Citizens Advice Edinburgh (CAE) is part of an exciting collaborative project – The Family Hub - funded via the Scottish Government’s Whole Family Wellbeing Fund (WFWF).

The collaborative comprises the Third Sector organisations Circle, Stepping Stones North Edinburgh, Home-Start Edinburgh and Home Link Family Support, alongside NHS Lothian’s Parent & Infant Relationship Service and the City of Edinburgh Council’s Early Learning & Childcare Service.

The project delivers bespoke whole-family supports throughout the early years. CAE provides the welfare rights advice element of this service. The collaborative ensures that universal and enhanced support is available at the earliest stage possible for all families with a child not yet in an ELC or a pre-school age setting. This has been achieved by developing a cohesive pathway and a menu of supports alongside families.

The project is underpinned by early intervention and support. In providing holistic support to parents, we aim to improve the caregiving experience and infant mental health. Targeting secure attachment increases the likelihood of children remaining within the family home.

The project aims to:

• Improve family wellbeing
• Reduce inequalities in family wellbeing
• Reduce the need for families requiring crisis intervention
• Reduce the number of children living away from their families
• Increase the number of families taking up wider support

The multi-disciplinary service is delivered via physical Hubs in each locality, Pop-ups and Home Visits to families, to ensure city-wide, equal and convenient access.

Your Role

As the project’s Income Maximisation Adviser, you will principally advise parents about welfare entitlement, grants, and tariffs; budgeting; reducing household costs; and managing debt. Alongside financial topics, you will also offer assistance with housing, employment, and other related areas of advice. The central aim of the role is to reduce the number of families and children living in relative poverty.

The successful candidate must be experienced in giving advice, particularly in relation to benefits. Evidence of training and experience within another advice role is expected, but opportunities to develop your knowledge would be available via access to Citizens Advice’s comprehensive training platform. Provision of advice would be supported by the Citizens Advice information database and access to Citizens Advice Edinburgh’s network of specialists.

It is not essential to have experience of working within the sphere of Early Years or family support, but the candidate must be motivated to work collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team and to display awareness and understanding of the complex support needs and vulnerabilities that families may present with to the service.

Due to the citywide coverage of the service, candidates must commit to regular travel between different Edinburgh locations and be confident working independently at times. The post holder will also be required to assertively develop and maintain links with relevant partner agencies in the wider community, to ensure that families receive holistic support.

Are you:

Organised, enthusiastic and good with people?

Confident working with different age groups?

Able to work flexibly, including evenings and weekends?

Interested in making a difference to our community?

A team player who can also work on their own initiative?

If you have answered yes, then this could be the ideal job for you. RDT is looking for a Community Activities Coordinator to help develop and deliver a varied programme of activities, events and workshops for people of all ages in our community.

Would you love to support community organisations to become stronger and more sustainable? Do you have experience of working with communities, able to provide information and encouragement?

Working as part of the member support team, this role will provide advice and support to our members (primarily in the North-East of Scotland) build relationships and contribute to the growth of the development trust movement.

This role will involve hybrid working from home and office, with travel throughout the country.

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.

Greyfriars Kirk’s (GK) roots go back to 1620, and the site was a place of worship well before then. Today GK is a member of The Church of Scotland, and it has a small and committed congregation. The roll is about 250 and about 60 attend the main service on Sunday. GK hosts other services on Sundays as well as mid-week prayers on Thursday lunchtime. GK is a unique and special venue for special services such as weddings, funerals and memorials. GK is also hired for a variety of non-religious events such as concerts, exhibitions, conferences cèilidh’s, receptions and informal social functions. GK welcomes over 120,000 visitors throughout the year - (February to December).

Role Purpose

The key responsibility is to offer a supportive service to the Ministry Team to facilitate all practical aspects of services of worship in a respectful and dignified way. The Ministry Team includes the Minister, Associate Minister and other members of the Faith and Action Team. You will be required to attend Kirk’s core Sunday Services when on duty: weekly at 10:30am to 11:30am, and 12:30pm to 1:30pm for the Gaelic Service and monthly at 9:30am of communion. You will also be required to attend (where possible) funerals, weddings and other services (including rehearsals) in the Kirk and will be paid an additional fee to do so. You will offer a sensitive. supportive and welcoming service to all who attend.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within our Supportline Advice Service as well as support our Wider aims as a charity.

Our Advice service works alongside support collegues to help families to address the challenges and risks which may have led to vulnerability, promote connection to their local communities, and improve financial stability and resilience. Our aim is to support communties to become more resilient and a place where children feel safe, valued, understood and supported.

The Energy Advisor will work within an integrated model of family support, community connection, and expert Energy advice and exploring money and debt advice. This will enable families to stay connected, keep homes warm and resolve debt and money problems, become more financially resilient and break the cycle of fuel poverty.

A priority for the Energy Advisor will be to increase the Energy advice and support we offer our families and with the capacity of our current services to provide Type I and II money advice in one of the most deprived areas in Scotland.

You will work as part of our National Money Advice team. You will support families within their homes, by telephone and other digital methods deliver workshops within the community and in schools and offer drop-in sessions within the community.

If you have experience of energy advice welfare rights, income maximization, money and debt advice, understand the impact trauma and adversity can have on children and families, and believe that you can apply this to your practice, we want to hear from you.

This is a full time, 35 hours post. Hours to be worked flexibly to suit the needs of families, including evenings and weekends as required.

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.

Are you an experienced Money or Welfare Benefits Advisor – we want to hear from you! …

This is an exciting opportunity to work within our Money Advice Team as part of our Money, debt, benefits and Energy advice delivery, supporting our additional services across the charity.

Our Money Advice service works alongside families to address the challenges and risks which may have led to vulnerability, promote connection to their local communities, and improve financial stability and resilience. Our aim is to support communties to become more resilient and a place where children feel safe, valued, understood and supported.

The Money Advice advisor will support local teams offering support, community connection, and expert benefit, energy and debt advice. This will enable families to resolve debt and money problems, become more financially resilient and break the cycle of poverty.

A priority for the Money Advice advisor will be to increase the capacity of our current service to provide Type I and II Money Advice in one of the most deprived areas in Scotland.

You will work as part of our National Money Advice team offering remote advice to families across Scotland by telephone or webchat. You will support families within their homes, deliver workshops within the community and in schools, and offer drop-in sessions within the community.

If you have experience of delivering money, and debt advice, understand the impact trauma and adversity can have on children and families, and believe that you can apply this to your practice, we want to hear from you.

This is a full time, 35 hours post funded until the 31 March 2029 with the intention to explore funding options beyond this date. Hours to be worked flexibly to suit the needs of families, including evenings and weekends as required.

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.

As the Community and Events Fundraising Officer, you will play a key part in ending youth homelessness in Scotland by inspiring people to support Rock Trust.

You will deliver exceptional supporter care and create meaningful experiences for everyone fundraising for us. Although a varied role, your work will follow strong themes – relationship building, spending time with supporters, and working with the Fundraising team; all to make a tangible difference for young people.

You’ll join an experienced and collaborative Fundraising and Communications team and be supported to identify opportunities to grow our community presence, take ownership of our community-led income, and inspire long term supporter loyalty to Rock Trust. In this varied and people-focused role you will meet and present to community groups such as schools, student societies, churches, and voluntary organisations. You may support groups to host their own events, take part in Youth and Philanthropy Initiative projects, or run collections, and you’ll play an important role in improving our supporter stewardship; helping create meaningful ways to connect with, and thank, our supporters.

You will also look after our events portfolio; recruiting participants, ensuring they receive top-notch stewardship, and supporting them in their fundraising journey. From our annual Firewalk to third-party challenges such as marathons and abseils, you’ll ensure that every participant has a fantastic experience. You’ll also use your creativity to bring fresh ideas to the table, adding to, and enhancing, our existing events programme to keep supporters engaged and inspired.

In the office, you will collaborate with teams such as Communications and Finance. You will help bring supporter stories to life, create engaging content, process donations, maintain our CRM database, and ensure fundraising activities run smoothly. You’ll also play an important part in supporting volunteers and volunteer groups, helping to create an excellent supporter experience at every stage.

This is a fantastic opportunity to combine creativity, relationship building, and event management in a role where no two days are the same. You’ll have the opportunity to learn from experienced colleagues, while putting your own stamp on the work we do. Most importantly, your work will directly help end youth homelessness in Scotland, giving you the chance to see the real impact your efforts make on the lives of young people.

• Reporting to - Partnerships Lead
• Direct reports - Occasional students and volunteers
• Team size- Fundraising & Communications team of 6

Rock Trust promotes a family friendly culture. As such, we welcome discussions around flexible working and/or compressed hours, consider hybrid working, and run a flexi time system. This Community and Events Fundraising Officer role could work up to 40% of the week remotely. While 60% of the role would be ‘office based’, in practise this could mean out in the community meeting groups, delivering presentations, or at events.

At CHAS, every fundraising campaign has a purpose beyond clicks, conversions and ROI. The income you help generate will support children with life-shortening conditions and the families who love them across Scotland.

We're looking for a creative, curious and ambitious Fundraising Campaigns Coordinator to help deliver inspiring fundraising campaigns that engage supporters, grow income and help ensure every family who needs CHAS can access our care. You’ll be joining the team at a unique and critical time as we seek to deliver the More Than A Hospice Appeal, a £20m capital appeal to transform how Scotland cares for children with life-shortening conditions.

You'll work closely with the Fundraising Campaigns Manager and colleagues across CHAS to deliver multi-channel fundraising and supporter acquisition and retention campaigns, helping to plan, execute, optimise and report on activity across a range of channels.

From digital lead generation and email marketing to supporter journeys, face-to-face fundraising and direct mail appeals, you'll have the opportunity to make a direct impact on campaigns that reach thousands of supporters across Scotland and that seek to ensure that no family should face the death of their child alone.

You'll also:

• Support year-round fundraising acquisition and retention campaigns.

• Help deliver and optimise digital acquisition activity.

• Write compelling copy for emails, web and supporter communications.

• Analyse campaign performance and identify opportunities for improvement.

• Collaborate with colleagues across fundraising, marketing and communications.

• Provide excellent account management of fundraising partners and external suppliers.

This role is fixed term until 31 August 2027, to support our Fundraising Campaigns while the current post-holder undertakes a maternity cover secondment elsewhere within CHAS.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have skill and experience in delivering fundraising and marketing campaigns across a range of channels. You’ll be a brilliant communicator, have a track record of successfully working as part of a team, can think creatively and can use data and technology to inform your decision making and power your campaigns.

About 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 and offer them our care and support to empower them to make the most of the short time they have together, as well as supporting them with life after loss.

But more than this - through the More Than a Hospice Appeal, we have an urgent and bold plan to change the future of how care is delivered for every dying child in Scotland, forever.

We want every family to have real choice over their child’s care, both while they live, and at end of life. The fundraising team will play a crucial part in making this possible, and as Fundraising Campaigns Coordinator, you will truly be working towards the funds that make this vision a reality in the future.

We offer

• Flexible Working: our teams work flexibly and in a hybrid manner with time split between at home and onsite in a CHAS office – most of our fundraising staff are based in our Glasgow or Edinburgh offices. CHAS offers flexible and family friendly working. and are happy to discuss working arrangements that work for you!

• Development Opportunities: exposure to a variety of fundraising activities

• Professional Growth: Work with industry leaders in a high-performing team where you will be encouraged and supported to excel and develop your skills.

• Comprehensive Benefits: Including generous annual leave, pension, access to Blue Light discounts, and health and wellbeing support.

Are you passionate about providing excellent service and supporting customers to have smooth journeys? Do you want to be part of a leading Scottish environmental charity delivering solutions for low carbon living? We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our growing team as a Household Support Officer, supporting the delivery of energy efficiency upgrade projects across Scotland.

As Household Support Officer, you will assist householders who are having energy efficiency upgrades installed in their homes. From explaining the steps involved to resolving any complaints, your role will be to work with a range of stakeholders to ensure that householders receive excellent service throughout. You’ll have the ability to resolve problems, implement lessons learned and work across the team to support our range of projects. Ideally, you’ll have knowledge of the environmental sector, however having an excellent track record in customer service is really the key to this role.

You will be engaging with householders over the phone, by email and in person, in their homes and at events. The ability to travel to different sites across Scotland is an essential. The role will require occasional driving of fleet vehicles to attend sites throughout the South East of Scotland. If you do not currently have a full driver’s licence, in your application please highlight how you would achieve this.

Your nearest office will be in Edinburgh, and we encourage people to meet with colleagues regularly. We offer flexible working patterns to support your life outside work, with part time hours available (at a minimum of 21 hours per week).

About us

Changeworks is a great place to work. We hold Investors in People Platinum accreditation (something only a few organisations in Scotland have), and we were nominated for employer of the year by the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce this year. Our staff overwhelmingly would recommend us as an employer too.

The Climate Emergency has resulted in ambitious national targets to reduce carbon emissions from the built environment and reduce rates of fuel poverty. This has driven a significant increase in the number of pilot and large-scale interventions delivered by Changeworks and external organisations in this area. These include area-based domestic energy efficiency retrofit and decarbonisation projects and programmes.

We are a growing organisation, and this role is crucial to the delivery of our ambitious objectives. We want to decarbonise homes in Scotland on a massive scale, and that needs talented individuals like you to help us deliver on our objectives. You’ll receive full training plus coaching and mentoring.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits including flexible working, bike to work scheme, an excellent pension scheme and 26 days paid holiday plus 9 public holidays per year.

At Changeworks, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone.