The role

Award-winning animal charity Pet Blood Bank UK is recruiting for a Regional Coordinator based in Scotland.

Working closely with the Area Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring the successful coordination of donation sessions within your region. With a regional collection team comprising of between 15-25 Vets, Nurses and Donor Assistants, you will be a key person in building relationships with our venues, increasing donor recruitment and retention, and developing our growing pool of regional volunteers whilst striving to make sure our donation sessions are successful.

Background

Launched in 2007, Pet Blood Bank UK is the only charity that provides a blood bank service for all vets across the UK. As part of our charitable remit, our aim is to advance animal health and welfare and to relieve suffering by providing quick and convenient access to blood. Every unit of blood helps save up to four other lives, saving thousands of lives every year.

Our values

Caring. Pioneering. Real. These are the values Pet Blood Bank UK is built upon. Our values bind us together as a charity and guide everything we do. We expect every team member to know, understand and embody our values, helping to build our reputation as a pioneering, caring and practical charity. Read more about our values.

What you’ll do

As the Regional Coordinator, you will be responsible for ensuring all the relevant tasks and procedures are adhered to, to successfully coordinate donation sessions within your region. This will involve:

Working closely with the Area Manager who will provide support and guidance on this evolving role.

Ongoing development and support of donation sessions within your region, ensuring sessions run as efficiently and effectively as possible, whilst increasing donor recruitment and attendance.

Responsible for ensuring that any feedback is communicated between the Area Manager and the regional clinical team at the earliest opportunity.

Working alongside the Area Manager to ensure the region is meeting the key performance indicators set out for the collection teams, looking at methods to motivate the team and encourage them to achieve the most successful outcome for each potential donor.

Support the building of a volunteer team within the region, develop a pool of volunteers trained to support sessions, events and, where appropriate, the transport of kit and blood.

Organise and manage the rota for your region by liaising with the team to ensure all sessions are fully covered.

Support the co-ordination and maintenance of session kit stored in Dunfermline, collaborating with Loughborough teams to ensure all items remain fit for purpose.

Help organise and attend events to raise awareness of Pet Blood Bank in your region. You will be required to deliver presentations on Pet Blood Bank to potential donor owners, veterinary professionals, and other organisations.

As part of this role, you will be required to build relations with the other departments within Pet Blood Bank and support the communication between the collection team and other departments.

Due to the nature of the work carried out by Pet Blood Bank, flexibility is key to this role. You will be expected to be part of a weekend duty on-call rota (1 in 6 weekends).

What we need

An excellent, confident communicator (written and verbal) who has a proven background working effectively with a variety of people including peers, clients, and volunteers. Good time management, ability to self-motivate, think proactively, and be an enthusiastic team player who strives for continued improvement. Experience of working within or knowledge of the charity sector is beneficial.

We’re looking for someone who:

Has an animal health related qualification, proven experience working with dogs, or holds a veterinary qualification

Has previous team leadership or supervision experience

Experience using Microsoft Office (word, outlook, excel)

Previous experience of working in a remote environment

Holds a full UK driving licence and has access to their own transport

Has a confident and professional manner with the ability to problem solve

Is committed to positive customer experience

Confident engaging and speaking to the public and professionals.

What’s in it for you

In return, we offer full training, competitive salary with pay progression, contributory pension scheme, lifestyle rewards, and 30 days annual holidays (pro rata, including bank holidays).

Further details

This role comprises of 15 hours administration time per week, these hours are hybrid and worked across Monday/Wednesday and Friday, working 5 hours per day you will have flexibility to pick the hours worked between 9am-5pm ensuring the core hours of 10am-12noon are covered. In addition, it includes a minimum of working 12 blood donation sessions annually (average 3/quarter) at varied locations on weekend days. Flexibility around the time work is undertaken is essential as some evening and weekend work will be required. Full training will be given for both the administration role and to perform a team role on a donation session relevant to qualifications.

Living within the region you are supervising is essential, as well as the flexibility to travel and attend sessions across the whole region. Candidates will need to be based within a 30 minute commute of Dunfermline to allow a minimum of once weekly working from our Dunfermline office.

Travel is required within your region to and from donation sessions and our Dunfermline office, a mileage allowance is paid for this, there is no access to a company vehicle. Occasional travel to neighbouring regions or Pet Blood Bank offices (Loughborough) will be required with notice.

Award-winning animal charity, Pet Blood Bank UK, is recruiting for the position of Assistant Marketing Manager. You will play a key role in supporting the Marketing Manager and team to deliver the charity’s marketing and fundraising strategies, ensuring we continue to grow, raise awareness, and build our community. A strong understanding of marketing with a creative and proactive approach is essential for this position.

Background

Launched in 2007, Pet Blood Bank UK is the only charity that provides a blood bank service for all vets across the UK. As part of our charitable remit, our aim is to advance animal health and welfare and to relieve suffering by providing quick and convenient access to blood. Every unit of blood helps save up to four other lives, saving thousands of lives every year.

Our Values

Caring. Pioneering. Real. These are the values Pet Blood Bank UK is built upon. Our values bind us together as a charity and guide everything we do. We expect every team member to know, understand and embody our values, helping to build our reputation as a pioneering, caring and practical charity. Read more about our values.

What you’ll do

• Work closely with the Marketing Manager to deliver the marketing strategy for the year in line with the overall strategy for the charity
• Take responsibility for defined projects within the marketing plan, delivering against agreed goals and objectives.
• As a custodian of our brand, you will ensure everything we do is in alignment with our brand identity and values
• Contribute to the creation and delivery of marketing campaigns to raise awareness and grow the charity
• Support the marketing team to thrive within their roles, ensuring they have the tools needed to deliver their work, as well as reviewing and approving any materials and communications they produce
• Support the marketing team and Senior Management Team in the absence of the Marketing Manager
• Work closely with the Marketing Manager and marketing team to deliver the fundraising strategy for the year
• Work with the team to deliver the events strategy for the year, including attending events across the year
• Support the delivery of our customer and volunteer strategies
• Oversee KPIs for the department and produce regular performance reports
• Take part in a rota to monitor social media channels across the weekend

What we need

We’re looking for someone creative who has a good all round understanding of marketing. This is a varied role with the opportunity to get involved in many different aspects of marketing. Good organisational skills, excellent copywriting, and a strong attention to detail are essential.

We’re looking for someone who has:

• A marketing or business qualification, or equivalent experience
• Minimum three years of experience in a marketing role
• A passionate, proactive, and creative approach
• A high level of personal motivation and passion for the cause
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including presentation or media skills
• The ability to work under pressure with competing priorities
• A passion for supporting and helping to grow a team

What’s in it for you

In return, we offer full training, competitive salary with pay progression, contributory pension scheme, lifestyle rewards, and 30 days annual holidays (pro rata, including bank holidays).

Further details

This is a permanent part-time role based in our Dunfermline office, working 24 hours per week, ideally 6 hours per day across 4 days. Hours can be discussed at interview.

This role involves taking part in a 1 in 3 rota to monitor our social media channels over the weekend, which we expect takes no more than one hour across the two days. If you are on duty, you will finish one hour earlier on your last working day of the week before.

Occasional travel will be involved to attend donation sessions, events, our Loughborough office, and other marketing related activities that could take place across the UK.

As Scotland’s leading nature conservation charity, we welcome applications from individuals who are looking to join us in our journey of protecting Scotland’s wildlife for the future.

From major species and landscape restoration projects, to managing our network of wildlife reserves and campaigning for nature, we work for Scotland’s wildlife year-round.

We give a voice to wildlife through our policy and campaigning work, demonstrate best practice through practical conservation work, engage with people to take positive action through our education programmes and events, and so much more.

The Role:

The Senior Monitoring and Control Officer will contribute to the protection of the Highland Line (HL), a coast-to-coast control zone which aims to prevent grey squirrels from moving north from Central Scotland into the red strongholds of the Highlands and Grampians. Progressed through a programme of targeted grey squirrel monitoring and control, you’ll help support the protection and expansion of red squirrel populations in accordance with the Saving Scotland’s Red Squirrels strategy. This role requires an approachable individual with experience in mammal control work and line management that enjoys working outdoors and interacting with people.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

Delivering responsive and strategic grey squirrel control in the region primarily from the shores and islands of Loch Lomond, heading east to Callander and the Teith Valley to Doune; line managing Monitoring and Control Officers (MCO’s) to carry out effective grey squirrel control and develop regional Rapid Response Monitoring networks in their regions; and coordinating the project trap-loan scheme.

Specifically this includes:

1. Line manage and support three MCO’s covering Argyll to Strathmore
2. Carry out responsive and strategic grey squirrel control through trapping and targeted shooting in priority areas
3. Coordinate and oversee the delivery and expansion of the project trap-loan scheme
4. Coordinate and support the development and expansion of a regional Rapid Response Monitoring (RRM) networks
5. Assist with recruiting and provide appropriate training to volunteers and external partners in grey squirrel control, monitoring and detection methods
6. Where required, carry out Operational Monitoring (OM) to assess squirrel presence e.g. feeder boxes and/or camera traps
7. Monitor the spread of the squirrel pox virus through the Central Lowlands by carrying out trapping and testing in sampling survey squares
8. Collect and maintain records on monitoring and trapping efforts using Excel, ArcGIS and the SSRS Hub (database) and contribute to reporting on project performance.
9. Encourage interest in local red squirrel conservation with relevant local communities through media and events

The successful candidate will have:

• A degree or equivalent qualification in ecology, countryside management or related discipline plus a minimum two years’ experience in a relevant field, including practical wildlife management/ invasive non-native species control.
• Experience in line management, oversight of operations and collecting, maintaining and reporting standardised ecological data is essential.
• Relevant previous experience of working with landowners, gamekeepers, foresters and the public and recruiting, training and supporting volunteers to undertake active conservation work is also essential.
• Good understanding of conservation principles, practices and legislation would be desirable.
• Knowledge of native tree species and familiarity with the Trossachs and Stirlingshire area would be advantageous.

There may occasionally be a requirement to work out of normal working hours.

You must possess a full clean driving licence.

You must possess or be willing and eligible to obtain, a Firearms licence.

Options in Life is a Fife-based charity supporting young adults with autism, learning disabilities, and additional support needs. We deliver engaging social inclusion and skills development programmes that help individuals build confidence, independence, and meaningful relationships.

Role Summary

We are recruiting motivated and enthusiastic Support Workers to join our Recreation Programme, supporting young adults to take part in a wide range of community-based activities.

This is a dynamic and rewarding role where no two days are the same. You will actively take part in activities while providing person-centred support to help individuals engage, achieve and enjoy new experiences.

You will support our Recreation Programme groups, who take part in full-day outings and activities each week.

The focus of the programme is to:

• Build confidence and independence
• Encourage social interaction and friendships
• Support individuals to try new and exciting experiences

This role involves being active, engaged, and hands-on, supporting individuals in real-world environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Support service users to safely participate in a wide range of activities
• Encourage individuals to try new challenges and develop confidence
• Promote teamwork, inclusion, and peer support within the group
• Provide appropriate support tailored to individual needs
• Help create a safe, positive and enjoyable group environment
• Communicate effectively with colleagues, families, carers and other professionals
• Respond calmly and effectively to changing situations throughout the day

Activities May Include

• Outdoor and adventure activities such as:
  • Kayaking
  • Rock climbing
  • Cycling
  • Zip lining
• Social and recreational outings
  • Visits to zoos, farms and animal parks
  • Science centres and museums
• Group-based activities in community settings
  • Arts and crafts
  • Tenpin bowling
  • Minigolf/footgolf

About You

We are looking for someone who:

• Has experience supporting people with autism, learning disabilities, or communication needs
• Understands autistic spectrum conditions
• Is confident, enthusiastic, and proactive
• Has strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Is patient, empathetic, and supportive
• Is reliable, non-judgemental, and respectful
• Can think on their feet and respond to unexpected situations
• Enjoys being active and working outdoors or in varied environments

Physical Requirements

Due to the nature of the role, you should be:

• Physically active and able to participate in outdoor/adventure activities
• Comfortable demonstrating activities where required to support learning and engagement

Additional Requirements

• This role is subject to an Enhanced PVG check
• A full driving licence is desirable
• Drivers may be asked to drive the organisation’s minibus (training will be provided)

Our Commitment

Options in Life is committed to:

• Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults
• Providing an inclusive, respectful, and supportive environment
• Equality, diversity and inclusion in both employment and service delivery

JOB PURPOSE

As Scotland’s leading conservation charity, the National Trust for Scotland cares for, shares and speaks up for Scotland’s heritage. Since 1931, we’re pioneered public access to and shared ownership of some of the most magnificent buildings, collections and landscapes in Scotland. We care for ancient houses, battlefields, castles, mills, gardens, coastlines, islands and mountain ranges, as well as the plants, animals and birds that live there.

To share these special places, we hold approximately 50,000 image assets to promote and explain the purpose of the Trust. We are conscious that we do not have a robust digital asset management system to store and manage access rights to these images. These include images of:

• People
• Places – castles, gardens and landscapes
• Conservation in action
• Wildlife and nature

Note: there is an existing database (Portfolio) which holds imagery of collections items (as undertaken in a previous digitisation project).

Currently, these assets are saved across a range of locations: SharePoint, locally on people’s own machines, Flickr, on external hard drives. There are significant risks to the Trust having no coherent storage system:

• Misuse of imagery (contravening IP/copyright information) because we have no way of securely tagging and storing contracts/permissions forms alongside imagery
• Loss of assets (many are currently stored on external hard drives)
• Difficulty of sharing imagery both internally and externally
• Storage costs from duplication of images across personal machines

This immediately affects Content/Marketing, Communications and Fundraising within Audiences & Support. We currently do not have the resource or expertise within the Directorate to initiate this project so are looking for an external expert to develop a plan for how to transition to a DAMs.

The purpose of this role is to assess our current position, auditing our assets and putting in place a robust plan for an intuitive, well-governed asset management system in line with the work already done by the Collections team. We would like to use Portolio, a system already in place in other areas across the Trust, but would like the successful applicant to assess the efficacy of Portfolio, and report on its benefits/issues/whether we can optimise it to work for us, or whether an alternative package should be considered so we can make an informed decision. This will ensure a consist approach to asset management is taken across the Trust.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Audit assets (video, imagery, illustrations) within the Directorate to gauge the scale of the requirements and clarify work required on copyright records.
• Assess the functionality of Portfolio for imagery, including a report on whether any development work is required to ensure it is suitable for the needs of the directorate.
• Build upon the work already done by the Collections Team to develop clear cataloguing standards for the DAMs to improve access and rights management and to ensure that a consistent approach is taken to asset management across the organisation
• Develop a plan for how to transition live imagery to Portfolio, and how to manage the transition of the image backlog.
• Design a plan for the implementation of workflows for good digital asset management including a review and disposal criteria policy and ongoing resource requirements.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE

Qualifications

Essential

• Strong track record in DAMs management and/or commercial digital image library management

Desirable

• Educated to a degree level in a relevant heritage or information technology subject

Experience

Essential

• Technically knowledgeable, technically experienced person
• Proven experience with Portfolio and other DAMs systems
• Thorough understanding of the cataloguing and meta data protocols for the retrieval and exploitation of digital assets
• Experience of planning and delivering a DAMs audit/approach project
• Ability to work independently
• Experienced and independent self-starter, with the knowledge and confidence to review existing systems
• Excellent knowledge of copyright and other legal compliance issues
• Experience of develop digital management workflows

Desirable

• Experience in a charity, heritage or cultural organisation.