The Role:

As Northeast Coordinator, you will be at the forefront of an unprecedented conservation initiative: the confirmed eradication of grey squirrels from Aberdeen and the surrounding Shire. This ground-breaking effort will set a precedent as the first eradication of an invasive grey squirrel population on mainland Britain, attracting significant scientific and public interest.

You will work closely with a collaborative project team, partner agencies, and stakeholders, with a focus on confirmation monitoring, biosecurity, partnership working, and long-term programme sustainability. This is an opportunity to be part of a vital initiative working to protect and promote red squirrel populations, ensuring their sustainable long-term future in our landscapes.

Main objectives:

You will coordinate and oversee the actions required to achieve this ambitious goal, including coordination of the transition through the stages of the Confirmation Phase and into long-term Biosecurity Phase management. This will include supporting monitoring activities, responding appropriately to potential grey squirrel sightings, collaborating with partners and the development and implementation of a transition plan for long term sustainability

Key responsibilities include coordination and oversight of the Northeast team activities including line management, and creating national activity guidance documents to disseminate proven practices and lessons learnt in Northeast.

The successful candidate will have:

• A relevant degree in ecology (or similar).
• At least two years’ relevant experience in wildlife ecology or conservation.
• Ability to demonstrate strong leadership and staff management skills.
• Proven experience in developing and managing conservation projects.
• Expertise in ecological survey design, data collection and analysis.
• Excellent written communication skills along.
• Keen interest in dissemination of best practice through creating supportive guidance documents.

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Argyll and Bute Citizens Advice Bureau, is an independent and innovative advice organisation providing holistic advice and support to people across Argyll and Bute.

Argyll and Bute Citizens Advice Bureau in collaboration with Inspiralba is looking for a client-focused individual with looking to build their experience of providing triage and admin support, in our busy Lochgilphead office to our clients across Argyll and Bute. This includes responding to clients contacting us by a variety of methods and assisting them to receive quality advice from our fully trained advisers.

As this is a development role, the successful candidate will be provided with all aspects of training required to carry out the role of triage assistant. However, they must be able to handle more than one task simultaneously and ideally have a track record of working with people who may be vulnerable and anxious. An empathetic and professional telephone manner is essential.

Team working is essential and the post-holder must be able to assist colleagues with possibly competing demands. Applicants should also demonstrate sound oral and written communication skills, be well organised and be proficient in using a range of IT tools to carry out their work, including case recording systems, Microsoft Office including Word, Outlook and Excel.

Committed, results-driven and supportive to the needs of others, the successful applicant will be able to work both on their own initiative as well as part of a team and must be willing to follow and develop agreed procedures.

Employee benefits

Argyll and Bute Citizens Advice Bureau offers excellent terms and conditions, including a total of 25 days (pro rata) annual leave plus 10 public holidays and a pension scheme with a 6% employer contribution. Argyll and Bute Citizens Advice Bureau is an inclusive employer that supports a work-life balance and offers a 4 day week (pro rata), well-being events, and a positive working environment.

Stranraer Development Trust is looking for an experienced Development Officer to help deliver projects linked to the Stranraer Place Plan and Borderlands Town Investment Plan. This role will involve working with partners, the community, and local organisations to support town centre regeneration, develop new opportunities, and help the Trust grow in a sustainable way.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic delivery and project development

• Help lead delivery of the Borderlands Town Investment Plan, working closely with key partners and using relevant local, regional, and national plans.

• Work with Dumfries and Galloway Council to plan and deliver key outcomes from the Stranraer Place Plan.

• Support consultants with the information needed to prepare business cases for projects.

• Work with the Town Team and project leads to develop project ideas and move regeneration opportunities forward.

Community engagement and partnerships

• Make sure the local community and partner organisations are involved in shaping projects.

• Plan and manage community engagement, participation, and consultation activities.

• Oversee communication and participation plans so people are kept informed and involved.

Governance, funding, and reporting

• Support the Stranraer Development Trust board with good governance, planning, and decision-making.

• Work with Dumfries and Galloway Council on funding arrangements.

• Identify and secure match funding to support BTIP projects.

• Manage project funding for 2026/27 in line with the Borderlands Growth Deal award.

• Follow relevant Health and Safety policies.

A rare and exciting opportunity to deliver and manage quality and performance within the care and support sector as part of LinkLiving’s Leadership Team has become available.

This key role is critical to the ongoing successful delivery of our range of services and the maintenance of LinkLiving’s reputation within the sector

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 Job

As a member of LinkLiving’s Leadership Team, the Quality Assurance and Business Support Manager will support the Leadership Team in the provision of professional planning and communication to assist in the design and delivery of quality, performance management, business improvement and compliance projects both within LinkLiving and as a representative of LinkLiving for Link Group. The postholder will also undertake a range of business support functions as directed by the Director of Services and Development. The post is key to ensuring LinkLiving fulfils its commitment to ensuring that all activities are high quality, deliver positive outcomes and are in line with regulatory requirements. The post holder will also support frontline service delivery managers by undertaking a range of ‘non-operational’ business support functions enabling them more capacity to focus on service delivery management.

LinkLiving is committed to providing each person it supports with a high quality, person-centred, individual support service. We do this by striving to ensure effectiveness, efficiency and value within a framework of continuous improvement, underpinned by our Quality Assurance and Performance Management Framework. This post will promote, support and facilitate a consistent and positive approach to quality, performance management, and continuous improvement across all LinkLiving services.

About You

You will have a relevant qualification equivalent to SCQF Level 6, or substantial practical experience within social care and/or quality assurance. You will have previous experience in a quality assurance role, a regulated health and social care service, or a similar organisation. You will have knowledge of the Health and Social Care Standards and relevant regulatory legislation, together with experience of liaising with the Care Inspectorate and providing information as part of standard inspections.

You will have strong analytical skills, excellent attention to detail and the ability to plan, organise and prioritise your workload effectively. You will be able to work independently using your own initiative, while also contributing positively as part of a team. You will handle confidential information appropriately and in line with GDPR, demonstrating sensitivity and professionalism when dealing with potentially complex or sensitive information.

You will have excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to adapt your communication style to suit different audiences. You will be confident using Microsoft Office and database systems and will be able to build and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, managers and external stakeholders at all levels. You will also have strong influencing skills and the confidence to constructively challenge and support improvements in quality and outcomes.

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.

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

In this role, you’ll:

• Deliver marketing campaigns across digital channels and events to raise awareness of Kinship Care Advice Service for Scotland (KCASS)
• Organise events and webinars, including Kinship Care Week, to engage and support kinship care families and professionals
• Lead website development and content to help kinship carers access information, advice and support
• Use insights, learning and feedback, alongside engagement and website conversion data, to inform the ongoing development of the KCASS website.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Experience in a events/marketing officer role
• Experience of using CMS, email marketing, social media and design platforms such as Canva
• Experience in planning, delivering and hosting a variety of small- and large-scale events
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
• Confidence in building relationships with a range of stakeholders and the ability to manage competing priorities.

What we offer:

• A workplace with values of with love, with purpose and with strength
• 40 days annual leave, inclusive of bank holidays
• Pension scheme and wellbeing support
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• Access to Westfield Health, giving colleagues and their families confidential counselling support, wellbeing resources, and access to health and lifestyle benefits to support physical and mental wellbeing.
• Blue Light card discount
• A Fair Work accredited workplace.

Our Values

Living our values, you will help create a workplace where our people can thrive, ensuring we deliver the best possible support to children and families.

With love, we put children first.

With purpose, we transform lives together.

With strength, we do whatever it takes to protect Scotland’s children.

Join Our Team as a Customer Service Advisor!

We are seeking two Customer Service Advisors to provide an excellent and consistent service to all internal and external customers, using different communication channels and promoting future digital and ongoing changes within the organisation.

You will provide a first point of contact for all enquiries and to have a vast knowledge of all departments within the organisation ensuring correct and efficient responses are delivered against our agreed service standards and key performance indicators.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain the day-to-day operation of the Cairn Connect service, taking ownership of customer enquiries and ensuring customer information is efficiently and effectively handled within agreed service level agreements to meet the expectations of our customers.
• Assisting in the delivery of key business services, including Income Management payments and administration, Tenancy Services housing enquiries, antisocial behavior, Repairs reporting and invoice administration and general day-to-day business enquiries, where possible offering a first-time resolution service to meet our key performance indicators.
• Delivers a high level of customer service to all internal and external customers using various sources including telephone, email, face to face, webchat and other digital platforms to ensure an excellent customer journey.
• Perform effective data capture/management using various software systems, to enable accurate reporting and monitoring.
• Maintain and assist with partnership working across the group to ensure collaborative working and consistency of service in key areas and to promote a streamlined one team way of working.

Requirements – What We’re Looking For:

• Experience of working in a fast-paced frontline customer Contact Centre.
• Experience of delivering excellent frontline customer service.
• An understanding of effective and best practice in customer service.
• You should be able to demonstrate high level of computer skills and excellent customer care skills
• A Basic Disclosure and Right to work checks are required for this role.

Employee Benefits: Why Cairn is the Best Place to Work

Join Cairn and enjoy a range of benefits including flexible and hybrid working, health and wellness support, tech and cycle schemes, compassionate leave, and more!

Cairn HA is passionate about creating equal opportunities for everyone and warmly invites applications from all community members.

Founded with a commitment to social justice and inclusion in 1998, the Multi-Cultural Family Base (MCFB) is a leading organisation in Edinburgh dedicated to supporting diverse communities and enhancing the well-being of infants, children and families from all cultural backgrounds. MCFB provides essential community-based services, such as therapeutic group work, direct work, advocacy, and support to minoritised groups. MCFB is also a learning centre, supporting the professional development of social work students and other social care professions, with a focus on cross-cultural work and anti-racist practice.

Bright Choices project:

At Bright Choices, we offer free and confidential help to women, men, and families from ethnically diverse backgrounds who have experienced or are at risk of ‘honour-based’ abuse (HBA). This can include domestic abuse, extended family abuse, coercive control, forced marriage, and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

You will have a relevant professional qualification and experience of group and individual work with people affected by trauma, isolation and VAWG. You will have a strong understanding of HBA, and people who are likely to experience disadvantage or discrimination due to their race, ethnicity or cultural backgrounds.

Our referred families include new migrants, those who are seeking asylum, refugees and survivors of human trafficking.

Job Purpose

The role holder will work closely with the wider Bright Choices team to provide practical and emotional support to individuals and families identified as being vulnerable. You will have a good knowledge and understanding of Honour-Based Violence and FGM and its impacts and have a commitment to protecting children and young people by recognising, assessing and responding to risk.

The post holder will coordinate and develop the delivery of the project in accordance with the needs of service users, and to the expectations of funders and key stakeholders, ensuring the optimal promotion of the Project is relayed. The postholder will be responsible for line management of staff, students and volunteers, and contribute to direct service provision through a proportionate caseload and the delivery of groupwork.

The post holder will uphold MCFB’s mission, vision and values. They will work collaboratively across the organisation as a key member of the leadership team, ensuring effective communication and team working.

Are you passionate about a fairer, more inclusive society? Would you like to join an innovative, compassionate charity that’s leading the way in tackling the causes and consequences of homelessness?

If so, apply now to join our Board of Trustees! Cyrenians is looking for new volunteer trustees, including a Treasurer, to help guide our work to tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness.

Trustee role

This is an opportunity to use your insight, professional experience and personal perspective to support an organisation that works alongside people facing tough realities - from housing insecurity and poverty to conflict, isolation, addiction and barriers to employment. Our work is valued-led and relationship-based.

As a trustee, you will help set direction, support good decision-making and ensure Cyrenians continues to use its resources wisely and effectively.

You do not need previous board experience. We are interested in people who can think strategically, work collaboratively and bring curiosity, commitment and sound judgement. Some examples of the experience or expertise you may bring include:

·Digital strategy, including cybersecurity, data and AI

·Commercial expertise

·Strategic fundraising

·Finance

·Legal background

However, we also welcome applications from people who bring different skills and strengths.

Treasurer role

This is a rewarding opportunity for someone with strong finance or accounting experience who wants to use their expertise for social good. You will play a central role in helping the Board understand Cyrenians’ financial position, make informed decisions and ensure our resources are used responsibly to support people facing tough realities across our communities.

As Treasurer, you will bring financial insight, constructive challenge and clear advice to Board discussions. Working alongside fellow trustees, the Chief Executive and Director of Finance & Corporate Services, you will help oversee budgets, accounts, controls, risk, sustainability and statutory reporting.

You do not need to have been a charity trustee before. What matters is that you can think strategically, communicate financial information clearly, work collaboratively and bring sound judgement.

Are you excited by the thought of working for an organisation whose mission is to inspire changes in behaviour to improve our environment, the quality of people’s lives, their wellbeing, and the places that they care for? If you answered yes, please read on……

Who we are

Keep Scotland Beautiful is your charity inspiring action for our environment.

Our vision is for a clean, green, sustainable Scotland. We are a practical organisation working with communities, schools, businesses, local and national government, public bodies and individuals to help combat climate change, tackle litter and waste, restore nature and biodiversity and improve the places we care for.

We support the ambitions of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

We offer a fantastic benefits package in return for your talent. These include but are not limited to a generous pension scheme; hybrid working; development opportunities; a 35-hour work week (28 hours for 0.8FTE), along with an annual free volunteer day to take your skills or interests to support others. We operate a hybrid working policy, which allows a balance between home/remote working and coming to our office Hub in Stirling.

What the role is

This is a Part-Time (28 hrs/wk), Fixed Term post to 31 March 2027.

Reporting to the Senior Officer, Campaigns and Interventions (SOCI), the Campaigns and Interventions Officer (CIO) will lead and facilitate the development and delivery of our work on marine and riverine litter, including our activities for the Marine Litter Strategy, our Upstream Battle Campaign, and associated activities.

This will include the delivery of projects, interventions and activities, managing relationships with national and local stakeholders, and undertaking monitoring and evaluation.

What you’ll need to have

We are looking for outgoing, enthusiastic and creative individuals with:

• Understanding of environmental issues and policy relating to litter, plastics pollution, circular economy and/or climate change
• Experience in environmental campaigns, education, and awareness raising
• Ability to create, maintain and enhance working partnerships
• Experience of community engagement
• Experience of coordinating and supporting campaign supporters and volunteers
• Experience of working on a range of communications platforms and channels to support campaign delivery
• Undertaking evaluation, developing case studies and writing reports

Travel across Scotland and a valid, full UK driving licence is required for this role.

Does this sound like you?

If you feel you have the elements to be our Campaigns and Interventions Officer, we would love to hear from you.

Are you passionate about tackling inequality, improving financial wellbeing and supporting women affected by economic abuse?

Financially Included is Scotland's emerging specialist economic abuse charity. Over the past five years, we have grown from an innovative local partnership into an established specialist service supporting women affected by financial and economic abuse. Part of GEMAP Scotland and supported by Glasgow Violence Against Women Partnership and a wide range of statutory, voluntary and private sector partners, we are helping shape the response to economic abuse at a local and national level.

We are an ambitious project taking action on the ground to improves the lives of women in Glasgow while campaigning for and being part of wider progress at a national level. We are now seeking an experienced and ambitious Project Manager to lead Financially Included through its next exciting stage of development.

The successful candidate will provide strategic and operational leadership, ensuring high-quality services for women affected by economic abuse while driving forward the development of the national Purple Phone Helpline and strengthening Financially Included's profile as Glasgow's specialist economic abuse advice provider.

About the Role

You will:

• Lead and develop a skilled and passionate team.
• Drive the growth of Financially Included from a Glasgow-based partnership into a nationally recognised service.
• Build and strengthen relationships with key partners and stakeholders.
• Oversee the development and promotion of the Purple Phone Helpline.
• Influence policy and practice relating to financial and economic abuse across Scotland.
• Ensure services remain survivor-centred, trauma-informed and evidence-based.

About You

We are looking for someone who:

• Has experience managing projects, services or teams.
• Understands violence against women, coercive control, economic abuse and financial inclusion.
• Is a confident leader with excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Has experience working in partnership environments and influencing strategic change.
• Can combine big-picture thinking with strong operational delivery.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a nationally significant and growing organisation.
• Work alongside dedicated professionals committed to social justice and women's equality.
• Commitment to staff wellbeing and professional development.