Make a positive difference to the lives of people, including those with disabilities and support needs. The Action Group’s Advice Service seeks an Adviser to join its accredited Advice Services. In this role, you will maximise people’s income through providing expert benefits advice, support, and representation for people who are tenants of Almond Housing Association. You need to be warm and approachable, have excellent verbal, written and organisational skills and an eye for detail. In return, you will join a supportive and highly professional team of advisers and undertake rewarding work. A good understanding of welfare benefits, or experience of working with people with support needs, is highly desirable .Applicants will be digitally competent. They will show a good understanding of equality and diversity issues and a commitment to support people from marginalised groups.

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship.

We’re looking for Trustee Board Members

Capability Scotland works with people with complex and diverse needs, delivering exemplary care, support and education to meet the individual needs of the people we support.

Would you like to contribute to the work of Capability Scotland? We are looking to appoint new Trustees to complement the skills of our existing Board, to drive change and help us shape our strategic direction, giving clarity to our purpose, aims and objectives.

We are looking for a diverse range of people who may have an interest in helping us prepare for future challenges and demands. We would particularly welcome applications from candidates with expertise in Health & Social Care/Social Work, fundraising/marketing/communications, education and technology, as we explore the use of assistive technology and AI in the delivery of person centred care. We would also love to see applications from people with lived experience of disability.

Our Board’s responsibility is to ensure the highest standards of governance and provide oversight, scrutiny and support of the management of the organisation.

This is an exciting time to join the organisation. We are entering a period of ambitious growth and transformation, with plans underway to redevelop our largest residential service in Perth. Our Inclusive Community Project will enable us to continue delivering exemplary care, while creating a modern environment shaped by innovation and best practice. The insight and expertise of our Board are central to this journey, helping to ensure the development becomes a leading example of future focused care.

Capability Scotland is proud to operate Corseford College, the first and only college in Scotland dedicated specifically to young adults with multiple and complex disabilities. The achievements of our students are a powerful testament to the success of this pioneering model. As we look ahead, our Board will play a crucial role in supporting the college’s continued growth and development, ensuring that many more young people can benefit from this life changing opportunity.

The people we support are at the heart of everything we do and there may be the opportunity to become more involved across the many aspects of the organisation, helping to empower our people to have a voice, realise their ambitions and achieve their full potential. We continue to develop innovative, high quality solutions to address gaps in care and support provision.

This is a non-remunerated position, however, travel and subsistence expenses are available in accordance with our Expenses Policy.

As SOPA enters an exciting period of renewal and growth, we are looking for an enthusiastic and proactive Development Worker to help strengthen our membership, partnerships, communications and influence across Scotland.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced individual to make a real difference to the lives of older people across Scotland, to help amplify the voices of older people and influence positive change.

Working closely with our Members, Board of Trustees and partner organisations, you will help deliver SOPA's strategic objectives, strengthen relationships with stakeholders, and support the organisation's continued development and growth.

Key Responsibilities

Membership and Stakeholder Engagement

• Develop and maintain positive relationships with SOPA members, partner organisations and key stakeholders, including Scottish Government.
• Support membership recruitment, retention and engagement activities.
• Build new partnerships with organisations that share SOPA's values and objectives.
• Outreach and Development
• Organise and coordinate a minimum of three outreach meetings each year across Scotland.
• Gather feedback from members and stakeholders to help inform SOPA's priorities and activities.
• Identify opportunities to increase SOPA's profile, reach and impact.
• Communications
• Manage and update SOPA's website and social media platforms, ensuring content remains current, engaging and relevant.
• Coordinate regular member communications, including newsletters and promotions
• Promote SOPA's activities, campaigns and events.
• Governance Support
• Work with the administrator and Trustees in planning and delivering major events, conferences and member meetings.
• Prepare progress reports for the Board of Trustees and funders.
• Contribute to the implementation of SOPA's strategic and operational plans.

Who We Are Looking For

We are seeking a self-motivated and organised individual with:

• Experience in community development, membership organisations, voluntary sector development, stakeholder engagement or a similar role.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience creating newsletters and social media campaigns.
• Strong organisational and project coordination skills.
• Ability to work independently while building effective relationships with a wide range of people.
• Good IT skills, including Microsoft Office and digital communication tools.
• Understanding of the voluntary, charity or community sector.
• Experience working with older people or age-related organisations.
• Knowledge of the policy and issues affecting older people in Scotland.

Big Hearts is looking to recruit a professional designer with a passion for storytelling through visual media, to work alongside our Marketing and Communications Staff Team.

Purpose of the role

The Graphic Design & Creative Content Officer primarily focuses on delivering brand design assets for print, digital and broadcasting in order to support the charity’s long-term goals. This new role will also help implement a clear and robust creative approach which elevates the Big Hearts’ brand and strengthens the charity’s reach and recognition across the community.

Location

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

Hybrid working available, this will be discussed to suit both parties.

Responsibilities

The main duties of the role include:

• Produce brand assets for print and digital
• Bring creative concepts to life
• Support brand adoption by staff

Person specification

Essential skills & expertise required for this role include:

• Professional degree in graphic design or related field
• Proficiency in design software, including Adobe Creative Cloud
• Proven experience in articulating a brand across a range of print and digital assets
• Proven experience in creating artwork files for print
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to prioritise workload

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.

Are you passionate about homelessness and interested in working as part of a small team delivering support to people experiencing gambling related harms? Are you creative in your working approach?

If so, this role working with people and in partnership with others may be the perfect opportunity for you.

About the role

You will take a leadership role in the development and day-to-day oversight of the Chances: Gambling Harms project that aims to deliver 1:1 and group support people experiencing homelessness and in recovery from gambling harm. You will be expected to take a role in delivery of our gambling-related upskilling sessions to colleagues and partners across the public and third sector.

Partnership working will be central to this role, and you will work alongside other Cyrenians colleagues, 3rd sector, statutory partners and service users to drive the vision for this project.

About You

You will be confident in engaging with people and building positive working relationships, with excellent organisational skills and a creative, innovative approach to your work. You will be committed to promoting inclusion and have experience of working with people with a broad range of life experiences.

How we’ll support you

You’ll be working independently with a supportive manager and a range of internal and external colleagues and partnerships. You will 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.

Read more about our impact and our values.

The Financial Wellbeing Specialist provides expert, rights-based advice on benefits and entitlements for individuals with visual impairments, including veterans. Working remotely across Scotland, the role supports clients and colleagues with applications, system navigation, and appeals processes. The Specialist manages an independent caseload, with referrals primarily received through Vision Information & Support Advisors or Vision Link Workers, and collaborates with Vision Link Workers when in-person client support is required. The focus is on helping clients access the financial support they are entitled to, ensuring accuracy in all work, and promoting clients’ rights while operating within the scope of financial advice.

You don’t need to meet every single requirement to be a great candidate. Most people learn parts of the job once they’re in post, so if a role interests you and you believe you could grow into it, we’d love to hear from you.

We’re committed to fair, accessible recruitment. If you need any adjustments, like extra time, a different format, or other support, at any stage of the process, just let us know. Please contact People and Culture on 0131 378 2793 or via people@sightscotland.org.uk who can arrange for any support you need.

About us

For more than 230 years we've been supporting and empowering people with sight loss to live fulfilling lives. We’re proud of what we’ve achieved, but we want to do more. We will build on our rich history to create an organisation which is prepared for the future, and ready to respond to the needs of people impacted by vision loss.

Our vision is bold. We want to be at the leading edge of positive societal change by:

• Investing our funds in the support that makes the biggest difference
• Putting our community at the heart of what we do
• Campaigning for change
• Accelerating prevention and treatment of eye conditions
• Fostering a collaborative culture of innovation and learning

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.

Our organisational values - Transform, Unite and Thrive - underpin all the work we do at Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland Veterans.

Benefits

• Generous employee pension scheme
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Employee assistance programme
• Discounted cinema tickets
• Discounts for
• carers

This is an excellent opportunity for you to join Scottish Book Trust as an Early Years Project Administrator. The position offers flexible, part time working within our Early Years Team.

Scottish Book Trust is a national charity that believes books, reading and writing have the power to change lives. A love of reading inspires creativity, improves employment opportunities, mental health and wellbeing and is one of the most effective ways to help break the poverty cycle. We work towards a Scotland where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive through literacy.

What we offer

• Part time, fixed-term role
• Competitive salary
• Flexible hybrid working between home and our Edinburgh City Centre Office, with great access by train, bus, and tram
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Company Sick Pay
• Pension with 5% employer contributions
• Death in service benefit
• Free access to employee assistance programme

The Early Years (EY) team delivers Bookbug, an evidence-informed programme which aims to promote parent-child bonding and attachment, support children’s language and communication skills, and help their social, emotional and cognitive development through reading, singing and rhyming. Key elements include universal book gifting at four stages, free story, song and rhyme Bookbug Sessions, Bookbug for the Home and community engagement, the Bookbug app, and professional learning opportunities and learning resources for people working with children in their Early Years.

The post holder will work closely with the Training Delivery Manager to deliver administrative support for an additional term-based schedule of in-person and online training dates and webinars delivered by our team of trainers for the delivery of the Tackling Child Poverty Project.

The post holder will be friendly, reliable and efficient as a first point of contact for participants and will liaise with our trainers, both internal and freelance, to ensure the smooth running of our high-class training programme.

Purpose of Role

Working with the Finance Manager to support all aspects of the day-to-day financial management of the charity, and supporting the Executive Team, the Grants Team and the Fundraising Team with financial matters where necessary.

The Veterans’ Foundation (VF) is an independent grant-making charitable foundation. The VF has established a substantial grants programme to support charities and organisations in the UK that provide charitable support to those in need among serving armed forces personnel, veterans, operationally qualified seafarers and their immediate families.

At the Veterans’ Foundation, we believe that those who have served should never be left behind. Over the past ten years, we have raised more than £34 million and funded hundreds of organisations across the UK, supporting veterans, serving personnel and their families with the challenges they face — from mental health and housing to community and connection.

Principal Duties

The main duties of the Finance Assistant are:

• Take responsibility for basic finance functions including the recording of data and bank reconciliations, using the XERO accounting system
• Manage the VF Finance inbox, dealing with queries and correspondence
• Bank and record cheques received and deal with paper bank statements and other paper correspondence for the finance team
• Process invoices, staff expenses and requests for payment, ensuring associated accounting records and the VF’s filing system are updated accordingly
• Producing, submitting and allocating regular Gift Aid claims to HMRC
• Ensure electronic filing is kept accurate and up to date
• Set-up online bank payments for weekly invoice and expenses payment runs
• Collate monthly payroll information and liaise with (outsourced) payroll provider
• Create basic month end journals
• Assist as required with Management Accounts production, budgeting and forecasting and with the production of annual financial statements
• Work with the Grants team to ensure all grant payments are paid correctly and on time. This will include setting up the payments, confirming their safe receipt and ensuring the grants information in the accounting system (Xero) matches the information in the grants system (Salesforce)
• Work with fundraising and finance colleagues to record and monitor income and expenditure relating to donations and fundraising activities; assist with Gift Aid claims as required
• Work with the External Lottery Manager and the Finance team to monitor the Veterans’ Lottery income and expenditure. This includes reconciliation of lottery income, monitoring attrition, reviewing invoices and data provided by the External Lottery Manager
• Support the team with the production of annual financial statements and the financial audit as required
• Support with external regulatory requirements e.g. from the Gambling Commission or Charity Commission, as required

General Responsibilities

• Offer support for the work of the VF generally, including cover for other members of the team ensuring that the work of the VF can continue effectively and without interruption
• Represent the VF in a way that is consistent with its values and philosophy
• Contribute to effective team working by sharing information and skills including at weekly team meetings, and by supporting colleagues

Person Specification

• At least one year’s experience in a similar role; an interest in gaining accounting qualifications advantageous
• Experienced in posting and managing accounting records with minimal supervision
• Knowledge and experience in working with Xero or similar accounting software
• Knowledge and experience in working with Salesforce or similar databases
• Excellent IT skills including Excel and Word (including familiarity with functions such as lookup and sumif)
• High standards of numeracy, accuracy and attention to detail
• The ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Willingness to work flexibly in response to the needs of the VF

Are you an experienced Trusts and Foundations fundraiser seeking an exciting role in the nature and rewilding sector? Are you looking for a friendly, flexible and values-driven organisation where you can make a tangible difference and advance your fundraising career? This opportunity could tick all your boxes!

ABOUT US

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture (SBP) is a charity dedicated to making rewilding happen, as a solution to the biodiversity and climate crises. We work across Scotland, from the mountains to the sea and from the remotest communities to our urban centres. Our vision is of a vast network of rewilded land and water, where wildlife flourishes and people thrive.

In the five years since we were founded, we’ve established ourselves as a leading force for rewilding in Scotland: a charity that achieves outsized impact through our powerful storytelling and innovative collaborations. We’re a small, agile and friendly team that works hard to:

• Drive support for rewilding – through our films, creative storytelling, conferences, training courses and political advocacy.
• Commit land and water to rewilding – by supporting over 100 landowners to enhance nature on their land, from crofts and community-owned sites to farms and large estates.

Learn more about SBP at: scotlandbigpicture.com

OUR FUNDRAISING

SBP is a growing organisation with an exciting portfolio of nature recovery projects across Scotland. Our key income streams include grants from charitable trusts, foundations and statutory bodies, philanthropic donations, corporate partnerships, regular giving and appeals. We have a strong track record in fundraising from trusts and foundations, and we are currently in receipt of grants from Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the National Lottery Heritage Fund and other significant environmental funders.

Our Fundraising Team comprises a Rewilding Investment Lead (who develops corporate partnerships) and a Trusts and Foundations Lead, led by our Fundraising Manager.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As Trusts and Foundations Lead, you would establish and maintain relationships with a wide portfolio of charitable trusts and foundations, and be responsible for securing both project-specific and core income.

KEY DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

• Identifying and researching funding opportunities, including due diligence as appropriate.
• Networking, and building and stewarding relationships with prospective funders.
• Liaising with senior, project and finance staff to identify, prioritise and cost key fundraising needs.
• Managing a dynamic pipeline of applications matched to the agreed fundraising priorities.
• Preparing and submitting compelling expressions of interest and funding proposals, including accurate financial information as required.
• Processing grant offers and ensuring income is recorded accurately.
• Managing a schedule of reporting and stewardship deadlines to ensure timely feedback and thanks to funders.
• Securing progress updates from colleagues delivering funded work, in order to produce high-quality reports that meet funders’ requirements.
• Seeking feedback in relation to unsuccessful bids, in order to guide and strengthen future proposals.
• Maintaining accurate and comprehensive records on our fundraising CRM database.
• Contributing to the development of fundraising strategies, plans and campaigns.
• Participating fully in Fundraising and SBP team meetings, events and cross-team activities as appropriate.

Do you enjoy helping people, creating order, improving efficiency and helping purpose-driven organisations thrive?

Changes East Lothian is looking for an organised, proactive and detail-oriented Administrative Assistant to help keep our organisation running smoothly.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting East Lothian’s mental health and wellbeing. As our Administrative Assistant, you will provide essential operational support across the organisation.

From managing our shared inboxes and maintaining organisational systems, to supporting events, meetings and recruitment processes, you will help ensure that our small, collaborative team can work effectively and make the greatest possible impact.

We're looking for someone who is highly organised, comfortable managing multiple priorities, and confident using digital systems such as Microsoft 365 and our database. You don't need to have worked in the third sector before, but you should share our commitment to improving the wellbeing of East Lothian by adopting our values and advocating community, inclusivity and connection.

About Changes East Lothian

Changes East Lothian was founded in 1996 and we are currently celebrating turning 30. We provide early, short term interventions for those experiencing mild to moderate mental health issues such as low mood and depression, stress and anxiety, transitional life changes and social isolation and loneliness.

We offer short term 1:1 counselling with counsellors registered with either BACP or COSCA. We work with the East Lothian Health and Social Care Partnership to provide group therapy supported by our NHS Psychologist.

We also provide 1:1 befriending as well as various wellbeing activities, groups, courses and information sessions. Another focus is our suicide prevention and wellbeing training programmes which we deliver both free and commercially.

What we offer:

• The opportunity to contribute to the wellbeing of East Lothian.
• A supportive, collaborative and values-led working environment.
• 4% pension contribution
• 35 days annual leave (pro rata), inclusive of public holidays
• Additional leave perks
• Employee Assistance Programme
• An inclusive and welcoming work setting in a well serviced building