ARC Scotland is seeking a Qualified Freelance Assessor and Internal Verifier to support delivery and quality assurance across health and social care qualifications.

We are looking for a professional with:

• Recognised Assessor and Internal Verifier qualifications.
• Strong occupational background across health and social care.
• Registerable qualifications and experience to deliver the Integrated Health and Social Care award at SCQF level 7, and Social Services and Healthcare awards at SCQF levels 6, 7 and 9.
• Experience delivering and/or verifying SVQs or work-based qualifications in a freelance capacity.
• Up-to-date knowledge of sector standards, compliance, and best practice.

This is an excellent opportunity for a flexible, reliable professional passionate about developing a skilled and confident workforce within the sector.

What you will do as Social Investment & Innovation Advisor

At the Postcode Lottery, our purpose is to raise funds for good causes and distribute them in a way that is fair, impactful and rooted in long-term social value.

Reporting to the Deputy Head of Charities, the Social Investment and Innovation Advisor will have operational responsibility for sourcing, assessing, presenting and then account managing social investments for the Postcode Innovation Trust. The postholder will work on a programme to provide access to concessionary capital to help high potential social enterprises scale their work and impact, advising the board of the Postcode Innovation Trust on where we could invest support from our players to have the greatest value.

The postholder will have knowledge and understanding of the not-for-profit sector and most importantly, the social enterprise sector across Great Britain. You will work specifically on the Sustainable Planet and Resilient Communities portfolios, which span environment, biodiversity & green innovation, along with employment, inclusion and community development. It’s crucial that you have a positive approach and the ability to lead discussions at the highest level. While we will always safeguard our players’ funds, we won’t shy away from being ambitious, innovative and unique in the way we fund. You will embrace and contribute to this approach.

As a part of the Charities Team, you must be able support your direct colleagues as well as ensure that the wider Postcode Lottery team remains passionate about what we do and why we do it. Part of this role will involve assisting with the delivery of the Dream Fund, an annual competition that offers a £5m grant to a partnership of not-for-profit organisations to deliver a ground-breaking project tackling society’s most challenging problems.

This is an exciting time in the charities team. The right candidate will have experience in social investment, account management and a clear understanding of the charity and social enterprise sector. You must be able to learn quickly and build trust-based relationships with our investees and charity partners.

Key activities and responsibilities:

• Manage a growing portfolio of loans to social enterprises and charities, including preparing detailed investment proposals and financial analyses for the Investment Panel.
• Co-manage the Trust’s grant and loan programmes end-to-end, covering research, application processes, due diligence, monitoring, and review cycles.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of Trust strategy, including attending Board meetings, providing portfolio updates, and supporting financial audit and bad debt provisioning.
• Collaborate on communications and stakeholder engagement, including producing media content, annual report copy, representing the Trust at external events, and contributing to sector discussions.
• Support wider organisational initiatives aligned to the Funding Philosophy, including special projects, charity engagement activities, events, and campaigns that extend impact beyond funded partners.

About you

Key Skills:

• Strong experience in social investment, including supporting applicants through the full investment lifecycle from application to award.
• Proven ability to prepare high-quality papers for investment committees and boards.
• Solid understanding of financial reporting, business analysis, and due diligence processes.
• Experience in portfolio and relationship management, with the ability to build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships.
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal), with proficiency in CRM systems (e.g. Salesforce) and Microsoft Office, and the ability to contribute to funding strategy and programme development.

Desirable Skills and Personal Attributes:

• Working towards (or willing to work towards) a relevant financial qualification, with experience in the social enterprise, charity, or grant funding environment.
• Good understanding of social investment and enterprise, particularly within Sustainable Planet and Resilient Communities (e.g. environment, sustainability, employment, community development).
• Knowledge of investment legal processes and broader funding landscape.
• Highly organised, able to manage a complex workload, large portfolio, and competing deadlines effectively.
• Strong interpersonal approach: passionate about social impact, collaborative and independent working, receptive to feedback, and able to build positive relationships with a proactive, enthusiastic attitude.

Additional Information:

• The core hours of the role will be 37.5 hours per week, worked Monday – Friday 9am – 5:30pm, working out with these hours may be required around event times, where time will be given in lieu.
• We anticipate the starting salary for this role to be between £48,000 and £51,000
• This role will be expected to work from our Edinburgh office at least 80% of the time.

Action Against Stalking is seeking a committed and passionate trustee to join our small but mighty team. We are looking for an experienced individual with accountancy and charity treasury skills who can support our CEO and fellow trustees by providing strong financial oversight, sound judgement, and strategic input.

This is an important governance role with a commitment of around five hours per month, including quarterly board meetings. The successful candidate will help strengthen the charity’s financial stewardship, contribute to effective governance, and support the long-term sustainability of our work.

About Action Against Stalking

Action Against Stalking is a specialist charity that provides person-centred support to victims of stalking while also working to raise awareness, influence change, and improve understanding of stalking across Scotland. Around 70% of our work is funded through the Scottish Government’s Victim-Centred Approach Fund (VCAF), with other major donors also playing an important role in sustaining and developing our services.

Our annual report showcases the impact of our small but mighty team and the breadth of our work across education, prevention, campaigning, and direct victim support. Together, these activities help us champion the rights of victims and strengthen responses to stalking in communities, services, and systems.

Annual Report 2024 - 2025 - Action Against Stalking

Skills and attributes

• Experience in accountancy, financial management, or charity treasury
• A compassionate and values-led approach
• Understanding of person-centred support for victims
• A collaborative and co-creative style of working
• Ability to contribute to governance, strategy, and sound decision-making

Why join us?

This is a rewarding opportunity to use your financial expertise to support a specialist charity making a real difference to the lives of stalking victims. As a trustee, you will help shape our future direction, strengthen our governance, and contribute to a cause that is both urgent and impactful across Scotland.

We warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, particularly those who are currently underrepresented on charity boards across Scotland, including women, people of colour, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ individuals, younger people, and those with relevant lived experience or who are new to governance.

As Treasurer Trustee, strong accountancy and financial management expertise is essential to help ensure effective stewardship of our resources, robust financial oversight, and the long-term sustainability of our work.

We value integrity, compassion, and a commitment to person-centred approaches, alongside diverse perspectives and different ways of thinking. We are committed to building an inclusive, values-led, and well-governed trustee team that reflects the communities we serve and strengthens our impact across Scotland.

As a Senior Fundraiser at the Ayrshire Hospice you’ll play a crucial role in ensuring we maximise our income and maintain the highest standards of donor and supporter care. Your work will be instrumental in enabling us to continue to provide specialist palliative care and services to people and families affected by life shortening illness across Ayrshire and Arran.

As a Senior Fundraiser – Individual Giving you will work collaboratively with other fundraisers managing and supporting a key range of individual giving fundraising initiatives, including a committed giving scheme, fundraising campaigns, the hospice lottery, legacies and trust and grants.

Supported by the Fundraising Manager and Senior Fundraising Manager, you will develop and shape this area of fundraising, including creating new products and stewardship plans, resulting in the engagement, development and retention of supporters.

Are you passionate about supporting communities, building resilience and helping people prepare for and recover from flooding? Scottish Flood Forum is looking for two Community Resilience Managers to join our team and play a vital role in strengthening flood resilience across Scotland.

About the Role

As a Community Resilience Manager, you will help develop and deliver Scottish Flood Forum’s community resilience work across Scotland. You will work directly with communities and individuals at risk of flooding, supporting them to understand their flood risk, strengthen local preparedness and recover more effectively when flooding occurs.

This is a highly varied role that will involve partnership working, community engagement, project delivery and regular travel across Scotland. You will need to be comfortable working independently, responding flexibly to community needs and representing Scottish Flood Forum with professionalism and empathy.

About You

We are looking for people who are motivated by practical community action and committed to making a positive difference for those affected by flooding. You will be educated to degree level or equivalent and bring a strong understanding of voluntary sector management, community engagement and partnership working.

• Experience of community engagement and working effectively with community groups
• Experience of working with local government and/or SEPA
• Strong project delivery skills and the ability to manage several priorities at once
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills across organisations, communities and individuals
• Flexibility, resilience and the ability to support people in challenging or stressful situations

Why Join Us?

At Scottish Flood Forum, you will be part of work that has a real impact on people’s lives. This is no ordinary 9–5 role: no two days are the same, and you will work with a wide range of communities, partners and individuals across Scotland. If you enjoy variety, meaningful community work and helping people build confidence and resilience, we would like to hear from you.

To learn more about the role, please email our Director at carol@scottishfloodforum.org.

The HR Officer role is a new role within Mindroom’s Operational Services team. With ongoing support from the Director of Finance and Operations, together with Mindroom’s external HR consultants Work Nest, the post holder will be the first point of contact for managers and staff members requiring support, advice and guidance on a wide range of HR and employee related matters.

Day to day, you will be responsible for providing a collaborative and forward-thinking human resources service, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and organisational policies and procedures.

The role would suit someone with extensive HR experience who understands what a positive and inclusive workplace culture looks and feels like. With excellent communication skills, you will be an approachable and supportive HR generalist who is able to establish trust and credibility with colleagues and who is able to work collaboratively in finding solutions to a range of both challenging and opportunistic situations.

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.

Every day people with chest, heart and stroke conditions are leaving hospital scared and alone. 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 Senior Brand & Campaigns Officer, you can be the difference between people just surviving and really living.

You will be part of Scotland’s leading health charity providing support to people with chest, heart and stroke conditions and Long Covid to live life to the full again. Our Community Healthcare Support Service provides access to a range of supported self management and community recovery services to support people across Scotland to manage their health as well as possible and adjust to life after a diagnosis of a chest or heart condition or after a stroke.

The Senior Brand & Campaigns Officer will lead the development and implementation of CHSS’ brand strategy and positioning, ensuring alignment with organisational values and strategic goals.

This role is responsible for planning, delivering, and evaluating brand campaigns that enhance visibility, recognition, and engagement. It will use audience insight to inform brand activity and supports retail marketing initiatives.

The postholder will co-implement and maintain a brand hub to ensure consistent brand application across the organisation. Working closely with the Strategic Communications Manager and wider communications team, the Senior Brand Officer plays a key role in embedding brand thinking across CHSS.

Ongoing professional development is supported, with opportunities to deepen expertise in brand strategy, audience insight, and campaign delivery and evaluation.

CHSS employees enjoy a variety of organisational benefits including: Company pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, company sick pay, employee welfare support and life assurance.

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

In line with our commitment to safeguarding, this role is subject to a Basic Disclosure check. CHSS is committed to equality of opportunity and to providing a service which is free from unfair and unlawful discrimination. We therefore aim to ensure that no applicant, volunteer or member of staff is unfairly treated on the grounds of offending background.

Every day people with chest, heart and stroke conditions are leaving hospital scared and alone. 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 Senior Media Officer, you can be the difference between people just surviving and really living.

You will be part of Scotland’s leading health charity providing support to people with chest, heart and stroke conditions and Long Covid to live life to the full again. Our Community Healthcare Support Service provides access to a range of supported self management and community recovery services to support people across Scotland to manage their health as well as possible and adjust to life after a diagnosis of a chest or heart condition or after a stroke.

The Senior Media Officer leads implementation of CHSS’ media relations strategy, positioning the charity as a trusted source and thought leader on Chest, Heart and Stroke conditions, and Long Covid across Scotland.

The role builds and maintains relationships with media outlets, secures impactful coverage, and develops media partnerships that amplify CHSS’ voice. It manages crisis communications and supports senior spokespeople with media engagement.

The postholder line manages the Media Officer and works closely with the Strategic Communications Manager to deliver proactive and reactive media activity that supports CHSS’ strategic priorities.

Ongoing professional development is supported, with opportunities to deepen expertise in media relations, relationship-management, and strategic communications practices.

CHSS employees enjoy a variety of organisational benefits including: Company pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, company sick pay, employee welfare support and life assurance.

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

In line with our commitment to safeguarding, this role is subject to a Basic Disclosure check. CHSS is committed to equality of opportunity and to providing a service which is free from unfair and unlawful discrimination. We therefore aim to ensure that no applicant, volunteer or member of staff is unfairly treated on the grounds of offending background.

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape and grow Mindroom's communications function at a pivotal point in the organisation's development. Following a transformational year, including major multi-year investment and the expansion of our national services, Mindroom needs compelling, strategic communications to match our growth, and you will be central to building that.

You will lead the day-to-day delivery of our external and internal communications, managing our social media presence, website and email communications, and developing content and resources for individuals, families, professionals and funders. You will also help establish stronger communication and brand guidelines, bringing greater consistency and impact to the way we tell our story.

Beyond the day-to-day, you will have real scope to shape how this function works: developing our approach to digital channels, strengthening our use of data to inform content, and building the systems and ways of working that will support Mindroom's communications as we scale. This is a role for someone who enjoys creating structure as much as creating content, and who wants to leave their mark on a growing organisation's voice.

You will work closely with colleagues across Mindroom, including our Business Development and Direct Support teams, to ensure communications reflect the breadth and impact of our work, and connect us with the communities, funders and partners we serve.

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.

Community Energy Scotland is recruiting for an Executive Support Officer. We are seeking a highly organised, proactive, and trustworthy Executive Support Officer to provide high-level administrative and strategic support to CES’ CEO and Directors, and wider Management Team on occasion. The role requires exceptional organisation, discretion, and the ability to manage priorities in a fast‑paced environment. The successful candidate will manage day-to-day tasks, coordinate schedules, and ensure smooth operation of professional activities.

• £32,300 per annum (pro rata of 35 hours per week full time)
• 1 year fixed-term appointment, with possibility for extension
• Full Time/Part Time Post (we are open to discuss part-time hours from a minimum of 21 hours to full-time at 35 hours per week) with potential for job shares and/or flexible working as per the CES Flexible Working Policy.
• Based in Scotland.