The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) is seeking an exceptional leader to drive our organisation forward as we enter an exciting new chapter. As the voice of Scotland’s housing associations and co-operatives,, we represent a sector that provides safe, warm, and affordable homes for over half a million people across the country.
Celebrating 50 years of impact, SFHA is a well-respected membership organisation with a strong financial position, an ambitious strategic vision, and close to 100% sector membership. Our role is to represent, support and connect our members, ensuring that their voices are heard and that they have the resources and influence needed to thrive.
The Chief Executive will provide strategic leadership, ensuring SFHA remains a key player in shaping housing policy at the highest levels. You will Collaborate with partners and stakeholders to ensure alignment and successful execution of projects. Acting as the organisation’s ambassador, they will foster relationships with government, regulators, and stakeholders while maintaining a strong connection with our members. Leading a dedicated team and working closely with an engaged Board, the Chief Executive will drive innovation, enhance member services, and champion the critical role of social housing in Scotland’s future.
This role offers the opportunity to lead a high-profile organisation with a talented team, a strong reputation, and a platform to influence national policy. SFHA provides a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, including 29 days annual leave, five agile days, a 5% employer pension contribution, flexible hybrid working, Perkbox, a travel loan option, flu jab, online yoga, and eyecare vouchers.
Top job! Head of Business Development
- Full time
- £48,000
- On site: St Vincent’s Hospice, Renfrewshire
- Closing 6th April 2025
Are you a strategic and innovative leader passionate about driving income growth for a meaningful cause?
St Vincent’s Hospice is seeking a Head of Business Development to play a pivotal role in our financial sustainability and long-term growth. Reporting to the CEO, this exciting new position will focus on:
- Developing and delivering a three-year business development strategy to ensure sustainable income growth.
- Managing and expanding Trusts & Grants funding, major donor relationships, and strategic partnerships.
- Overseeing the hospice’s lottery and exploring innovative income-generation opportunities.
- Engaging with high-value donors to maximise fundraising impact.
What We’re Looking For:
- Proven experience in business development, income generation, or fundraising at a senior level.
- Strong track record of securing significant funding from trusts, foundations, or other income streams.
- Excellent relationship-building and networking skills with funders, and donors. Strategic thinker with the ability to balance long-term vision with achieving ambitious financial targets.
- Passion for the hospice sector and a commitment to our values of care, compassion, and dignity.
Why Join St Vincent’s Hospice?
- Make a real impact – your work will directly support people affected by life-limiting illness.
- Lead transformational growth in a role with high autonomy and strategic importance.
- Work with a dedicated team in a respected, community-driven organisation.
Top job! Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- Full time
- £40,000 – £45,000
- On site: Cumbernauld, with work across Kilsyth and the Northern Corridor areas
- Closing 4th April 2025
About Us
We are a well-established charity with almost 35 years of experience providing essential services and activities for individuals over the age of 60. As the primary third-sector provider in Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and the Northern Corridor areas, our services include Daycare, activity groups, befriending, volunteering opportunities, and a Community Transport fleet offering door-to-door transport. We continue to consult with the community and strive to develop our services to support the evolving needs of our community to maximise flexibility and accessibility.
The Role
We are seeking a dynamic and visionary Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to lead our organisation towards achieving its strategic goals and objectives. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional leadership qualities and a proven track record in managing diverse teams while driving financial performance. As the CEO, you will be responsible for overseeing operational management, staff leadership, service development, and strategic planning. This role requires an individual with a passion for community work, the ability to develop strong partnerships and build relationships with external partners as well as the ability to adapt services to meet emerging needs.
Key Responsibilities
• Service Management: Oversee the delivery of existing services, ensuring they are effective, person-centred, and aligned with our mission.
• Team Leadership: Provide management and support to staff and volunteers, ensuring a positive and productive working environment.
• Strategic Development: Lead on the development and implementation of service improvements, including digital support initiatives and flexible service models.
• Partnership Working: Build and maintain relationships with local organisations, funders, and stakeholders to enhance service provision and partnership opportunities.
• Community Transport: Oversee the management of the Community Transport fleet, ensuring compliance and efficient operation for service users and community groups.
• Funding and Reporting: Support funding applications, reporting, and evaluations to sustain and grow services.
• Safeguarding & Compliance: Ensure that all services operate within regulatory requirements and best practices in safeguarding and data protection.
Person Specification
Essential
• Proven experience in running the full operation of an organisation, with sound knowledge of governance requirements, within the charity, health, or social care sector.
• Proven experience in service management within the charity, health, or social care sector.
• SCQF Level 9 or SCQF Level 10 (relevant experience instead of qualification may be considered).
• Strong and demonstrable leadership and team management skills.
• Experience in service development, including digital and flexible service models.
• Excellent communication and partnership-building skills.
• Experience in funding applications and financial oversight.
• Knowledge of safeguarding, health & safety, and regulatory compliance.
• A proactive, solutions-focused approach to service delivery.
• Ability to work flexibly and adapt to changing circumstances.
Desirable
• Experience managing community transport services.
• Understanding of the challenges facing older and vulnerable adults in North Lanarkshire.
• Experience in managing grant funding distribution.
Top job! Director
- Full time
- £43,000
- Hybrid: Office in Glasgow, occasionally homeworking
- Closing 21st April 2025
Job Summary:
The Director is the key management leader for Interfaith Scotland and is responsible for the strategic development of its vision and purposes
Vision: To work together as people of faith for a just and inclusive Scotland
Purposes:
1. to provide a forum for faith communities in Scotland to dialogue with one another on matters of religious, national and civic importance
2. to provide face to face and virtual platforms to enrich and develop local, national and international interfaith dialogue, engagement and action
3. to promote educational activities in connection with interfaith relations
4. to encourage civic engagement by religious communities in Scotland
5. to support equality and human rights for individuals and communities with religion and belief as a protected characteristic.
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The Scottish Information Commissioner enforces and promotes freedom of information (FOI) law.
As a key member if the Commissioner’s senior management team, the Head of Business Support (HOBS) will lead the delivery of our corporate services, organisational administration and business management, supporting the Commissioner to achieve his strategic and operational objectives.
You’ll bring:
- work experience in a relevant discipline
- the necessary skills to manage a team
- excellent problem-solving skills
- strong time-management skills and the ability to manage competing priorities
- excellent writing and communication skills, including the ability to write for, or speak to, a range of audiences
- education to degree level (or equivalent level of skill or knowledge)
We offer:
- Interesting, challenging and varied work
- Starting salary - £54,792 (gross p.a.) FTE on a scale rising to £65,800 (gross p.a.) FTE
- Work location in St Andrews, Fife but some hybrid working will be possible
- Flexible working arrangements (applications on a job share basis are welcome)
The role of the EDDACS/Duty support worker is to provide a confidential, safe and supportive frontline information service to women and agencies who contact EWA across our EDDACS (Edinburgh Domestic Abuse Court Service) and duty service. Support can be accessed through the crisis phone line and/or ‘drop in’ service and delivered within a multi-agency framework consisting of the MARAC and local partnership responses to domestic abuse. Where safety issues are assessed, the worker will ensure the completion of the Risk Identification checklist and an individualised support and safety plan. Where appropriate the worker will assess women, and any accompanying children who are affected by domestic abuse, for refuge accommodation. This role is based at EWA offices 4 Cheyne St Edinburgh EH4 1JB.
Quality Assurance Lead
- Full time
- Circa £35,000
- Hybrid: Home based and CHSS Head Office, Edinburgh
- Closing 21st April 2025
Everyday people with chest, heart and stroke conditions are leaving hospital scared and alone. You can be part of our mission to make sure that there is no life half lived in Scotland.
You will be part of Scotland’s leading charity providing support to people with chest, heart, stroke and Long Covid conditions, to live life to the full again. Our Community Healthcare Support Service model forms a nationwide network of local support groups, health care professionals, volunteers and one-to-one support teams helping families adjust to life with a heart or lung condition, long covid or after a stroke.
To support the delivery of our ambitious NLHL strategy, CHSS is seeking to appoint a Quality Assurance Lead. In this role, the post holder will have responsibility to lead quality assurance processes within CHSS Community Healthcare Support services and ensure governance is embedded throughout Service Delivery, facilitating a whole system of approach to quality assurance.
The postholder will create an environment in which excellence in care and a culture of transparency is fostered and will be a driving force of transformative change.
CHSS is seeking a strong leader who has knowledge and experience of implementing and maintaining quality assurance frameworks and processes, including clinical governance. Applicants will have a recognised professional qualification/registration within health and/or social care and have excellent communication and organizational skills. Confidence in IT skills and experience working to a high professional standard using own initiative is essential.
Training and Employment Advisor
- Full time
- £29,361 – £32,930
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 25th April 2025
Reporting to:Training and Employability Lead
Duration of Project: A two-year fixed-term contract to start, with the option to renew thereafter, subject to the availability of funds to support the role.
Key working relationship:
Internal: Senior Management Team and project coordinators. Please refer to our organogram.
External: Service users, funders, and partner agencies.
Purpose of the role
This post aims to support New Scots in their employment and training needs. It aims to help New Scot service users access work, volunteering, and training opportunities that match their skills, qualifications, and interests. The post holder will collaborate with the existing Employment and Training team to provide individual holistic coaching and guidance to our service users. They will also assist with planning, delivering, and evaluating group workshops that prepare service users for employment.
Additional information
Please note that you must already be eligible to work in the UK to be employed by The Welcoming Association.
The post holder will work from The Welcoming’s office on 20/1 Westfield Avenue, Edinburgh, EH11 2TT.
Equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the heart of The Welcoming. We welcome applications from BAME people, applicants with lived experience as refugees, or those who are or have worked with refugees, asylum seekers, and vulnerable adults.
Community Learning Hub Coordinator
- Full time
- £25,101 – £27,907
- On site: Falkirk
- Closing 22nd April 2025
Do you want to utilise your organisational skills and make a real difference to the services we deliver?
If you love a to-do list, juggling a varied workload, and ensuring projects (and people!) run like clockwork, then this could be the job for you!
About Cyrenians in Falkirk
Our office is based within our Community Learning Hub, Arnotdale House, Dollar Park in Falkirk. Cyrenians Community Learning Hub is the heart of our direct service delivery and our public facing community events and room hire.
This is a new post designed to support us moving forward.
The successful postholder will be an integral part of the team and contributing to the delivery of Cyrenians Strategic Plan.
About the role
You’ll work closely with the management team to maintain and update organisational databases, complete regular compliance checks and contribute to funding applications. In addition, your main duties will also include:
- Oversee the Community Learning Hub room hire booking system
- Support the smooth running of our event space, including setting up and clearing rooms following events.
- Lead on monitoring invoices and petty cash.
With such a varied role, it’s safe to say no two days will be the same!
About you
You’ll be a strong administrator with relevant experience in an office environment. You should have a ‘can-do’ attitude and thrive knowing your contribution is supporting others. You should also have:
- Excellent IT skills including Microsoft office programmes
- Great organisational skills and attention to detail
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
How we’ll support you
You’ll be part of an enthusiastic, knowledgeable staff team with a supportive manager, who will help you develop and grow in your role. You’ll also 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 values-led and relationships-based approach to delivering our services. You can find out more about our organisation and our impact online.
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Administrator
- Full time or Part time
- £23,435 – £25,319
- Hybrid: Glasgow North)
- Closing 21st April 2025
Home-Start Glasgow North and North Lanarkshire is a vibrant community charity making a big impact on families with young children (under 5) in the local area. Our trained volunteers and staff help families through challenging times. In Scotland, over 1,500 volunteers support over 3,500 families and 6,500 children each year through compassionate, confidential help to parents when they need us most.
The parents we support are often overwhelmed and isolated. They may be struggling with mental health, illness, disability, multiple birth, poverty, domestic abuse, separation or trauma. We provide both 1:1 and group support to families, helping them to cope with the stresses and strains of life and make sure they have the skills, confidence and strength they need to nurture their children.
We are now looking to welcome a new Administrator to our Glasgow North team.
Do you have what we’re looking for?
- Highly organised and experienced administrator
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages
- High attention to detail and accuracy
- A positive team player with the ability to work using your own initiative
- Valid UK driving licence and own car essential
The post is initially funded for one year, with the possibility of extension subject to the availability of additional funding.