At Carr Gomm, we are looking for an Administration Officer to join our Dundee service.

This is a varied role within a busy and dynamic service, where you will provide administrative and clerical support, help maintain effective systems and records, and support managers with the day-to-day running of the service.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for a keen and enthusiastic individual who can work confidently and accurately, manage competing priorities, and show initiative in a busy office environment.

The role requires a proactive approach, strong communication skills, and the ability to build effective working relationships with a range of people. While this post does not involve regular direct support, we are looking for someone with an awareness of the support Carr Gomm delivers and the needs of the people who use our services.

About the role:

Reporting to the Operations Manager, you will carry out a range of administrative and clerical tasks across the local service. This includes implementing administrative and data collection systems in line with Carr Gomm’s policies and procedures, supporting communication across services, and providing administrative support to managers as required.

You will also support the coordination of training and induction activity, help maintain accurate records and local procedures, and contribute to a well-run office environment, including health and safety and day-to-day enquiries.

Benefits

• 35 days holiday per year, increasing to 40 days with length of service
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, and sick leave
• A Defined Contribution pension scheme, with incremental employer contributions
• Access to the Carr Gomm App: which includes free physiotherapy, health coaching and counselling
• Free Blue Light Card (giving access to thousands of discounts and promotions)
• Membership of a credit union
• Cycle to work scheme; and more! Staff Benefits for Managers & Office-based

We welcome applications from any candidates already eligible to work in the UK or those that can apply for a visa granting permission to work in the UK (e.g. dependent visas, ancestry etc.) that do not require sponsorship from Carr Gomm. You will be asked to share proof of this prior to receiving any offer of employment. It is currently our policy not to offer sponsorship for prospective candidates.

Lesmahagow Development Trust is entering a landmark three-year period of growth. Supported by the Scottish Government’s Strengthening Communities Programme, we are moving beyond traditional grant-funded delivery toward a model of long-term economic independence and community-led infrastructure.

We are seeking a commercially-minded Business Manager to drive the financial evolution of the Trust. You will treat our community assets as a portfolio, identifying new revenue streams and operational efficiencies to ensure our long-term independence from grant funding.

You will be responsible for transitioning the trust away from grant dependency by optimising our assets and building a resilient, sustainable income model.

Key Deliverables:

• Commercial sustainability: identifying and developing business models that generate a sustainable commercial surplus to reduce grant dependency.
• Financial management & reporting: maintaining the Trust’s day-to-day financial records, managing cash flow, and producing internal quarterly reports to ensure the Trust remains within budget.
• Asset & operations oversight: strategic management of physical and financial assets to ensure they are performing optimally for the community.
• Grant compliance: ensuring all financial reporting for the Strengthening Communities Programme is accurate and submitted on time to trigger quarterly payments.

Essential Criteria:

• Commercial experience: proven track record in business management, commercial development, or social enterprise leadership.
• Financial literacy: competency in day-to-day financial management
• Reporting skills: ability to prepare clear financial summaries, reconciliations, and budget-versus-actual reports for Board review.
• Operational management: experience in overseeing contracts, leases, or facilities to ensure cost-efficiency and compliance.
• Strategic planning: ability to translate the Trust’s goals into viable business cases that generate income.

Desirable Criteria:

• Governance knowledge: understanding of charity finance regulations.
• Accountancy systems: experience in the use of cloud accounting software (e.g. Xero) and spreadsheet modeling.

Lesmahagow Development Trust is entering a landmark three-year period of growth. Supported by the Scottish Government’s Strengthening Communities Programme, we are moving beyond traditional grant-funded delivery toward a model of long-term economic independence and community-led infrastructure.

We are seeking a visionary Community Economic Development Lead to architect the long-term growth of Lesmahagow. You will act as a strategic catalyst, transforming community aspirations into a robust economic development plan and securing the high-level investment required to deliver ambitious, large-scale infrastructure and resilience projects.

You will lead the creation of a Community Economic Development Plan, identifying high-impact capital projects and bringing them to life.

Key Deliverables:

• Strategy development: author and drive the "Lesmahagow Economic Development Plan," identifying high-impact opportunities for promoting economic growth and participation in the local area, or to promote community wealth building.
• Project management: lead the "options appraisal" and feasibility stages for ambitious community economic projects.
• Stakeholder engagement: act as the primary interface between the Trust and regional/national bodies and facilitate high-level community and business engagement to ensure that development projects reflect local needs and enjoy broad public support.
• Impact monitoring: establish frameworks to measure the social and economic step-change achieved through Trust activities, providing data for the Board and SCP funders.

Essential Criteria:

• Strategic leadership: proven experience in designing or leading local economic development, regeneration, or community planning initiatives.
• Project catalysis: a track record of taking complex projects from initial concept through to business case or funding-ready status.
• Political & professional acumen: experience in managing partnerships across the public and private sectors, with the ability to influence decision-makers.
• Autonomy: ability to work with minimal supervision, setting one's own milestones and providing high-level strategic advice to the Board of Trustees.
• Advanced communication: exceptional ability to translate complex strategic goals into compelling narratives for grant applications and public consultations.

Desirable Criteria:

• Regional knowledge: existing networks within the South Lanarkshire economic landscape or the Scottish Third Sector.
• Capital funding expertise: success in securing significant capital grants (e.g., Scottish Land Fund, RCGF).
• Data literacy: proficiency in interpreting socio-economic data to justify strategic interventions.

Join our Board of Directors

Jazz Scotland is a charity promotes, supports and champions jazz and related musics in Scotland.

We’ve recently secured Multi-Year Funding from Creative Scotland, providing us with a stable foundation to grow. Now, we’re looking for new voices and fresh perspectives to help us hit the right notes as we expand our impact.

Who Are We Looking For?

You don’t need to be a professional musician to join us. We are looking for people who are passionate about helping Scotland’s community of audiences, students, and musicians thrive.

We are particularly interested in hearing from people with experience in:

• Education & Community Engagement
• Finance
• Marketing & Fundraising

A Note on Representation: Jazz is built on improvisation, diversity, and innovation. We want our Board to reflect those values. We are working hard to address current imbalances and particularly keen to welcome applications from women, underrepresented genders, and people of all backgrounds and ages. We want our leadership to be as diverse as the music we celebrate.

Queen Margaret University Students’ Union is looking for an enthusiastic and student-focused individual to help strengthen student voice and community life at QMU. This exciting new role will support Course Representatives, student leaders, societies, liberation and identity-based groups to ensure students are empowered to shape both their academic and social experience.

You’ll work closely with elected officers, student volunteers and university staff to coordinate representation systems, support campaigns and events, and help build an inclusive, vibrant campus community. We’re looking for someone with strong interpersonal and organisational skills, a passion for student engagement, and experience supporting groups, volunteers or community activity.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys relationship-building, empowering others and making a visible difference to student life.

We are looking for a warm, proactive and reliable personal assistant/ support worker to support a young woman with several health and mobility needs to live an active, meaningful life in her community.

About the role:

This role involves supporting her to take part in the activities she enjoys as well as build on her physical fitness. Regular activities include swimming, golf range, bowling and finding the best coffee shops in the area! As her Christian faith is an important part of her life, you would be supporting her to attend church services and midweek activities.

You will provide practical support with her mobility as she uses a wheelchair, as well as supporting her psychologically and emotionally to transition into different parts of the day and keeping her safe.

A two week working pattern is in place:

• Week A: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 10am-3pm, Thursday 10am-5pm
• Week B: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 10am-3pm, Thursday 5.45pm-9.45pm,Sunday 5.45pm-8.45pm

On occasions this may change, with plenty notice given. The hours can be made flexible, which can be discussed at interview.

A driver is essential for this role to use the client’s own car.

This job has a genuine occupational requirement as per schedule 9 part 1 of the Equality Act 2010, therefore only applications from females are requested. Applicants must have or be willing to get membership of Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) and be willing to share this information with the employer.

Mary’s Meals is a global movement supported by people from all walks of life and we are focused on one goal – that every child receives a nutritious daily meal in a place of education. We offer more than just a career, we offer the opportunity to support our global movement in a dynamic and inclusive environment with a real focus on personal development.

We are delighted to be recruiting for a Supporter Experience Coordinator who will act as the first point of contact for supporters, handling enquiries, processing and reconciling donations, and maintaining accurate records using our CRM system.

This role also supports the delivery of supporter communications, materials and platforms, contributing to a positive supporter experience that reflects the heart of Mary's Meals.

The Supporter Experience Coordinator works side-by-side with colleagues from across the Supporter Experience and Communications directorate ensuring a joined-up approach to all activities, through the integration of strong storytelling, marketing expertise and supporter engagement.

Heart of Newhaven Community SCIO is looking for someone to take forward this new opportunity which is currently funded for 23 months.

As our Business Development Manager your role will be to drive the delivery of the strategic objectives agreed by the Board of Trustees and support the development of diverse and sustainable funding streams to reduce the organisation’s dependence on grant and trust funding. You will work as part of a small team and have proven experience in this sphere. Along with enthusiasm and a creative approach to the role, you will have the ability to engage positively with a wide range of people within the local community and beyond.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who can help us balance commercial growth with the unique and rewarding challenges of building sustainable service provision within the charity sector.

More information can be found in ourjob description

Home-Start Edinburgh is looking for a relationship-driven, proactive and commercially minded Corporate Partnerships Manager to help grow income and impact through businesses across Edinburgh.

This is an exciting opportunity to build and shape a corporate partnerships function with real scope to influence how the role develops. We are looking for someone who can identify opportunities, open doors, build trust and convert conversations into meaningful support for families with young children.

The role will focus strongly on new business: building a robust pipeline, developing compelling propositions, securing new supporters and leading the rollout of our Friends of Edinburgh scheme as an accessible route for local businesses to get involved. Over time, as new partners come on board, the role will also grow into a broader account management and partnership growth portfolio.

About Home-Start Edinburgh

Home-Start Edinburgh supports families with young children through challenging times. Through compassionate, non-judgemental support, we help parents build confidence, strengthen relationships and create more stable foundations for family life.

We want more businesses in Edinburgh to feel connected to that mission - not simply as donors, but as local partners helping families in their own city. This role will be central to making that happen.

What you will do

• Develop and deliver a practical corporate partnerships plan focused on new income growth.
• Build and manage a strong pipeline of prospects across Edinburgh’s business community.
• Create and pitch compelling partnership opportunities for businesses of different sizes and types.
• Lead the development and rollout of Friends of Edinburgh as part of our wider new business approach.
• Secure new support through partnerships, sponsorship, employee fundraising, volunteering, events, gifts in kind and other relevant routes.
• Build excellent relationships with supporters and, over time, help grow and deepen those partnerships.

Who we are looking for

• Someone with experience in corporate fundraising, business development, sales, account management, sponsorship or partnerships.
• Someone who is confident building relationships externally and can combine warmth, credibility and persistence.
• Someone who enjoys creating opportunities from scratch and is comfortable working strategically as well as hands-on.
• Someone who can write and speak persuasively, tailor approaches to different audiences and keep momentum in a varied pipeline.
• Someone who is motivated by purpose and excited by the chance to help shape a growing area of work.

You do not need to come from the charity sector to apply.

We know excellent partnership-builders can come from a range of backgrounds. If you have experience winning business, managing clients, developing sponsorship or building commercial relationships - and you are motivated by the chance to use those skills for a strong local cause - we would love to hear from you.

Why join us

• A genuine opportunity to build and shape this area of work.
• Flexible working of 20 hours per week.
• A values-led organisation making a visible difference to families in Edinburgh.
• A role that combines autonomy, creativity, relationship-building and social impact.
• The chance to create something sustainable and locally rooted.

Terms

• Salary: £38,000 FTE, pro rata for 20 hours per week.
• Location: Edinburgh / hybrid, with local travel for meetings and events.
• This post is subject to Home-Start Edinburgh’s safer recruitment processes.

Values in Action Scotland (VIAS) is recruiting for the post of Lead Consultant (Job Coaching), based in Renfrewshire with some travel in this area. Reporting to the Senior Lead Consultant, this exciting opportunity will give the role holder scope to help VIAS reach a wider target audience, and to grow and develop the organisation’s commitment to people with learning disabilities and/or neurodivergence gaining and sustaining paid employment.

About us:

Values in Action Scotland is a Quality Improvement Service. Our vision is for a Scotland where people with learning disabilities and neurodivergent people have the same opportunities as everyone else and are supported to achieve their goals including access to meaningful paid employment. Through our Job Coaching Service, Scotland will take the lead in demonstrating best practice in all aspects of the supported employment process.

What we’re looking for:

We value potential, passion, and the right attitude just as much as experience or a traditional career background.

• The candidate must be a mentor eager to support their fellow people. You must be able to discover people’s strengths and support needs and identify what works best for them and their employer.
• Having communication skills partnered with critical thinking are prerequisites for this job. With proven experience in job coaching and working with people with learning disabilities and neurodivergence, the successful candidate will be confident in their ability to create and implement development plan to help grow the job coaching service, VIAS and our capabilities.
• Candidates must have strong administrative skills, with a willingness to learn new systems, build detailed profiles, and take the time to get to know individuals and their needs.
• With an understanding or experience of work-related issues affecting people with learning disabilities and/ or neurodivergence, the successful candidate will be a multi-tasker working in an autonomous capacity throughout Renfrewshire.
• The successful candidate will also be a team player and have the ability to work be a with a range of stakeholders, demonstrating excellent interpersonal skills and an aptitude for building and nurturing successful partnerships.
• They will have a high-level ability to plan, analyse and think through issues that arise and an ability to identify, prioritise and deliver a varied work programme.

We’d love to hear from you, even if you don’t meet every requirement listed. If you’re excited about this opportunity, passionate about making a difference, and believe you can bring value to the role, we encourage you to apply.

A cover letter is a great opportunity to demonstrate your passion for the role and give us an insight into who you are, your experience, and what motivates you.

What We Offer

• We offer excellent training and development opportunities,
• Competitive salary, a performance related bonus scheme, contributory pension scheme
• 32 days annual holiday (including bank holidays).
• Supportive working culture with regular one-to-one support sessions focused on your development, wellbeing, and continuous growth.

Further Details

The post is permanent. VIAS will carry out a disclosure check on the successful applicant.

For further information or an informal discussion, please call Courtney Norris on 07586 690707.