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

We create safe, inclusive and inspiring spaces where young people can connect, build confidence, develop skills and shape opportunities for themselves and their communities. Youth voice is at the heart of everything we do.

About the Role

We are looking for a Youth Work Officer to support the delivery and development of our Youth Work Programme.

Working closely with the Youth Work Coordinator, you will help deliver engaging and culturally responsive youth work sessions, support young people to shape activities, and build relationships with community partners.

You will play an important role in helping BPoC young people develop skills, confidence and a sense of belonging.

A key part of this role includes supporting our weekly youth club The Block, a welcoming space for young people aged 12–18 to socialise, explore interests and take part in creative and developmental activities.

What You’ll Do

• Design and deliver engaging youth work sessions and projects
• Support young people to actively shape and lead programme activities
• Help recruit and support artists, facilitators and session staff
• Build relationships with schools, youth organisations and community partners
• Promote youth work opportunities and encourage participation
• Gather monitoring and evaluation data to measure programme impact
• Support programme administration and coordination
• Ensure safeguarding and wellbeing of young people during all activities
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across IYS to connect young people with wider opportunities

For more information about this job and our current programmes, please refer to the full job description.

About you

We are looking for someone who is passionate about supporting young people and committed to equality and anti-racism.

You will bring:

• A Youth Work qualification (or related field)
• Experience supporting young people or facilitating youth activities
• Experience working with BPoC young people
• Experience working in a youth, community or third-sector setting
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build positive relationships with young people, colleagues, and partners.
• Organised, reliable, and able to manage multiple priorities.
• Empathy and understanding of the barriers faced by BPoC young people in Scotland.
• Commitment to anti-racism, equality, and youth empowerment
• Knowledge of safeguarding and child protection practice

Desirable experience includes:

• Experience providing administrative or coordination support to youth projects.
• Experience working in schools or other community-based settings.
• Experience gathering monitoring and evaluation data.

Why Work with Us?

• An opportunity to make a difference
• 4-day full-time working week (32 hours), which includes providing youth work sessions
• Annual salary of £32,342
• 29 days annual leave (inclusive of public holidays) (over 7 weeks!)
• Flexible, hybrid working model
• Employee Assistance Programme

We are seeking to appoint passionate Support Workers to join our dynamic and creative Recovery team. Being a support worker is a role where you can make everyday matter. If you are looking for a rewarding career where you can make a tangible difference, and enjoy a varied and active post, this role is for you.

The postholders, together with their colleagues, will provide a range of support interventions opportunities and activities, including 1-1 sessions with participants. The team will also deliver and host a range of group work programmes, workshop activities and events suited to locality-based needs and individual Beacons. One aim of the Beacons is to work together with participants to support their social (re)integration, promoting recovery, resilience, and self-determination. You will be engaged in multi-agency working and establishing pathways with other partners and agencies to facilitate people’s positive engagement with the Beacons.

What we’re looking for

We are looking for experienced support workers with relevant qualifications and experience. If you have experience and are passionate about people, then we want to hear from you.

The ideal candidate will:

• Have experience and be able to demonstrate working effectively in a similar support role.
• The ability to build trust based effective, relationships, both internally and externally.
• Have a proactive and dynamic personal style, with flexibility in style and approach.

In return we offer

• Competitive salary rates
• Annual leave: 34 days, increasing 1 day each year to a max of 40days.
• Employer contributory pension scheme
• Paid Membership of Disclosure Scotland’s PVG Scheme.
• Working in a supportive environment
• Training & Development Opportunities
• Working for a well-established small organisation where person centred values are at the core.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a project at an exciting time of growth and development. Liber8 has operated in Lanarkshire for 20 years; our mission is to improve the health, mental health, wellbeing and the quality of people's lives, with a particular regard to reducing the negative impact of alcohol and substance use on the individual, families and communities. We work hard to uphold our core values of Passion, Respect, Healing, Compassion, Caring and Recovery. Our values make us who we are and define our actions and behaviours every day. We’d expect the post-holder to uphold and represent our organisation in a way that reflects our values and person-centred way of working.

Next Steps is a guided extension of Teens+ that enables young people with additional complex needs to develop skills & explore new experiences and discover what independence can look like for them. We achieve this by providing opportunities tailored to their interests and life goals. At Next Steps, we support young people with additional support needs to progress towards their personal development goals through tailored learning, practical experiences and meaningful opportunities.

We are looking for an organised and motivated Deputy Hub Manager to support the safe, high-quality and effective day-to-day delivery of our Next Steps Programme.

Working closely with the Hub Manager, you will provide day-to-day leadership to Facilitators, support Trainees to make measurable progress and help maintain consistent standards across service delivery, safeguarding, compliance and record keeping. You will also take operational responsibility for the Hub when the Hub Manager is absent.

Our values

• Tailored – We put people at the centre of everything we do
• Humour – We believe positivity and enjoyment help people thrive
• Resilience – We embrace challenges with confidence and creativity
• Integrity – We act with passion and professionalism
• Value – We respect and celebrate differences
• Empathy – Compassion is at the heart of our work

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.

What we offer

• 36 days’ holiday (increasing to 40 in line with length of service)
• Discounted gym membership (Edinburgh Leisure Community Access Programme)
• Free breakfast and lunch
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policies
• Employee wellbeing and counselling support
• Full training and development opportunities

Join Our Board - Trustee Opportunities at Comics Youth SCIO

Comics Youth SCIO is a charity for children and young people aged 8-25, based in Dundee. We deliver comics-based literacy, sequential art, publishing and wellbeing projects, as well as comics workshops at community spaces and other organisations around the city.

We use our platform as an organisation to give young people ownership of their own narratives, and our work focuses on building resilience, mental wellbeing and literacy through creativity and comic-making. It’s vitally important for young people to see themselves represented, and it is our mission to amplify their voices as much as possible and involve them in every step of the work that we do.

We are looking to expand our board of trustees to help guide and support this work. We would particularly like to encourage applications from people who are currently underrepresented on our Board, including people from minority ethnic communities, disabled people, and LGBTQ+ people. We are also seeking trustees with specific experience in the following roles:

• Treasurer/Finance and fundraising
• Safeguarding
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
• Impact evaluation

What it Means to Be a Comics Youth SCIO Trustee

As a trustee, you will help support Comics Youth SCIO’s governance, strategic and financial planning, and contribute to a culture of care and creativity. You will work alongside other trustees and the staff team to ensure the organisation remains ethical, resilient and supportive to the people it serves.

The role is voluntary and not remunerated – reasonable expenses will be covered. The current time commitment is approximately 10 hours per month, including Board meetings, preparation, strategic discussions and occasional support for Comics Youth SCIO activities.

We’re recruiting a Service Manager

Help us make a difference to children, young people, adults and families across Highland.

SNAP is looking for an experienced, compassionate and enthusiastic Service Manager to help lead our services and support our team through the next stage of SNAP’s development.

This is a senior role – but we’re not looking for someone who wants to lead from behind a desk.

We’re looking for someone who wants to understand our services, know our staff, meet our families and see first-hand the difference SNAP makes.

About the role

This is an important role at the heart of SNAP. Our Service Manager leads the day-to-day delivery of our services, supports and develops our operational team, and helps make sure that every service is safe, well organised, person-centred and responsive to the people and families who rely on us.

SNAP is registered with the Care Inspectorate as a support service (not care at home). The successful candidate will take on the responsibilities of Registered Manager for this service, working closely with the Care Inspectorate and meeting relevant SSSC requirements. You will be part of SNAP’s leadership team and will work directly with the Chief Officer to support service quality, workforce development and future growth.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading and supporting staff and volunteers across SNAP’s services.

• Overseeing safe, high-quality service delivery and ensuring individual needs, risk assessments and support plans are understood and followed.

• Maintaining strong safeguarding, regulatory, health and safety and quality assurance standards.

• Supporting recruitment, induction, supervision, appraisal, training and staff development.

• Building positive relationships with children, young people, adults, families, carers and professionals.

• Overseeing referrals, reviews, incidents, complaints and service improvement actions.

• Working with the Chief Officer and wider team to develop services, plan staffing and manage resources responsibly.

• Undertake the responsibilities of Registered Manager for our regulated services.

Who we’re looking for

You don’t need to come from one particular type of organisation.

You might currently work in social care, children’s services, disability services, community support or another related field.

What we really want is someone who combines experience and professional confidence with compassion and common sense.

You’ll be someone who can make difficult decisions when needed, but who also listens.

Someone who understands regulation and quality, without losing sight of the individual person behind the paperwork.

And someone who believes that supporting and developing a team is every bit as important as directing one.

Experience of leading regulated care or support services would be particularly valuable.

You will need to hold a relevant qualification in health and social care, social work, education, community learning and development, or a related discipline. This could mean an SVQ3, an HNC or a practice award in the supervisor or manager category.

We are happy to discuss supporting the right candidate to complete an additional qualification where appropriate.

• Experience of leading or delivering care, support or similar services for children, young people or adults with additional support needs or learning disabilities.

• Experience of supervising, motivating and developing staff.

• A sound understanding of safeguarding, risk management and quality in care or support settings.

• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.

• Strong organisation, resilience and the ability to make balanced decisions in a changing environment.

Where you’ll work

The role will be based across SNAP’s offices at Drummond School and Seafield Road, Inverness.

Following an initial 12-week period, there may be some flexibility for home working where this suits the needs of the role and the organisation.

The role may also involve some travel associated with SNAP services, activities and meetings.

Why SNAP?

Because this is a job where you can see the difference you make.

This is an opportunity to take on a genuinely influential role within a well-established Highland charity, joining SNAP at an important point in its development.

You’ll be part of a committed and experienced staff and volunteer team, within an organisation that has strong roots in the Highland community and is continuing to evolve in response to what children, young people, adults and families need.

You will have the opportunity to:

• help shape how SNAP’s services develop for the future;

• play a key role in maintaining the quality and sustainability of our services;

• develop and improve services in response to changing needs; and

• be part of an organisation where relationships, community and the people we support really matter.

If you’re looking for your next leadership role and want it to be somewhere that genuinely matters, we’d love to hear from you.

Shared Care Scotland is a small team with big ambition: we aim to be the lead organisation in Scotland on all aspects of short breaks policy and practice. We are looking for an enthusiastic and skilled Operations Assistant to fulfil an important organisation-wide role in providing efficient, accurate and responsive administrative support that helps colleagues, Board members, partners and enquirers work effectively.

If you have skills and experience in delivering administrative and operational support to a busy and diverse team, are self-motivated and keen to develop your knowledge of the health and social care sector then we’d love to hear from you.

For the right candidate, this is an exciting opportunity to work with a dedicated team to deliver on a range of activities that can improve the lives of unpaid carers in Scotland.

In return we offer a supportive, collaborative team environment with excellent terms and conditions.

About Shared Care Scotland

Shared Care Scotland (SCS) is a dynamic and ambitious charity dedicated to improving the quality and provision of short breaks in Scotland for adult and young carers and the people they help care for. It is estimated there are 700,000 to 800,000 unpaid carers in Scotland.

We have a vision of a Scotland where everyone who receives support or provides unpaid care can live a satisfying life, with the assistance they need to take regular, quality breaks from demanding caring routines.

As one of Scotland’s leading National Carer Organisations we contribute to the development of policy and best practice for carers. We host a national online directory of short break services, manage a £10m Short Breaks Fund on behalf of the Scottish Government which provides grant funding to third sector organisations to help carers access breaks from caring, and deliver an innovative social tourism programme called Respitality.

For more information visit our website: sharedcarescotland.org.uk

Do you want to be part of something lifechanging?

At Columba 1400, we enable young people, especially those from tough realities, and the key adults in their lives to lead lives of purpose, meaning and contribution. We believe everyone already holds greatness within them, and your role would be to help them discover it.

If you are someone who comes alive when bringing groups together, facilitating meaningful conversations and creating warm, brave spaces where young people and adults feel seen, listened to, valued, and able to explore who they are and who they might yet become, then you may be exactly who we are looking for.

Making a difference in and from Skye

Our Senior Facilitator is based at our purpose-built Community and International Leadership Centre in Staffin on the Isle of Skye, where you will be part of the hands-on delivery of residential leadership experiences with young people and adults.

You will help young people and key adults step back from everyday pressures, reflect on who they are, what matters to them, and the contribution they want to make in their lives, schools, families and communities.

Our Community and International Leadership Centre is also a community asset: a place where local people, partners and visitors come together through learning, connection, belonging and leadership.

What makes this role special?

You will contribute to changing lives, schools and communities by facilitating transformational, values-based leadership experiences for young people and the key adults in their lives, including preparation, residential delivery and follow-up.

Your ideas, insight and creativity will help us continually enhance the Columban experience - from the way people are welcomed and supported, to how we listen, learn and strengthen our approach.

You will be part of a warm and supportive team, united by purpose and committed to each other’s growth. You will also play an important part in helping participants, partners and colleagues feel safe, welcomed and able to take part fully.

About you

You will be a highly experienced facilitator who brings energy, presence and curiosity into every session. You communicate with warmth and clarity and enjoy building positive relationships with partners so each experience is well prepared and meaningful.

Notes:A full driving licence and own car are essential. This role requires PVG scheme membership and a commitment to safeguarding young people and adults.

Be part of our movement for change. We are excited to announce that we are seeking a board of trustees to support Each and Every Child through the next step in its development as a new independent charitable organisation - Each and Every Child SCIO.

Over the past 6 years, Each and Every Child has supported individuals and organisations across Scotland to change how they communicate about care and care experience in order to challenge unhelpful assumptions, stereotypes and mindsets around care and care experience that can further stigma and discrimination. In partnership with FrameWorks UK, we have shared insights into how we can effectively shift public ways of thinking, countering unhelpful and stigmatising mindsets and building support for solutions.

This is our next step. As a new, independent charity we aim to support the use of in-depth framing research and robustly evidenced insights combined with our experience of building relationships, providing advice, facilitating conversations and mobilising action to extend this work to other social issues impacting people’s lives. We will also ensure that our work to shift narratives around care experience continues to strengthen and adapt to new challenges.

We are looking to appoint a hands-on, passionate and values-driven board of trustees to support the leadership of the initiative at this crucial transition. We are also looking to appoint a Chair of the Board, a Treasurer and a Secretary. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a movement of change and support an exciting and ambitious programme of work that looks to change the story on social inequalities, now and into the future.

We are keen to hear from people who can bring new perspectives and experiences, and who are motivated to drive real change to improve the lives of children, young people and families across Scotland. We welcome applications from people of all abilities and backgrounds. These are voluntary positions, with expenses reimbursed.

The knowledge/experience we are seeking for all roles include:

· Lived or living experience of the impact of stigma and inequality on you and/or your family

· Understanding of care experience, trauma and other complex social issues impacting on children, young people and families across Scotland

· Operational experience of supporting children, young people or families, for example in health, social care, education or in the third sector

· Leadership or management experience

· Understanding of narrative change work, including raising awareness of social issues through communications, public affairs or campaigning

· Experience of community development and engagement

· Experience within education or training (with a range of contexts)

You do not need to have experience in all of these areas to apply – we welcome applications from people who have the passion to learn, support and contribute.

The skills and qualities we are seeking include:

· Ability to work effectively as part of a team

· Ability to think strategically across the public and third sectors

· Approachable, open-minded and receptive to change

· Able to consistently attend meetings and make time to read papers in advance

· Understands information such as numerical data in reports and proposals

· Objectively analyses information, in the best interests of the charity, without allowing personal opinions to influence this

· Willing to speak up, ask questions and constructively and positively challenge themselves and others

· Acts collaboratively and supports collective decision making

Chair of the Board

We are seeking a passionate, skilled, supportive and experienced individual to chair the board of trustees at this exciting time for Each and Every Child. The Chair position will provide leadership to our board of trustees and will provide the line-management of the senior members of staff on the board’s behalf. We are looking for someone with confidence, ability and passion to lead a team, manage conflict and make clear decisions.

Treasurer

The Treasurer’s primary role is to assist and advise the board in overseeing the finances even if paid staff deal with much of the day-to-day financial business. Therefore, we are seeking someone with financial experience and an understanding of budgeting, forecasting and accountancy– ideally in the charity sector.

Secretary

The Secretary will provide administrative support to the board. We are seeking someone who is organised, practical and able to use day to day Microsoft packages such as Word and Excel. With a small staff team, the role of Secretary may be left vacant unless considered helpful once meetings are under way.

*We can be flexible around both the location and attendance format to accommodate the needs of our new trustees. Hybrid meetings will be considered for applicants from across Scotland.

The Alumni & Development department at the University of Strathclyde would like to invite an experienced fundraiser to join their major gifts fundraising team for a fixed term role for 12 months (maternity cover). This is an exciting opportunity for a fundraiser to develop their skills in a Higher Education setting. You will develop innovative fundraising projects and work with a broad range of prospective donors. You will be responsible for the continuous development of the University’s fundraising programmes and, in particular, supporting our renowned Engineering and Science faculties. This role raises funds through the development of relationships with successful alumni, trusts and foundations and company supporters. You will be someone who enjoys meeting new people, conducting face-to-face meetings with potential donors for major gifts (often gifts of £25,000+). You will support fundraising campaigns to advance the University’s research and teaching and you will share its vision with donors through compelling funding proposals, cases for support and donor reports. You will be confident working with senior staff across the University to identify, involve and thank major donors. The role is responsible for the line management of a major gift Development Officer and you will be part of the department’s management team.

For informal enquiries, please contact Karen Boyle, Head of Alumni & Development at karen.boyle.100@strath.ac.uk

The STAR Centre – Rape Crisis Ayrshire is seeking new members for our Board of Directors who will help guide the future direction of the organisation as we move forward into an exciting new phase of our development. While previous Board experience would be welcomed, it is not necessary. What we are looking for is women, aged 18 and over, who are committed to delivering support to survivors of any form of sexual violence, abuse, or sexual exploitation no matter when this has occurred in their lives.

The role of Director of The STAR Centre is unpaid although relevant expenses are covered.

All posts within The STAR Centre – Rape Crisis Ayrshire are open women only in line with the Equality Act (2010), Schedule 9, Part 1 and the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, For Women Scotland vs The Scottish Ministers (2025).