Would you like to be part of the much loved charity which won the SCVO People’s Choice Award this year? Simba is here to support anyone affected by baby loss, now and always. We help bereaved families create precious memories with their baby and offer tangible ways to honour and remember them.

We are looking for a talented Trusts Fundraiser to inspire funders to support Simba in our mission to honour baby loss, now and always. Are you a sensitive storyteller, enthusiastic fundraiser, confident collaborator and dedicated researcher? You will design compelling funding applications, innovate new ways to connect with Trusts and Foundations, and steward vital income for our projects and services.

You will be part of an award winning fundraising team and will work closely with colleagues across the charity. You will join us in demonstrating our values; compassionate, empathetic, thoughtful, and supportive.

Full details of the role available here.

Do you enjoy creating welcoming residential spaces for visitors and working alongside a team to keep these tidy and in good condition? Working at Iona Abbey offers the chance to live on a remote Scottish island, surrounded by beauty and community. If you like working alongside guests, providing friendly service and helping people make new friends by working together, might this be you?

As Housekeeper you would work alongside your team to create these spaces and support them in this work. You would also be responsible for the management of the team. Housekeeping is often seen as a “background” role, but due to the way the Community works, the Housekeeping Team are often the go to people for questions from guests.

This post contains an element of regulated work and as such is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and the post-holder will need to be or to become a member of Scotland’s Protection of Vulnerable Groups Scheme.

Due to the nature of this work, it will NOT be possible to consider candidates who do not already have the right to work in the United Kingdom

The full Job Description can be found on our website iona.org.uk/about/vacancies

Contract Start Date: 1 February 2025

Contract End Date: 30 November 2025

Join a diverse team, meet fascinating people from around the world, and engage in meaningful work in a place where spirituality, community, and purpose come together. If you might like an opportunity to step away from old routines, team working in a hands-on role, where you are appreciated and visible, and have a desire to serve, this could be your next chapter.

As Deputy Housekeeper you would work closely as part of the Housekeeping Team to ensure that the guest accommodation and common areas of the properties on Iona, are kept clean and tidy to a high standard at all times. In the absence of the Housekeeper you would deputise, in many aspects of their role. You would have guest-facing interaction as, due to the way the Community works, the Housekeeping Team are regularly front and centre in interactions with our guests.

This post contains an element of regulated work and as such is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and the post-holder will need to be or to become a member of Scotland’s Protection of Vulnerable Groups Scheme.

Due to the nature of this work, it will NOT be possible to consider candidates who do not already have the right to work in the United Kingdom

The full Job Description can be found on our website iona.org.uk/about/vacancies

Contract Start Date: 1st February 2025

Contract End Date: 31st October 2025

Are you a Church Musician looking for a change, or do you aspire to become a Church Musician? Working at Iona Abbey offers the chance to live on a remote Scottish island, surrounded by beauty and community. If you’re seeking to expand your musical skills in a unique location, this may be the job for you.

As Musician, you will provide a variety of music, such as congregational songs, appropriate for Iona Abbey’s twice-daily public worship services and to support the Abbey centre’s visitor programs. You will have the opportunity to introduce the Iona Community’s musical culture in collaboration with Glasgow-based Wild Goose Resource Group (WGRG).

This post contains an element of regulated work and as such is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and the post-holder will need to be or to become a member of Scotland’s Protection of Vulnerable Groups Scheme.

Due to the nature of this work, it will NOT be possible to consider candidates who do not already have the right to work in the United Kingdom

The full Job Description can be found on our website iona.org.uk/about/vacancies

Contract Start Date: 1 February 2025

Contract End Date: 31 October 2025

Are you ready for a new adventure and a meaningful role aligned with the Iona Community’s vision? Working at Iona Abbey offers the chance to live on a remote Scottish island, surrounded by beauty and community. If you’re seeking a fresh start, a break from familiar routines, and an opportunity to serve, this could be the perfect next chapter.

As Programme Coordinator you will plan and deliver programme weeks through the season including innovative events and activities that challenge and affirm participants of all ages while reflecting the goals, actions, and concerns of the Iona Community, and which encourage all to apply what they have learnt to the real world, giving them tools to promote justice and peace.

This post contains an element of regulated work and as such is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and the post-holder will need to be or to become a member of Scotland’s Protection of Vulnerable Groups Scheme.

Due to the nature of this work, it will NOT be possible to consider candidates who do not already have the right to work in the United Kingdom

The full Job Description can be found on our website iona.org.uk/about/vacancies

Contract Start Date: 1 February 2025

Contract End Date: 31 January 2026

Come and lead our team at Camas Outdoor Centre on the Isle of Mull for a life-changing experience! Join a close-knit team in a stunning, remote location where you’ll help others connect with nature, themselves, and each other. Whether supporting the team or implementing policies to ensure that high standards of safety and the welfare of both staff and guests are maintained, your role at Camas will be filled with purpose and adventure. If you’re looking for a meaningful opportunity to make a positive impact in a beautiful, inspiring setting, Camas could be the perfect fit for you!

Camas comprises a core team consisting of both resident staff and volunteers during the guest season. The coordinator oversees the weekly program's planning, coordination, and administration and makes sure that all staff and guests are supported and integrated into Camas' common life. The Coordinator bears the additional duty of overseeing the execution of protocols to guarantee the preservation of elevated safety standards and the well-being of both employees and visitors. This is a developing position in a dynamic environment that calls for adaptability and continuous review of the job description. To boost the work, it is predicted that Camas' management structure will undergo a considerable transformation during this post. This process will involve the Camas Coordinator.

This post is regulated work and as such is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and the post-holder will need to be or to become a member of Scotland’s Protection of Vulnerable Groups Scheme.

Due to the nature of this work, it will NOT be possible to consider candidates who do not already have the right to work in the United Kingdom

The full Job Description can be found on our website iona.org.uk/about/vacancies

Contract Start Date: 1 February 25 (not later than 1 March 25)

Contract End Date: 31 January 2028

We are Scotland’s largest health charity working to help people with chest, heart and stroke conditions and Long Covid. More people than ever before are living with these conditions and many experience fear, isolation and loneliness, struggling to cope with the impact of their health condition on their everyday lives. Our amazing nurses, support workers and volunteers are here to make sure no one has to recover alone and with our Community Healthcare Support Service, we ensure that people across Scotland get the support they need to live full lives.

Our role within Human Resources is to resource, enable and equip our organisation to make the difference between people just surviving and really living.

The HR Administrator plays an important role by supporting and advising on all aspects of our Human Resources functions. This role involves providing efficient and effective administrative support at all points of the employee life cycle, from recruitment to offboarding. This also includes first line advice on HR policies and procedures and ensuring compliance with employment laws, fostering a positive work environment, with a clear focus on employee health and well-being. Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, data management and reporting would be very welcome, with live opportunities to help streamline and enhance our current processes.

This is an organisation which prioritises learning and development and this role represents a really positive option for someone looking to either build on existing administrative experience or to embark upon a longer-term career within Human Resources, by gaining excellent foundational experience.

CHSS employees enjoy a variety of organisational benefits including a 32.5-hour working week; Company pension and sick pay schemes; generous holiday allowance; employee welfare support; life assurance, health insurance and health cash plan provisions.

Please Note: This advert will close at 12pm on 15 November 2024.

CHSS also supports flexible recruitment through Working Families and we are “Happy to Talk Flexible Working”.

Why apply for this role?

Children’s Hearings Scotland (CHS) is undergoing an exciting period of reform, designed to make a step change in improving the outcomes for infants, children and young people who need us most. Children’s Hearings Tribunal Members play a vital role in Scotland’s society. They listen and make legal decisions for infants, children and young people. They ensure that the young person is at the heart of every decision taken – because every decision, no matter how big or small, has an impact.

As Quality Partner, reporting to the Quality Manager you will support the delivery of our ambitious Quality strategy, helping drive continuous improvement and ensure we are delivering effective and high-quality tribunals across Scotland.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Quality Partner who will use their passion and experience for quality to help drive organisational excellence. This role is pivotal in driving and monitoring consistent, reliable performance and high standards of operational delivery. You will play an important part in supporting our people to make high quality decisions that improve outcomes for infants, children and young people. You will deliver a quality offer that supports the knowledge and behaviours that are required of the Hearing Tribunal.

You will have a track record of delivering evidence-informed projects or services and be ambitious about achieving excellence. You will have skill, experience and enthusiasm with managing complexity and using data to deliver robust approaches to quality, monitoring, evaluation and improvement. Working as part of a small Quality team, you will help build and maintain processes to collect evidence and drive progress through the implementation of our strategic plan.

An experienced and effective leader, you will be working with the National Team and partners and must be able to build collaborative relationships. Through engagement and gathering evidence, you will reflect the experience and perspectives of the volunteer community. You will be committed to listening to the voice of people with lived experience of the care system to shape and influence what we do and how we do it.

You can find our Quality Strategy on our website.

Find a news article in Third Force News about Quality in CHS.

For information on how to apply, please see bottom of the advert.

Your Role

Ensuring an agile and robust quality offer, you will work to influence and collaborate with other functions across CHS including Practice and Standards, Participation, Learning and Local Delivery teams to ensure implementation alignment and relevance of the Quality Strategy and its operational delivery.

You will bring experience of working with project teams, diverse stakeholders and leaders to deliver tangible improvements. You will use this track record to work collaboratively, showing leadership and challenging practice and culture when necessary to deliver quality services. You will have excellent communication skills.

Gathering and communicating evidence and data of what we do well, and where we need to improve is a critical element of this role. Working with colleagues, you will help shape practice and policy. You will also influence learning with effective feedback loops that share good practice as well as understanding from situations when CHS has not fully met the expectations of children and young people.

You will play a key role in working with our Tribunal Delivery Managers, as well as supporting our network of 130 Panel Practice Advisor volunteers who work with CHS to improve quality.

Our Positive Outcomes Directorate team

This role sits with the Positive Outcomes directorate, which also includes Practice and Policy, Participation, Complaints and feedback and Learning. The role of the team is to engage with our strong volunteer community, and to raise the profile of who we are and what we do. You will collaborate with other departments and teams across the wider organisation.

Life at CHS

Our 2,500 volunteer Panel Members take part in children’s hearings in their local areas, making decisions with and for infants, children and young people. Our organisation also supports a network of 9 regional teams, made up of volunteers who support Panel Members in their local communities.

As an organisation that works within the children’s hearings system, we are passionate about making a positive contribution to improving outcomes for Scotland’s infants, children and young people.

You can read more about our core values HERE as well as view an introductory video to our organisation. We also offer a generous benefits package from hybrid working, flexi hours and a fantastic pension scheme - you check out our full benefits summary HERE.

Diversity and Inclusion

CHS is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively encourage applicants from all protected characteristics and are committed to providing any reasonable adjustments required during application and assessment process, and upon joining us.

Do you believe in the power of young people, families and local practitioners to directly influence decisions surrounding resources and services that impact their own lives and those of people in their community?

What Matters to You (WM2U) is a voice-led community-based systems change programme working alongside families in Dundee and Clackmannanshire. The ambition of WM2U is to move public resources to offer support earlier, enable children to flourish within their own families and local communities.

You will lead the Clackmannanshire WM2U approach to build and sustain the trust and confidence of families, practitioners and leaders at all levels to achieve change.

Pregnancy Counselling and Care (Scotland) is a small Edinburgh-based charity that supports families and individuals during pregnancy and early parenthood, or at times of loss, by providing practical and emotional support.

Our Vision:Nobody is left alone to struggle with pregnancy, loss or early parenthood

Our Mission: To support families and individuals during pregnancy and early parenthood, or at times of loss, by providing practical and emotional support

Our Objectives:

We provide support through the delivery of two services:

• Our Counselling Service - providing professional counselling to anyone who is struggling as a result of pregnancy, childbirth, baby loss, miscarriage, termination, stillbirth or infertility
• Our Baby Bank – that supplies baby equipment, clothes and toys to families experiencing poverty

Our Values:

• Respect/ Compassion
• Inclusiveness/Diversity
• Collaboration/Connected
• Dependability/Flexibility

About The Role

The Community Fundraiser post is a relatively new addition to the team at PCCS. We started community fundraising towards the start of 2024, and since the start it has been a very productive and rewarding time for us and those involved.

There is a strong synergy between our potential supporters, both individuals and organisations/corporates and our services – as supporting us through donating baby items or volunteering is an ideal pathway to commit to community fundraising events. The link between the two also helps to increase awareness of our services, and the need for funding to support them.

Furthermore, our move to the Gyle Shopping Centre in February 2024 has really boosted our visibility, accessibility and footfall, and is bringing more potential supporters to us. We are excited to be able to offer this post at 16 hours per week to materialise more support to develop our community fundraising activity. The post will be line managed by the Operations Manager and supported by an experienced community fundraiser board member.

Job Description

• Plan and manage a regular calendar of events, from large scale events such as the Kiltwalk, and running events to one off community events and promote to supporters and encourage uptake
• Administer and support participants through all aspects of their fundraising journey with us:
  • Maintaining contact by email & phone with new fundraisers to encourage fundraising
  • Meet with major fundraisers
  • Sending resources for event participation
  • Attend events where we have participants
  • Post-event follow up with fundraisers, including donor feedback to improve their journey
• Attend business networking meetings to help increase awareness of opportunities and follow up corporates and future donors interested in supporting PCCS
• Engage volunteers to help run events, like charity cycles and bag packs
• Update social media with stories of fundraisers and fundraising events
• Use Canva to create posters for events. Create events on Facebook.
• Manage records & monitor Just Giving, Just Running and other platforms
• Produce reports for regular board meetings to monitor progress
• Work with other members of the staff team to maximise support for all aspects of PCCS services

Person Specification

Required:

• Strong event management skills - experience in organising and promoting events
• Track record in growing income
• Experience in maintaining and developing fundraising relationships
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Good copywriting, social media skills and IT skills
• Experience in analysing and reporting on performance
• A proactive and positive approach to problem-solving
• Ability to work effectively, both independently and as part of a team
• Flexibility regarding specific hours worked, and attitude to activities undertaken
• A passion to support others experiencing difficulties in their lives

Preferred:

• Experience of developing fundraising campaigns
• Experience of recruiting and training volunteers
• Experience of managing budgets and meeting targets