Queen Margaret University Students’ Union is looking for an enthusiastic and student-focused individual to help strengthen student voice and community life at QMU. This exciting new role will support Course Representatives, student leaders, societies, liberation and identity-based groups to ensure students are empowered to shape both their academic and social experience.

You’ll work closely with elected officers, student volunteers and university staff to coordinate representation systems, support campaigns and events, and help build an inclusive, vibrant campus community. We’re looking for someone with strong interpersonal and organisational skills, a passion for student engagement, and experience supporting groups, volunteers or community activity.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys relationship-building, empowering others and making a visible difference to student life.

Home-Start Edinburgh is looking for a relationship-driven, proactive and commercially minded Corporate Partnerships Manager to help grow income and impact through businesses across Edinburgh.

This is an exciting opportunity to build and shape a corporate partnerships function with real scope to influence how the role develops. We are looking for someone who can identify opportunities, open doors, build trust and convert conversations into meaningful support for families with young children.

The role will focus strongly on new business: building a robust pipeline, developing compelling propositions, securing new supporters and leading the rollout of our Friends of Edinburgh scheme as an accessible route for local businesses to get involved. Over time, as new partners come on board, the role will also grow into a broader account management and partnership growth portfolio.

About Home-Start Edinburgh

Home-Start Edinburgh supports families with young children through challenging times. Through compassionate, non-judgemental support, we help parents build confidence, strengthen relationships and create more stable foundations for family life.

We want more businesses in Edinburgh to feel connected to that mission - not simply as donors, but as local partners helping families in their own city. This role will be central to making that happen.

What you will do

• Develop and deliver a practical corporate partnerships plan focused on new income growth.
• Build and manage a strong pipeline of prospects across Edinburgh’s business community.
• Create and pitch compelling partnership opportunities for businesses of different sizes and types.
• Lead the development and rollout of Friends of Edinburgh as part of our wider new business approach.
• Secure new support through partnerships, sponsorship, employee fundraising, volunteering, events, gifts in kind and other relevant routes.
• Build excellent relationships with supporters and, over time, help grow and deepen those partnerships.

Who we are looking for

• Someone with experience in corporate fundraising, business development, sales, account management, sponsorship or partnerships.
• Someone who is confident building relationships externally and can combine warmth, credibility and persistence.
• Someone who enjoys creating opportunities from scratch and is comfortable working strategically as well as hands-on.
• Someone who can write and speak persuasively, tailor approaches to different audiences and keep momentum in a varied pipeline.
• Someone who is motivated by purpose and excited by the chance to help shape a growing area of work.

You do not need to come from the charity sector to apply.

We know excellent partnership-builders can come from a range of backgrounds. If you have experience winning business, managing clients, developing sponsorship or building commercial relationships - and you are motivated by the chance to use those skills for a strong local cause - we would love to hear from you.

Why join us

• A genuine opportunity to build and shape this area of work.
• Flexible working of 20 hours per week.
• A values-led organisation making a visible difference to families in Edinburgh.
• A role that combines autonomy, creativity, relationship-building and social impact.
• The chance to create something sustainable and locally rooted.

Terms

• Salary: £38,000 FTE, pro rata for 20 hours per week.
• Location: Edinburgh / hybrid, with local travel for meetings and events.
• This post is subject to Home-Start Edinburgh’s safer recruitment processes.

Purpose of Post:

The post-holder will work within the East Dunbartonshire Befriending Service, providing social contact and inclusion through volunteers to vulnerable socially isolated adults 18+ who have been referred to the service and reside in East Dunbartonshire. This will be either telephone, one-to-one, or group methods of befriending. You will assist in supporting carefully recruited, selected and trained volunteer befrienders.

Outcomes of the Service:

East Dunbartonshire Befriending Service provides services to increase the social connectedness of its service-users; reduce the isolation and loneliness of its service-users, and ensure that its volunteers have access to high-quality volunteering.

The above post is based in Kirkintilloch but works across the whole of East Dunbartonshire. Travel across East Dunbartonshire and working out of the office will be required.

Suitability:

This role would suit an individual who seeks a work-life balance. Who values job satisfaction and the reward from helping people flourish, gain confidence and experience the joy befriending can give.

Edinburgh Young Carers is seeking a suitably experienced and qualified applicant to co-ordinate our awareness-raising, training and support to schools and Higher Education (HE)/Further Education (FE) establishments across Edinburgh, with the aim to develop whole-school, sustainable approaches in the identification of, and support to, young carers.

The post-holder will support the delivery and development of the ‘We Care: Schools for Young Carers’ award to schools across Edinburgh, and nationwide, and will work in partnership with Capital Carers and Space to ensure consistent delivery of schools and HE/FE work across the four localities of the City.

The candidate will need to be experienced in working with children and young people in formal or informal education settings, with experience of project set-up, management and reporting and in developing and delivering presentations and running training events/workshops for young people and professionals.

Organisation Profile

EYC is a voluntary organisation working with and on behalf of young carers throughout Edinburgh. We are one of the largest and best established independent young carer organisations in Scotland. We have a strong commitment to the rights of children and young people.

Working at EYC and Staff Benefits

EYC is a passionate, fun, supportive place to work. We have a great team and take good care of our staff. Our benefits package includes: 27 days’ annual leave plus all public holidays, 6% matched pension, free healthcare through Benenden Health after 6 months’ probation, hybrid working, flexible hours, Cycle to Work scheme and extensive training opportunities. We are also a recognised Carer Positive employer.

Who we are?

Teens+ provides post school education and lifelong learning services for young people with complex communication needs including autism and learning disabilities.

The service is person centred and individualised to ensure each student, regardless of their needs, can reach their fullest potential.

Where are we?

We currently have centres in Edinburgh (Liberton Brae, Ravenscroft and McDonald Road, Leith) and in East Lothian, Musselburgh.

This vacancy is for the McDonald Road Centre, Edinburgh.

Purpose of the role!

The Education Supervisor is a key member of the centre’s management team, responsible for leading and supporting staff, overseeing the delivery of high-quality education, and contributing to the overall running of the centre.

The role involves providing effective supervision and people management, working alongside the Centre Manager to manage the staff team and ensure consistent, values-led practice. In partnership with the Education Tutor, the Education Supervisor oversees education delivery to ensure all learning is individualised, meaningful, and aligned with each student’s abilities, needs, and future goals.

The Education Supervisor plays an active role in communication with students, families, and professionals, ensuring a collaborative approach to support and outcomes. They also support the operational management of the centre, including designated compliance responsibilities, ensuring adherence to regulatory frameworks and organisational standards.

Confident in decision-making, the Education Supervisor will contribute to the day-to-day leadership of the centre, including deputising in the absence of the Centre Manager, and supporting wider organisational priorities and continuous improvement.

Who are we looking for?

The successful applicant will have proven experience of working with adults with additional support needs using a person-centred approach.

You will be a confident leader, working closely with the Centre Manager, coaching and leading the staff team to meet the needs of the service, deliver high standards of performance, and create a positive and supportive environment for both staff and students.

You will understand how to connect with the local communities and offer opportunities for development and growth to the students.

You will consistently adhere to the organisation’s values, acting as a positive role model at all times by demonstrating professionalism, integrity, accountability, and respect in your day-to-day practice. You will lead by example, promoting a positive culture, encouraging collaboration, and inspiring others to uphold the standards and behaviours expected across the organisation.

You will be enthusiastic and self-motivated, and must be able to work on your own initiative and as part of a team.

You will be able to communicate effectively 1:1 as well as to groups of people.

Ideally you will have had a level of management experience and previous background in education delivery would be advantageous.

The successful applicants will require membership of the PVG (Protection of Vulnerable Groups) Scheme.

JOB PURPOSE

The National Trust for Scotland is Scotland’s largest membership organisation and Scotland’s largest charity land manager. We manage many of Scotland’s most significant woodlands, from the extensive Caledonian pinewoods of Mar Lodge to rainforest hazelwood’s in the Hebrides and endemic Whitebeam woodlands on Arran.

As a founding member of both the Alliance for Scotland’s Rainforest and Caledonian Pinewood Partnership and as a key delivery partners with the Scottish Government for landscape scale ecological restoration of native woodland in Scotland, we are recruiting a post to help drive this exciting work.

You will lead the Trusts outreach for native woodland restoration across Scotland, developing several large scale projects. You will build partnerships with private landowners, communities of place and communities of interest, including other eNGOs and conservation organisations. You will have the backing and support of our nature, fundraising, planning, community engagement, estates and media teams.

The focus of your work will be developing two Alliance for Scotland’s Rainforest landscape scale projects in West Lochalsh and on Arran and provide initial contact and support to pinewood managers who look after threatened remnants, to bring their sites into recovery.

We are looking for strong communication & diplomacy skills, which can be influential at a network scale. Someone who can build trust and influence in land management situations, across a diverse range of partners with different interests and objectives. Someone who can develop partnership project plans, acting as the bridge between our internal expertise, existing and new partners. In particular you will develop delivery project content to a “shovel ready” stage, so your fundraising colleagues can draft applications.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Making initial contact, maintaining and/or developing ongoing communication and liaison with external landowners, stakeholders and associated organisations.
• Understanding external landowner’s and communities’ values, objectives and constraints and communicating the Trusts, with a view to building trust, understanding and cooperation in relation to collaborative, nature positive land management.
• Develop collegiate partnership operations and memoranda of understanding with both internal and external stakeholder input and support.
• Liase with internal NTS expertise across multiple disciplines, to inform your delivery of external communications and advice to stakeholders.
• Develop collaborative landscape scale funding bids across multiple estates and landholdings, including both NTS land and externally owned land, in association with the Trusts fundraising team.
• Supporting applications for government grants including Scottish Forestry Grant Scheme, Agri Environment Climate Scheme, Nature Restoration Fund etc.
• Coordinate delivery of landscape scale nature restoration projects across multiple estates and landholdings, including both NTS land and externally owned land, including budget management.
• Procure and manage contracts associated with landscape scale nature restoration projects, monitor delivery of grant conditions and complete grant claims & reports.
• Organise partnership meetings and events to strengthen networks and collaboration within the partnership.
• Write reports for partners and funders showing progress against agreed objectives and funding obligations.

This is a unique opportunity to support the effective coordination of CCN, and support CCN’s members to shape the development of the newly independent organisation. With the role previously being hosted by Fauna and Flora, from August 2026 onwards the Coordinator will be the first direct employee of CCN.

With the direction and mentorship of the board of trustees, and ongoing mentoring support from Fauna & Flora, this role suits an individual who is excited by the prospect of working independently, with a passion to facilitate the member groups’ visions for nature across Scotland’s coasts and seas.

The ideal candidate will have excellent organisational and communication skills, with the ability to coordinate communications across a large and disparate group. You will have good knowledge of the Scottish marine environment and current marine and coastal issues, and a strong commitment to the rights of communities in marine conservation. You will be able to seek out and harness the views and contributions of others, and to work sensitively and constructively with a range of stakeholders.

About CCN:

The Coastal Communities Network (or CCN) launched in 2017 with support from NGO Fauna & Flora, as a platform to bring together community organisations dedicated to safeguarding Scotland's coastal and marine environments. CCN has since grown from its eight founding members into a diverse network of over 35 Scottish community-led groups, ranging from informal volunteer-run groups to larger, charitable organisations, all united by a shared sense of accountability to their community and commitment to marine and coastal protection and restoration. CCN and its members have been a driving force behind remarkable achievements for the nature of Scotland's coastal areas. Together, members work on a wide range of marine and coastal topics, including marine management, community-led restoration, marine litter and pollution and industrial impact.

CCN’s mission is to connect and strengthen community-led efforts to protect, restore, and sustainably use coastal & marine resources for the benefit of nature, people, and climate. Our aims are to support local action to protect and restore marine and coastal biodiversity; build capacity for community participation and leadership in marine management, and advocate for a community voice in decision-making for the marine environment.

2025 marked a pivotal point for CCN as, following a collective decision by members, it became an independent Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO). This exciting development sees us now transitioning into employing our own staff and developing our strategy, as we continue to support an increasing interest from communities.

Family Support Workers provide one-to-one holistic, information, advice and support to families across Highland via phone/email/online, supporting and enabling them to improve their lives by building their confidence, empowering them to recognise their personal expertise and value, implement practical support strategies, access services, know their rights, and have their voices heard.

Each Family Support Worker will also have a specific locality remit as detailed earlier: for 1) face-to-face support activities in collaboration with local organisations and communities and 2) building relationships with local partners and communities to a) improve our reach and impact and b) identify and pursue opportunities for collaboration to effectively meet local needs within the resource available.

Family Support Workers are working towards the following outcomes for families:

• Reduced isolation – building relationships with others
• Improved resilience – enabling coping mechanisms at a time when the usual strategies and services may not be available
• Improved access to information, support and advice
• Improved recognition of own strengths
• Improved mental health and well-being
• Increased confidence to make positive changes

As a small charity team work is integral to our success and effective functioning. It is sometimes necessary for team members to share responsibility for a range of tasks such as communications/fundraising/service strategy/monitoring for which a larger organisation would have dedicated posts.

Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC) is looking for a proactive, self-motivated team player to be part of an exciting development in partnership with the Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership (ACHSCP). ACHSCP and SRC were successful in a funding bid through the Gambling Levy Fund, and we now have the opportunity to create a post that will specifically develop a Gambling Harm Recovery Network (GHRN) across Aberdeen City. Scottish Recovery Consortium will host this post (initially for 1 year) with the potential to extend for another three years. SRC will have an integral role in the project, providing ongoing development work and specialist expertise.

The project aims to create a learning, adaptive, person centred system of support for gambling harms in Aberdeen City. It operationalises national recommendations, leverages local assets, embeds trauma informed and lived experience driven approaches, and builds a more coherent, equitable, and responsive system of care. Through this work, ACHSCP and SRC will reduce unmet need and move closer to the national vision for a public health-led, person-centred response to gambling harms.

As an employee of the Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC), the post holder will report directly to the Chief Executive Officer, who has overall responsibility for the SRC element of this project. The successful post holder will have a unique opportunity to work directly with the Community and Prisons-based teams within SRC and, externally, with a range of partners across Aberdeen City, including ACHSCP.

The role involves designing, developing and delivering a local GHRN across Aberdeen City. The postholder will work alongside people with lived and living experience, communities, statutory services and the third sector to strengthen recovery-oriented, trauma-informed and rights-based responses to gambling harms.

This is a role in the north of Scotland, requiring travel across Aberdeen City. There is also an expectation that you will attend SRC monthly staff team meetings in our Glasgow office and any others relevant to organisational work and development. Your role will be to:

• Asset map the current gambling support across Aberdeen City
• Identify gaps in provision
• Lead the development, design, delivery and coordination of a local GHRN.
• Build strong working relationships with partners to ensure the collaborative success of the project

Where the role fits in our organisation

Our Communities and Place team consists of our Community Transport, Employability, Volunteering, Children and Families and Locality teams. This role sits within the Community Transport team, although the focus of the role is on Business Support, Employability and Volunteering – no technical knowledge of Transport or bus driving is required.

What You'll Do

The Connecting Communities Development Officer will play a critical role in creating and assuring the sustainability of Community Transport across Dumfries and Galloway over the next 4 years. There is significant value to be unlocked within this sector by the addition of development capacity through this role and we are excited about the opportunities for this new team.

A detailed knowledge of Transport or Community Transport is not needed for this role – it is a business support role, and will not involve the direct delivery of any community transport operations. There will be no driving, no logistics planning and no working directly with drivers.

Instead, this role will support Community Transport Operators (CTOs) with the evolution of their Business Plans, grant finding, volunteer recruitment and employability opportunities. You will form great relationships with the CTO Managers, making sure you add real value amongst their daily jobs.

This role would suit someone with experience of working in business support or administration for a third sector organisation and with ambitions to make an even bigger difference to the people of Dumfries and Galloway through a regional role, or a new entrant with the correct skills and approach.

The role will be line managed and supported by the Lead for Community Transport and further supported by the wider TSDG Comms and Business Support teams. We are advertising for the Lead Officer in parallel with this post, so this is an exciting opportunity to join and shape a new regional project in Dumfries and Galloway.

It is principally a 9am – 5pm, 4 day/week role, with very limited evening or weekend working anticipated. The actual work pattern would be discussed at interview but we can offer a high degree of flexibility through our flexi-time policy. A minimum 25% of time would be expected to be in the Dumfries office, 25% out with the CTOs across the region and the rest home-working or in the Dumfries office.

• Be the visible face of TSDG to the Community Transport Operators so that they feel well-supported in their delivery.
• Support CTOs in their development aspirations such as decarbonisation, fleet replacement, governance etc.
• Work with CTOs to ensure that their Business Models are better able to attract grant funding and earned income.
• Work with the TSDG Employability team and CTOs to plan and deliver effective Employability programmes through CTOs.
• Plan and deliver a programme of region-wide volunteer-recruitment to CTOs, in partnership with CTOs to ensure that it matches local need.
• Work with CTOs to gather and evaluate relevant information as per the agreed plan around the impact of their services.
• Support colleagues across TSDG to deliver on our joint outcomes and contribute to effective team working to make TSDG a great place to work.

More about you

• You will have experience of business support or administration, or equivalent Training / Qualifications – this role would suit a new entrant with the right skills and approach.
• You will be able to quickly form excellent working relationships with a wide range of partners.
• You will highlight emerging opportunities to line management, displaying good judgment and a bias for action.
• You will take responsibility for delivery of your own outcomes, and to escalate challenges or concerns in good time.
• You will be a good team player, with good verbal and written communication skills and good knowledge of current common workplace IT systems.

You can read more about our exciting new approach to Community Transport, and the Business Case for the new model, here: Community Transport Dumfries and Galloway | Supporting the Development of Community Transport