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.

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.

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.

The purpose of this post is to deliver Wise Women’s volunteering opportunities, courses and groups to women in the Glasgow area, to develop learning opportunities within the organisation and to link women to external training and learning organisations. This post is office based.

You will be skilled in groupwork and will have experience of working with women who have experienced violence and abuse.

Wise Women is not a crisis service, but you will be required to have an understanding of survivors needs in a groupwork environment.

The nature of our work requires a commitment to the feminist analysis of male violence against women. Wise Women is a single sex service provider under the Equality Act 2010.

About Us

Inverness Badenoch and Strathspey Citizens Advice Bureau is an independent charity which provides holistic advice, information and support to members of the public. Our services are free, impartial, non-judgemental, confidential and independent.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Patient Rights (Scotland) Act was passed in February 2011. The Act created the Patient Advice and Support Service (PASS) to promote awareness of patient rights and responsibilities, and provide advice and support to those wishing to give feedback or comments, or raise concerns or complaints about NHS care received.

Inverness Badenoch & Strathspey Citizens Advice Bureau provide the PASS service in our local area as well as providing support to the National PASS Helpline as part of the role.

Patient Advisers will provide clients with advice and information who wish to give feedback or comments, or raise concerns or complaints to the NHS and support bureaux volunteers and staff with queries on the PASS service. They will work on a rota to provide advice on the PASS National Helpline as well as managing casework, producing statistical reports and where necessary carrying out promotional activities or attending meeting with stakeholders as part of their role

The Society provides direct financial support to single women aged over 50 who are in need and has been doing so since 1847.

We have a vacancy for a Caseworker to cover the Lothians, Borders, Fife, Falkirk, Clackmannanshire and some parts of Perthshire and Angus. Ideally the post holder will be located centrally in this area, but the right person is more important than the right location.

Caseworkers assess both new applicants and existing beneficiaries against the Society’s eligibility criteria, as well as providing some advice and support including signposting to other services. An understanding of the challenges that older women living on low incomes face is crucial, and good knowledge of welfare benefits / money guidance is very helpful, although this is not primarily an advice role. Most importantly, we are looking for someone with significant experience and a non-judgemental, empathic approach who can help the Society to understand people’s circumstances and to find the best ways for the Society to prioritise and offer support.

The Society offers excellent conditions, flexible working and the opportunity to develop a uniquely positive working relationship with the women we support. While the post is home based, it will involve significant travel throughout the post holder’s region (including occasional overnight stays) and to attend meetings in Edinburgh / Glasgow a couple of times a year. PVG membership is essential as are a driver’s licence and access to a car. Mileage is paid at 55ppm.

The Society is a registered Scottish Charity SC016095 and is striving to be an equal opportunity employer.

In this role, you’ll:

• Support the development of a corporate pipeline through prospect research.
• Support the delivery of cultivation events, proposals and pitches to secure new partnerships.
• Build strong, values-led relationships with corporate partners.
• Work with colleagues across services to identify opportunities and gather impact stories.
• Contribute to partnership activity that supports income growth and engagement.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Experience in income generation or working in a target-driven environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write concise and engaging fundraising copy and promotional materials.
• The ability to build meaningful relationships with a range of stakeholders.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
• A proactive, collaborative approach and commitment to our values.

What we offer:

• A workplace with values of with love, with purpose and with strength
• 40 days annual leave, inclusive of bank holidays
• Pension scheme and wellbeing support
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• Access to Westfield Health, giving colleagues and their families confidential counselling support, wellbeing resources, and access to health and lifestyle benefits to support physical and mental wellbeing.
• Blue Light card discount
• A Fair Work accredited workplace

Our Values

Living our values, you will help create a workplace where our people can thrive, ensuring we deliver the best possible support to children and families.

With love, we put children first.

With purpose, we transform lives together.

With strength, we do whatever it takes to protect Scotland’s children.

Carnegie Education Fund is recruiting a Project Officer (0.6 FTE) to support the ongoing development and use of Scotland’s Fair Access Map – a digital resource that provides a national overview of the activity in Scotland that is helping ensure people from all backgrounds can enter and succeed in higher education.

Scotland’s Fair Access Map is a partnership project co‑funded by Carnegie Education Fund and The Robertson Trust, developed with SCAPP and built by The Open University. It aims to provide a complete picture of current fair access initiatives to help practitioners, policymakers and funders understand what is happening across the sector.

The post is currently funded for four years. Any extension will be subject to future funding and the continued success of Scotland’s Fair Access Map.

You will join a small, friendly team of six, working flexibly and remotely, with occasional travel to sector events.

We’re seeking someone who is:

• Confident in building and maintaining productive working relationships.
• Knowledgeable about, or strongly interested in, widening access, higher education or social policy issues in Scotland.
• Accurate and comfortable working with data, records or datasets.
• An excellent communicator with the ability to engage different audiences.
• Well organised, self‑directed and proactive.
• Improvement‑minded, with the ability to spot opportunities and follow them through.

Join us working with an experienced Board of trustees to contribute towards the charity’s governance; making a positive difference to the lives of LGBTQ+ young people.

We are looking for motivated and committed individuals who share the Charity’s values and bring experience and expertise at a strategic level. We are looking to appoint a number of new board members including those who may be interested in taking on the positions of Convener, Vice Convener or Treasurer at an appropriate time. Specific skills we are looking to recruit for include:

• An understanding of Governance and Risk Management
• Ability to interpret financial data
• A knowledge of Public Affairs and PR
• Experience of Youthwork and Safeguarding

A strong profile in the third, public or corporate sector would be advantageous.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be at the forefront of a leading charity and make a lasting, and sometimes life-saving, impact for LGBTQ+ young people

This is an exciting opportunity for an excellent communicator with experience in collaboration and partnership working who is keen to make good quality income maximisation advice and support accessible to families across Scotland.

As Development Officer (Income Maximisation in Schools) you will play a lead role in looking at the actions needed at different levels to sustainably embed advice in schools across Scotland. You’ll be involving and engaging schools, advice services and other partners to develop practical recommendations which can be used to improve provision nationally. You will also be helping to develop resources and professional learning to increase awareness and confidence in schools around financial entitlements and pathways to income maximisation support.

You will be based within the Cost of the School Day team at CPAG in Scotland and will work closely with Welfare Rights, Digital and Policy colleagues.

We welcome applications from individuals with the skills and experience outlined and we can be flexible about working arrangements. We operate a hybrid working system and would be happy to discuss any flexibilities required. CPAG is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion which you can read more about in the job pack.