A Chief Executive is required by COSCA (Counselling & Psychotherapy in Scotland)

COSCA (Counselling & Psychotherapy in Scotland) is Scotland’s professional body for counselling and psychotherapy, with its Register of Counsellors and Psychotherapists accredited by the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care. COSCA champions the exceptional value of counselling and psychotherapy to Scottish society.

Full-time national roles rarely emerge and are highly sought after in our high performing team. Our current Chief Executive is stepping down after 25 successful years of leadership, creating an important opportunity for the right candidate to deliver our ambitious plan for Scotland to be ‘A listening, caring society that values people’s wellbeing’. We welcome applications from candidates with the drive and compassion to fulfil this vital leadership role. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced individual to lead the delivery of the COSCA Development Plan. You will join a highly motivated staff team with a clear purpose and a national profile.

COSCA is an established national membership professional body with individual and organisational members that aims to advance and support all forms of counselling, psychotherapy, and the use of counselling skills.

Based in Stirling with a small staff team of six (2 full time and 4 part time), we have a wide range of panels, committees, sessional workers and external suppliers of services. Around 40 volunteers, including those on the COSCA Board, play a vital and valued role in our work and are involved in a wide range of national and local roles.

Do you have an interest in improving the quality of care, can you COLLABORATE, INNOVATE AND COMMUNICATE, and would you like to join a successful, committed and highly motivated team? This could be the opportunity you have been waiting for.

We are seeking to engage an Independent Sector Lead to support the Integration of Health and Social Care in Angus. Hosted by Scottish Care and working closely with care providers and partners, the post involves ensuring sector involvement in the delivery of the integrating of health and social care in Scotland’s HSCP’s.

The post holder must be highly motivated, be able to use initiative, possess excellent communication and networking skills, demonstrate success and experience working at strategic level with policy makers, providers, regulators, people supported by services and carers. Qualifications and experience at a senior management level would be a significant advantage.

The post holder will be expected to create and support significant collaborations across the independent care sector while contributing to the development of new care pathways which will result in the delivery of improved outcomes for people who access care and support. The post holder will ensure the Independent Sector’s contribution is fundamental to integrated services and transformational change and be able to evidence their impact. The role requires considerable and skilful collaboration with our key partners in the NHS, Local Authority, Carers, third sector organisations and other forums.

Angus is a progressive HSCP committed to working in partnership to strengthen the Independent Sector’s role in health and social care integration.

The successful candidate will be required to spend a significant amount of time in the partnership area and across Tayside. Regular travel within the partnership area will be required.

The post is home based with travel, where necessary, and is hosted by Scottish Care. Flexible working is available.

JOB PURPOSE

The Head of Procurement will lead the National Trust for Scotland’s procurement and supply-chain activity, ensuring that every pound spent supports our charitable purpose. The role will strengthen commercial control across a complex, multi-site organisation, deliver measurable cost efficiencies, simplify purchasing processes and improve the quality, resilience and sustainability of supply.

• Delivering sustainable reductions in expenditure, cost avoidance and wider organisational value whilst maintaining quality

• Standardising and improving source-to-pay processes and systems

• Strategic sourcing, tendering, contracting and supplier performance

• Governance, compliance, risk management and responsible procurement

• Building procurement capability across properties and central teams

With oversight of more than £40 million of annual non-staff expenditure, the postholder will set procurement strategy, policy and standards; provide clear spend and benefits reporting; and partner with colleagues to challenge demand, aggregate requirements and secure best value. Procurement decisions will balance whole-life cost, quality, risk, conservation, engagement and sustainability.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

Lead a trusted, proportionate procurement service that enables colleagues across the National Trust for Scotland to buy well, work efficiently and demonstrate responsible stewardship of charitable funds.

Key responsibilities include:

• Develop and deliver a procurement strategy aligned with the Trust’s corporate strategy, financial plans and conservation purpose.

• Create and maintain a prioritised savings and value pipeline, with clear baselines, owners, delivery dates and Finance-validated benefits.

• Use spend, contract and supplier data to identify demand-management, specification, aggregation, framework and sourcing opportunities.

• Lead strategic sourcing, tendering and negotiation for high-value and high-risk goods, works and services, securing best whole-life value.

• Embed environmental sustainability in sourcing and contract management by considering whole-life carbon, energy and resource use, waste reduction, circular-economy opportunities, biodiversity impacts and credible supplier environmental performance.

• Simplify and standardise end-to-end purchasing, using proportionate controls, clear guidance, automation and self-service where appropriate.

• Improve source-to-pay compliance, spend visibility, contract coverage and management information, including effective use of Microsoft Dynamics 365.

• Establish category plans and supplier performance frameworks that improve cost, service, quality, resilience and innovation.

• Manage procurement, commercial and supply-chain risk, including business continuity, supplier due diligence and contract expiry planning.

• Ensure compliance with applicable legislation, funder conditions, Trust policy, delegated authority and responsible procurement commitments, including environmental sustainability and climate objectives.

• Build constructive relationships with budget holders, properties, Finance, Legal, Scottish public bodies, sector partners and strategic suppliers.

• Lead, coach and develop the procurement team and strengthen commercial capability across the Trust.

The current duties of this job do require a criminal records (Disclosure Scotland) check to be carried out

For more information, please download the Job Description below.

If you are looking for a rewarding career and to work within an epic team that will help you grow and thrive, then you have come to the right place. Working within our services in Edinburgh you can start your day knowing what you do really does make a difference!

We have an exciting opportunity to provide operational leadership and direction to support our managers and staff within Edinburgh services. The post holder will work to support the Head of Services in representing Penumbra in strategic development and influence within your area of responsibility.

The successful postholder will demonstrate efficient time management skills, the ability to prioritise, effective communication and attention to detail. With a positive and solution focused approach, the successful candidate will actively pursue continuous improvement and thrive on managing a diverse and fluid workstream.

As a mental health charity, we really value the wellbeing of our staff. That’s why we want you to know that you’ll be joining a friendly team, who will give you a supportive environment to help you thrive in your role, including all the training you need to feel confident and equipped.

We can offer you a tonne of employee benefits, and we can promise you’ll be inspired by some pretty amazing humans every single day. We will support you on your own career path; developing new skills, accessing formal and informal learning experiences and providing opportunities to put your continual progress into practice.

Are you an ambitious communications leader who wants your work to change lives? If the answer is yes, this could be the opportunity you have been waiting for. Bring your creativity, judgement and leadership to Right There and help make our impact impossible to ignore.

For over 200 years, Right There has helped prevent people becoming homeless and keep families together across Scotland. Last year alone, over 4,000 people received the support they needed to stay in their homes and close to the people they love. We have a proud history, an urgent mission and the ambition to reach even further. Now we need an exceptional communications leader to illuminate our work, strengthen trust in Right There and inspire the support that will make even greater impact possible.

This is a high-profile leadership opportunity at the heart of Right There. As a member of our Senior Management Team, you will influence organisational strategy, shape how Scotland understands our work and build the audiences, profile and support we need to achieve lasting change.

You will have the freedom and influence to strengthen our brand, bring our impact vividly to life and ensure that the voices and experiences of the people we support are heard with care and authenticity. This is an ambitious role with the scope to build understanding, challenge assumptions and use outstanding communications to help create lasting change.

Your role

Your first opportunity will be to bring our marketing, communications, PR, public affairs and digital activity together behind Our compelling vision. You will give Right There a clearer, stronger and more distinctive voice, while ensuring that everything we communicate remains rooted in the real experiences of the people we support.

Setting the direction. You will set the strategic direction for communications, public affairs and supporter engagement, building Right There’s profile, influence and connection with the people and communities we want to reach.

Joining up our activity. You will turn organisational priorities into clear, audience-led plans and deliver an integrated marketing and communications strategy with meaningful measures of awareness, engagement, influence and support.

Building our voice and influence. You will lead policy, press and public affairs activity so Right There is recognised as a credible voice and contributes meaningfully to debates affecting the people we support.

Connecting people to our work. You will shape internal communications, develop our website and content strategy, and make it easy for colleagues, supporters and communities to understand our priorities, programmes and impact.

Leading with care and confidence. You will develop a creative, high-performing team and set clear standards so communications are accessible and ethical.

What you bring

You will already be an accomplished leader in marketing, communications or PR, ideally within a charity or social-purpose organisation, and you will be ready to bring that experience to a mission with real urgency. You will combine strategic ambition with humanity: making thoughtful decisions, building respectful relationships and creating communications that honour the dignity, strengths and experiences of the people we support.

• You have led integrated, multi-channel activity across digital, social media, PR, content and campaigns.
• You can translate strategy into high-quality work that reaches audiences and delivers measurable results.
• You bring strong editorial judgement and experience of shaping brands, messages and media relationships.
• You use insight and analytics to improve performance and ensure communications are accessible, ethical and appropriate for sensitive subject matter.
• You are a motivating and inclusive leader with compassion, curiosity and a genuine belief in the power of people’s stories.

Our offer

This is a full-time role working 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday. You will be based at 15 Dava Street in Glasgow, with a hybrid approach that combines around three office days each week with flexibility to work remotely. Our offer includes six weeks’ annual leave pro rata, rising to eight weeks after your first year, membership of the People’s Pension, a cycle-to-work scheme and the option to purchase or sell annual leave.

If you are ready to use the power of communications to build understanding, challenge assumptions and help create lasting change across Scotland, we want to hear from you.

About Us

We are a charity that recently celebrated 200 years of standing alongside people in Scotland. Last year we supported over 4,000 people to stay in their homes and stay connected to the people they love.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) provides visionary, values-led leadership to ensure the long-term sustainability, influence and impact of DAGCAS. Working in partnership with the Board, the CEO is responsible for developing and delivering the organisation’s strategic direction, ensuring high-quality services that meet the changing needs of communities across Dumfries and Galloway while influencing policy and practice at both local and national levels.

The CEO is the organisation’s principal ambassador, building strategic relationships across local government, Scottish Government, Citizens Advice Scotland, the NHS, the third sector, regulators, funders and elected members. Through political awareness, strategic insight and collaborative leadership, the CEO anticipates emerging policy, legislative and funding developments, positioning DAGCAS to influence decision-making and secure opportunities that strengthen services and improve outcomes for citizens.

The CEO leads organisational transformation, innovation and continuous improvement, creating a high-performing, inclusive culture that empowers staff and volunteers to deliver excellence. As principal adviser to the Board, the CEO ensures robust governance, effective risk management, financial sustainability and organisational resilience while maintaining the highest standards of integrity and public accountability. The CEO is a visible and accessible leader who actively role models the organisational values.

This is a unique opportunity to lead an influential organisation that plays a vital role in helping people navigate challenges, access advice and support, and overcome barriers to equality and opportunity.

If you a strategic, values-led leader who wants to make a meaningful difference to people and communities across Dumfries & Galloway, then we’d love to hear from you.

Who we are

Alzheimer Scotland is Scotland’s national dementia charity. Our aim is to make sure nobody faces dementia alone. We provide support and information to people with dementia, their carers and families, campaign for the rights of people affected by dementia, fund vital dementia research and lead work to improve brain health, helping people understand the steps they can take to reduce their risk of dementia.

What you’ll do

We are looking for an ambitious partnership-builder who sees possibilities others miss and has the drive and determination to turn them into reality. You will identify untapped sectors, challenge conventional thinking and create distinctive and successful new partnerships that expand Alzheimer Scotland’s reach, influence and impact.

The opportunity extends far beyond traditional charity partnerships. Across sport, music, financial and legal services, brain health and wider community life, organisations are waiting to be connected with our mission in new ways. You will spot where our ambitions intersect, open doors that others overlook and build relationships that turn shared purpose into lasting impact.

This role goes beyond corporate fundraising or managing an existing portfolio of Charity of the Year supporters. You will originate and build new, senior-level strategic relationships, creating partnerships that can generate income and sponsorship while also unlocking training, joint campaigns, public engagement, knowledge-sharing and access to new audiences.

You will have the freedom and autonomy to originate ideas, build relationships and explore what a partnership could become with the judgement and focus to make it happen. From researching new sectors and identifying prospects, to shaping tailored propositions, working through delivery requirements and securing commitments, you will own the journey from first insight to lasting partnership. Working closely with the Director of Fundraising & Operations, you will draw on expertise across our Fundraising, Communications, Services and Practice, bringing the right colleagues into discussions at the right time. The ultimate aim is to create new partnerships that generate sustainable income for Alzheimer Scotland, alongside stronger awareness, engagement and opportunities to reach and acquire new supporters.

What you’ll have

You will bring a strong track record in strategic partnerships, business development or a related field. Crucially, you will be able to demonstrate how you have opened new relationships, influenced senior decision-makers and converted opportunities into tangible outcomes.

You will be naturally curious about different sectors, commercially astute and confident in developing an idea from an initial conversation into a convincing and sustainable proposal. You will be equally comfortable exploring a bold opportunity and doing the detailed follow-through needed to make it happen.

Experience in the charity sector or knowledge of dementia is welcome, but what matters most is your ability to create authentic partnerships that deliver meaningful and measurable value. Above all, you will be able to demonstrate how you have built a proposition or partnership from the ground up, exercising sound judgement and converting strategic potential into a practical, deliverable agreement.

The External Relations Manager is a new role which is being added to the National Trust for Scotland’s successful Communications Team during a time of transition within the Audiences & Support Directorate.

The role is responsible for leading the development of the Trust’s advocacy for conservation, including campaigning initiatives, coordinating activity aimed at a wide public audience.

Working with internal and external partners, it will deliver a strategic programme of external relations, which is heavily focused on the Trust’s nature conservation work and supporting its Plan for Nature.

The role leads the operational delivery of the advocacy elements of the strategic framework for communications established by the Head of Communications. It also supports corporate communications activity, including key annual publications like the annual accounts and annual review and the Annual General Meeting.

The post will lead stakeholder engagement, advocacy and corporate communications activity to support the Trust’s ambition to speak up for nature and heritage, while the Communications Manager retains accountability for media relations, press activity, campaign communications, editorial planning and proactive PR.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Horizon-scan media coverage relating to heritage, conservation, policy and political developments, keeping senior leaders and key internal stakeholders informed of relevant issues, debates and opportunities.
• Work with the Conservation & Policy and Audiences & Support teams to review, refine and deliver the Speaking Up for Heritage programme, ensuring it reflects Trust priorities, capacity and the Scottish and rest of UK political context.
• Develop and deliver an agreed programme of external relations activity, , integrating with colleagues across communications, marketing, policy and audience priorities to maximise impact and working with communications partners as required.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, including the communication teams of Scotland-based nature, conservation and heritage organisations, and act as the key contact for the Trust’s ambassador, ensuring requests for input and support are prioritised appropriately.
• Provide proactive and reactive external affairs and stakeholder engagement advice to colleagues, senior leaders and Trustees, working with the Communications Manager where issues have media or reputational implications, and drawing on the Trust’s public policy positions.
• Work collaboratively with the Communications Manager to ensure external affairs activity is aligned with wider communications priorities, while recognising that media relations, press office activity and proactive PR campaigns sit with that role.
• Support and strengthen the infrastructure needed for effective advocacy activity, including spokesperson support, media training, staff protection frameworks, intranet resources, website content and content-generation structures.
• Responsible for coordinating and delivering agreed corporate communications outputs including, including annual publications, external corporate documents, relevant owned-channel content and the Trust’s hybrid Annual General Meeting, working with content owners and other teams as required.
• Contribute specialist content and advice for internal communications relating to corporate activity, external affairs and key advocacy initiatives, working with communications colleagues as required.
• Attend and contribute to key cross-directorate meetings, ensuring activity is integrated with Trust-wide communications, public policy, marketing and audience strategies, and remain flexible to work non-traditional hours and travel within the UK when required.

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

The Lanarkshire Rape Crisis Centre Chief Executive Officer (CEO) plays a key role in delivering support, advocacy, and prevention across the whole of the Lanarkshire area and in ensuring that survivors‘ voices are heard by policy makers and partners.

Based at its Centre in Hamilton, the CEO is accountable for strategic leadership and operational management of the centre, within the authority delegated by the Board. The CEO leads delivery of LRCC’s strategy, its performance, fundraising, people leadership and external relationships.

The CEO is a confident leader with sound judgement, and a deep understanding of violence against women & girls and the third sector in Scotland. They play a pivotal role in building and maintaining strategic partnerships, including but not limited to the Scottish Rape Crisis Alliance.

Critically, the CEO is responsible for ensuring the charity is well governed and compliant with relevant financial, legal and regulatory requirements and standards of service delivery.

The Scottish Youth Parliament is the democratically elected voice of Scotland’s young people. We provide a national platform for young people to discuss the issues that matter to them, defend their rights and influence the decisions that shape their lives.

Around 160 Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament – MSYPs – represent communities and voluntary organisations across Scotland. Our organisation is genuinely youth-led: our campaigns and priorities are shaped by young people, and our Board is made up entirely of young Trustees aged between 16 and 25.

We are now looking for our next Chief Executive. This is an opportunity to lead a respected national organisation with a strong political profile and a proud record of achieving change. SYP’s campaigns have contributed to Votes at 16, equal marriage and the incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child into Scots law.

Working closely with our Chair and Board, you will help set SYP’s strategic direction and turn the ambitions of our Strategic Plan and Dear Scotland’s Future manifesto into meaningful action. You will lead and develop our staff team, strengthen our relationships with decision-makers and partners, and ensure that SYP remains sustainable, well-governed and equipped for the future.

You will also be a visible ambassador for SYP and young people’s rights. You will build trusted relationships across government, Parliament, local authorities, funders, the third sector and the wider youth work community, influencing effectively while protecting SYP’s political impartiality.

We are looking for a values-led, inclusive and ambitious leader with experience of delivering results within a complex organisation.

You will bring strong strategic and people leadership skills, sound judgement and an understanding of governance, finance and organisational risk. You will also understand how policy is developed and influenced in Scotland.

Most importantly, you will believe in youth leadership. You will know how to advise, support and constructively challenge a young board without taking ownership of its decisions. You will listen carefully, communicate openly and create space for young people to lead.

You do not need to be an existing Chief Executive. You may be ready to take your first step into a CEO role, having already demonstrated the leadership capability, values and potential to succeed at this level. Experience of youth work would be valuable but is not essential. What is essential is a genuine commitment to young people’s rights, meaningful participation and social justice.

SYP wants its leadership and staff team to reflect the diversity of Scotland’s young people. We therefore welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly encourage interest from candidates whose perspectives and experiences are underrepresented in senior leadership. A flexible approach to evening and weekend work will be required.

For more information: Chief Executive Officer – Scottish Youth Parliament