Scottish Women’s Aid has an opportunity to join their policy team. This is a new and exciting position within the policy team, where the role holder will be responsible for working on a diverse range of policy areas, all connecting to domestic abuse, violence against women and girls, and gender related topics. They will work closely with the Membership, Training and Communications teams.
Working across third sector organisations you will build and maintain relationships to input to policy and influencing, both as SWA as well as jointly with others. You will maintain good working relationships with civil servants, challenging ideas and find solutions where necessary.
The role includes inputting to and submitting consultation responses, researching and writing briefings, preparing for SWA to providence evidence in parliament, keep our communications team up to date with policy inputs and changes, and input to good practice stemming from policy changes. All of these roles, requiring great working relationships across the organisation, but especially with Membership and Training.
We’re looking for someone who has:
Join Connect, Scotland’s only membership body for Parent Councils, to help deliver an exciting new parent engagement project – the Scottish Assembly for Parents and Carers project and make a real difference to education policy.
Our vision
At Connect, we’re on a mission to transform the educational landscape in Scotland. Our vision is crystal clear: a Scotland where every child and young person has a thriving future, fuelled by the power of engaged parents shaping their educational journey. But we’re not just dreaming about it, we’re making it happen by advancing effective parental engagement, inclusion, and representation in early years, primary, and secondary school communities, supporting thousands of parent groups throughout Scotland, and encouraging educators to value and embrace effective parental engagement.
The opportunity
Connect seeks a Project Co-ordinator to help deliver the new Scottish Assembly for Parents and Carers and the postholder will make a significant contribution to improving education policy in Scotland. Funded by the Scottish Government, the successful candidate will be facilitating dialogues and research with parents from across Scotland. This is a fantastic opportunity to create a new way of ensuring that the voices and views of parents and carers are properly heard.
Why Connect
Join a small, dedicated team committed to making a real difference. Initially, this is a 12-month contract but one that could develop into a permanent opportunity contingent on funding. We embrace flexible working arrangements that respect your work-life balance. Enjoy 30 days of holiday (including bank holidays) and additional leave between Christmas and New Year. Here, you won’t just find co-workers, you’ll discover enthusiastic allies in a cause that truly matters.
We’re looking to appoint new members to our Board of Trustees, to help develop our long-term plans and oversee their delivery. If you’re passionate about the environment and community climate action, have good independent judgement and are a strong strategic thinker, this could be a great role for you.
If you’ve got experience in any of the following, fantastic – fundraising; equality, diversity and inclusion; research and evaluation; digital leadership; project management; youth engagement; and including lived experience of food or transport poverty are all priority areas for us. If yours is a different background, still come and talk to us too. Everyone brings something unique, and we could well be looking for yours.
We particularly want to add more diversity to our Board in its make-up, knowledge, age and experience. So we’re really keen to meet younger people, candidates from an ethnic minority background and/ or anyone who has taken part in an FEL project or used any of our services. Don’t worry if you don’t have any previous Board experience – we’ll give you the training and support you need to play your part.
Come and join our team! We have an opening for an enthusiastic individual, interested in taking their first step in a career in grant giving operations, grant management, or business management within the charity or higher education sector.
As a member of the Carnegie Trust’s small staff team, the Grants Assistant will support the effective delivery of the Trust’s grant funding programmes and provide wider support across the Trust’s operations. The postholder will not only work to support the Trust’s activities, but will spend one day per week studying at Heriot-Watt University on their Graduate Apprenticeship programme, working towards an MA (Hons) in Business Management.
Role requirements
Knowledge, skills and experience
Eligibility for Graduate Apprenticeship
To secure a place on the Graduate Apprenticeship (Business Management) programme, the successful candidate must be:
We are the first port of call for social entrepreneurs and our mission is to make social enterprise accessible, achievable and aspirational.
We are looking for new board members to broaden and strengthen the skills and experience of our existing board. As a board member, you will oversee our governance and financial arrangements, ensuring that we operate in line with best practice and our charitable objectives. You will play an important role in our future direction and will provide support and motivation to the board and the Chief Executive.
While we welcome applications from anyone who meets the role’s description and person specification, we particularly want to reach individuals who can demonstrate specialist knowledge, skills, and lived or learned experience in one or more of the following:
As accredited Investors in Diversity, we are committed to making our Board balanced and diverse, reflecting the people and communities we work with. Acknowledging our current board make-up and those ending their term this year, we particularly welcome applications from women and those who identify outside the gender binary, as well as people who bring a diversity of thought, mindset and background through their age (young people), sexuality, ethnicity, learning style or geography (rural/remote location).
Could you help us achieve more? We are looking for new Board Members who are dynamic, with capacity to contribute, and willing to share their expertise and ideally to also engage their network to broaden and deepen support for Venture Trust. An affinity with our work, supporting people in their development to overcome life challenges, is essential.
Our Trustees
The Board of Trustees lead the organisation bringing a range of expertise, skills and experience and offering objectivity, support and challenge, and policy and business insights working with the senior leadership team to shape and drive Venture Trust's strategy and plans.
Desirable Skills
We would be particularly interested in hearing from people with experience and expertise in:
• Trauma-informed approach to supporting people
• Finance
• Communications and social media
• Policy, criminal justice and legal
In return, we offer a comprehensive induction programme including charity trustee training, CPD as a trustee and opportunity to be part of a forward thinking, committed and impactful team working to help people transform their lives.
Additional Information
The positions are voluntary in a national third sector organisation that has important stature in Scotland.
South of Scotland Community Housing is recruiting a Full Time Partnership and Learning Manager to support the wider objectives and outcomes of the organisation.
SOSCH is an award winning Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) that supports the planning and delivery of community-led housing and regeneration across the South of Scotland. This role – which is being reinstated as a result of securing funding – will play a key role in helping SOSCH grow and sustain key partnerships, evidence the impacts of our work and grow the community-led housing model.
For this exciting opportunity, we are seeking application from individuals educated to degree level and/or with demonstrable relevant experience around key aspects of the role:
• Mapping and Building Strategic Partnerships;
• Research and Evaluation;
• Knowledge Exchange;
• Support to Funding Strategy and Outcomes-based Monitoring;
• Working to raise the profile of Community-led Housing in Southern Scotland – policy and lobbying; and
• Supporting Increased Diversity of Representation.
This Full-Time post - starting salary £35k pa plus employer pension contribution - is for a fixed period of 3 years with the intention to continue in the longer term subject to funding.
We have an exciting opportunity to join Alzheimer Scotland as a finance assistant.
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, we campaign for the rights of people with dementia, support vital dementia research and promote positive brain health.
We are seeking applications from individuals with strong administrative experience within a complex organisation and who possess the skills to take on the tasks outlined in the job description.
Prior exposure to a transactional finance function would be desirable.
The role will have a primary focus on our accounts receivable function ensuring all accounts receivable documents are issued, recorded, and reported on our systems timely and accurately. The role will also work with and support with the wider finance function and tasks.
You will be a strong communicator and able to balance competing priorities. You will have experience of working with a wide range of office systems including Microsoft 365 and databases or financial systems.
If you are interested by what you have read, and have the necessary skills, experience, and ability to make a success of this role, we would be delighted to hear from you.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within Alzheimer Scotland as a Community Activities Organiser across Mid & East Lothian. The Community Activities Organisers will work closely with our Dementia Advisor to develop activities and groups that respond to the needs of the local community. The post holder will work in partnership with colleagues, people with dementia and their families to:
Alzheimer Scotland take a blended approach to community groups, delivering a combination of online groups as well as in person. Proficiency and confidence in using and supporting use of digital platforms and social media are essential for this role.
Successful candidates will have a positive approach to dementia supported by excellent communication, networking skills and an empathic and positive attitude. Having a creative flair and being a self-starter would also be an advantage as well as having experience of working with people with dementia. A willingness to develop through ongoing learning is essential.
Occasional evening and weekend work may be required and a driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential to the role.
Looking for an opportunity to work for a flexible and family friendly organisation doing amazing work to support Scotland’s voluntary sector?
As SCVO’s Policy Assistant, you will have a unique opportunity to gain the skills and experience you’ll need for a policy career in the voluntary sector. This two year fixed term position will enable you to build your confidence in a range of policy and public affairs tasks, develop expertise in issues impacting on Scotland’s voluntary sector, and meet colleagues from across the sector.
You will support our policy work from day one by taking responsibility for our Policy Network, including facilitating and developing our online community, and managing online and in person events. Showing us that you have the skills and experience to do this will help to make your application stand out, but we’re also looking for a passion for policy and for the voluntary sector.
Part time hours and other flexible working options, including working from home for part of the week, will be fully considered. We encourage you to apply if you believe you meet most of the criteria in the person specification. We share our interview questions in advance. If you want to have a chat about the job or our flexible working approach, get in touch with us at recruitment@scvo.scot
SCVO is the membership organisation for the voluntary sector in Scotland and our mission is to champion the role of voluntary sector organisations in building a flourishing society and support them to do work that has a positive impact.