We’re seeking a proactive and knowledgeable Procurement and Contract Management Officer to lead procurement and contract activity across our organisation. You’ll ensure compliance with public sector legislation, deliver best value, and support colleagues throughout the contract lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end procurement of goods, services, and works.
• Support colleagues with contract management and procurement advice.
• Drive value for money and service improvements.
• Maintain procurement documentation and manage related budgets.
• Lead on reporting, audits, and continuous improvement initiatives.

This is a varied, fast-paced role ideal for someone with public sector procurement experience and strong commercial judgement. Knowledge of procurement regulations and contract management is essential, and CIPS Level 3 (or working towards it) is desirable.

Join a values-led organisation where you can make a real impact. We offer hybrid working, a supportive team, and opportunities for professional development.

Our employee benefits

• Company sick pay scheme on completion of probationary period
• 34 days’ holiday per annum, pro rata for part-time hours
• Access to Health and Wellbeing resources such as, 24 hour GP service, physiotherapy, 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and in-house Mental Health First Aiders
• Opportunity to participate in internal support networks such as employee engagement, wellbeing and digital forums
• Company pension scheme and other benefits such as Death in Service

We ask that all applicants read the Job Pack for further details of the available opportunity. Blackwood are committed to diversity and inclusion and as a Disability Confident Employer, we will interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum requirements for the post.

Would you like to come and work at the number one Students’ Union in Scotland (as voted in the recent Whatuni Student Choice awards)? Strath Union is looking for a talented individual to join our team as Campaigns Coordinator.

The Campaigns Coordinator will play a central role in supporting and empowering students to shape their university experience. This includes a strong focus on equality and inclusion, supporting student campaigns, supporting the delivery of impactful campaigns across a range of issues affecting students.

The postholder will support the administration and development of representation structures, support the delivery of democratic processes such as elections and student meetings, and provide practical support to campaign activities. They will work closely with elected student officers and Union staff to ensure that the student voice is heard, valued, and acted upon across the Strathclyde community.

Strathclyde Students’ Union is committed to promoting diversity and equality for all and welcomes applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from applicants with disabilities, from ethnic minority backgrounds, and those with diverse sexualities or marginalised gender identities as these groups are underrepresented.

Prison Fellowship Scotland is a Christian charity working with the men and women in Scotland's prisons. Through our partnership with the Scottish Prison Service, we support chaplains by running programmes that allow people in prison to explore and respond to the Christian faith and to take responsibility for the harm they have caused. We also support the families of those in prison.

Purpose of the role

To lead the delivery and development of the Sycamore Tree Programme across Scotland and contribute to the growth of restorative justice practice within the criminal justice system, working in partnership with prisons, volunteers, and external organisations. Additionally, role will also promote the work of Prison Fellowship Scotland within churches and contribute to wider awareness and understanding of justice issues. Beyond this part of the role will be to work well as part of the wider PFS team as we actively look at new ways of growing the work of the organisation.

It doesn’t matter whether your background is children and families, social care, housing support, youth work or community services. If you care about keeping families together, helping young people feel safe and supported, and you know how to lead teams doing complex work well, this could be the next move for you.

Right There has spent 200 years making sure that fewer people in Scotland end up homeless and fewer families fall apart. Last year alone, almost 4,000 people got the support they needed to stay in their homes and stay close to the people they love. We are a charity with a clear, urgent mission. We need you to help us make sure children, young people and families in Glasgow and the West get the right support, at the right time, from teams who are confident, skilled and well led.

This is a new Locality Manager role working alongside our Head of Children and Families. You will lead the strategic implementation and operational management of our Glasgow and West Children and Families programmes, including Young People Family Support, Mentoring, and South Ayrshire Supported Accommodation.

It is complex, stretching and the stakes are real. This is work with children, young people and families whose lives are affected by poverty, care experience, housing insecurity, trauma and family breakdown. But it is also rewarding, hopeful and, in the way that only work with meaning can be, genuinely good fun.

Your role

• Leading services well. You will directly manage delivery across our Glasgow and West Children and Families programmes, making sure services are safe, person-centred, strengths-based and aligned with Right There’s aims, values and strategic objectives. 
• Keeping the focus on quality and outcomes. You will lead delivery in line with agreed outcomes, robust operational controls and best-practice legislation and guidance, including UNCRC, The Promise, GIRFEC, Care Inspectorate standards and SSSC Codes of Practice. 
• Supporting teams to do their best work. You will lead, coach and develop service managers, coordinators and delivery teams, creating a positive culture where people feel supported, accountable and able to learn through reflective practice.
• Making data useful. You will make sure service data, KPIs, reporting and quality assurance are accurate, timely and used well, so decisions are grounded in evidence and services keep improving.
• Growing and developing services. You will take ownership of service development and annual business planning, investigating opportunities that align with existing provision and supporting proposals and tenders for new and developing work.
• Building trusted partnerships. You will represent Right There with commissioners, local authorities, social work, housing, health services, the Care Inspectorate and other partners, making sure relationships are purposeful, professional and rooted in the needs of the people we support.
• Managing risk, resources and compliance. You will oversee budgets, staffing, safeguarding, health and safety, complaints, reporting requirements and service standards, making sure the practical foundations are strong enough to support excellent delivery.

What you bring

Maybe you have built your career in children and families, social care, housing, youth work, mentoring or support services, and you are ready for a broader role with more influence. Or maybe you are already leading complex services and want that leadership to count for something bigger. Either way, you’ll recognise yourself here.

• You understand the realities facing children, young people and families, and you believe support should be compassionate, practical and free from judgement.
• You know how to lead services that are person-centred, strengths-based and grounded in clear professional boundaries.
• You bring knowledge of relevant legislation, policy and practice across social care, family support, housing and safeguarding.
• You are confident with quality assurance, performance management and service reporting, and you use data to improve what happens in practice.
• You know how to build and lead teams, support managers, hold standards and create a culture where people can do good work well.
• You can manage competing priorities, respond calmly to crisis and make sound decisions when things are complex.
• You build strong relationships with colleagues, commissioners, local authorities, social work, housing, health services and regulators.
• You genuinely care about social change — about children, young people and families having a fair chance at a safe and supportive place to call home.

You will need the right qualifications, or be willing to work towards them, including SVQ Level 4 in Health and Social Care and SVQ Level 4 in Management or SCQF equivalent. You will also need to be able to travel across agreed geographical areas, with a driving licence and access to a car for work purposes.

Our offer

Salary up to £44,436 per annum. Full time, permanent, 35 hours per week, reporting to the Head of Children and Families. Your core place of work will be 15 Dava Street, Glasgow, with a minimum of three days per week in the office and travel across Glasgow and West programmes as required. You’ll get six weeks’ annual leave, rising to eight weeks in year two, the People’s Pension from day one, life assurance, and a wide range of wellbeing, development and lifestyle benefits. If this sounds like the kind of challenge you’ve been waiting for, we’d love to hear from you.

About Us

We are Right There, a charity that recently celebrated our 200th anniversary. We provide tailored support for people, at home, and in the community. We are here for people who are living with the effects of homelessness, poverty, substance use, or family breakdowns.

Last year we supported almost 4,000 individuals, helping to prevent them from becoming homeless or separated from the people they love. Every person’s story is unique, and everyone’s route home is different - it doesn’t matter what the situation is – we’re not here to judge, only to help.

A Unique Heritage Destination

The MacDougall of Dunollie Preservation Trust (DPT) is seeking an experienced and inspiring Site & Heritage Manager to lead Dunollie Museum, Castle & Grounds, one of Scotland's most significant heritage sites.

This is an exciting opportunity for a heritage professional with strong management, fundraising and business skills to lead our heritage site and museum during a pivotal period of transformation. Working closely with the Board of Trustees, you will balance heritage conservation with income generation, visitor engagement and long-term sustainability.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee all on site operations for the Trust, including funded projects, events, commercial activities and the heritage offer.

• Develop and enhance Dunollie's visitor experience.

• Lead and motivate a multidisciplinary staff team.

• Assist and monitor in grant funding and identify new income opportunities.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with funders, donors, partners and stakeholders.

• Monitor budgets and financial results, analyse financial performance and report against organisational objectives.

• Ensure the preservation of the site's historic assets, collections and museum standards.

About You

We are looking for someone with:

• Significant experience in a management role within the heritage, museum, cultural or visitor attraction sector.

• A strong understanding of heritage conservation, museums and visitor engagement.

• Proven involvement in fundraising and grant management experience, including developing funding applications and reporting to funders.

• Excellent people skills, with the ability to inspire teams and build productive relationships with trustees, funders, partners and communities.

• Competent analytical and financial skills, including budgeting, performance monitoring and strategic planning.

• Experience of managing projects, delivering against targets and supporting organisational sustainability.

• A passion for heritage and a commitment to sharing cultural history with diverse audiences.

Why Join Us?

Dunollie Museum, Castle & Grounds occupies a unique place in Scotland's heritage landscape. This is a rare opportunity to lead a historic site with ambitious plans, helping to preserve its legacy while ensuring it remains vibrant, resilient and accessible for generations to come. The DPT is in an exciting transition stage with plans being made to transform and develop new buildings, enhance the heritage, visitor and learning offer, laying the foundations of a new era. This is an exciting opportunity to make a lasting contribution to the future direction of the DPT while ensuring the continued success of our day today operations.

We are seeking an innovative, motivated, compassionate and resilient Citizen Advocacy Co-ordinator to join our team.

In this role, you will support a number of Volunteer Citizen Advocates who have recently completed their volunteer training, offering them ongoing support & supervision and training. Citizen Advocacy encourages ordinary citizens to become involved with the welfare of those who might need support in their communities. It is based on trust between the person being supported and the citizen advocate.

This role is a fixed-term contract made possible by pilot funding from the Scottish Government. We are hopeful that further funding will be made available moving forward.

The role ensures advocacy relationships are safe, effective, independent, and person centred, while promoting choice, rights, and social inclusion.

We’re looking to match our Volunteer Citizen Advocates with advocacy partners living in the Perth city area aged over 65.

The Organisation

Independent Advocacy Perth & Kinross is a values-driven, rights-based organisation providing independent advocacy to individuals across Perth & Kinross. We support people to have their voices heard, their rights upheld, and to be fully involved in decisions affecting their lives. As an organisation, we are holders of hope and human rights defenders.

What We Offer

• A supportive and inclusive working and team environment.

• Ongoing training and professional development opportunities.

• Generous annual leave and benefits package.

• The chance to make a genuine difference in people’s lives.

People living with dementia who are also diagnosed with cancer face some of the starkest inequalities in Scottish health care. Serious symptoms get put down to dementia rather than investigated. Cancer is picked up late. Treatment decisions happen at speed, in unfamiliar settings, with little support to understand information or express what matters. We think communities can change that, and we are looking for the person to lead the work.

Meeting Centres Scotland is the national charity behind Scotland's network of Meeting Centres: welcoming, local places where people living with dementia and their families find support to adjust to change and keep living well in their communities. Our network has grown to around 47 centres across 17 local authority areas, reaching more than 1,000 people every month.

Cancer-ready Meeting Centres is a two year national project funded by Macmillan Cancer Support. Working alongside a lived experience advisory group of people with dementia who have been through cancer, and the family members who supported them, you will co-design training, practical tools and a standards framework that equip Meeting Centres to support people through diagnosis, treatment and beyond. You will build referral and liaison pathways with Health Boards, Health and Social Care Partnerships, Macmillan professionals and oncology teams, and lead a rights based influencing strand that puts diagnostic overshadowing and shared decision making on the agenda of cancer services and planners.

We are looking for an experienced project manager who is at home facilitating a room where people with dementia, family carers and clinicians sit as equal partners; who can hold a national, multi strand project together; and who believes that a dementia diagnosis should never be a barrier to good cancer care. Experience across both dementia and cancer is welcome but by no means required. Values, facilitation skill and delivery ability matter most.

We offer a salary of £39,000, 37 days of annual leave (inclusive of public holidays, rising with each full year of service up to 5 additional days), an 8% employer pension contribution, genuinely flexible home based working, and the chance to build something with UK-wide potential alongside a small, committed national team.

The Board of Trustees of Better Lives Partnership is recruiting a Service Lead – West.

The Service Lead role is key to the delivery and development of our services. They are responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality, safe, and person-centred services in the West of the region by leading the team, managing budgets, and maintaining compliance with relevant standards and expectations. They oversee daily operations, support staff through supervision and training, and implement the delivery of the area based Operational Plan. The Service Lead will promote and adhere to the values, philosophy and policies of BLP at all times.

We are recruiting a Service Lead to:

• Ensure the effective operation of all BLP services for the West of the region, working to the objectives which will be set out in the Strategic Plan for BLP and work with the Operations Director to create an area-specific Operational Plan and then lead on the delivery of said plan to grow, develop and enhance our service delivery in a sustainable way.
• Provide clear leadership and line management to the delivery team, by providing and ensuring regular support and supervision, annual reviews, training and development. Ensuring BLP services maintain a high standard of delivery and that all BLP policies and procedures are adhered to.
• Oversee the operational delivery of accredited qualifications to ensure compliance with awarding body requirements. Ensure the integrity of assessment through rigorous moderation and quality assurance mechanisms.
• Be the named Deputy Safeguarding Lead for the organisation and ensure service users, staff and volunteers have knowledge of and operate within the BLP Child and Adult Protection Policy and Procedure at all times.
• Maintain links to service users through involvement with BLP activities; ensuring services are delivered and developed to meet their needs by listening to and involving service users. Ensure all service users are tracked through our programme using our systems, policies and procedures, ensuring that all service users have a clear understanding of their journey with our service and have active input into their journey in a person-centred way.
• Budgetary management of the BLP services delivered in the West of the region.
• Lead on gathering, monitoring and evaluating service performance data to demonstrate outcomes and impact. Provide high quality information, analysis and case studies to the Operations Director and the Head of Fundraising and Communications for reporting to funders, trustees and partners. Be the person responsible for local communications and promotion of the service.

The Board is looking for a dynamic and innovative person to deliver on our first Strategic Plan. The person will need to be able to plan their own work patterns, be flexible and able to deliver to tight deadlines. The post will be based in the West of the region at our Stranraer site. Access to a car is essential since the position will cover wide areas of rural Dumfries and Galloway.

This is a great opportunity for a person with experience of leadership in the Third Sector, education, employability or working with young people to be at the forefront of exciting developments in Dumfries and Galloway.

Are you a confident relationship-builder who can inspire people to make a meaningful difference for children and families across Scotland?

We are looking for a Senior Philanthropy Executive to join our Partnerships & Philanthropy team and help grow income from CHAS’s mid-level giving audience. This role will focus on building strong relationships with donors and prospects who typically give £1,500–£9,999 per year, while identifying new opportunities to grow supporter loyalty, increase giving, and develop major gift prospects.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys thoughtful relationship management by combining compelling communication and proactive donor development. You will manage and grow a portfolio of mid-level donors, create tailored stewardship plans, spot opportunities within our supporter base, and work across CHAS to help build a strong pipeline of future philanthropic support.

The role sits within CHAS’s Partnerships & Philanthropy team and will play an important part in supporting long-term income growth and sustainability for the charity. The post can be based at any central CHAS site, but this is a flexible role that will allow for ample home and remote work. Regular (weekly) travel to meetings and events will be required in this role with some locations not easily accessed via public transport. It would be beneficial if you have a full driving license and access to a car. There may be opportunities for occasional overnight travel but this will be planned well in advance and with your consultation.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will bring a blend of fundraising experience, excellent relationship skills and the confidence to engage supporters in a warm, thoughtful and compelling way.

You will have:

• Experience of fundraising, including a track record of securing four and five figure gifts.
• Strong relationship-building skills, with experience of increasing supporters’ financial and non-financial commitment over time.
• The ability to develop compelling proposals, presentations, and donor communications that inspire people to support a cause.
• Confidence working across teams to develop strong pipelines, identify opportunities, and translate relationships into income.
• Excellent organisation and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet agreed deadlines.
• The ability to communicate with warmth, clarity and influence — whether through writing, meetings, events, presentations or conversations with supporters.
• An understanding of data protection, GDPR and responsible supporter information management.

You do not need to have worked in children’s hospice care before, but you should be motivated by the opportunity to represent a global leader in children’s palliative care. Knowledge of hospice or paediatric palliative care would be helpful, but it is not essential.

About CHAS

At CHAS, we support families during the toughest of times. We have ambitions to reach every family in Scotland who is living with the heart-breaking prognosis that their child is dying, offering care and support that empowers them to make the most of the time they have together.

This is a brilliant opportunity to join a supportive and ambitious fundraising team at an important moment for CHAS as we have recently launched our £20 million ‘More Than A Hospice’ appeal which will once again transform children’s palliative care in Scotland and set a new global standard.

In this role, you will help supporters feel closer to CHAS’s work, understand the impact of their giving, and see how their generosity can help children and families across Scotland. You will have the chance to shape and grow mid-level giving, work alongside colleagues across the charity, and contribute to a strong pipeline of philanthropic support for the future.

We offer:

• Flexible working: Our teams work flexibly and in a hybrid way, with time split between home and CHAS locations in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Balloch and Kinross. We are happy to discuss working arrangements that work for you.
• Development opportunities: You will gain exposure to a variety of fundraising activity, including donor stewardship, prospect development, events, proposals and major giving.
• Professional growth: You will work as part of a high-performing and supportive team where you will be encouraged to develop your skills, confidence and experience.
• Comprehensive benefits: CHAS offers generous annual leave and pension, incremental salary progression, access to Blue Light discounts, and health and wellbeing support.

Scottish Book Trust is a national charity that believes books, reading and writing have the power to change lives.

Reading together and sharing personal stories is a powerful mechanism to connect people, support relationships and provide activities which prioritise authentic, equal participation from each partner.

Project: Development of the Life Story Book Box

We are seeking a consultant to create a co-designed toolkit and guidance to develop and implement our existing “Life Story Book Box” tool.

The new model should support people living with dementia to create their own “Life Story Book Box” during the earlier stages of their dementia journey and explore how this tool can be used by carers to support person-centred practice. The consultant will co-design an actionable, practical guide for the creation and use of this resource by people living with dementia. This builds upon and complements the training currently provided to carers of people living with dementia to co-design “Life Story Book Boxes” in later stages of the dementia experience by giving the individual greater ownership and agency.

This resource will supplement the existing Reading is Caring shared reading approach.

Project: Development of the Group Delivery Model

We are seeking a consultant to design and develop a group-based training model that complements our existing one-to-one approach.

The new training model should explore how participants can learn from and support one another through peer engagement, helping us reach more people while maintaining programme quality and effectiveness. The consultant will help design an approach that is engaging, practical and scalable, enabling the programme to support a greater number of participants.

Projects timeline: Sept 2026 – Feb 2027.

Budgets: Max. £9,000 per project (inc. VAT & exp)

Applicants should provide details of their approach against this budget.

Deadline for questions: 9:00am 27th July

Interested parties can contact readingiscaring@scottishbooktrust.com

If you are interested in undertaking both pieces of work, please note this in your application and reflect this in your suggested timings and budget allocation. We are open to some flexibility on the suggested timescale.

Full details are on our website.