The ALLIANCE is excited to be recruiting for a Senior Development Officer- IJB Lived Experience.

The Senior Development Officer will lead the day-to-day delivery of a project to support Integrated Joint Boards (IJBs) and lived experience representatives through the transition to full voting rights on IJBs. The role will involve leading activity to support current lived experience representatives, designing a national recruitment programme, establishing role expectations, recommending induction training and supporting delivery and providing ongoing support to representatives through this process. The role will ensure that the move to full voting rights is implemented meaningfully, consistently and with the right support structures in place across Scotland.

The successful candidate must have:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent through experience, including through lived experience
• Strong knowledge of current agendas relating to health and social care in Scotland
• Leadership and organisational skills
• Experience of delivering time bound projects
• Excellent networking, relationship building and information management skills
• Experience of partnership working and co-production
• Excellent communication skills including report writing, and confidence in facilitation events and workshops and delivering presentations
• Understanding of accessibility issues, particularly as they relate to involvement and communication
• Experience of carrying out social research and consultation
• An understanding of evaluation principles and approaches
• Good understanding of data protection
• Confident IT skills in word processing, email, internet, databases and presentations

As an ALLIANCE employee you will benefit from:

• 210 hours annual leave pro rata (equivalent of 30 days)
• 91 hours public holiday that can be taken flexibly pro rata (equivalent of 13 days)
• 24.5 hours additional leave between Christmas Eve and New Year pro rata (equivalent of 3.5 days)
• Contributory pension scheme 6%
• Annual incremental increase in salary (until top of grade)
• Flexible working (formal and informal)
• Hybrid working – opportunity to work from home for part of the week
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption pay
• Enhanced sick pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Learning and development opportunities
• Time off in lieu
• Cycle Scheme
• Bike storage
• Carer Positive Employer
• Disability Confident Employer
• Up to 35 hours (pro rata) paid carers leave per annum
• Up to 35 hours (pro rata) paid special leave per annum
• Up to 70 hours (pro rata) paid compassionate leave per annum
• Paid day off to move house
• Employee forum

The ALLIANCE is a healthy working lives employer and encourages a healthy work life balance and is happy to talk flexible working.

The ALLIANCE recognises that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. Even if you don’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our organisation feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a motivated and positive individual to help people using our foodbank to access our emergency food provision. The Service Co-ordinator is at the frontline of our crisis service. As the first point of contact for our service users and referral partners you must be a confident communicator who can work well managing multiple tasks in an extremely busy environment.

Duties will include processing requests for emergency food support received via phone, email and online. You will be taking care of day-to-day contacts and building relationships with partners, service users with regards to our crisis service.

Key responsibilities:

The Service Co-ordinator will:

• Manage referrals for all food bank parcels from agencies and partners via telephone and email
• Act as the main point of contact for service users. Gather any special requests, or information relating to specific needs so volunteers can tailor parcels accordingly
• Signpost service users to other support services, as appropriate
• Plan and co-ordinate daily deliveries including organising drivers, notifying service users and scheduling routes
• Collate all referral paperwork so data can be logged efficiently and in compliance with Trussell guidelines
• Liaise with referral agencies to help resolve any issues as they arise
• Onboard new referral partners
• Maintain and create records on our data collection system relating to referrals
• Collate articles and issue a regular newsletter for our referral partners
• Ensure referral partner contact information and user data is reviewed and updated regularly (usually on a quarterly basis)
• Bringing to the attention of your line manager any safeguarding concerns regarding the day-to-day referrals
• Undertake any other duties that may be reasonably expected to fulfil the role

About you

To succeed in this role, you must have the following skills and experience:

• Experience of engaging with and supporting partnership work with other organisations
• Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience in handling difficult conversations
• A willingness to work flexible hours
• Understanding of confidentiality practices and GDPR guidelines
• Ability to work to tight timescales under pressure
• Ability to multitask
• Demonstrable professionalism
• A positive and proactive team-player actively contributing to a strong and committed staff and volunteer team
• Demonstratable empathy, non-judgemental, and committed to always preserving the dignity of clients and in every interaction
• As an emergency food service, you may be dealing with people who are often in distress so the ability to deal with people sensitively and with compassion is required

Key Competencies

• Highly organised and self-motivated
• Adaptable and proactive
• Good IT skills – including google suite and office packages/excel
• Committed to the values and mission of East Lothian Foodbank

Reporting to: Operations Manager.

Benefits

• Accredited real Living Wage Employer offering competitive salary
• Annual leave: 32 days including 9 bank holidays (pro rata)
• Pension: ELFB is a member of the NEST Pension Scheme. The successful candidate would be enrolled within the pension scheme 3 months from the joining date. Further information about Employer Pension obligations can be found at nestpensions.org.uk/schemeweb/nest/aboutnest/pensions-are-changing/auto-enrolment.html
• Employee assistance programme - the successful candidate will be enrolled into our assistance programme provided by Hospital Saturday Fund on completion of probation. This gives access to a range of employee welfare, mental health and financial support. Including money towards specific private health treatments and access to a range of discounts through Perk Box.
• Business travel: 45p per mile paid for business travel
• Financial contribution to activities that support your health and wellbeing

Linlithgow Community Development Trust is a charity formed by residents to deliver changes that benefit our community. Our vision is “Empowered, thriving communities where people work together to nurture innovation” which we hope to achieve through our mission of “Fostering creative solutions to provide community benefit and encourage a sustainable and vibrant Linlithgow”.

Our main priorities are;

• Driving Environmental Initiatives: Encouraging waste reduction, resource reuse, and recycling within the community; promoting energy efficiency, encouraging sustainable transportation options, developing friendly green spaces, supporting local food production.
• Improving Community Health and Wellbeing: Building connections, reducing social isolation, improving mental and physical health and well-being, increasing learning and skill-building.
• Facilitating Community Engagement: Empowering residents to develop innovative and sustainable solutions to create community benefit and capacity-building.

Our staff and volunteers are all local people focusing on projects prioritised by local people. By coming together, we want to access the resources needed to help develop strong, inclusive and meaningful projects that give the community a sense of purpose and value and build confidence that they can take into all areas of their lives. Annually, we engage with over 3000 people through our activities, improving the environment, people’s health and wellbeing and strengthening our communities.

Job Purpose:

The role will play a vital part in supporting the Trusts long-term financial future. This will be achieved by working to increase the income potential of our existing facilities along with developing new and creative ways to build projects that themselves would enable income generation. The funds raised through this role will contribute toward the organisations financial resilience and also generate vital unrestricted funds that can then be used to achieve greater levels of community benefit and support the objectives of the trust, which in turn will support the community of Linlithgow Ward

Embedded within Linlithgow Community Development Trust (LCDT), you will work with partners and staff to lead on all aspects of business growth, coordinating and supporting the trust to reduce its reliance on grant funding and supporting efforts to increase the level of social entrepreneurship within the town.

You will ensure growth in income through a range of means and develop new income streams that fit with our values and build resilience.

Reporting to: Chief Executive Officer

Location: Based at Linlithgow Community Development Trust office (the EH49 Hub, Linlithgow). There will be some working at the West Lothian Cycle Circuit, some working from home and travel to locations across West Lothian.

The Abbotsford Trust is the charity that promotes the life, works and legacy of 19th century writer Sir Walter Scott and safeguards his historic home at Abbotsford. This is an important role within a small, but mighty, development team of three people.

If you are keen to get involved in all aspects of fundraising, love being hands on, and would relish being behind the scenes in a historic house, then this could be the role for you. The perfect candidate would have experience with CRMs ideally within a charity, have outstanding attention to detail, be systems orientated/a good project manager, as well as having excellent customer service skills.

Key responsibilities:

• Undertake all fundraising administration and be the ‘super-user’ for the CRM and other donations systems, managing amongst others: donations, direct debits, mailings, newsletters, and analysis.
• Steward donors and funders following the donor journey across all streams of fundraising, primarily membership, major donors and trusts & foundation.
• Maximise income specifically from the Friends of Abbotsford and from gift aid.
• Undertake: a) all monitoring and reporting of funds raised for the Development team, and b) reporting and claiming for grants.

For more details of the role, please download the Job Description.

Children and young people from Armed Forces families face unique experiences, and their voices are often unheard.

In this role, you will provide an opportunity for them to share their experiences and inform policy and practices in our work and influence those in the Ministry of Defence, Local Authorities, and the Scottish Government.

You will work directly with children and young people to facilitate a broad range of participatory and engagement opportunities.

In this role, you will implement our agreed fundraising strategy while collaborating across the team and externally with key partners to maximise funding from a variety of sources, predominantly trusts and foundations.

The West Highland Way Trust is a new Scottish charity established to support the long-term sustainability, promotion and stewardship of the West Highland Way. We work collaboratively with partners, communities and stakeholders to ensure the route continues to deliver environmental, social and economic benefit.

As the Trust enters its next phase of development, we are seeking to grow a strong and engaged membership base and build sustainable income streams to support the future care of Scotland’s most iconic long-distance trail.

About the role

We are looking for an enthusiastic and driven Funding and Membership Manager to lead the development, delivery and growth of the West Highland Way Trust’s membership and fundraising activity.

This is a pivotal role within a small and ambitious organisation. You will be responsible for growing individual, corporate and international membership, developing fundraising campaigns, and ensuring an excellent supporter experience. Working closely with the Trust’s Director and Board of Trustees, you will help embed recurring income streams that underpin the Trust’s long-term sustainability.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing and delivering a membership growth and retention strategy
• Leading fundraising campaigns and individual giving initiatives
• Managing supporter data, CRM systems and Gift Aid processes
• Delivering high-quality communications to members and donors
• Supporting website maintenance and social media content
• Building relationships with corporate supporters and partners
• Monitoring income performance and reporting to supporters, parters and Trustees

About you

You will have experience in membership development, fundraising or supporter engagement, with a track record of meeting targets and building strong supporter relationships. You will be confident using CRM systems, analysing data and delivering engaging communications.

You will be proactive, organised and motivated by the opportunity to grow income in a developing charity. An interest in outdoor access, conservation, sustainable tourism or Scotland’s landscapes would be highly advantageous.

Experience within a charity, conservation, heritage or tourism setting would be beneficial, as would experience of corporate partnerships or digital fundraising.

What we offer

• Competitive salary
• Employer pension contribution
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Flexible working arrangements
• The opportunity to shape and grow membership for a nationally significant charity at an early stage of its journey
• A meaningful role supporting the long-term care of the West Highland Way

Looking for more information?

For an informal conversation about the role, please contact trustee@westhighlandwaytrust.org. You can also find more information about us on our website westhighlandwaytrust.org and on the official West Highland Way website westhighlandway.org.

The Income Generation Lead plays a pivotal role within Healthy n Happy (HnH), leading the development, growth and sustainability of the organisation’s income streams and enterprise activities. This role is central to increasing revenue, strengthening partnerships and ensuring that all income-generating activity aligns with HnH’s social purpose and long-term strategic ambitions.

The Income Generation Lead will work closely with the Healthy n Happy Enterprise Board, the Senior Leadership Team and wider staff teams to drive forward income generation opportunities and maximise financial sustainability. Reporting to senior leadership, the post holder will take a lead role in identifying, developing and delivering innovative approaches to generating income across multiple streams.

The Income Generation Lead will be responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive Income Generation Strategy, ensuring that all activity supports HnH’s values, enhances its profile and delivers measurable impact across Cambuslang, Rutherglen and beyond.

The role requires a proactive and creative thinker who can build and maintain strong relationships across multiple sectors, including private, public and voluntary organisations. The Income Generation Lead will represent HnH externally, promoting its services, developing partnerships and identifying opportunities for collaboration, sponsorship and growth. The role will also be key in writing and developing existing and new funding opportunities through grant writing and development.

The Income Generation Lead will lead on the development and expansion of key income streams, including enterprise activity, partnerships, sponsorship, venue hire, funding and membership models. This includes exploring new opportunities, piloting innovative initiatives and maximising commercial potential across existing services.

Working collaboratively across all teams, including marketing, fundraising and CamGlen Radio, the Income Generation Lead will ensure a coordinated and organisation-wide approach to income generation. The role will also involve supporting fundraising activity, developing relationships with key supporters and contributing to overall financial resilience.

Scottish Historic Buildings Trust is seeking to appoint a Development and Engagement Officer (Director's Office), a new role contributing to our fundraising strategy over the next five years.

For almost fifty years, SHBT has played a unique role in preserving and promoting Scotland's architectural heritage. As Scotland's largest historic buildings preservation trust, with a small expert team and no core public funding, we have restored over 30 buildings and raised more than £40 million.

The Role

Reporting to the Director, the postholder will expand a newly established donor database through varied engagement work including lectures, conferences, events and publications, manage our new supporters' scheme and corporate sponsorship offer, and provide executive assistance to the Director through diary and inbox management and coordination of a broad network of contacts.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing high quality relationships with all categories of donors as part of a tailored acquisition, retention and acknowledgment programme.
• Developing fundraising initiatives with corporate partners and acquiring new corporate partnerships.
• Leading the delivery of the autumn/winter lecture series and academic outreach.
• Supporting fundraising strategies for capital projects including Leith Custom House and Edinburgh's Tron Kirk.
• Providing administrative and organisational support for the Director

Person Specification

The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience in individual giving, a proven ability to achieve income targets, and experience of fundraising through social media and digital channels. A degree or equivalent experience is required. Excellent communication, organisational and IT skills are essential.

About Cranhill Development Trust

Cranhill Development Trust (CDT) is a community-led organisation working to improve the quality of life for people living in Cranhill and the surrounding areas. CDT delivers a wide range of services and initiatives focused on tackling poverty, reducing inequalities, and creating opportunities for local people. Through community food, learning and employability, health and wellbeing, and community development programmes, CDT supports individuals and families to build skills, improve resilience, and achieve positive outcomes.

Primary Purpose of the Job:

Operating within Cranhill Development Trust, the Community Learning Manager will lead and develop the organisation’s community learning provision. The role includes direct delivery of the digital inclusion project and oversight of ESOL classes, accredited training, life skills programmes, and employability support.

The postholder will line manage the Employability Worker and Learning Worker, oversee volunteers, and ensure high-quality learning experiences that help participants build skills, confidence, and progress towards positive destinations.

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, the role ensures programmes are well-coordinated, responsive to community need, and contribute to improved outcomes in employability, digital inclusion, health, and wellbeing.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Digital Inclusion (Direct Delivery) – Delivery of the digital inclusion project through one to one support and group sessions.
• Training and Learning Programmes – Oversee the deliver of ESOL classes, short accredited courses (e.g. First Aid, Food Hygiene), and life skills courses.
• Work with referral partners, including the Job Centre, to promote opportunities
• Oversee and support volunteers across CDT projects, ensuring positive experiences and skill development

Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting – Maintain accurate programme data using Upshot, monitor participation and outcomes, and produce regular reports to support impact measurement and organisational planning. Contribute to team processes, including meetings and periodic reporting to senior management and the Board.

This job description outlines the main responsibilities of the role and is not exhaustive.

Person Specification:

Essential

• Experience in community learning, employability, adult education, or social enterprise management
• Experience of managing staff and volunteers, including recruitment, training, and performance management
• Experience of planning, coordinating, and delivering community-based learning programmes
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple programmes and priorities
• Experience of monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on outcomes and impact
• Willingness to undertake relevant training and professional development

Desirable

• Experience in digital inclusion or digital skills delivery, including one-to-one support and workshops
• Knowledge of ESOL delivery, accredited short courses, or vocational learning opportunities and delivery
• Experience of partnership working with external organisations, training providers, or referral partners
• Understanding of safeguarding, equality, and inclusion in community learning

Benefits Include:

• Generous holiday allowance starting at 36 days including bank holidays and increasing after each year of service for 10 years to a maximum of 46 days holiday.
• Access to Bupa Employee mental health and wellbeing support
• Additional leave
• Casual dress
• Flexitime
• Health & wellbeing programme
• On-site parking