Scots Music (SMG) is an Edinburgh-based charity providing a programme of traditional music and song classes and events for adults.
Job Purpose:
To provide administrative support to ensure the efficient and professional running of the organisation and its activities.
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The Welcoming Association (TWA) Edinburgh (thewelcoming.org) is the only organisation in Edinburgh that specifically supports New Scots (asylum seekers, refugees and migrant people). The organisation has helped New Scots since 2000 by ensuring they feel at home in their new communities.
The Welcoming builds community by connecting locals and New Scots through social and cultural exchange and collaborating with others to share knowledge and influence positive change. We run a high-quality and responsive ESOL programme, employability, befriending, and energy advice, and offer many cultural activities, and have a unique track record of working with New Scots.
Role Overview:
We seek a passionate and motivated Community and Trust Fundraising Coordinator to join our team. This role is vital in securing funding from trusts, foundations, and the local community to support our ongoing projects and initiatives. The successful candidate will work closely with the CEO to identify funding opportunities, build relationships with key stakeholders, and craft compelling funding proposals.
Key Working Relationships:
Internal: Senior Management Team and project coordinators. Please refer to our organogram (attached).
External: Service users, funders, and partner agencies.
Additional information
Please note that you must already be eligible to work in the UK to be employed by The Welcoming Association.
The post holder will work from The Welcoming’s office on 20/1 Westfield Avenue, Edinburgh, EH11 2TT.
Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of The Welcoming. We welcome applications from BAME people, applicants with lived experience as refugees, or working with refugees, asylum seekers and vulnerable adults.
We are looking for a customer-focused, friendly, helpful, and well-organised administrator to support us in delivering the Social Enterprise Schools programme across the UK.
The Social Enterprise Schools programme – part of the Social Enterprise Academy – is an extra-curricular programme which inspires young people (aged 5-18) to become social entrepreneurs. We ask young people to identify a social or environmental issue they care about, before supporting them as they create a trading social enterprise over the course of a school year. Through Social Enterprise Schools, they build critical skills for life and work, connect with their communities and impact a social problem. Over the years, young people have created a range of innovative social enterprises, from tackling local unemployment through coding classes to selling books with diverse heroes in them.
You will be joining the team at an exciting time. Initially launched in Scotland in 2007 the Social Enterprise Schools programme has now worked with over 1200 schools across the UK and this figure is set to grow.
Your role will be to support the Education Teams to provide administrative, clerical and logistical support for the roll out of Social Enterprise Schools across the UK. The role is mainly internal facing – providing support to Schools Coordinators, Education Managers and Education Facilitators across a range of functions. You will also work with schools and teachers to ensure the smooth running of Workshops, and national and regional events.
Work closely with the Education Managers and School Coordinators across the UK you will provide administrative support based on the activity requirements across the UK. Tasks primarily include diary management, recording of activity, and supporting with event logistics. You will implement agreed processes and provide clerical and logistical support to ensure the achievement of annual team-based targets.
This role will be fully remote, based from anywhere in the UK. The Social Enterprise Academy has shared working space and offices in three locations (Muir of Ord, Edinburgh, London) which you will have access to, if required. It is anticipated that there will be some travel requirements within the UK for events and team days.
We are looking for someone who wants to work with vibrant, entrepreneurial and dedicated people and colleagues and with a good value-fit with our organisation.
Having the right mindset, attitude and approach is as important for us as having the right experience and skills. We appreciate that the best person might not have all the listed criteria yet so if you feel your experience, skills and attitude will help you to make a great contribution in this role and you have the right mindset, we would welcome an application from you.
Job Purpose:
Key Responsibilities:
For a full set of criteria and information on how to apply please download the recruitment pack from our website.
Organisation profile:
At the Social Enterprise Academy, we believe social entrepreneurs play an essential role in changing the world.
We strengthen their role in local communities through transformational learning programmes that will increase their community impact.
Our programmes are accredited, responsive to learner needs, and are delivered by experienced facilitators who are social change leaders themselves.
Since 2004, we have delivered over 1,900 learning programmes to 28,000+ learners in over 30 countries. We have also engaged over 55,000 young people around the world, using social enterprise as a tool to help them reach their full potential and create positive change in their communities.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a candidate with the right experience who is looking to develop skills in grant management, and project development and delivery within the charity, public or higher education sector.
The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland was founded in 1901 by Scots American millionaire Andrew Carnegie to promote equal access to, and excellence in, higher education in Scotland. For the past 120 years we have provided grants and scholarships to learners and researchers in Scottish universities, helping those who are unable to secure public support and those facing financial hardship to access higher education.
Under a new Chief Executive, the Trust is developing a refreshed Strategic Plan focused on enhancing the impact and influence of our funding. This post has been created to support the effective delivery of our core grant programmes and to provide wider support to the delivery of a new Strategic Projects Fund focused on bringing objective independent insights to aid policy development and address key challenges facing the higher education sector.
If you share our passion for ensuring equal access to higher education and advancing thinking and debates on the future of post-school education in Scotland, then we’d love to hear from you.
You will use your experience to help deliver positive impact from our grant schemes and investments supporting their effective delivery by assessing funding requests and providing grants and project support. You will join a small team of staff members in ensuring that Carnegie’s legacy continues to deliver positive outcomes for learners in Scotland.
More people than ever before are living with chest, heart and stroke conditions and many experience fear, isolation, loneliness, and struggle to cope with the impact it has on their every day lives. You can be part of our mission to make sure that there is no life half lived in Scotland.
By joining Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS) as our Philanthropy Manager you can be the difference between people just surviving and really living.
This is an exciting role that will see you working to make a real difference to the lives of the one in five Scots living with a chest, heart or stroke condition or are living with long covid.
By identifying, cultivating, engaging, and stewarding philanthropy prospects through inspiring proposals, innovative events and other appropriate fundraising activities, you will play a leading role in building and sustaining high-value relationships with donors in Scotland and further afield. You will be highly motivated and play a vital role in driving a step change in high-value fundraising from individuals establishing meaningful relationships in this arena.
The Philanthropy Manager will be joining a hard-working and talented fundraising team, working closely with our Assistant Director of Fundraising as well as the wider team.
We are looking for someone who can build excellent relationships with people at all levels and can manage a busy and varied workload. This is a chance for you to channel your passion for philanthropy to make a real impact on the health of people in Scotland.
CHSS operates a 32.5 hour week but we are willing to consider a shorter working week for the right candidate. This is a hybrid role which can be delivered from home with occasional visits to our office in Edinburgh.
CHSS employees enjoy a variety of organisational benefits including: a 32.5 hour week, Company pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, company sick pay, employee welfare support and life assurance.