The Organisation

Engender is Scotland’s leading intersectional feminist policy and advocacy organisation. We work to dismantle gender inequality and to secure equal access to power, safety, resources and rights for all women.

The Role

This role will lead on the development and delivery of Engender’s Equal Representation project. The post-holder will identify opportunities to influence policy and practice and advocate for changes within political parties, democratic institutions and wider culture that will enable greater representation and participation of women in all their diversity. The role will support the realisation of Engender’s strategic aims and the post-holder will work closely with Engender colleagues to support the organisations wider work.

The Candidate

The role requires knowledge of Scotland's political landscape and how political parties function coupled with an ability to build and maintain effective partnerships and stakeholder relationships. We value strategic thinking and the ability to provide vision and direction for initiatives.

An understanding of intersectional feminism and a strong commitment to promoting equality are essential.

The successful candidate should have experience of delivering training to a range of audiences.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills are crucial, as is the ability to work collaboratively within a team while also managing independent tasks and multiple priorities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting the delivery of Engender’s strategy for equal representation in collaboration with wider team
• Monitoring developments in women’s equal representation in Scotland
• Identifying and acting on opportunities to influence policy, practice and culture to achieve equal representation and advocating for changes that will have a positive impact on women’s representation and participation in politics
• Identifying and acting on opportunities for campaigning on specific issues or policy areas relating to Equal Representation
• Maintaining strong relationships with key figures across the political sphere including within political parties, local government, Scottish Parliament, Scottish Government
• Working collaboratively on equal representation with partners across the women’s & equalities sector in Scotland and UK
• Coordinating partnership projects to deliver shared goals (including the Equal Representation Coalition)
• Representing Engender in working groups, projects, at events and other engagements
• Supporting and contributing to the wider work of Engender
• Tracking project outcomes and preparing reports for funders

Required Skills and Experience

• A sound understanding of how political parties function;
• Experience of delivering training;
• A sound understanding of intersectionality and how women experience multiple discriminations;
• Experience of developing effective partnerships;
• Clear writing style, and ability to communicate complex issues simply;
• Excellent inter-personal and communication skills;
• Verbal communication skills, including delivering presentations;
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise workloads and meet targets;

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Experience of networking at a national and local level;
• Experience of political activism;
• Demonstrable commitment to equality across all protected characteristics.
• Ability to collate and analyse data.

This is a full-time position of 35 hours per week (Engender is currently trialling a 4-day working week. During the trial working hours will be reduced to 30 per week with no impact on salary. The outcome of the trial will determine whether Engender adopts this approach in the longer term.) This is a temporary post for 12 months and is not expected to be continued.

Benefits

Competitive salary £30,663.63

39 days annual leave, including bank holidays (36 days pro rata during 4-day week trial)

Auto-enrolment into Engender’s pension scheme with 8% employer contribution

Flexible working opportunities and access to services and resources to support your wellbeing

This post is funded by the Whole Family Well-being Fund made possible by the Scottish Government. As such the project will follow the National Principles of Holistic Whole Family Support; The Promise; and the Scottish Government’s conditions for Whole Family Wellbeing Funding.

Role Purpose

The New Roots Schools Project Worker will play a vital role in delivering a pilot project supporting Primary and Secondary pupils with Additional Support Needs. Many of these pupils often find attending school difficult, especially since Covid. You will deliver a food growing project with small groups of students.

This role offers a unique opportunity to make a tangible difference to the lives of young people and their families by providing therapeutic group activities in a safe outdoor setting.

Key Responsibilities

1. Programme Delivery:

a) Plan and deliver a single block of support focussed on promoting wellbeing in the context of food growing, to targeted schools in a rolling programme, including school holidays and Saturday family sessions.

b) the Project will be delivered to 6 young people at each session with 4 sessions a week, to a maximum of 24 families in total.

c) the Project will work with children and young people from the following groups;

• children or young people with an additional support need or learning disability
• children or young people at a point of transition in their school lives; and
• children or young people experiencing emotional based school avoidance or exhibiting distressed behaviours.

2. Targeting of Project

The project will be targeted as follows:

a) Two Primary Schools and Two Secondary Schools;

b) Focussed on 9-11 and 15-18 year olds.

3. Project Aims

The Project aims are a follows:

a) To work with Primary and Secondary school pupils with emotional based school avoidance or additional needs.

b) To use outdoor settings and food growing activities to promote mental and physical wellbeing.

c) To reduce levels of stress and anxiety that participants may be experiencing due to additional learning needs.

d) To increase young people’s ability to communicate effectively.

e) To promote feelings of self-esteem and team working within the school link projects; and

f) To signpost participants and their families to other relevant 3rd sector organisations.

4. Monitoring and Reporting:

a) Maintain accurate records of all activities, sessions, and outcomes to meet project requirements. Targets/milestones will demonstrate improvements in participants’ well-being through analysis of evaluation and feedback

b) Contribute to the evaluation of the project by providing evidence of impact and success stories.

c) Participate in team meetings and contribute to the development of new ideas and initiatives.

Person Specification

Essential:

• Experience of working with young people and/or families in a supportive role.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Understanding mental health challenges faced by young people and families
• Commitment to promoting inclusivity and sustainability in all aspects of the project.
• Access to a vehicle and a full driving licence

Desirable:

• Qualifications in youth work, social work, or a related field.
• Experience in delivering workshops or group activities to school age pupils.
• Knowledge of local services and networks within East Dunbartonshire
• Experience with monitoring and reporting on project outcomes.

We wish to appoint a Facilities & Maintenance Officer to join our Operations Team at our Head Office in Glasgow city centre.

Our Facilities & Maintenance Officer will have responsibility for the maintenance and upkeep of all Glasgow City Mission premises, the coordination of the cyclical and plant maintenance tasks, provide delivery of maintenance and minor work for all contractors, and act as site coordinator as required. In addition, ensure all equipment including vehicles are maintained, manage storage facilities on and off site, arrange pickup and deliveries as required and assist our Project Team with practical support for our guests.

This position will require membership of the PVG scheme.

Because of the faith-based nature of our work, applicants should be in sympathy with the ethos and values of Glasgow City Mission.

The Robertson Trust are looking for a fixed term Programme and Practice Officer to help us to make a real difference to preventing and reducing poverty and trauma in Scotland. If you would like to be part of one of Scotland’s biggest independent funders, with the clear aim of tackling poverty and trauma, this role could be for you.

Over the next decade, we have committed to use all of our tools and resources to work with others to reduce poverty and trauma across four themes:

• Education pathways
• Financial security
• Nurturing relationships
• Work pathways

The Programme and Practice team work collaboratively with internal colleagues and a range of external stakeholders to drive ‘big change that lasts’ on poverty and trauma. We work to develop and deliver our proactive funding strategy within the four thematic areas above. In doing so, the team will help to shape the Trust’s influencing work and build our subject and policy expertise across our thematic areas.

Key to our approach will be building relationships with our colleagues, our grantholders and with external organisations and expertise. Crucially, this will include a commitment to placing people with experience of poverty and trauma at the heart of our work.

We are looking for one individual to join our Programme and Practice Team as a Programme and Practice Officer on fixed term maternity cover (12 months from contract start).

Key responsibilities will include:

• Helping to develop and deliver the Trust’s proactive funding plans for our long-term change awards (our Programme Awards) including learning from what we fund now to shape our plans to do so in the future
• Supporting and enabling collaboration across the Trust’s full staff team in relation to our thematic areas across our work to fund, support and influence.
• Building the Trust’s relationships and connections with diverse stakeholders in our thematic areas, placing people and families with experience of poverty and/or trauma at the heart of our work
• Helping the Trust build its subject and policy expertise in our thematic areas
• Helping to shape the Trust’s plans around influencing and delivering social change

A full job description is available on our website.

The person

We are looking for someone with relevant experience in programme development and delivery, who will embody the values of The Trust.

You should have a passion for tackling poverty and trauma, an insight into and understanding of the causes and impacts of poverty and trauma for individuals, families, and communities and ideally some understanding of one or more of our themes.

You must have high emotional intelligence to support our internal and external collaboration work and a keen interest for increasing participation and placing the voice of those with experience of poverty and trauma at the heart of the work that we do.

You should have the potential to build policy and subject expertise and a keen interest for politics to develop a strong judgement in supporting our proactive funding plans and our influencing work.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer. We want to encourage applicants with diverse backgrounds to work with us. We believe that greater diversity of experience, skills and ways of thinking will challenge our thinking and practice on poverty and trauma and broaden our collective knowledge and networks. We encourage applications from suitably qualified candidates from all parts of the community, regardless of age, disability, race, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief or socio-economic background. We also encourage applications from those with experience or knowledge of how poverty or trauma impact on people’s lives.

Benefits

• Salary £39,906 FTE
• 35 days holiday per calendar year, inclusive of public holidays, which can be taken on a flexible basis apart from the Christmas and New Yer holiday when the Trust closes.
• Pension - 10% employer contribution or 14% if employee contribution is 7%
• Additional employee benefits – an attractive benefits package on offer, which is currently under review.

The Robertson Trust is committed to hybrid and other forms of flexible working. The Trust is open to reasonable adaptations to overcome barriers. We are a Living Wage employer accredited by the Living Wage Foundation.

Exciting Opportunity with LHM – Social Media and Content Creator

Lodging House Mission (LHM), a Glasgow-based charity supporting the homeless, socially excluded, and vulnerable, is recruiting for an exciting new role within our Day Centre. This is a 12-month contract, with the potential for extension based on funding and impact. It offers a unique opportunity to tell LHM’s story while helping service users develop new skills.

As an organisation founded in 1909, LHM has a long history of providing compassionate, high-quality support with excellent staff retention. We offer a competitive salary, generous holiday entitlement, pension contributions, an Employee Assistance Programme, and ongoing training and development opportunities.

We are looking for a creative and passionate digital storyteller who can showcase LHM’s work through engaging content while ensuring that the voices of those we support are represented with compassion, respect and authenticity.

This role will be instrumental in shaping LHM’s digital presence, supporting fundraising and community engagement goals, and fostering meaningful connections with supporters, potential funders, and the community, using methods that ensure our inclusivity.

In addition to content creation, this role involves spending time within the Day Centre, interacting with the people who use our services, and providing training in areas such as content creation, photography, and social media, to help them develop valuable skills.

What We Offer:

• 12-month contract (potential for extension depending on funding and impact).

• Competitive salary £28,000 - £32,000 (dependent on experience).

• Generous holiday entitlement and pension contributions.

• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for additional support.

• Opportunities for training and professional development.

• The chance to make a real impact in the lives of those who need it most.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic and motivated person to join our team. The Session Supervisor has day to day operational responsibility for the delivery of a high-quality generalist advice service within Airdrie Citizens Advice Bureau. The Session Supervisor is responsible that the quality of advice delivered is in line with the Scottish National Standards and Citizens Advice Scotland’s Membership standards.

This post also supports the learning and development of a high-quality service by providing formal training to volunteers and staff as and when required.

The successful applicant will be encouraged and supported in their personal development by the Senior Management Team.

Employee benefits

Airdrie Citizens Advice Bureau offers excellent terms and conditions and is an inclusive employer considering flexible working arrangements where appropriate. For more details of some of the other benefits on offer to our employees, please contact us for more information.

Core Duties

• Provide supervision and support for advice workers, particularly in relation to advice enquiries, CASTLE data entry and enquiry entry.
• Support advisers to produce accurate, legible and complete client records.
• Contribute to building and supervising an effective team, understanding the importance of continual improvement of the service.
• Undertake advice work as and when required.
• Implement effective Triage Service
• Support and maintain uniform advice standards and contribute to their development. Ensure that advice work undertaken complies with CAS Quality Audit standards, Scottish National Standards.
• Actively implement the Aims and Principles of the CAB service, together with its other policies.

Essential Criteria

• Delivery of advice and information services to clients.
• Ability to work without supervision
• Basic training skills
• Ability to deal with staff, volunteers and the public in a calm, caring and competent manner
• Ability to analyse and interpret complex information
• Ability to prioritise own work and that of others, meet deadlines and manage workload in a pressured environment
• Ability to give and receive feedback objectively and sensitively and a willingness to challenge constructively

Desirable Criteria

• At least 2 years’ experience of supporting others in advice provision
• A working knowledge of CASTLE for the purpose of recording client cases
• Commitment to ongoing training
• Working within the voluntary sector
• Experience of supporting vulnerable clients

The AIMS Project works with young people aged 14-18 years with significant mental health issues and often particularly disadvantaged backgrounds.

As a result of mental illness and diagnosed and undiagnosed learning disability over 80% of the young people we work with are outwith mainstream Education, Training and Employment.

At AIMS we believe in the potential of these young people.

We run three Programmes;

• REACH – a mental health support group – up to 3 days a week
• THRIVE – a highly supportive Stage 1 Personal Development Programme – 3-4 days and week
• Rise – a youth club which operated 2 sessions a week

Our Projects offer small group activities and high staff ratios. Overall, we aim to support young people to realise their own potential and to start to develop their own aspirations. We also aim to support young people to confidently use public transport, communicate effectively, make friendships and develop the courage to try new things.

All our Projects incorporate a huge range of outdoor education, visits and activities, designed broaden horizons and push boundaries.

We are currently seeking to recruit an additional Support Worker at 24 hours a week. The Support Worker will work across our Projects for up to 4 days a week.

No prior experience is required, however the post is subject to PVG Membership. We are seeking people with empathy, enthusiasm, a motivational and nurturing approach to the needs of our young people, and a willingness to take part in all activities offered.

We are currently recruiting people to join our Board and are actively seeking people to guide the organisation as it transitions and expands.

The objects of the organisation are:

• the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of relieving isolation and improving the conditions of life for the Deaf Community in Lanarkshire
• the relief of those Members of the Lanarkshire Deaf Community in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.

If you are interested and have one or more of the skills, knowledge or experience listed below, please do not hesitate to contact us:

• Working in the Charity Sector
• Finance and/or Accounting
• Human Resources
• Policy Making and Compliance, including Risk Management
• Organisational capacity building and growth
• The barriers the Deaf community faces in one or more of the many different settings including health, education, social services, leisure, employment and other situations.

Do you want to empower families to thrive not just survive as they juggle caring with the additional struggles that life throws at us all?

Can you help families - as individuals and as a whole – to feel good about themselves, their health, their wellbeing, their caring and their relationships?

Will you help families be a space and a place where a child or young person can live and grow to their full potential?

This is a new pilot project providing intensive, holistic support specifically to East Dunbartonshire families who are juggling caring and parenting.

Although initially for one year, there is a commitment to seek additional funds.

Experience of providing support essential.

Working Rite is excited to present a unique voluntary opportunity to join our Board of Trustees from June 2025. We are at a pivotal moment in our journey, with a bold growth strategy for the next 3-5 years led by an ambitious CEO a dynamic leadership team and exceptional front-line team. Together, we are empowering young people across Scotland with the skills, confidence, and support they need to thrive. WorkingRite are now recruiting for a number of Trustee positions in addition to a Chair of Trustees.

WorkingRite are a charity working with young people aged 15-25 to create positive choices for what comes next after school. We build connections with employers and create chances for young people to grow their skills and confidence in working environments. At Working Rite, our mission is to build trust-based relationships with young people, helping them become the best version of themselves. We are a charity dedicated to early intervention, deeper engagement, and sustained support, creating change that works and transforming young lives through:

• Choices Programme: Early intervention for school age 15-16-year-olds, nurturing pre-employability skills and boosting confidence.
• Chances Programme: Award-winning employability training for 16+, combining practical work skills with personal development through mentored work placements.
• Connections Mentoring: Offering long-term guidance to help young people transition into working life and achieve lasting success.

We are scaling our impact from supporting 250 young people annually to over 500 by 2027, focusing on Financial Sustainability, Operational Rigour, People & Culture, and Impact & Communications.

Role of the Trustee

As a WorkingRite Trustee, we are seeking exceptional individuals with high-level experience, skills, and expertise to guide us on this transformative journey. If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for social impact, this is your chance to contribute to meaningful change. We welcome expertise in:

• Fundraising, Income Generation, or Philanthropy
• Communications, Media, PR or Social Media
• Finance
• Marketing & Communications
• Strategic Growth
• Project/Change Management
• Third Sector Experience
• Business or Public Sector Leadership with transferable skills

A positive, proactive attitude and collaborative approach is essential

Role of the Chair

As Chair, you will provide strategic leadership to the Board and act as a critical partner to our CEO. You will set the tone for our governance, ensuring effective collaboration and guiding us through this exciting growth phase. Your role will include

• Leading Board Meetings Setting agendas, facilitating discussions, and ensuring productive outcomes.
• Strategic partnership with the CEO Providing guidance, mentorship, and support to achieve organisational goals.
• External Ambassador Representing Working Rite with funders, partners, and stakeholders to enhance our profile and build new connections.
• Governance Excellence Ensuring compliance with regulatory and financial standards, fostering a culture of accountability and impact.

This role is ideal for a seasoned leader with board experience and a strong network in philanthropy, business, or the public sector.