We’re looking for an enthusiastic fundraising and communications professional to join our team. If you’re proactive, creative, and able to inspire and build positive relationships we’d love to hear from you.

Scottish Cot Death Trust is Scotland’s only charity dedicated to the issue of the sudden and unexpected death of babies and young children. Our key strands of work include support for families, a diverse training programme for professionals across a range of sectors, and research into sudden infant death.

To support our work we are looking for a Fundraising and Communications Officer with a strong track record in income generation and effective communications. Ideally, we’re looking for someone with experience of community fundraising, corporate fundraising such as ‘charity of the year’ partnerships, and digital appeals. However, we’re open to applications from anyone with different experience but with the transferrable skills, energy and attitude to be an exceptional fundraising and communications colleague.

We’re open to applications on a job share basis for either of the distinct parts of the role, with the fundraising element at 21 hours/wk and the communications (including digital appeals) at 14 hours/wk. If you’d like to find out more, or for an informal chat about the role, please contact Lynsey Kidd at lynseykidd@scottishcotdeathtrust.org

The Role

Scottish Women’s Aid has an opportunity to join their team as Communications Lead on a maternity cover basis. Our Communications Lead is responsible for developing and delivering the messages that reflect our core values and strategic priorities, communicating with media partners, stakeholders, and wider communities. The role holder works closely with our Communications Assistant.

Background

Scottish Women’s Aid is Scotland’s leading voluntary sector organisation working to prevent domestic abuse and promoting effective policy and practice responses for women, children and young people who experience domestic abuse. We are the umbrella organisation for 34 autonomous Women’s Aid groups delivering direct services to women, children and young people across Scotland.

What You’ll Do

Working closely with colleagues across the organisation you will create, manage and develop a strong social media presence for Scottish Women’s Aid. You’ll co-ordinate the planning and delivery of media responses as well as external PR communications to member organisations, non-members partners and other stakeholders. Local and national campaign management will be integral to the role, as is working closely with the policy team to identify ways to publicise key issues for women, children and young people who experience domestic abuse and the work we do to address these issues.

What We Need

We’re looking for someone with experience in a similar communications role, with specific experience of campaign and political, parliamentary or public affairs work. Excellent written and verbal communications skills goes without saying: you’ll be skilled in the ability to write to suit a range of different audiences and assist your colleagues with writing and producing marketing materials.

We’re looking for someone who has;

· An understanding of the benefits of social media and content management systems

· Ability to manage all communications in relation to different external projects and services provided

· Experience using social media, website and content management systems

· An understanding of political and parliamentary processes

· Awareness and understanding of the feminist analysis of domestic abuse

What we offer

There are many reasons to work for Scottish Women’s Aid. We have a great working culture and our mission and vision attracts a brilliant staff team. Your hard work is rewarded with a package of support and benefits including:

Flexible working

We offer flexible hybrid working options for the majority of our employees. Some posts are eligible for full-time homeworking. We also offer flexibility for staff and work/life balance through a number of flexible working options such as flexi time, condensed hours, job sharing.

Pay

SWA are a Living wage employer, our pay and grading system offers a competitive starting salary and yearly progression.

Annual Leave

We offer a full-time annual leave entitlement of 30 days (210 hours) per year plus 10 Public Holiday days (70 hours) per year. Leave is accrued at the rate of 3.33 days (23.3 hours) per month.

Pension

SWA believes it's important that we help you save for your retirement so access to Nest pension scheme is given to all eligible employees. SWA contributes 10% of gross contractual earnings on the provision that the employee contributes a minimum of 3% towards their pension contributions.

Learning and Development

SWA supports and develops staff to ensure they have the necessary skills, knowledge and abilities. There is an internal schedule of training on key skills and knowledge relevant to all staff. There is also scope to attend ad hoc training for employees who are working to develop specific skills.

Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay

SWA offers staff who meet the criteria for Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) an enhanced maternity pay of 20 weeks on full pay and 20 weeks on half pay.

Wellbeing

As part of SWA’s commitment to staff wellbeing, staff are offered access to a confidential 24/7 health and Wellbeing service with AIG which provides confidential advice, counselling and legal support to all staff, and where applicable, immediate family members.

Bike 2 Work

An interest-free loan to purchase a bike, can be arranged up to the value of £1,000.

Edinburgh Leisure Gym Subsidies

Edinburgh based staff are able to access Edinburgh Leisure facilities for the reduced price of £1 per session.

POSITIVE ACTION

Applications will be accepted from women only under Schedule 9, part 1 of the Equality Act 2010.

Scottish Women’s Aid is an equal opportunities employer, all women, including women with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, may apply for women-only roles.

SWA are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce that is representative of the people we serve.

We are taking positive action to address an under-representation of both disabled and Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) employees within our workforce. We offer Disabled and BAME applicants the option of requesting that their application is considered under the terms of our Disabled or BAME Guaranteed Interview Schemes. You will be asked if you wish to be considered under the Disability/BAME Guaranteed Interview scheme when you complete our application form.

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You will work with local community-led organisations to provide ongoing support to civil society / third sector / community led groups, ensuring structures and processes for peer support and sharing of experience and learning between groups are established and maintained. Through this, you will work with their local communities to establish a Local Implementation Group to explore options to structure future networking and develop an application for Scottish Government funding to host a regional Community Climate Action Hub.

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You will work with local community-led organisations to provide ongoing support to civil society / third sector / community led groups, ensuring structures and processes for peer support and sharing of experience and learning between groups are established and maintained. Through this, you will work with their local communities to establish a Local Implementation Group to explore options to structure future networking and develop an application for Scottish Government funding to host a regional Community Climate Action Hub.

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Cycling UK believes that cycling enriches people’s lives and is an essential ingredient in happier, healthier communities. Our mission is to enable millions more people to cycle, and our development projects across Scotland are a vital part of achieving that mission. The Bothy is a network of 4 place-based projects across Scotland aimed at supporting and encouraging walking, wheeling, and cycling. Staff by Cycling UK development officers, each project works with and for the local community to provide access to information and support - such as bikes and equipment, walking, wheeling and cycling route guides and local bike service information.

With activities such as led rides, health walks, bike loan schemes, hands-on support and guidance for individuals, organisations and business, the Bothies are embedded in their locations to help people make active travel choices and feel confident walking, wheeling, and cycling in their local area.

We are looking for a self-motivated, entrepreneurial individual to lead the success of the Bothy project. Supporting your team of development officers, you will ensure that our impact is captured and communicated across a broad audience as we change lives for the better.

Tell us why you are the person to drive impact in this capacity. Explore the job description for full details on this exciting opportunity. Complete the application form expressing why you are the right candidate for this opening.

Focus on gearing your supporting statement to exemplify how your skills and experience match the requirements of the role, directly referring to the person specification. This enables the selection panel to assess your relative strengths against the specified criteria.

The vacancy

We are looking for a fun, creative, enthusiastic team player who is highly motivated to plan and organise exciting sporting opportunities for veterans with sight loss. You will have experience of facilitating groups with the ability to build rapport quickly and be an effective networker.

You will have a passion or interest in specific sports or physical activity with a desire to motivate individuals to get more active. You will be willing to travel to engage with veterans and other organisations to increase access to sporting opportunities across Scotland.

You will work to increase access to sporting opportunities within veterans own local communities, building upon the comradeship that the veteran’s community often enjoy. The role will be key in identifying sporting opportunities and developing partnerships that veterans with sight loss can engage with, ensuring accessibility and supporting participation in these. Another key part of the role is building positive and sustainable partnerships that benefits veterans and their families within their local areas. The job also involves recognising and supporting the organisation with other events/activities that may encourage social and peer support opportunities.

We offer Generous annual leave entitlement which increases after 4 years’ service, Generous pension scheme, Access to learning and development opportunities and many more, please visit our website for more information.

If you are enthusiastic and could make a difference to a Veteran with Sight loss, contact our people help desk.

Telephone 0131 378 2793

Email: people@sightscotland.org.uk.

About us

We're one of Scotland's oldest charities - for more than two centuries, we've been supporting and empowering people with sight loss to live fulfilling lives. We're proud of all we've achieved in the past - but we have our sights set firmly on the future.

We're determined that no-one should face sight loss alone. We're committed to improving, diversifying and growing our services to make sure we can reach many more people with sight loss - when and where they need us.