Join Our People and Culture Team

We are looking for an experienced and proactive People Business Partner to join our People and Communications Team. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives on building strong relationships, influencing positive change, and delivering strategic people solutions that support organisational goals.

As a trusted partner to managers and senior leaders, you will play a key role in workforce planning, employee engagement, organisational development, and change management. You will help shape a high-performance culture where employees feel supported, valued, and empowered to succeed.

About the Role

As People Business Partner, you will:

• Build strong partnerships with managers and senior leaders across designated business areas
• Provide expert advice and support on employee relations matters including performance management, absence, grievance, disciplinary and capability cases
• Support workforce planning, succession planning, talent development and recruitment activity
• Use people data and insights to identify trends and inform business decisions
• Lead and support change management and organisational development initiatives
• Contribute to the development and implementation of people policies and ensure compliance with employment legislation and best practice
• Champion diversity, equity and inclusion across all people practices
• Promote employee wellbeing, engagement and a positive workplace culture

About You

We are looking for someone who has:

• Proven experience in a People Business Partner or senior HR advisory role
• A CIPD Level 5 qualification or equivalent experience
• Strong knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice
• Experience of supporting managers with complex employee relations and absence management cases
• Experience of workforce planning, change management and policy development
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to use HR systems and people data to drive decision-making
• Excellent communication, relationship-building and influencing skills
• The ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a fast-paced environment

It would also be beneficial if you have:

• Experience working within a regulated sector such as healthcare or social care
• Experience supporting talent management and succession planning initiatives
• A full clean driving licence and willingness to travel between locations when required

What We’re Looking For

The successful candidate will be:

• A trusted and credible advisor
• Passionate about delivering excellent people support
• Committed to diversity, equality and inclusion
• Honest, professional and approachable
• Flexible and solutions-focused
• Committed to continuous professional development

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to make a real impact within a values-led organisation. You will work alongside a supportive team, partner with leaders across the business, and play an important role in shaping the employee experience.

We offer:

• Competitive salary
• Opportunities for professional development
• A supportive and inclusive working environment
• The chance to make a real impact in the community

Our employee benefits:

• Access to Health and Wellbeing resources such as, 24 hour GP service, physiotherapy, 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and in-house Mental Health First Aiders
• Opportunity to participate in internal support networks such as employee engagement, wellbeing and digital forums
• Discounts at major online and High Street retailers

If you are looking for a role where you can influence change, support people to thrive, and contribute to organisational success, we would love to hear from you.

Join Us at Staf – Be Part of our work with young people moving on from the care and justice system.

Staf are delighted to be recruiting for a new role to support the expansion of Youth Justice Voices our national participation project for care and justice experienced young people.

This is an exciting opportunity for the right applicant to support a prestigious, creative and dynamic youth-led project which is influencing real change in the care and justice systems in Scotland. If you are passionate about driving change and developing meaningful participation opportunities and relationships with young people, then we want to hear from you.

Background:

Established in 1998, Staf (Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare Forum) is a membership organisation for all those working with young people leaving care. Staf is a national organisation which represents all 32 Local authorities in Scotland

At Staf (Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare Forum), we believe that young people’s voices should shape the systems that affect their lives. That’s why we developed Youth Justice Voices to ensure that young people with experience of the care and justice system are heard, valued, and influential in driving change.

The Role

We are looking for passionate, skilled, and values-driven individual who will ensure the effective delivery and continuous development of a high-quality national participation project, enabling young people with lived experience of the care and justice systems to influence policy, practice and service design.

The role requires a balance of project management, staff supervision, stakeholder engagement, learning development and direct work with young people, ensuring that participation activity is safe, ethical, impactful and aligned with Staf’s values and strategic priorities.

This role presents an opportunity to lead a nationally significant project that supports young people with lived experience to influence meaningful change within youth justice systems in Scotland.

The postholder will play a key role in ensuring that participation is embedded, impactful and contributes to improved outcomes for young people.

Responsible for: Youth Justice Development Worker / Participation Assistants.

Why This Matters

At staf we create meaningful opportunities for young people to share their experiences, influence policy, and shape practice across Scotland. Our work supports participation that is authentic, trauma-informed, and rooted in relationships.

This is your chance to be part of something that makes a real difference.

If you

• Are committed to children’s rights, participation, and social justice
• Have experience working with young people, particularly those facing adversity
• Have experience of superivising a team
• Can work flexibly and creatively in a dynamic environment
• Value reflection, learning, and trauma-informed practice
• Shaer our values : We listen, we care, we love

Then we would love to hear from you.

What You’ll Get

• The opportunity to influence real change for young people in the care and justice system
• A supportive, reflective, and values-led team culture
• Opportunities for learning, development, and progression
• Flexible working and a strong commitment to staff wellbeing

If you are passionate about amplifying young people’s voices and want to be part of a team that is shaping the future of youth justice in Scotland, we would love to hear from you.

This new role would suit someone who is naturally very well-organised, able to build strong relationships and garner support, enjoys working with lots of partners, has experience of Scottish politics, and is committed to climate action and justice. Amidst the self-evident climate emergency it is vital that we re-establish the priority of climate action amongst the public, with politicians and decision makers, and win wide support for urgent change and leadership.

You’ll lead on our engagement with stakeholders, MSPs, government officials and party staff and work to build support through sympathetic groups such as unions and the faith community, in order to help to mobilise our supporters and grow the strong public support for action. You’ll be part of the small SCCS secretariat team that provides support to our diverse members and works with them to plan and deliver advocacy and campaigns activities, so you’ll need to be a great communicator, enthusiastic, proactive and willing to be flexible.

With Scottish elections taking place in 2026, this is an important time to be influencing climate policy. This role will play an essential part in helping the Scottish climate movement navigate the new political context, boost our impact and win deeper support for urgency and action.

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 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

• Designing an advocacy strategy with our members and leading on the delivery of this, with activities likely to include producing briefings, meeting with MSPs and officials, giving evidence to committees attending party conferences and responding to consultations, amongst other ways identified in work plans to influence politicians.
• Building and deepening relationships with MSPs, officials and party staff, building support for SCCS’s policy priorities.
• Attending and organising stakeholder gatherings to recruit more diverse members and build support from unions, the faith community and sympathetic organisations to deliver a more unified, consistent and powerful political voice for urgent climate action which, in turn, will help influence the politicians that rely on these key stakeholders for votes and funding.
• Ensuring political influencing is connected with media work, mobilising supporters and wider stakeholders, and running public campaigns to build and maintain the public support for action.
• Day to day monitoring and analysis of the Scottish Parliament, identifying opportunities and sharing information with members.
• Working with UK organisations on relevant Westminster/reserved matters that affect Scotland, and with TCC, our sister UK coalition, to develop their Local Intelligence Hub so that it becomes a platform Scottish campaigners can use to track advocacy and impact.
• Supporting members – especially smaller organisations – with their advocacy, offering advice and support when needed.

Personal Specification

Knowledge, experience and skills

Essential:

• A proven track record in a similar or related role, which included influencing parliamentary processes, policy and campaigning, or won support with diverse stakeholders;
• Ability to work collaboratively across the political spectrum and with multiple partners to build and maintain strong relationships;
• A strong understanding of Scotland’s political landscape;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, suitable for different audiences and purposes;
• Excellent IT skills;
• Able to work flexibly and identify and act on opportunities for continually improving ways – of working;
• The ability to work effectively in a small team;
• Able to prioritise and organise a busy workload;
• Demonstrable commitment to action on climate change and climate justice.

Desirable:

• Experience facilitating meetings and organising events;
• Experience of working with the media.

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: £35,000.
• Hours: 5 days a week (35 hours). 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 Scottish Parliament, Scottish Government offices and other locations 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 Coalition Manager.
• Holiday: 28 days annual leave plus 11 days statutory holidays.
• Pension: Stop Climate Chaos Scotland operates a pension plan with NEST and our pension benefits exceed the statutory minimum.
• We can only employ candidates with the right to work in the UK.

Are you a skilled administrator looking to contribute to a project that supports women and their families?

This role could be for you!

About the Service

Wish (Women in Safe Homes) provides accommodation and support for women escaping domestic abuse and who are at risk of experiencing homelessness.

We provide secure, safe accommodation to up to 30 women and their families in individual tenancies across Edinburgh and provide holistic support to them and their families.

About the Role

Your main duties will involve:

• Ensuring our recording system Oasis is accurate and up to date

• Updating our housing benefit and service charge payments

• Assisting in monitoring and evaluation requirements and updating record keeping systems

About You

You should be an experienced administrator with the ability to manage your own workload. You will be values led and committed to supporting the service and its users to thrive. You should also:

• Have experience of office administration, including Word and Excel

• Be a confident decision maker and creative problem solver

• Having knowledge of the benefits system would also be beneficial

• Be highly organised

How we’ll support you

You’ll be joining an experienced and knowledgeable team who will give you full training on all aspects of your role. You’ll also have access to wider Cyrenians support, including our learning and development programme, and staff wellbeing services.

About us

At Cyrenians we tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness by taking a Public Health Approach to Homelessness Prevention. We take a values-led and relationships-based approach to delivering all our services.

Read more about our impact and our values.

To work directly with neurodivergent children and young people (diagnosed and self-identifying) up to age 25. This role encompasses a variety of person-centred support offers (both in-person and remote), including 1:1 issue-based advocacy, coaching support, non-instructed advocacy and transitions.

As our service develops, some elements of the role may involve working with small groups of neurodivergent children and young people. Whilst travel will predominantly be required across the areas highlighted above, further travel across Scotland may be required to meet the needs of children and young people in service.

You will support neurodivergent children and young people to identify the challenges they face and work collaboratively with them to develop plans that promote positive outcomes, uphold their rights, and support their wellbeing. This may include helping them to understand their neurotype, recognise their strengths and support needs, and communicate these effectively to others so they are well supported across all areas of their lives. You will also contribute to the ongoing development of resources.

We support children and young people through in-person sessions, virtual meetings, phone calls, email, and text. You will be an excellent communicator, able to adapt your approach to build strong, trusting relationships with neurodivergent children and young people, and engage effectively with a range of stakeholders.

This post may occasionally require weekend and/or evening work and will involve significant travel within the central belt. Our Children and Young People Specialists support young people in person and remotely. The post involves hybrid working, working from home and from our office in Edinburgh when required, as well as travel to support young people in person, including at meetings or in group settings.

Organisation profile

As an organisation founded upon lived experience, Mindroom champions all forms of neurodiversity and supports all kinds of minds. Our mission is to improve the quality of life for neurodivergent people by removing barriers, increasing opportunities and shaping a more accessible world.

About LGBT Health and Wellbeing

LGBT Health and Wellbeing was established in 2003 to improve the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ people across Scotland.

We are a national charity providing support services and community spaces that help people stay well, reduce isolation, and feel more connected.

We are recognised as a trusted and credible voice on LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing, particularly in areas such as mental health, trans wellbeing, and the experiences of LGBTQ+ elders.

At the heart of our work is a simple aim: a Scotland where LGBTQ+ people thrive, no matter who we are

You can read more about our work and impact in our latest Impact Report.

The Role

This role sits at the heart of how LGBT Health and Wellbeing show up for our community.

You’ll help make sure we are visible, connected, and rooted in the LGBTQ+ community. You will promote our services and events, engage actively across digital spaces, and help us be seen as an organisation that is of, for, and by the community.

Alongside this, you’ll play a key role in delivering campaigns and content that communicate our impact and support our fundraising. Working closely with your colleagues, you’ll help turn what we do into clear, compelling stories that reach the right people and make a difference.

This is a role for someone who enjoys being both creative and connected: equally comfortable creating content, building relationships online, and contributing to campaigns that grow our reach, impact and income.

About You

We’re looking for someone who is creative and connected. Someone who cares about our community, understands how to communicate with authenticity, and is motivated by making a real difference.

You don’t need to have done this exact role before, but you should bring a mix of experience, instinct, and values that align with what we’re trying to do.

Stepping Stones has 40 years of experience working in North Edinburgh, supporting children and families through both one-to-one support and group work across community settings and in the home.

Our vision is that all families supported by Stepping Stones are enabled to live happy, healthy and fulfilling lives which support children to thrive.

About the Role

Bump Start is Stepping Stones’ perinatal project which support families from pregnancy through the perinatal period to ensure babies have the best start in life. Bump Start is delivered in collaboration with Home-Start Edinburgh.

What You’ll Do

• Provide 1:1 support to families from pregnancy onwards through home visits
• Support parent to develop an attuned and nurturing relationship with their baby, using frameworks such as the Solihull Approach and Trauma Informed Practice
• Support the family with issues such as housing, benefits and access to resources
• Work collaboratively with Midwives, Health Visitors and other key stakeholders

What You Bring

We’re looking for someone with:

• Experience of supporting families from a diverse range of backgrounds
• An understanding of child development and how to support parents with babies
• Experience of working collaboratively to deliver the best outcomes for families

Who Cares? Scotland is Scotland’s only national independent membership organisation for Care Experienced people. Our strategic vision is to secure a lifetime of equality, respect, and love for Care Experienced people in Scotland.

At the heart of Who Cares? Scotland’s work are the rights of Care Experienced people, and the power of their voices to bring about positive change.

We provide individual lifelong relationship-based independent advocacy and a broad range of imaginative participatory and engagement opportunities for Care Experienced people across Scotland. We work alongside Corporate Parents and communities to broaden understanding and create change. We work with policy makers, leaders, and elected representatives locally and nationally to shape law, policy, and practice, working together to build on the aspirations of The Promise and secure positive change.

The post is primarily focused on the development, delivery, and evaluation of our Communities that Care work within schools primarily in Edinburgh but will feed into our national work too. Providing training and support to schools and other organisations across Scotland and leading on the evaluation and reporting will be key to this role.

The post holder will work with the Coordinator and existing Development Officer to deliver and report on an already-established programme of training and support for all schools in Edinburgh. The post holder will be responsible for liaising with all primary and secondary schools and key senior leaders within the local authority; providing ongoing training and support; gathering evaluation data via ongoing consultation and focus groups with teachers and pupils; and reporting on the impact of this work on the school community/wider local authority.

Whilst the post holder will have a principal focus on Edinburgh schools, they will also support the delivery of the Communities that Care model to schools and local authorities across the country. Participation is also a key part of this role, with the post holder leading on the development, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of local participation groups and supporting local Care Experienced people to engage with our wider membership offer.

The successful candidate will be joining Who Cares? Scotland at an exciting time, when the voices of those who are in or have experienced care are growing in power, individually and collectively – bringing with them insight, challenge, hope and change. While we would welcome the knowledge gathered through relevant qualifications, we are just as interested in relevant work experience.

We welcome and encourage applications from those with experience of care.

If this sounds like the role for you, we would love to hear from you. For an informal conversation about this opportunity please contact Ray MacLean at rmclean@whocaresscotland.org.

About WSDCS

At WSDCS, we ensure that deaf children have a voice and the support they need to thrive.

We work in partnership with deaf children, young people and their families, empowering them to ask for what they need, understand their rights and know that their voice matters.

We believe in the power of community. Deaf children belong not only to the deaf community but to many other communities — at school, in hobbies, in friendship groups and across all areas of life. We are committed to strengthening and connecting these communities, helping society become more confident and equipped to include, value and support deaf children so they can participate fully without barriers.

Role Purpose

We are seeking a trustee with expertise in fundraising, partnerships and income generation to help WSDCS grow its impact and secure resources for vital services.

You will work with the board and staff team to:

· Develop and guide WSDCS’ fundraising strategy

· Support the organisation in building partnerships and donor relationships

· Advise on campaign planning, grant applications and income diversification

· Help maximise opportunities for community engagement and fundraising events

Who Would Thrive on Our Board

You don’t need prior trustee experience, but you should bring:

· Experience in fundraising, development, partnerships, or income generation

· A passion for making a difference for deaf children and young people

· Ability to attend occasional in-person meetings in Glasgow city centre

We are looking for someone who can think strategically and creatively about income generation and help embed a culture of sustainable fundraising across the organisation.

What You’ll Bring

· Connection to/understanding of deafness or the deaf community

· Fundraising strategy, partnerships, and income generation

Why Join Us

As a WSDCS trustee, you will:

· Help shape strategic fundraising initiatives to support deaf children and families

· Influence the future sustainability of an impactful, community-focused charity

· Work alongside a passionate and experienced board and staff team committed to inclusion and accessibility

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) are Scotland’s leading advice charity. They support a network of Citizens Advice Bureaux, all operating as independent charities, to deliver frontline advice services in almost 300 locations.

The charity is driven by the strong belief that every person in Scotland should have access to free, impartial and confidential advice to help them make well-informed decisions. CAS looks at the problems we can all face at times and campaign for change where it is needed most. Their support and advice is available to all and is of particularly benefit to some of the most vulnerable people in our communities.

The Chair of the Board will lead a team of trustees dedicated to making a positive difference to the lives of people across Scotland. Crucial to ensuring the organisation fulfils its purpose by providing strategic leadership, the Chair leads the Board in offering support and constructive challenge to the Executive team, enabling CAS to successfully achieve its ambitions.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing leadership to the Board ensuring trustees fulfill their governance responsibilities.

• Inspiring and supporting the CEO and Executive team to deliver on strategic priorities.

• Fostering excellent relationships with members, Scotland’s network of 58 Citizens Advice Bureaux, at a governance level.

• Working closely with the CEO and Executive team to ensure that this network remains at all times well-positioned and forward looking in a challenging political and economic environment.

• Fulfilling a highly visible ambassadorial role for CAS, helping to further develop its profile and representation with government, other organisations and multiple stakeholders.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a highly experienced leader with a background in public, corporate and/or the charity sector, to drive impact at scale. Providing stewardship in the implementation of the CAS Strategy 2025- 2030 will make a real difference to so many peoples lives.

The Chair will gain unique insight into the social and economic issues in society and play an extremely fulfilling role in addressing these. A structured training programme will be provided to support development and enable the CAS Chair to excel in this role.

This is a voluntary, non-remunerated position and will require a time commitment of approximately two to four days per month.