Introduction

An exciting and rarely available opportunity has arisen to join SCRA as our Head of People and Learning.

SCRA sits at the heart of Scotland's unique Children's Hearings System, and this influential leadership role plays a central part in shaping the culture, capability and effectiveness of our organisation.

The role

As a trusted adviser to the Principal Reporter/Chief Executive and a key member of our Senior Management Team, the Head of People and Learning will lead the development and delivery of our People Strategy, ensuring that our people, culture and organisational capability support the delivery of high-quality services for Scotland's children, young people and families.

You will provide strategic leadership across all aspects of people management, organisational development and workforce planning. Working closely with the Senior Management Team and the Board, you will provide expert advice on employee relations, learning and development, wellbeing, reward, employment policy and organisational change. Through your leadership, SCRA will continue to foster an inclusive, high-performing culture in which colleagues can thrive and deliver the best outcomes for children and young people.

The postholder will be a trusted source of professional advice on complex and sensitive workforce matters and plays a key role in shaping organisational strategy and decision-making. You will lead the Human Resources function, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, customer-focused people services that support managers and staff across the organisation.

As a member of SCRA's Senior Management Team, you will contribute to the governance, strategic development and corporate leadership of the organisation. You will work collaboratively with senior colleagues to ensure that people, learning, culture and organisational capability remain aligned with SCRA's strategic priorities and values.

This is a highly influential leadership role requiring significant expertise in people management, organisational development and strategic leadership. It offers a unique opportunity to shape the future workforce of an organisation that makes a vital difference to the lives of children, young people and families across Scotland.

At ILF Scotland, our purpose is simple but powerful: to support disabled people to live independently. Through the Independent Living Fund, Transition Fund, Technology Grant and recently launched Coming Home Fund, we help thousands of people across Scotland and Northern Ireland achieve greater choice, control and dignity in their lives. We currently manage funding of approximately £100m per annum, supporting around 7,000 recipients, with funding expected to increase to approximately £120m in the next financial year.

As our long-serving Director of Finance prepares to retire, we are seeking an exceptional finance leader to join ILF Scotland at a pivotal point in its journey. This is a rare opportunity to join a highly respected, award-winning organisation during a period of significant growth and increasing reach.

Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer and serving as a key member of the Senior Leadership Team, you will provide strategic financial leadership, governance and assurance across ILF Scotland. As a trusted adviser to the Board, Executive Team and Government stakeholders, you will help secure the organisation's long-term financial sustainability, ensuring the effective stewardship of public funds and the highest standards of accountability, governance and value for money.

Operating within a complex and highly regulated environment, you will provide insight, assurance and constructive challenge on key strategic and financial matters, while driving innovation, continuous improvement and organisational performance. Above all, you will play a key role in enabling ILF Scotland to continue delivering life-changing outcomes for disabled people across Scotland and Northern Ireland.

As a professionally qualified accountant (CA, CIPFA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent), you will bring significant senior finance leadership experience gained within a complex and highly regulated environment. You will have a strong track record in financial strategy, governance, organisational performance and the stewardship of substantial budgets, alongside a sound understanding of the public sector and/or social care landscape. An effective communicator and relationship builder, you will be comfortable operating at Board level, providing trusted advice and constructive challenge to senior stakeholders. Alongside your technical expertise and leadership capability, you will demonstrate a genuine commitment to public service, inclusion and delivering positive social impact.

This is a unique opportunity to combine strategic leadership with meaningful social impact, helping to shape the future of a highly respected organisation that makes a real difference to the lives of disabled people every day.

ILF Scotland embraces flexible and hybrid working. The successful candidate will not be required to be based in Livingston on a full-time basis and we are open to a range of flexible working arrangements, including hybrid working, compressed hours and other patterns that can support both individual and organisational needs.

Delivery and Partnerships Our Senior Leadership Team (SLT) provides strategic leadership for TSDG. This role sits within that space providing senior leadership for all our thematic and sector support work across the region. This role reports to our Chief Executive and line manages thematic Lead Officers – Community Transport, Health and Wellbeing, Children, Young People and Families, Employability, and Community and Sector Support. It is peer-supported by the other members of the SLT: our Head of Resources and Development and our Head of Communications and Impact.

What You'll Do

We are looking for an experienced senior leader to join TSDG as it enters its next chapter. As Third Sector Interface for Dumfries and Galloway, we work with the sector, partners and communities to address key local priorities, build capacity and maximise investment in our region. Internally, you will lead our thematic and sector support teams, ensuring accountability for performance, delivery and impact on our communities. Externally, you will represent TSDG in key partnerships across Dumfries and Galloway, the south of Scotland and nationally, making sure the voice of the third sector is heard where decisions are made.

• Provide senior leadership, direction and support for all TSDG thematic and sector support teams, working with Lead Officers to assure the CEO that our commitments to funders and partners will be met.
• Further define, grow and embed Collective working and Place-based working across Dumfries and Galloway, maximising the impact of the sector and of our own teams.
• Refine and oversee our Volunteering and Sector Training strategies, ensuring a cohesive offer to the sector across our thematic and sector support teams.
• Work with Lead Officers to secure continuation and expansion funding as opportunities arise, including funding to re-start our Social Enterprise network (SEDG).
• Oversee and assure plans that build capacity within third sector organisations across Dumfries and Galloway, ensuring the same level of support is received across the region.
• Work with colleagues in Business Support and Communications and Impact to assure high-quality end of grant reporting, impact reporting and external publications in support of the sector.
• Represent TSDG in key external partnerships, including the Community Planning Partners Senior Leadership Team and the Strategic Planning Group, and with partners such as Dumfries and Galloway Council, NHS and South of Scotland Enterprise, to ensure the best possible representation of the sector.
• Provide strategic oversight of our Lead Officers’ and representatives’ participation in partnerships, ensuring they are trained and informed so that TSDG’s participation is active and impactful.
• Contribute community involvement, insights and evidence to the Dumfries and Galloway Local Outcomes Improvement Plan (LOIP) and other regional plans and strategies.
• Lead and support colleagues with empathy, accountability and integrity, line managing your direct reports effectively and managing delegated decisions and budgets.
• Contribute thoughtfully to strategic discussions and decisions as part of the SLT, and support colleagues across TSDG to deliver our joint outcomes, in line with our values.

More about you

• You will have at least five years’ experience of working at a senior leadership level, including at least two years in the third sector.
• You will be able to show experience of contributing to strategic organisational development across multiple priorities in the third sector.
• You will have experience of building effective external partnerships and relationships, and of planning and delivering effective collaboration, both internally and externally.
• You will have experience of planning and delivering effective community or sector engagement.
• You will have a good knowledge of, and commitment to, Dumfries and Galloway and the third sector within it.
• You will have excellent written and oral communication skills, both one-to-one and in presentation mode, and be skilled in using Outlook, Teams and other Microsoft apps.
• You will lead with empathy, accountability and integrity, and bring an inclusive, adaptable, action-biased and collegiate attitude.
• You may have experience of building effective external partnerships and relationships with regional and national partners.
• You may hold a valid driving licence and have access to a car with business insurance for work purposes.

We are seeking an individual who can lead on finely-tuned operational planning, ensure our home is safe and welcoming for all, help us deliver a customer experience that keeps people coming back for more, and configure commercial activities that drive revenue. Together these elements will strengthen our ability to deliver on our artistic and charitable mission for the long-term.

You will work very closely with other senior colleagues to plan and implement effective systems, prepare for operations and manage the transition to running a 7-day-a week public venue. This will be over four key phases: planning and recruitment; mobilisation; launch year; ‘normal running’.

You will be pivotal in the development of a trading subsidiary and its associated activities and revenue streams; be the key relationship holder with a Food & Beverage provider; and the mastermind behind how the day-to-day functions develop all (both inside and outside) - including building venue management systems, health and safety protocols, and all compliance.

Reporting directly to the Ombudsman and serving as a key member of the organisation's Leadership Team, the Executive Director will provide strategic leadership across service delivery, organisational performance, governance, corporate services and transformation.

We are looking for an experienced senior leader with a strong track record of delivering strategic and operational success within a public sector, regulatory, complaints, customer-focused or similarly complex environment. You will bring substantial experience of organisational transformation, performance improvement, governance and risk management, together with the ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and build high-performing, inclusive cultures.

Please read the Candidate Information Pack for further information on the SPSO and the Executive Director role.

Help shape the future of neurodiversity support in Scotland

We're looking for an ambitious and entrepreneurial Head of Business Development to establish and lead Donaldson's first dedicated business development function.

This is a rare opportunity to build something new. Working closely with the CEO and Executive Leadership Team, you'll identify, develop and secure opportunities that increase our impact, diversify income and support long-term sustainability.

The Role

You'll lead Donaldson's growth agenda by:

• Developing and delivering our business development strategy.
• Building a pipeline of strategic growth opportunities.
• Securing partnerships, commissioning opportunities and sustainable income streams.
• Turning ideas into successful bids, partnerships, services and commercial opportunities.
• Expanding our training and consultancy offer.
• Establishing the foundations for long-term organisational growth.

About You

You may come from the charity, public, education, health, social enterprise, consultancy or commercial sectors, but you'll bring:

• A successful track record in business development, growth or income generation.
• Experience developing partnerships, bids, tenders, contracts or commissioned services.
• Strong commercial awareness and strategic thinking.
• Excellent networking, influencing and relationship-building skills.
• A proven ability to turn opportunities into tangible results.

Most importantly, you'll be energised by opportunity and motivated by impact. You'll be naturally curious, commercially astute and skilled at spotting potential where others see challenges. Comfortable working in ambiguity, you'll thrive in an environment where there is freedom to create, shape and influence, bringing entrepreneurial thinking and the drive to turn ideas into meaningful results.

Why Join Us?

As the National Body for Neurodiversity, Donaldson works to improve outcomes for neurodivergent children, young people and families across Scotland.

This is an opportunity to shape a brand-new function, influence organisational strategy and play a key role in our next phase of growth and impact.

If you're excited by growth, partnerships, innovation and creating lasting social impact, we'd love to hear from you.

For an informal chat about the role, please contact Kate, Director of People and Engagement, at kclement@donaldsons.org.uk

Fife Voluntary Action is seeking a Head of Employability who will be the strategic lead for the co-ordination and collaboration of third sector employability services, and who will represent the sector strategically. You will work collaboratively with statutory and third sector partners to maximise the contribution and impact of the third sector on improving employment outcomes in Fife.

In this role, you will:

• Represent the sector at strategic partnership meetings, specifically the Opportunities Fife Partnership (OFP) Board
• Proactively build and maintain relationships with external stakeholders at all levels to understand national and local challenges and emerging issues
• Inform, support and promote transparent commissioning of services through OFP and related funding
• Chair and lead on the Employability Forum, Third Sector Employability Conversations and OFP People and Skills Community of Practice
• Lead a team delivering on employability, lived experience and digital inclusion

We’re looking for someone with:

• Experience of working in or with third sector employability organisations and services.
• Excellent understanding of issues affecting the employability sector, including local and national policy
• Excellent communication and partnership skills.
• Experience of line management

Why join us?

• Be part of a team improving the lives of people in Fife.
• Flexible working arrangements and a supportive environment.

Apply now and help shape a stronger, fairer Fife!

Benefits

Benefits of working for FVA include:

• 37 days’ annual leave (inclusive of public holidays) for full-time staff, pro rata for part-time staff
• Free onsite parking in Glenrothes and Kirkcaldy
• Confidential counselling helpline
• Access to unlimited, free GP appointments 24/7 via remote technology

Venture Scotland are looking to recruit a skilled and experienced, values led CEO to lead our organisation. This is a unique opportunity to join a well-established charity, to work as part of an inclusive, supportive team culture and to make a real, often life-changing difference in the lives of our participants. Our work is meaningful, varied and challenging and in return, you will be able to lead on the delivery of our organisation’s strategy and direction, have opportunities for self-development and training and benefit from our comprehensive staff support package.

Venture Scotland offers a long-term, outdoor-based personal development programme which empowers young people aged 16-30 and adults in addiction recovery, who face complex and difficult challenges in their lives, to create and sustain change. There are currently 9 employees and we have a turnover of just over £600,000.

We focus on the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing of our participants, working with them both in group settings and 1-2-1, to make lasting changes in their lives and help them play a positive role in their communities.

We are seeking a CEO, who identifies with our values of Trust, Respect, Belonging, Compassion and Empowering, to lead our team to deliver on our strategy. Volunteers are at the heart of our organisation and you will support our volunteer team and young ambassador programme. We welcome applications from diverse communities.

As the key leader within our organisation, the CEO evaluates, supports and develops volunteers and staff, manages logistics and ensures the highest standards of safety while building on our caring, open, collaborative and inclusive work culture.

As CEO within the organisation, you will also manage and work closely alongside the Senior Management Team comprising Programme Delivery manager, Finance and Administration Manager and Fundraising Manager to use your skills and experience to lead the organisation forward. You will report directly to the Chair and Board of trustees.

Do you want to lead a supportive team of people who really care about the people we are helping? Do you want to work in an organisation which listens, values everyone’s views and cares about the health and wellbeing of their staff? Do you understand the transformative effect of the outdoors? Are you passionate about #ChangingLivesOutdoors?

This role is considered ‘regulated work’ as it involves activities with both children and protected adults. Under our safeguarding policy, this role will require a PVG.

If you are applying for this role, you need to prove that you have the right to live and work in the UK. If you do not possess this right, then your application will not be considered.

**Please note - Unfortunately, we are not able to support sponsorship to work in the UK at this time**

Birthlink is in a period of significant organisational transformation. We are modernising systems, strengthening accountability, addressing legacy challenges, and resetting our culture to ensure consistent, trauma informed, safe and compliant practice across all service areas. We are looking for an exceptional Director to lead this next phase of development with clarity, authority, compassion and a strong values driven approach.

Birthlink supports adopted adults and care experienced people to access their records, understand their personal history, reconnect with family, and navigate complex statutory processes. We also support survivors of abuse in care to access information that informs their personal statements and applications to Scotland’s Redress Scheme.

We operate Scotland’s national Post Adoption Service, including the Adoption Contact Register (ACR), we are also a key Delivery Partner in Scotland’s Redress Scheme and Future Pathways Care Connect. Our Thrift Shops provide both vital revenue and meaningful community engagement.

Our work sits within a highly scrutinised national landscape shaped by the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, the wider Adoption and Care Experienced Policy Agenda, and evolving expectations around information governance, digital security, and access to historical records.

We are seeking a Director who can provide decisive strategic leadership, strengthen governance, modernise systems, and embed a culture where professional standards, transparency and responsibility are non negotiable. You will lead a cultural reset, address resistance where required, and ensure Birthlink operates with the discipline, compassion and trauma informed practice our beneficiaries deserve. You will work closely with the Board of Trustees, managers, funders, regulatory bodies and sector partners to increase Birthlink’s national influence and external profile.

You will bring substantial experience in governance, finance, performance and risk management, organisational development, and strategic planning. You will be confident navigating complex political, social and regulatory environments, and you will understand the challenges faced by people seeking access to historic records and information. You will be an impactful communicator, a credible spokesperson, and an experienced leader.

This is a rare opportunity to lead a charity with national significance at a pivotal moment in its development, strengthening its foundations, modernising its systems, and ensuring it continues to deliver safe, effective, trauma informed services for the people who rely on us.

Please consider the full job pack, which provides detailed information about the role, remit, and how to apply.