The Finance & Administration Manager will lead the charity’s finance and business support functions, ensuring robust financial management and smooth-running operations. They will take responsibility for oversight, compliance, and reporting, while delegating day-to-day processing and administrative tasks to the Finance & Admin Assistant.

This role is designed with flexibility in mind and can be offered on a part-time basis.

The Finance & Admin Manager will play a key part in supporting the Chief Executive, Board of Trustees, and wider staff team to deliver the Big Hearts’ mission: changing lives through football.

Location

We operate a hybrid model of working with at least one full day per week in the Big Hearts office.

Our office is located in the Wheatfield Stand, Tynecastle Park, Edinburgh, EH11 2NL

Responsibilities

The main duties of the role include:

• Finance leadership
• Business support & admin
• Line management

Person specification

Essential skills & expertise required for this role include:

• Proven experience of financial management in a charity, not-for-profit, or SME environment
• Experience of preparing management accounts, budgets, and financial reports
• Ability to lead and oversee administration and business support functions
• Understanding of data protection, IT systems, and charity compliance

Important info

This role is subject to PVG scheme disclosure, which will be paid by Big Hearts

Two satisfactory references will be requested upon any offer of employment

Equality & diversity statement

Big Hearts is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, sexual orientation, race and religion or belief.

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

About the Service

Our service users include people with learning disabilities, autism, mental health conditions, acquired brain injuries and mobility issues. Because there is so much diversity among the people we support, we provide different levels of care. Working together we adopt a partnership, building trust and to develop an individual plan. We focus on potential, building confidence and skills to meet the individual’s goals. Setting goals in partnership to support mental health and emotions, developing and building on skills whilst providing practical and day-today support to live independently.

We help strengthen relationships with family, friends and the community. We recognise that tailored support will vary according to individual’s needs and reflect this through the support that we offer. This can range from 24/7 support to less frequent engagement.

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for a hard working Team Leader to join our expanding team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone passionate about a career in social care who wants to expand their social care experience in a managerial role. Above all we want someone that shares in our values. Our mission is to provide positive, life changing support, delivered by inspiring, professional staff.

Role and Responsibilities

• Apply your knowledge of best practice, codes of practice and current regulations in the social care sector and ensure the provision of a high quality and socially inclusive service

• Manage support plans and contribute to support reviews alongside Service Managers

• Work with Service Managers on service referrals and staff interviewing & selection procedures

• Assist in monitoring the service’s progress against an agreed business plan including evaluating work and implementing changes to improve results

• Develop, implement and monitor action plans for any team-led changes or external recommendations from the Care Inspectorate, Quality Assurance or Business Assurance

• Contribute, in consultation with the Service Manager and the Finance team, each year’s budget and ensure the financial targets are met

• Develop constructive relationships with national and local statutory, voluntary and community agencies to ensure appropriate resources, support and understanding of the service

• Deputise for the Service Manager, assuming the responsibilities in their absence.

Essential Skills and Attributes

• At least 3 years’ experience of support/care services

• Experience providing support and development to a team

• Partnership working and collaboration

• IT literacy and ability to use and understand data to make informed service decisions

• Qualified to the level required by the SSSC as a manager in housing support services and care at home services or willingness to work towards and to successfully complete qualification within the SSSC specified timeframe.

Additional Notes

• Shift work, weekend work may be a requirement of this role.

• PVG scheme membership & SSSC registration are requirements of this post

• Please note, you will be asked to provide evidence of your eligibility to work in the UK.

• We reserve the right to bring the closing date forward if a suitable candidate is identified.

Feniks Counselling, Personal Development and Support Services Ltd. is seeking a passionate and driven Policy Development Officer to champion the rights of Polish and other Central and Eastern European (CEE) communities in Scotland.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape policy, influence decision-makers and amplify community voices at local and national level.

The Role

You will lead on policy and advocacy work, engaging with stakeholders including statutory services and the Scottish Government. Working closely with colleagues and community members, you will gather evidence, develop briefings and consultation responses, raise awareness of key issues, and support greater civic participation.

The role is primarily home-based, with occasional office attendance and travel as required. We warmly welcome applications from candidates based outside Edinburgh.

About You

You will bring at least two years’ experience in policy or advocacy work, excellent research and report-writing skills, and confidence engaging with stakeholders at all levels.

We are looking for someone who is self-motivated, collaborative and committed to equality, human rights and social justice.

Annual leave:34 days per annum, pro rata

Purpose of the Role

The purpose of this role is to assist, direct and steward supporters. The Supporter Care Administrator is commonly the first point of contact for supporter enquiries and therefore play a significant role in understanding supporter behaviours, needs and trends. This role supports the fundraising team to ensure that procedures are followed in line with best practise guidelines, ensuring that supporters receive the best stewardship and donations are processed and thanked in a genuine and appropriate way.

This is an exciting time to join Blackwood Housing Association as we create new team leader roles to deliver on our ambitious strategic direction, focused on delivering even better outcomes for our tenants and communities across Scotland. We’re looking for Team Leaders who are energised by change and motivated by purpose - leaders who want to help shape the future of housing services.

You’ll play a key role in leading teams through transformation, embedding new ways of working, and translating our strategic ambitions into real, day‑to‑day improvements for the people we serve. With opportunities to influence service development, support staff to thrive, and contribute to an organisation that is evolving and growing, this is a chance to build a leadership career that genuinely makes a difference.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a Housing Officer Team Leader, you will:

• Lead and support a team to deliver excellent, customer-focused housing services

• Ensure day-to-day operations comply with policies, procedures, and regulatory standards

• Drive performance across key areas such as tenancy sustainment, customer engagement, and void management

• Promote best practice and maintain up-to-date knowledge of housing legislation and professional standards

• Oversee accurate data management, reporting, and audit trail processes

• Support and supervise site-based staff alongside the wider management team

• Attend meetings across office locations as required

What We’re Looking For

We’re seeking someone who is:

• An experienced housing professional with strong knowledge of housing legislation and regulation

• A confident leader with the ability to motivate, coach, and develop a team

• Highly organised, with strong decision-making and problem-solving skills

• Committed to delivering excellent customer service and continuous improvement

• Comfortable working across multiple sites and collaborating with a range of stakeholders

Why Join Us?

• Opportunity to lead and shape high-quality housing services

• Work within a supportive and forward-thinking organisation

• Make a meaningful impact in communities across Scotland

• Ongoing professional development and career progression opportunities

Our employee benefits

• Access to Health and Wellbeing resources such as, 24 hour GP service, physiotherapy, 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and in-house Mental Health First Aiders

• Opportunity to participate in internal support networks such as employee engagement, wellbeing and digital forums

• Discounts at major online and High Street retailers

This is an exciting time to join Blackwood Housing Association as we create new team leader roles to deliver on our ambitious strategic direction, focused on delivering even better outcomes for our tenants and communities across Scotland. We’re looking for Team Leaders who are energised by change and motivated by purpose - leaders who want to help shape the future of customer services.

You’ll play a key role in leading teams through transformation, embedding new ways of working, and translating our strategic ambitions into real, day‑to‑day improvements for the people we serve. With opportunities to influence service development, support staff to thrive, and contribute to an organisation that is evolving and growing, this is a chance to build a leadership career that genuinely makes a difference.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, motivate, and support a team delivering front-line customer service

• Supervise day-to-day operations, ensuring KPIs and service standards are consistently met

• Oversee incoming and outgoing communications including calls, emails, and case management

• Handle Stage 1 complaints and support investigations into more complex cases

• Build strong working relationships with internal teams and external partners

• Act as a first point of contact across a wide range of housing services, including repairs, rent, allocations, and general enquiries

• Deliver training, coaching, and one-to-one performance reviews for team members

• Contribute to continuous improvement of customer service processes and procedures

• Support organisational initiatives and policy development

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience in a customer service leadership or supervisory role

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a busy environment

• Experience handling complaints and resolving customer issues effectively

• A proactive approach to problem-solving and service improvement

• Passion for delivering excellent customer experiences

Why Join Us?

At Blackwood, we are committed to making a difference in people’s lives. You’ll be part of a supportive organisation that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

We offer:

• Competitive salary

• Opportunities for professional development

• A supportive and inclusive working environment

• The chance to make a real impact in the community

Our employee benefits

• Access to Health and Wellbeing resources such as, 24 hour GP service, physiotherapy, 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and in-house Mental Health First Aiders

• Opportunity to participate in internal support networks such as employee engagement, wellbeing and digital forums

• Discounts at major online and High Street retailers

Are you looking for a role where every day is different, and you work in a role that makes a real difference to people’s lives?

If so, this role may be the perfect opportunity for you!

About the service

The Moving Forward Service, delivered by Cyrenians, supports young people aged 15–19 in Edinburgh who are not in education, employment, or training (NEET). It provides early-stage employability support through a relationship-based, outreach approach. The service works both with young people - mainly in East Edinburgh- and their families across the city to address barriers and help them move towards positive outcomes.

About the role

This is a role combining Family Support Worker (3 days) and Young Person Keyworker (2 days).

• With young people: provide one-to-one, strengths-based support to help them identify goals, build confidence, and progress into education, training, or employment. This includes action planning, attending appointments, and working with partner agencies.
• With families: offer tailored, person-centred support on issues such as financial hardship, wellbeing, and access to services, including home visits and signposting.

The role involves lone working, outreach, multi-agency collaboration, safeguarding responsibilities, and maintaining accurate records. It also includes contributing to service delivery, monitoring, and ongoing development.

About you

You should be motivated, resilient, and organised individual committed to supporting disadvantaged young people and families. You have experience working with young people and/or families facing complex challenges, and understand issues linked to deprivation.

You can work independently and as part of a team, communicate effectively, manage your workload, and build strong relationships. Experience in employability pathways, welfare support, or outreach work is beneficial but not essential.

How we’ll support you

You’ll be working independently but with a supportive line manager. You will also have access to wider Cyrenians support, including our learning and development programme, and staff wellbeing services.

About us

At Cyrenians we tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness by taking a Public Health Approach to Homelessness Prevention. We take a values-led and relationships-based approach to delivering all our services.

You can find out more about our impact and our values online.

Are you passionate about play, and ready to lead the practicalities of delivery?

We are seeking a Team Leader to coordinate and deliver high-quality, self-directed play opportunities across Midlothian. This is a hands-on leadership role, combining practical delivery with day-to-day coordination and line management of a small team.

About Play Midlothian

Play Midlothian is a registered charity (no. SC025474) working to enable every child in Midlothian to thrive through play by creating opportunities, removing barriers and addressing inequalities. We have an office base at the One Dalkeith Business Hub in central Dalkeith, but deliver services throughout Midlothian, and if commissioned, beyond.

About the Role

On appointment, the postholder will lead Out2Play, using the play rangers model of delivery to enable children to play out in greenspaces close to their homes.

The postholder will also staff other sessions run by Play Midlothian. We champion adventurous, self-directed play, with a focus on loose parts, and use varied community settings to create rich play opportunities. A high proportion of sessions take place outdoors, all year round.

Travel and transportation of play resources to multiple sites across Midlothian is required for successful delivery of our services. Most sessions take place after school hours and at weekends, with some during the school day, so flexibility is required, though we do aim to share out weekend working on a rota pattern so that everyone gets predictable weekends off.

This role would suit someone with playwork, youth work or family support experience who is ready to step into frontline management — or an existing manager looking for a values-led, varied, community-based role.

If you are enthusiastic about enabling children to play in their own ways, we would love to hear from you.

Charity Information

Family Mediation West provides support to families affected by separation, divorce, and conflict. We have premises in Glasgow and Kilmarnock allowing us to offer services across the West of Scotland. We are affiliated to Relationship Scotland, who support a national network of 21 local service providers for individuals, couples and families experiencing relationship breakdown. The values and the standards of the organisation help to ensure effective support can be provided to help families through difficult times.

Job Information

FM West is entering a new and exciting chapter of service led growth across our charity. We are seeking a Trust & Foundations Executive that can implement a realistic 1-year strategy with the aim of securing additional funding through a variety of funders. The funding we seek is both unrestricted and restricted funding which is key to meet future growth and objectives of the charity. In addition, the postholder will research well aligned funding bodies, complete evaluations and maintain key relationships with existing and new funders. The successful candidate can work within either office, or sometimes both and would mostly be office (not home working) based.

Working pattern: 14 hours per week, flexible. In-person or hybrid, minimum requirement to be present 1 day/month in Inverness (NB travel costs for in-person days are not covered). The existing staff team work predominantly in-person however we recognise that this Finance Officer role is very well suited to hybrid working. We actively encourage applicants who may be returning to work after a career break, combining the role with caring responsibilities or considering semi-retirement. NB we have carefully scoped the demands of this role and are confident that 14 hours per week is sufficient for the size & complexity of our organisation.

Benefits: We are one of just three charities to have achieved a Highland Employer Charter Gold Award. We are a Disability Confident employer. Our beautiful office is located in the historic Merkinch Welfare Hall. We have a kitchen, showers and changing facilities, free car parking and secure indoor bike parking. We think it’s an amazing place to work! We also provide:

• 14 days annual leave (based on full time allowance of 35 days)
• Time off for training and financial support for training / exam costs
• Modern family friendly working environment including enhanced maternity & parental leave
• 8 days paid sick leave (based on full time allowance of 20 days)
• Flexible working around any caring responsibilities
• Subsidised gym membership

About the role

This is a rare opportunity to work in a small organisation where you can have real impact and real job satisfaction in our friendly small charity. You will see your financial data translating directly into high quality decision making. You'll provide financial advice to the Chief Officer and work closely with our Board of Trustees. We have a very supportive Finance Subcommittee, which currently includes two highly experienced Chartered Accountants.

Primary Purpose of the Role:

The overall purpose of the role is to maintain financial transparency and strong financial controls across the organisation. There will be a focus on managing grants and donations, supplier payments, and internal financial processes. We have a mixed income model with grants, donations and earned income. In 2023 we won ‘One to Watch’ at the Social Enterprise Scotland Awards. As we approach our 5th birthday, your role will be to help us achieve even greater sustainability and impact.

Key Attributes:

If you feel like you might not quite fulfil these criteria, that could just be a sign of healthy professional self-awareness! At heart we are a learning & development organisation, so we would encourage you to apply or get in touch with us for a friendly conversation to learn more.

• Strong attention to detail and high level of accuracy.
• Experience in a finance, accounting, or bookkeeping role.
• Proactive and self-motivated with strong organizational skills.
• Proficiency with systems such as QuickBooks or Xero, and with MS Excel.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with a proactive approach.
• Exceptional organisational skills, ability to prioritise, and work independently
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion.

Preferred:

• Experience either in charity accounting and/or a dynamic commercial environment
• Professional qualification or working toward accreditation (e.g. AAT, ACCA, CIMA)

Key responsibilities:

• Manage all restricted funds paid to our charity, ensuring the grant process runs smoothly from application and receipt all the way through to end of grant reporting.
• Use accounting platform to maintain organised and auditable financial records (we’re currently on Quickbooks but open to your suggestions to move to other systems)
• For our charitable trading income, help us to analyse how our business is performing.
• Work with the Chief Officer to prepare and continuously update 1-year up to 3-year forecasts and budgets (currently on MS Excel but open to your suggestions to move to other systems)
• Preparation and submission of Gift Aid claims / reports
• Prepare quarterly management accounts to our Board of Trustees. NB assistance will be given by the Finance Subcommittee.
• Provide accurate data for our annual Independent Examination and published Annual Accounts, including reporting to OSCR and Companies House. NB again, assistance will be given by the Finance Subcommittee and you will be working with our Independent Examiners who are a well-established firm of charity specialists.

Special features of the role:

Although this role does not involve routine contact with children, working for our youth charity is classed as protected work under the terms of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. This position is therefore subject to our rigorous safer recruitment policy. This will include PVG checks, detailed background checks and follow-ups on all references.