We are recruiting for a Housing Team Lead to join our Short Term Housing programme. Our Short Term Housing programme provides a link between private property owners and tenants.
We provide high standards of accommodation and, crucially, create a platform for some of society’s most under-represented people with the ultimate aim of making a genuine difference in their lives.
The Housing Team Lead lead will manage a team of Tenant Liaison Workers and manage a programme of best practice meeting expected standards and quality outcomes and implementing operational controls.
Main duties and responsibilities will include:
Our values make us who we are and define our actions and behaviours every day. We’d expect the post-holder to uphold and represent our organisation in a way that reflects our values and person-centred way of working.
We're looking for someone that can demonstrate knowledge and experience of housing management, with an understanding of the social housing field and associated current relevant legislation and policies. You will be a skilled leader with the ability to influence and inform good working practices supporting staff to develop skills in delivering a quality housing service. Excellent IT skills are required with the ability to work as part of your own staff team and local management team.
A full driving license and access to a car for work purposes is an essential requirement. Employees must hold insurance that covers domestic and business use.
What you can expect from us
We value our staff as our greatest asset and will provide the following working conditions:
About Us
We are Right There, a charity that recently celebrated our 200th anniversary. We provide tailored support for people, at home, and in the community. We are here for people who are living with the effects of homelessness, poverty, substance use, or family breakdowns.
Last year we supported almost 4,000 individuals, helping to prevent them from becoming homeless or separated from the people they love. Every person’s story is unique, and everyone’s route home is different - it doesn’t matter what the situation is – we’re not here to judge, only to help.
About Waverley Care
For over 35 years, Waverley Care has worked alongside people and communities affected by HIV and hepatitis C. We deliver inclusive, stigma-free services and influence national policy to tackle health inequalities across Scotland.
While advances in treatment have transformed clinical outcomes, stigma and isolation continue to impact too many lives. Waverley Care exists to ensure that anyone affected by HIV or hepatitis C can live well, with dignity, respect, and support.
About the role
We are looking for a motivated and proactive Senior Corporate Fundraising Officer to grow and steward meaningful relationships with major corporate partners across Scotland.
This new role will focus on securing new business from banks, national organisations and large employers, while also strengthening existing partnerships to deliver sustainable, multi-year income.
Working within our Fundraising and Communications team, you will play a key part in driving our ambition to significantly increase unrestricted income, collaborating closely with colleagues to develop compelling partnership propositions, impactful campaigns and engaging corporate volunteering opportunities. This is an exciting opportunity to shape a growing income stream and help us reach more people living with or at risk of HIV and hepatitis C.
This role will work closely with the Income Generation Manager and Senior Marketing and Communications Manager, and will complement the work of our Fundraising Officer, who leads on community fundraising and community-linked corporate relationships.
The postholder will collaborate with the fundraising team to identify and develop warm corporate opportunities emerging from events and community activity, ensuring a joined-up approach to stewarding and growing corporate engagement across Scotland.
As a charity that is not fully funded by statutory sources, voluntary income plays a vital and growing role in sustaining our services. This post will be central to increasing awareness of our funding model and inspiring corporate partners to invest in our mission.
About You
You will be an engaging communicator and natural relationship builder, confident in identifying opportunities, opening doors and inspiring organisations to support our mission. With experience in corporate fundraising, business development or a similar partnership-focused role, you will bring a proactive, commercially minded approach and a track record of meeting targets.
You’ll be comfortable managing a varied portfolio, from cultivating new prospects to stewarding high value partners, and you’ll thrive in a collaborative team where creativity, initiative and strategic thinking are valued.
Above all, you will be passionate about using your skills to help end HIV stigma and improve the lives of people across Scotland.
Applications are also welcomed from candidates with experience in sales, account management, hospitality or other commercial roles where relationship-building, pitching and securing new business are core responsibilities
Why Join Us?
This is a unique opportunity to be part of a progressive organisation at a pivotal moment in Scotland’s public health journey. You’ll have the chance to influence real change, working alongside passionate colleagues committed to making a lasting impact on people’s lives.
We offer a supportive working environment with hybrid working options, professional development opportunities and a generous annual leave entitlement.
We’re looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Credit Controller to join our team. Could that be you?
Who are we?
Deaf Action is a Deaf-led charity, supporting and celebrating Deaf people. We were established in 1835 and work with Deaf people across Scotland and the South of England. Our work is geared towards empowering all Deaf people to achieve their potential and fully participate in society, with equality of rights, access and opportunity.
Our Finance Team plays a vital role in supporting the organisation’s sustainability and impact. We are now looking for a Credit Controller to take ownership of our credit control processes and support effective financial operations across the charity.
You can find out more about us at deafaction.org.
About you
You will have previous experience in credit control or accounts receivable and be confident managing your own workload. You’ll be someone with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to build strong relationships with both internal teams and external customers. You will be highly organised, with the ability to identify and address issues early, and take a solution-focused approach to your work. A good working knowledge of finance systems and Microsoft Office is essential.
Experience within a charity setting is desirable but not essential.
The ideal candidate will be fully committed to our values, which can be found on our website.
The role
As the sole Credit Controller, you will take full ownership of the credit control function, ensuring invoices are issued accurately, payments are collected promptly, and queries are resolved efficiently.
You will play a key role in supporting the charity’s cash flow and financial processes, working closely with the Finance Manager and wider team.
About the role
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a vibrant and supportive national children’s charity. As Finance Manager you would have overall responsibility for delivering our efficient and effective finance function. You would play an important role in continuing to support a financially resilient organisation which contributes to a better Scotland for all children and young people.
You will be CCAB qualified and have an appropriate accountancy qualification and will have extensive knowledge and understanding of charity finance, including being up to date with the Charity Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP). You will have experience of ensuring that effective and efficient financial procedures are in place and adhered to and good communication skills with the ability to communicate financial information to different audiences.
Children in Scotland puts values at the centre of its work and you will need to be able to demonstrate that you understand how important organisational values are and to show that you are able to embed them in what you do and how you do it.
*We are advertising for a full-time role in the first instance. However, if you are seeking a working pattern of 3 or 4 days a week, then we could consider that if you are the best person for the role.
About Children in Scotland
Children in Scotland is a welcoming and dynamic charity that amplifies the voices, views and experiences of our members and children, families and professionals across Scotland. We achieve this through direct services, meaningful participation, policy work, inspiring communications and sector-leading events and learning opportunities.
We are a vibrant and inclusive community of dedicated individuals and organisations who use our skills and passion to bring evidence-based and fresh thinking together, with one shared aim of giving all children in Scotland an equal chance to flourish.
We are stronger together in driving lasting impact for Scotland’s children.
Diversity
Children in Scotland values the contribution of all our staff, whatever their background. Our recruitment decisions are based on fair, open processes, with appointment on merit. We welcome applications from everyone.
Further information
If your experience doesn’t align perfectly with all the criteria for this role, but you still feel you have something to offer, we would be interested to hear from you. Please contact Judith Turbyne, CEO, at jturbyne@childreninscotland.org.uk for an informal chat, or if you have any questions about the role.
Salary:£41,913.06 per annum (pro-rata) rising to £43,170.45 in July 2026. See detail of our current salary structure here.
This is a great opportunity to join our successful and award-winning community food growing project in the east end of Glasgow. SCGP aims to address a wide range of poverty related issues in the local area through food growing. We have developed services and activities to improve the health and well-being of local people, improve employability through volunteering, provide positive opportunities for children and families and build the social capital of the community.
The Project Coordinator is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Project and for assisting the volunteer Board in its good governance and ongoing development.
They will enable individual users and groups to learn about and practice vegetable and fruit growing, healthy eating and lifestyles and cooking and will facilitate and organise activities and events to promote these aims. The Project Co-ordinator is responsible for managing and supporting any junior staff members and any sessional worker contracts. They will direct and develop the SCGP’s volunteering programme, ensuring it continues to be a ‘Volunteer Friendly’ accredited project and will direct and develop services for children and families.
We are seeking someone with a good knowledge and experience of food growing and an understanding of food poverty and the benefits of healthy eating. You will have had a minimum of two years’ experience and a track record of success in the development of community projects.
You will ideally have an understanding of the legal and regulatory requirements upon charitable voluntary organisations; be numerate and have experience of budgeting, staff management and of reporting to a Board.
The successful candidate will be a good organiser who is able to multi-task and prioritise competing priorities with minimal supervision. You will be creative , innovative and resourceful and committed to the aims of our project. You will be a team player with a positive attitude who is able to develop and sustain good working relationships with plot holders, volunteers, partners and funders.
The Robertson Trust is looking for two Programmes Officers (Social Change Movements) to join our new Programmes team. Based primarily at Robertson House, Glasgow, with hybrid working available, this role supports the Trust to secure big change that lasts in preventing and reducing poverty and trauma in Scotland.
Over the next decade, we are committed to using all our tools and resources to reduce poverty and trauma across four themes:
• Education Pathways
• Financial Security
• Nurturing Relationships
• Work Pathways
As a member of the team, you will support the delivery of our new approach to ‘social movement funding’, a new part of our Programme Awards funding stream.
The Role
The Programmes Officers will support the Programmes Manager (Social Change Movements) to contribute to the development and delivery of our ‘social movement funding’ approach, our most proactive Programme Award work, aligned to our long-term change priorities.
You will contribute to influencing and social change activity, particularly through the projects we fund, build strong relationships with grantholders and stakeholders, and support the effective development, assessment and management of both our ‘social change movement’ Programme Awards and our wider Programme Award portfolio.
You will gather and apply insight to strengthen programme development and learning, contribute to meaningful participation of people with lived experience, and work collaboratively across the organisation to ensure our programme work is informed, connected and effective.
Key responsibilities
• Support the development and delivery of our new ‘social movements funding’ approach – our most proactive Programme Award cohorts aligned to long-term change priorities
• Contribute to identifying and supporting influencing opportunities, particularly through funded projects
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with grantholders, stakeholders and experts by experience
• Support the development, assessment and management of Programme Awards in line with governance and good practice
• Gather and apply insight to inform programme development and organisational learning
• Contribute to participation and engagement with people with lived experience
• Support monitoring, review and learning processes to ensure programme activity remains aligned and impact focused
• Represent the Trust externally as required and contribute to cross-cutting organisational priorities
A full job description is available on our website – therobertsontrust.org.uk
About You
We are looking for someone with knowledge of the Trust’s mission on poverty and trauma and an understanding of the third sector and independent funding landscape in Scotland and across the UK.
You will bring:
• HNC/D, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Relevant experience in a field related to poverty and/or trauma
• Experience contributing to programmes, projects or initiatives with demonstrable impact or influence
• An understanding of effective and relational funding practice
• Experience or understanding of funding processes such as assessment, decision making or grant management
• Insight into inequality, poverty or trauma through lived, paid or voluntary experience
• Strong analytical skills, sound judgement and attention to detail
• The ability to build collaborative relationships across diverse stakeholders
• The confidence to manage competing priorities and use your own initiative
• High emotional intelligence and the ability to relate to people from different backgrounds
• An interest in Scotland’s policy and political landscape and the potential to develop political judgement
You will be adaptable, collaborative and aligned to the Trust’s values.
We encourage applications from suitably qualified candidates from all parts of the community, regardless of age, disability, race, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief or socio-economic background. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience or knowledge of how poverty or trauma impact lives.
Benefits
• Salary £41,104 to £48,715 FTE
• 35 days holiday per calendar year, inclusive of public holidays
• Pension – 10% employer contribution or 14% if employee contribution is 7%
• Additional employee benefits package (currently under review)
• This role is advertised as full-time, but we are open to applicants who wish to work part-time.
The Robertson Trust is committed to hybrid and flexible working. We are open to reasonable adaptations to overcome barriers and are a Living Wage employer accredited by the Living Wage Foundation.
The Robertson Trust is looking for an Influencing Officer (Fixed Term – 1 Year) to join our new Programmes team. Based primarily at Robertson House, Glasgow, with hybrid working available, this role supports the Trust to secure big change that lasts in preventing and reducing poverty and trauma in Scotland.
Over the next decade, we are committed to using all our tools and resources to reduce poverty and trauma across four themes:
• Education Pathways
• Financial Security
• Nurturing Relationships
• Work Pathways
As part of our cross-cutting Influencing objective, this role will support the development and delivery of the Trust’s direct influencing activity, working with partners and stakeholders to influence decision making and systems change.
The Role
This role supports the Programmes Manager (Social Change Movements) and the wider organisation to strengthen the Trust’s influencing work in preventing and reducing poverty and trauma in Scotland.
You will help to develop and test effective approaches to direct influencing and support the Trust to build relationships with those who have the power to deliver change. You will work closely with colleagues across the organisation to ensure influencing activity connects with our wider work, including communications, convening, the influencing work we fund and the learning from our funding.
You will also support stakeholder engagement, network development and policy insight, helping the Trust identify opportunities to influence policy, practice and decision making.
Key responsibilities
• Support the development and delivery of direct influencing activity aligned to the Trust’s influencing objective
• Work collaboratively across the Trust to ensure direct influencing activity connects with communications, convening and the indirect influencing work we fund
• Support the development of influencing plans and help test effective approaches to influencing
• Build and strengthen networks with grantholders, stakeholders and peer organisations undertaking influencing work
• Monitor and analyse policy, political and practice developments relevant to poverty and trauma in Scotland
• Support stakeholder mapping and engagement with decision makers and influential actors
• Contribute to gathering and applying insight from across the Trust’s work to strengthen influencing activity
• Represent the Trust externally as required and contribute to cross-cutting organisational priorities
A full job description is available on our website – therobertsontrust.org.uk
About You
We are looking for someone with a strong understanding of poverty and trauma and the policy, political and practice landscape in Scotland.
You will bring:
• HNC/D, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Relevant experience in a field related to poverty and/or trauma
• Experience supporting influencing, policy, advocacy or strategic engagement work
• A strong understanding of the voluntary sector in Scotland
• Experience building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders and networks
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to communicate complex issues clearly
• The ability to manage competing priorities and work using your own initiative
• Experience supporting the development of influencing plans or campaigns
• High emotional intelligence and the ability to build relationships with diverse stakeholders
• An interest in policy, politics and practice in Scotland and how social change happens
• A commitment to addressing inequality and placing lived experience at the centre of work
We encourage applications from suitably qualified candidates from all parts of the community, regardless of age, disability, race, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief or socio-economic background. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience or knowledge of how poverty or trauma impact lives.
Benefits
• Salary £41,104 to £48,715 FTE
• 35 days holiday per calendar year, inclusive of public holidays
• Pension – 10% employer contribution or 14% if employee contribution is 7%
• Additional employee benefits package (currently under review)
• This role is advertised as full-time, but we are open to applicants who wish to work part-time
The Robertson Trust is committed to hybrid and flexible working. We are open to reasonable adaptations to overcome barriers and are a Living Wage employer accredited by the Living Wage Foundation.
We are recruiting – come and join Scottish Families!
We are seeking a Programme Development Officer – Young People (Routes) to join our team. This post supports the ongoing development and delivery of the national ‘Grow Your Own Routes’ (GYOR) programme, funded by the Scottish Government’s Whole Family Wellbeing Fund. The aim of ‘Grow Your Own Routes’ is to scale up the existing Routes Demonstration Project, which supports young people aged 12-26 years affected by someone else’s alcohol or drug use.
The post-holder will be responsible for supporting the development and delivery of Scottish Families’ national ‘Grow Your Own Routes’ programme across Scotland, reducing stigma and creating a more trauma-informed and responsive workforce. This development programme is funded by the Scottish Government’s Whole Family Wellbeing Fund. The aim of the programme is to support the continued delivery of the Routes practice model across six areas led by other third sector delivery partners, and to share learning about the Routes practice model with other areas of Scotland through delivering learning and development activities.
This is a national post which will involve significant travel across Scotland, as well as work at our national office at Robertson House in Glasgow, Routes bases in East and West Dunbartonshire and from home. It is expected that the post holder will be required to work some evenings and occasional weekends. This post will be part of Scottish Families’ staff team and be managed by the Programme Manager – Young People (Routes)
We are seeking compassionate, creative and collaborative applicants who want to make a difference to the lives of young people affected someone else’s substance use. This role also includes supporting and working alongside young people as well as developing and delivering training on the Routes practice model. We are looking for candidates who are educated to degree level or have a relevant professional qualification, have experience of working with young people and ideally, have some knowledge of editing software. Candidates should have strong organisational, interpersonal and communication skills.
Be part of a community for young people.
Dean & Cauvin Young People’s Trust is one of Scotland’s oldest children’s charities, rooted in nearly 300 years of care, connection and support. We believe every young person, young parent and baby deserves to grow up safe, loved, respected and with every opportunity to thrive.
Role:
Based in our Wellbeing Hub in West Edinburgh, you will lead a skilled team who provide a range of practical, social and emotional 1:1, group and whole-family support to children, young people and families who have experiences of care to help them:
Our team work closely with:
We work together with families, social work, health services and other colleagues to keep the strengths, aspirations and voice of children, young people and families at the heart of all we do while ensuring their safety and welfare is always maintained.
The Team Leader role is pivotal to this. Tasked with the day-to-day operations of the Community & Transition team, Wellbeing Hub and Transition flats, you are expected to lead, support and supervise a small staff team to create a culture of nurture and community for young people, young parents, babies and families.
What You’ll Do
Investing in You
If you are someone who can make a real difference for children, young people and families—and bring experience from social work, youth, community or family support—then we would love to hear from you.
As a Team Leader, you will support our on call rota, including some weekend work, with additional payments provided.
We are deeply committed to investing in our people. You will have access to a wide range of professional development opportunities, including:
Turning Point Scotland has an exciting opportunity in our Edinburgh Visiting Housing Support Service for a Lead Practitioner.
We believe that in many cases, Homelessness is entirely preventable. Where Homelessness is not or cannot be prevented, the experience should be brief and non-recurring.
About the Role
We aim to help people ‘Get a Home and Keep a Home’.
As a lead practitioner, you will:
About You
We believe having the right values of respect, compassion, inclusion and integrity is all you need to join our team. As a Lead Practitioner the support you provide will always be person centred, by involving people who know the person well, this includes family and friends, other health and Social Work professionals, Advocacy services and your fellow team members.
Whilst we very much welcome experienced practitioners, no previous working experience is needed. You will be provided with all of the training, support and equipment required to successfully fulfil your role.
About Us
Our Edinburgh Visiting Housing Support Service supports people in the North-East and South-East of Edinburgh who are either Homeless, at risk of becoming homeless, or have recently moved into settled accommodation following a period of homelessness.
The support we provide is always person centred, we do this by involving people who know the person well, this includes family and friends, other health and Social Work professionals, Advocacy services and our own staff members.
Turning Point Scotland offers a Salary Matching opportunity within the pay points of the role and based on experience.
Please note that IT skills are required for all our vacancies.
Where applicable, successful candidates will be required to register with the SSSC within 6 months of start date.
We welcome applications from all candidates who are eligible to work in the United Kingdom. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.