We help young people to build life-long belief in themselves, supporting them to take on their own challenges, follow their own passions and discover talents they never knew they had. Because when you prove yourself that you’re ready for anything nothing can hold you back.

Do you want to be part of that?

Working within our values and behaviours framework, you will play a key role in delivering DofE’s fundraising ambitions across Scotland, helping to secure the philanthropic investment needed to achieve the goals set out in our new World Ready strategy and ensure more young people can access the life-changing opportunities DofE provides.

You will manage and grow a portfolio of major donors, and Trusts and Foundations, securing five- and six-figure gifts and developing long-term partnerships that support DofE’s strategic priorities across Scotland. Alongside managing existing supporters, you will identify, cultivate and secure new funding opportunities, building a strong pipeline of prospects and helping to diversify income sources.

Working closely with the Director of Scotland, Head of Philanthropy, colleagues across Scotland and senior volunteers, you will develop compelling cases for support, create tailored funding proposals, and deliver outstanding stewardship that inspires donors to deepen their engagement with DofE.

As an ambassador for DofE, you will represent the charity at meetings, events and networking opportunities, building strong relationships with donors, funders, volunteers and stakeholders. You will bring insight into Scotland’s philanthropic landscape and help shape fundraising activity that supports sustainable income growth.

The role requires a collaborative and proactive approach, working across teams to identify funding opportunities, develop impactful funding propositions and ensure supporters receive an exceptional experience.

The role will be home-based with regular travel across Scotland to meet donors, attend events and engage with stakeholders. It will require regular travel to London, and occasional travel to other parts of the UK

What we are looking for:

We’re looking for an experienced and motivated fundraiser who combines strong relationship-building skills with a strategic approach to income generation. You will have:

• A proven track record of securing and managing significant gifts from Trusts and Foundations and major donors.

• Experience developing and managing a pipeline of prospects, moving supporters successfully from identification through to solicitation and stewardship.

• Strong relationship management skills with the ability to engage, influence and inspire a wide range of stakeholders.

• Experience of developing compelling funding proposals, applications and cases of support tailored to donor interests.

• Ability to work collaboratively across teams to identify opportunities and develop fundraising solutions

• Strong networking skills and the ability to identify, create and maximise opportunities

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex information clearly and persuasively.

• A self-motivated, proactive and resilient approach with the ability to work independently and as part of a wider team.

• A passion for creating opportunities for young people and a commitment to DofE’s vision, values and commitment to inclusion.

Why apply for this role?

This is an exciting time to join Children’s Hearings Scotland. We’re on an ambitious journey of reform, organisational redesign and continuous improvement, all with one purpose – improving outcomes for infants, children and young people across Scotland. People are central to making that happen.

We’re looking for an experienced, forward-thinking People Operations Manager to lead our operational people function and help shape how we support, develop and enable our people for the future.

This isn’t simply about keeping the day-to-day running smoothly (although that’s important too). It’s about bringing fresh thinking, challenging the status quo, building capability, improving services and helping us create an exceptional colleague experience across the organisation.

If you enjoy leading teams, influencing senior leaders, solving complex people challenges and turning ideas into practical improvements, we’d love to hear from you.

Your role

Reporting to the Director of People & Culture, you’ll lead our People Operations team, providing high-quality advice, guidance and support across the full employee lifecycle.

You’ll work closely with leaders across CHS, helping them navigate people matters while building confidence, capability and consistency.

Alongside operational leadership, you’ll play a key role in delivering our People Strategy and wider organisational priorities, including involvement in programme work associated with our future reform and redesign planning.

You’ll help shape projects that strengthen organisational culture, develop leadership capability, improve employee experience and modernise how we deliver people services.

As we continue to evolve, you’ll also help foster positive and collaborative employee relations, building trusted relationships across the organisation and supporting the development of constructive partnership working. No two days will look the same.

One day you might be coaching a senior manager through an employment issue. The next you could be leading a strategic workforce planning discussion, reviewing people data to inform decision-making, redesigning a policy, or helping deliver organisation-wide change.

About you

You’re someone who combines excellent employment law knowledge with curiosity, pragmatism and a passion for making organisations better places to work.

You’ll be an experienced HR professional who enjoys balancing operational delivery with strategic thinking and who is comfortable working across a broad and varied people agenda.

You’ll bring:

• significant experience leading operational People or HR functions
• excellent knowledge of employment legislation and employee relations
• experience developing policies and improving people processes
• the ability to coach, influence and build trusted relationships with senior leaders
• experience leading and developing high-performing teams
• confidence using insight and data to inform decisions and improve services
• experience of working collaboratively with employee representatives, recognised trade unions or partnership forums
• enthusiasm for innovation, continuous improvement and modern ways of working.

Most importantly, you’ll share our commitment to creating a positive, inclusive and values-led culture where people can do their very best work.

Life at CHS

At Children’s Hearings Scotland, our highly trained Panel Members make decisions for Scotland’s unique Children’s Hearings System that upholds and promotes the rights of infants, children and young people. Our 2,500 volunteer Panel Members take part in children’s hearings in their local areas, making decisions with and for infants, children and young people. Our organisation also supports a network of Area Support Teams throughout Scotland who support Panel Members in their local communities.

As an organisation that works within the Children’s Hearings System, we are passionate about making a positive contribution to improving outcomes for Scotland’s infants, children and young people.

You can read more about our core values on our website as well as view an introductory video to our organisation. We also offer a generous benefits package from hybrid working to flexi hours and a fantastic pension scheme – check out our full benefits summary.

Diversity and Inclusion

CHS is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively encourage applicants from all protected characteristics and are committed to providing any reasonable adjustments required during the application and assessment process, and upon joining us.

Hybrid working and working pattern

This is a hybrid role and will involve being 'on-site' at our CHS Head Office an average of two days per week, it may be more on some weeks. This will be dictated by business needs. Our CHS Head Office is based in Thistle House, Haymarket, Edinburgh.

The standard working week is Monday to Friday but the role may on occasion require a level of evening and weekend work in line with business needs.

This is an exciting opportunity for an excellent communicator with experience in collaboration and partnership working who is keen to make good quality income maximisation advice and support accessible to families across Scotland.

As Development Officer (Income Maximisation in Schools) you will play a lead role in looking at the actions needed at different levels to sustainably embed advice in schools across Scotland. You’ll be involving and engaging schools, advice services and other partners to develop practical recommendations which can be used to improve provision nationally. You will also be helping to develop resources and professional learning to increase awareness and confidence in schools around financial entitlements and pathways to income maximisation support.

You will be based within the Cost of the School Day team at CPAG in Scotland and will work closely with Welfare Rights, Digital and Policy colleagues.

We welcome applications from individuals with the skills and experience outlined and we can be flexible about working arrangements. We operate a hybrid working system and would be happy to discuss any flexibilities required. CPAG is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion which you can read more about in the job pack.

Overview:

The Advice and Information Service is a national support service for single-parent families and professionals across Scotland. It provides multi-channel advice on a wide range of topics, ensuring accessibility and inclusivity. The service operates Monday to Friday, 9:30 am to 4:00 pm, excluding Christmas and Easter holidays.

The Project Lead for Advice and Information Service will play a key role in supporting the A&I Service Manager with the day-to-day management, operations and delivery of the OPFS Advice and Information Service. They will help ensure the service is delivered effectively, supporting staff, maintaining high-quality service provision and contributing to the ongoing development and continuous improvement of the service.

Working within the OPFS "My Life and Me" framework, the postholder will provide operational leadership, support and supervision to staff, ensure high-quality service delivery and undertake quality assurance activities. The Project Lead will be expected to deputise for the A&I Service Manager when required.

The Advice & Information Service is part of OPFS Support for Families Services, which provides holistic support to single parents and their children.

Our work is guided by the six My Life and Me priority areas: Money, Health & Wellbeing, Home, Work, Education & Training, Children, and Relationships.

Through a person-centred, strengths-based approach and guided by our organisational values and our strategic pillars, we work alongside families to:

• Involve them in shaping the support they receive.
• Strengthen their skills, confidence and resilience.
• Support them to achieve their goals and aspirations.
• Influence positive change in their lives and communities.
• Challenge the barriers and inequalities that impact them.

The support we offer includes:

Money

• Support to maximise income, improve financial wellbeing, access benefits and grants, manage debt and respond to financial crises.

Health & Wellbeing

• Emotional and practical support to improve mental health and wellbeing, including counselling, therapeutic interventions, wellbeing programmes and support to reduce isolation and build resilience.

Home

• Support with housing-related issues, advocacy and access to specialist services to help families maintain safe and secure housing.

Work, Education & Training

• Pre-employability and progression support, including confidence building, skills development, volunteering opportunities, training pathways and tailored support to overcome barriers to employment and learning.

Children

• Family support and group programmes that promote positive outcomes for children, strengthen parenting capacity, support child development and provide opportunities for children to participate in activities that enhance wellbeing.

Relationships

• One-to-one and group support that helps parents build positive relationships, strengthen family connections, develop peer support networks and reduce social isolation.

Do you love working with children and young people? Are you a teacher, health play specialist, youth worker, family support worker or someone with experience helping children and young people build confidence, develop new skills and have fun? Do you have a talent for creating engaging and memorable experiences that inspire children and young people to participate, connect with others and thrive?

If so, we'd love to hear from you.

Children's Health Scotland is looking for an enthusiastic and creative Programme and Engagement Coordinator to help deliver our exciting programmes and activities across Scotland.

Every week is different. One day you could be supporting children and young people to develop self-management skills through our award-winning programmes, the next you could be helping deliver a Health Rights Defenders session, planning a family event, supporting volunteers, or building relationships with schools, NHS services and community partners.

We're looking for someone who brings energy, positivity and creativity to everything they do, someone who believes every child deserves the opportunity to thrive and whose first instinct is to ask: "How can we make this engaging, accessible and fun?"

What you'll be doing

• Delivering engaging programmes, workshops and activities for children, young people and families.
• Supporting Health Rights Defenders, Self-Management Skills Programmes and SMS:HUB activities.
• Building trusted relationships with children, young people, families and partners.
• Supporting the delivery of events, participation activities and campaigns.
• Helping recruit and support volunteers.
• Collecting feedback and demonstrating the impact of our work.
• Creating blogs, case studies and social media content that celebrates children's voices and achievements.
• Helping children and young people build confidence, make connections and better understand their rights and wellbeing.

We're looking for someone who is

• Fun, friendly and approachable.
• Passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people.
• Creative and full of ideas.
• Organised and able to plan and deliver activities.
• Comfortable working independently and as part of a small team.
• A confident communicator who can build relationships with families and partners.
• Flexible and able to work regular Friday evenings and Saturdays.
• Willing to travel throughout Scotland.
• A driver with access to a car for business use.

Why join us?

At Children's Health Scotland, you'll be joining a friendly and passionate team committed to ensuring every child receives the support, information and opportunities they need to achieve their best possible health. In return, we offer:

• Nine weeks' leave per year (pro rata), including public holidays.
• A supportive team environment.
• Opportunities for training and development.
• The chance to make a genuine difference to the lives of children, young people and families across Scotland.

Important information

This is not a standard Monday to Friday role. The successful candidate must be able to work flexibly, including regular Friday evening and Saturday working, to support programme and event delivery. A full UK driving licence and access to a car for business use are essential. The post is subject to membership of the PVG Scheme and satisfactory Disclosure Scotland checks.

About Children's Health Scotland

Children's Health Scotland supports children, young people and families to navigate health challenges, understand their rights and improve their health and wellbeing. Through programmes, participation opportunities, events and information, we help children and young people build confidence, resilience, self-management skills and lasting connections. If you're enthusiastic, creative and ready to help children and young people thrive, we'd love to hear from you.

Social Work Scotland is the professional body for social work managers and leaders. We are a membership body and exist to promote and support the development of the social work profession, and to inform, influence and improve public policy and social services.

We are excited to be recruiting to our Protecting Children Policy and Practice Advisor Post. With funding provided by Scottish Government, this post plays a key role in supporting statutory social work to develop and strengthen national policy and practice in relation to child protection and the protection of children and young people. This includes contributing to implementation and continuous improvement activity associated with the National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland, Keeping the Promise, UNCRC incorporation, Bairns’ Hoose, Joint Investigative Interviewing and other key national reform programmes.

This post facilitates links between professional leadership, the Scottish Government and Child Protection Committees Scotland. It supports Social Work Scotland’s contribution to the national protection agenda, including Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation, the Interagency Referral Discussions project, Joint Investigative Interviewing reform, Bairns’ Hoose implementation and the Age of Criminal Responsibility work plans. The post also contributes to wider national developments relating to child protection practice, children’s rights, and implementation of key policy and reform programmes including the National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland and Keeping The Promise.

Working in partnership with local social work Child Protection leads, the Scottish Government Child Protection Social Work Professional Advisor and colleagues in COSLA, the National Social Work Agency and CELCIS, the post provides both capacity and leadership at the national level. Reporting to our Children and Families Policy and Practice Lead, with direction from our Chief Social Work Officer Group, Children and Families Standing Committee, and Child Protection Sub-Group, the post holder has the opportunity to make a unique contribution around the value of social work in the provision of holistic support for children and families. The postholder will work collaboratively across Social Work Scotland's wider policy, practice, and improvement activity, including alongside colleagues supporting Joint Investigative Interviewing, Interagency Referral Discussions and other national programmes.

At the core of Social Work Scotland is a commitment to assisting the profession to be the best it can be for the individuals, families and communities who need social work or social care support; the Protecting Children Policy and Practice Advisor role assists us to deliver on that commitment.

Applicants should have experience of policy development and implementation and be confident operating at a national level.

We are looking for an individual who can work independently yet as an integral part of the team, bring a collaborative approach to work with partners, and with an ability to identify issues, articulate workable solutions, and build consensus; all with a view to social work values and principles.

The post holder will be a qualified and registered social worker with significant experience in children and families’ social work.

Are you experienced in building community power or supporting communities to get active through walking or cycling schemes?

Are you experienced in building community power and running projects which support communities facing barriers to build their efficacy?

Are you passionate about raising the voices of communities that are most affected by climate but which are least often heard? If so we’d love to hear from you!

We are particularly keen to hear from people who experience marginalisation and minoritisation or who are often excluded from decision-making processes. For example, people of colour; people from working-class backgrounds; people from LGBTQ and migrant communities; care-experienced young people and people with disabilities.

About us

Parents for Future Scotland became a charity two years ago as a result of grassroots parent organising and is now a small self-employed staff team with a growing network of activists. We seek to make climate action the norm among all parents in Scotland. We are in the midst of a big step change, increasing our influence and reach across the country, and we need you to help us in doing so. This post will be the first of its kind within the organisation.

About the role

We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly-motivated Community Project Manager to lead the delivery of our Active Travel and Clean Air Project across 10 Edinburgh schools. This role combines project management, community engagement and partnership development. You will work directly with parents, schools, as well as local council and community partners to increase active and sustainable travel, establish and strengthen walking and bike buses , deliver air-pollution awareness activities, and build long-term community leadership. The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting schools to develop tailored action plans, empowering parents to lead change within their communities and ensuring active travel schemes become sustainable beyond the life of the project.

Key responsibilities

• Work with the Learning For Sustainability lead within Edinburgh City Council to onboard schools where necessary.
• Set clear expectations with schools on what they will need to deliver in order to take part in our clean air project.
• Establish excellent relationships with key staff in schools and maintain regular contact in order to support the delivery and promotion of the project.
• Identify and up-skill community “leads” within each school community, giving them the skills/confidence to organise and lead their own self-sustaining active travel initiatives.
• Support the running of active travel schemes on the ground in the mornings term-time (Mon - Friday) until they become self-sustaining.
• Develop bespoke active travel action plans for each participating school and an overall work plan/strategy which demonstrates how the project will meet wider organisational goals.
• Encourage peer-to-peer learning and knowledge sharing amongst school groups.
• Build a pool of volunteers who can deliver air pollution workshops in schools through (1) training volunteers in workshop facilitation skills and the content of our air pollution workshops (2) setting up workshops with participating schools
• Post on our socials regularly and be an active member on our WhatsApp community
• Monitor project outcomes and ensure delivery against targets.
• Maintain accurate records, collect monitoring data and contribute to project reporting.
• Work closely with partner organisations, local authorities and schools to maximise project impact.
• Promote a strong understanding of Parents For Future Scotland amongst parent communities, within your local authority and with partner organisations, and support parents to become organisation members.
• Share learning and best practice through local and national networks.
• Contribute to wider discussions on active travel, climate action and public health.

Skills and experience

• You must be able to competently ride a bike.
• You must be a qualified Cycle Ride Leader and First Aid trained or be willing to complete the training at your own expense within the first 3 months of starting.
• The candidate will be our ambassador on the ground. It is vital that they feel inspired by our vision, mission and aims, and that they have a proven ability to motivate and inspire others.
• Experience of delivering and managing community projects.
• Proven ability to tailor messaging to different audiences.
• Proven experience of creating strong relationships with partner organisations, communities facing additional barriers and local councils.
• Proven experience of building the skills, confidence and capacities of communities.
• Experience of devising and facilitating workshops, meetings and community discussions.
• Experience of conducting monitoring and evaluation and report writing.
• An understanding of active travel, public health, environmental issues or behaviour change.
• An understanding of social justice perspectives and the systems that cause climate breakdown

Desirable

• Previous experience of working on sustainability and/or active travel-related community projects or initiatives.

What we offer

• 3 days per week on a self-employed basis at £200 per day for 28 weeks (term-time) from August - 31st March (£16,800 in total)
• Flexible work environment with flexible hours (although this role will require that you are able to be present for the school commute up to five mornings per week (Mon- Fri term-time). For this reason we will only consider applicants who live in or nearby Edinburgh.
• Working from home (with team check-ins regularly).
• We are a fledgling organisation so your skills/expertise will help shape our direction.

Join our Board. Shape brighter childhoods. 

Care and Learning Alliance (CALA) - Highland's largest independent childcare provider - is growing - and we're looking for new Trustees to help shape what comes next.

As one of Scotland's leading third sector providers, we support children, families and the childcare workforce across Highland, Moray and beyond - championing rural and island communities and making the case for childcare as essential infrastructure - while our wide range of family support and play services provide inclusive opportunities for children and families to learn and play together.

As a Trustee, you'll help set our direction, strengthen our governance and champion better outcomes for children and families.

You don't need previous board experience - we provide full induction, training and support. What matters is curiosity, sound judgement and a commitment to our values.

We'd especially love to hear from people with experience in:

• Finance or accountancy
• HR and people management
• AI, data governance or cyber security
• Estates or facilities management

The commitment: a voluntary role, four Board meetings a year plus strategy days, with a three-year term.