Top job! Chief Executive Officer
- Part time
- up to £60,000 pro-rata
- On site: Aberdeen
- Closing 15th June 2026
Avenue provides a safe and supportive space for children and families across Aberdeen and North East Scotland who are experiencing separation, family conflict and relationship breakdown. When times get tough, we offer inclusive and holistic support to help them find a way forward which is right for them.
For over 70 years Avenue has been providing mental health and relationship support across the Northeast. We are an independent charity but also proud to be part of the wider Relationship Scotland network, a 21 strong membership organisation, which facilitates a national presence throughout the country and provides a platform from which to influence government, policy makers and the wider sector.
As Chief Executive, you will provide strategic leadership to a committed and talented team, working closely with our Trustees and supporters. You will help Avenue continue to be here for people right across Grampian.
If you are an inspiring leader, who is passionate about making a meaningful difference to people’s lives, we would be delighted to hear from you. Together we can continue to make a positive difference to people living in the region that they will carry with them for the rest of their lives.
Top job! Strategic Business Development Manager
- Full time
- £40,000
- On site: Annan, Dumfries & Galloway
- Closing 22nd June 2026
Help shape the future of Annan Harbour
Annan Harbour Action Group (AHAG) is entering an exciting new chapter.
Following years of planning, community engagement and partnership building, we have begun the multi-million-pound construction phase of our ambitiousRegenerating Annan Harbourproject. This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform a historic harbour into a vibrant, sustainable community destination.
We are now seeking an experienced and entrepreneurial Strategic Business Development Manager to help shape what comes next.
Working closely with our Chair, Trustees and partners, you will help create the activities, partnerships and income streams that will underpin the long-term future of Annan Harbour and support the facilities planned for completion in 2028.
This is a rare opportunity to build something lasting — creating economic, social and community impact for Annan and the wider region.
The role
You will lead the development of new opportunities that strengthen our sustainability and future growth by:
- Identifying and developing new income-generating opportunities
- Building relationships with partners across community, public and private sectors
- Managing and coordinating projects from concept through to delivery
- Supporting commercial thinking and innovation across the organisation
- Working with Trustees and stakeholders to help deliver AHAG's long-term vision
- Supporting the development of a sustainable operating model for the future harbour facilities
- Raising the profile and visibility of AHAG and its work
About you
We are looking for someone who combines strategic thinking with practical delivery.
You might currently work in:
- business development
- community regeneration
- partnerships
- economic development
- social enterprise
- heritage or visitor development
- income generation or fundraising
You will ideally bring:
- A successful track record in developing projects, partnerships or income streams
- Strong relationship-building and networking skills
- Experience managing projects and delivering outcomes
- Commercial awareness combined with community values
- The ability to move comfortably between strategy and hands-on delivery
- Excellent communication and influencing skills
Most importantly, you will share our belief that community-led regeneration can create lasting positive change.
Why join us?
This is an opportunity to play a central role in one of South Scotland's most exciting community regeneration projects and help shape a legacy for future generations.
Lead a trusted local charity supporting families when they need it most.
Home-Start Perth and Kinross is seeking an inspiring and values-led Chief Executive to lead our charity into its next chapter.
For over 40 years, we have supported families across Perth and Kinross through compassionate, practical and non-judgemental support. Working alongside trained volunteers and skilled staff, we help parents with young children build confidence, resilience and stronger family relationships — because childhood can’t wait.
We are now looking for an experienced and collaborative leader who can provide strategic direction, strengthen our organisation and build on our reputation as a trusted community partner.
Based in Perth, this is an exciting opportunity to lead a respected local charity that makes a genuine difference to families with children under five. You will work closely with our Board of Trustees, staff team, volunteers, partners and funders to ensure Home-Start Perth and Kinross continues to deliver safe, high-quality and family-centred support across the region.
About the role
As Chief Executive, you will provide both strategic and operational leadership across the organisation. You will guide the charity through a period of positive development and improvement, helping to strengthen systems, support the team, enhance partnerships and secure long-term sustainability.
You will:
- Provide inspirational leadership to staff and volunteers
- Work closely with the Board of Trustees to deliver strategy and strong governance
- Ensure excellent safeguarding and high-quality support for families
- Build strong relationships with funders, partners and stakeholders
- Oversee finance, fundraising, operations and organisational performance
- Champion the charity across Perth and Kinross and within the wider Home-Start network
This role requires a leader who combines strategic thinking with warmth, emotional intelligence and a hands-on approach.
About you
We are looking for someone who brings:
- Senior leadership or management experience within the charity, public, community, family support, health, education or social care sectors
- Experience of leading teams through change and improvement
- Strong understanding of safeguarding, governance and accountability
- Financial and organisational management experience
- The ability to build trusted relationships with funders, partners and stakeholders
- Excellent communication and leadership skills
- A collaborative, calm and values-driven leadership style
- A genuine commitment to supporting children, parents and families
Experience in family support, volunteer-led services or the Scottish voluntary sector would be an advantage.
Why join Home-Start Perth and Kinross?
Home-Start Perth and Kinross is a small, dedicated and welcoming organisation with deep roots in the local community. Our trained volunteers provide practical and emotional support to families in their homes and communities, helping parents navigate challenges including isolation, mental health pressures, financial difficulties and parenting stress.
We believe in the power of relationships, kindness and early intervention to change children’s lives for the better.
This is an opportunity to:
- Lead a respected and impactful local charity
- Work with an experienced and committed team
- Support and develop an incredible network of volunteers
- Shape the future of family support across Perth and Kinross
- Make a lasting difference to children and families in your community
Location
Perth, with travel across Perth and Kinross, and Dundee, as required.
Top job! CEO
- Part time
- £42,500 pro-rata
- Remote: Home based with regular Falkirk District site visits
- Closing 24th June 2026
About FOSS: Friends of Scottish Settlers (FOSS - SC050254) envisions a Falkirk District that is multicultural, multilingual, and welcoming, where local people, organisations, and services are equipped, supported, and willing to cultivate wellbeing, solidarity, community, curiosity, and respect among newcomers and longtime residents. Through befriending and other voluntary activities, FOSS enables newcomers to Falkirk District to build links and bridges with other locals, shaping and making use of the knowledge, networks and services we all need to live full, self-determined lives.
FOSS builds fruitful relationships through a culture of integrity, respect, solidarity, empowerment, and welcome. We began as an informal befriending project for resettled Syrian families in 2016, and, primarily through a befriending model, now engage a range of newcomers to Falkirk District including refugees and people in the asylum system. With partnership working, targeted activities and programmes, fundraising, advocacy, and good information, FOSS enables local volunteers and newcomers to strengthen and proliferate support networks within our communities. This also helps us to act constructively together in response to rapidly changing world events and policy that impact our lives.
Purpose of the post: The Chief Executive Officer is responsible for the strategic leadership, operational management, and sustainability of FOSS. Working closely with the Board of Trustees, the postholder will ensure high-quality service delivery, strong partnerships, effective governance, and a clear strategic direction rooted in the lived experience of newcomers and volunteers.
The CEO will provide leadership to staff and volunteers, steward organisational resources responsibly, and represent FOSS as a trusted partner and advocate within Falkirk and beyond.
Top job! Chief Executive Officer
- Full time
- £70,000
- Hybrid: Glasgow - Expectation of presence in office at least 2 days a week
- Closing 28th June 2026
Job Purpose & Context
As JustRight Scotland continues to mature as a nationally significant human rights organisation, the CEO will lead the next phase of development—delivering our current Paving Routes to Justice strategy and preparing for our next beyond 2029, strengthening organisational sustainability, establishing a more visible and impactful policy presence, and scaling impact.
The CEO of JustRight Scotland is the organisation’s strategic lead, with oversight of our four centres of legal excellence and our policy, communications and participation work. The CEO is responsible for leading implementation of the organisational strategy to deliver JustRight Scotland’s mission to use the law to defend and extend people’s rights in Scotland. Reporting to the Board of Trustees, the CEO is the accountable officer for the charity, responsible for strategic planning and financial sustainability. The CEO is the primary link between the organisation’s committed staff team and the Board.
The CEO is an ambassador for JustRight Scotland. As a strategic leader in the Human Rights sector, the CEO will represent JustRight Scotland at senior levels across civil society and government. They will build and sustain strategic relationships to influence policy and systems change, and to build the profile and reputation of the organisation in Scotland, the UK and internationally.
JustRight Scotland operates in a dual structure of SCIO and LLP, which requires collaborative governance between senior leaders to ensure alignment across these structures. The organisation operates a distributed leadership model in which the Senior Executive Team, comprising the CEO, the Chief Operating Officer and the two Legal Directors (who are also the LLP Partners), share authority and responsibility for senior leadership of the organisation. This is intended to ensure wellbeing, innovation and adaptive capacity at leadership level, aligned with shared values and strategy. The CEO will therefore work closely with the Legal Directors, building on their significant expertise, ensuring a clear and consistent organisational voice.
This is a unique opportunity to lead one of Scotland’s most influential human rights organisations at a pivotal stage in its journey. We are seeking an inspiring, strategic and values-driven leader who can build on JustRight Scotland’s strong foundations and help shape the future of rights-based change.
We would be especially interested in hearing from candidates who have:
A strong understanding of human rights law, principles and practice, as well as the lived experience of people in Scotland, alongside credibility as a leader within the charity and/or human rights sector.
An understanding of how law, policy and lived experience interact to drive social change.
Experience of working in partnership with people with lived experience to help influence and shape strategic direction.
An understanding of the current challenges facing the charity and human rights sectors, and the approaches required to support long-term organisational sustainability.
My Support Day is currently seeking new Board Members. My Support Day 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 families and loved ones who are affected by someone else's substance use,
The main aim of My Support Day is to support families who are affected by someone else's substance use. My Support Day is a charity based within South Lanarkshire which supports families and loved ones who have been affected by someone else’s substance use. The support is person centred, and individuals are supported via 1:1, support group both face to face and online.
My Support Day are provision holders and distributors of Naloxone.
We are also in partnership between Liber8 to deliver the service FREE – Family Recovery Everyone Everywhere. This service is based across South Lanarkshire to access one-to-one support, group support, learning and development and events for the whole family. This service will also offer counselling, mediation and therapeutic services to Individuals using the service which can tailor their support to suit their needs.
Our Board wishes to expand its skills base and welcomes individuals with relevant financial, community, business or lived experience. We are looking to attract individuals with skills and experience ranging from social media, human resources, community learning & development, legal, finance/fundraising, marketing and, most importantly, an interest in the wellbeing of families who are affected by someone else's substance use with a passion to make family recovery visible.
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
Dewar Arts Awards Charity Co-ordinator
- Part time
- £46,000 pro-rata
- Remote: with meetings in Glasgow/Edinburgh
- Closing 26th June 2026
The Dewar Arts Awards is seeking a Charity Co-ordinator to help manage and develop its programme of support for talented young people in Scotland.
Are you an organised, energetic professional with a passion for supporting the next generation of creative talent in Scotland?
The Dewar Arts Awards is seeking to appoint a new Charity Co-ordinator to join our team. Reporting to the Chair, you will be the main point of contact for applicants and award holders across Scotland, helping them access funding for their artistic development. You will help support a programme that has provided funding to more than 1,300 young people since the Awards were established.
About the Role
This is a flexible and remote part-time position (averaging 17.5 hours per week). While day-to-day duties are carried out from home, you will need to attend four main Trustee meetings each year, alongside key stakeholder meetings, typically held in Edinburgh or Glasgow. Because our work is focused primarily in the Central Belt, this role is ideal for someone living within a two-hour travel radius of these cities.
Key responsibilities include:
- Applications and Nominations: Handle nominations received by email, prepare applications for Trustee meetings, circulate required financial and communication papers, notify applicants of decisions, and update partner organisations.
- Managing Awards: Setting up paper and electronic files for successful awardees, arranging payment of awards (primarily by BACS), keeping accurate records, and following up each year with successful awardees to secure annual/final reports.
- Trustee Meetings: Organising four Trustee meetings each year in Glasgow or Edinburgh, securing venues and catering, scheduling meetings, and creating agendas in consultation with the Chair of Trustees. The role also includes progressing matters arising, promptly producing and circulating minutes, preparing AGM documentation, and ensuring the Annual Report & Accounts are ready for approval at the August meeting.
- General Administration: Respond to enquiries, maintain award schedules, submit signed accounts to OSCR, liaise with advisers, manage tenders, maintain backups and statutory registers, purchase supplies, and ensure timely invoice payments, in adherence with GDPR.
Package & Terms
- Salary: £23,000 per annum (reviewed annually)
- Hours: Part-time, 17.5 hours per week (flexible hours, though workload varies across the year)
- Holidays: 15 days / 105 hours inclusive of bank holidays, taken flexibly
- Location: Remote (Scotland), with meetings in Glasgow/Edinburgh
- Prerequisites: Two references, a Disclosure Scotland check, and the right to work in the UK.
Join the Barrhead Housing Governing Board
Help Shape the Future of Homes and Communities
Do you want to make a real difference in your community?
Barrhead Housing is looking for passionate and committed people to join our Governing Board. This is a rewarding voluntary opportunity to influence decisions, shape our future direction, and help deliver high-quality homes and services for people across East Renfrewshire.
Why Join Us?
- Make a meaningful impact on local communities
- Help shape the future of a successful, community-led organisation
- Work alongside dedicated and experienced Board members
- Receive training, support, and development opportunities
- Gain valuable governance and leadership experience
Who Are We Looking For?
You don't need previous Board experience. We're looking for people with enthusiasm, sound judgement, and a commitment to making a difference. We are particularly interested in those with experience in:
- Digital strategy
- Housing development and asset management
- Sustainability and climate change
- Finance, audit, risk, or performance management
The One World Shop was established over 40 years ago and has played a lead role in the Fair Trade movement in Scotland, including helping Edinburgh and Glasgow become Fairtrade cities and Scotland to become a Fair Trade Nation.
As well as running a thriving city centre shop, we have an online shop and we support schools, faith groups and local businesses to learn about and sell fair trade products. We currently employ 7 paid staff and over 20 volunteers. Our aim is to reduce poverty in deprived areas of the world through trading fairly and we are committed to reducing our carbon footprint and promoting low-carbon living.
We are seeking to appoint several new voluntary Management Committee members; we are particularly looking at people with skills and experience in any of the following:
- Human Resources
- Property, leases, surveying
- Retail sales and management
- Business management
- Finance, funding, ethical investment
Board meetings are held every two months by Zoom or occasionally in the shop.
Join our Board of Directors
Jazz Scotland is a charity promotes, supports and champions jazz and related musics in Scotland.
We’ve recently secured Multi-Year Funding from Creative Scotland, providing us with a stable foundation to grow. Now, we’re looking for new voices and fresh perspectives to help us hit the right notes as we expand our impact.
Who Are We Looking For?
You don’t need to be a professional musician to join us. We are looking for people who are passionate about helping Scotland’s community of audiences, students, and musicians thrive.
We are particularly interested in hearing from people with experience in:
- Education & Community Engagement
- Finance
- Marketing & Fundraising
A Note on Representation: Jazz is built on improvisation, diversity, and innovation. We want our Board to reflect those values. We are working hard to address current imbalances and particularly keen to welcome applications from women, underrepresented genders, and people of all backgrounds and ages. We want our leadership to be as diverse as the music we celebrate.