As Policy and Engagement Lead you will be an integral part of the CJS National Engagement Unit, working closely with the Head of National Engagement to develop and deliver CJS’s strategic approach to policy.

This post will be responsible for developing key policy proposals relating to community justice and, where necessary, engaging with a wide range of national stakeholders to support the adoption and implementation of those proposals.

Dundee Bairns is a Dundee-based children’s charity working to reduce the impact of poverty on local children, young people and families. Through its food and activity provision, clothing programmes and Bairns at Home multibank, Dundee Bairns helps ensure children have access to essentials such as food, clothing, household items and opportunities to take part in positive experiences. This is an exciting new opportunity to join a growing, practical and values-led organisation at the heart of Dundee’s community support network, helping to develop and coordinate a vital service for families who need it most.

Job Purpose

The Finance and Business Manager is responsible for the operational management of Dundee Bairns' finances, ensuring robust financial controls, effective budget management, compliance with charity accounting requirements, and the provision of high-quality financial information to support decision-making.

The role will work closely with the Executive Director, Board of Trustees and external accountants to ensure the long-term financial sustainability of the charity.

This role also provides Business Support across the organisation.

Job Tasks

Financial Leadership

• Lead all aspects of the charity's financial management.
• Develop and maintain strong financial systems, policies and controls.
• Support the Executive Director in financial planning and organisational development.
• Identify financial risks and recommend mitigating actions.

Budgeting and Forecasting

• Lead the annual budgeting process.
• Prepare financial forecasts and cashflow projections.
• Monitor organisational and project budgets.
• Support budget holders in understanding and managing finances.

Financial Reporting

• Prepare monthly management accounts.
• Produce quarterly reports for the Board of Trustees.
• Analyse income and expenditure trends.
• Provide financial information to support strategic decisions.

Fund Accounting and Grant Management

• Maintain accurate accounting records within the charity accounting system Xero
• Monitor restricted and unrestricted funds.
• Support managers to ensure grant expenditure complies with funding conditions.
• Prepare financial returns and claims for funders.
• Maintain accurate records for grant-funded projects.

Statutory Compliance

• Ensure compliance with OSCR requirements and Charity SORP.
• Liaise with auditors or independent examiners.
• Coordinate year-end accounts preparation.
• Oversee payroll and statutory reporting obligations.

Payroll and Banking

• Oversee the charity bank accounts to ensure that all payments and receipts are properly authorised and optimum cashflow is achieved
• Oversee payroll processes and pension administration.
• Authorise payments in accordance with financial controls.
• Manage relationships with banks and financial service providers.

Support the Board of Trustees

• Set agenda for Board meetings, in conjunction with Chair of Board of Trustees
• Gather/write papers as required for Board meetings
• Formulate/update policies as directed by Executive Director and Chair of Board of Trustees
• Support the Finance, Audit and Risk Subcommittee; arrange meetings, prepare reports collate and circulate papers, take minutes and maintain records.
• Maintain the risk register, with timely submission to Finance, Audit and Risk subcommittee and Board as appropriate, considering changes in legislation, operating environment, internal factors etc.

Business Management

• Manage contracts for IT, telecommunications, insurance, and other services
• Oversee health and safety arrangements
• Support the Board and Executive Director in developing organisational strategy and business plans.
• Contribute to funding applications and financial sections of bids.
• Identify opportunities for operational improvements and efficiencies.
• Maintain and develop Airtable capability, including training staff members across the organisation.
• Support with HR-related tasks – setting up 1:1’s, diary input and supporting staff management where appropriate

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Financial Management
• Budget preparation and monitoring
• Financial forecasting and cash flow management
• Management accounts and financial reporting
• Year-end accounts and audit preparation
• Payroll, VAT, and tax compliance
• Strong understanding of charity accounting principles, including restricted and unrestricted funds
• Ability to build strong relationships with trustees, funders and stakeholders
• Strong organisational and project management abilities.
• Ability to present financial information clearly to non-financial audiences.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience managing staff.

Desirable

• Accounting qualification (ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA, ACA or equivalent).
• Experience within the Scottish charity sector.
• Experience supporting funding applications and grant management.
• Understanding of OSCR requirements.

People First Scotland is looking for a values-led Chief Executive to help shape the next chapter of an organisation that is run by and for people with learning disabilities. Established in 1997, People First Scotland is a national self-advocacy organisation supporting people with learning disabilities to speak up, make choices and have a meaningful say in the decisions that affect their lives. This is an important time to join People First Scotland. Following a period of organisational and governance change, we are looking for a Chief Executive who can work alongside our Board and members to build a strong, sustainable organisation in which member leadership is at the centre of how decisions are made.

As Chief Executive Your responsibilities will include developing and delivering the 2027–2030 business plan; supporting the Board to exercise its responsibilities with confidence; progressing a new governance model; ensuring strong financial management; leading income generation and diversification; and strengthening People First Scotland’s profile and influence across the disability rights, self-advocacy and social justice sectors.

You will bring senior leadership experience gained within the third sector, public sector or a similarly values-led organisation, with experience of working with or supporting a governance Board. You will also bring financial literacy, experience of business planning, income generation and funder relationships, alongside the ability to communicate clearly and accessibly with a wide range of audiences.

Above all, you will have a genuine commitment to the rights, agency and leadership of people with learning disabilities. You will be comfortable distributing and rebalancing power, listening to members and creating the conditions in which their voices genuinely shape the organisation.

We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of disability or learning disability and from people from communities currently underrepresented in third-sector leadership.

For a confidential discussion please contact Catriona Mackie or Linda Baldwin at Aspen People on 0141 212 7555.

The Head of Corporate Services is a senior strategic leadership role responsible for the effective management and development of the organisation’s corporate functions, with a primary professional lead for finance, accounting and financial governance.

The postholder will ensure strong financial stewardship, robust governance, and high‑quality corporate support that enables safe, effective and sustainable delivery of care and support services. The role plays a critical part in organisational resilience, assurance to the Board, and delivery of the Workforce Excellence and financial sustainability strategies.

Care Support Scotland

We are a charity with decades of experience supporting people across Scotland, providing those who need us with support that ranges from Mental Health, Learning Disability and Neurodiversity, Youth and Adult Homelessness and Older People services. Guided by our values of Respect and Compassion, we empower both the people we support and our colleagues to Thrive every day

Why Work With Us?

At Care Support Scotland caring isn’t just a job — it’s who we are. Join our dedicated team and help transform lives while growing your own career.

• Pension contributions matched up to 6%
• Financial Flexibility – Access your wages as you earn them with our Earned Wage Access benefit.
• Employee Assistance Programme through HSF
• Contribution to HSF Health Plan – supporting your everyday health needs
• Generous annual leave – 33 days including public holidays, increasing with service
• Supportive absence policies to help when you need time off
• Death in Benefit Cover – 2x annual salary
• Support with funded qualifications
• Career development and progression opportunities

Birthlink is in a period of significant organisational transformation. We are modernising systems, strengthening accountability, addressing legacy challenges, and resetting our culture to ensure consistent, trauma informed, safe and compliant practice across all service areas. We are looking for an exceptional Director to lead this next phase of development with clarity, authority, compassion and a strong values driven approach.

Birthlink supports adopted adults and care experienced people to access their records, understand their personal history, reconnect with family, and navigate complex statutory processes. We also support survivors of abuse in care to access information that informs their personal statements and applications to Scotland’s Redress Scheme.

We operate Scotland’s national Post Adoption Service, including the Adoption Contact Register (ACR), we are also a key Delivery Partner in Scotland’s Redress Scheme and Future Pathways Care Connect. Our Thrift Shops provide both vital revenue and meaningful community engagement.

Our work sits within a highly scrutinised national landscape shaped by the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, the wider Adoption and Care Experienced Policy Agenda, and evolving expectations around information governance, digital security, and access to historical records.

We are seeking a Director who can provide decisive strategic leadership, strengthen governance, modernise systems, and embed a culture where professional standards, transparency and responsibility are non negotiable. You will lead a cultural reset, address resistance where required, and ensure Birthlink operates with the discipline, compassion and trauma informed practice our beneficiaries deserve. You will work closely with the Board of Trustees, managers, funders, regulatory bodies and sector partners to increase Birthlink’s national influence and external profile.

You will bring substantial experience in governance, finance, performance and risk management, organisational development, and strategic planning. You will be confident navigating complex political, social and regulatory environments, and you will understand the challenges faced by people seeking access to historic records and information. You will be an impactful communicator, a credible spokesperson, and an experienced leader.

This is a rare opportunity to lead a charity with national significance at a pivotal moment in its development, strengthening its foundations, modernising its systems, and ensuring it continues to deliver safe, effective, trauma informed services for the people who rely on us.

Please consider the full job pack, which provides detailed information about the role, remit, and how to apply.

Our services in Glasgow, managed from our locality office in Govan, Glasgow, are looking for a long-term Operations Manager. This role would suit an experienced, values-oriented, person-centred social care professional. With a desire to lead teams working to support adults and young people, you will be familiar with the complex challenges that people can face, whether that is a young person experiencing distress, a person experiencing housing issues, or someone having their first experience of psychosis.

As an Operations Manager, you will be working closely with the Local Management Team – a brilliant team of experienced, social care managers – with the ability to manage your own diary and work routines.

This role has a good degree of autonomy, within clearly defined values and strategic objectives. You will be working within a busy and dynamic locality, which requires the flexibility to be responsive to the ever-changing environment. Contributing to the strategic management of Carr Gomm, you will have an appreciation of organisational values while developing a greater understanding of the organisational goals and objectives both for the people we support and all colleagues.

This is a dynamic role in which you will never settle for ‘good enough’ but will always prioritise effectively in an ever-changing environment. You will appreciate that there is always capacity to innovate, improve, develop and stretch targets in the pursuit of a more equitable society in which people can lead full and positive lives as active citizens.

Reporting to the Senior Operations Manager, the Operations Manager is an essential role for the success and development of the locality.

Success in this role

The key to being successful in this role, in Glasgow, is the experience of managing person-centred services to individuals, and an awareness of what getting it right for people means, both when driving quality in existing services, and in developing new services. We are committed to always shaping our services to meet the needs of people within the city of Glasgow, and are keen to hear your experience of managing young people’s services, of managing services to people with mental ill health, or any other kind of complex service. For full details, please refer to the job description on our website carrgomm.org/jobs/operations-manager-glasgow

Who we are looking for:

Successful Operations Managers may come from different backgrounds and have a range of work and life experiences. All are creative and a have flair for engaging and inspiring people, whilst sharing our values of respect, interdependence, choice, control, openness and honesty, kindness, and compassion.

About Carr Gomm

Carr Gomm is a leading Scottish social care and community development charity. We provide person-centred support to over 4500 people every year so they can live their best possible life.

Our services are based on our values and reflect the choices and aspirations of each individual and community we work with. Our qualified staff work with people in their homes and communities, supporting people in their day-to-day lives and making plans to achieve their hopes and dreams in the future. Carr Gomm also fundraises to tackle isolation and loneliness in our communities through projects and activities across Scotland.

What We Offer

As a way of demonstrating how much we value you and your commitment we offer a range of great benefits:

• 35 days holiday per year, increasing to 40 days with length of service
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, and sick leave
• A Defined Contribution pension scheme, with incremental employer contributions
• Access to the Carr Gomm App: which includes free physiotherapy, health coaching and counselling
• Free Blue Light Card (giving access to thousands of discounts and promotions)
• Membership of a credit union
• Cycle to work scheme; and more!

Do you want to create a safer, brighter future for all children in Scotland?

Children First, Scotland’s national children’s charity, is seeking to appoint a part-time (17.5 hours) Support line Service Manager. By joining our team, you will help us stand up for children, keep them safe and support them to recover from trauma and abuse through our national and local services.

The role

Based in Edinburgh, with hybrid working an option, the role involves leading on the day-to-day implementation, management, development and growth of our free confidential support line for families, carers and professionals in Scotland.

Today’s generation are facing unprecedented challenges. From mental health, money worries and online harm, to struggles at school, our support line can offer emotional, practical and financial support to any family in Scotland. We also offer advice to anyone who is concerned about a child’s wellbeing.

Taking a child-centred approach, you will work to ensure the safety of children and young people by protecting and promoting their rights.

What we are looking for

You will be an inspiring leader and will possess a degree or diploma in social work, or equivalent professional qualification at SCQF level 9, in addition to recent significant experience in a relevant practice area relating to young people. Experience working in mental health, emotional wellbeing or trauma-informed support services is desirable.

What you can expect from us

As well as a rewarding career and development opportunities, we offer 40 days annual leave per year pro rata, a contributory pension scheme, generous maternity/adoption and paternity leave, flexible working opportunities and wellbeing support.

With a supportive and inclusive working environment, the salary for this role is £42,500 - £48,900 pro rate per annum covering 17.5 hours per week (21,250 to £24,450).

Our values

Living our values, you will make a direct impact to the lives of children across Scotland. With love, we put children first. With purpose, we transform children’s lives together. With strength, we do whatever it takes to protect Scotland’s children.

We believe all children should have hopes, dreams and opportunities. But for many they don’t exist. This has to stop. We must put children first.

We welcome and encourage applications from potential colleagues from all backgrounds, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, belief, disability who share our values.

Do you have what it takes to join our team and help us protect children and keep them safe? We would love to hear from you.

Are you a strategic leader who cares passionately about delivering positive outcomes for people and is excited by helping people to thrive?

At Citizens Advice Scotland we are a service for people and by people. People are the heart of our network.

Our Head of People role will drive our People agenda, so we need someone who is an experienced HR professional who puts people at the heart of every decision. But this role is about more than just your qualifications. We are looking for a strategic leader who inspires and drives people to succeed and creates a culture that celebrates our people’s successes, encourages personal development and takes people with them on the journey of change.

If you are a strategic leader who cares passionately about people and wants to make a difference to communities across Scotland we want to hear from you. This is an exciting opportunity to really make a difference to the lives of people across Scotland and ensure that the people that work and volunteer for our network thrive in their roles.

This newly created role will lead Citizens Advice Scotland and our members, 59 local bureaux to be regarded as be one of the best places to work in Scotland.

What you will do:

• Build a culture that aligns with our values and ensures our decisions and interactions with each other are person-centred, inclusive, collaborative, empowering and supportive.
• Support our people to deliver advice and insight that changes lives through ensuring that we have the right policies, procedures, training and support to do their role.
• Champion the value that people bring to the network and ensure people drive our decision making.

If you are ready to lead meaningful change and make a lasting impact, we would love to hear from you.

Employee benefits

Citizens Advice Scotland offers excellent terms and conditions. We want our people to have a great work life balance and we have designed our working practices and benefits to support this. Here are some of things our employees benefit from: a 35-hour full time working week, 40 days annual leave, genuine flexibility in working hours with a flexi-time system, and hybrid working opportunities for every role. For more details of some of the other benefits on offer to our employees, please see the section on employee benefits in the job pack.

Citizens Advice Scotland is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies and flexible working arrangements to support all our staff. We are also committed to equality of opportunity for all and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

CAS provides options for hybrid working to allow employees to balance their time attending the office with time working from home. The number of days you will be able to work from home each week will be dependent on your job role and can be discussed as part of the recruitment process.

Scripture Union Scotland is a national charity, with 140 staff and 2,500 volunteers. Our vision is to see every child and young person of Scotland exploring the Bible and responding to the significance of Jesus. At the heart of our current strategy is a focus on growing SU Scotland’s ministry, especially in priority communities and with priority schools and young people, removing barriers and partnering with local churches.

We are now seeking an experienced Head of CRM and Analytics to manage the ongoing implementation and development of our MS Dynamics365 CRM and to ensure that the system is used to its full potential to support the ministry of SU Scotland.

Purpose:

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, to lead SU Scotland’s strategic development, delivery and effective use of Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM, ensuring that organisational processes, reporting, data analysis and insight inform ministry decision making, support training development, and strengthen strategic priorities.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the ongoing development and effective use of Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM (D365) across SU Scotland.
• Ensure the CRM supports organisational strategy, reporting, communication, data quality and compliance.
• Translate organisational needs into practical CRM improvements including dashboards, reports and business processes.
• Support colleagues and key user groups through training, guidance and user adoption activity.
• Work with external CRM, IT and related technical suppliers to deliver system improvements, integrations and support.
• Maintain confidence in the accuracy, reliability and responsible use of organisational data.
• Provide insight and analysis to support decision making across fundraising, finance, volunteering, digital and wider

Who we are looking for:

To achieve this, we want to identify someone with a vibrant Christian faith who has a heart to use their IT skills to support SU Scotland's ministry. The successful applicant should possess proven project management skills and a strong working knowledge of CRM systems, ideally Dynamics365. Experience of managing suppliers and building relationships across the organisation is essential.

For this post, it is important that you are committed to SU Scotland’s ethos, working principles and vision and can demonstrate this through your commitment and motivation. It is also an Occupational Requirement (Equality Act - part 1, schedule 9), that the post-holder is a committed Christian.

Birthlink is seeking an experienced, compassionate Manager to lead the operational delivery of our Redress service, a central part of our work supporting care experienced people and survivors of abuse in care. This pivotal role will oversee day to day service delivery across key organisational activity, ensuring safe, trauma informed, rights based practice throughout the Redress process.

You will guide and support a hybrid team, strengthen operational systems, and ensure full compliance with legal frameworks including the Redress for Survivors (Historical Child Abuse in Care) (Scotland) Act 2021, UK GDPR, and the Data Protection Act 2018. Working closely with the Executive Director, funders, partners, and beneficiaries, you will help shape Birthlink’s national contribution to improving access to records and supporting people through Redress.

Alongside leading Birthlink’s Redress service, you may also contribute to the development or oversight of other aligned projects as required.

If you are an organised, values driven leader with experience in complex, publicly accountable environments and committed to trauma informed practice, we would love to hear from you.