Job Purpose:To manage and deliver the new car club and support the CEO in development and strategy of the project

Key Duties and Responsibilities

1. Manage and co-ordinate the delivery of the New EV car cub project

2. Monitor and evaluate the progress of the car club project

3. Managing and monitoring the budget for the project

4. Pursue opportunities and strategies to grow the car club

5. Work closely with the Chief Executive Officer to manage ongoing and pipeline projects

6. Assist with the identification and application for sources of additional match funding that could be secured for the project and work closely with community and delivery partners

7. Undertake community engagement events and communicate utilising social media to maximise the number and range of people involved

8. Work closely with delivery partners to ensure that project plans are being followed through and that timetables and financial income/outgoings are being kept on track.

9. Assist with activities that supports the Board and CEO

Carry out such other appropriate duties and responsibilities as are required by the CEO

This is a new role to unlock the potential of support from community and commercial sources.

We are seeking someone with an ambitious can-do approach to focus on raising unrestricted funds from three funding strands:

1. Businesses
2. Community groups
3. Challengers using fundraising platforms such as JustGiving and Enthuse

Refuweegee is celebrating its tenth year of welcoming forcibly displaced people to Glasgow, and broader Scotland. We are a small team of six full-time staff and nine part-time staff welcoming approximately 1,000 visitors to our space every week.

Our visitors depend upon Refuweegee as a welcoming and supportive environment that provides essential material help, emotional stability, social connection and a sense of dignity.

We work hard be a place of belonging, emotional safety and friendship for people. Our work has always been driven by community demand: we adapt to what people need and want.

Refuweegee is recognised as an effective pathway to integration, confidence-building and social participation: we are a sanctuary for forcibly displaced people.

We are here for everyone, no questions asked. This wholly inclusive approach is a deliberate act to build bridges between communities.

We care for our visitors, and we care for our staff. We constantly review well-being and professional development and provide group training and individual opportunities.

Become a champion for those unable to live with their birth parents – become a trustee

We are looking for two exceptional people to join Adoption UK’s Board of Trustees.

As a Trustee, you’ll have the opportunity to apply your unique skills and experience to lead our welcoming and dedicated Board. You will be expected to:

• Oversee the implementation of Adoption UK’s strategy
• Support the senior leadership team, adding value and expert advice
• Facilitate change that promotes the care and welfare of those unable to live with their birth parents, and their families
• Ensure the charity remains true to its purpose and adheres to its regulatory responsibilities

As a UK wide charity, we aim to have representation on our Board from all constituent nations, and across a variety of backgrounds and lived experience. At this time, we are looking to appoint someone from Scotland and are looking for other trustees with financial or charity management expertise. Professional or lived experience of the adoption or social care sector is desirable, but not essential.

Could you become our next Chair of Trustees?

We are looking for an exceptional person to join our Board of Trustees as Chair

Adoption UK is the leading charity providing support, community, and advocacy for those who are unable live with their birth parents. Our purpose is to secure the right support at the right time for children and young people who are unable to live with their birth parents, from childhood into adulthood.

You’ll have the opportunity to apply your unique skills and experience to lead our welcoming and dedicated Board. You will be expected to:

• Oversee the implementation of Adoption UK’s strategy
• Support the senior leadership team, adding value and expert advice
• Facilitate change that promotes the care and welfare of those unable to live with their birth parents, and their families
• Ensure the charity remains true to its purpose and adheres to its regulatory responsibilities

We are committed to being an inclusive charity, and we welcome and encourage applications from all sections of the community. Our new Chair will bring a passionate commitment to ensuring adopted people have a brighter future. They will help us to ensure we fully represent the diversity in the adoption community, as well as the voice of adopted people.

Improving the Cancer Journey programme of work is an established model of community connectors for people affected by cancer including carers. You will join a team of Community Connectors to deliver a person-centred community support, using a holistic needs assessment to offer the best community support for people and their families.

The role offers practical help, empowerment and early intervention support. It also plays a key part in improving mental wellbeing, reducing isolation, supporting smooth discharges from hospital, and linking individuals to sustainable long term community supports.

As a Mac Professional, the right candidate will have access to training and resources through Macmillan Cancer Care.

Skills and qualities

• Commitment to co-production and amplifying lived experience in service design.
• Ability to build trust and work collaboratively with individuals, families, and partner agencies.
• Awareness of inclusive communication methods and accessibility needs.
• Confidence in gathering feedback and contributing to continuous improvement across NLDF’s priorities.

The Rehabilitation Worker will facilitate positive lifestyle changes for clients by developing and implementing individual Action Plans to enable clients to live predominantly without using substances.

GRADE (A): £34,941 - £39,363

Candidates should:

• Be qualified to Degree/Diploma level or equivalent in Social Work, Nursing, Community Learning and Development OR hold an SVQ4 Social Services and Healthcare at SCQF Level 9.
• Have experience of working with individuals with issues relating to their drug and/or alcohol use.
• Be computer literate.

GRADE (B): £31,761 - £34,914

Candidates should:

• Be qualified to HNC in Social Care or equivalent OR SVQ3 Social Services and Healthcare at SCQF Level 7.
• Have experience of working with individuals with issues relating to their drug and/or alcohol use.
• Be computer literate.

The service operates on a Fife-wide basis therefore the ability to travel across Fife is essential.

FIRST operate a blended model of office/home working.

We’re looking for an organised and detail-oriented Purchase Ledger Administrator to join our Finance Team at Four Square! This is a great opportunity to join a supportive team and play an important role in the day to day financial operations of a charity making a real difference in Edinburgh.

If you have a keen eye for detail, enjoy working with numbers and are looking for a rewarding role, we’d love to hear from you!

Please click here to view thejob descriptionto find out more about the role.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a central, strategic role within the Commission, focusing on developing and ensuring delivery of SHRC’s legal powers and duties under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024 (the “Act”).

With a background in law and policy, in addition to a working knowledge of human rights, and particularly the rights of the child in a domestic context, your skills will be used to lead on interventions undertaken by the Commission, develop proposals for potential areas of own name litigation and manage live cases. You will also be responsible for developing and maintaining a network with a variety of stakeholders.

You will uphold the SHRC’s values and be confident representing the Commission with external audiences.

Are you interested in supporting families and listening to their experiences to help us shape future services?

We are seeking a Family Engagement Intern to help deliver family support activities and engage with children, parents and carers to better understand the support families need.

About Play Midlothian

Play Midlothian is a registered charity (no. SC025474) working to enable every child in Midlothian to thrive through play by creating opportunities, removing barriers and addressing inequalities. We have an office base at the One Dalkeith Business Hub in central Dalkeith, but deliver services throughout Midlothian, and if commissioned, beyond.

About the Role

This internship has been created to help us develop our support for families experiencing, or at risk of, poverty.

The postholder will work alongside a Play and Wellbeing Practitioner to run Play in Mind family sessions, strengthening family wellbeing through play in woodlands (likely two sessions per week).

A significant part of the role will involve engaging with children, parents and carers to better understand their experiences, needs and ideas. This will include organising and facilitating focus groups, questionnaires, discussions and creative activities that help families have their say. The learning gathered through this work will help inform the future development of Play Midlothian's services for families.

The role offers an opportunity to gain practical experience in play, family support and community engagement, with training, supervision and support provided throughout. This role would suit someone considering a future career in these or related areas (such as social research, social work or the wider third sector).

If you are enthusiastic about working with families and helping ensure their voices are heard, we would love to hear from you.

Mission Statement

Our long-term vision is to end youth homelessness. Our more immediate mission is to ensure that every young person in Scotland has access to expert youth specific services to assist them to avoid, resolve and move on from homelessness, making it rare, brief, and non-recurring.

Context

This is an exciting opportunity to lead the development and delivery of Rock Trust’s innovative new Empty Homes Project. Working in partnership with Fife Council and the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership, the Project Coordinator will oversee the refurbishment of a small number of empty properties, working with partners and contractors to transform them into high-quality, affordable homes for young people. You will also work directly with young people to help them make these houses their homes. Through practical and emotional support, the role will help young people develop independent living skills, build confidence and improve their employability, supporting them to sustain their tenancies and move towards a positive, independent future.