Mountaineering Scotland has been working on behalf of hill walkers, climbers and ski tourers in Scotland for over 50 years. With more people than ever before exploring Scotland’s mountains and indoor climbing venues, we are seeking an enthusiastic, knowledgeable and influential Access & Environment Officer with relevant skills and experience to join our team and take forward our priorities in this area.

Mountaineering Scotland has been working on behalf of hill walkers, climbers and ski tourers in Scotland for over 50 years. With more people than ever before exploring Scotland’s mountains and indoor climbing venues, we are seeking an enthusiastic, knowledgeable and influential Access & Environment Officer with relevant skills and experience to join our team and take forward our priorities in this area.

The post holder will be responsible for supporting the delivery of Mountaineering Scotland’s membership and club development targets, leading on membership engagement opportunities, and contributing to our communications content through a variety of media.

This is a new position which is entirely supported by sportscotland investment, with the specific aims of:

• Supporting the delivery of our membership strategy to grow individual and club membership and develop a diverse and inclusive community of members.
• Working closely with our network of affiliated clubs and club huts, supporting their development needs, and ability to engage and attract new members for continued growth.
• Playing a lead role in the implementation of the sportscotland ‘Moving to Inclusion’ initiative and coordination of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion network.
• Develop our presence in the mountaineering community through new and existing engagement opportunities and through the development of our membership offering.

Cerebral Palsy Scotland are seeking a Senior Fundraising Officer to support all aspects of our fundraising, events and communications. You will join a small but dynamic team, working closely with the Head of Fundraising and Communications to generate income through our Individual Giving, Community Fundraising, Major Donor, Corporate Partner and Trusts & Foundations programmes.

You will be helping change the lives of people in Scotland with cerebral palsy and their families and you will support the charity in sourcing sustainable income, delivering excellent supporter care, and producing engaging communications for all internal and external stakeholders.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with experience of working within a Fundraising department in the third sector and a demonstrable track record of raising significant income as part of a wider team.

Cerebral Palsy Scotland

Cerebral Palsy Scotland was established in 1995 and is the only charity dedicated to supporting people living with cerebral palsy in Scotland. We are committed to improving the lives of children and adults with cerebral palsy through specialist therapy, support and information. Based at our centre in Glasgow, we support people from all over Scotland. The charity also advocates for the cerebral palsy community to have life-long access to knowledgeable, compassionate services and support.

We protect and promote the human rights of people with mental illness, learning disabilities, dementia and related conditions.

We have a varied and interesting role as a Casework Officer for the right candidate to join our team on a fixed term contract.

The role involves undertaking a range of administrative activities which will contribute to the fulfilment of the Commission’s duty to monitor the operation of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003.

You should have two passes at higher grade and five passes at standard grade or equivalent qualifications, including English and a numerate subject (or relevant work experience/qualification in Administration).

The role also requires proficient IT skills, with Microsoft Office packages, database input and management.

Telephone enquiry/call handling experience and a customer focused approach are essential along with the ability to communicate effectively.

You should also have proven administrative experience and experience of working under pressure and to deadlines, with excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.

The success of the role relies on team working so the ability to work as part of a team and with limited supervision is critical.

As an employer, we offer excellent terms and conditions of service including a generous pension scheme, a commitment to learning and development and access to an Employee Assistance Programme and comprehensive staff benefits.

We also offer a comprehensive range of HR policies including policies to help balance commitments at work and home and flexible working arrangements.

At the Commission we champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice, cultivating a sense of belonging and providing a workplace where everyone feels valued. We aim to have a workforce which represents the wider society that we serve and therefore encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and under-represented groups.

Our office environment is modern, light, bright and green with superb views and is very close to Haymarket Railway station and transport links.

TIS is looking for a creative and motivated individual to fill the role of Communications Officer within its core team. The successful candidate will support the Communications and Media Manager and wider team to deliver high-quality internal and external communications that reflect our core values and amplify our voice across Scotland’s housing sector.

The Communications Officer will play a key role in managing the TIS social media channels, designing on-brand digital and print materials, updating our website, leading membership engagement, and assisting with the planning and promotion of events and campaigns that align with our strategic objectives.

The role of Communications Officer includes (but not limited to) -

• Manage and grow TIS’s social media presence by creating and scheduling engaging content, creating digital artwork, interacting with followers, and responding to messages and comments.

• Maintain and update the TIS website to a consistently high standard, ensuring content is current and accessible.

• Plan and deliver marketing campaigns across various channels, including social media, email, and the website, incorporating multimedia such as photography and video.

• Produce promotional materials and company publications (e.g., newsletters, annual reports) in both digital and print formats.

• Create on-brand visual and digital assets using Adobe Creative Cloud.

• Support the Communications Manager by identifying and gathering content for press releases, media features, and news stories.

• Support the wider team with planning promotional TIS activities and events – including promotion, information, processing bookings, agendas, venue bookings, catering, transport and evaluation, etc.

• Manage the growth of TIS membership by promoting its value, relevance, and benefits to both existing and potential members.

• Support the Communications and Media Manager in delivering communications strategies that reflect and uphold the values of TIS.

This role presents a fantastic opportunity for a proactive communicator with strong organisational skills and a keen eye for design to work across a wide range of projects, whilst having the chance to build their skills in a supportive, fast-paced team environment.

About the role

As the Principal Mobility Planner, you will lead Sustrans Scotland’s Transport Planning function to support the effective delivery of programmes and act as a senior influencer in active travel across Scotland.

You will have responsibility for leading the Transport Planning function, providing services across the range of programmes and projects Sustrans delivers. You will lead the delivery of active travel & integrated transport planning strategies and steer for capital projects, services and programmes across Sustrans Scotland and for the National Cycle Network forward planning, while providing up to date technical knowledge and advice on best practice within the sector to colleagues and other partners.

Responsible for setting the operational function and best practice, you will ensure prioritisation and allocation of resources to deliver projects against a range of financial and performance targets set in conjunction with our clients.

This role will require travel and work at locations as necessary to undertake work on behalf of Sustrans. You will work from a Sustrans office in Edinburgh or Glasgow with the flexibility to work from home.

About you

You will have a transportation and/or planning background (disciplines such as but not limited to town planning/city planning/transport planning) allowing you to develop a strategic action plan to deliver and support coherent and strategic network planning for active travel in Scotland. You should have proven experience of working on a diverse and complex range of design projects, considering place and movement functions alongside interactions of vehicular traffic.

You should have demonstrable experience of leading, motivating and managing a multi-functional team.

Your communication skills must be finely honed, allowing you to effectively communicate and build good relationships with colleagues, representatives from central and local government, active travel delivery partners, communities, Transport Scotland and other key stakeholders.

Sustrans has a long-term commitment to being a charity for everyone - reducing inequality, valuing diversity, enabling inclusion and ensuring all people are treated with dignity and respect. We aim to be a truly inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all parts of the community, in particular from under-represented groups.

What we offer

In return we can offer true hybrid working to suit individual circumstances and a flexible, supportive and rewarding working environment.

Wellbeing

• 28 days’ leave per annum plus bank holidays for full-time working

• Ability to buy an extra week of annual leave (pro-rata for part-time staff)

• Staff volunteer days

• 24/7 free, impartial and confidential support service

• We are members of the Green Commute Initiative and Cycle Scheme who both offer cycle to work schemes

Financial

• Group Personal Pension scheme with a 6% or 7% of basic salary contribution being matched by Sustrans

• Bike, computer and season ticket loans

• Discount benefits

• London Weighting Allowance of £4,530 for all those living within a London Borough (32 local authority districts plus the City of London)

• Death in Service benefit – 3 x annual Salary

Family Friendly

• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

• Flexible Working practices (full time hours are 37.5 per week, Monday - Friday)

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to join Sustrans as part of the Connected Neighbourhoods team, working in partnership with East Lothian Council to facilitate a strategic approach to active travel infrastructure development and delivery in the council area, as well as providing support with active travel policies and proposals for the council's planning and pipeline projects.

As the Senior Project Officer, you will be embedded within East Lothian Council, working in partnership with external organisations and across council departments to align policy aims and identify and develop opportunities for investment in active travel. You will support the planning and delivery of active travel interventions and provide expert support and guidance to ensure that walking, wheeling and cycling are integrated into strategies, programmes and projects.

The role is based within the geographical area with regular travel expected to East Lothian Council offices and either Edinburgh or Glasgow hubs.

About you

You should have experience in (at least) one of the following: transport planning, land use planning, urban design, traffic engineering, sustainable transport project delivery.

You will be an experienced project manager able to work collaboratively with multiple partners and stakeholders.

You should have the ability to work independently and be able to make decisions with minimal supervision, as well as have excellent report writing skills.

We ask you demonstrate knowledge of the funding context for active travel in Scotland.

Sustrans has a long-term commitment to being a charity for everyone - reducing inequality, valuing diversity, enabling inclusion and ensuring all people are treated with dignity and respect. We aim to be a truly inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all parts of the community, in particular from under-represented groups.

What we offer

In return we can offer true hybrid working to suit individual circumstances and a flexible, supportive and rewarding working environment.

Wellbeing

• 28 days’ leave per annum plus bank holidays for full-time working

• Ability to buy an extra week of annual leave (pro-rata for part-time staff)

• Staff volunteer days

• 24/7 free, impartial and confidential support service

• We are members of the Green Commute Initiative and Cycle Scheme who both offer cycle to work schemes

Financial

• Group Personal Pension scheme with a 6% or 7% of basic salary contribution being matched by Sustrans

• Bike, computer and season ticket loans

• Discount benefits

• London Weighting Allowance of £4,530 for all those living within a London Borough (32 local authority districts plus the City of London)

• Death in Service benefit – 3 x annual Salary

Family Friendly

• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

• Flexible Working practices (full time hours are 37.5 per week, Monday - Friday)

About the role:

We seek a part-time (21 hours per week) Finance Manager to co-ordinate the financial management of the organisation, helping to ensure strong financial governance, robust budgeting, effective financial reporting, and compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements. As a key member of the Senior Management Team, you will help shape the charity’s strategic direction, ensuring financial sustainability and supporting the delivery of its charitable objectives.

About you:

Are you an experienced professional in a financial role in the third sector? Are you working in a finance role and seeking a move into the third sector?

Do you have strong IT skills and a track record in developing and maintaining effective, efficient financial management tools and processes? Are you well-versed in helping an organisation to understand and manage its financial risk in the context of a challenging context for resourcing?

Would you enjoy being a part of Lead Scotland’s senior management team as we work with our Board, our staff team, our volunteers, our partners, and most importantly our core beneficiaries as we develop new and exciting opportunities to improve outcomes for disabled people and unpaid cares?

Do you have great organisational skills, previous experience of contributing to or leading strategic development from a financial perspective, and most of all a passion for collaborative teamwork?

This post is home-based in or near Edinburgh with some office-based work.

Lead Scotland has a Recruiting People with Convictions Policy.

Applications from disabled people:

Lead has Disability Confident status, and we encourage applications from disabled people. All disabled people meeting the minimum requirements will get a guaranteed interview. Information about our commitment to recruit disabled people is available on our website. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this in the online form. This will in no way disadvantage you in the recruitment process. All job application information can be made in alternative formats on request, including braille, large print and audio and people can make applications in alternative formats.

Recruitment paperwork is kept for 6 months before it is destroyed. Please complete our anonymous equal opportunities form to help us ensure we are attracting a broad range of candidates.

Who Cares? Scotland is Scotland’s only national independent membership organisation for Care Experienced people. Our mission is to secure a lifetime of equality, respect, and love for Care Experienced people in Scotland and we currently have over 3000 Care Experienced members.

At the heart of Who Cares? Scotland’s work are the rights of Care Experienced children and young people, and the power of their voices to bring about positive change. We provide individual relationship-based independent advocacy and a broad range of imaginative participatory opportunity for Care Experienced young people across Scotland; we work alongside corporate parents and communities of all sorts to broaden understanding; we work with policy makers, leaders and elected representatives locally and nationally to shape law, policy and practice on the basis of all that can be learnt from the voices of those with experience of care - working together to build on the aspirations of The Promise and secure positive change.

The post holder will work directly with children and young people with experience of care, in an individual relationship-based advocacy role, and within participation and group activity across our West Central region. This unique role requires you to listen to what children and young people with experience of care say and support them to ensure their rights are upheld and their voices are heard in the processes of making decisions about their lives. You will also help facilitate a broad range of participatory and engagement opportunities and create the conditions for collective advocacy.

The right candidate for this post will be brilliant at forming positive relationships with children and young people. You will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, adaptable to a wide range of contexts. You will enjoy working collaboratively with partners. You will be committed to children’s rights, inclusive working, equal opportunities, and believe that all young people can make transformative change happen in their lives if given the opportunity.

The successful candidate will be joining Who Cares? Scotland and working within the West Central locality team at an exciting time, when the voices of those who are in or have experienced care are growing in power, individually and collectively - bringing with them insight, challenge, hope and change. Flexibility will be required given the remit of the role. Some evening and weekend work will be necessary, as will a full driving licence and access to transport.

If this sounds like the role for you, we would love to hear from you. For an informal conversation about this opportunity please contact Jamie McAnally, our Advocacy and Participation Manager for our West Central team on jmcanally@whocaresscotland.org.