Are you passionate about enhancing employability and supporting Glasgow’s third sector to create meaningful change? Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector (GCVS) is seeking a motivated and experienced Employability Coordinator to join our team. This exciting role will coordinate and deliver GCVS’ programmes around employability, primarily projects focused on creating paid and unpaid opportunities within the third sector for people to develop their employability skills. The postholder will also form part of the wider Workforce Development team and will be required to support other work within the team.
Paid Work Placements is funded by the Scottish Government through Glasgow City Council on behalf of Glasgow Futures Local Employability Partnership. The programme is delivered by GCVS with partners Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, Enable Scotland, CEMVO Scotland, and Move On.
This role offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact by supporting individuals on their journey to employment and contributing to transformative change in Glasgow. If you are passionate about empowering people, share our values, and are ready to apply your skills to this vital work, we encourage you to apply.
Note: We are also open to filling this position on a secondment basis and warmly encourage applications from Glasgow’s voluntary sector organisations.
What We Offer:
More Information on the Job Description, Person Specification and Main Employment conditions is provided on the document enclosed.
Role
Over recent years, SBP has grown from a fledgling charity to an established and impactful organisation with an annual budget of over £1m in restricted and unrestricted funds.
This new Finance & HR Manager role will replace our existing Head of Finance, who will retire in the coming months, and have strategic and operational ownership of SBP’s finances, as well as responsibility of SBP’s HR policy and processes.
See the job description, available for download below, for the responsibilities associated with the role, as well as the experience, skills and attributes we are seeking.
Organisation profile
SCOTLAND: The Big Picture (SBP) is a charity that works to make rewilding happen across Scotland, as a solution to the growing climate and biodiversity crises, by influencing opinion and delivering practical change. Our vision is of a vast network of rewilded land and water, where wildlife flourishes and people thrive.
We are a small, friendly, agile and progressive team that works in a spirit of collaboration with many different interest groups to:
Learn more about SBP and the way we work at scotlandbigpicture.com.
Borders Forest Trust (BFT) is investing in their first dedicated fundraising post to come in and provide strategic oversight and expertise to their fundraising activity.
BFT is a charity established to restore native woodland habitats to Southern Scotland, an area with the lowest percentage of native woodlands in mainland Scotland. Since 1996, we have been working towards planting trees, restoring peatlands and other natural habitats, enriching the biological diversity of around 31 sq km in the Southern Uplands. They demonstrate large scale ecological restoration in action, and inspire landowners, statutory bodies, local communities and policy makers to embrace this alternative model for land use and conservation.
Fundraising to date at BFT has seen success, but it has been responsive and ad-hoc as opposed to planned according to strategic need. To achieve their mission, ad provide sustainable long-term income, they are investing in a dedicated Development Manager.
The Development Manager will join BFT at an exciting stage, the entire organisation is behind this position and understands the need for it. They are looking for a fundraiser who will thrive on the challenge of designing and implementing their own fundraising strategy and who can provide the expertise needed to build income across all areas. The board have highlighted corporate partnerships and philanthropy as untapped areas of potential, so experience across one or both areas will be essential for the successful candidate to evidence.
Fundraising at BFT is underdeveloped and there is so much potential for this post holder to deliver fundraising success.
Could you be our new Chair?
We are seeking a Chair for the Water of Leith Conservation Trust (WOLCT) Board of Trustees.
The WOLCT works to protect and improve the Water of Leith as a haven for wildlife and a resilient blue green network for the city. We connect communities with Edinburgh’s River by delivering inclusive learning, volunteering and recreational opportunities..
As Chair you will have a vital role leading and supporting the Trustees and ensuring effective governance of the Trust. We are looking for a motivated, skilled and engaged individual who is committed to helping us to achieve our mission. The Chair will help steer a successful and dynamic organisation as we deliver our 2024-2029 strategy.
The Chair’s key responsibilities are to:
• Provide leadership to the charity and its Board.
• Act as an ambassador for the purposes and mission of the organisation.
• Lead the Board in fulfilling its responsibilities for the good governance of the Trust and maintaining focus on our charitable work.
• Work in partnership with the Chief Executive helping them to achieve the Trust’s objectives.
• Optimise the relationships between Board Members and between the Board, staff and volunteers
• Run effective Board meetings and ensure effective executive leadership of the organisation.
• Ensure that the Board regularly reviews its structure, composition and effectiveness, including board reviews and succession planning.
• Support development and maintenance of a positive organisational culture and promote equality and diversity.
• Fulfil the duties of the Chair as defined in the Trust’s Articles of Association.