Join Our Board of Directors

Empower Care Scotland is an established charity based in North Lanarkshire. We provide high-quality, person-centred services for children, young people and adults with additional support needs.

We are looking for new Board members to join us and help shape the future development of our charity.

As a Board member, you will become a valued part of our team, contribute ideas and help to make key decisions that support the continued development of our services.

We would be delighted to hear from people from a variety of backgrounds. Previous Board experience is not required, as training and support will be provided. We are particularly interested in people who:

• Share our commitment to improving the lives of the people we support
• Can contribute ideas, knowledge and life experience
• Enjoy working as part of a team
• Are willing to attend Board meetings every two months and take an active interest in the Charity.

This is a voluntary position and a rewarding opportunity to make a meaningful difference within your local community.

LEAP Sports is looking for a passionate and motivated Project Officer – Highlands & Moray to lead our OUT and About in the Highlands project.

The project aims to improve the mental wellbeing of LGBTIQ+ people across the Highlands and Moray through sport, physical activity and the outdoors. You’ll work directly with local LGBTIQ+ communities, develop opportunities for people to get active, build partnerships with local organisations and support sports clubs and groups to become more inclusive.

We’re looking for someone with experience of community engagement and partnership working, a strong understanding of equality and LGBTIQ+ inclusion, and a belief in the positive role sport and physical activity can play in health and wellbeing.

The role is 18 hours per week and home-based within the Highlands or Moray, with regular travel across the area. Some evening and weekend work will be required.

Do you want to use your content design skills to help people understand and act on their housing rights? Join Shelter Scotland as our Content Designer and play a key role in creating clear, accessible and user-centred digital content that helps people navigate the housing emergency with confidence.

About the role

As our Content Designer, you’ll create clear, reliable and people-first digital content that helps users navigate their housing rights with confidence. You’ll take part in research and discovery to ensure we design and maintain accessible content. You’ll work with colleagues in an agile team to test, publish and continually improve digital advice and supporter content. You’ll champion the needs of users, provide constructive feedback to other content designers, and use evidence and insight to influence decisions across Shelter Scotland.

Role specifics

You’ll have experience of communicating complex information clearly and producing high-quality, accurate content, ideally including online advice. You’ll be confident researching, analysing and translating complex information into accessible content, with familiarity with content design and creating user journeys that help people understand their options and take action.

Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

About the team

This role sits in our Digital function in the Communications and Engagement team and is a key role in ensuring that our online housing rights information fully supports our strategic goal to strengthen and enforce the right to a safe home for all.

The team is tasked with creating and delivering user needs focused, high-quality, user-friendly digital content on the Shelter Scotland website. The content must be of an exceptional standard, ensuring people who see it are reassured and confident about what they need to do next to fight the housing emergency.

Youth Scotland, Scotland’s national charity for the support and delivery of communitybased youth work, would love you to come and join our team.

Youth Scotland’s Youth Awards recognise and accredit young people’s learning and achievement through community based youth work, schools, local authorities, national charities, and a wide range of other partner organisations.

Following an internal promotion, we are looking for an Awards Co-ordinator to join our Awards team and play a key role in providing a responsive and efficient service to our Awards users and partners.

The Role

You will co-ordinate the day-to-day administration that supports Youth Scotland Awards, including managing and triaging enquiries, processing registrations and renewals, maintaining accurate customer records and coordinating the production and distribution of Awards materials and certificates.

The role will also help us maintain high standards of customer service by improving customer communications and supporting efficient systems and processes across the Awards team.

This role would suit someone with strong administrative and organisational skills who enjoys working with customers, solving problems and making sure services run smoothly.

You will also share our commitment to recognising and celebrating young people’s achievements.

The Organisation

Youth Scotland is the largest national youth work organisation in Scotland, supporting 116,979 young people, 2,430 youth groups from 628 member organisations and over 12,348 youth workers. Youth Scotland has been around since the early 20th century and has a diverse membership network – from small rural youth groups to large urban projects. The common goal that we all share is better outcomes for young people.

Our membership network is made up of local youth groups of all sizes, Area Associations and Youth Scotland staff who can provide support and training on a range of youth work topics. We are proud of the varied, universal youth work our network delivers and the innovative solutions our members create in an ever-changing youth work landscape.

About You: Are you an organised, compassionate and confident communicator who enjoys supporting people and making a real difference? Cruse Scotland is looking for a Helpline Co-ordinator to join our small but mighty staff team and help coordinate our national Helpline service, supporting bereaved people across Scotland. We are looking for someone who is organised, reliable and confident communicating with a wide range of people.

You will ideally have:

• Experience of working with people who may be vulnerable, distressed or in difficult circumstances.
• Strong communication and listening skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and accurate data-entry skills.
• Good IT skills and confidence using databases, email and other digital systems.
• The ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information appropriately.
• The ability to work calmly and professionally when situations are challenging.
• Experience of supporting or working alongside volunteers would be an advantage.
• The ability to work independently while also being an active and supportive member of a team.

Most importantly, you will share our commitment to providing compassionate and accessible support to people experiencing bereavement.

About The Role: Working closely with the Helpline Manager, you will help ensure the smooth and effective day-to-day running of the Helpline.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting and coordinating our dedicated Helpline volunteers.
• Taking Helpline calls during busier periods and providing a calm, compassionate and professional response to callers.
• Supporting volunteers when they are dealing with challenging or complex calls.
• Responding to clients and third parties via email.
• Processing referral forms and ensuring information is accurately recorded on our database.
• Maintaining accurate and timely records and completing regular data entry.
• Following established procedures to support the safety and wellbeing of callers, volunteers and colleagues.
• Contributing to team meetings, training and ongoing development.
• Supporting the wider Helpline team with day-to-day administration and coordination.

People contacting our Helpline may be experiencing significant distress, and on occasion may express thoughts of suicide or self-harm. You will therefore need to be able to remain calm and professional in challenging situations, follow agreed procedures and seek appropriate support when required. Full support, guidance and training will be provided.

About the organisation: Cruse Scotland is Scotland's leading bereavement charity. We provide bereavement support to anyone in Scotland who needs us, whenever they need us.

Our services include Helpline support, individual and group counselling, support for children and young people, bereavement support and training for workplaces – alongside a range of other services and resources.

Our services are delivered with the support of a dedicated volunteer workforce who are trained to professional standards. Their commitment, compassion and enthusiasm are at the heart of everything we do.

We are proud to invest in our volunteers through ongoing training, connection, support and development opportunities.

Our Helpline: Our Helpline volunteers provide an outstanding service to bereaved people across Scotland. They are home-based and located throughout the country, connecting regularly through virtual meetings, training and opportunities to meet in person.

The Helpline Co-ordinator plays an important role in creating those connections – supporting volunteers, helping them feel part of a team and ensuring they have the information and support they need to provide the best possible service.

The Helpline is also an important gateway into Cruse Scotland's wider services, while providing immediate emotional support to anyone in Scotland who needs someone to talk to about their grief.

Your new colleagues: Our volunteer workforce of around 250 people is based in communities across Scotland, working across our North, South, East and West areas. They are supported by a staff team of around 22 people.

Our staff team brings together a wide range of skills and experience across client services, volunteer management and support, training, income generation and charity governance.

Although we are a relatively small team, we place a strong emphasis on connection, collaboration and supporting one another. We meet fortnightly as a whole staff team and value the sense of community this creates.

Feedback from our staff satisfaction survey included:

“I haven't been here long but I can confidently say Cruse Scotland is one of the best organisations I have worked for, both from work and flexibility and overall organisation support from all staff and management”

“I find Cruse Scotland to be a very inclusive organisation with a great ethos, responsive to staff and volunteers”

If you are passionate about supporting people through bereavement, enjoy working as part of a supportive team and would like to play a key role in delivering an essential national service, we would love to hear from you

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

At Cruse Scotland, we believe that everyone should be treated with dignity, fairness and respect. We are committed to creating an inclusive organisation where our staff, volunteers and the people we support feel valued and able to be themselves.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly encourage applications from people whose experiences and perspectives are currently underrepresented within our organisation.

Our recruitment decisions are based on the skills, experience and qualities needed for the role. We are committed to ensuring that our recruitment process is fair, accessible and free from discrimination.

If you have a disability, health condition or other access requirement and would benefit from adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know. We will be happy to discuss how we can support you

Safeguarding

Cruse Scotland is committed to safeguarding the wellbeing of everyone who uses our services, as well as our staff and volunteers. All staff are expected to contribute to a safe and supportive environment and to follow our safeguarding policies and procedures.

This role involves contact with people who may be vulnerable or experiencing significant distress. Appropriate pre-employment checks will therefore be undertaken in line with the requirements of the role and our safeguarding responsibilities.

Right To Work

Candidates will be required to provide appropriate evidence of their right to work in the UK as part of our recruitment process.

Reasonable Adjustments

We want our recruitment process to be accessible to everyone. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know and we will do our best to support you.

Help us achieve our vision that fewer people die by suicide.

Samaritans is entering an important period of change as we strengthen how we provide emotional support to people across Scotland and make sure our services can reach people when and where they need us most.

We’re looking for a Project Officer to help us coordinate and deliver this work across Scotland. Working closely with our Programme Manager, you’ll help turn plans into action. Your work will include supporting new local volunteering and outreach activity, working with volunteers and branches, coordinating training and engagement, and helping us build strong relationships with partners and communities. You’ll play an important role in keeping activity organised and moving forward. This will include coordinating meetings and actions, tracking progress, helping identify issues or risks, and making sure colleagues and volunteers have the information they need.

Building good relationships will be central to the role. You’ll work with volunteers, staff and external partners across Scotland and will be an important point of contact for branches and volunteers involved in the work. You’ll also help make sure people are kept informed as plans develop and changes are introduced.

This is a varied role for someone who is organised, enjoys working with people and is confident turning plans into practical action. You’ll need to be comfortable working across different pieces of work at the same time, building relationships and helping others stay connected to what is happening.

It’s an opportunity to contribute to an important period of development for Samaritans in Scotland and to help shape how we support people and communities in the future.

Contract terms:

• £32,000 - £34,000 per annum, plus benefits
• 24-month fixed term contract
• 35 hours per week (full-time)
• We are passionate about flexible working, talk to us about your preferences
• Hybrid, linked to our Edinburgh (Scotland) office. The role will require frequent travel throughout Scotland.
• We value meeting in person and working collaboratively. We work in person around 1 day a week in Edinburgh.
• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• This role will require occasional evening and weekend working

What you'll be doing:

Support the development of detailed project plans

Coordinate and monitor the delivery of the project plan

Create and maintain up to date project documentation

Support the development and establishment of Community Teams in Scotland

Support testing and development of a clearer national model for outreach in Scotland

Coordinate activity across different workstreams

Organise and lead meetings, workshops and engagement sessions

Support with communications to relevant internal and external stakeholders

What you’ll bring:

Experience providing support to projects, ideally within a large-scale transformation programme

Experience of coordinating and leading meetings, workshops or engagement sessions

Strong organisational skills with the ability to effectively manage competing priorities

Great communication and relationship building skills

Ability to work collaboratively and sensitively with a wide range of stakeholders

Experience of working in a volunteer-led organisation is desirable

For full details, please see the Job Description and Person Specification

Why Samaritans?

At Samaritans, you’ll join a values-led organisation with a powerful mission. You’ll be part of a collaborative and supportive team where your voice matters, your expertise makes a difference, and your work helps save lives.

We offer flexible hybrid working, great benefits, and the chance to make a tangible difference in suicide prevention across the UK and Ireland. To find out more about Samaritans, please read our recruitment brochure.

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the people we support and who support us. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and walks of life. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels seen, heard and supported, at all levels of the organisation.

The purpose of this role is to provide high-quality emotional support and advocacy to bereaved families across Scotland, while leading the development and delivery of bereavement support services.​The Bereavement Support Manager will play a key role in expanding services, including the befriending programme, and ensuring consistent, compassionate support for families following the sudden and unexpected death of a baby or young child.​