Create Paisley is a small, dynamic youth arts charity, based in Renfrewshire, using art and creativity to support young people’s mental health and wellbeing. We’re looking for a new, part-time Youth Worker to join our amazing team.

Could you be part of something different? We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to use their gifts, skills and experience to make a difference to the lives of the people in our parishes and communities.

We are looking for someone to work alongside the parish minister in a range of pastoral, congregational and community-related activities. This post is also suitable for that of parish deacon (please see additional information under Main Duties, Person Specification and Terms and Conditions for candidates wishing to apply for this post as a deacon).

The successful candidate will be a committed Christian with an active Church connection (Genuine Occupational Requirement in terms of the Equality Act 2010).

It is essential you have the right to work in the UK before applying to work with us. You will be asked to provide proof of your eligibility to work and remain in the UK if you are invited to attend for an interview.

We are thrilled to announce that Mellow Parenting is growing, and that means more families, parents and young people across Scotland will have access to our relationship-focused, trauma-informed programmes.

Post 1 — Mellow Parenting Project Worker

Robertson Trust — Nurturing Relationships Large Grant

3 days (22.5 hrs) per week

National reach: starting with Glasgow, Forth Valley, Edinburgh and Fife

Post 2 — Mellow Parenting Project Worker

Glasgow Whole Family Wellbeing Fund — Govan Demonstration of Change

3 days (22.5 hrs) per week

Govan, Glasgow

Post 3 — Mellow Parenting & Young Person’s Project Worker

Govan Demonstration of Change (2 days) + National Lottery Young Start (1 day working with young people)

3 days (22.5 hrs) per week

Govan and Forth Valley

You’ll bring…

• Experience delivering group-based work with families, parents or young people

• A relational, trauma-informed approach that puts relationships at the centre

• Drive to help families break cycles of poverty and adversity

• Confidence working independently and as part of a small, passionate team

The Dewar Arts Awards is seeking a Charity Co-ordinator to help manage and develop its programme of support for talented young people in Scotland.

Are you an organised, energetic professional with a passion for supporting the next generation of creative talent in Scotland?

The Dewar Arts Awards is seeking to appoint a new Charity Co-ordinator to join our team. Reporting to the Chair, you will be the main point of contact for applicants and award holders across Scotland, helping them access funding for their artistic development. You will help support a programme that has provided funding to more than 1,300 young people since the Awards were established.

About the Role

This is a flexible and remote part-time position (averaging 17.5 hours per week). While day-to-day duties are carried out from home, you will need to attend four main Trustee meetings each year, alongside key stakeholder meetings, typically held in Edinburgh or Glasgow. Because our work is focused primarily in the Central Belt, this role is ideal for someone living within a two-hour travel radius of these cities.

Key responsibilities include:

• Applications and Nominations: Handle nominations received by email, prepare applications for Trustee meetings, circulate required financial and communication papers, notify applicants of decisions, and update partner organisations.
• Managing Awards: Setting up paper and electronic files for successful awardees, arranging payment of awards (primarily by BACS), keeping accurate records, and following up each year with successful awardees to secure annual/final reports.
• Trustee Meetings: Organising four Trustee meetings each year in Glasgow or Edinburgh, securing venues and catering, scheduling meetings, and creating agendas in consultation with the Chair of Trustees. The role also includes progressing matters arising, promptly producing and circulating minutes, preparing AGM documentation, and ensuring the Annual Report & Accounts are ready for approval at the August meeting.
• General Administration: Respond to enquiries, maintain award schedules, submit signed accounts to OSCR, liaise with advisers, manage tenders, maintain backups and statutory registers, purchase supplies, and ensure timely invoice payments, in adherence with GDPR.

Package & Terms

• Salary: £23,000 per annum (reviewed annually)
• Hours: Part-time, 17.5 hours per week (flexible hours, though workload varies across the year)
• Holidays: 15 days / 105 hours inclusive of bank holidays, taken flexibly
• Location: Remote (Scotland), with meetings in Glasgow/Edinburgh
• Prerequisites: Two references, a Disclosure Scotland check, and the right to work in the UK.

The role

Award-winning animal charity Pet Blood Bank UK is recruiting for a Regional Coordinator based in Scotland.

Working closely with the Area Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring the successful coordination of donation sessions within your region. With a regional collection team comprising of between 15-25 Vets, Nurses and Donor Assistants, you will be a key person in building relationships with our venues, increasing donor recruitment and retention, and developing our growing pool of regional volunteers whilst striving to make sure our donation sessions are successful.

Background

Launched in 2007, Pet Blood Bank UK is the only charity that provides a blood bank service for all vets across the UK. As part of our charitable remit, our aim is to advance animal health and welfare and to relieve suffering by providing quick and convenient access to blood. Every unit of blood helps save up to four other lives, saving thousands of lives every year.

Our values

Caring. Pioneering. Real. These are the values Pet Blood Bank UK is built upon. Our values bind us together as a charity and guide everything we do. We expect every team member to know, understand and embody our values, helping to build our reputation as a pioneering, caring and practical charity. Read more about our values.

What you’ll do

As the Regional Coordinator, you will be responsible for ensuring all the relevant tasks and procedures are adhered to, to successfully coordinate donation sessions within your region. This will involve:

Working closely with the Area Manager who will provide support and guidance on this evolving role.

Ongoing development and support of donation sessions within your region, ensuring sessions run as efficiently and effectively as possible, whilst increasing donor recruitment and attendance.

Responsible for ensuring that any feedback is communicated between the Area Manager and the regional clinical team at the earliest opportunity.

Working alongside the Area Manager to ensure the region is meeting the key performance indicators set out for the collection teams, looking at methods to motivate the team and encourage them to achieve the most successful outcome for each potential donor.

Support the building of a volunteer team within the region, develop a pool of volunteers trained to support sessions, events and, where appropriate, the transport of kit and blood.

Organise and manage the rota for your region by liaising with the team to ensure all sessions are fully covered.

Support the co-ordination and maintenance of session kit stored in Dunfermline, collaborating with Loughborough teams to ensure all items remain fit for purpose.

Help organise and attend events to raise awareness of Pet Blood Bank in your region. You will be required to deliver presentations on Pet Blood Bank to potential donor owners, veterinary professionals, and other organisations.

As part of this role, you will be required to build relations with the other departments within Pet Blood Bank and support the communication between the collection team and other departments.

Due to the nature of the work carried out by Pet Blood Bank, flexibility is key to this role. You will be expected to be part of a weekend duty on-call rota (1 in 6 weekends).

What we need

An excellent, confident communicator (written and verbal) who has a proven background working effectively with a variety of people including peers, clients, and volunteers. Good time management, ability to self-motivate, think proactively, and be an enthusiastic team player who strives for continued improvement. Experience of working within or knowledge of the charity sector is beneficial.

We’re looking for someone who:

Has an animal health related qualification, proven experience working with dogs, or holds a veterinary qualification

Has previous team leadership or supervision experience

Experience using Microsoft Office (word, outlook, excel)

Previous experience of working in a remote environment

Holds a full UK driving licence and has access to their own transport

Has a confident and professional manner with the ability to problem solve

Is committed to positive customer experience

Confident engaging and speaking to the public and professionals.

What’s in it for you

In return, we offer full training, competitive salary with pay progression, contributory pension scheme, lifestyle rewards, and 30 days annual holidays (pro rata, including bank holidays).

Further details

This role comprises of 15 hours administration time per week, these hours are hybrid and worked across Monday/Wednesday and Friday, working 5 hours per day you will have flexibility to pick the hours worked between 9am-5pm ensuring the core hours of 10am-12noon are covered. In addition, it includes a minimum of working 12 blood donation sessions annually (average 3/quarter) at varied locations on weekend days. Flexibility around the time work is undertaken is essential as some evening and weekend work will be required. Full training will be given for both the administration role and to perform a team role on a donation session relevant to qualifications.

Living within the region you are supervising is essential, as well as the flexibility to travel and attend sessions across the whole region. Candidates will need to be based within a 30 minute commute of Dunfermline to allow a minimum of once weekly working from our Dunfermline office.

Travel is required within your region to and from donation sessions and our Dunfermline office, a mileage allowance is paid for this, there is no access to a company vehicle. Occasional travel to neighbouring regions or Pet Blood Bank offices (Loughborough) will be required with notice.

Midlothian Sure Start is a dynamic, award winning third sector organisation. It offers a quality support service to families with children up to age 12 across Midlothian. Midlothian Sure Start has been in existence since 2001 and employs over 70 members of staff providing a service in Family Learning centres and in the community. Our ethos is to provide a holistic, confidential community based service where families are at the heart of what we do.

We are looking for people who are as passionate about the services we provide as we are and in return we are keen to support professional development with excellent training and development opportunities, enhanced sick pay (following completion of probation), enhanced annual leave entitlement (we close completely for a well-earned break over Christmas and New Year) and we support our staff with an Employee Assistance Programme, Pension Scheme, Discounted Childcare, Health Cash Plan and Discounted Shopping.

In April 26 Parenting Across Scotland, Children in Scotland and Midlothian Sure Start received funding from the Scottish Government’s Whole Family Wellbeing Fund to deliver the next phase of Open Kindergarten in Scotland work. The central aim of Phase 4 is to build capacity for further roll out of Open Kindergartens across Scotland.

We are currently recruiting for a Training & Development Officer, To lead and support workforce development for practitioners delivering, or planning to deliver, Open Kindergarten provision across third sector and local authority settings, building a community of Open Kindergarten practice across Scotland.

Experience of working in Early Years, Family Support, Perinatal or Community Education settings is essential, alongside delivering training and supporting practitioner learning. Applicants must demonstrate trauma informed, strengths based practice, strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively, with experience of project delivery and reflective practice desirable.

Will be required to connect and coordinate across multiple local authority areas.

Are you looking for an opportunity to use your digital skills to support Scotland's charities and voluntary organisations?

The rapid growth of AI tools is the biggest digital change to hit charities this decade – and our team is at the forefront of supporting the voluntary sector to plan, adapt and thrive.

About the role

We’re recruiting this new role to increase our support, training, and advice to enable charities to make strategic use of digital and technology, particularly AI tools and platforms.

Our new AI Development Officer will contribute to scaling our advice and support around digital tools and AI adoption, enabling hundreds more charities to apply these more effectively and making Scotland a better place as a result.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Create and improve our existing content
• Give talks and provide training online and in-person
• Engage with our partners to create links to their resources
• Contribute to discussions on digital matters at national and local levels

About you

Your in-depth knowledge of AI and digital change will mean you are up-to-speed with the tools, challenges and opportunities this brings.

Your strong, engaging communication skills will enable you to build relationships with our partners, colleagues, and wider charity staff and volunteers (including those who are non-technical!).

Your understanding of the charity sector in Scotland – or being able to pick this up quickly – will enable you to contribute to planning, deliver presentations, and explore solutions to the digital challenges facing the sector.

How we’ll support you

You’ll be working as part of the digital evolution team, with a supportive manager and an experienced team.

Part time hours and other flexible working options, including working from home for part of the week, will be fully considered. We encourage you to apply if you believe you meet most of the criteria in the person specification. We share our interview questions in advance. If you want to have a chat about the job or our flexible working approach, please contact us at HR@scvo.scot

Make a lasting impact in a vibrant coastal community.

Port Gordon Community Trust is seeking a dynamic, articulate, and confident Development Officer to help drive the next phase of our growth. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in strengthening community cohesion while helping secure community ownership of Port Gordon Harbour.

We’ve already achieved significant success—and now we’re looking for someone who can help lead us through the next stage of our journey

About the Role

As Development Officer, you will:

• Lead and deliver financial development initiatives
• Identify and secure funding opportunities, including grant writing
• Support and supervise staff where required
• Engage confidently with the community and stakeholders
• Represent the Trust in public forums and events
• Contribute to strategic planning and long-term sustainability

About You

We’re looking for someone with:

• Proven experience in the third sector
• A strong track record in financial development and fundraising
• Demonstrated success in grant writing
• Experience supervising staff or volunteers
• Excellent communication and public speaking skills
• A passion for community-led development

Why Join Us?

This is a unique chance to be part of a forward-thinking community organisation with ambitious plans for the future. You’ll play a central role in shaping projects that will benefit Port Gordon for generations to come.

This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to work with a driven team of social enterprise and community developers in one of Scotland’s most well regarded and effective social enterprise support providers. Community Enterprise Ltd is a well-established third sector support organisation with a progressive outlook and a diverse portfolio.

Demand for our services continues to grow and the sector is moving towards new and innovative models. We are therefore looking to add to our Development Team to meet that demand. The post involves delivering capacity building and business support to a wide range of clients and projects across Scotland. These can range from established social businesses to smaller voluntary sector organisations concerned about their sustainability as well as new and emerging individual social entrepreneurs. We someone who is driven, positive and an innovative solutions focused thinker.

We are keen to enhance the capacity and skillset of our development team where possible by recruiting someone with experience in some or all of the following: finance and financial, impact evaluation, and marketing. The successful candidate will be able to deliver this alongside broader development work.

£38,000 f/t pa. 7.2% Workplace pension employer contribution

Hybrid working model. Minimum one day per week in West Lothian office. Travel throughout Scotland required. The post holder must hold a clean driving license.

Tiree Community Development Trust (known as “Urras Thiriodh”) are seeking a suitably experienced and skilled candidate to play a key role in development of commercial trading activity and income generation, in the beautiful and vibrant Inner Hebridean island of Tiree.

The newly created role is based within our Projects and Services Team, and will take on a lead oversight of existing commercial trading activity within our company group, as well as playing a key role in delivery of work to develop new income streams via trading activity, to support the future funding of the Trust, it’s development work and community services. The role has a dual focus around operational delivery and improvement, and project development and delivery to fund and deliver new assets and activities. Existing trading activities include a community filling station, leased premises for local businesses and delivery of useful assessment services and certifications such as EPCs. There is also an expectation that this role will support the current development of community housing, and the eventual administration of that housing for affordable let to local residents.

The role will play a key part in the ongoing delivery of our Community Development Plan – tireetrust.org.uk/the-development-plan