An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and commercially minded Finance & Commercial Director to join our team at Lifelink. This senior leadership role is ideally suited to an individual who is ready to take the next step in their career and play a key role in shaping the future financial sustainability and commercial growth of a purpose driven organisation.
About us –Lifelink and Lifelink Workwell is a social enterprise with over 30 years of experience supporting adults and young people throughout Scotland, and UK wide workplaces, with their mental health and wellbeing. Our vision is that people are healthier and happier, wherever they live, work or learn.
At Lifelink, people and purpose are at the heart of everything we do. As our Finance & Commercial Director, you will play a central role in supporting the organisation’s long-term sustainability, innovation and growth. You will join a values led social enterprise committed to delivering high quality services and making a lasting difference to the communities we serve.
You will be a professional with significant experience in financial management, commercial insight and organisational development. You will be capable of leading all aspects of the finance and commercial function, aligned with the organisation’s goals and objectives. A key focus of the role will be supporting sustainable income generation, strengthening financial resilience, and contributing to the continued growth and diversification of the organisation.
You will demonstrate strong decision making and act with integrity, ensuring all financial and commercial practices are aligned with organisational values, governance standards and ethical principles. You will act as a trusted advisor across the organisation, building strong relationships and providing financial insight and commercial support to the Leadership Team and Board.
You will balance strategic leadership with hands on operational delivery, improving financial systems and processes, supporting bids and tenders, developing commercial opportunities, and driving a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and innovation.
You must have:
Ideally you will have:
Additional benefits include generous holiday allowance, contributory pension scheme (6% from employer), cash back health plan, life cover, holiday purchase scheme, and 2 wellbeing days.
Benefits
Help shape the future of Annan Harbour
Annan Harbour Action Group (AHAG) is entering an exciting new chapter.
Following years of planning, community engagement and partnership building, we have begun the multi-million-pound construction phase of our ambitiousRegenerating Annan Harbourproject. This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform a historic harbour into a vibrant, sustainable community destination.
We are now seeking an experienced and entrepreneurial Strategic Business Development Manager to help shape what comes next.
Working closely with our Chair, Trustees and partners, you will help create the activities, partnerships and income streams that will underpin the long-term future of Annan Harbour and support the facilities planned for completion in 2028.
This is a rare opportunity to build something lasting — creating economic, social and community impact for Annan and the wider region.
The role
You will lead the development of new opportunities that strengthen our sustainability and future growth by:
About you
We are looking for someone who combines strategic thinking with practical delivery.
You might currently work in:
You will ideally bring:
Most importantly, you will share our belief that community-led regeneration can create lasting positive change.
Why join us?
This is an opportunity to play a central role in one of South Scotland's most exciting community regeneration projects and help shape a legacy for future generations.
Craiglockhart Parish Church of Scotland is a lively, welcoming church in the west of Edinburgh. We are looking to appoint a skilled and motivated Church Administrator to play a central role in the life and mission of our congregation.
Working closely with our Ministry team, Session Clerk and our working teams, you will act as our first point of contact for enquiries and hall bookings, ensure that our administrative and financial procedures run smoothly and help us to communicate our vision and mission effectively to our congregation and the community.
The One World Shop was established over 40 years ago and has played a lead role in the Fair Trade movement in Scotland, including helping Edinburgh and Glasgow become Fairtrade cities and Scotland to become a Fair Trade Nation.
As well as running a thriving city centre shop, we have an online shop and we support schools, faith groups and local businesses to learn about and sell fair trade products. We currently employ 7 paid staff and over 20 volunteers. Our aim is to reduce poverty in deprived areas of the world through trading fairly and we are committed to reducing our carbon footprint and promoting low-carbon living.
We are seeking to appoint several new voluntary Management Committee members; we are particularly looking at people with skills and experience in any of the following:
Board meetings are held every two months by Zoom or occasionally in the shop.
Operated by ENABLE Glasgow, Fortune Works is one of Scotland’s largest social enterprises which provides meaningful opportunities for people with a learning disability within Glasgow and surrounding areas. The service combines accessible social and enterprising activities with individualised support for people to make a positive contribution to their community.
The Support Assistant duties will include supporting positive person-centred activities that focus on empowering people with a learning disability to play a worthwhile economic role as a valued member of the local community.
The successful candidate will provide a high quality of care and support for service users with a range of learning disabilities and will encourage participation in group activities to support people to gain skills and confidence. They will also play a part in the effective operation of a busy service. Most importantly they should have a positive and empowering approach to supporting people with learning disabilities.
Benefits
Employee benefits include:
Successful Candidates will be required to join the PVG Scheme or to have their membership updated.
ENABLE Glasgow strives to apply equal opportunities and diversities principles in all aspects its work.
For more information on Fortune Works and ENABLE Glasgow, visit our website enableglasgow.org.uk
and Facebook pages, facebook.com/EnableGlasgow and
The Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC) is seeking a collaborative, proactive and values-driven individual to join our Experiential Team as a MIST National Officer (Experiential Team).
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the implementation and ongoing development of the Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Standards, helping to improve access to treatment and related services and reduce drug-related deaths and harms in Scotland.
Working closely with SRC colleagues and in partnership with Public Health Scotland’s Medication Assisted Treatment Standards Implementation Support Team (MIST), you will play an important role in supporting the development of the experiential agenda. You will help ensure that the voices and experiences of people accessing services, family members inform quality improvement and service development across Scotland.
The role involves building strong relationships with a wide range of partners, including Alcohol and Drug Partnerships, NHS services, Health and Social Care Partnerships, third sector organisations, grassroots recovery communities, and people with lived and living experience.
We are looking for someone with excellent relationship-building skills, a strong commitment to a human rights-based approach, and the ability to work collaboratively across national and local structures to support learning, engagement and continuous improvement.
Benefits include:
If you are passionate about recovery, rights-based practice and making a meaningful difference in Scotland’s alcohol and drug sector, we would love to hear from you.
We are recruiting for an enthusiastic, creative, and dynamic Project Officer who loves working with children and is committed to the realisation of children’s human rights.
The Project Officer will be engaged in the development, delivery and reporting on a range of projects. Initially the focus of the role will be our Child Power project, which is building child activism to drive systemic changes to children’s involvement in decision making and parliamentary processes on child poverty.
Passionate about children, an excellent communicator and highly organised, the post holder will contribute to our work to support the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and deliver human rights for children.
The role is offered on a full-time basis of 35 hours per week. However, we are open to considering part-time arrangements for the right candidate, subject to mutual agreement on working hours and responsibilities.
This is a Scotland wide post with an office base at the Children’s Parliament in Edinburgh. Regular working at our Children’s Parliament office is required. Our office moves to Norton Park in Leith in September 2026. We offer flexible working and we are happy to discuss working patterns.
OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE
Children’s Parliament demonstrates children’s rights in action, supporting children to influence policy, practice and legislation, and we build the capacity and win the hearts and minds of adults to realise children’s human rights. Following the incorporation of children’s rights into Scots law, Children’s Parliament has a critical role to play to support the implementation of children’s human rights in the everyday.
In this context the role of the Project Officer is to embed the views, experiences and ideas of children into decision making around policy, practice and legislation in Scotland. Supporting children to engage adult key decision makers on what needs to change.
The Child Power project started in February 2026 in partnership with Save the Children UK and is supported through the Beyond Pledges fund from the Robertson Trust.
The project will create a Scotland-wide movement of child activists from low-income backgrounds campaigning to address the causes and impact of child poverty, to meet the 2030 child poverty targets, in a way that improves children’s lives and focusses on the action and policy change they care about.
Newbattle Abbey College is Scotland’s life-changing adult education college, offering extensive support to adults and young people at points of transition.
The College is set within an historic 16th century building and 125 acres of woodland and parkland in Midlothian, on the site of the original Abbey which dates back to the 12th century. The estate was placed in trust by the 11th Marquis of Lothian in 1937 to become an adult residential college – and the Newbattle Abbey College story began.
As one of Scotland’s smallest colleges, Newbattle offers access to further and higher education, primarily in social sciences, rural skills and outdoor education. The College is also the national accreditation centre for two innovative awards: Forest and Outdoor Learning Awards and Adult Achievement Awards.
Background
The post of Business Development Manager is crucial to drive further growth in the College’s commercial activity.
The successful candidate will be responsible for increasing income from a range of activities and identifying and successfully implementing new income streams. You will embrace the College’s purpose and values and will thrive in a dynamic and unique environment. You will have demonstrable experience of setting and achieving growth income targets, developing successful marketing strategies, fundraising and maintaining effective external relationships. You will be highly adaptable and enjoy working as part of a small team to find creative solutions and achieve goals. You will work with a team of committed staff in unrivalled surroundings.
Reporting directly to the Director of Operations, and working closely with the Principal and Depute Principal, you will play a full part in the strategic leadership and direction of the college. You will also have an outward-facing role, supporting our commercial and other strategic partnerships. You will line-manage the newly introduced role of Marketing and Events Officer and work collaboratively across the whole College team.
Mission Statement
Our long-term vision is to end youth homelessness. Our more immediate mission is to ensure that every young person in Scotland has access to expert youth specific services to assist them to avoid, resolve and move on from homelessness, making it rare, brief, and non-recurring.
Context
The Upstream Project Worker plays a key role in delivering early intervention and homelessness prevention support to young people within secondary schools. Working directly with young people aged approximately 14–18, the Project Worker provides flexible, relationship-based one-to-one support alongside informal school drop-ins and targeted interventions. The focus is on building trust, creating a safe space to talk and supporting young people to navigate challenges such as family conflict, emotional wellbeing, identity, school engagement and housing instability before situations reach crisis point.
The role also involves working closely with families and school staff to ensure young people are supported in a joined-up way. This includes contributing to multi-agency discussions, supporting early identification of need through school surveys and triage processes and linking young people into appropriate services such as counselling, housing support, welfare advice and wider community resources. Practical support is a key part of the role, alongside future planning work such as CV building, employability and preparation for post-school transitions.
Enable Glasgow is a community based charity working with adults with learning disabilities and their carers and families in Glasgow. We are currently recruiting for a full time Night Shift Coordinator (37.5 hours per week) to join our skilled staff team at our Esmond Street Advanced Support Service in the Yorkhill area of the city. Esmond Street is currently the only service of its kind in the city, providing a high quality 24/7 supported living service to 22 adults with learning disabilities who are older and/or have advanced needs.
We are looking for staff members who share Enable Glasgow’s values in promoting the rights of individuals with learning disabilities to live fulfilling and meaningful lives. Our frontline support workers are incredible, caring and talented individuals whose skills are invaluable to supporting the well-being of some of the most vulnerable people in our society.
You will share our passion and commitment to our service users and demonstrate empathy and a strong desire to assist individuals to reach their own potential through a positive behaviour / person-centred approach.
In return you will have the reward and satisfaction of
The successful candidate will play a senior and supervisory role within our night shift team at our Esmond Street Service and must have experience of support planning and review systems. Experience in a supported living setting, the ability to work on own initiative, and a positive, empowering and flexible approach to the support of people with learning disabilities are also essential. The post requires the successful candidate to be involved in the support supervision of the staff team and the coordination of duties and tasks, as well as playing a lead role in the maintenance of service standards. It is preferable to hold an appropriate qualification, or to be willing and able to achieve this within an agreed timescale. Our Night Shift Coordinators work on a shift rota basis.
ENABLE Glasgow strives to apply equal opportunities and diversities principles to all aspects of its work.
All successful candidates are required to join the PVG Scheme (or to have their membership updated).