About Intercultural Youth Scotland (IYS)

Intercultural Youth Scotland (IYS) is a national youth charity empowering and supporting Black and People of Colour (BPoC) children and young people across Scotland.

As a leading voice for equity, inclusion and social change, our work is rooted in community, shaped by youth voice, and driven by a commitment to challenge inequality and build a more just and inclusive Scotland. We create safe, supportive and inspiring spaces where young people can connect, collaborate and lead positive change.

Young people’s experiences, ideas and leadership are central to everything we do. Our programmes provide holistic, youth-led support that enables young people to thrive, feel heard and realise their potential.

About the Education Programme

The IYS Education Programme delivers anti-racist education through workshops and curriculum-linked sessions in schools and other learning environments. The programme challenges systemic inequalities within education, while supporting schools, staff and young people to embed inclusive, anti-racist practice and leadership.

The Role

We are looking for an Education Programme Officer to support the delivery and development of our Education Programme.

You will work directly with BPoC young people, schools and partners to deliver high-quality anti-racist education, support inclusive practice, and contribute to meaningful, measurable impact. Working closely with the Education Programme Coordinator and colleagues across IYS, you will help ensure young people receive joined-up, empowering and responsive support.

Within this role you will:

• Deliver high-quality anti-racist education sessions in schools and other learning environments
• Work directly with Black and People of Colour (BPoC) young people, providing facilitation, mentoring and advocacy
• Support schools and educators to embed inclusive, anti-racist practice through training, guidance and constructive challenge
• Co-develop and refresh education resources in collaboration with the Education Programme Coordinator
• Build and maintain strong relationships with schools, partners and community stakeholders
• Contribute to monitoring, evaluation and reporting to demonstrate impact and support continuous improvement
• Work collaboratively across IYS programmes to ensure young people receive joined-up, holistic support
• Uphold safeguarding, wellbeing and child protection standards at all times

About You

We’d love to hear from you if you can demonstrate:

• A degree-level qualification (SCQF Level 9) or equivalent relevant experience
• Experience delivering youth work, education or community-based programmes working directly with children and young people
• Strong facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to engage and inspire young people
• A clear understanding of anti-racism, equality and social justice, particularly within education settings
• Experience working with Black and People of Colour (BPoC) young people and/or a strong understanding of the barriers they face
• Ability to build positive, trusting relationships with schools, partners and other stakeholders
• Knowledge of the current Scottish education context
• Experience gathering feedback and contributing to monitoring, evaluation or reporting on programme impact
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to plan, prioritise and manage events and activities effectively
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team

Desirable criteria

• Experience delivering anti-racist or equity-focused education in schools or community settings
• Experience working in or with schools in a pastoral, support or co-production capacity
• Experience within a charity, youth or third-sector organisation

Further detail on responsibilities, skills and experience is available in the full job description.

Working with Children and Young People

Employment is conditional upon a successful PVG and safeguarding check.

Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, respected and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives and experiences.

We are proud of our diverse and passionate team, and we warmly welcome applications from all backgrounds who share our values and our commitment to making a positive difference in the lives of young people.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to make a real difference to young people’s lives
• 7 weeks’ paid leave per year (inclusive of public holidays)
• Employee Assistance provision
• Flexible, hybrid working model

BACKGROUND

Edinburgh Communities Climate Action Network (ECCAN) is a network of over 200 community groups and more than 1300 individual members. We aim to engage and empower communities across Edinburgh to take meaningful action on the climate and nature emergency, working towards a just, thriving and resilient city. ECCAN is funded as one of Scotland’s twenty-four regional Climate Action Hubs.

We support collaboration, learning, and collective action across communities, connecting local climate action to wider city and national change.

At ECCAN, we are committed to building an organisational culture that is inclusive, equitable and rooted in care for people and planet.

THE ROLE

The Events Officer will play a central role in planning, marketing, coordinating and delivering ECCAN’s programme of events, both for members and the wider public. These events are a keyway we support community climate action, share learning, build relationships and strengthen the ECCAN network.

As a members’ organisation, we rely on engagement with our network. The role requires the ability to understand and drive uptake in our Events, with a focus on successfully marketing to a community group cohort.

Working closely with the Communications Lead and the Members Lead, the postholder will ensure events are well-organised, accessible, engaging and aligned with ECCAN’s values and strategic priorities.

This role is ideal for someone with strong experience in event organisation, excellent organisational skills, and a genuine interest in climate action and community engagement.

We deliver bi-annual Gatherings for the whole membership to come together, we run monthly ClimateBites networking lunches around the membership, and host, collaborate and attend a variety of community and partner events across the city, throughout the year.

About Us

Oliver Gill was diagnosed with a very rare and aggressive form of cancer at just a few days old, and despite smiling his way through intensive chemotherapy passed away at 24 weeks old. LoveOliver was started on his parents’ laptop with donations from friends and family.

Today, LoveOliver reaches every family in Scotland with a child diagnosed with cancer, providing practical, financial and emotional support along with the hope of gentler treatments and ultimately a cure, through investment in ground-breaking research. LoveOliver has its own children’s charity shop in Glenrothes and was recently gifted the incredible Hub drop-in centre near Edinburgh’s Royal Hospital for Children & Young People, as well as continuing to provide meals, thermometers and financial grants to every Scottish family impacted by childhood cancer.

As LoveOliver has grown so has our ambition, and we are expanding our small team to help us move forward at this exciting time for the organisation. Help us realise our vision of a country in which every family with a child diagnosed with cancer knows there is hope of a cure and that they will have support on their cancer journey.

The Role

We are recruiting a Hub Coordinator to lead the small but incredible team of volunteers at The Hub, with support from our Operations Manager.

LoveOliver has run a drop-in café at The Hub since 2022 and having recently taken on the ownership of the entire building; this is an exciting time to be joining the service as we seek to expand our offering for children and families.

We are seeking a candidate who is compassionate, creative and organised, to help us support children and families on their cancer journey, from diagnosis to treatment and beyond. Our ideal candidate will have good organisational skills to manage rotas, food stocks and volunteers, and crucially will be able to build positive relationships with families, volunteers and partners such as hospital staff, social workers and other charities offering support through The Hub.

The Hub Coordinator will also be key to developing our service provision at The Hub, working closely with families to identify further support and activity opportunities and then leading on implementation, collaborating with our staff and volunteers to make things happen.

Are you looking for a new role where you can make a real impact? Changeworks, a leading organisation dedicated to decarbonising Scotland’s homes, is looking for a Business Development Manager. This role will support Changeworks senior managers and delivery teams on the identification, development and securing of new business and funding opportunities.

The Business Development Manager will lead business development activity that supports the growth of Changeworks’ work, particularly in priority areas focused on decarbonising homes. You will lead the development, writing and submission of compelling tenders and funding bids that are commercially sound, technically informed and aligned with Changeworks’ strategic priorities. Another focus will be identifying and securing new funding and partnership opportunities that enable innovation and long-term growth across Changeworks’ programmes.

You’ll work collaboratively across Changeworks to embed good business development practice and manage staff effectively to achieve high-quality outcomes. You will have at least 5 years experience in business development with proven expertise securing funding for projects and services.

About the team

We’re growing our Business Development function and are looking for talented people who want to join us to help scale our energy efficiency, decarbonisation and fuel poverty alleviation work.

We’ve reviewed and refreshed how we do business development so we can seize the right opportunities, forge long-term partnerships, and maximise our impact. We are building a team that has a clear mandate: scanning the market, shaping propositions, and partnering across the organisation to bring in work that accelerates decarbonisation and ends fuel poverty. You’ll have the headroom, clarity and support to do your best work and make a real difference.

Changeworks’ mission is to make low-carbon living a positive reality for everyone and to help decarbonise Scotland’s homes to tackle the climate emergency and ensure a just transition to net zero. For almost 40 years we’ve delivered tangible change through largescale retrofit projects, expert energy advice, and community engagement—working hand in hand with experienced delivery teams and strategic partners who know how to make progress on the ground.

About us

Changeworks is a great place to work. We hold Investors in People Platinum accreditation (something only a few organisations in Scotland have), and we were nominated for employer of the year by the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce this year. Our staff overwhelmingly would recommend us as an employer too.

The Climate Emergency has resulted in ambitious national targets to reduce carbon emissions from the built environment and reduce rates of fuel poverty. This has driven a significant increase in the number of pilot and large-scale interventions delivered by Changeworks and external organisations in this area. These include area-based domestic energy efficiency retrofit and decarbonisation projects and programmes.

We are a growing organisation, and this role is crucial to the delivery of our ambitious objectives. We want to decarbonise homes in Scotland on a massive scale, and that needs talented individuals like you to help us deliver on our objectives. You’ll receive full training plus coaching and mentoring.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits including flexible working, bike to work scheme, an excellent pension scheme and 26 days paid holiday plus 9 public holidays per year.

At Changeworks, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone.

Experienced in business development and keen to find an opportunity where you can make a difference? Changeworks is a leading organisation dedicated to decarbonising Scotland’s homes and a just transition to net zero. We are looking for a Business Development Lead to support the identification, development and securing of new business and funding opportunities.

You will work with the Business Development team to deliver the Changeworks’ Business Development Strategy leading on priority areas focused on decarbonising homes. You will support the development, writing and submission of compelling tenders and funding bids that are commercially sound, technically informed and aligned with Changeworks’ strategic priorities. This role will identify and secure new funding and partnership opportunities. You will research and track upcoming tenders and grants in the energy and fuel poverty sectors. Another focus will be identifying and securing new funding and partnership opportunities that enable innovation and long-term growth across Changeworks’ programmes.

You’ll work collaboratively across Changeworks to embed good business development practice, working proactively with team managers across the organisation. You will have at least 3 years’ experience in business development with proven expertise securing funding for projects and services.

About the team

We’re growing our Business Development function and are looking for talented people who want to join us to help scale our energy efficiency, decarbonisation and fuel poverty alleviation work.

We’ve reviewed and refreshed how we do business development so we can seize the right opportunities, forge long-term partnerships, and maximise our impact. We are building a team that has a clear mandate: scanning the market, shaping propositions, and partnering across the organisation to bring in work that accelerates decarbonisation and ends fuel poverty. You’ll have the headroom, clarity and support to do your best work and make a real difference.

Changeworks’ mission is to make low-carbon living a positive reality for everyone and to help decarbonise Scotland’s homes to tackle the climate emergency and ensure a just transition to net zero. For almost 40 years we’ve delivered tangible change through largescale retrofit projects, expert energy advice, and community engagement—working hand in hand with experienced delivery teams and strategic partners who know how to make progress on the ground.

About us

Changeworks is a great place to work. We hold Investors in People Platinum accreditation (something only a few organisations in Scotland have), and we were nominated for employer of the year by the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce this year. Our staff overwhelmingly would recommend us as an employer too.

The Climate Emergency has resulted in ambitious national targets to reduce carbon emissions from the built environment and reduce rates of fuel poverty. This has driven a significant increase in the number of pilot and large-scale interventions delivered by Changeworks and external organisations in this area. These include area-based domestic energy efficiency retrofit and decarbonisation projects and programmes.

We are a growing organisation, and this role is crucial to the delivery of our ambitious objectives. We want to decarbonise homes in Scotland on a massive scale, and that needs talented individuals like you to help us deliver on our objectives. You’ll receive full training plus coaching and mentoring.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits including flexible working, bike to work scheme, an excellent pension scheme and 26 days paid holiday plus 9 public holidays per year.

At Changeworks, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone.

Who we are

Alzheimer Scotland is Scotland’s national dementia charity. Our aim is to make sure nobody faces dementia alone. We provide support and information to people with dementia, their carers and families, we campaign for the rights of people with dementia and fund vital dementia research.

What you’ll do

Our Community Activities Organisers are vital in providing front line support. This includes:

• Supporting individuals to stay connected to their local communities, engage in their interests and hobbies, and access peer support.
• Developing ideas and leading the way towards exciting and new activities to promote brain health.

Our groups are community based and the Community Activities Organiser is responsible for the planning and delivery of all activities, ensuring reflective practice through our activity evaluations and feedback from the people we support.

What you’ll have

Successful applicants will have a positive approach to dementia and brain health, with a passion to make a difference. You will have good communication and computer skills, a caring attitude and most of all enthusiasm for the role. You will be confident in planning activities in advance and leading any volunteers supporting at your group.

Applicants must have a full, valid driving license and vehicle to be able to travel for this role. Please be aware this role covers across the Western Isles which may result in overnight stays (mileage and expenses are paid).

Community Volunteers Enabling You (COVEY) has been a lifeline for children, young people and families across Lanarkshire since 1992. We provide 1-1 and group-based befriending, mentoring and family support services tailored to those who need it most. Our mission is to help children, young people and families become more resilient, safe and better equipped to reach their full potential.

We are now recruiting a Financial Wellbeing Adviser to strengthen the financial stability and long-term resilience of the families we support. This new role will embed expert, relationship-based money, energy and debt advice within COVEY’s family support model, ensuring families receive holistic support at the earliest opportunity.

As Financial Wellbeing Adviser, you will lead the development and delivery of COVEY’s financial wellbeing offer providing welfare benefits support, income maximisation, budgeting guidance, energy advice and debt triage/advocacy. You will work closely with Service Managers, Family Support Workers and external partners to ensure advice is accurate, trauma-informed and fully integrated into wider support plans. You will also maintain clear referral pathways for specialist or regulated debt advice, ensuring compliance with FCA boundaries and best practice.

What We’re Looking For

• Significant experience delivering money, energy or debt advice to individuals or families, ideally within community, youth or family support settings
• Strong knowledge of welfare benefits, income maximisation, budgeting support, energy efficiency measures and debt solutions
• Understanding of the causes and impact of poverty on children, young people and families and the stigma around financial hardship
• Experience working with vulnerable individuals using trauma‑informed, person‑centred approaches with the ability to convey complex information sensitively
• Confidence using data and CRM systems (e.g. Salesforce, AdvicePro) to monitor performance, maintain accurate case records and report on outcomes
• Experience collaborating with multi‑agency partners and advocating on behalf of families to achieve positive outcomes

What we offer

We offer a rewarding role with the opportunity to develop your skills and future career in an enriching environment with the following benefits:

• 6% employer pension contribution
• 22 days A/L (rising to up to 27 days) and 10 public holidays.
• One special leave day to celebrate your birthday
• Flexible working
• HSF Health plan (including dental, optical, physio claim back, personal accident coverage, GP, mental health counselling, legal support, and discounts for gym, cinema, and shopping)
• Quarterly staff wellbeing activities
• Access to ScotWest Credit Union (loans, mortgages, and savings accounts)
• Access to learning and development opportunities

Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust (FCCT) is a dynamic local charity and social enterprise working to make Fountainbridge a better place to live, work, do business and visit. From community canal boat trips to greenspace improvements, volunteer programmes, wellbeing walks and the annual Edinburgh Canal Festival, we deliver projects that promote inclusion, sustainability, and community wellbeing.

We are now looking for a motivated and skilled Senior Operations Manager to lead our small, dedicated team and help shape the next stage of FCCT’s growth — including the exciting development of our new Canalside Community Space.

About the Role

As FCCT’s most senior staff member, you will provide strategic leadership while staying closely connected to day-to-day operations. This is a hands-on and varied role, ideal for someone who enjoys combining big-picture thinking with practical community-focused delivery.

Key responsibilities include:

Leadership & Strategy

• Provide inspiring and inclusive leadership for staff and volunteers
• Work with the Board to deliver strategic and operational plans
• Oversee impact measurement and reporting, including the Annual Report

Governance

• Act as the key link between the Board and staff
• Support strong governance, including acting as Company Secretary

Finance & Fundraising

• Lead financial planning, budgeting, and reporting
• Drive fundraising, major grant applications, and income generation
• Build strong relationships with funders and partners

Operations & People

• Support and line-manage staff and volunteers
• Oversee social enterprise activities, community programmes, and events
• Lead delivery of flagship initiatives such as the Edinburgh Canal Festival
• Contribute to FCCT’s public profile and digital presence

External Relations

• Act as the public face of FCCT
• Build partnerships with local groups, businesses, and stakeholders
• Champion the value of blue and green spaces and community wellbeing

About You

Essential:

• Strong leadership and management experience in a charity, social enterprise, or community setting
• Proven project management and fundraising skills
• Confident with financial information and decision-making
• Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities
• Able to balance strategic thinking with hands-on operational delivery
• Committed to inclusivity, sustainability, and community empowerment

Desirable:

• Experience in community development, volunteering, environmental or heritage projects
• Income generation or social enterprise experience
• Understanding of impact measurement
• Experience supporting volunteers and inclusive participation

What We Offer

• A varied and meaningful leadership role in a friendly, purpose-driven charity
• Flexible working from day one
• Training and development opportunities
• Pro rata holiday allowance including bank holidays
• Christmas shutdown period
• 5% employer pension contribution
• An annual canal boat trip

Where the role fits in our organisation

Our Partnerships and Communities Group are responsible for our work with the third sector, partners and communities across Dumfries and Galloway. The group leads on community insights and involvement, Locality Hubs, sector advice, training and development, building sector capacity, encouraging community involvement and representing the third sector. Key partnerships are with Dumfries and Galloway Council, NHS Dumfries and Galloway, Community Planning, Scottish Government and national sector bodies. The team includes Lead Officers, Development Officers, Support Officers, Coordinators and professional advisors.

What You'll Do

We are looking for a colleague who is passionate about the best start for all our children, the importance of community-led neuro-diverse support around families and who recognises the essential role the third sector plays in achieving positive outcomes for people across Dumfries and Galloway. You will lead our new partnership project focused on the delivery of a community-led model of support for neurodivergent children, young people and their families. Working closely with families, third sector and statutory partners, you will lead this exciting project from through implementation to evaluation, sharing and embedding the learning across our cross-sector partnership.

What You’ll Do

• Work alongside third sector organisations supporting a diverse range of families, children and young people, with a focus on listening to their neurodevelopmental needs.
• Work closely with cross-sector partners to build a community-led pathway to advice and support that is accessible, inclusive and easy to navigate.
• Identify third sector training needs; working closely with all partners to co-design, deliver and evaluate a programme of accredited training to meet the identified community need.
• Plan, implement and evaluate community engagement activities, workshops, and meetings in a variety of informal settings.
• Work in a way that facilitates the delivery of safe, effective, rights-based and person-centred practices.
• Work within community engagement competencies and local and national guidelines.
• Collaborate with staff across all agencies, developing and maintaining good relationships and clear lines of communication.
• Effectively prioritise workload, recognising the requirement to be flexible whilst working alongside the third sector and community members.
• Be involved in the delivery and collection of outcome measures related to the programme of work.
• Contribute to partnership working using knowledge, data and insights from across the sector to better inform decision making.
• Represent the third sector/TSDG at partnership meetings.

More about you

• You will be able to demonstrate your experience of leading programmes in the third sector and/or cross sector
• You will be able to show your understanding of family engagement or community work and be able to evidence best practice in participatory working
• You will be able to show your approach to effective and compassionate leadership, achieving outcomes and demonstrating impact.
• You will bring a keen interest in building and sharing knowledge, particularly in relation to good practice and to new policy.
• You will be able to show examples of effective application of key skills, including organisation and planning, problem solving and communications.
• You will have had experience of building effective professional relationships inside and outside of your organisation.
• You may have had experience, knowledge or lived experience of neurodivergence

Given the nature of this role in community and family engagement, PVG registration is required.

This new role would suit someone with administration and finance experience who is naturally very well-organised, able to build strong relationships, enjoys working with lots of partners, and is committed to climate action and justice.The successful applicant will also have an eye for detail and be able to quickly respond to new opportunities and challenges.

You’ll be part of the small SCCS secretariat team that provides support to our diverse members, so you’ll need to be a great communicator, enthusiastic, proactive and willing to be flexible when things change.

Being right at the heart of what we do, you’ll understand how a small charity functions and the importance of strong administrative and financial processes as a backbone to success. You’ll help provide the glue that holds a diverse coalition together, enabling it to be greater than the sum of its parts.

From taking minutes at meetings with MSPs, helping deliver our campaigns to making sure invoices are paid on time - this is a varied and rewarding role and we are looking for someone keen to be a key part of the Scottish climate movement and get stuck into everything it involves!

About SCCS

Stop Climate Chaos Scotland (SCCS) is Scotland’s climate coalition, bringing together over 70 civil society organisations campaigning together on climate change.

Our membership is diverse and includes national and community organisations working on:

• Climate justice
• Environment and nature
• Gender and social justice
• Faith and belief
• International development
• Worker and human rights
• Health and inequality

Together, we represent hundreds of thousands of people across Scotland and stand in solidarity with communities most affected by climate impacts around the world. We collaborate with our members to build strong public support for faster climate action. We use this support to influence decision-makers to put in place fair, effective policies to reduce emissions and benefits for everyone.

Key tasks

• Lead on all aspects of charity administration, relating to membership, governance, finance and events and campaigns.
• Manage various day-to-day financial processes, for example raising invoices, reconciling bank statements, and preparing financial reports (currently, financial software Xero is used)
• Act as the main point of contact for SCCS, including for current and new member enquiries, and maintain coalition membership records and databases
• Organise, attend and take minutes for internal and external meetings
• Provide campaign support, such as preparing resources, organising events and drafting newsletters
• Update the SCCS website and post content on social media channels
• Other tasks as required, working closely with the Coalition Manager and board

Person specification

Knowledge, experience and skills

Essential

• At least 1 year of experience in an administrative role
• At least 1 year of experience managing day-to-day financial processes, ideally for a charity
• Experience organising and producing materials for meetings and events, including taking minutes
• Ability to work collaboratively with multiple partners and build and maintain strong relationships
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent IT skills
• Able to work flexibly and identify and act on opportunities for improving processes and ways of working
• A positive approach and the ability to be systematic and solve problems
• Able to prioritise and organise a busy workload
• Demonstrable commitment to action on climate change and climate justice

Desirable

• Experience of supporting charity boards
• Knowledge of civil society and political structures and processes in Scotland
• Awareness of charity legal processes and reporting procedures
• Experience of posting website and social media content

Qualifications

No specific qualifications are required for the role: the knowledge, skills and experience of the successful candidate will be more important than formal academic qualifications.

Terms and conditions

• Salary: £27,000 pro rata, so £16,200 for 3 days a week
• Hours: 3 days a week (21 hours), which can be spread across 4 or 5 days. The post holder may need to work the occasional evening or weekend, for which time off in lieu will be granted. Overtime will not be paid.
• Location: Primarily from home, with occasional office working in central Edinburgh. Other travel may be required to meetings, most often in the central belt, but occasionally in other parts of Scotland or the UK (for which travel expenses will be paid).
• Line manager: Stop Climate Chaos Scotland Coalition Manager
• Holiday: 28 days annual leave plus 11 days statutory holidays (pro rata).
• Pension: Stop Climate Chaos Scotland operates a pension plan with NEST and our pension benefits exceed the statutory minimum.
• We can only employ candidates with the right to work in the UK.