The Volunteer Officer role is crucial in supporting our 35 volunteer-led National, Regional, and Special Interest Groups, which offer events, networking, and support to our members and the wider fundraising community across the UK. You'll be at the forefront of enhancing our volunteer programme, ensuring a smooth, high-quality experience for all our Group and Committee volunteers – from their initial recruitment and onboarding right through to succession planning.

You'll provide essential support to the Volunteering Team, acting as the primary point of contact for all volunteer queries and logistical support for online and in-person events across the UK. Beyond routine administration of the volunteer journey, you'll actively contribute to our strategic volunteer objectives.

Embedding the Chartered Institute's values at the heart of all volunteer support, you will effectively perform your tasks utilising Microsoft Dynamics CRM, MS Teams, Zoom, Eventbrite, Excel, our event delivery platform, Outlook, and Word.

Ayrshire Cancer Support has operated in Ayrshire since 1982, providing practical and emotional support to those affected by cancer in Ayrshire. We provide a wide range of free services, delivered with Compassion, Care and Kindness.

Leading, supporting and motivating a small team of dedicated Service Coordinators and Administrative Volunteers, our Operational Support Manager will oversee and optimise daily operations, maximising productivity and efficiency, by managing resources effectively. You will have responsibility for the smooth running of each of our key end-to-end administrative processes; Care Service Support; Patient Transport; and Banking and Acknowledgement of Donations. Our Operational Support Manager will be the custodian of our Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) system, providing high-quality inputs and outputs, ensuring appropriate procedures are in place, completed efficiently and monitored regularly.

The position is suited for a highly organised and dedicated individual with great attention to detail and the ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels, whilst displaying integrity and commitment to our values. Whilst third sector experience is desirable, this is not essential.

We are seeking a dynamic, highly motivated individual who will play a key role in developing and delivering a program of support services and activities for Care Experienced children and young people across West Dunbartonshire. This exciting post offers a unique opportunity to develop, deliver and evaluate services, learning opportunities and mentoring activities, which supports care experienced children & young people to reach their full potential.

The main aim of the role is to ensure Y sort it plays an integral role in supporting Care Experienced children & young people with their school, family and community life. We aim to build on the aspirations care experienced young people via The Promise, along with our local partners within West Dunbartonshire Promise Keepers, an established group of stakeholders. You will be directly managed by Y sort it Head of Services & Development. The postholder will be responsible for the management of the Y sort it Care Experienced Staff & Volunteer Team. Purpose and Objectives The postholder will provide critical support to Y sort it, schools, and communities to drive West Dunbartonshire’s Integrated Children’s Services Plan for care experience children and young people. You will lead and co-ordinate the team and activities required to do so. With support from West Dunbartonshire Education, Promise Scotland / Corra Foundation and Inspiring Scotland / Intandem - West Dunbartonshire is one of eleven local authorities in Scotland to adopt the approach of Intandem Mentoring model About intandem - intandem and a carryout a Test of Change initiative with the aim to develop a Supportive School Structure (Right to Education) for Care Experienced children and young people across West Dunbartonshire. The post holder will have a primary focus on developing & evaluating the impact of learning opportunities, to raise the attainment of care experienced young people and support our established Intandem Volunteer Mentoring program, by focusing on children and young people aged 8 to 14 who are subject to a compulsory supervision order (or at-risk of becoming so), living at home or in kinship arrangements (ages 8-16 years). You will be responsible for leading, supporting and managing a team of staff and volunteers, and must demonstrable recent knowledge and experience of the Promise, GIRFEC (Getting it Right for Every Child), UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child). Experience of monitoring and evaluation frameworks, writing funding bids, and the ability to work independently as well as part of a Leadership & Management Team. The post holder should be flexible as the actual times of work will involve working, evenings, school holidays and weekends . The post holder should be flexible as the actual times of work may change to respond to the demands of the work.

About Us

Capability Scotland has supported people with disabilities to live fulfilling lives since 1946. We're a leading Scottish charity offering residential care, care-at-home, housing support, and education. We're passionate about inclusive, person-centred services.

Wallace Court is a residential service in Elderslie, Johnstone, has 20 individual, fully accessible apartments. Our established team provides 24 hour support 7 days a week, to customers aged between 18 and 65 with complex health, physical and learning disabilities.

The Role

As Service Manager, you'll ensure people we support receive high quality, person-centred care. You'll lead and support a multidisciplinary team - Team Leaders, care staff, administrators, housekeeping and maintenance staff - while overseeing budget, facilities, transport, compliance, risk, investigations and service development.

Key Responsibilities

• Customer-focused care:Manage referrals, liaise with Social Work/local authorities, oversee care plans, medication protocols, customer finances, and maintain strong relationships with customers and families .
• Team leadership:Recruit, plan rotas, ensure adequate training, conduct performance/appraisal meetings, and manage staffing issues—including disciplinary and absence procedures .
• Financial & operational management:Contribute to budget prep, review management accounts, authorise expenditure, oversee asset replacement & petty cash.
• Facilities & transport:Ensure safe, well-maintained facilities and reliable transport services.
• Regulatory compliance:Stay up-to-date with legislation and Care Inspectorate standards, coordinate inspections and statutory returns .
• Service growth:Promote and develop the service; engage with stakeholders to identify new opportunities and prepare business cases.
• Risk & investigations:Oversee risk assessments and lead any investigations as required .

Person Specification

• Qualifications:SVQ 4 in Health & Social Care (or equivalent) plus relevant management qualification .
• Experience:Strong background in social care or related services, with proven leadership and management skills. Experience in residential care services is preferred.
• Skills:Excellent communication, financial literacy, planning and organisational skills, and ability to foster a supportive team environment.
• Values:Alignment with Capability Scotland's mission, driven by compassion, respect, and integrity.

Working with Capability Scotland brings you lots of benefits:

• Competitive salary of £44.101.00 pa
• Fully paid, sector-leading learning and development
• Excellent annual leave of 37 days per year
• Generous and enhanced pension schemes and family benefits
• As a member of our autoenrollment pension scheme, £10,000 provided in the case of Death in Service
• Flexible working
• Access to shopping discounts through the Perks At Work scheme
• Access to Cycle to Work Scheme
• Free 24/7 employee assistance programme
• Free PVG checks throughout your career

Amnesty International UK (AIUK) has a simple aim: an end to human rights abuses. Independent, international and influential, we campaign for justice, fairness, freedom and truth wherever they are denied. If you want to use your skills, knowledge, and experience to help fight for human rights, you could be our Advocacy Manager – Scotland. This role is temporary, fixed-term job cover available from July 2025 until mid-January 2026.

Due to the nature of this contract, the ideal candidate will be available for an immediate start.

About the role

The Nations and Regions team help us achieve our goal of protecting, defending and advancing human rights at home and around the world. The Advocacy Manager – Scotland (fixed-term cover) is accountable for Amnesty’s advocacy at the Scottish Parliament and with various Scottish Government departments. You will work with colleagues in the Nations & Regions team and our UK and international headquarters to develop and deliver advocacy strategies with MSPs, MPs in Scotland, civil servants and other government and public body officials.

More details can be found by downloading the job description from our careers portal.

The role may be for you if:

• You’re skilled and experienced in political advocacy in Scotland and can demonstrate excellent influencing skills
• You have experience of leading projects with multiple components and ability to switch between tasks and policy issues with ease.
• You have excellent knowledge of the Scottish political scene, legislative processes at Holyrood and Scottish civil society.
• You positively contribute to an inclusive culture and can work with multiple internal and external stakeholders to achieve change.

Our Commitment to you

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) are at the core of our values. We want to be an organisation that tackles structural inequality and prejudice as well as be an actively anti-racist organisation. This means taking a meaningful and equitable approach to supporting and developing you and others during your time with us.

New colleagues receive 27 days leave annually (29 after five years), as well as bank holidays (pro rated for part time) and 3 wellbeing days. 2-5% employee pension contributions are matched at 6-9% and we offer 6 months full pay for family leave. We offer flexible working such as compressed work patterns and job shares.

About Resource Futures

We want to create a future where organisations, people and communities can thrive, and rebalance their relationship with material resources.

Resource Futures is an organisation accelerating the shift towards a circular world: putting restorative practices of reuse, repair, recycling at the heart of the fight to address the climate crisis. We help governments, businesses, NGOs and non-profits embrace regenerative change.

We are non-profit-distributing and have a close-knit team of 50+ trusted employees who collaborate across various areas of the business. Our multi-disciplined and connected approach sets us apart from the competition and enables us to build robust solutions that have a meaningful impact in the world.

We are passionate not only about what we do but how we do it, and we’re proud to be a part of the global B Corp movement to use business as a force for good. Employee-owned and independent, we’re all about helping each team member grow, and together striving towards our goal of creating a sustainable world.

The opportunity

We are seeking an experienced and capable individual to join our Consultancy team as Senior Consultant. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate experience in either delivering research in one or more relevant policy areas or supporting businesses and other organisations to develop and adopt circular models. You will also have strong project management skills and a positive attitude to problem-solving. Your knowledge and skills may have been developed in consultancy, government policy, the third sector, industry, academia or a combination of roles.

We are looking for a team member who will complement our existing experience and bring their own specialisms. You may have a particular interest in either quantitative or qualitative analysis, but at this level a combination of strong data analysis and report-writing skills is a must.

We operate at the forefront of environmental policy, and support national governments in the UK and overseas with policy development, implementation and evaluation. We also support businesses and industry organisations in a range of sectors to explore opportunities and navigate the transition to a circular economy. Our work reflects the experience and passions of our team members. As a Senior Consultant, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the service areas you work in, as we build on recent successes and develop new areas of growth. You will also play a role in training and mentoring junior colleagues.

Recent policy work in the UK has focused on tackling marine litter and waste issues from fishing and aquaculture gear, exploring digital innovation in a UK deposit return scheme, and an assessment of fiscal policies for a circular economy, alongside projects looking at extended producer responsibility, better management of unsold consumer goods, textiles, construction, energy infrastructure, Landfill Tax, and illegal waste disposal. Internationally, we have been supporting governments of low- and middle-income countries to develop the evidence and strategies needed to tackle plastic waste, including delivering a workshop in Panama for Central American governments.

Recent circular business support projects have included strategic support for Genuine Solutions in meeting its ESG and CSR commitments and reporting needs; delivering circular economy and sustainability training for chemical engineers; andestablishing robust carbon footprint metrics and modelling for disabled childrens’ charity, Newlife.

What you will be doing

UK/devolved nation policy research and analysis: Clients may include government departments and public bodies, environmental NGOs and other progressive organisations with an interest in circular economy, resources and waste policy.

Strategic business support: research and analysis for corporates and third sector organisations looking to embed circular thinking into their organisation and business processes.

Project management: You’ll manage a range of projects, with the support of the project director, using project management software.

Client relationship management: You’ll maintain excellent relationships with clients, ensuring they are well-informed, engaged and receive the value they seek from our work.

Business development: You’ll develop and manage proposals for new work, supporting the Policy and Circular Economy Leads as well as the wider consultancy team.

Strategic planning: You’ll work closely with the Head of Consultancy Services and service area leads to shape the strategic direction of our consultancy work and impact.

People management: You will have some line management responsibilities and will be supported to build skills in this area.

Other responsibilities applicable for Senior Consultant grade.

This is an opportunity to take a leading role in helping to change Scotland’s relationship with alcohol starting with young people. Community Alcohol Partnerships (CAP) is looking to engage the services of a results-oriented consultant with great people skills to set up CAP projects in high harm areas.

The successful applicant will have a track record of building effective partnerships, the people and communication skills to involve and engage a wide range of local stakeholders and the leadership and project management skills to support projects through each phase of their lifecycle including baseline evaluation, action plan delivery, post intervention evaluation and maintenance/sustainment. After a short familiarisation period the successful applicant will be expected to oversee fast-track development of new CAPs in priority areas and take responsibility for all aspects of their management with minimal supervision.

A key requisite of the role will be the ability to forge effective public/private sector partnerships between statutory agencies, schools, youth charities and retailers following the CAP model and evaluation framework. The successful applicant may come from a police, public health, education, local authority or other relevant background.

A full Role Description is available for download below.

Glesga Roasters is a ministry of Bishopbriggs Community Church (‘BCC’), a vibrant church placing hospitality at the heart of its ethos and its welcome. Glesga Roasters is situated within the church building coffee shop and plays a key role in the church engaging with the local community. It also provides opportunities for skills development for young people and some vulnerable groups.

The role will oversee the operations of the coffee shop and the roasters ensuring we deliver a quality service to customers and excellent support to our volunteers and participants. The Manager will be responsible for ensuring Glesga Roasters remains financially viable, but more importantly, remains focussed on the vision and mission of the ministry and of the church.

We are seeking an individual with vision, passion, and a calling for the role, who will show enthusiasm and encouragement to volunteers and customers on a daily basis. We are looking for an individual who can see the potential in others and can create a safe space for people to thrive. The nature of this role is such that there is a Genuine Occupational Requirement for the successful applicant to be a committed Christian (Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010).

Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS) is the National Development Body for Scotland’s museums and galleries. We support a sector of 449 museums and galleries, through strategic investment, workforce development, advice and advocacy. We are a forward facing and inclusive organisation, committed to the ongoing development of a positive culture for our team.

We are recruiting for a Skills Development Manager who encourages good practice and drives continuous improvement in skills development and promotes a culture of learning and development within the sector.

The Skills Development Manager is a key interface between MGS and the sector, building rich and valuable networks and delivering a wide range of skills development programmes and activities for the benefit of the sector. The Skills Development Manager develops and manages partnerships with key stakeholders across the heritage landscape that maximise the quality of our products and programme delivery.

A core focus of this role is the development , delivery and evaluation of all our workforce development programmes. This will involve coordinating and codesigning with the Museums and Galleries sector, existing partners and exploring new partnership opportunities.

The post holder is joining MGS as we launch an exciting new programme aimed at building sector resilience, exploring new delivery models and facilitating more entrepreneurial approaches. Part of the role will be developing skills development activity in relation to this programme in collaboration with colleagues from across MGS teams.

A skilled communicator who is self-motivated, shows initiative and builds strong and effective relationships, the Skills Development Manager continually seeks out opportunities and more agile ways of working to develop content and enhance the MGS skills offer.

Overview of Responsibilities

• Act as an interface between MGS, the museums and galleries sector and key stakeholders on skills development
• Support the delivery of all accredited and non accredited learning opportunities across MGS’s service provision
• Work with the sector to deliver skills development priorities and embed a culture of learning and development
• Maintain an overview of the skills and knowledge needs for the museum sector and create, identify, develop and evaluate programmes and opportunities to meet these needs
• Manage the development, delivery and evaluation of a marketable schedule of training courses and programmes; and assist colleagues to deliver subject-specific workshops
• Contribute to research and development work carried out by sector-relevant organisations
• Budget holder responsibilities – involved in both planning and management
• Support MGS to deliver the Workforce strand of the National Strategy
• Stakeholder relationship management

The above mentioned tasks and responsibilities constitute an overview and not an exhaustive list. Workload and priorities are ultimately determined by the annual MGS Operational Plan.

Relationships

• Build and nurture effective working relationships across the organisation and with external partners
• Collaborate with other staff to support and deliver MGS projects, programmes and the National Strategy
• Contribute to the organisation’s expertise in the sector by sharing knowledge, information and good practice.
• Work fairly and with integrity and adapt style to different people, cultures and situation

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable experience of developing, delivering and managing a wide range of skills development programmes with defined learning outcomes, to a diverse range of learners
• Working knowledge of Scottish Government skills priorities and wider skills landscape
• Experience of composing bid applications and procurement documents
• Ability to build and maintain positive working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills including good presentation, influencing and facilitation skills
• Excellent written communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate
• Microsoft Office

Preferred

• Knowledge of the museums and galleries sector in Scotland
• Experience of evaluating training programmes and identifying areas for improvement
• Experience of working with vocational and accredited qualifications
• Confident speaking in public and hosting meetings online and in person
• Advocates for lifelong learning and professional development
• Experience of working with volunteers

We work with staff to help everyone reach their potential in the workplace and welcome conversations with individuals about their needs, circumstances and aspirations.

HOW YOU WORK

MGS has a behavioural competency framework which describes how we expect people to go about their work day-to-day. Staff must demonstrate the following skills areas at an appropriate level:

• Works collaboratively
• Communicating with impact
• Respect, inclusion and integrity
• Effective decision-making
• Sector focus
• Drive for results
• Innovation, agility and building capability

All staff are expected to champion and help deliver MGS’s commitments to anti-racism and climate.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

Travel – regionally is required. Approx. 40 days per year.

Intercultural Youth Scotland (IYS), a leading voice for Black and People of Colour (BPoC) young people in Scotland, is looking for a passionate and experienced Mental Health Service Manager to lead our intercultural counselling and mental health support programme for BPoC youth aged 12–29.

Our Mental Health Service offers free, specialist intercultural counselling and mental health support for young PoC and minority ethnic groups in Scotland, aged 12-29.

Within this role, you’ll oversee service delivery, manage a small team of service providers, build relationships with schools and stakeholders, and ensure the programme continues to deliver measurable impact.

This is an exciting opportunity to take forward a recently restructured service and shape it to become a leading provider of intercultural mental health support for young people in Scotland.

For more information about this job, please refer to the full job description.

• We’re looking for someone with a strong track record in mental health services and a deep understanding of the needs of young people of colour in Scotland. You should be able to demonstrate:
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in mental health service delivery, management, or programme management
• Strong project and people management skills
• Strategic thinking and a growth mindset
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• A strong understanding of youth mental health support systems in Scotland and the UK
• Experience in monitoring, evaluation, reporting, and budget management
• Commitment to anti-racism, inclusion, and youth empowerment

A clinical qualification (BACP/UKCP), and experience scaling health or wellbeing services would be advantageous but not required.

What we offer:

• 4-day full-time working week
• 29 days holiday (inc. public holidays)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A chance to transform mental health for BPoC youth in Scotland