Fife Women’s Aid are looking to recruit a full-time member of staff to provide advice, advocacy, support and services to children, young people and families who have experienced domestic abuse. Applicants should have experience of providing support in a relevant social care setting.

The successful applicants will have at least SVQ Level III or equivalent level of qualification in childcare or other relevant subject, or equivalent experience and willingness to work towards a qualification.

The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate a high degree of motivation and have the ability to work as part of a team as well as flexible hours to suit the needs of families. An ability to cover on-call is an advantage (additional payments are made for this role).

This will be at 6.30pm on Tuesday 17th March 2026. Please confirm your attendance to info@fifewomensaid.org.uk and we will send you details of the zoom meeting. We hope to see you there.

Fife Women’s Aid is a feminist organisation and strives to be a supportive and empowering employer offering competitive terms and conditions.

Membership of Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme is a requirement for this post.

If you would like further information about the post, please contact Gill Birtley, Team Manager, at gill.birtley@fifewomensaid.org.uk

Partners in Advocacy has established itself as one of Scotland's leading providers of independent advocacy, delivering exceptional advocacy services since 1998.

We are thrilled to present a wonderful opportunity within our brand new children’s advocacy service in the Highlands - “Voice & Choice”. As an independent advocacy worker, you will have the privilege of providing one-to-one independent advocacy to children and young people up to the age of 16 who live in the Highland Council area and who have lived/living experience of substance use (drugs and/or alcohol) – their own or those close to them. Through this role, you will ensure that their voices and wishes are heard, enabling them to make informed choices, protect their rights and have a meaningful impact on decisions that affect their lives.

Please note that although this post is advertised as working from home, a significant amount of travel around the Highlands is anticipated, and the expectation is that applicants will live within the Highland Council area.

Applicants should also hold a current driving licence and have access to a roadworthy vehicle for work use.

We strongly encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds to apply. If you believe your skills, experience, and expertise align with the criteria outlined in the person specification, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please complete the application form, ensuring that you provide examples of how your knowledge and experience fulfil each aspect of the person specification.

Partners in Advocacy takes pride in being a Disability Confident Employer, fully committed to creating an inclusive and accessible work environment.

MND Scotland is the only charity in Scotland dedicated to supporting people with MND, their families, and friends.

Since being founded over forty years ago, MND Scotland has provided practical, financial and emotional support to anyone affected by MND whilst also funding essential research into finding effective treatments and a cure.

MND Scotland is funded entirely by donations and grants. The charity’s patron is Her Royal Highness, the Princess Royal.

Everything we do and the way that we do it puts the MND community at its core.

The successful candidate will manage a national caseload, primarily by phone and email, with occasional in-person contact where appropriate. Your work will empower families to spend precious time making memories, rather than worrying about practical or financial challenges.

This is a developing role in a growing service, and you’ll also contribute to shaping systems, resources, and policies that ensure consistent, high-quality support.

Everything we do is to enable people with MND to spend their precious time building special memories.

Together we will make time count.

Glasgow Women’s Aid provides information, support and temporary accommodation for women, children and young people experiencing domestic abuse. We have refuge accommodation, follow on services and outreach services both for women and children across Glasgow.

The purpose of this role is to ensure that all of our sites are maintained to a good standard of repair and decoration. We have several refuge sites across Glasgow and you will be responsible for ensuring that maintenance work gets carried out. You will carry out minor DIY tasks yourself such as building flat pack furniture, fitting curtains and hanging pictures so that our properties are ready for families to move in. You will provide support where special cleans are required and ensure that there is adequate stock of everything we need to make refuge a home. This is a very busy role and the successful candidate will have great customer service skills and a proactive attitude. As we have several sites it is essential that you have a drivers license to drive our van.

The SPSO is the final stage for complaints about organisations providing public services in Scotland. We investigate complaints across a wide range of sectors including councils, the NHS, housing associations, most water and sewerage providers, the Scottish Government and its agencies and departments, colleges and universities, prisons, and most Scottish public bodies.

Our Assessment and Guidance Team raise awareness, knowledge and understanding of our organisation with members of the public and the providers of public services. The Assessment and Guidance Team Assistant plays a pivotal role as the first point of contact to the SPSO and our complaints process. This involves handling incoming enquiry calls, providing relevant guidance and advice on how to make a complaint and information on the role of the SPSO. Strong communication, administrative skills and an attention to detail are essential as the this role takes lead responsibility in setting up new complaints on SPSO’s complaint handling system.

To be successful in this role, you will have a minimum of two years’ experience of working in a frontline, customer-facing role, ideally with complaints handling. You will have good knowledge and experience of a customer services environment, ideally within a public service organisation under the Ombudsman’s jurisdiction. Strong administrative skills, attention to detail and experience of a range of IT applications is essential.

Are you an experienced finance professional looking to make a real difference in Glasgow’s third sector?

GCVS (Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector) is seeking a skilled and proactive Management Accountant to support the financial planning, reporting and analysis across our organisation. This is an excellent opportunity to apply your financial expertise within a values-driven organisation that works to strengthen communities and support voluntary and community organisations throughout Glasgow.

About the Role

As part of our Finance and Payroll Services team, you will:

• Lead on the preparation of accurate and timely monthly management accounts
• Support annual budgeting and multi-year financial forecasting
• Deliver high-quality financial analysis to support organisational decision-making
• Take ownership of VAT returns and key financial reporting requirements
• Work closely with budget holders and senior managers to provide financial insight and support
• Contribute to improving financial systems, processes and controls
• Provide line management support to relevant staff within the finance team

This role requires strong attention to detail, the ability to work independently, and confidence in communicating financial information clearly and professionally.

About You

We are looking for someone who:

• Is a qualified or part-qualified accountant
• Has experience preparing management accounts and financial reports
• Demonstrates excellent analytical skills and strong attention to detail
• Can manage their workload independently and meet deadlines
• Communicates clearly and professionally, both verbally and in writing
• Is confident building relationships with non-finance colleagues
• Has experience using financial systems and Excel (experience with reporting tools such as Power BI is desirable)
• Ideally has experience working within the voluntary or third sector

What We Offer

• A reduced full-time working week of 32 hours
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements
• 28 days annual leave plus 13.5 fixed public holidays
• Generous employer pension contribution (8%) with life assurance when joining the pension (3 times your salary)
• A supportive, inclusive and purpose-led working environment

Further information on the Job Description, Person Specification and Employment Conditions is available in the recruitment pack from here or GCVS website gcvs.org.uk/about-us/work-with-us/#Management-Accountant

The Development Leads in Iriss design and deliver high quality and effective projects that have relevance to the social work and social care sector. Directed either by sector or policy priorities, and working with a range of partners, our work aims to make support work better for both workers and people.

Our Development Leads come from a wide range of backgrounds including research, systems thinking, social work/care practice, community development, and design. What they have in common is a drive to support positive change and an ability to take a project through from initial idea to completion and product development.

Who we are looking for

We are looking for someone who really wants to change the social work and social care system for the better. This role would suit someone with the following qualities:

• Innovation and change: You are confident in supporting people, teams or groups to make change happen. You are confident using a range of methods and approaches to doing this, bespoke to the situation.
• Curiosity and listening: You are curious about social work and social care and how it could be made better. You listen and attend to what workers and people tell you about their experience and use your expertise to help them solve the problems they face.
• Analysis and synthesis: You enjoy using evidence, knowledge, data, and information and ideas to create practical resources and programmes that will make a difference.
• Working in a team: We are a small, busy team that works hard to make best use of everyone’s skills.
• Learning and development: You should be a confident problem solver and able to learn new skills, methods and approaches.
• Diplomacy and customer focus: We want everyone who comes into contact with Iriss to have a good experience. You are the kind of person who takes pride in doing excellent work and supporting others.

You will have skills and experience in:

• Working confidently with a range of types of knowledge including academic research; practice wisdom; lived experience; and policy literature.
• Facilitating groups and designing workshops, including confident facilitation in online environments.
• Writing clearly and persuasively.
• Synthesising project activities and identifying learning into readable, usable resources for people working in social work and social care.
• Project development in areas where ‘the right answer’ is unclear, contested or unknown.
• Using the standard MS Office suite (or equivalent) in a work or study environment.

You will have knowledge of:

• Research and evidence use.
• Facilitation techniques and approaches.
• The social work and social care sector.

About Volunteer Scotland

Volunteer Scotland is the national centre for Volunteer Development. Our vision is for ‘a nation of volunteers strengthening Scotland’s communities’. Our purpose is to ensure that people volunteer, early and throughout their lives, that volunteers feel safe, valued and heard, making a difference to themselves and others and that volunteers represent their communities.

We lead the Volunteering Action Plan (VAP) on behalf of the Scottish Government and deliver five interconnected programmes — Participation, Development & Membership; Events, Campaigns & Promotions; Research & Policy; Disclosure Services; and the Knowledge Gateway.

These programmes collectively aim to widen participation, improve the quality and visibility of volunteering, support volunteer organisers, and promote volunteering through major campaigns and events. They generate and share national evidence, influence policy, and foster volunteer voice. They also ensure free access to the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme for volunteers and provide trusted guidance, development services and Quality Standards across Scotland.

Our Values

We are determined to make a difference when and where it matters most, by applying our values in everything we do: CARES

• Collaborative
• Accountable
• Respectful
• Effective
• Supportive

Through our values we will make the greatest difference for volunteers, those who support them, and Scotland's communities.

The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Participation and Membership Manager to join Volunteer Scotland, in a new role. The successful candidate will work closely with our Head of Innovation and Operations, and across teams, to develop our Participation and Membership Programme.

As the Participation and Membership Manager you will lead and support the delivery of Scotland’s Volunteering Action Plan (VAP) by working with colleagues and the sector to facilitate action focused working groups and sector-wide engagement events and activities.

A major strand of the Participation and Membership Programme focuses on widening participation. To support this, you’ll oversee national participation development projects that enable practical action to develop opportunities for everyone and guide targeted work on inclusive volunteering, helping to remove barriers faced by volunteers, and in doing so, share best practice across sectors.

Another key activity will be facilitating the growth of our membership and Knowledge Gateway services. This will focus on supporting our organisational members and championing volunteer organisers across Scotland by developing a new membership category for paid and voluntary practitioners. You will also share your volunteer development expertise through our Bespoke Support and Development Service.

Volunteer Scotland is an equal opportunities employer, committed to being an inclusive employer and a great place to work. We want everyone we work with, as a colleague, volunteer, supporter, or someone we support, to feel included and that they belong at Volunteer Scotland.

We need to ensure the voices around our table better reflect and understand the communities we exist to serve. We positively welcome applicants from all backgrounds and all protected characteristics.

What will you receive?

You will have plenty of opportunities to enhance your abilities with the opportunity to make a real difference every day. In addition, you will have excellent development opportunities including training, career development, and a range of e-learning courses.

You will also receive:

• Hybrid Working
• Enhanced parental leave
• Group Life Assurance
• Eye Care Vouchers
• Company contributory pension
• Employee Assistance Programme, including counselling services
• Employer Supported Volunteering Days x 3 (pro-rated)
• 28 Days Annual leave (inclusive of 3 floating public holiday days), rising to 33 days plus 5 fixed public holidays. (The office is normally closed between Christmas and New Year and any weekdays in between are given as additional leave).
• Annual Learning and Wellbeing allowance

About Volunteer Scotland

Volunteer Scotland is the national centre for Volunteer Development. Our vision is for ‘a nation of volunteers strengthening Scotland’s communities’. Our purpose is to ensure that people volunteer, early and throughout their lives, that volunteers feel safe, valued and heard, making a difference to themselves and others and that volunteers represent their communities.

We lead the Volunteering Action Plan (VAP) on behalf of the Scottish Government and deliver five interconnected programmes — Participation, Development & Membership; Events, Campaigns & Promotions; Research & Policy; Disclosure Services; and the Knowledge Gateway.

These programmes collectively aim to widen participation, improve the quality and visibility of volunteering, support volunteer organisers, and promote volunteering through major campaigns and events. They generate and share national evidence, influence policy, and foster volunteer voice. They also ensure free access to the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme for volunteers and provide trusted guidance, development services and Quality Standards across Scotland.

Our Values

We are determined to make a difference when and where it matters most, by applying our values in everything we do: CARES

• Collaborative
• Accountable
• Respectful
• Effective
• Supportive

Through our values we will make the greatest difference for volunteers, those who support them, and Scotland's communities.

The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Participation and Membership Coordinator to join Volunteer Scotland, in a new role. With a flexible and proactive approach, you will provide high-quality project coordination and administrative support across a range of initiatives and events emerging from Volunteer Scotland’s new five-year strategy.

Working collaboratively with colleagues across our programmes will be a focus for this role. Activities will include supporting the development and delivery of Volunteer Scotland’s membership offer to help strengthen relationships and enhance member engagement; supporting the success of a new events programme, which will include online, hybrid and in-person activity, as well as a new national hybrid conference; and supporting the growth of our new Bespoke Support and Development Service.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone highly organised, collaborative, and passionate about supporting volunteering and participation across Scotland.

Volunteer Scotland is an equal opportunities employer, committed to being an inclusive employer and a great place to work. We want everyone we work with, as a colleague, volunteer, supporter, or someone we support, to feel included and that they belong at Volunteer Scotland.

We need to ensure the voices around our table better reflect and understand the communities we exist to serve. We positively welcome applicants from all backgrounds and all protected characteristics.

What will you receive?

You will have plenty of opportunities to enhance your abilities with the opportunity to make a real difference every day. In addition, you will have excellent development opportunities including training, career development, and a range of e-learning courses.

You will also receive:

• Hybrid Working
• Enhanced parental leave
• Group Life Assurance
• Eye Care Vouchers
• Company contributory pension
• Employee Assistance Programme, including counselling services
• Employer Supported Volunteering Days x 3 (pro-rated)
• 28 Days Annual leave (inclusive of 3 floating public holiday days), rising to 33 days plus 5 fixed public holidays. (The office is normally closed between Christmas and New Year and any weekdays in between are given as additional leave).
• Annual Learning and Wellbeing allowance

Provide expert policy support to the MP, leading on key policy areas including responding to policy casework, delivering high‑quality briefings, drafting speeches and PQs, shaping lines to take, and engage stakeholders to progress constituency and national priorities.

Applicants should have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well in a small team. Awareness of public policy and strong written skills are essential. The successful candidate will be enthusiastic, responsible, able to use initiative and capable of working under pressure to meet deadlines.

Key responsibilities

• Provide responses to policy casework.
• Analyse, evaluate and interpret data to ensure Member is accurately informed on key issues.
• Assist in writing external communications including speeches for the MP.
• Develop and maintain current knowledge on relevant areas of parliamentary business including Motions, legislation, Hansard, debates etc. This would include issues of importance both nationally and in the local constituency.
• Give advice on policy issues.
• Have working knowledge of relevant legislation and upcoming business including how they impact on the constituency.
• Help draft amendments for reports and prepare briefing material.
• Prepare and present briefing notes for committees, press releases, parliamentary questions etc.
• Progress casework as required.
• There may be a requirement for the role holder to work outside of normal working hours and travel for work occasionally.
• To advise and ensure the MP is fully briefed on potential questions and motions to be put to the House.
• Undertake research on relevant subjects as directed.
• Work with colleagues in communications/casework to identify potential impacts from the research work and disseminate them effectively.

The following skills are essential:

• Excellent research, analytical and writing skills.
• Able to deal with sensitive issues in a confidential and timely manner;
• Ability to work quickly and calmly under pressure in a small team or individually;
• Competent use of IT including proficiency in using Microsoft Office, Outlook, SharePoint, and the internet;
• Good knowledge and understanding of local and national political issues and how Parliament works;

Driving licence essential

Upon appointment you will be required to comply with the Baseline Personnel Security Standard, undertaken by the Members’ Staff Verification Office (MSVO). See Members’ Staff Verification Office (MSVO) page for further info. MPs generally pay staff in accordance with IPSA guidelines.