This is an exciting opportunity to join the independent office with responsibility for biometric data in the criminal justice and policing sector in Scotland. Further information on the functions of the Scottish Biometrics Commissioner can be found in the legislative Act or on our website.
The Scottish Biometrics Commissioner is recruiting an Operations Manager to join his current small team. Reporting to the Director, the Operations Manager works in a cross-functional team with responsibility for operational activities in support of the Strategic Plan. This includes liaising with Police Scotland, the Scottish Police Authority and the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner and other stakeholders and regulatory bodies on the use of biometric data. The Operations Manager will conduct independent reviews and ensure compliance with the use of biometric data in Scotland.
To be successful in this role, ideally you will have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a supervisory or management position in a policing, human-rights, criminology or criminal justice environment. However, the Commissioner would especially welcome applications from candidates with sector-specific knowledge and practical experience in the use of biometric or forensic data. You will be able to demonstrate strong analysis and decision-making skills; you will have experience of building and maintaining collaborative relationships with stakeholders at all levels with well-developed written and oral communication skills.
Scripture Union Scotland is a national charity, with 140 staff and 2,500 volunteers. Our vision is to see every child and young person of Scotland exploring the Bible and responding to the significance of Jesus. At the heart of our current strategy is a focus on growing SU Scotland’s ministry, especially in priority communities and with priority schools and young people, removing barriers and partnering with local churches.
We are now seeking an experienced Head of CRM and Analytics to manage the ongoing implementation and development of our MS Dynamics365 CRM and to ensure that the system is used to its full potential to support the ministry of SU Scotland.
Purpose:
Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, to lead SU Scotland’s strategic development, delivery and effective use of Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM, ensuring that organisational processes, reporting, data analysis and insight inform ministry decision making, support training development, and strengthen strategic priorities.
Key responsibilities:
Who we are looking for:
To achieve this, we want to identify someone with a vibrant Christian faith who has a heart to use their IT skills to support SU Scotland's ministry. The successful applicant should possess proven project management skills and a strong working knowledge of CRM systems, ideally Dynamics365. Experience of managing suppliers and building relationships across the organisation is essential.
For this post, it is important that you are committed to SU Scotland’s ethos, working principles and vision and can demonstrate this through your commitment and motivation. It is also an Occupational Requirement (Equality Act - part 1, schedule 9), that the post-holder is a committed Christian.
As part of the Information Governance Programme and in support of the Trust’s aim to improve its Records Management and Information Governance Processes, the Lead SharePoint Developer is responsible for collaborating with teams to design the SharePoint environment in line with the Trust’s Information Governance Policy and associated procedures. The Lead SharePoint Developer will provide support, training and documentation to NTS colleagues, troubleshoot issues and collaborate with the wider Information Governance Programme team in the introduction of best practice when managing and sharing Trust Data.
The post holder is responsible for advising colleagues in the use of best practice data management controls including naming conventions, retention schedules, and version control, and deploying these in the SharePoint environment. This role will ensure the platform effectively supports the collaboration and content management needs of teams working to protect the Trust’s heritage. With the wider Data Protection team, the post holder will work closely with the Infrastructure team to deliver intuitive, well-governed SharePoint sites that enhance knowledge sharing across the Trust, in support of the Trust’s vision and strategy.
The role requires a blend of technical expertise, communication skills and an understanding of data protection and security requirements, ensuring the platform functions effectively for users across the organisation.
This fixed term post offers an exciting opportunity to work with teams across the Trust, delivering in person training to colleagues, leading to skills development in the use of SharePoint so that colleagues can take responsibility for their own sites once established.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
A national role with the opportunity to shape health and safety across Cornerstone.
We have a great opportunity for an experienced health and safety professional to influence practice at a national level.
Working with colleagues across our organisation you'll strengthen governance, improve consistency and develop practical approaches to managing risk.
Based at our Glasgow, Dundee or Aberdeen office, this role offers hybrid working alongside regular travel across our services and locations. You'll work closely with teams across Cornerstone, building relationships and providing visible, practical health and safety leadership.
About the role
At Cornerstone, our purpose is to enable the people we support to live valued lives in their communities.
As our Health and Safety Lead, you'll play a key role in ensuring our approach to health and safety supports this purpose while meeting our legal and regulatory responsibilities.
You'll be Cornerstone’s competent person for health and safety, helping colleagues understand legal requirements, manage risk effectively and embed a positive, proportionate safety culture.
This is a broad and influential role, combining strategic oversight with practical support. You'll help shape and continuously improve Cornerstone’s health and safety framework, providing assurance that our policies, systems and practices are effective, proportionate and compliant.
You'll help translate legislation and good practice into approaches that work in the context of our services and play an important role in using data, audit findings and incident learning to identify risks and drive meaningful improvement.
Key responsibilities
What we're looking for
You'llbe an experienced health and safety professional with the knowledge and confidence to balance legal compliance, effective risk management and operational requirements.
We'll need you to be comfortable working at both a strategic and practical level, providing clear advice and building effective relationships with colleagues across a large, multi-site organisation.
Essential qualifications and experience
Desirable
Why Cornerstone
Our values, Caring, Person-Centred, Professional and Pioneering underpin how we work and the services we provide.
This role provides you with an opportunity to influence health and safety practice across a national organisation, strengthen our approach to risk and assurance, and support the delivery of safe, high-quality services across Scotland.
So, if you are an experienced health and safety professional looking for a role where you can use your expertise to influence practice across a large organisation, we would like to hear from you. Apply now!
Birthlink is seeking an experienced, compassionate Manager to lead the operational delivery of our Redress service, a central part of our work supporting care experienced people and survivors of abuse in care. This pivotal role will oversee day to day service delivery across key organisational activity, ensuring safe, trauma informed, rights based practice throughout the Redress process.
You will guide and support a hybrid team, strengthen operational systems, and ensure full compliance with legal frameworks including the Redress for Survivors (Historical Child Abuse in Care) (Scotland) Act 2021, UK GDPR, and the Data Protection Act 2018. Working closely with the Executive Director, funders, partners, and beneficiaries, you will help shape Birthlink’s national contribution to improving access to records and supporting people through Redress.
Alongside leading Birthlink’s Redress service, you may also contribute to the development or oversight of other aligned projects as required.
If you are an organised, values driven leader with experience in complex, publicly accountable environments and committed to trauma informed practice, we would love to hear from you.
A senior role with the opportunity to shape payroll across Cornerstone.
We have a great opportunity for an experienced payroll professional to lead and influence payroll practice across Cornerstone.
You'll lead the delivery of a high-quality payroll and pension service, strengthen controls and compliance, and drive improvements to systems, processes and ways of working.
Leading your team, you'll ensure around 1,800 colleagues are paid accurately, compliantly and on time, while creating a supportive environment and providing professional advice across the organisation.
Based at our Glasgow, Dundee or Aberdeen office, this role offers hybrid working alongside occasional travel across our branch locations (travel expenses would be reimbursed as set out in Cornerstone’s expense policy with travel reimbursed by HMRC legislation).
About the role
At Cornerstone, our purpose is to enable the people we support to live valued lives in their communities.
As our Payroll Lead, you'll play an important role in ensuring our payroll service supports this purpose while meeting our financial, legal and regulatory responsibilities.
You'll have overall responsibility for the effective delivery of Cornerstone's end-to-end payroll and pension service, providing leadership to our Payroll Business Partners, Payroll Specialists and Payroll Officers.
This is a broad and influential role, combining strategic oversight with hands-on operational leadership. You'll provide assurance that payroll is accurate, compliant, well controlled and delivered to a consistently high standards.
You'll act as a senior point of escalation for complex and sensitive payroll matters, while working closely with Finance, People, HMRC, pension providers, auditors, advisers and system providers.
You'll also play a key role in using payroll data, insight and analysis to identify risks, improve service quality and support better decision-making.
Key responsibilities
What we're looking for
You'll be an experienced payroll leader with the knowledge and confidence to manage a complex, end-to-end payroll service within a large or multi-site organisation.
You'll be comfortable working at both a strategic and operational level, balancing accuracy, compliance, risk and customer service while leading and developing a team.
You'll have strong attention to detail and the ability to interpret complex legislation and translate requirements into clear, practical processes and guidance.
Essential qualifications and experience
Desirable
Why Cornerstone
Our values, Caring, Person-Centred, Professional and Pioneering, underpin how we work and the services we provide.
As Payroll Lead, you'll have the opportunity to influence and strengthen an essential organisational service, develop colleagues and lead meaningful improvements to our payroll systems and processes.
You'll play a key role in ensuring our people are paid accurately and on time, while providing the financial control, assurance and insight that supports Cornerstone to deliver high-quality care and support services across Scotland.
So, if you're an experienced payroll leader looking for a role where you can use your expertise to lead, develop and drive meaningful improvement, we'd like to hear from you. Apply now!
Shortlisted candidates will be invited along to an interview on Friday 23rd October 2026.
The successful candidate will need to undertake a Level 2 Disclosure check through Disclosure Scotland.
Children First Support Line
Could you play a vital role within our national Support Line, helping deliver Scotland's mission to eradicate child poverty?
Join Children First and be part of a once in a generation transformation in how families access help to alleviate crisis, prevent harm and build long-term stability to break the cycle of child poverty. Funded by the Scottish Government, we are doubling the size of our Support Line with the aim of supporting 7,500 more families across Scotland in the first year.
We've been preventing harm, supporting recovery and driving change since 1884 and our ambitious plans for the Support Line build on our experience of delivering cash-first, short, medium and long-term holistic support to families living in, or at risk of, poverty.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our growing multidisciplinary team and help ensure every family in Scotland has somewhere to turn when they need help.
About the Role
You will play a vital role in the expansion and delivery of our national support line service, which offers practical, financial and emotional support to families through phone calls, webchats, advice and information on our website and in their homes and communities across Scotland.
This role plays a key role in supporting the effective day-to-day running of Children First services. The postholder provides operational, administrative and systems support to ensure services run safely, efficiently and in line with organisational requirements.
This role is central to enabling high-quality support for children, young people and families. The postholder will support the effective operation of the national Support Line by coordinating service administration across telephone, webchat and digital channels, ensuring accurate records, efficient service access and high-quality information to support performance monitoring and reporting.
By coordinating key processes such as data management, finance administration, service access and local operations, the Service Operations Administrator allows Support Line Coordinators, volunteers team leaders and managers to focus on delivering impactful support.
The role operates with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, often acting as the first point of contact for operational matters within a service. It requires strong organisational skills, initiative, and the ability to respond flexibly to changing service needs.
What You'll Be Doing
1. Service Operations and Coordination
Services are well-organised, responsive and able to operate effectively, with administrative and operational processes running smoothly and consistently.
2. Systems and Data Management
Accurate and timely data is maintained across systems (including Dynamics, Advice Pro and our Call Handling System), supporting service delivery, reporting and organisational insight.
3. Finance and Resource Management
Service-level financial processes are managed accurately and in line with organisational procedures.
4. Facilities, Health & Safety and Local Operations
Service environments are safe, compliant and well-maintained, with appropriate coordination of property, facilities and health & safety activities.
5. Team and Service Support
Practitioners and managers are effectively supported through coordination of meetings, diaries, resources and operational requirements.
Core Responsibilities
Service-Specific Responsibilities
· Health & Safety coordination and local compliance tasks
· Property and facilities management
· Reception / front of house responsibilities
· Supporting local funding, resources or community activity
· Event coordination or service-specific administration
· Additional systems or reporting requirements
· Support the administration of telephone, webchat and digital support channels.
· Assist with service performance reporting, data quality checks, case closures and monitoring against contract requirements.
· Support referral pathways, financial support administration and onward connections to local and national services.
· Coordinate practitioner rotas, meetings, training records and operational communications.
· Contribute to the oversight of the budget
What We're Looking For
We're looking for someone who is passionate about supporting children and families and who can build trust quickly through empathy, compassion and kindness.
· Strong organisational and coordination skills
· Ability to manage competing priorities and work independently
· Confidence using systems and managing data accurately
· Strong communication and interpersonal skills
· A proactive and flexible approach
· Alignment with Children First values
Our Values
Everything we do is guided by our values:
With Love
We put children first with compassion and kindness.
With Purpose
We work alongside families and partners to transform children's lives together.
With Strength
We do whatever it takes to protect Scotland's children.
What You'll Get From Us
At Children First, you'll be part of a values-led organisation committed to developing and supporting our people.
We offer:
• 40 days annual leave including public holidays.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• Flexible and hybrid working opportunities.
• Wellbeing support and health benefits.
• Blue Light Card discounts.
• Learning, training and career development opportunities.
• The opportunity to help shape an ambitious national service supporting thousands of families across Scotland.
Health in Mind has an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated leader to join our South Services Team as Service Manager for our Midlothian Recovery Services, supporting people with their mental health and drug and/or alcohol recovery journey. Within this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the day-to-day delivery of the Recovery Services, including:
You should have experience in; providing leadership and management within services, staff development and supervision, supporting people drug and alcohol recovery and mental health, working as part of a team, working with external stakeholders, meeting service KPI’s, data analysis and preparing data for reporting. Supporting our Peer Support Workers and volunteers, who have their own lived experience of recovery is vital in this role.
If you have experience in these areas and are passionate about supporting people to fulfil their potential, we’d love to hear from you!
At Seamab, it is where the future grows. You will help make that happen by developing fundraising proposition and raising income from grants, trusts and foundations for the charity. We care for some of the most vulnerable children in Scotland who are placed with us by their Local Authority. We are trauma responding, working as a team to help the children and young people enjoy their childhood.
Job Purpose
To have responsibility for raising income from grants, trusts and foundations for the charity. To develop our fundraising proposition, case for support and strategy around grants fundraising. To identify and develop funding opportunities by working with staff, Trustees and high-level supporters. To develop efficient administrative processes which include data capture and accurate reporting of activity and outcomes. To support other areas of fundraising when required.
Do you enjoy bringing order to busy systems, keeping records accurate and helping other people get the information they need? This could be a great opportunity to use your administration, data and digital skills in a role that supports learning across CHAS.
We’re introducing a new Learning Management System and need some extra support during this important stage. You’ll join our Learning & Organisational Development (L&OD) team and help us manage learning records, reporting, course administration and everyday enquiries.
No two days will be the same - you might be updating learner records, arranging workshops, producing a compliance report, responding to an enquiry or checking that our learning information is clear and up to date. You’ll also help maintain the spreadsheets, dashboards and systems that allow us to see how learning is progressing across CHAS.
About you
To do well in this role, you’ll need:
• strong administrative and organisational skills, gained in a busy working environment
• strong Microsoft Excel skills, as well as experience using Outlook, Teams and other Microsoft 365 applications
• confidence working with data and producing accurate reports
• experience of maintaining systems, databases or electronic records
• experience of coordinating training, events, meetings or similar activities
• the ability to organise competing priorities and meet deadlines
• clear communication skills and a helpful, responsive approach.
Experience in Learning & Development, HR or workforce development would be particularly useful. Experience of a Learning Management System or SharePoint would also be welcome.
About CHAS
At CHAS, we support families during the toughest of times. Reaching every family in Scotland who needs our care depends on having capable, compassionate and highly skilled colleagues. In this role, you’ll help colleagues and volunteers access the right learning, helping us understand where training has been completed and where more support is needed. This will ensure our people can thrive in their roles and make a meaningful difference to children and families every day.
You’ll be joining our small and friendly L&OD team during an exciting and busy piece of work. The role offers a chance to build your experience of learning systems, data, reporting and digital tools while doing work that has a clear purpose.
What’s in it for you
• flexible and family-friendly working
• hybrid working, with some time at our Edinburgh office
• health and wellbeing support
• fantastic opportunity to develop your systems, reporting and learning administration experience - while working in one of Scotland’s leading children’s charities
The role is a 4 month fixed term contract, offered on a part-time basis of 17.5 hours per week (2.5 days). We are happy to consider flexible working patterns, although we would ideally like the hours to be spread across the week, including Monday as a working day to support key operational activities.
Advertised salary will be paid on a pro rata basis, calculated against a 35 hour full-time working week.
Travel to the Edinburgh office may be required around one day a week, with occasional travel to other CHAS locations.