VOCAL is the Voice of Carers across Lothian, a Scottish charity run by carers and for carers since 1994. We’re looking for a dynamic Carer Support Practitioner to join the team at our busy Carer Hub in Leith.

Working closely with a team of Duty Practitioners, the postholder will provide duty support, acting as first point of contact, for carers seeking support to improve their financial wellbeing. This will require the postholder to engage with carers by utilising a range of methods including telephone, in person, social media and webchat facilities.

Applicants will have experience in a comparable position and be able to demonstrate excellent person-centred support and communication skills as well as an ability to respond proactively in a fast-paced environment.

Applicants will be passionate about delivering good client/customer service and ensuring all carers receive a warm welcome and responsive support when contacting the centre.

The Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights works to eliminate racial discrimination and harassment and to promote racial justice across Scotland. We are looking for an outstanding candidate to take overall responsibility for the smooth running of all aspects of our office, finances and operations management.

The successful candidate will have strong literacy and numeracy skills, previous office administrative experience and experience of dealing with finances and budgets. A high level of accuracy and consistent attention to detail is also required. In line with our overall mission, the successful candidate will also have a desire to make a real improvement to racial equality in Scotland.

LifeMosaic supports communities and movements to protect their rights, territories and cultures and to vision and determine their own futures. We work with indigenous communities in Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America who are being marginalised and whose natural resources and cultures are under threat. We also work with visionary communities who are championing community-led approaches to self-determined development and those defending their territories and cultures.

LifeMosaic is an indigenous rights and community empowerment organisation and our work is rooted in mandates from indigenous movements. We are currently working towards organisational growth and transformation that would allow us to empower more communities to protect their threatened cultures, ecosystems and lands.

We are seeking a Finance Coordinator to provide us with the capacity to accelerate organisational growth to broaden our reach and deepen our impact. This is an exciting, interesting and varied role with opportunity for development. This post aims to unlock organisational growth further, particularly to help to expand the organisation in a sustainable way to meet the increasing demand that we are experiencing from indigenous partners and movements.

The successful applicant will be working closely with the Executive Director and the Board of Trustees, as well as with funders, staff, and partner organisations.

A full job description is attached below.

Do you want to help a local charity support our local community through the cost of living crisis and some of the most challenging and difficult times in living memory?

We are looking for new Trustee Board Members to join us.

We’re looking for individuals who share our passion and values, who will support us to deliver our mission to empower and support citizens throughout Perth and Kinross in areas such as debt, benefits, employment, consumer rights, and to create a more equal and inclusive society.

The Board’s role is to provide overall governance for the Bureau, to set strategic direction, and to ensure that as an organisation we are providing the services required to support the community. We are looking for individuals who want to share their knowledge and experience, to work collaboratively with other trustees and our CEO to ensure Perth Citizens Advice Bureau continues to thrive in responding to the needs of our community.

If you don’t think you meet the ‘traditional’ profile of a charity trustee which may have put you off applying in the past then we want to hear from you! We want our board to reflect the communities we serve and would welcome applications from diverse backgrounds.

We currently lack the following skills on our trustee team so if you have current experience or knowledge in these areas then we’d also love to hear from you: Accounting and financial audit and communication or marketing,

Our trustees are asked to attend a board meeting once every two months and to join at least one sub-committee; Finance, Governance or People. The time commitment is between four and six hours a month including meeting preparation.

Responsible for the financial operations of Homeless Network Scotland, a medium-sized charity and company limited by guarantee with a turnover of just over £1m. The main day to day responsibilities of the Finance Manager are drawing up budgets, costing projects, making payments and reporting to funders. And at regular periods, preparing quarterly management accounts, drafting annual budget and drafting annual accounts ready for audit, reporting to the Board of Directors.

Occupational Benefits

• Employer contribution pension scheme at 9.72%
• Death-in-service cover

Incentives:

• Blended working – Glasgow office and home
• Flexible working hours
• Annual pay increment
• Access to free professional coaching sessions
• Access to free confidential counselling services

We have an exciting opportunity to join Alzheimer Scotland as a Finance Officer.

Alzheimer Scotland is Scotland’s national dementia charity. Our aim is to make sure nobody faces dementia alone. We provide support and information to people with dementia, their carers and families, we campaign for the rights of people with dementia, support vital dementia research and promote positive brain health.

We are seeking applications from individuals with at least 2 years’ experience of hands on working in a varied high volume transactional finance role within a complex organisation and who possess the skills to take on the tasks outlined in the job description.

You will have had significant exposure to the full finance function including bank processing and reconciliation, purchase ledger and sales ledger.

You will be a strong communicator and able to balance competing priorities ensuring routine workload alongside ad-hoc tasks, analysis and reporting is completed to a high standard within deadlines.

If you’re interested by what you’ve read, and have the necessary skills, experience, and ability to make a success of this role, we would be delighted to hear from you.

These exciting posts will support the operations of the charity by providing administrational and financial assistance support to projects, staff, the management team, the board of trustees and other stakeholders. With high interpersonal skills, excellent attention to detail and strong self-starters able to work on their own initiative, we require two part time staff members to join us – Finance Assistant and Operations Assistant

The successful candidate will

• Work as part of a high functioning team
• Engage with staff, stakeholders, trustees and service users
• Be organised with high attention to detail
• Provide strong systems and administrative / financial support
• Work to deadlines
• Offer new ideas for improvement
• Be competent in use of IT
• Be enthusiastic and flexible around the needs of the charity

Please note for the Finance Assistant post the successful candidate will also require some experience in financial systems in particular Sage 200.

Sistema Scotland’s vision is to improve lives and strengthen communities. We deliver our work through the creation of Big Noise programmes within communities, and currently run five programmes in Raploch & Fallin in Stirling, Govanhill in Glasgow, Torry in Aberdeen, Douglas in Dundee and Wester Hailes in Edinburgh.

Due to an internal promotion an exciting opportunity within the Finance Team at Sistema Scotland has arisen. As part of the central team, the finance function supports each of the Big Noise programmes to ensure their continued growth and success, and that Sistema Scotland can deliver on its organisational strategy. This role is a key support for the finance function, helping ensure smooth processes in finance and administration. It’s a varied and rewarding position where attention to detail, numeracy, comfort with finance and other information systems and ensuring good administrative processes will be vital to success. The Finance Administrator needs to be approachable and patient, willing to spend time explaining the formalities of adhering to financial processes to non-financial staff and where necessary offering them assistance.

You will hold a relevant qualification at HNC or SVQ level 3 (or equivalent), with experience of working in an office administrative role. You will have demonstrable experience of using Microsoft Office (particularly MS Word and Excel) and email. Experience of database administration (inputting, manipulating and reporting on data) or equivalent IT functions and also developing and implementing administrative systems and procedures will be essential for this role. We are looking for someone with experience of working within a challenging and high-pressure environment, who can also liaise with stakeholders at all levels of seniority.

This is a permanent post, working 3.5 days/24.5 hours a week (exact pattern of work to be agreed with line manager).