Join the Grampian Opportunities Board of Trustees

Help Shape a Brighter Future for People with Additional Support Needs, Mental Health Challenges, and Unpaid Carers

Are you passionate about creating positive change in your community? Do you believe everyone deserves the chance to thrive, be heard, and feel supported?

Grampian Opportunities is inviting committed, values‑driven individuals to join our Board of Trustees. This is a chance to play a meaningful role in strengthening opportunities for people with additional support needs, those experiencing mental health challenges, and the unpaid carers who support loved ones every day.

Unpaid carers are the backbone of our communities, often giving so much of themselves with little recognition. Our mission is to ensure they are supported, empowered, and able to maintain their own wellbeing while caring for others. As a Trustee, you’ll help guide that mission.

What You’ll Do as a Board Member

• Shape the strategic direction of the charity
• Provide strong, ethical governance
• Support financial sustainability and good stewardship
• Champion our mission within the community
• Contribute to key decisions that influence our future

This is a voluntary role, and reasonable expenses will be reimbursed.

We’re Looking For

You don’t necessarily need previous board experience, your passion, perspective, and commitment matter most.

We especially welcome individuals with experience or interest in:

• Finance or accounting
• Health and social care
• Lived experience as an unpaid carer
• Fundraising, communications, or digital development

We are deeply committed to diversity and inclusion. People of all ages, backgrounds, identities, and lived experiences are encouraged to apply.

Time Commitment

Around nine board meetings per year, plus occasional sub‑committee, agile, or development sessions.

Why Join Us?

• Make a real difference in the lives of people across Aberdeenshire
• Build leadership and board‑level experience
• Join a supportive, purpose‑driven team
• Help drive meaningful social change

CoWL are seeking a dedicated Support Worker to join our team, with a particular focus on financial inclusion. Funded by The Robertson Trust, this role aims to reduce financial inequalities experienced by unpaid carers and disabled people in West Lothian.

The successful candidate will:

• Help individuals access appropriate financial advice and support
• Promote financial wellbeing and resilience
• Provide general information, advice and guidance
• Support people to connect with the broader range of services offered by CoWL

This is a rewarding opportunity to make a real difference in people’s lives by supporting financial empowerment and inclusion.

Are you passionate about supporting visual art in Scotland? EAF are looking for four dynamic, committed individuals to join our Board of Trustees. This is an incredible opportunity to make a difference within the festival, offering your time, experience, and networks to our platform for art in Edinburgh.

We are particularly looking for candidates with experience in the following areas:

• Finance
• Law
• Fundraising
• Artistic practice + visual art

The most important attributes of trustees joining us are a willingness to ask questions, a passion for our diverse, internationally recognised Festival programming, as well as time commitment to the role. If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.

For further information, a full Trustee recruitment pack can be found on the EAF website.

Join Our Board and Help Shape the Future of North Lanarkshire Disability Forum

Are you passionate about making a difference in your community?

Do you want to use your skills and experience to help a Scottish charity grow and thrive?

North Lanarkshire Disability Forum is seeking new volunteer Board Members to join our governing body. We are a community led organisation supporting and raising the voices of people living with a long term condition, disability and those affected by cancer including carers.

As a trustee, you’ll play a vital role in guiding our strategy, ensuring strong governance, and supporting the Management and staff team to deliver real and lasting impact.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences — especially those who can bring diverse perspectives or lived experience relevant to our work. We’re particularly interested in candidates with skills in finance, law, fundraising, communications, or HR, but enthusiasm and commitment are just as important.

This is an opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to a respected Scottish charity while gaining valuable experience in governance, leadership, and strategic decision-making.

Fruitmarket is looking for a Finance and Administration Manager

We are looking for an experienced Finance & Administration Managerto join our creative team and play a vital role in keeping our organisation running smoothly.

This is an exciting opportunity to bring your financial expertise to support one of Scotland’s foremost centres for creativity and culture. Ensuring that our creative and commercial programmes are supported by strong systems and sound management, you’ll be at the heart of our operations – overseeing budgets, compliance, and administration – helping us continue to build a strong foundationfor artistic innovation and cultural impact.

Who we are

Alcohol Focus Scotland (AFS) is Scotland’s national alcohol charity, committed to preventing and reducing harm to individuals, families, communities and Scotland as a whole.

Who we are looking for

We are seeking an experienced finance professional to provide comprehensive financial analysis, advice and support to the Chief Executive and Board, and to lead the finance and business team. As a key part of our Senior Management Team, you will have a varied and challenging role, enabling the delivery of AFS’s strategy. Your excellent financial planning, management and accounting skills will be vital in ensuring the continuing good governance of the organisation.

We are looking for a candidate with:

• Accountancy qualification (CA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) or qualified by experience
• Minimum of 3 years’ relevant experience
• Experience in supervising and managing staff
• Experience of communicating financial issues to different audiences

What we offer

Flexible and Hybrid Working

We offer flexi-time to give you more control over your working hours. We work a mixture of office and home-based days to meet the needs of the post and to accommodate the needs of the postholder.

Annual Leave

26 days paid annual leave, increasing after five years’ service. 10 days public holiday (incorporating closure between Christmas and New Year). An additional Celebration Day that may be taken at any time. Staff may purchase up to one week’s additional annual leave per holiday year.

Well-being support

We provide an Employee Assistance Programme which offers round the clock support for all staff.

Pension and Death in Service Insurance

4-6% matched employer pension contribution, rising to 7% after five years’ service. Death in Service insurance is calculated as two times salary.

Company Sick Pay

After completion of probation you can qualify for up to five months full pay then five months half pay, inclusive of SSP, in year one, increasing annually for five years.

Transport support

AFS is based in central Glasgow, close to transport hubs. We offer a Travel to Work loan to spread the cost of season tickets and access to the tax efficient benefits of the Cycle to Work scheme.

Learning

We offer a range of formal and informal training and learning opportunities to support your development.

Enhanced leave

Maternity leave and paternity leave are enhanced above statutory to help you and your family, after a qualifying service period.

Social Connection

As well as the satisfaction of working with a skilled, friendly and dedicated team to make change happen, we support formal and informal opportunities to take part in different activities and get to know your colleagues.

Alcohol Focus Scotland is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Community Volunteers Enabling You (COVEY) has been a lifeline for children, young people and families across Lanarkshire since 1992. We provide 1-1 and group-based befriending, mentoring and family support services tailored to those who need it most. Our mission is to help children, young people and families become more resilient, safe and better equipped to reach their full potential.

We are now recruiting a Financial Wellbeing Adviser to strengthen the financial stability and long-term resilience of the families we support. This new role will embed expert, relationship-based money, energy and debt advice within COVEY’s family support model, ensuring families receive holistic support at the earliest opportunity.

As Financial Wellbeing Adviser, you will lead the development and delivery of COVEY’s financial wellbeing offer providing welfare benefits support, income maximisation, budgeting guidance, energy advice and debt triage/advocacy. You will work closely with Service Managers, Family Support Workers and external partners to ensure advice is accurate, trauma-informed and fully integrated into wider support plans. You will also maintain clear referral pathways for specialist or regulated debt advice, ensuring compliance with FCA boundaries and best practice.

What We’re Looking For

• Significant experience delivering money, energy or debt advice to individuals or families, ideally within community, youth or family support settings
• Strong knowledge of welfare benefits, income maximisation, budgeting support, energy efficiency measures and debt solutions
• Understanding of the causes and impact of poverty on children, young people and families and the stigma around financial hardship
• Experience working with vulnerable individuals using trauma‑informed, person‑centred approaches with the ability to convey complex information sensitively
• Confidence using data and CRM systems (e.g. Salesforce, AdvicePro) to monitor performance, maintain accurate case records and report on outcomes
• Experience collaborating with multi‑agency partners and advocating on behalf of families to achieve positive outcomes

What we offer

We offer a rewarding role with the opportunity to develop your skills and future career in an enriching environment with the following benefits:

• 6% employer pension contribution
• 22 days A/L (rising to up to 27 days) and 10 public holidays.
• One special leave day to celebrate your birthday
• Flexible working
• HSF Health plan (including dental, optical, physio claim back, personal accident coverage, GP, mental health counselling, legal support, and discounts for gym, cinema, and shopping)
• Quarterly staff wellbeing activities
• Access to ScotWest Credit Union (loans, mortgages, and savings accounts)
• Access to learning and development opportunities

About ABA Services

ABA Services is a social enterprise dedicated to providing support to community groups in financial management and reporting.

The Role

ABA Services is implementing a project to enhance financial management and reporting of small community groups and charities in greater Glasgow and is recruiting a dedicated Project Development Officer .

The Project Development Officer will lead the day-to-day project implementation including building and maintaining relationship with participant groups as well as effective monitoring for continuous improvement and impact.

This new role would suit someone with administration and finance experience who is naturally very well-organised, able to build strong relationships, enjoys working with lots of partners, and is committed to climate action and justice.The successful applicant will also have an eye for detail and be able to quickly respond to new opportunities and challenges.

You’ll be part of the small SCCS secretariat team that provides support to our diverse members, so you’ll need to be a great communicator, enthusiastic, proactive and willing to be flexible when things change.

Being right at the heart of what we do, you’ll understand how a small charity functions and the importance of strong administrative and financial processes as a backbone to success. You’ll help provide the glue that holds a diverse coalition together, enabling it to be greater than the sum of its parts.

From taking minutes at meetings with MSPs, helping deliver our campaigns to making sure invoices are paid on time - this is a varied and rewarding role and we are looking for someone keen to be a key part of the Scottish climate movement and get stuck into everything it involves!

About SCCS

Stop Climate Chaos Scotland (SCCS) is Scotland’s climate coalition, bringing together over 70 civil society organisations campaigning together on climate change.

Our membership is diverse and includes national and community organisations working on:

• Climate justice
• Environment and nature
• Gender and social justice
• Faith and belief
• International development
• Worker and human rights
• Health and inequality

Together, we represent hundreds of thousands of people across Scotland and stand in solidarity with communities most affected by climate impacts around the world. We collaborate with our members to build strong public support for faster climate action. We use this support to influence decision-makers to put in place fair, effective policies to reduce emissions and benefits for everyone.

Key tasks

• Lead on all aspects of charity administration, relating to membership, governance, finance and events and campaigns.
• Manage various day-to-day financial processes, for example raising invoices, reconciling bank statements, and preparing financial reports (currently, financial software Xero is used)
• Act as the main point of contact for SCCS, including for current and new member enquiries, and maintain coalition membership records and databases
• Organise, attend and take minutes for internal and external meetings
• Provide campaign support, such as preparing resources, organising events and drafting newsletters
• Update the SCCS website and post content on social media channels
• Other tasks as required, working closely with the Coalition Manager and board

Person specification

Knowledge, experience and skills

Essential

• At least 1 year of experience in an administrative role
• At least 1 year of experience managing day-to-day financial processes, ideally for a charity
• Experience organising and producing materials for meetings and events, including taking minutes
• Ability to work collaboratively with multiple partners and build and maintain strong relationships
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent IT skills
• Able to work flexibly and identify and act on opportunities for improving processes and ways of working
• A positive approach and the ability to be systematic and solve problems
• Able to prioritise and organise a busy workload
• Demonstrable commitment to action on climate change and climate justice

Desirable

• Experience of supporting charity boards
• Knowledge of civil society and political structures and processes in Scotland
• Awareness of charity legal processes and reporting procedures
• Experience of posting website and social media content

Qualifications

No specific qualifications are required for the role: the knowledge, skills and experience of the successful candidate will be more important than formal academic qualifications.

Terms and conditions

• Salary: £27,000 pro rata, so £16,200 for 3 days a week
• Hours: 3 days a week (21 hours), which can be spread across 4 or 5 days. The post holder may need to work the occasional evening or weekend, for which time off in lieu will be granted. Overtime will not be paid.
• Location: Primarily from home, with occasional office working in central Edinburgh. Other travel may be required to meetings, most often in the central belt, but occasionally in other parts of Scotland or the UK (for which travel expenses will be paid).
• Line manager: Stop Climate Chaos Scotland Coalition Manager
• Holiday: 28 days annual leave plus 11 days statutory holidays (pro rata).
• Pension: Stop Climate Chaos Scotland operates a pension plan with NEST and our pension benefits exceed the statutory minimum.
• We can only employ candidates with the right to work in the UK.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Finance Officer within Scottish Mountain Rescue (SMR). As a key member of Scottish Mountain Rescue the Finance Officer will support the Board to enable them to uphold their financial responsibilities to the charity. The post holder will work with the Board, the Standing Committees, key partners, Project Teams and the wider membership of SMR by providing high quality financial support and advice.

A flexible approach to work is essential as is excellent communication skills.