North Glasgow Integration Network SCIO (NGIN) is currently seeking a new Chair of Trustees. NGIN is governed by a voluntary Board of Trustees, who guide and oversee our organisation. Our board is made up of people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, with an interest in supporting asylum seekers & refugees and all New Scots in Glasgow,

The main aim of NGIN is to support asylum seekers and refugees who are accommodated in North/North East Glasgow communities. Led by the needs and interests of people accessing the service, NGIN connects people with services that will support them and hosts and promotes tailored events and opportunities. The charity works with people on an individual and group basis to help them to feel safe, develop the confidence to integrate with the host community and to have an improved quality of life.

The role of chair, alongside being a board member, is to chair board meetings and annual general meetings, provide line management support to the lead worker of NGIN, and work with other office bearers to ensure that the board, staff and volunteers at NGIN are all able to work effectively for the benefit of the people using NGIN services.

Our Board wishes to expand its skills base and welcomes individuals with relevant financial, community and business experience, aligned with a belief in social justice and financial inclusion. We are looking to attract individuals with skills and experience ranging from social media, human resources, community learning & development, finance/fundraising, marketing and, most importantly, an interest in the wellbeing of New Scots. Given our aims and commitment to diversity, we encourage applications from all genders, the BAME community and people with additional support needs.

The position of chair is a voluntary position but travel expenses and other reasonable expenses accrued when carrying out the role will be paid.

Time Commitment

For the role of chair we ask for availability to attend online meetings with the lead worker 1-2 times per month to provide strategic support to the organisation and line management support to the lead worker role. As with all board members we are also seeking commitment to attend 1 board meeting per quarter, held online or in person, with email contact on matters arising between meetings. Alongside this, additional requests may be made for support with board activities such as recruitment of staff on an occasional basis.

North Glasgow Integration Network SCIO (NGIN) is currently seeking a new Treasurer. NGIN is governed by a voluntary Board of Trustees, who guide and oversee our organisation. Our board is made up of people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, with an interest in supporting asylum seekers & refugees and all New Scots in Glasgow,

The main aim of NGIN is to support asylum seekers and refugees who are accommodated in North/North East Glasgow communities. Led by the needs and interests of people accessing the service, NGIN connects people with services that will support them and hosts and promotes tailored events and opportunities. The charity works with people on an individual and group basis to help them to feel safe, develop the confidence to integrate with the host community and to have an improved quality of life.

The treasurer would work closely with the lead worker to provide regular financial updates for the board, prepare annual accounts and budget forecasts and support the aims of the organisation through effective financial management of the funds received through grant awards and donations.

We are looking for an individual with an interest or experience in accounts and finances. We would also welcome skills in other areas relevant to the wider work of the board in steering the organisation such as social media, human resources, community learning & development, finance/fundraising or marketing. We are looking for candidates with a belief in social justice and financial inclusion and an interest in the wellbeing of New Scots. Given our aims and commitment to diversity, we encourage applications from all genders, the BAME community and people with additional support needs.

The position of treasurer is a voluntary position but travel expenses and other reasonable expenses accrued when carrying out the role will be paid.

Time Commitment

For the role of treasurer we ask for availability to attend online meetings with the lead worker once a month to effectively support the financial management of NGIN. As with all board members we are also seeking commitment to attend 1 board meeting per quarter, held online or in person, with email contact on matters arising between meetings. Alongside this, additional requests may be made for support with board activities such as recruitment of staff on an occasional basis.

North Glasgow Integration Network SCIO (NGIN) is currently seeking new Board Members. NGIN is governed by a voluntary Board of Trustees, who guide and oversee our organisation. Our board is made up of people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, with an interest in supporting asylum seekers & refugees and all New Scots in Glasgow,

The main aim of NGIN is to support asylum seekers and refugees who are accommodated in North/North East Glasgow communities. Led by the needs and interests of people accessing the service, NGIN connects people with services that will support them and hosts and promotes tailored events and opportunities. The charity works with people on an individual and group basis to help them to feel safe, develop the confidence to integrate with the host community and to have an improved quality of life.

Our Board wishes to expand its skills base and welcomes individuals with relevant financial, community and business experience, aligned with a belief in social justice and financial inclusion. We are looking to attract individuals with skills and experience ranging from social media, human resources, community learning & development, finance/fundraising, marketing and, most importantly, an interest in the wellbeing of New Scots. Given our aims and commitment to diversity, we encourage applications from all genders, the BAME community and people with additional support needs.

The position of trustee is a voluntary position but travel expenses and other reasonable expenses accrued when carrying out the role will be paid.

Time Commitment

We ask board member candidates for a minimum commitment of attending 1 meeting every quarter, held online or in person, with email contact on matters arising between meetings. Alongside this, additional requests may be made for support with board activities such as recruitment of staff on an occasional basis.

Would you like to come and work at the number one Students’ Union in Scotland (as voted in the recent Whatuni Student Choice awards)? Strath Union is looking for a talented individual to join our team as First Contact Advice Worker.

The First Contact Advice Worker plays a key role within Strath Union’s Advice Hub, ensuring students receive a welcoming, supportive, and effective first interaction when seeking advice and support. The postholder will provide high-quality front-line assistance, helping students to understand their options, access accurate information, and navigate appropriate support within the Union, the University, or external services.

In addition to triage and signposting, the role includes responsibility for managing a defined caseload under the guidance of senior Advice Hub staff. The postholder will support students to take informed next steps, assist with advice processes, and ensure cases are handled sensitively, confidentially, and in line with agreed procedures. The role contributes to the effective day-to-day running of the Advice Hub, including restocking supplies and supporting outreach activity such as campaigns, stalls, and events to engage directly with students.

Strathclyde Students’ Union is committed to promoting diversity and equality for all and welcomes applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from applicants with disabilities, from ethnic minority backgrounds, and those with diverse sexualities or marginalised gender identities as these groups are underrepresented.

Would you like to come and work at the number one Students’ Union in Scotland (as voted in the recent Whatuni Student Choice awards)? Strath Union is looking for a talented individual to join our team as Advice Manager.

The Advice Manager provides strategic and operational leadership for Strath Union’s Advice Hub, ensuring the delivery of a high-quality, safe, and student-centred advice service. Working on a part-time basis, the role focuses on oversight, prioritisation, quality assurance, and the professional supervision of staff delivering advice and casework, rather than day-to-day operational delivery.

The postholder is responsible for line managing the Advice Hub team, providing professional supervision, guidance on complex cases, and ensuring robust advice standards are consistently applied. The Advice Manager plays a key role in shaping service priorities, managing risk, and ensuring the Advice Hub operates effectively within available capacity.

The role sits within Strath Union’s Management Team and contributes to wider organisational planning, particularly in relation to student welfare, wellbeing, and support. Given the part-time nature of the post, the Advice Manager will work closely with colleagues to ensure clear delegation, effective communication, and appropriate escalation arrangements are in place.

Strathclyde Students’ Union is committed to promoting diversity and equality for all and welcomes applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from applicants with disabilities, from ethnic minority backgrounds, and those with diverse sexualities or marginalised gender identities as these groups are underrepresented.

Disability Equality Scotland seeks to recruit a passionate, skilled and dedicated new team member - Operations Team Lead.

This is a time of immense challenge, change, renewal, and opportunity. Working with DES, you’ll play a vital role in the future of the organisation, championing the rights for disabled people across Scotland.

The Operations Team Lead will have experience of working in operations, finance, HR, and have strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Through co-ordinating and providing comprehensive administrative, operational, and financial support, the post holder will ensure that DES operates efficiently, adheres to sound financial practices, and maintains our reputation as a responsible and financially prudent organisation.

They will work across two key areas:

• Office and HR Management
• Finance, budgets, and reporting

This new role would suit someone with administration, HR and finance experience who is naturally very well-organised, able to build strong relationships, enjoys working with lots of partners, and is committed to the equality and participation of disabled people. The successful applicant will also have an eye for detail and be able to quickly respond to new opportunities and challenges.

You’ll be part of the small operations team so you’ll need to be a great communicator, enthusiastic, proactive and willing to be flexible when things change.

Being right at the heart of what we do, you’ll understand how a small charity functions and the importance of strong administrative and financial processes as a backbone to success. You’ll help provide the glue that holds different projects together, enabling it to be greater than the sum of its parts.

From taking minutes at meetings, helping deliver our engagement to our members and to making sure invoices are paid on time - this is a varied and rewarding role and we are looking for someone keen to be a key part of the Scottish Independent Living Movement and get stuck into everything it involves!

For the full job description and person specification of this role please download from information below or contact us on Tel: 0141 370 0968.

If you wish to discuss anything in regard to accessibility or if you require alternative formats, please contact our recruitment team by email at recruitment@disabilityequality.scot or by telephone on 0141 370 0968.

Equal opportunities

We are committed to being disability confident and an employer of choice irrespective of race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, age, disability, or pregnancy and maternity. The ethical and business case of ensuring that our workforce is representative of wider society is at the heart of what we do. When we are recruiting, disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview. We make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and during employment.

We are looking for a new Finance Assistant Officer. If you are looking for a role with plenty of variety, have an eye for detail, have great organisational skills and have the ability to build good relationships across organisations, then this could be the role for you.

We are looking for someone with experience of undertaking administrative tasks, with good data entry skills and the ability to demonstrate accuracy in your roles. In addition, you will need to have good communication skills, both verbal and written.

In this role, you will be a proactive member of the finance team and communicate across the organisation. You will use Xero to produce sales invoices for multiple income streams and upload bills for payment, complete bank reconciliations on the main current account, main savings account and credit card master. You will also produce the monthly payment run for approval. Xero knowledge is preferable but not essential as full training will be provided.

About Children in Scotland

Giving all children in Scotland an equal chance to flourish is at the heart of everything we do.

By bringing together a network of people working with and for children, alongside children and young people themselves, we offer a broad, balanced and independent voice. We create solutions, provide support and develop positive change across all areas affecting children in Scotland. We do this by listening, gathering evidence, and applying and sharing our learning, while always working to uphold children’s rights.

Our range of knowledge and expertise means we can provide trusted support on issues as diverse as the people we work with and the varied lives of children and families in Scotland.

Diversity

Children in Scotland values the contribution of all our staff, whatever their background. Our recruitment decisions are based on fair, open processes, with appointment on merit. We welcome applications from everyone.

Further information

For an informal chat about the job, please contact Madeleine McCabe, by email on mmccabe@childreninscotland.org.uk

See detail of our salary structure here.

*Children in Scotland’s office is in Edinburgh and this will be your official contracted place of work. We have introduced hybrid working based on trust and flexibility. As long as business needs are met, individuals have flexibility in terms of where they work (home / office).

This is a unique and central role at the heart of civil society efforts in Scotland to tackle the climate crisis. It requires a highly-organised and effective manager who is able to build strong relationships, enjoys working with lots of partners, and is committed to climate action and justice.

You’ll be part of a small but growing SCCS secretariat team that provides support to our diverse members and delivers our advocacy and campaigns activities, so you’ll need to be a great communicator, enthusiastic, proactive and willing to be flexible when things change.

Being right at the centre of what we do, we need someone with strong diplomacy skills who is self-motivated. You’ll be the glue that holds a diverse coalition together, enabling it to be greater than the sum of its parts.

This is a varied and rewarding role and we are looking for someone keen to be a key part of the Scottish climate movement and get stuck into everything it involves!

About SCCS

Stop Climate Chaos Scotland (SCCS) is Scotland’s climate coalition, bringing together over 70 civil society organisations campaigning together on climate change.

Our membership is diverse and includes national and community organisations working on:

• Climate action and justice
• Environment and nature
• Gender and social justice
• Faith and belief
• International development
• Worker and human rights
• Health and inequality

Together, we represent hundreds of thousands of people across Scotland and stand in solidarity with communities most affected by climate impacts around the world. We collaborate with our members to build strong public support for faster climate action. We use this support to influence decision-makers to put in place fair, effective policies to reduce emissions and benefits for everyone.

Key tasks

Strategy and delivery

• Work with the SCCS Board and partners to lead the development of SCCS strategies
• Develop and oversee work plans to deliver agreed aims, including direct delivery, where necessary
• Manage external communications, ensuring coalition sign off processes are followed

Governance and finance

• Carry out annual budget forecasting, provide regular financial updates to the board, and work with an external accountant to produce end of year financial reports
• Provide support and reports to board meetings and organise AGMs
• Ensure accurate and timely official reporting to Companies House, OSCR and other legal requirements
• Identify and respond to fundraising opportunities while managing existing funding and reporting requirements

Leadership and stakeholder management

• Work with Board on membership development to ensure our coalition remains strong and diverse, and grows
• Line manage staff and volunteers and oversee the work of consultants
• Facilitate coalition and external meetings, design agendas and ensure records are produced
• Represent SCCS at relevant external meetings and events and act as a spokesperson for the coalition when appropriate – with the public, political stakeholders and the media
• Liaise and coordinate with sister coalitions in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and develop strategic relationships with relevant networks in Scotland
• Ensure equality and diversity are fully considered in all aspects of our work and internal processes
• Carry out any other tasks required to manage and advance the coalition or as identified by SCCS Board

Personal specification

Knowledge, experience and skills

Essential

• Experience in a charity management role, which included strategy development, governance, financial, and line management
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with multiple partners
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for different audiences and purposes
• Skilled at meeting facilitation and designing engaging meetings
• Excellent IT skills
• Proactive, able to work flexibly and identify and act on opportunities while being highly organised and prioritising and managing a busy workload
• An understanding of the policy and political landscapes in Scotland
• Conflict management and diplomacy skills
• Demonstrable commitment to action on climate change and climate justice

Desirable

• Experience of planning and delivering environmental or social justice campaigns
• Knowledge of the civil society landscape in Scotland
• Fundraising experience
• Media spokesperson experience
• Experience working with and supporting charity boards

Qualifications

No specific qualifications are required for the role: the knowledge, skills and experience of the successful candidate will be more important than formal academic qualifications.

Terms and conditions

• Salary: £40,000
• Hours: 5 days a week (35 hours). The option to work 4 days and flexible working requests will be considered. The post holder may need to work the occasional evening or weekend, for which time off in lieu will be granted. Overtime will not be paid.
• Location: Primarily from home, with occasional office working in central Edinburgh. Other travel may be required to meetings, most often in the central belt, but occasionally in other parts of Scotland or the UK (for which travel expenses will be paid).
• Line manager: Stop Climate Chaos Scotland Chair
• Holiday: 28 days annual leave plus 11 days statutory holidays (pro rata).
• Pension: Stop Climate Chaos Scotland operates a pension plan with NEST, with employer contribution of 6%.
• We can only employ candidates with the right to work in the UK.

About Us

Finding Your Feet is Scotland’s only national amputee charity. We support families affected by amputation or limb absence with activities, services and support to benefit fitness, mental health and personal growth. Our goal is to be on hand with some form of support for every amputee in Scotland. The first step towards doing this is to connect people and make them smile, which we’re pretty good at! We believe that forming relationships with peers or being part of a group is one of the most powerful ways to reduce isolation, which has been proven to be a contributing factor to life expectancy in the amputee community. Whether an amputee needs vital counselling or wants to sail the seven seas, FYF is the place to be.

You would expect us to say this, but we actually do mean it - Finding Your Feet is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Purpose Of The Job

We are looking for a motivated and organised Corporate Fundraising Assistant to help us raise vital funds and awareness to continue our life-changing work. As a key member of the fundraising team you will have the opportunity to make this post your own as your skills and experience develop; being involved across all areas of fundraising but predominantly helping us to grow corporate & events income generation and ensuring effective donor stewardship.

Working closely with the Fundraising Manager, Fundraising Assistant and alongside our Marketing and Wellbeing teams, you will see the direct impact of your efforts within our friendly and fast -paced environment, making a real difference in the lives of amputees and their families.

This post is responsible for delivering activities within our Edinburgh Community Hub. If you are passionate about bicycles and cycling and have an interest in human rights and supporting disadvantaged groups, then this could be the job for you. You will work on a variety of projects that includes repairing bikes, the co-ordination and support of volunteer bike mechanics, bike distributions, bike collections, and special projects and activities as needed. Your main tasks will be associated with increasing our impact in the support of New Scots refugees and asylum seekers through improving workflow management, efficiency and increasing productivity in the repair and distribution of bikes.

You will have proven experience of working with bikes and a recognised bike mechanic qualification such as Velotech or Cytech - or equivalent bike mechanic experience. Experience of volunteering and/or working with volunteers is desirable. Experience of working with refugees/asylum seekers and/or other disadvantaged groups would be advantageous. A good working knowledge of IT and computer skills is essential. A full drivers license is essential. You will be proactive in the co-ordination and safe delivery of activities and ensure the smooth running of the workshop/hub. You will be an effective communicator with staff, volunteers, New Scots and partners. The post holder will maintain an excellent working knowledge of Bikes for Refugees programmes, policies and procedures, and maintain good working relationships with a variety of external stakeholders and partners.

Bikes for Refugees (Scotland) is a fun, interesting and supportive place for you to grow and professionally develop in the charity and voluntary sector. We are a Real Living Wage Employer. We can offer an attractive package of benefits that includes a 35-hour week (pro-rata), supportive working environment, a fully equipped workshop & office, professional training, flexible working, pension contribution, 38 days (pro-rata) annual leave (includes public holidays), and trade discounts.

If you meet our essential requirements and are excited at the prospect of working in a successful, fun and high impact 3rd sector organisation then we would love to hear from you.

For further information and an informal chat about the post contact either:

Craig Buchan, Community Hubs Manager

craig@bikesforrefugees.scot

Steven McCluskey, Founding CEO

steven@bikesforrefugees.scot

Information also available at: - bikesforrefugees.scot