GCVS Recruitment Service is pleased to be recruiting on behalf of the newly established Glasgow Advice Partnership (GAP) for an exceptional Chief Executive Officer.

The Glasgow Advice Partnership (GAP) is a newly established, independent charity formed by 16 advice and information agencies in collaboration with Glasgow City Council.

GAP has been created to prevent and relieve poverty—including child poverty—and promote equality and diversity across Glasgow. Central to this mission is the development of early intervention and prevention strategies, alongside strengthening collaboration across the advice sector.

By bringing together key local and strategic partners, GAP seeks to build a more inclusive city, ensuring individuals and families have access to the financial support and guidance they need to thrive.

A Unique Leadership Opportunity

This is a rare and exciting opportunity to shape and lead a new organisation from its inception, making a lasting impact on financial inclusion across Glasgow.

We are seeking a visionary and collaborative Chief Executive Officer to drive the organisation forward, champion the advice sector, and build strong partnerships that deliver meaningful change for communities.

About the Role

As CEO, you will provide strategic leadership and operational direction, working closely with the Board of Trustees and our Advice partners to establish GAP as a high-impact organisation.

This is a dynamic role that will evolve alongside the organisation, requiring ambition, adaptability, and a strong commitment to tackling poverty inequality.

About you

We are looking for a leader who brings:

• A strong strategic vision and commitment to tackling poverty and inequality
• Proven experience in senior leadership, ideally within the charity, public, or advice sectors
• A track record of building effective partnerships and collaborations
• Experience of financial management and track record of securing funding and ensuring compliance with funders conditions
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• A passion for driving social change and improving lives

Above all, you will have the drive, ambition, and values to help create a future-ready advice system that ensures fairness and opportunity for all.

Victim Support Scotland – Empowering People Affected by Crime

Who We Are

Victim Support Scotland (VSS) provides support and information to people affected by crime and campaigns for victim and witness rights. Regardless of whether a crime has been reported, or when it happened, our services are free, confidential, and tailored to individuals’ needs.

Our vision is that people affected by crime – victims, witnesses, and their families – are treated with dignity and respect and are at the heart of the justice in Scotland. We put victims and witnesses at the heart of everything we do so they are heard, have improved health and well-being, feel safer, more secure, and informed and that we are an effective organisation, that makes a lasting difference. Our mission at Victim Support Scotland is to ensure that those affected by crime receive high quality support that will help them recover from their experiences. We aim to do this by adhering to our own organisational values.

• Victims Are at the Heart of Everything We Do
• We Care
• We Work with Intent
• We Are Ambitious
• We Persevere

Everything we do is driven by our dedication to supporting and empowering victims and witnesses, so they have improved health and well-being, feel safer, more secure, and informed. We are an effective organisation that makes a lasting difference to the people we support, and these values are reflected in the behaviours expected of all staff and volunteers.

VSS is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all of our service users and has a thorough and rigorous recruitment and selection process including PVG scheme checks in place to ensure this commitment is met.

What is the role?

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as a CRM Project Manager on a fixed-term contract basis for 9-18 months, working in our Glasgow and Edinburgh offices. This is a high impact role at the centre of a major transformation programme that will shape how we support people affected by crime across Scotland.

Working week will be between the following days and hours: Mon-Fri (4 days per week, flexibility considered) 9am - 5pm.

Salary band: £47,266- £62,420 (pro-rata). Salary on appointment will normally be at the lower salary point, with progression subject to review - in line with VSS progression arrangements. A higher salary placing will only be considered in exceptional circumstances subject to experience demonstrated.

Primary location: Glasgow & Edinburgh Offices. You will be expected to cover throughout other Localities/Offices.

This is a critical, specialist role combining project management , business analysis and solution design leadership. It is central to ensuring the organisation avoids previous system design challenges and delivers a CRM platform that genuinely supports front-line service delivery.

You will be reporting directly to the Director of Corporate Services and will be accountable to the CRM Review panel, comprising of:

• Board Trustees
• Director of Corporate Services
• Director of Service Delivery
• Head of Service (National Programmes)
• Head of Digital & IT
• Head of Research & Data Insight

As CRM Project manager you will be responsible for:

• Understanding how VSS services operate in practice
• Translating complex operational processes into structured system requirements
• Leading procurement and supplier selection
• Managing and constructively challenging the implementation partner
• Ensuring the selected solution aligns with VSS’s service delivery model

The role requires hands-on ownership of discovery, process mapping, and requirements definition.

Key Accountabilities:

Discovery, Process Mapping & Solution Design

• Lead detailed current-state and future-state process mapping across VSS services
• Engage staff and volunteers to identify needs, gaps, and opportunities
• Translate business processes into structured functional and technical specifications
• Define workflows, data structures, integrations, and reporting requirements
• Ensure alignment with data protection, accessibility, and cyber security standards
• Identify and articulate non-standard requirements early, particularly where D365 may require configuration or workaround solutions

Business Analysis & Requirements Translation

• Act as the lead business analyst for the programme
• Produce high-quality documentation suitable for system configuration
• Validate requirements with stakeholders and ensure shared understanding
• Maintain traceability from business need through to system design

Procurement, Tendering & Commissioning

• Develop and deliver the procurement strategy (partner and, if required, platform)
• Prepare tender documentation, evaluation frameworks, and scoring criteria
• Lead a transparent, compliant end-to-end procurement process
• Coordinate internal evaluation panels and support decision-making
• Lead supplier appointment and support contract negotiation

Implementation Partner Management & Challenge

• Act as the primary interface between VSS and the CRM implementation partner
• Ensure delivery against agreed milestones, quality standards, and budget
• Critically review and challenge supplier designs and assumptions
• Ensure system configuration reflects VSS operating model (not vice versa)
• Manage risks, issues, dependencies, and change control processes

Project Delivery, Governance & Reporting

• Establish and maintain robust project governance structures
• Maintain core project artefacts (plans, RAID logs, decision logs, dashboards)
• Report regularly to the CRM Review Panel
• Manage dependencies with wider organisational programmes
• Maintain pace and focus in a high-demand delivery environment

Stakeholder Engagement & Change Readiness

• Facilitate workshops, consultations, and design sessions
• Ensure strong engagement across operational and support teams
• Support organisational readiness for system adoption
• Maintain clear, consistent internal communication

Quality Assurance & Implementation Oversight

• Ensure all deliverables meet agreed specifications and standards
• Oversee testing processes (UAT, data migration validation, system assurance)
• Work closely with Digital & IT to ensure technical compliance
• Provide oversight of licensing implications and cost drivers (D365)

You will bring experience from a similar role and a commitment to your own professional development. As a confident and supportive leader, you will know how to motivate others, build trust, and drive performance. You’re comfortable working with data gathering, analysing, and presenting insights that help shape decisions. You believe in fairness and inclusion with the confidence to challenge discrimination, bias, or stereotyping when you see it.

If you are looking for a role with a purpose, where you can really make a difference, we want to hear from you!

What we offer

• Holiday - When you work for Victim Support Scotland, your wellbeing is important to us. We offer an enhanced annual leave package of 39 days (pro-rata) holiday. 42 days (pro-rata) from Grade 6 and above.
• Pension - Save for the further and join the Standard Life Pension. Your future self will thank you. Our generous employer contribution will help you plan for the future.
• Support - Sometimes we all need support and a listening ear. Our free and confidential Employee Assistance Programme can support your mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing. We also offer enhanced maternity and paternity pay and access to a credit union.
• Discounts- You will have access to our free health cash plan which includes cover for you and your family across a range of benefits, which include, dental cover, access to a virtual GP, counselling, legal support and discounts on gym memberships, cinema tickets, retail and much more.
• Flexibility and development - We are proud of our flexible and inclusive work policies, which help you balance work and life. Supporting employee development is important to us, we offer comprehensive learning and development opportunities.

We are recruiting for the newly created post of Locality Manager to join our Children and Families team.

The post holder will work alongside the Head of Children and Families to help shape high-quality support for children, young people and families.

Main duties and responsibilities will include:

• Directly manage the delivery of the Glasgow and West Children and Families programmes
• Lead the service in line with agreed qualitative based outcomes and best practice legislation and guidance such as UNCRC, The Promise and GIRFEC
• Ensure person-centred planning is at the heart of delivery with maintained and accurate support plans recording SMART outcomes
• Take ownership for growth and investigate new opportunities aligned to and/or supporting existing service provision
• Support leadership and senior management colleagues with developing new service proposals and tenders
• Take responsibility for the learning and continued professional development of yourself and your teams
• Lead the teams to take a strengths-based, people first approach
• Deliver on service performance, using KPI data to support decision making and planning
• Ensure services operate within financial parameters and targets

Our values make us who we are and define our actions and behaviours every day. We’d expect the post-holder to uphold and represent our organisation in a way that reflects our values and person-centred way of working.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic, growing team. We're looking for a confident, values-led manager to lead teams across Glasgow and the West, you will be rights-based and passionate about improving the lives of children and young people. An excellent collaborator rooted in inclusion, The Promise, GIRFEC and UNCRC, you will bring experience of leading people and services in social care preferably within a children and families setting.

The post holder will lead the strategic implementation and operational management of Right There's Glasgow and West Children and Families' programmes including Young People and Family Support, Mentoring and Supported Accommodation.

What you can expect from us..

• The post holder will report to the Head of Children and Families
• You normal hours of work are 35 per week worked Monday to Friday flexibly between the hours of 9.00 am and 5.00 pm with 1-hour unpaid break
• Your usual place of work will be 15 Dava Street, Glasgow, G51 2JA. This role is office-based a minimum of 3-days per week
• Annual leave entitlement of 210 hours (equivalent to 6 weeks) pro rata in your first year, rising to 280 hours (equivalent to 8 weeks) pro rata in your second year. This includes public holidays
• You will automatically be enrolled into the People’s Pension providing you meet the auto-enrolment criteria
• Life insurance 4 x salary
• Option to purchase and sell annual leave
• Cycle to work scheme

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.

Alcohol Focus Scotland (AFS) is Scotland’s national alcohol charity, committed to preventing and reducing harm to individuals, families, communities and Scotland as a whole.

Who we are looking for

Alcohol kills fifty people every week in Scotland, and drains up to £10 billion from our economy each year.

As Scotland’s national alcohol charity, we’ve been tackling alcohol harm for over half a century. We are now looking for a creative, energetic and experienced Business Development Manager to help us achieve even more. In this newly created role, you’ll work directly with the CEO and Board to create and implement an income generation strategy, identifying and pursuing charitable and commercial opportunities for growth. You’ll lead our highly capable operations team, and work as part of a supportive Senior Management Team.

This is an exceptional opportunity to help shape the future of a well-established national charity, and have a real impact on Scotland’s health and wellbeing.

What we offer

• Flexible and Hybrid Working - We offer flexi-time to give you more control over your working hours. We work a mixture of office and home-based days to meet the needs of the post and to accommodate the needs of the postholder.
• Annual Leave - 26 days paid annual leave, increasing after five years’ service. 10 days public holiday (incorporating closure between Christmas and New Year). An additional Celebration Day that may be taken at any time. Staff may purchase up to one week’s additional annual leave per holiday year.
• Well-being support - We provide an Employee Assistance Programme which offers round the clock support for all staff.
• Pension and Death in Service Insurance - 4-6% matched employer pension contribution, rising to 7% after five years’ service. Death in Service insurance is calculated at two times salary.
• Company Sick Pay - After completion of probation you can qualify for up to five months full pay then five months half pay, inclusive of SSP, in year one, increasing annually for five years.
• Transport support - AFS is based in central Glasgow, close to transport hubs. We offer a Travel to Work loan to spread the cost of season tickets and access to the tax efficient benefits of the Cycle to Work scheme.
• Learning - We offer a range of formal and informal training and learning opportunities to support your development.
• Enhanced leave - Maternity leave and paternity leave are enhanced above statutory to help you and your family, after a qualifying service period.
• Social Connection - As well as the satisfaction of working with a skilled, friendly and dedicated team to make change happen, we support formal and informal opportunities to take part in different activities and get to know your colleagues.

Alcohol Focus Scotland is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis and interviews arranged accordingly. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Blue Triangle is a social care organisation that empowers people to thrive, by delivering solutions in connected communities which focus on the needs of each individual. We are looking for enthusiastic people who share our values (Kind, Passionate and Creative) to join our services accommodating and supporting people experiencing homelessness and empowering them to thrive.

Blue Triangle recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community.

What we offer:

Aside from offering a supportive and friendly environment where our people are valued and appreciated, we’ll see that your hard work and drive to succeed is rewarded.

• Competitive Salary and Pension Options
• Long service awards
• Access to our benefits platform with high street voucher and tech discounts and cycle to work scheme to name a few!
• Inhouse training programmes
• Significant Gym discounts
• Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
• 24/7 access to employee assistance programme, including counselling
• A wide range of family friendly policies
• Life Assurance cover of 3 times your salary
• Credit Union
• £200 refer a friend scheme

And many more!

About the Role:

The Head of Commercial will oversee the the organisations’ commercial delivery and growth strategy across all business functions, ensuring Blue Triangle functions sustainably within the current operating environments whilst planning ahead through identified strategies. Our Strategic Commitments include generating new homes, providing high quality asset standards and ensuring sustainability. This role is based at our Glasgow central support office and involves working 35 hours per week.

Main Responsibilities:

• Lead, manage and support a dynamic team of business development, project, commercial and marketing professionals.
• Develop knowledge and expertise within the commercial team to ensure that members are specialists in their areas of responsibility, undertaking regular supervision and development reviews.
• Support the CEO and Head of Corporate Services at the Finance, Investment, and Audit (FIA) Committee, ensuring business plans and investment cases are well informed and presented detailing ROI. Long-term planning methodologies should also be considered.
• Monitor and report on KPI’s to a range of stakeholder, adapting style and format to intended audience.
• Creation of new business/commercial pricing models and the completion of tender pricing schedules in partnership with the Director of Corporate Services and the business development team. This involves providing cost scenarios, assumptions and highlighting risk.

Head of Commercial Role Profile

Job Purpose & Context

As JustRight Scotland continues to mature as a nationally significant human rights organisation, the CEO will lead the next phase of development—delivering our current Paving Routes to Justice strategy and preparing for our next beyond 2029, strengthening organisational sustainability, establishing a more visible and impactful policy presence, and scaling impact.

The CEO of JustRight Scotland is the organisation’s strategic lead, with oversight of our four centres of legal excellence and our policy, communications and participation work. The CEO is responsible for leading implementation of the organisational strategy to deliver JustRight Scotland’s mission to use the law to defend and extend people’s rights in Scotland. Reporting to the Board of Trustees, the CEO is the accountable officer for the charity, responsible for strategic planning and financial sustainability. The CEO is the primary link between the organisation’s committed staff team and the Board.

The CEO is an ambassador for JustRight Scotland. As a strategic leader in the Human Rights sector, the CEO will represent JustRight Scotland at senior levels across civil society and government. They will build and sustain strategic relationships to influence policy and systems change, and to build the profile and reputation of the organisation in Scotland, the UK and internationally.

JustRight Scotland operates in a dual structure of SCIO and LLP, which requires collaborative governance between senior leaders to ensure alignment across these structures. The organisation operates a distributed leadership model in which the Senior Executive Team, comprising the CEO, the Chief Operating Officer and the two Legal Directors (who are also the LLP Partners), share authority and responsibility for senior leadership of the organisation. This is intended to ensure wellbeing, innovation and adaptive capacity at leadership level, aligned with shared values and strategy. The CEO will therefore work closely with the Legal Directors, building on their significant expertise, ensuring a clear and consistent organisational voice.

This is a unique opportunity to lead one of Scotland’s most influential human rights organisations at a pivotal stage in its journey. We are seeking an inspiring, strategic and values-driven leader who can build on JustRight Scotland’s strong foundations and help shape the future of rights-based change.

We would be especially interested in hearing from candidates who have:

A strong understanding of human rights law, principles and practice, as well as the lived experience of people in Scotland, alongside credibility as a leader within the charity and/or human rights sector.

An understanding of how law, policy and lived experience interact to drive social change.

Experience of working in partnership with people with lived experience to help influence and shape strategic direction.

An understanding of the current challenges facing the charity and human rights sectors, and the approaches required to support long-term organisational sustainability.