The Eric Liddell Community is a local care charity and community hub in the South West of Edinburgh delivering a range of services throughout the City. Founded in 1980 in memory of Eric Liddell, the 1924 Olympic 400m gold medallist, our mission is to be at the heart of the community, enhancing health and wellbeing and improving people’s lives.

We are seeking an inspiring Chief Executive Officer to lead The Eric Liddell Community into an exciting new chapter of growth and impact. This is a unique opportunity for a dynamic, visionary leader with a proven ability to guide organisations to success.

We’re looking for someone with a strong track record in organisational leadership, financial management, and operational excellence. While experience in the third sector is highly valued, it’s not essential—what matters most is your ability to drive innovation, foster collaboration, and deliver meaningful change for the communities we serve.

As CEO, you will work closely with the Chair and Board of Trustees to shape the future direction of The Eric Liddell Community. You will have overall responsibility for the organisation, including strategic leadership and oversight of the charity’s core care services.

The Operational Manager post is a leadership appointment to the EWA management team reporting to the Deputy CEO. There are two operational managers within EWA who work together to ensure that EWA provides a professional and consistent service to women, children and young people accessing our services. The operational managers are jointly responsible for managing EWA services for women and children. Responsibilities of the post include management of day-to-day operations; management of seniors and team leaders; HR management for all operational staff; supporting the development of service delivery; implementation of quality assurance measures and monitoring and reporting on service delivery; active participation in the leadership of EWA.

Location: This post is open to hybrid working between office and home, if the candidate can evidence an appropriate environment for home working, ensuring confidentiality and privacy for calls and online meetings. Time spent in EWA’s offices in Edinburgh will be required, as well as the ability to travel locally.

A satisfactory Disclosure Scotland Adult and Child PVG scheme membership check is required for this position.

Do you want to use your fundraising skills to help transform children’s lives across Scotland?

Children First is Scotland’s national children’s charity. We stand up for every child because all children should have a safe childhood. We protect children from harm and support them to recover from trauma and abuse through our national and local services. We help children, their families and the people who care for them by offering emotional, practical and financial support. We give children hope and a safer, brighter future.

We are now seeking adynamic and inspiring head of fundraising to grow the vital income that enables this life‑changing work. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of fundraising at Children First - driving strategy, championing innovation and ensuring our decisions are guided by insight, purpose and compassion.

In this role, you will lead with vision and heart. You will support and empower a talented fundraising team, nurturing a culture where creativity thrives, supporter journeys deepen and donors feel genuinely valued. You will build meaningful, values‑led relationships with individuals, funders and corporate partners, inspiring them to stand with us so that more children can be protected, nurtured and given the futures they deserve.

You will bring strategic clarity and strong financial stewardship - overseeing budgets, forecasting and compliance - while ensuring everything we do reflects fundraising best practice and our commitment to ethical, trauma‑informed work. Your leadership will help unlock new opportunities, strengthen performance and drive growth across all income streams.

We are looking for an experienced, passionate fundraising leader with a proven track record of success, a collaborative spirit and the confidence to be bold. You will be an exceptional communicator, a thoughtful relationship‑builder and someone motivated by impact. Most importantly, you will bring absolute dedication to keeping children safe and transforming their lives for the better.

At Children First, our values guide everything we do. With love, we put children first. With purpose, we transform children’s lives together. With strength, we do whatever it takes to protect Scotland’s children. If you share these values and want to make a meaningful impact, we would love to hear from you!

Lead services. Strengthen quality. Support people to live well.

If you are a leader driven by strong values and have demonstrated success in providing top-quality, person-centred support within Scottish social care, we invite you to consider this unique opportunity. The Action Group is seeking two Development Managers—one for a permanent position and another for a 12-month fixed-term roleThis is a senior leadership role with responsibility for the quality, safety, and effectiveness of housing and care at home support services, enabling people to live independently in their own homes and communities.You will provide professional leadership to dispersed teams, ensure compliance with the Care Inspectorate and SSSC, and drive continuous improvement in line with the Health & Social Care Standards. You will also work closely with commissioners, partners, families, and people who use our services to ensure support is person-centred, reliable, and outcomes-focused.We are looking for a confident leader who combines strong regulatory knowledge with a compassionate, enabling approach to care and support.

About the role

As Development Manager (Registered Manager), you will:

• Hold Registered Manager responsibility for Housing Support and Care at Home services
• Provide professional leadership and line management to support service leaders
• Ensure services meet regulatory and legislative requirements
• Take a creative and responsive approach to the delivery of housing support and care at home services
• Promote and embed values-based approaches to service delivery
• Support the growth and development of The Action Group’s services, contributing to the ongoing delivery of the organisation’s Vision and Mission

Essential:

SSSC registration (or eligibility), management experience within Housing Support and/or Care at Home services, and strong knowledge of Scottish social care legislation.

Why join The Action Group?

You will join an organisation with a strong reputation for high-quality support, where leadership is values-led and people-focused. This is an opportunity to shape services, influence practice, and make a lasting impact on the lives of people across Edinburgh and The Lothians.

Dr Bell’s Family Centre has been supporting families in Leith since 2006 to thrive and feel safe, supported, and healthy. We offer a welcoming, safe place where families with young children can get support, advice, and encouragement.

Dr Bell’s Family Centre is seeking an experienced, values-led Chief Executive to lead our organisation into its next phase of development.

Based in Leith, Dr Bell’s has supported families with young children since 2006, offering a unique, holistic model that brings early years childcare, therapeutic services, family learning, food and nutrition, and community support together under one roof.

Working closely with our Board of Trustees, the Chief Executive will:

• Set and deliver a clear strategic vision
• Lead and support a skilled, multidisciplinary staff team
• Drive fundraising and develop sustainable income streams
• Act as an ambassador for Dr Bell’s across the community, partnerships and funders
• Ensure strong governance, financial oversight and safeguarding

This role will suit a collaborative leader who combines strategic thinking with hands-on operational experience, and who is passionate about reducing barriers for families facing socio-economic challenges.

Benefits

Dr Bell’s is a people-led organisation where staff are valued, supported, and encouraged to thrive. We offer:

• a Living Wage salary
• generous annual leave (including Christmas closure, a birthday day off and personal day)
• flexible working options
• enhanced family-friendly policies, a strong pension
• and 24/7 wellbeing support through our Employee Assistance Programme.

Garvald Edinburgh is a long-established Scottish charity supporting adults with learning disabilities through creative day opportunities, workshops, community participation, and public-facing social enterprise activities. Rooted in the principles of social therapy inspired by Rudolf Steiner, Garvald places creativity, respect, rhythm, individuality, and community at the centre of personal development.

The organisation exists to offer adults with learning disabilities meaningful opportunities to develop skills, confidence, and a sense of belonging, achieved through purposeful creative work, strong community integration, and innovative social enterprise.

Operating across multiple sites in Edinburgh, Garvald employs approximately 180 staff and has an annual turnover of over £4.5 million. The organisation is entering a period of important development, guided by a multi-year strategic plan that includes organisational review, enhancing financial stability, facilities planning, digital transformation, and the continued growth of social enterprise activity. This is a pivotal moment in Garvalds history, offering the opportunity to shape the organisation’s future while strengthening its values-driven culture.

The Board of Trustees is seeking a Chief Executive Officer to lead Garvald through this next phase. The CEO will provide strategic, operational, cultural, and organisational leadership, ensuring that Garvald continues to deliver high-quality, ethical, and person-centred services across all sites.

Reporting to the Chair and supported by a strong Senior Management Team, the CEO will shape and implement long-term strategy, embed a distributed leadership model, oversee financial sustainability, and strengthen governance, compliance, and risk management. They will also act as the organisation’s principal ambassador, building and nurturing relationships with commissioners, funders, partners, staff, members, and families.

The successful candidate will be someone who can hold complexity without losing clarity, lead change without compromising care, and inspire confidence and trust through their presence, integrity, and values-led approach. You will be confident in leading a large, multi-site organisation, with a strong understanding of regulation, finance, workforce dynamics, and governance. You will have experience of strategic leadership, organisational change, and financial sustainability, alongside the ability to engage effectively with all stakeholders—from trustees and commissioners to staff, members, and families.

Above all, the next CEO will be someone who combines strategic rigour with emotional intelligence, humility, and steadiness. You will be capable of setting direction, making difficult decisions, and developing innovation, while remaining grounded in Garvald’s values and the principles of social therapy.

This is a rare opportunity to lead a respected, innovative, and values-driven organisation at a transformative moment, ensuring that Garvald Edinburgh continues to be a place where adults with learning disabilities can reach their fullest potential and make a lasting contribution to the wider community.

The Director is the senior leader of Firefly International, responsible for driving the charity’s mission to support war-affected children through the provision of education, mental health and peacebuilding programmes delivered in genuine partnership with our overseas partners. This is a hands-on leadership role within a small, donation-dependent charity, suited to an adaptable allrounder who is motivated to lead growth and change rather than maintain the status quo. Firefly has a good track record and a good reputation and has both the will and the capacity to do more and do better, for the children it exists to serve. To do that, it needs to recruit the right Director.

Organisation Profile

Firefly International was established as an arts-based playgroup, as civil war was coming to an end in Bosnia, to bring Bosnia’s Croat, Serb and Muslim children together. The founder, Ellie Maxwell, was a student at the University of Edinburgh at the time. Firefly still works in Bosnia, supporting its locally registered partner, Svitac (Firefly in local language) which is based in Brcko in the north-east, where the population is divided between the three ethnicities. It runs daily classes for pre-school children, outreach sessions with high schools and a youth group for the 16+ age group. All activities aim to build tolerance between different ethnicities and tackle the ignorance that fuels hatred and fear.

Since 2016 it has also been working with a Syrian partner organisation, delivering trauma-informed education. Initially it was working just in the Syrian refugee communities in Turkey. Later, it began work in northern Syria and more recently it has begun teaching in and around Latakia in western Syria. This is the largest of our three programme areas and the one with the most pressing demands for expansion, in response to the gaps in education in Syria today.

Until 7th October 2023 we partnered with a child mental health centre in Gaza. We have had to close the centre but aim to return to Gaza when we can. Meantime, we partner with an Egyptian group who help child medical evacuees from Gaza with therapeutic and educational activities.

Firefly is a long-established charity, small but with a long reach and ambitious goals. It is distinctive in its stated aim of remaining with its partners for as long as it is needed and useful. It encourages the development of projects by local staff in response to local needs. Its income and scope have grown considerably in recent years. It is driven by the need to be as effective as it can be, supporting partners in their aspirations for the children and young people of their own communities.

The Role

This is a full-time role based in Edinburgh for a Director at Firefly International (open to discussing part time or flexible working arrangements). The Director will oversee the strategic direction, daily operations, and overall performance of the organisation. Key tasks include managing budgets, fundraising efforts, supervising staff and volunteers, maintaining strong relationships with partner organisations, and ensuring the effective delivery of programmes. The Director will also represent Firefly to stakeholders, including donors and international partners, and work to enhance its impact and visibility.