Apex Scotland is the leading employment and training organisation specialising in work with people with convictions.

We believe in a future beyond your past.

Apex Scotland offer a diverse range of services for young people and adults to help them break down barriers to employment, engage in education, or integrate into their communities.

We are looking for a full time Practitioner to join our team in our National Upside Service at 35 hours per week, covering the Tayside area.

The post will present an opportunity to cover our service we deliver in partnership with Access to industry, Action for Children, Barnardo’s, Circle, Families Outside, Sacro and Turning Point Scotland. Upside is a national throughcare service, available in all parts of Scotland. Throughcare provides people in short-term custody or remand with the practical and emotional support they need to transition to community life. The Service will achieve this by working in partnership with the Scottish Prison Service, Community Justice Social Work and other agencies across Scotland to ensure our approach of focusing on meeting people where they are, addressing immediate challenges, and helping them build sustainable futures within their communities are met.

The successful applicant will have experience of working in a community environment and an understanding of Throughcare support would be an advantage. There will be some travel throughout the country therefore a driving license or access to a means of transport is essential.

The right candidate will have an aptitude for working collaboratively with participants, prison workers, SPS, social work and other partners. Offer a tailored and responsive engagement experience to our participants in a person-centred way. The candidate must be able to complete dynamic and robust risk assessments and follow safeguarding practices. An understanding of Prison Throughcare would be an advantage, as would knowledge and experience in working with databases. You would need to demonstrate flexibility and the ability to work in partnership. Some travel may be required therefore a driving licence and/or access to a means of transport would be an advantage. A full description will be available.

This post is funded until end of March 2028 and may require some evening or weekend working.

Membership of the Prevention of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme is required.

We offer some great benefits, including family friendly policies, flexible and hybrid working and work-life balance. We also have generous annual leave entitlement, employee wellbeing scheme (Perkbox), pension scheme and death in service, company sick pay.

We welcome applications from individuals who share Apex Scotland’s aims and values and value diversity from all sections of the community.

We are looking for a highly motivated individual with the skills and ability to lead the Mental Health and Substance Use Team. Applicants should have demonstrable management experience, excellent communication skills, and the ability to provide leadership across DVVA’s Mental Health and Substance Use Service.

The successful candidate will play a central role in the leadership, development, and delivery of the service, including the management and support of staff, partnership working, service planning, performance monitoring, and reporting on outcomes and impact. They will work closely with colleagues, commissioners, and partner organisations to support effective service delivery and sustainability.

The postholder will be able to demonstrate meaningful approaches to engagement, participation, and co-production, ensuring that people with lived and living experience of mental health and substance use, alongside third sector organisations and communities, are involved in influencing how services are planned, delivered, monitored, and improved.

The role includes building effective relationships across partnerships and services, supporting accessible engagement, reducing barriers to participation, and ensuring that people’s views, experiences, and feedback inform decision-making and service development.

Change starts with water. Change starts with you.

Every day, millions of people live without clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene. WaterAid exists to change that – for everyone, everywhere. Join us, and your energy will help unlock people’s potential and create a fairer future.

About WaterAid

We’re a global federation driven by one vision: a world where everyone, everywhere has clean water, sanitation and hygiene by 2030. Powered by our values of Respect, Accountability, Courage, Collaboration, Integrity and Innovation, we work alongside communities, partners and supporters to make change happen.

About the team

The Water Industry Partnerships Team develops and supports WaterAid’s relationships with water companies and the wider water industry in the UK. We inspire and manage volunteers, steering the development of high-income corporate events, and build opportunities for water company employees and customers to connect with our work.

About the role

As our Senior Water Industry Partnerships Officer, you will develop and implement the partner strategy for Northern Ireland Water and manage the Scottish Water partnership on a day-to-day basis.

In this role, you will:

• Manage existing Water Company partners within Scotland (at committee level) and Northern Ireland (at a strategic and committee level)
• Lead on the setup and delivery of all mass participation events across water industry partners in the UK
• Lead on event management of high-value events with Water Company partner organisations
• Support the Senior Partnerships Manager to steer, provide coaching and support work plans for the WIP Team Assistant
• Lead on systems / fundraising / events compliance processes across the UK team to ensure that all partner activity is compliant with fundraising, gambling and data protection laws to protect the reputation of the partners and WaterAid.
• Own account and partnership development plans, delivering on commitments and personalised stewardship to hit KPIs
• Champion WaterAid’s commitment to equity, inclusion and safeguarding.

Requirements

To be successful, you will need:

• Experience in, and understanding of, fundraising compliance
• Experience in organising mass participation events
• Proven ability to manage a busy workload and deliver across multiple projects/teams
• Confident external engagement: written, verbal, presentation, and face-to-face.

Although not essential, we’d prefer you to have:

• Experience working or volunteering in the voluntary sector
• Familiarity with the UK water industry
• Experience managing high-value events

Benefits

• 36 days’ holiday (including 8 Bank Holidays)
• Option to buy an extra 5 days’ annual leave
• Employer pension contribution up to 10 %
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• Season ticket loan
• Free annual eye tests
• ‘Give as you Earn’ charitable giving scheme
• Enhanced parental leave (maternity, adoption/surrogacy, shared parental and paternity)
• Sabbaticals
• One paid volunteer day each year

As part of our annual leave policy, all employees receive three additional days of annual leave on top of their standard allocation of 25 days. These days are designated to cover the period when our UK office closes between Christmas and New Year, allowing all UK WaterAiders to take a well-deserved break.

These days are automatically scheduled and cannot be changed or moved. Annual leave is accrued based on your start date. If sufficient leave has not been accrued by the time of the closure, the 3 days will be taken as unpaid leave or pro-rated, depending on your circumstances.

About St Andrews Environmental Network

St Andrews Environmental Network (StAndEN) is an award-winning environmental charity delivering practical climate action, fuel-poverty support, reuse initiatives, community well-being projects, and environmental engagement across Fife.

We believe sustainability should be practical, accessible, and genuinely useful to local people. Our work focuses on improving lives, reducing environmental harm, and strengthening communities through pragmatic, community-led solutions.

StAndEN delivers a diverse portfolio of environmental, anti-poverty, and community wellbeing projects across Fife in partnership with local authorities, NHS services, universities, businesses, and national funders.

The Role

We are seeking an organised, proactive, and community-minded Operations Coordinator to help support and develop our growing work across North East Fife and beyond.

This is an exciting entry-level management opportunity within a well-established and highly respected charity. The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting day-to-day operations, coordinating projects and volunteers, and helping shape the future direction of community climate action within StAndEN.

The role combines operational coordination, project support, community engagement, and team leadership within a fast-paced and varied working environment.

The successful candidate will line manage our Projects Administrator and help coordinate volunteers, projects, partnerships, and community activities across the organisation.

Occasional evening or weekend work may be required.

A full job description can be downloaded below.

The National Trust for Scotland is the charity that cares for, shares and speaks up for Scotland’s magnificent heritage. Since 1931, we’ve pioneered public access to and shared ownership of some of the most magnificent buildings, collections and landscapes in Scotland. We’re Scotland’s largest membership organisation and we’re independent from government.

Among the many properties in the Trust’s care are two of the most outstanding buildings designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald; The Hill House and Mackintosh at the Willow. Together, these sites welcome 280,000 visitors annually, promoting the cultural legacy of Mackintosh and engaging visitors with the life and works of two of Scotland's most influential artists. The Mackintosh Illuminated Project will bring together these two properties in a joint engagement, communications and marketing and outreach programme to spotlight the design duo, sharing, celebrating and inspiring as many as possible with their creative genius and the beauty of their creations and create the foundation for a reappraisal of how Mackintosh and Macdonald are perceived and appreciated locally and internationally.

Job purpose

This role, providing a Diploma in Data Analytics SCQF Level 6 will work with the Insight Manager to support the collection, management, analysis and reporting of audience and project data primarily related to the Mackintosh Illuminated Project. The work will help guide decision makers and support robust reporting across the project workstreams.

Through hands-on experience and structured learning, they will gain skills in data collection, management, analysis and reporting, giving them strong foundations for a career uncovering insight from data.

The role is part of the Audiences & Support Directorate and there is flexibility in the role location.

Key responsibilities and accountabilities

• Support the identification and understanding of key audiences related to the Trust and the Mackintosh Illuminated Project in particular.
• Learn to use a variety of data analysis tools (Excel, SQL, Python, Power BI) to help answer business questions
• Work with the Insights Manager to improve end-to-end audience research including data collection, storage, transformation, modelling and reporting.
• Contribute to Mackintosh Illuminated project reporting as required
• Work with the Mackintosh Illuminated project team and a range of Audience and Support, Public Engagement and Research and IT colleagues.
• Gain credits for the diploma including:
  • Supporting Digital Business Transformation
  • Applying Methods and Principles in Project Management
  • Developing Meta-Skills and Personal Professionalism
  • Managing Data Assets
  • Planning Data Analysis
  • Locating and Accessing Data Sources
  • Transforming Data for Analysis
  • Analysing Data
  • Visualising and Communicating Data
  • Implementing Machine Learning Models

Required qualifications, skills, experience & knowledge

Qualifications

Essential

• Participating in the SCQF Level 6 Diploma in Data Analytics as part of this role.
• National 5 (or equivalent) in Mathematics or IT related subject.
• National 5 (or equivalent) in English.

Desirable

• Interest in heritage and conservation.

The current duties of this job do not require a criminal records (Disclosure Scotland) check to be carried out.

Experience

Essential

• Excellent analytical and numeracy skills and attention to detail
• IT literacy and familiarity with data analysis tools (principally Excel) and the ability to pick up other tools as appropriate
• Demonstrable experience of our core values (brave, caring, curious, inclusive, vibrant).
• Strong teamworking skills
• Good communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate complex ideas
• Ability to manage time efficiently and effectively in an environment of changing priorities.

Desirable

• Passion for data and uncovering meaningful insights

Dimensions and scope of job

People Management

• No line management responsibility
• Close working relationship with A&S, property teams and other Directorates

Financial Management

• None

Tools / equipment / systems

• Training will be provided for all the below:
  • Microsoft Office systems including OneDrive, Teams, Excel
  • Core NTS Survey platforms (MS Forms, Snap Survey)
  • SQL and Microsoft Azure
  • Data analysis and visualization tools (Power BI, Python)

Key performance indicators and targets

• Contributes to key objectives of the Insights function such as survey data collected, projects completed and unique users to the Audience and Insights SharePoint Hub.
• Contributes to A&S KPI through supporting membership and marketing work with actionable insight.
• Completion of all coursework and assignments for SCQF Level 6 Diploma in Digital Marketing

Place in organisational structure:Audience & Support – Communications

The Purpose, Context, Key Responsibilities, and Person Specification reflect the requirements of the job at the time of issue. The Trust reserves the right to amend these with appropriate consultation and/or request the post-holder to undertake any activities that it believes to be reasonable within the broad scope of the job or his/her general abilities.

ACCORD Hospice provides specialist palliative and end-of-life care to people living with life-limiting illnesses across Renfrewshire and parts of East Renfrewshire. Supporting patients and families both within the hospice and in the community, ACCORD is dedicated to ensuring people receive compassionate, high-quality care when they need it most. The hospice relies heavily on the generosity of supporters, volunteers, businesses, and the wider community to continue delivering its vital services free of charge.

ACCORD Hospice is now seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Fundraiser to join its Fundraising and Communications team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in driving income growth, developing meaningful supporter relationships, and increasing awareness of the hospice across the local community.

The successful candidate will support the delivery of fundraising activity across community, corporate, events, and general fundraising streams, helping to maximise income from both existing and new supporters. The role will involve developing and managing relationships with local businesses, organisations, community groups, and volunteers, while identifying innovative opportunities to grow fundraising income and supporter engagement.

A key aspect of the role will include managing the hospice’s portfolio of fundraising events and campaigns, securing long-term corporate partnerships, including Charity of the Year relationships, and supporting stewardship activity to ensure supporters receive an excellent experience. You will also play an important role in promoting the work of ACCORD Hospice through presentations, networking opportunities, community engagement activity, and digital communications.

Working closely with the Fundraising & Communications Manager, you will help lead and support a collaborative fundraising culture across the organisation. The role also includes line management responsibility for the Fundraising Administrator and Community Fundraiser, ensuring effective supporter stewardship, income processing, and event support are delivered to a high standard.

The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience across a broad range of fundraising disciplines, including Corporate Fundraising, Legacies, Events, and General Fundraising, alongside a proven track record of delivering income growth within the voluntary sector. You will be an excellent communicator with strong organisational and relationship management skills, capable of managing multiple priorities while inspiring supporters, colleagues, and volunteers alike.

This is a rewarding opportunity for an ambitious and proactive fundraising professional who is passionate about building community relationships and making a meaningful difference to the lives of patients and families supported by ACCORD Hospice.

ACCORD Hospice provides specialist palliative and end-of-life care to people living with life-limiting illnesses across Renfrewshire and parts of East Renfrewshire. Supporting patients and families both within the hospice and in the community, ACCORD is dedicated to ensuring people receive compassionate, high-quality care when they need it most. The hospice relies heavily on the generosity of supporters, volunteers, businesses, and the wider community to continue delivering its vital services free of charge.

ACCORD Hospice is now seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Fundraiser to join its Fundraising and Communications team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in driving income growth, developing meaningful supporter relationships, and increasing awareness of the hospice across the local community.

The successful candidate will support the delivery of fundraising activity across community, corporate, events, and general fundraising streams, helping to maximise income from both existing and new supporters. The role will involve developing and managing relationships with local businesses, organisations, community groups, and volunteers, while identifying innovative opportunities to grow fundraising income and supporter engagement.

A key aspect of the role will include managing the hospice’s portfolio of fundraising events and campaigns, securing long-term corporate partnerships, including Charity of the Year relationships, and supporting stewardship activity to ensure supporters receive an excellent experience. You will also play an important role in promoting the work of ACCORD Hospice through presentations, networking opportunities, community engagement activity, and digital communications.

Working closely with the Strategic Lead Income Generation and Partnerships, you will help lead and support a collaborative fundraising culture across the organisation. The role also includes line management responsibility for the Fundraising Administrator and Community Fundraiser, ensuring effective supporter stewardship, income processing, and event support are delivered to a high standard.

The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience across a broad range of fundraising disciplines, including Corporate Fundraising, Legacies, Events, and General Fundraising, alongside a proven track record of delivering income growth within the voluntary sector. You will be an excellent communicator with strong organisational and relationship management skills, capable of managing multiple priorities while inspiring supporters, colleagues, and volunteers alike.

This is a rewarding opportunity for an ambitious and proactive fundraising professional who is passionate about building community relationships and making a meaningful difference to the lives of patients and families supported by ACCORD Hospice.

Are you a creative and motivated individual with the passion and drive to support people with a recent diagnosis of dementia to live well in their community?

If so, you can be part of a National Team of Post Diagnostic Support Link Workers (PDS Link Workers) providing high quality, person centered support to people living with dementia and their families for a minimum of a year following diagnosis in line the Scottish Government’s minimum guarantee.

The aim of the PDS National Service is to enable people to live well with dementia and is centered around Alzheimer Scotland's 5 pillar model so that people move on to a period of supported self- management.

The model includes understanding the illness and coming to terms with the diagnosis, peer support, connecting and maintaining links with their community along with planning for future care and decision making to develop an outcome focused plan to support their future hopes, desires, and aspirations.

Supporting our Edinburgh locality, the post will be based within the North West of the city. Alzheimer Scotland’s PDS Link Workers are required to be effective team workers and have the skills to build and maintain relationships with colleagues both within Alzheimer Scotland, the NHS, and other stakeholders.

Skills in using digital platforms are essential as we use a blended approach to support people that involve some virtual meetings and on-line groups.

Applicants must hold a recognised relevant professional qualification, have a good understanding of dementia and how it affects people and their families along with excellent communication skills, a warm flexible approach, combined with skills in empathy and relationship building.

In addition, you should have skills and knowledge at the Enhanced Level of the Promoting Excellence Framework or be able to evidence you are working towards its completion.

This post requires a full driving licence and access to a car.

About Chapter One

Chapter One is a dynamic, growing charity with a vision of a world in which all children have the literacy skills needed to thrive. Our mission is to close the reading gap by providing children with one-to-one support at the time they need it most. We work in thirteen areas/regions of the UK and will support over 4,000 children in 2026-27.

Our unique Online Reading Volunteer programme pairs struggling five to seven-year old (P2-4) readers with reading support volunteers who are working professionals. The volunteer ask is very focused: readers commit 30 minutes a week to read with a child using a bespoke digital platform for an entire academic year. The results are transformative, boosting children's reading confidence and ability.

From a school perspective, online reading volunteers provide direct, meaningful literacy support for up to 10 pupils per class. The programme is particularly suitable for communities where it might be challenging to find parents and other volunteers who can commit to physically visiting schools to boost reading.

About the Role

Chapter One is seeking a Scotland Programme Manager who is an excellent communicator and is able both to motivate and support schools and teachers to implement our online reading volunteers programme, and also to ensure that the programme’s impact and benefit to disadvantaged communities is maximised throughout the academic year.

The post is ideal for someone looking for part-time, flexible, term-time only work from a home base and who is able to travel frequently in and around Edinburgh and Glasgow. The postholder will be joining a team of established Programme Managers who work in different parts of the UK and will need to have some flexibility to work some additional hours during busy autumn weeks, and conversely to work fewer hours during quieter periods of the year.

Key Responsibilities:

• Effectively explain Chapter One’s online reading volunteer programme and its benefits to school leaders and teachers.
• Install, setup and maintain Chapter One equipment in participating classrooms. This will include technical configuration/troubleshooting of mobile internet hotspots with IT team support.
• Organise and conduct initial teacher training and follow-up.
• Ensure a smooth initial launch of Chapter One’s programme in every classroom.
• Fully understand the operation of the Chapter One platform and database and effectively communicate this to others as needed.
• Liaise with colleagues performing technical and volunteer support roles.
• Through regular visits to/contact with schools, provide on-going embedded professional learning and support to teachers throughout the year as needed.
• Proactively monitor classroom adherence/fidelity to the Chapter One model, including systematic review of data reports and volunteer feedback, taking proactive action to resolve problems that arise.
• Analyse and manipulate data (largely in Google sheets) to produce reports and identify trends.
• Create regular data summaries for all participating classrooms.
• Lead annual review meetings for senior leadership at participating schools.
• Support programme monitoring, evaluation and research as required.
• Coordinate in person and virtual school ‘visits’ of volunteer teams to classrooms where necessary. This may include opportunities for Chapter One children to visit the office of the volunteers.
• Liaison with corporate partners as required.
• Weekly communication and status updates with Senior Programme Manager(s) and wider team.
• As a new school year approaches, secure commitments from returning schools and help find and target new schools to join Chapter One’s programme.

We are looking for applicants with the following essential qualities:

• Highly motivated individual with excellent interpersonal and organisational skills.
• Proven track record of working at a senior level in education, project management or a related field.
• Proven strength in both written and verbal communication.
• Highly IT literate, with excellent computer skills, able to troubleshoot software and technical hardware issues, adept with Google suite and Microsoft Teams.
• Ability to manipulate and analyse data to draw useful conclusions to improve programme delivery.
• Proven ability to work independently.
• Self-starter and quick learner.
• Ability to adapt and embrace a changing environment.
• Ability to drive and access to a car for work purposes.

Ideally, applicants will also have the following desirable qualities:

• Two years of teaching/education experience with primary age children.
• University degree.

At Penumbra, we strive to create a culture and environment where people feel valued and inspired to reach their own personal goals. Our fundamental priority is to provide support which is safe and promotes recovery, social inclusion and citizenship for people with mental health challenges.

We recognise that the people we support have skills and experience that can bring about positive changes for themselves. Through an ethos of inclusion, equality and fairness, our staff are committed to promoting good mental health and wellbeing for people using our services.

Our ARBD supported accommodation is based in Bardowie Street in Glasgow’s Possilpark, and is an assessment centre for people who have been diagnosed with ARBD or possible ARBD. We provide a safe and positive environment in which people can develop the life skills and confidence to actively move towards and define their recovery.

The service provides bespoke and proactive support to identify and address the individual’s needs, placing them at the heart of their support. With an emphasis on independence and empowerment, people are helped to move toward self-identified goals. While there is an element of collaborative group work, this is at all times focussed on improving self-esteem and addressing issues such loneliness, social exclusion and addiction in a supportive peer environment.

You will be passionate about working in a person-centred way with adults from a variety of backgrounds, and with a range of challenges. With a strong interest in people and a commitment to helping others, you will strive to make a positive impact on people’s lives and tailor support to enable people to fulfil their best potential.