CEMVO Scotland is a national intermediary organisation and strategic partner of the Scottish Government Equalities Directorate. With a network of over 600 ethnic minority (EM) organisations throughout Scotland, our aim is to build the capacity of the ethnic minority voluntary sector and its communities.

We have recently secured funding from the Scottish Illegal Money Lending Unit (Trading Standards) and The Robertson Trust to continue our Financial Capability Programme.

We’re looking for a Financial Capability Officer to support ethnic minority communities across Scotland to develop the skills, knowledge, and confidence to make informed financial decisions and improve long-term resilience.

You’ll deliver engaging support both online and face-to-face, working directly with individuals and community organisations, while connecting people to the right money and welfare advice services.

If you have experience working with diverse communities, understand financial capability or welfare issues, and can build strong partnerships, we want to hear from you.

Spartans Community Foundation is a charity and social enterprise in North Edinburgh, focusing on community engagement and participation and delivering social impact through the power of people and sport.

You can find out more about the organisation at spartanscf.com

Spartans Community Foundation is a charity and social enterprise in North Edinburgh. We aspire to be a valued organisation that helps to improve the quality of people’s lives in a meaningful way, with love, compassion and dignity at the heart of our approach. We change lives through the power of sport and people.

We are “here for good”.

The Spartans Community Foundation operates from a £1.4 million purpose-built Education & Youth Work space, creating exciting opportunities to expand our impact and support even more children and young people across North Edinburgh.

We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, motivated, and experienced individual to join our vibrant and dedicated youth work team. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a broad range of skills, knowledge, and practical experience who is passionate about supporting and empowering young people. The successful candidate will bring energy, creativity, and a strong commitment to delivering high-quality youth work, while working collaboratively within a supportive and dynamic team environment. We are looking for someone who can build positive relationships, engage effectively with young people from diverse backgrounds, and contribute meaningfully to the continued growth and development of our services and programmes.

Job Purpose:

Deliver and develop a high-quality face to face youth work service aimed at meeting the needs of children & young people through informal activity-based sessions within youth clubs and primary schools.

The successful candidates will work with children and young people aged 7 -16 years from across our North Edinburgh community.

Key Responsibilities

• To develop relationships with young people based on mutual trust & respect (Building the Bridge of Trust).
• To deliver direct face to face work with young people in existing & new youth work provision.
• To encourage the involvement of young people in the planning and evaluation of programmes.
• To assist with service development by contributing to planning, delivery, and monitoring.
• To develop reflective practice and attend supervision as required.
• To assist in the development of programmes that promote equal opportunities and inclusive environments.
• To deliver a range of fun, engaging activities suitable for various age ranges.
• To use a wide range of resources to effectively engage with all young people.
• To ensure health and safety is always maintained to the required standards.
• To carry out any other duties as required, including the possibility of residential trips, holiday programmes as required.
• To deliver youth work sessions both 1-1 and small groups within a local primary school. (Shadowing/training available re this)
• To engage in partnership working to deliver collaborative youth work.

Skills Required

• Experience of working with & developing trusting relationships with children & young people aged 7-25 years old.
• Ability to communicate effectively with young people and the ability to motivate and engage them positively.
• Experience of working with & developing trusting relationships with hard-to-reach young people.
• Experience of delivering & developing youth work in a variety of settings.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and on your own initiative with minimum supervision.
• Knowledge of issues facing young people within our community.
• Understanding of child protection issues and willing to undergo further training.
• An understanding of the needs of socially excluded young people.
• A high level of professionalism in the workplace, including maintaining confidentiality at all times.
• Reliability & good time keeping.

Key Competencies:

• Productivity - Plans work carefully, makes effective use of time available, reprioritising as necessary, consistently delivers work of high quality on time, makes timely decisions, and approaches tasks in a systematic manner.
• Adaptability - Is open to latest ideas and suggestions, suggests new and innovative ways of working, show a positive approach to change, demonstrates a flexible approach when dealing with other, and keeps calm when faced with unexpected problems.
• Taking Action - Demonstrates a keen sense of ownership for work, shows resilience when working under pressure, consistently strives to meet targets, rises to meet tough challenges, and attempts to solve problems before seeking help (adopting a can-do mindset).
• Delivering Customer Impact - Understands customer needs, responds quickly to changing customer needs and/or anticipates customer needs, identifies ways to improve customer service, takes responsibility for sorting out customer problems, and keeps customers informed of developments.
• Working with Others (internal & external) - Collaborates effectively with others, develops positive relationships with others, actively takes part in team activities, is supportive of colleagues, builds trust, and treats everyone as an individual (honours uniqueness).
• Communicates with a Presence - Is always present with others, manages personal FOE factor, listens to understand others and checks for understanding around their MAP of the world, communicates key and relevant information to others, talks with enthusiasm and confidence, and adapts communication style depending on who they are talking to.
• Contributes with Authenticity - Tries to conduct work in an ethical and fair way, acts with integrity, willing to be vulnerable and fail, to take calculated risks, speaks openly and honestly about problems and challenges, and aspires to be a positive role-model – adopts a ‘big heart, small head’ approach.
• Always Learning - Spots and takes opportunities to develop own skills and knowledge, evaluates the impact of actions and initiatives (e.g., composes win/learn/change reviews), takes time to self-reflect on own behaviours and effectiveness, applies new knowledge and skills to be more effective and shares own learning with colleagues.

Working Requirements

• 37.5 hours per week
• Staff development and training events as required.
• Working pattern is Monday – Friday which will include evening work.

Responsible to:Senior Youth Worker

Liaises with: All Foundation employees, customers, partners and volunteers

Benefits

• Living Wage Employer
• Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme
• Staff uniform (Macron Kit Allowance)
• On-site parking
• Company pension scheme
• 30 days annual leave plus, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day as public holidays.
• Training and Development opportunities.
• Free access for employees’ children to Football Development Department holiday and football programmes.

Spartans Community Foundation is a charity and social enterprise in North Edinburgh. We aspire to be a valued organisation that helps to improve the quality of people’s lives in a meaningful way, with love, compassion and dignity at the heart of our approach. We change lives through the power of sport and people.

We are “here for good”.

You can find our more at spartanscf.com

The Spartans Community Foundation operates from a £1.4 million purpose-built Education & Youth Work space, creating exciting opportunities to expand our impact and support even more children and young people across North Edinburgh.

We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, experienced, and motivated individual with a strong range of youth work skills and experience to join our vibrant and dedicated Senior Alternative School and Youth Work team where the successful candidate will support young people within a mainstream primary school environment.

Key Objective:

Deliver and develop a high-quality face-to-face youth work service aimed at meeting the needs of children and young people through informal activity-based youth work sessions in an alternative education setting.

Responsibilities

• Develop relationships with young people based on mutual trust and respect.
• Deliver direct face-to-face work with young people in existing and new youth work provision.
• Encourage the involvement of young people in the planning and evaluation of programmes.
• Assist with service development by effectively contributing to planning, delivery, and monitoring and evaluation requirements.
• Develop reflective practice and attend supervision as required.
• Assist in the development of programmes that promote equal opportunities and inclusive environments.
• Deliver a range of fun, engaging activities suitable for various age ranges in a school based setting and alternative education setting.
• Use a wide range of resources to effectively engage with all young people.
• Ensure health and safety is always maintained to the required standards.
• Carry out any other duties as required, including the possibility of residential trips and holiday programmes as required.

Skills Required

• Experience of working with and developing trusting relationships with children and young people aged 7-16 years old.
• Ability to communicate effectively with young people and the ability to motivate and engage them positively.
• Experience of working with and developing trusting relationships with hard-to-reach young people.
• Experience of delivering and developing youth work in a variety of settings.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and on your own initiative with minimum supervision.
• Knowledge of issues facing young people within our community.
• Understanding of child protection and safeguarding and willingness to undergo further training.
• An understanding of the needs of socially excluded young people.
• A high level of professionalism in the workplace, including maintaining confidentiality at all times
• Reliability and good timekeeping.

Key Competencies:

• Productivity – Plans work carefully, makes effective use of available time, reprioritises as necessary, consistently delivers high-quality work on time, makes timely decisions, and approaches tasks systematically
• Adaptability – Is open to new ideas and suggestions, suggests new and innovative ways of working, shows a positive approach to change, demonstrates a flexible approach when dealing with others, and remains calm when faced with unexpected problems
• Taking Action – Demonstrates a keen sense of ownership for work, shows resilience when working under pressure, strives to meet targets, rises to tough challenges, and attempts to solve problems before seeking help (adopting a can-do mindset)
• Delivering Customer Impact – Understands customer needs, responds quickly to changing customer needs and/or anticipates customer needs, identifies ways to improve customer service, takes responsibility for sorting out customer problems, and keeps customers informed of developments
• Working with Others (internal & external) – Collaborates effectively with others, develops positive relationships, actively takes part in team activities, is supportive of colleagues, builds trust, and treats everyone as an individual
• Communicates with a Presence – Is always present with others, listens to understand, checks for understanding, communicates key information effectively, talks with enthusiasm and confidence, and adapts communication depending on the audience
• Contributes with Authenticity – Conducts work in an ethical and fair way, acts with integrity, is willing to be vulnerable and fail, takes calculated risks, speaks openly and honestly, and aspires to be a positive role model (adopts a 'big heart, small head' approach)
• Always Learning – Spots and takes opportunities to develop own skills and knowledge, evaluates the impact of actions and initiatives, takes time to self-reflect on behaviours and effectiveness, applies new knowledge and skills to be more effective, and shares learning with colleagues

Responsible to:Education Manager & Senior Youth Worker

Liaises with: All Foundation employees, partners, volunteers and with children and young people aged 7-16 years from across our North Edinburgh community.

Benefits

• Real Living Wage employer
• Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme
• First aid training
• Staff uniform (Macron kit allowance)
• On-site parking
• Company pension scheme
• 30 days annual leave including Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. (Pro rata)
• Training and development opportunities
• Free access for employees’ children to Football Development Department holiday and football programmes.

This post is a fixed-term, one-year role within the Sexual Health Blood Borne Virus Outreach Service. The purpose of the role is to support people leaving custody across Falkirk, Clackmannanshire and Stirling who are at increased risk of poor sexual health and blood-borne virus (BBV) outcomes. The Project Worker will deliver trauma-informed, person-centred outreach support, meeting individuals where they are and removing barriers to engagement with health and wider support services.

The primary focus of the role is people leaving custody across the Forth Valley area who experience significant health inequalities. This includes individuals who: test positive for a blood-borne virus in custody and require intensive support on liberation, experience substance use, mental ill-health, homelessness or housing instability, poverty, trauma, and digital exclusion, face barriers to accessing services due to stigma, anxiety, communication needs, or rigid appointment-based systems, are from marginalised groups, including people with learning disabilities, neurodivergence, complex family circumstances, or a history of offending.

The post holder will report to the Team Leader. They will work in partnership with colleagues from Substance Use Services, Social Work Departments, Housing Services, Hepatology Services, HMP Establishments and others as required for continuity of care and sharing good practice. In partnership we aim to provide services that are specifically designed to identify, engage, and support individuals.

The post holder as an employee of Transform Forth Valley will have a corporate responsibility to contribute to the overall performance of the organisation to ensure that contractual outputs and targets are achieved. There is a responsibility for the post-holder to demonstrate a commitment to continuous improvements in service delivery for the benefit of the service user, the service, and the partners.

The post-holder will be required to work from several operational sites across the local authority areas and work flexibly within an agreed number of hours to maintain the most appropriate level of provision.

Organisational Profile

Transform Forth Valley is a Scottish based registered charity limited by guarantee (SC033772).

Transform Forth Valley is governed by a Board of Directors and is strategically led, managed, and operated on a day-to-day basis by a Corporate Leadership Team consisting of two Operational Managers and one Corporate Service Manager.

Transform Forth Valley offer a wide range of services to support individuals and families who are impacted by inequality, whether this be societal, financial or in relation to their health.

Transform Forth Valley is dedicated to empowering individuals and families to live a more fulfilled life. We work with partners to actively challenge inequalities and to achieve sustainable change.

You can find out more about Transform Forth Valley here: transformfv.org.uk.

Benefits:

• Leave – For full time employees Transform Forth Valley offer 30 days of Annual Leave plus 9 days of Statutory Holiday per annum.
• Pension – If eligible Transform Forth Valley will auto enrol you into our pension scheme where we will contribute 5%, and employee’s a minimum of 3%, of your pensionable salary.
• Wellbeing Days – For permanent members of staff, who have completed their probationary period, Transform Forth Valley offer two day’s paid leave of absence per annum as a ‘wellbeing day’ to support positive mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing for staff.
• Death in Service Insurance – If eligible Transform Forth Valley will place you into the scheme upon commencement of employment and the lump sum benefit is 4 x Basic Annual Salary.

We are looking for a creative, enthusiastic, and committed Community Events Assistant to support the growing programme of activity in this exciting community owned social enterprise.

The Community Events Assistant will work closely with the Community Engagement Coordinator and other members of the team to plan, promote and deliver a programme of events appealing to our diverse community and to encourage broad community participation and to maximise use of the facilities at Duncan Place Community Hub. You are expected to have a degree of flexibility and work with the rest of the team to ensure that all shifts are covered.

Shifts are rota’d in advance and the weekly hours will include at least one evening per week, at least one weekend day per month and other weekday daytime hours. Work will be based in Duncan Place Community Hub; this is not a hybrid role.

The successful candidate will:

• Support the Community Engagement Coordinator with marketing, communications, planning and delivery of events and activities, including set up & take down and associated admin tasks.
• Ensure everyone coming into Duncan Place Community Hub is warmly welcomed, that rooms are prepared and that the building and its environs are well presented.

Duncan Place Community Hub are now seeking a Building & Facilites Coordinator; this is a new role working alongside the CEO and our small team of staff. You will be responsible for all planned and reactive maintenance and for compliance with security, health and safety. You will be responsible for high level building maintenance, following guidelines and procedures and, where necessary, you will be working with contractors to plan and organise servicing, maintenance checks and repairs. This is a hands-on role where you use initiative and get stuck in to keep our building running smoothly and presented to a high standard; this includes responding to smaller tasks and urgent issues as they arise, e.g. putting up shelves, unblocking toilets, painting walls & woodwork (including being confident and competent with ladders and heights), litter-picking and generally mucking in with the team to help maintain standards. We are looking for someone who will be proactive in getting tasks completed to a high standard quickly with as little inconvenience to our customers as possible.

You must be motivated, organised, solution focused, hands-on and have excellent record keeping skills. You will be able to supervise and work alongside your team to keep the building well maintained, presented to a high standard, keeping people and resources safe at all times.

We have a wonderful and diverse community of building users and universal acceptance and respect is essential. You are expected to have a degree of flexibility and work with the rest of the team to ensure that all planned and reactive maintenance takes place with the minimum of disruption to tenants and room hirers. Shifts are rota’d in advance, and the weekly hours will include at least one evening per week, at least one weekend day per month and other weekday daytime hours.

Whilst the majority of tasks will be based in Duncan Place Community Hub, occasional hybrid hours are possible.

Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC) is looking for a proactive, self-motivated team player to be part of an exciting development in partnership with the Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership (ACHSCP). ACHSCP and SRC were successful in a funding bid through the Gambling Levy Fund, and we now have the opportunity to create a post that will specifically develop a Gambling Harm Recovery Network (GHRN) across Aberdeen City. Scottish Recovery Consortium will host this post (initially for 1 year) with the potential to extend for another three years. SRC will have an integral role in the project, providing ongoing development work and specialist expertise.

The project aims to create a learning, adaptive, person centred system of support for gambling harms in Aberdeen City. It operationalises national recommendations, leverages local assets, embeds trauma informed and lived experience driven approaches, and builds a more coherent, equitable, and responsive system of care. Through this work, ACHSCP and SRC will reduce unmet need and move closer to the national vision for a public health-led, person-centred response to gambling harms.

As an employee of the Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC), the post holder will report directly to the Chief Executive Officer, who has overall responsibility for the SRC element of this project. The successful post holder will have a unique opportunity to work directly with the Community and Prisons-based teams within SRC and, externally, with a range of partners across Aberdeen City, including ACHSCP.

The role involves designing, developing and delivering a local GHRN across Aberdeen City. The postholder will work alongside people with lived and living experience, communities, statutory services and the third sector to strengthen recovery-oriented, trauma-informed and rights-based responses to gambling harms.

This is a role in the north of Scotland, requiring travel across Aberdeen City. There is also an expectation that you will attend SRC monthly staff team meetings in our Glasgow office and any others relevant to organisational work and development. Your role will be to:

• Asset map the current gambling support across Aberdeen City
• Identify gaps in provision
• Lead the development, design, delivery and coordination of a local GHRN.
• Build strong working relationships with partners to ensure the collaborative success of the project

The Community Gambling Brief Intervention Practitioner will provide a community-based Gambling Brief Intervention service in the wider community and primary care settings throughout Scotland in partnership with other statutory, voluntary and community agencies in the area.

Full training will be provided.

The RCA Trust is a flexible and dynamic organisation with an exciting opportunity to bring together a range of different communities to address issues around gambling harms. It is seeking to recruit a flexible, adaptable individual who can work effectively in a changing environment with a dynamic consumer base.

The post-holder will assist the RCA Trust to play a critical role in the expansion of gambling harms services across Scotland.

The Gambling Harms Group Worker facilitates safe, supportive, and recovery focused group work for people affected by gambling harms, including individuals with lived experience and, where appropriate, affected others. The role aims to reduce harm, improve wellbeing, build resilience, and support positive behaviour change through structured group interventions.

Where the role fits in our organisation

Our Communities and Place team consists of our Community Transport, Employability, Volunteering, Children and Families and Locality teams. This role sits within the Community Transport team, although the focus of the role is on Business Support, Employability and Volunteering – no technical knowledge of Transport or bus driving is required.

What You'll Do

The Connecting Communities Development Officer will play a critical role in creating and assuring the sustainability of Community Transport across Dumfries and Galloway over the next 4 years. There is significant value to be unlocked within this sector by the addition of development capacity through this role and we are excited about the opportunities for this new team.

A detailed knowledge of Transport or Community Transport is not needed for this role – it is a business support role, and will not involve the direct delivery of any community transport operations. There will be no driving, no logistics planning and no working directly with drivers.

Instead, this role will support Community Transport Operators (CTOs) with the evolution of their Business Plans, grant finding, volunteer recruitment and employability opportunities. You will form great relationships with the CTO Managers, making sure you add real value amongst their daily jobs.

This role would suit someone with experience of working in business support or administration for a third sector organisation and with ambitions to make an even bigger difference to the people of Dumfries and Galloway through a regional role, or a new entrant with the correct skills and approach.

The role will be line managed and supported by the Lead for Community Transport and further supported by the wider TSDG Comms and Business Support teams. We are advertising for the Lead Officer in parallel with this post, so this is an exciting opportunity to join and shape a new regional project in Dumfries and Galloway.

It is principally a 9am – 5pm, 4 day/week role, with very limited evening or weekend working anticipated. The actual work pattern would be discussed at interview but we can offer a high degree of flexibility through our flexi-time policy. A minimum 25% of time would be expected to be in the Dumfries office, 25% out with the CTOs across the region and the rest home-working or in the Dumfries office.

• Be the visible face of TSDG to the Community Transport Operators so that they feel well-supported in their delivery.
• Support CTOs in their development aspirations such as decarbonisation, fleet replacement, governance etc.
• Work with CTOs to ensure that their Business Models are better able to attract grant funding and earned income.
• Work with the TSDG Employability team and CTOs to plan and deliver effective Employability programmes through CTOs.
• Plan and deliver a programme of region-wide volunteer-recruitment to CTOs, in partnership with CTOs to ensure that it matches local need.
• Work with CTOs to gather and evaluate relevant information as per the agreed plan around the impact of their services.
• Support colleagues across TSDG to deliver on our joint outcomes and contribute to effective team working to make TSDG a great place to work.

More about you

• You will have experience of business support or administration, or equivalent Training / Qualifications – this role would suit a new entrant with the right skills and approach.
• You will be able to quickly form excellent working relationships with a wide range of partners.
• You will highlight emerging opportunities to line management, displaying good judgment and a bias for action.
• You will take responsibility for delivery of your own outcomes, and to escalate challenges or concerns in good time.
• You will be a good team player, with good verbal and written communication skills and good knowledge of current common workplace IT systems.

You can read more about our exciting new approach to Community Transport, and the Business Case for the new model, here: Community Transport Dumfries and Galloway | Supporting the Development of Community Transport