People First Scotland is looking for a values-led Chief Executive to help shape the next chapter of an organisation that is run by and for people with learning disabilities. Established in 1997, People First Scotland is a national self-advocacy organisation supporting people with learning disabilities to speak up, make choices and have a meaningful say in the decisions that affect their lives. This is an important time to join People First Scotland. Following a period of organisational and governance change, we are looking for a Chief Executive who can work alongside our Board and members to build a strong, sustainable organisation in which member leadership is at the centre of how decisions are made.
As Chief Executive Your responsibilities will include developing and delivering the 2027–2030 business plan; supporting the Board to exercise its responsibilities with confidence; progressing a new governance model; ensuring strong financial management; leading income generation and diversification; and strengthening People First Scotland’s profile and influence across the disability rights, self-advocacy and social justice sectors.
You will bring senior leadership experience gained within the third sector, public sector or a similarly values-led organisation, with experience of working with or supporting a governance Board. You will also bring financial literacy, experience of business planning, income generation and funder relationships, alongside the ability to communicate clearly and accessibly with a wide range of audiences.
Above all, you will have a genuine commitment to the rights, agency and leadership of people with learning disabilities. You will be comfortable distributing and rebalancing power, listening to members and creating the conditions in which their voices genuinely shape the organisation.
We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of disability or learning disability and from people from communities currently underrepresented in third-sector leadership.
For a confidential discussion please contact Catriona Mackie or Linda Baldwin at Aspen People on 0141 212 7555.
Birthlink is in a period of significant organisational transformation. We are modernising systems, strengthening accountability, addressing legacy challenges, and resetting our culture to ensure consistent, trauma informed, safe and compliant practice across all service areas. We are looking for an exceptional Director to lead this next phase of development with clarity, authority, compassion and a strong values driven approach.
Birthlink supports adopted adults and care experienced people to access their records, understand their personal history, reconnect with family, and navigate complex statutory processes. We also support survivors of abuse in care to access information that informs their personal statements and applications to Scotland’s Redress Scheme.
We operate Scotland’s national Post Adoption Service, including the Adoption Contact Register (ACR), we are also a key Delivery Partner in Scotland’s Redress Scheme and Future Pathways Care Connect. Our Thrift Shops provide both vital revenue and meaningful community engagement.
Our work sits within a highly scrutinised national landscape shaped by the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, the wider Adoption and Care Experienced Policy Agenda, and evolving expectations around information governance, digital security, and access to historical records.
We are seeking a Director who can provide decisive strategic leadership, strengthen governance, modernise systems, and embed a culture where professional standards, transparency and responsibility are non negotiable. You will lead a cultural reset, address resistance where required, and ensure Birthlink operates with the discipline, compassion and trauma informed practice our beneficiaries deserve. You will work closely with the Board of Trustees, managers, funders, regulatory bodies and sector partners to increase Birthlink’s national influence and external profile.
You will bring substantial experience in governance, finance, performance and risk management, organisational development, and strategic planning. You will be confident navigating complex political, social and regulatory environments, and you will understand the challenges faced by people seeking access to historic records and information. You will be an impactful communicator, a credible spokesperson, and an experienced leader.
This is a rare opportunity to lead a charity with national significance at a pivotal moment in its development, strengthening its foundations, modernising its systems, and ensuring it continues to deliver safe, effective, trauma informed services for the people who rely on us.
Please consider the full job pack, which provides detailed information about the role, remit, and how to apply.
Are you an ambitious communications leader who wants your work to change lives? If the answer is yes, this could be the opportunity you have been waiting for. Bring your creativity, judgement and leadership to Right There and help make our impact impossible to ignore.
For over 200 years, Right There has helped prevent people becoming homeless and keep families together across Scotland. Last year alone, over 4,000 people received the support they needed to stay in their homes and close to the people they love. We have a proud history, an urgent mission and the ambition to reach even further. Now we need an exceptional communications leader to illuminate our work, strengthen trust in Right There and inspire the support that will make even greater impact possible.
This is a high-profile leadership opportunity at the heart of Right There. As a member of our Senior Management Team, you will influence organisational strategy, shape how Scotland understands our work and build the audiences, profile and support we need to achieve lasting change.
You will have the freedom and influence to strengthen our brand, bring our impact vividly to life and ensure that the voices and experiences of the people we support are heard with care and authenticity. This is an ambitious role with the scope to build understanding, challenge assumptions and use outstanding communications to help create lasting change.
Your role
Your first opportunity will be to bring our marketing, communications, PR, public affairs and digital activity together behind Our compelling vision. You will give Right There a clearer, stronger and more distinctive voice, while ensuring that everything we communicate remains rooted in the real experiences of the people we support.
Setting the direction. You will set the strategic direction for communications, public affairs and supporter engagement, building Right There’s profile, influence and connection with the people and communities we want to reach.
Joining up our activity. You will turn organisational priorities into clear, audience-led plans and deliver an integrated marketing and communications strategy with meaningful measures of awareness, engagement, influence and support.
Building our voice and influence. You will lead policy, press and public affairs activity so Right There is recognised as a credible voice and contributes meaningfully to debates affecting the people we support.
Connecting people to our work. You will shape internal communications, develop our website and content strategy, and make it easy for colleagues, supporters and communities to understand our priorities, programmes and impact.
Leading with care and confidence. You will develop a creative, high-performing team and set clear standards so communications are accessible and ethical.
What you bring
You will already be an accomplished leader in marketing, communications or PR, ideally within a charity or social-purpose organisation, and you will be ready to bring that experience to a mission with real urgency. You will combine strategic ambition with humanity: making thoughtful decisions, building respectful relationships and creating communications that honour the dignity, strengths and experiences of the people we support.
Our offer
This is a full-time role working 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday. You will be based at 15 Dava Street in Glasgow, with a hybrid approach that combines around three office days each week with flexibility to work remotely. Our offer includes six weeks’ annual leave pro rata, rising to eight weeks after your first year, membership of the People’s Pension, a cycle-to-work scheme and the option to purchase or sell annual leave.
If you are ready to use the power of communications to build understanding, challenge assumptions and help create lasting change across Scotland, we want to hear from you.
About Us
We are a charity that recently celebrated 200 years of standing alongside people in Scotland. Last year we supported over 4,000 people to stay in their homes and stay connected to the people they love.
Who we are
Alzheimer Scotland is Scotland’s national dementia charity. Our aim is to make sure nobody faces dementia alone. We provide support and information to people with dementia, their carers and families, campaign for the rights of people affected by dementia, fund vital dementia research and lead work to improve brain health, helping people understand the steps they can take to reduce their risk of dementia.
What you’ll do
We are looking for an ambitious partnership-builder who sees possibilities others miss and has the drive and determination to turn them into reality. You will identify untapped sectors, challenge conventional thinking and create distinctive and successful new partnerships that expand Alzheimer Scotland’s reach, influence and impact.
The opportunity extends far beyond traditional charity partnerships. Across sport, music, financial and legal services, brain health and wider community life, organisations are waiting to be connected with our mission in new ways. You will spot where our ambitions intersect, open doors that others overlook and build relationships that turn shared purpose into lasting impact.
This role goes beyond corporate fundraising or managing an existing portfolio of Charity of the Year supporters. You will originate and build new, senior-level strategic relationships, creating partnerships that can generate income and sponsorship while also unlocking training, joint campaigns, public engagement, knowledge-sharing and access to new audiences.
You will have the freedom and autonomy to originate ideas, build relationships and explore what a partnership could become with the judgement and focus to make it happen. From researching new sectors and identifying prospects, to shaping tailored propositions, working through delivery requirements and securing commitments, you will own the journey from first insight to lasting partnership. Working closely with the Director of Fundraising & Operations, you will draw on expertise across our Fundraising, Communications, Services and Practice, bringing the right colleagues into discussions at the right time. The ultimate aim is to create new partnerships that generate sustainable income for Alzheimer Scotland, alongside stronger awareness, engagement and opportunities to reach and acquire new supporters.
What you’ll have
You will bring a strong track record in strategic partnerships, business development or a related field. Crucially, you will be able to demonstrate how you have opened new relationships, influenced senior decision-makers and converted opportunities into tangible outcomes.
You will be naturally curious about different sectors, commercially astute and confident in developing an idea from an initial conversation into a convincing and sustainable proposal. You will be equally comfortable exploring a bold opportunity and doing the detailed follow-through needed to make it happen.
Experience in the charity sector or knowledge of dementia is welcome, but what matters most is your ability to create authentic partnerships that deliver meaningful and measurable value. Above all, you will be able to demonstrate how you have built a proposition or partnership from the ground up, exercising sound judgement and converting strategic potential into a practical, deliverable agreement.
The city of Belfast is a designated member of the World Health Organization (WHO) European Healthy Cities Network and has been since its establishment in 1987. Belfast Healthy Cities (BHC) has worked successfully during these years to implement the WHO requirements for designated cities within the local policy, political and administrative arrangements.
As secretariat for UK Healthy Cities and Towns Network, BHC will lead PREPARE. A threeyear UK-wide programme, working with the members, including Glasgow City Council and the UK Healthy Cities & Towns Network, alongside community, voluntary and statutory sector partners.
The programme will support communities to prepare for climate and health emergencies by bringing together lived experience, community knowledge and statutory emergency planning. It will create opportunities for communities to influence preparedness planning, develop practical tools and resources, and strengthen connections between communities and emergency planning structures.
PREPARE will deliver community preparedness conversations in Belfast and Glasgow; develop a lived-experience evidence brief; co-produce and test a Community Preparedness Framework; develop training resources for community and voluntary organisations; and produce policy learning for local and national emergency planners. Learning will be shared across the UK Healthy Cities and Towns Network and the WHO Healthy Cities Network.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in strengthening and supporting the third sector across Clackmannanshire. As a TSI Development Officer, you will work directly with voluntary and community groups, charities, social enterprises and volunteering, helping them to operate correctly, become more sustainable and make a lasting impact within their communities.
No two days are the same. You will have the opportunity to support emerging community initiatives, help organisations access funding, strengthen governance, build partnerships and connect people with opportunities that improve lives.
Working within a Third Sector Interface (TSI) means being at the heart of community development and local change. You will join a supportive and values-driven team that is committed to collaboration, inclusion and community empowerment.
Are you experienced in building community power and supporting communities to get active through walking and cycling schemes?
Are you passionate about tackling air pollution, supporting families to choose active travel, and raising the voices of communities most affected by climate change but least often heard? If so, we would love to hear from you!
We are particularly keen to hear from people who experience marginalisation and minoritisation or who are often excluded from decision-making processes. For example, people of colour; people from working-class backgrounds; people from LGBTQ+ and migrant communities; care-experienced young people and people with disabilities.
About us
Parents for Future Scotland began as a grassroots group of parents seeking to make climate action the norm among all parents in Scotland. We became a registered charity in 2024 and are now a small, self-employed team with a growing network of activists.
We seek to make climate action the norm among all parents in Scotland. We are growing our influence and reach across the country, supporting parents and communities to take action on climate change and work towards a climate-safe future for every child.
About the role
We are looking for an enthusiastic, community-focused Coordinator to support schools and families across Edinburgh to improve air quality and increase walking, wheeling and cycling to school.
Working with schools, parents, community partners and the Air Pollution Manager, you will help establish and develop walking buses, bike buses and other active travel initiatives. You will support parents and community members to develop the skills and confidence to lead their own initiatives, helping create lasting change within school communities.
This is a hands-on role involving relationship-building, community organising, volunteer development, training and practical support for active travel schemes and air pollution workshops. You will also help schools develop sustainable approaches to active travel, encourage peer-to-peer learning and contribute to the wider aims of Parents for Future Scotland.
Key responsibilities
Skills and experience
Essential
Desirable
What we offer
The role requires availability for at least three school commute mornings per week during term time (Monday–Friday).
There may be occasions when additional mornings are required, depending on project needs. Specific mornings will be agreed with the successful candidate and planned around the needs of participating schools and the wider project.
As this is a locally focused, hands-on role, applicants should live in or near Edinburgh and be able to travel to participating schools and community activities.
Help turn Comrie's heritage into lasting community benefit. Working with Comrie Heritage Group, colleagues and partners, you will develop opportunities that strengthen participation, improve the visitor experience and support Comrie Development Trust's long-term sustainability.
Join a small team delivering lasting benefits for Comrie. During this fixed-term appointment, turn agreed heritage priorities into practical results: progress towards museum Accreditation, heritage-led regeneration guided by the
Heritage Conservation Framework, and activities connecting people with local heritage. Work with the Community Engagement and Volunteer Co-ordinator and Business Development Manager to agree realistic milestones and keep delivery moving.
About you
You will bring strong relationship-building, communication and organisational skills, with experience turning shared projects into practical results. Working knowledge of museums, heritage, research or academia is particularly welcome.
Relevant paid, voluntary and community experience counts; curatorial qualifications are not required.
About Cranhill Development Trust
Cranhill Development Trust (CDT) is a community-led organisation working to improve the quality of life for people living in Cranhill and surrounding areas. We tackle poverty and inequality and create opportunities through community development, learning, employability, and health and wellbeing activities.
Purpose of the Role
The Youth Worker will plan and deliver a varied programme of activities for children and young people, creating safe, welcoming and inclusive opportunities where they can build friendships, develop confidence, learn new skills and have fun.
The role will have a particular focus on engaging children and young people who experience barriers to participation due to poverty, social isolation, inequality or exclusion. This includes supporting children and young people from minoritised communities, including refugee, asylum-seeking and newly arrived families, to feel welcomed, included and connected to their community.
The postholder will build trusted relationships with children and young people and ensure their voices and interests help shape the programme.
Working Pattern: The 21 hours can be worked flexibly across 3 or 4 days per week, depending on the successful candidate. This could be three 7-hour days or four shorter working days of approximately 5–6 hours.
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.