In this role, you’ll:

• Create helpful, clear and accessible resources and information for parents and carers for the support line section of the Children First website.
• Translate complex information about support and services into clear, accessible and engaging communications for families.
• Update and manage website content using the CMS, ensuring information is accurate, accessible and up to date.
• Drive forward organic social media activity promoting the support line, share new resources created for families and develop engaging multimedia content, including video.
• Support children and families to safely and appropriately share their stories, following Children First’s story‑gathering, consent and safeguarding processes at all times.
• Use insight, learning and feedback to inform continuous improvement in communications activity.

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

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
• A proactive, collaborative approach and commitment to our values.
• Previous experience in a similar communications role.
• Strong social media skills.
• Excellent ICT skills and strong experience of Canva and creating video content.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to concisely summarise key information.

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.

Are you a highly organised and detail-oriented individual looking to start or develop a career in fundraising? We are seeking a motivated Fundraising Administrator to join our team in Edinburgh. This is a fantastic opportunity to provide excellent administration skills and donor stewardship of a charity that brings the joy of live music to people in health and care settings across the UK.

The Role

As Fundraising Administrator, you’ll help keep our fundraising work running smoothly — supporting donor relationships, communications and day-to-day administration, while ensuring accurate records are maintained in Beacon CRM.

Main duties and responsibilities include:

• Fundraising and Communications Support: You'll oversee our annual Christmas card sales, support campaigns and appeals, and assist with social media, email communications, and donor thank yous. You'll organise our annual Thankathon, help prepare smaller trust applications with the Trust Fundraiser, and coordinate volunteers and ambassadors to support fundraising activities during busy periods.
• Administrative Support: You'll handle enquiries and support the team with meeting notes and communications to supporters, volunteers and musicians.
• Financial Processing: You'll support financial processing by banking donations, organising annual Gift Aid renewals and monthly claims, and helping ensure effective reporting.
• Database Management: You'll act as Beacon CRM super user, maintaining accurate records, managing donor relationships, updating payment details, and data cleansing.
• Office Duties: You'll support with office administration, post handling, donor communications, and ordering office supplies.

Why join the team?

You will be offered on the job training and support for your development alongside other fantastic benefits:

• Opportunity to work your hours flexibly
• 35 days annual leave per year pro rata including the opportunity to take most bank holidays when you choose
• Employer pension contribution of up to 6%
• Employee assistance programme
• Enhanced Maternity Pay
• Budget for personal development and training
• Positive organisation culture with a firm understanding of supporting remote and hybrid teams
• Opportunity to help share live music with people who may not otherwise get to experience it.

About You

We’re looking for a highly organised and detail-oriented individual who is keen to develop their career in fundraising or return to the sector after a career break. You’ll bring excellent communication skills, the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively, and a proactive approach to strong supporter relationships.

This role requires regular in-person office working to support key administrative tasks, so we’re looking for someone who values being part of a collaborative team environment.

While not essential, experience maintaining a database or CRM system and having worked in the charity or not-for-profit sector before would be of benefit. Experience using Beacon CRM and knowledge of data protection and fundraising best practices, such as Gift Aid regulations, are also desirable. We will provide comprehensive training and support to help the successful candidate develop the necessary skills and knowledge in this area also.

About the Organisation

The charity seeks to give joy through live music through the provision of live music sessions for people receiving care or treatment in healthcare settings across the UK, including those who are vulnerable, those with dementia and in critical care.

Live music is created by individuals or small groups of skilled musicians who have been carefully selected through a process of audition. Sessions are tailored to the both the setting and the audience to ensure that they can reach and connect people, encourage communication and meaningful interactions and evoke emotions and memories to make people feel better.

The successful applicants will require a level 1 PVG check (Disclosure Scotland).

The charity is committed to becoming an organisation that reflects society and promotes diversity and inclusion and would particularly welcome applications from people who are currently under-represented, including disabled people and those from Black, Asian and other minority ethnic communities.

You may have experience in areas such as Administrator, Fundraising Officer, Fundraising Assistant, Coordinator, Admin, Administration.

Are you organised, motivated and passionate about supporting young people and communities?

One Community Scotland is looking for a Programme Support Coordinator to join our team in Glasgow.

One Community Scotland (OCS) is a youth-led organisation committed to supporting young people from ethnic minority communities to settle, participate and thrive in Scotland.

We work with young people from a range of backgrounds and circumstances, including New Scots, refugees and asylum seekers. Our programmes aim to reduce barriers, create opportunities and support young people to develop confidence, skills and positive connections within their communities.

About the Role

The Programme Support Coordinator will play an important role in supporting the smooth and effective delivery of OCS programmes.

Working closely with the Operations Lead, youth workers, programme staff and sessional workers, the successful candidate will provide administrative, operational, coordination and communications support across the organisation.

The role will include supporting programme activities and events, maintaining accurate records, coordinating sessional staff schedules, assisting with monitoring and evaluation, supporting organisational communications and managing social media.

We are looking for someone who is highly organised, reliable and proactive, with excellent communication skills and the ability to manage competing priorities. You will be comfortable working independently while also being an effective member of a small team.

You will have a genuine commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and an interest in improving opportunities and outcomes for young people.

You will have the opportunity to:

Make a positive difference to the lives of young people

Support the development and delivery of innovative programmes.

Work with a diverse range of young people, staff, volunteers and partner organisations.

Develop your skills and experience across programme coordination, administration and communications.

Contribute to the continued development of One Community Scotland

Neurological Alliance of Scotland

The Neurological Alliance of Scotland is the umbrella body for neurological conditions charities in Scotland with around 60 charities from across Scotland and the UK. We also have several industry members. In partnership with our members, we inform policy, raise awareness and support improvements in services. Our vision is that everyone affected by neurological conditions in Scotland - including carers and those who support them - can access high-quality, timely, and holistic care and support at every stage of their life, regardless of where in Scotland they live.

The Alliance is overseen by trustees with day-to-day operations managed by a Programme Director. We are recruiting for a freelance Membership & Engagement Officer to support our work.

The Role

This is an exciting and challenging role to support our charity membership and lead on our social media and communications activities.

The person will be proactive, warm-natured, highly motivated with excellent communication and project management skills and an attention to detail for a varied workload. This role will involve being a central point of contact for our charity members, dealing with outreach and onboarding new members, billing, queries and maintaining the database of contacts. They will also be responsible for certain communications activities including our monthly newsletter and maintaining our Facebook and BlueSky accounts as well as drafting briefings and supporting our campaigns.

Key Responsibilities:

Membership

• Be a central point of contact for our charity members
• Research and reach out to potential new charity members
• Welcome new members through the newsletter and social media, and welcome packs
• Draft email updates to members as required
• Administer our annual membership subscriptions and track payments
• Maintain a list of current members, including contact information and various mailing lists

Communications

• Draft the monthly newsletter
• Draft and schedule posts for our Facebook and Bluesky accounts
• Deal with any newsletter related emails and support members to share news and reports with us
• Create infographics for use on our social media, website and newsletter
• Social media analytics
• Draft research
• Draft briefings for both internal and external use

Website

• Ensure all members have their logo on our website
• •Check all links on the NAoS website are live and remove any that are defunct
• Upload reports, newsletters and minutes to the website
• Occasional website copy editing
• Track engagement on our website

Events

• Assist with preparing for all events including the AGM, Members’ Meetings and other events as required
• Take minutes at all Trustee Meetings, Members’ Meetings, Policy Group meetings and the AGM
• Occasionally attend external events as a NAoS rep

Campaigning

• Be a central part of any campaigning we do, supporting and liaising with working groups

Operational activity

• Support policy and campaigning as directed by Programme Director
• Support the running of the policy subgroups as required
• Reviewing work

Person specification

Essential:

• Self-motivated, organised and flexible – able to manage multiple projects and priorities and able to work independently
• Excellent communication, writing, design and interpersonal skills
• Confident dealing with a wide range of stakeholders and able to represent NAoS at the occasional external meeting

Desirable:

• Knowledge of the health landscape in Scotland
• Experience liaising with multiple stakeholder groups

Scran Academy is an Edinburgh youth work charity, supporting young people facing poverty and trauma to succeed through our innovative education and employment programmes.

We exist to alleviate poverty and provide opportunities for all young people, no matter their background or barrier. We do this by creating real-life experiences and positive adult relationships that help shine a light on the strengths and aspirations of young people. We use food, cooking and real-life responsibility through our café and catering social enterprises to build experiences and form relationships that change young people’s lives.

We’re currently looking for a talented, experienced Kitchen Supervisor to join the frontline team that helps young people develop in ways that are meaningful to them.

This is not your average Kitchen Supervisor role!This is an exciting opportunity to support the delivery of our flagship NHS employability café and to help young people thrive in a professional catering environment. Working as an essential part of our dedicated team, the successful candidate will help us deliver strong kitchen standards, reliable service and meaningful social impact.

We are therefore looking for an experienced, proactive chef who chimes with our values and takes pride in producing consistently good food. The successful candidate will work closely with the Kitchen Manager, supervise the kitchen team and take charge of day-to-day kitchen operations when the Kitchen Manager is absent.

Working with young people on employment and work-experience placements will be part of the fabric of the job. For many, this may be their first professional kitchen environment, so compassion, patience, clear communication and a non-judgemental approach are essential.

This role embodies our values: We Love, We Trust, We Unite and We Lead:

We Love – the successful candidate will nurture young people. They will care deeplyand see all behaviour as communication that deserves a dignified response. Theywill be non-judgemental and take a trauma-informed approach.

We Trust – the successful candidate will believe in the potential of young people. hey will trust them to be the expert of their own life and circumstance. They will

We Unite– the successful candidate will bring people together and help create a safe, respectful kitchen where teamwork, communication and stepping outside

comfort zones are supported and encouraged.

We Lead – the successful candidate will lead by example and help young people

recognise their own ability to lead. They will be ready to take responsibility when

required, listen to others and provide a platform for young people to learn and thrive.

Introduction

Community Land Scotland is recruiting a Partnership Coordinator for the Inclusive Ownership project.

Inclusive Ownership is a new five-year UK-wide partnership funded by The National Lottery Community Fund. The project brings together Community Land Scotland, CLES (Centre for Local Economies), The Ubele Initiative, Shared Assets, Coalfields Regeneration Trust and Cwmpas to support more communities to take ownership of land and buildings.

The project focuses on urban and post-industrial communities and aims to make community ownership more accessible, particularly for communities facing higher levels of deprivation and Black and Minoritised communities. Through direct community support, policy development, learning and partnership working, the project will help communities develop sustainable, income-generating assets and contribute to community wealth building and local economic resilience.

About the role

he Partnership Coordinator will play a central role in the successful delivery of the Inclusive Ownership project, supporting collaboration between partners across Scotland, Wales and England.

Working closely with the Inclusive Ownership Manager, the postholder will help coordinate project activity, maintain strong communication between partners and ensure the project operates effectively. The role will support governance, learning, monitoring and evaluation, partnership communications and stakeholder engagement.

The Partnership Coordinator will help ensure learning is shared across the partnership, support the delivery of the Partnership Board and Advisory Board, and contribute to developing a collaborative and inclusive approach to project delivery.

This role is ideally suited to someone who enjoys bringing people together, keeping things organised and creating the systems and processes to help others succeed.

As a key member of the Inclusive Ownership team, the Partnership Coordinator will support the project’s aim of making community ownership more accessible to communities that have traditionally faced barriers to ownership, including communities experiencing higher levels of deprivation and Black and Minoritised communities. The Inclusive Ownership team including the Manager, Policy Officer and Partnership Coordinator form part of the wider Community Land Scotland team.

The main objectives of this post, and outcomes to be delivered are to:

• Coordinate partnership activity across Scotland, Wales and England to support the successful delivery of the Inclusive Ownership project.
• Build strong relationships with partners and support effective communication across the project.
• Support the Partnership Board and Advisory Board and help ensure effective project governance.
• Organise cross-nation learning activities, meetings and events that bring partners together.
• Support monitoring, evaluation and reporting across the partnership.
• Help create an inclusive and collaborative partnership culture that supports communities to take ownership of land and buildings.