Top job! Chief Executive Officer
- Full time
- £45,000 – £50,000
- On site: McDiarmid Park, Crieff Road, Perth, PH1 2SJ
- Closing 2nd April 2026
Job Purpose
The St. Johnstone Community Trust is seeking an experienced and values-driven leader to serve as Chief Executive Officer.
The CEO will provide strategic leadership and overall management of the Trust, working closely with the Board of Trustees to deliver the organisation’s mission, ensure long-term financial sustainability, and maximise impact for our beneficiaries.
You will lead and inspire a small, dedicated team, overseeing a diverse portfolio of initiatives across sport, education, and wellbeing, while building strong relationships with partners, stakeholders, and the wider community.
Job Role & Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
• Lead the development and delivery of the charity’s vision, mission, and long-term strategic plan.
• Work closely with the Board of Trustees to ensure strategy aligns with organisational objectives and stakeholder needs.
• Identify opportunities for growth, partnerships, and innovation to maximise impact.
• Monitor progress against strategic goals and set appropriate performance targets.
Governance & Compliance
• Ensure the charity operates within its governing document, charity law, and relevant regulations.
• Support effective governance by providing timely and accurate information to the Board.
• Develop policy proposals for Board discussion and assist in decision-making.
• Ensure an annual calendar of Board meetings, including reporting and compliance documentation, is maintained.
Financial Management & Sustainability
• Oversee financial planning, budgeting, and reporting, ensuring income is maintained, expenditure controlled, and risks identified and managed.
• Lead the development and implementation of income generation strategies, fundraising initiatives, and sustainability planning. Diversify revenue streams to ensure financial sustainability and growth.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with sponsors, donors, and funding partners to secure resources.
Operational Management
• Lead, manage, and support senior staff to maximise their contributions and ensure high-quality delivery of programmes and services.
• Ensure programmes harness the power of sport to promote wider benefits, including education, health, and social inclusion.
• Develop and maintain effective policies, systems, procedures, and operational controls.
• Ensure appropriate monitoring and evaluation processes are in place to measure and report the impact of activities.
• Define and secure the human, material, and financial resources needed for effective operation.
External Relations & Promotion
• Act as the public face and spokesperson for the charity, representing it at events, conferences, and in the media.
• Maintain and develop relationships with partners, stakeholders, government bodies, regulators, and other key decision-makers.
• Seek opportunities to expand and promote the role and profile of the charity.
People & Culture
• Promote a positive, inclusive, and values-led organisational culture.
• Ensure effective recruitment, performance management, and professional development for staff.
• Champion equality, diversity, safeguarding, and the wellbeing of all staff and beneficiaries.
Who Cares? Scotland is the national membership body for Care Experienced people. Since 1978, we have worked to ensure that the voices of Care Experienced children, young people and adults are heard, respected and acted upon. As a membership organisation, Who Cares? Scotland protects and advances the interests and outcomes of Care Experienced people of all ages across the country. We deliver lifelong independent advocacy, create spaces of belonging and identity, and influence national policy to secure a lifetime of equality, respect and love for Care Experienced people.
Reporting directly to the Board, the Chief Executive will be expected to build on the organisation’s monumental achievements, delivering our vision of a lifetime of equality, respect, and love for Care Experienced people. Ensuring the organisation’s long‑term financial sustainability by diversifying income aligned to our mission, you will also lead the growth and effectiveness of our independent advocacy services across Scotland to uphold the rights of Care Experienced people.
Strengthening Who Cares? Scotland’s role as the first-choice voice of the care community, you will build strategic partnerships, create meaningful opportunities for members to connect, and drive our national policy influence, including shaping the Scottish Government’s work on the future of care to secure better outcomes for Care Experienced people.
As CEO, you will be a leader who can connect, influence, and build strong relationships at all levels. You will be confident in asserting the views and interests of our membership to policymakers, while remaining approachable and receptive to their perspectives. Your leadership will respect and amplify the voice of lived experience, taking a trauma-informed approach in all decision-making. You will bring proven experience in strategic thinking, financial planning, staff development, and managing budgets and relationships within a high-pressure, politically sensitive environment, while building strong partnerships with both internal and external stakeholders.
At a pivotal moment, as Scotland prepares for Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Bill and continues to strive to achieve The Promise, this role offers a unique opportunity to influence the future of care in Scotland, ensuring that Care Experienced people have a voice in every decision that affects them.
Top job! Housing and Customer Support Manager
- Full time
- £51,075 – £55,259
- Hybrid: Inverclyde
- Closing 23rd March 2026
Cloch’s vision is to deliver services that exceed expectations - and this role is central to achieving that. As our Housing and Customer Support Manager, you’ll lead the Customer Support Team and Assistant Housing Officers, ensuring tenants receive excellent, consistent, and compassionate service from first contact through to tenancy sustainment.
Working closely with the Director of Customer Services and Communities and Housing Manager, you will take the lead on:
- Customer Contact & Service Quality: ensuring a responsive, high‑quality first‑point‑of‑contact experience where customers feel supported and heard.
- Allocations, Voids & Estate Management: overseeing effective processes that minimise void loss, maintain high standards and support sustainable tenancies.
- Performance & Compliance: monitoring KPIs, supporting regulatory returns, ensuring adherence to the Scottish Social Housing Charter, and producing meaningful performance insight.
- Team Leadership: coaching, motivating, and developing staff through a behaviour‑led approach that encourages growth, innovation, and accountability.
- Continuous Improvement: identifying opportunities to streamline processes, enhance customer experience and champion new ways of working.
This is a two‑year fixed‑term role, but we expect the position to be reviewed in due course - offering a unique opportunity to shape how customer and housing services evolve at Cloch. The role is full‑time (35 hours per week) with a salary of £51,075 – £55,259 (Grade 8), hybrid working, 8 weeks’ annual leave (29 days + 11 public holidays), SHAPS pension scheme and a range of wellbeing benefits.
The full job description and person specification for the post can be found within our recruitment pack and downloaded via our website here
Working at Cloch
It’s an exciting time to join Cloch Housing Association as we continue to strengthen our services and support communities across Inverclyde. Guided by our values - Be Better, Be Kind, Be Responsible, Be Positive - we foster a collaborative, supportive culture where colleagues thrive, ideas are welcomed and improvement is part of everyday working life.
We are proud of our Customer Service Excellence accreditation and remain committed to delivering services that make a meaningful difference to tenants.
How to Fit at Cloch
Fit matters to us - not just what you do, but how you work. You’ll thrive at Cloch if you:
- Lead through coaching, encouragement, and empowerment.
- Bring curiosity and a willingness to try new approaches.
- Communicate openly and honestly, building trust and collaboration.
- Promote a positive, supportive environment.
- Use insight and feedback to guide balanced, thoughtful decisions.
- Reflect our values in your everyday approach.
Top job! Chief Executive Officer
- Part time
- £60,000 – £70,000 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Midlothian
- Closing 31st March 2026
With an annual turnover of approximately £2.5–3 million and a workforce of over 100 staff LASC is a community-based charity delivering childcare, young people’s services, and wider community benefit across multiple sites. We are seeking a Chief Executive Officer to provide strategic leadership and executive accountability at a pivotal moment for the organisation.
This is a senior leadership role focused on clarity, sustainability, and good governance. The CEO will work in close partnership with the Board to co-create organisational strategy, lead a capable senior team, and ensure the organisation remains financially resilient, well governed, and compliant within a regulated environment.
This is not a hands-on operational role. We are looking for a leader who can operate at the right altitude, bring sound judgement, and create the conditions for others to succeed.
About the role
The Chief Executive Officer will:
- Work in partnership with the Board to co-create strategic direction and lead delivery of agreed priorities
- Provide executive leadership across a multi-site organisation with a strong community presence
- Hold accountability for financial sustainability, organisational risk, and regulatory confidence
- Lead and support senior staff, shaping a professional, fair, and resilient organisational culture
- Represent the organisation externally and build confidence with key stakeholders and partners
- Lead senior relationships with public sector partners and commissioners, including negotiation of sustainable funding and fee arrangements
The role is offered on a three day per week basis with flexible and hybrid working. The postholder will be expected to be locally based, or able to attend sites and meetings as required, with presence focused on where it adds the most value.
About you
You will be an experienced senior leader who brings:
- Experience working effectively with a Board or governing body
- Accountability for organisational performance, budgets, or outcomes
- Confidence leading teams through change, growth, or financial constraint
- Strong judgement, calm leadership, and the ability to influence at senior level
You do not need to come from the childcare or voluntary sector. We are actively interested in candidates who bring transferable leadership experience from other public, regulated, or community facing environments.
If you are interested in this role but do not feel you meet every requirement, we would still encourage you to apply.
What we offer
- A senior, part time leadership role with genuine flexibility
- Hybrid working and an outcome-focused approach to hours
- Employer pension contributions
- A values-led organisation with a strong community purpose
- The opportunity to shape the future of a well-established local charity
Our commitment to inclusion
We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion, and welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We recognise that leadership experience can be gained in many different ways and value varied career paths. We particularly encourage applications from women and individuals from under-represented groups and are happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and flexible working needs as part of the recruitment process.
The Opportunity
Dalmuir Park Housing Association is entering an exciting new chapter. With a new Chief Executive joining us in March 2026 and a refreshed leadership structure being introduced, we are seeking an exceptional Head of Assets to play a central role in shaping the future of our organisation.
This is a unique opportunity to step into a strategic leadership role at a time of genuine transformation. You will lead our asset management, compliance and investment functions, and you will work closely with our newly established Head of Housing as part of a collaborative and forward thinking Leadership Team.
While the role carries significant responsibility, it also offers something rare: the scope to influence, shape and evolve the service alongside an incoming Chief Executive who is keen to bring fresh ideas and support innovative approaches.
The full job description and person specification can be found in our recruitment pack here
Our Culture and Values
At Dalmuir Park, we are proud to be a people centred organisation. We value openness, collaboration and mutual respect, and we work hard to create an environment where colleagues support one another, share knowledge and feel empowered to make a difference.
We are a close knit association where decisions are made with integrity and with a genuine focus on delivering great outcomes for our customers. Many of our people have developed and progressed with us over time, contributing to a positive culture built on trust, care and collective purpose.
This role will suit someone who:
• thrives in a supportive, collaborative leadership environment
• enjoys shaping services and driving improvement
• communicates openly and constructively
• values people, relationships and accountability
• brings a positive, solutions focused approach to challenges
Top job! Director
- Full time
- £55,000
- Remote: Home-based in Scotland (with access to Glasgow office)
- Closing 23rd March 2026
WEAll Scotland is Scotland’s leading voice for building an economy that works for people and planet. Since 2018, we have become a nationally recognised and influential network driving the transition to a Wellbeing Economy that delivers good lives for all within planetary boundaries. As the longest-established hub of the global Wellbeing Economy Alliance, we convene partners, shape policy debate and influence decision-makers across sectors.
This is a rare opportunity to lead a respected and growing movement at a pivotal moment for Scotland’s economic future.
The Role
The Director will provide clear strategic leadership, ensuring WEAll Scotland remains the go-to organisation for the Wellbeing Economy in Scotland, visible, credible and high impact.
You will:
- Grow and mobilise our national membership network into a confident community of advocates
- Influence policymakers, politicians and senior leaders across sectors
- Represent WEAll Scotland in high-profile forums and media
- Translate strategic vision into deliverable projects with measurable impact
- Lead and develop a talented staff team
- Strengthen governance, operations and long-term financial sustainability
About You
You will bring:
- Deep commitment to economic system change and the Wellbeing Economy
- Strong understanding of Scotland’s policy landscape
- Proven experience of strategic leadership and team management
- A track record of influencing senior stakeholders
- Fundraising experience and organisational oversight skills
- A collaborative, inclusive and relational leadership style
WEAll Scotland offers a generous pension and annual leave entitlement.
Business Administration Assistant (Link Academy)
- Part time
- £26,228 – £26,626 pro-rata
- On site: This post is based at LinkLiving’s Link Academy in Falkirk.
- Closing 19th April 2026
Are you passionate about helping people to live a better life? Do you want to work for a charity where your health and wellbeing matter just as much as the people you support? Do you want to be part of a trauma-informed team where you will be supported to develop creative and flexible ways of working?
At LinkLiving, our values and people are at the heart of everything we do including how we recruit our staff. It is important for us to find people who share our values, which are:
- Empathy (listen to and understand an individual’s needs and circumstances)
- Respect (treat others the way they wish to be treated)
- Integrity (be honest and have strong moral principles)
- Caring (show kindness and concern for others)
LinkLiving is a Scottish health and wellbeing charity that supports people to manage or overcome the effects of negative life experiences (including trauma, mental health challenges, poverty and inequality) so that they can build on their strengths and aspirations in order to live their best possible lives. We support people through a range of models including:
• Personal development and employability programmes
• Self-help coaching
• Supported accommodation
• Care at home
• Housing support
• Befriending
• Social cafes
The Service
The Link Academy team works primarily with people with complex and chaotic backgrounds. The service works hard and creatively to maintain the early engagement of participants. We support people by offering mental health and wellbeing programmes, independent living skills and a wide range of qualifications to support their progression including employability, tenancy, youth work and leadership award qualifications.
The Job
The Business Administration Assistant will provide a customer-focused and comprehensive administrative and reception service to the Practice and Participation team and all stakeholders, including support to the Service Manager. The Business Administration Assistant is responsible for providing facilities management within Link Academy ensuring the building is fit for purpose and adhering to Health and Safety policy at all times.
This post will include providing confidential administrative support; dealing with enquiries from a range of agencies; processing referrals, arranging initial assessments, and leading recruitment for courses for youths; preparing papers for meetings and training; tasks, materials and financial record keeping; data entry; stock control and ordering; arranging repairs and servicing for building; raising purchase orders, processing invoices and managing petty cash.
About You
You are an organised and proactive individual with proven experience in an administrative role, confident in managing a varied workload and supporting efficient service delivery. You bring strong written and verbal communication skills, alongside excellent numeracy and literacy, enabling you to produce accurate work and communicate effectively with a wide range of people.
You are highly IT literate, with hands-on experience of Microsoft Office systems including Word, Excel and Outlook, as well as using the internet in a professional capacity. You are comfortable working with database systems and have experience using electronic document management systems to maintain accurate and up-to-date records.
With excellent organisational and time management skills, you can prioritise tasks, meet deadlines and work both independently and as part of a team. You use your initiative to solve problems and respond flexibly to changing demands, ensuring a high-quality and responsive service at all times.
You have strong customer service skills and are committed to delivering a positive experience for everyone you work with. You value feedback and use it constructively to improve your performance. Importantly, you have experience of working in a person-centred way, ensuring that the needs of individuals are at the heart of your approach.
For a comprehensive list of the essential and desirable criteria required for this post, please refer to the Job Specification in the Job information Pack above.
What’s in it for you?
The benefits of being a LinkLiving employee (subject to the policies and benefit terms and conditions) include:
• Competitive salary, reviewed annually, and opportunity for annual performance related salary increases and discretionary non-consolidated pay awards, subject to terms of the scheme
• 35 days’ holiday per year (inclusive of public holidays) pro rata plus additional 3 days pro rata after 3 years’ service
• opportunity to buy and sell holiday
• enhanced company sick and family friendly pay
• access to paid SVQ qualifications and a wide range of learning and development opportunities
• funded Disclosure Scotland and Scottish Social Services Council memberships
• defined contribution pension scheme with generous employer contributions plus salary exchange and additional voluntary contribution options
• access to a Salary Exchange car leasing scheme, subject to the terms of the scheme
• life assurance scheme providing death in service benefits
• healthcare cash plan for employees (and dependents) to support health and wellbeing plus discounts on shopping, restaurants, and other services
• employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate household dependants to support health, mental and financial well-being
• access to purchase annual corporate clothing vouchers
• annual flu vaccination
• access to a credit union savings and borrowing scheme
• cycle to work scheme
• access to discounts on mobile airtime plans and much more!
For a full list of benefits available to employees, please see the following link - linkliving.org.uk/work-with-us
This role is subject to PVG membership under the Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020. Individuals who are barred from working with children or protected adults will not be considered for this position. Link will meet the cost of any new PVG scheme membership or membership update.
Further Information
Interested? If you have any questions about the role, please email jobs@linkhaltd.co.uk and we can arrange for someone from the service to call you for an informal chat.
To find out more about what LinkLiving do and to view the generous pay and benefits package, please visit our website at linkliving.org.uk
About Upmo
Upmo has been championing inclusion, creativity and independence for autistic and learning-disabled adults across Edinburgh and the Lothians since 2006. We believe everyone deserves the opportunity to learn, grow and live a fulfilling life. Through a diverse range of creative, educational and community-based opportunities, we support our students to develop life skills, build confidence and realise their potential.
Upmo is recruiting a full-time Barista to work within our Upmo Eat cafés!
In this role, you will provide excellent customer service and refreshments to our café patrons while also maintaining a clean and tidy environment for them to enjoy.
Upmo Eat is currently based within Drumbrae Leisure Centre, Ainslie Park and Leith Victoria Swim Centre, in partnership with Edinburgh Leisure. Additionally at our own premises at St Maragrets House in Edinburgh.
Upmo Eat is one of our employability initiatives, through which we provide our students with work experience in the catering and hospitality sector. The cafes also provide an important income stream for our charity and provide affordable, healthy food options to the communities we serve
Programmes Manager (Social Change Movements)
- Full time
- £49,951 – £56,006
- Hybrid: Glasgow
- Closing 3rd April 2026
The Robertson Trust is looking for a Programmes Manager (Social Change Movements) to lead a new Programmes team. Based primarily at Robertson House, Glasgow, with hybrid working available, this is a leadership role supporting The Trust to secure big change that lasts in preventing and reducing poverty and trauma in Scotland.
Over the next decade, we are committed to using all our tools and resources to reduce poverty and trauma across four themes:
• Education Pathways
• Financial Security
• Nurturing Relationships
• Work Pathways
As a senior member of the team, you will lead the design and delivery of our new approach to ‘social movement funding’, a new part of our Programme Awards funding stream. You will lead the team to work to proactively build cohorts of projects, aligned to our strategic priorities, utilising knowledge of the full range of social change activity (including influencing, campaigning, policy work and community empowerment).
For further details, including the full job description and person specification, please visit: Job Vacancies | The Robertson Trust
The Role
This role supports the Head of Programmes and Practice and leads the development and delivery of our ‘social movement funding’ approach, our most proactive Programme Award work, aligned to our long-term change priorities. It will contribute to spending a planned budget rising to up to £10m per year for Programme Awards as a whole.
You will play a key role in delivering the Trust’s approach to direct and indirect influencing, strengthening strategic relationships across policy and practice, and ensuring our funding and influencing activity is coherent and aligned.
You will line manage the Social Change Movements team, including our direct influencing capacity, and contribute as a member of the Management Team, working collaboratively across the organisation to support delivery of our strategic priorities.
Key responsibilities
• Lead the development and delivery of our new ‘social movements funding’ approach – our most proactive Programme Award cohorts aligned to long-term change priorities
• Contribute to shaping and delivering the Trust’s approach to direct and indirect influencing
• Build and sustain strategic relationships with policymakers, sector leaders, funders and experts by experience
• Ensure coherence across proactive and responsive Programme Awards and the wider organisational strategy
• Oversee programme budgets, governance and strategic risk
• Line manage and develop the Social Change Movements team
• Embed participation and co-production with people with lived experience in strategy and delivery
• Represent the Trust externally and contribute to cross-cutting organisational priorities
About You
We are looking for an experienced and thoughtful leader with a strong understanding of poverty, trauma and the policy landscape in Scotland.
You will bring:
• Significant experience contributing to long-term social change through influencing, policy, systems change, campaigning and/or advocacy
• A strong understanding of poverty and poverty-related trauma as both a subject and policy area
• Experience shaping and delivering strategic programmes, including managing substantial budgets
• Experience leading and developing high performing teams
• Strong political and strategic judgement, including the ability to assess reputational and strategic risk
• A deep understanding of the third sector and independent funding landscape in Scotland and across the UK
• Experience building networks and working collaboratively across sectors
• A commitment to embedding lived experience in strategy and delivery
• High emotional intelligence and the ability to build trusted, strategic relationships
You will be collaborative, values-led and motivated by securing long-term change that prevents and reduces poverty and trauma in Scotland.
We encourage applications from suitably qualified candidates from all parts of the community, regardless of age, disability, race, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief or socio-economic background. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience or knowledge of how poverty or trauma impact lives.
Benefits
• Salary £49,951 to £56,006 FTE
• 35 days holiday per calendar year, inclusive of public holidays
• Pension – 10% employer contribution or 14% if employee contribution is 7%
• Additional employee benefits package (currently under review)
• This role is advertised as full-time, but we are open to applicants who wish to work part-time.
The Robertson Trust is committed to hybrid and flexible working. We are open to reasonable adaptations to overcome barriers and are a Living Wage employer accredited by the Living Wage Foundation.
The Preshal Trust is seeking a highly organised and practical Administrator to play a key role in the day-to-day running of the organisation. This varied position combines supporting our community activities with managing office systems and operations. It is ideal for someone who enjoys working with people, thrives in a varied role, and takes pride in ensuring everything runs smoothly behind the scenes.
As Administrator, you will provide essential support to the CEO and staff team, helping to maintain effective systems, oversee office administration, and ensure health and safety protocols are followed. You will also occasionally assist the staff team with activities taking place within the hall.
This role would suit someone who is resourceful, proactive, and comfortable working both independently and as part of a team. A warm, professional approach and strong problem-solving skills will help you succeed in this position.