obligations.

Full details can be downloaded below.

At Ochil View, we are proud to provide high-quality homes and services across Clackmannanshire and West Fife, supporting individuals, families, and communities to thrive. Based in Alloa, our organisation has a strong reputation for putting people first and delivering services that make a real difference to the lives of our tenants and customers.

Everything we do is guided by our core values: being open, transparent, responsive, and trustworthy. These values shape our relationships with tenants, partners, and colleagues alike, and underpin our commitment to continuous improvement and excellent customer services.

As we look to the future, we are seeking a talented, motivated, and values-driven Director of Property Services, who shares our passion for housing, community wellbeing and making a positive impact. Ochil View offers the opportunity to contribute to meaningful work within a supportive and collaborative environment.

Do you want to help shape empty homes policy and influence change across Scotland? Join Shelter Scotland as our Policy and Communications Manager and play a leading role in developing evidence-based policy, influencing decision makers and raising the profile of empty homes as part of the solution to Scotland's housing emergency.

About the role

This a senior role within the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership (SEHP) team which brings together policy development and communications leadership and will play an integral part in helping the team achieve their strategic aims. This role will work closely with another manager and provide cover for the National Manager.

Role specifics

This role leads the development of evidence-based policy that helps shape Scotland’s approach to bringing empty homes back into use. You'll provide leadership across policy, communications and strategic projects, working with local authorities, partners and the media to influence change and raise the profile of the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership (SEHP). You'll also lead and support a small team, oversee key publications and reports, contribute to major events, and ensure the successful delivery of SEHP's strategic priorities.

Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

About the team

Part of an award-winning Communication & Policy Department, our Scottish Empty Homes Partnership (SEHP) is a Scottish Government funded project aimed at enabling private sector empty homes to be brought back into use across Scotland. The Partnership achieves this via a mix of policy work, capacity building, training, best practice sharing and awareness raising across the sector. It’s also home to the national Empty Homes Advice Service - a public facing advice service that anyone can contact for help or to report an empty home. Most recently we have launched a National Matchmaker Service which aims to match owners of empty homes with potential buyers, ensuring that less homes continue to remain empty.

Camphill School Aberdeen is seeking an experienced and compassionate House Co-ordinator to lead one of our residential houses and support children and young people with additional support needs to live, learn and flourish within a caring community.

Reporting to the Head of Care, you will provide leadership and oversight of a residential house, ensuring high standards of care, safeguarding, wellbeing and staff performance. You will create a warm, supportive environment where children and young people can develop independence, achieve their potential and enjoy meaningful relationships and experiences.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading and supporting a multidisciplinary residential team.
• Managing staff rotas, supervision, appraisals and training.
• Ensuring compliance with Care Inspectorate, SSSC and safeguarding requirements.
• Overseeing care planning, record keeping, medication management and house administration.
• Working closely with families, social workers, therapists, education staff and other professionals.
• Promoting social pedagogical practice and person-centred care

You will have:

• 3-5 years' experience in a supervisory or management role supporting children and/or adults with additional support needs.
• A degree-level qualification in Social Pedagogy, Education, Social Care or equivalent. Full SSSC registration and PVG membership.
• Strong leadership, communication and organisational skills.
• Knowledge of safeguarding, Care Inspectorate standards and relevant legislation.
• A full driving licence and good IT skills

We offer the opportunity to make a lasting difference in the lives of children and young people while working within a supportive and values-led organisation committed to professional development and outstanding care.

If you are an inspiring leader who shares our commitment to helping children and young people reach their full potential, we would love to hear from you.

Are you a change maker? Are you an experienced family outreach and engagement professional who is passionate about bringing about change for the under-fives.

Thrive at Five is a national charity focused on giving every child the best possible start in life. By working alongside families, communities, and local partners, we help build stronger, more connected support so more children get what they need to thrive. This is one of three Lead posts we are recruiting to over the summer to start delivery of our new programme in West Dunbartonshire, our first in Scotland. Alongside a new Early Years Health Lead and Early Years Education Lead, you will work to design and deliver an outreach and engagement strategy that identifies and responds to local needs, helping to reach up to 2,500 local children through our multi-year programme. Thrive at Five has recently signed an initial three-year partnership agreement with Dunbartonshire Council. Senior leaders in the Health and Social Care Partnership are also closely involved in shaping the programme.

Do you have experience of leading a small but dynamic marketing team? Are you a champion for internal comms? Do you understand the importance of press and public affairs?

If so, this role leading our Marketing & Communications team is for you.

About Cyrenians

At Cyrenians we tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness. We take a values-led and relationships-based approach to delivering our services because we understand that there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach to supporting people towards more positive and stable futures.

About the Marketing & Communications Team

Relationships are at the heart of everything we do at Cyrenians, with those we support and those who support us too.

With a new CEO having just joined us, it’s an exciting time to be in communications at Cyrenians. Our team covers all marketing, including in-house video production, as well as policy, press and public affairs.

With a variety of services and almost 200 colleagues across several locations, the need for good internal communications is high. And, of course, these services and colleagues, as well as our donors, fundraisers and volunteers also deserve marketing expertise and guidance.

About the role

This role, as a fixed-term opportunity, will drive forward our fundraising strategy and have responsibility for leading the team to deliver in a way that is collaborative, reliable and measurable. Close relationships with our Fundraising and service teams are integral to delivery.

The role has a strong focus on nurturing, developing and championing the team, together with using data and insight to drive our activity.

About you

You’ll be an experienced marketing leader who can hit the ground running, quickly building relationships and sustaining performance. You’ll bring a calm, collaborative approach to leadership—supporting and reassuring your team while building strong connections with colleagues and external stakeholders.

You’ll understand the importance of financial and performance reporting and be confident using data and insights to inform decisions and shape activity.

As the lead for internal communications, you’ll engage confidently with the leadership team and CEO, shaping and delivering clear, effective plans.

Like us, you’ll be values-led and relationship-focused in everything you do.

How we’ll support you

Working closely with your peers in Fundraising, Corporate Services, Community & Enterprise and our delivery services, you’ll be warmly supported by those who share your passion to tackle homelessness and its root causes. Cyrenians is a place of work where people quickly feel at home and we want your experience with us to be as fruitful and enjoyable as possible.

You will be supported to attend training and networking events to deepen your knowledge of the issues surrounding homelessness and social exclusion.

Are you a strategic leader who cares passionately about delivering positive outcomes for people and is excited by helping people to thrive?

At Citizens Advice Scotland we are a service for people and by people. People are the heart of our network.

We are looking for an experienced, people focused strategic leader to become our new Head of People. This is an exciting opportunity to really make a difference to the lives of people across Scotland and ensure that the people that work and volunteer for our network thrive in their roles.

This newly created role will lead Citizens Advice Scotland and our members, 58 local bureaux to be regarded as be one of the best places to work in Scotland.

What you will do:

• Build a culture that aligns with our values and ensures our decisions and interactions with each other are person-centred, inclusive, collaborative, empowering and supportive.
• Support our people to deliver advice and insight that changes lives through ensuring that we have the right policies, procedures, training and support to do their role.
• Champion the value that people bring to the network and ensure people drive our decision making.

If you are ready to lead meaningful change and make a lasting impact, we would love to hear from you.

For more information about the role, please refer to Job Pack - Head of People.pdf.

Please familiarise yourself with Our People Charter.

For further information on how we process your data and your information rights, please refer to our Privacy Notice - Job Volunteer and Applicants.

If you have an issue with downloading the above document, please request it at recruitment@cas.org.uk.

Employee benefits

Citizens Advice Scotland offers excellent terms and conditions. We want our people to have a great work life balance and we have designed our working practices and benefits to support this. Here are some of things our employees benefit from: a35-hour full time working week, 40 days annual leave, genuine flexibility in working hours with a flexi-time system, and hybrid working opportunities for every role. For more details of some of the other benefits on offer to our employees, please see the section on employee benefits in the job pack.

Citizens Advice Scotland is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies and flexible working arrangements to support all our staff. We are also committed to equality of opportunity for all and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

CAS provides options for hybrid working to allow employees to balance their time attending the office with time working from home. The number of days you will be able to work from home each week will be dependent on your job role and can be discussed as part of the recruitment process.

Working at Cassiltoun offers the opportunity to make a lasting impact, influence strategic decision-making, and contribute to an organisation with a strong social purpose, ambitious plans, and a genuine commitment to improving the lives of local people.

We are looking to recruit an experienced, motivated and enthusiastic individual to play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering high quality housing and environmental services.

As an experienced housing professional with strong leadership skills you will work closely with colleagues across the Association and a wide range of partner organisations and agencies to deliver positive outcomes for tenants and the wider community.

Why Join Cassiltoun?

• A chance to lead and develop the housing services team in an organisation with a strong community focus.
• Opportunity to influence both housing and wider regeneration outcomes.
• Collaborative and supportive working environment.
• Strong reputation for innovation, partnership working and tenant engagement.
• The satisfaction of making a tangible difference to the lives of local people every day.

This post is subject to a satisfactory standard Disclosure Scotland check.

Tiree Community Development Trust (known as “Urras Thiriodh”) are seeking a Head of Community Engagement to take on a lead role in delivering our community-focused services and engagement work in the beautiful and vibrant Inner Hebridean island of Tiree.

The newly created role combines management and direct service development and fundraising work and would suit a candidate with relevant experience and a pro-active approach looking to take on a challenge in a unique, bustling and diverse community development environment. Current key members of your team would include our Youth Activities Co-ordinator, Community Support Officer (working in an established partnership with CAB) and our Ranger. You’d join a strong established staff team with a track record of delivering vital community services, with the goal of ensuring the sustainable development of a small island community, making Tiree the best possible place to live, work and grow. The role involves working across our company group to support communications with key stakeholders, which includes supporting the use of Gaelic across our work and ensuring ongoing efforts to retain Gaelic as a living community language.

The role will play a key part in the ongoing delivery of our Community Development Plan – tireetrust.org.uk/the-development-plan

You will form part of the senior leadership team supporting (and occasionally deputising for) the Chief Exec, ultimately accountable to the Trust volunteer board of directors.