Top job! Head of Scotland (Fundraising)
- Full time
- £40,125 – £43,050
- Home based in Scotland and/or Aberdeen office based, however travel across the United Kingdom will be required
- Closing 18th April 2023
We are looking for a Head of Scotland (Fundraising) to join our award winning and ambitious type 1 diabetes charity, JDRF, to lead the Scotland Fundraising Team.
JDRF is the world’s leading charitable research funder of type 1 diabetes, improving lives until we find the cure. We fund and drive medical research to cure, treat and prevent type 1 diabetes; we provide information for children, adults and parents living with the condition at all stages, from diagnosis and beyond; and we give a voice to people with type 1 diabetes and work to achieve increased focus on, and funding for, research to find the cure.
This is an exciting opportunity to join an ambitious and successful fundraising team. The Head of Scotland (Fundraising) will be responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive fundraising strategy in the nation that achieves our ambition to build income by 45% from £350k in the current financial year to £500k plus by financial year 2026.
The postholder will hold a key co-ordinating and development role helping to deliver on organisational mission in Scotland. Working closely with the Deputy Director of Fundraising the postholder will develop JDRF’s strategy for fundraising in Scotland, incorporating UK wide initiatives and bespoke national approaches to suit the local context.
You’ll have previous experience of:
- A leadership role in high value partnerships or community fundraising or relevant equivalent
- Developing and delivering an income generation strategy in one or more organisations
You will find a vibrant atmosphere and spirited team at JDRF, always striving to make a difference to people living with type 1 diabetes.
To view the job description please click here: Head of Scotland (Fundraising) JD
Home-Start Clackmannanshire is recruiting a new Chief Executive Officer to head up their volunteer-led family support service across Clackmannanshire and help create the best start in life for local young children. This is a fantastic opportunity to lead a local charity employing a team of 12 staff, assisted by up to 50 volunteers. Reporting to the Board of Trustees, the Chief Executive Officer is a key leadership role ensuring the sustainability of our much-needed support service for young children and their families in Clackmannanshire.
Home-Start Clackmannanshire enjoys the benefits of being part of a nationwide network under the umbrella of Home-Start UK but operates as an independent company with annual expenditure of £300,000+. Working with the Board of Trustees, the Chief Executive Officer provides leadership and operational guidance to our team. Our current strategy, which takes us through to 2026, focusses on core support services, developing our group work, building on the success of our charity shop and reinforcing our strong foundations. This is a hands-on role which will suit someone who enjoys a varied, busy workload and can manage competing priorities.
Giving children the best possible start in life is at the heart of the Home-Start model. We are looking for someone who understands the importance of a child’s early years and who is passionate about ensuring families get the support they need. Our ideal candidate will have a strong leadership capability, be resilient and a natural decision maker, be people focussed with a positive outlook and have the ability to motivate our hardworking team. An understanding of charity fundraising, developing relationships with funders and impact reporting are also important, as is the ability to build connections and good networks across the Wee County's thriving industries and business sector. Strong governance and a commitment to high standards in compliance is required as the nature of our work is heavily regulated. Previous experience of working in a management role within a charity organisation is preferred, although not essential.
If you want to make a difference to local children’s lives, then this opportunity could be for you. The Chief Executive Officer position is offered on a permanent, full-time 35 hour per week basis in our office in Alloa.
Salary to be offered: circa £40,000
Benefits: 32 days annual leave per annum (includes public holidays), rising to 37 after year one.
Pension provision is provided via NEST.
The post is subject to a PVG check at enhanced level.
Home Start Clackmannanshire positively welcomes and seeks to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment. We encourage applications from all candidates regardless of age, race, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality.
Home-Start Aberdeen is looking to recruit a new Chief Executive to head up their volunteer led family support service across Aberdeen city and help create the best start in life for local young children.
This is a fantastic opportunity to lead an Aberdeen charity which employs a team of around 15 staff who are assisted by up to 100 volunteers.
Reporting to the Board of Trustees, the Chief Executive role is a key leadership role to ensure the sustainability of our much needed support service for young children and their families in Aberdeen. Our current strategy takes us through to 2024 with a focus on core support services, developing our group work, building on the success of our charity shop and reinforcing our strong foundations.
We operate as an independent company with annual expenditure of £500,000 and enjoy the benefits of being part of a nationwide network under the umbrella of Home-Start UK.
Working with the Board of Trustees, the Chief Executive role provides leadership and operational guidance to our team. This is a hands-on role which will suit someone who enjoys a varied, busy workload and can prioritise competing priorities at any one time. Our ideal candidate will have strong leadership capability, be resilient and a natural decision maker, will be people focussed with a positive outlook and have the ability to motivate our hardworking team. We are looking for someone who understands the importance of a child’s early years and who is passionate about ensuring families get the support they need to give their child the best possible start in life which is at the heart of the Home-Start model.
An understanding of charity fundraising, developing relationships with funders and impact reporting are also important as is the ability to build connections and good networks across the city’s thriving industries and business sector. Strong governance and a commitment to good compliance is required as the nature of our work is heavily regulated. Previous experience of working in a management role within a charity organisation is preferred, although not essential.
If you want to make a difference to local children’s lives, then this opportunity could be for you. The Chief Executive position is offered on a permanent, full-time 35 hour per week basis in our new office suite in Aberdeen city centre; with the option of 1 day per week working from home available.
• Salary to be offered: up to £40,500
• Benefits: 34 days annual leave per annum (includes public holidays)
• Pension
The post is subject to a PVG check at enhanced level.
Home Start Aberdeen positively welcomes and seeks to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment. We encourage applications from all candidates regardless of age, race, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality.
Top job! Head of Income Generation and Administration
- Full time
- £43,951 – £49,229
- Paisley, PA1 2FB
- Closing 31st March 2023
Are you an experienced and talented fundraising professional who is looking to develop their career and play a key leadership role in the continued growth and impact of our organisation?
Scottish Huntington’s Association is the only charity in Scotland dedicated exclusively to the care and support of families whose lives are impacted by Huntington’s disease, an incurable hereditary condition with severe physical, cognitive and mental symptoms. Our expertise is recognised at national and international levels and we work with funders including NHS, Scottish Government and health and social care partnerships across the country.
We seek a Head of Income Generation and Administration with a track record of leading and inspiring teams to maximise organisational income.
You will have experience of leading a Fundraising or Income Generation Team, including coaching, mentoring and support to enable colleagues to achieve individual and team targets.
With a strong knowledge of the charity sector, ideally working within health and social care, you will have the skills to secure and increase funding income from individual giving, community fundraising, corporate giving, trusts and grants, and statutory funding through service level agreements and tenders is a must.
Additionally you will bring strong financial understanding, a good eye for detail and the confidence to play a key role within our leadership team to drive forward change and improvement throughout the organisation and the sector.
It’s an exciting time to join Scottish Huntington’s Association as we prepare to launch Standing Tall: A Strategy for Growth 2023 – 2028 to transform the care of Huntington’s families, expand specialist services and deepen involvement in clinical research and trials.
This follows two years of significant expansion in our specialist teams, growth in funding, a rise in media engagement, majority parliamentary support for our work, and the success of our ground-breaking Dance 100 fundraising event in Glasgow.
Funding for this post is provided by Scottish Huntington’s Association, an ambitious and hard-working organisation with staff who are passionate about the work we do.
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Regional Community Fundraiser
- Full time
- £32,055
- Aberdeen – based in our office in Aberdeen with flexible working practices/hybrid working
- Closing 16th April 2023
Are you a people person who establishes relationships easily? Do you have a passion for working with a local community? Do you want to work with one of the UK’s leading housing and homelessness charities?
About you
You’ll be an enthusiastic, personable individual, with a passion to share Shelter’s work with supporters in the community. You will also have:
• Demonstrable experience of building relationships within a local community
• Excellent customer service skills
• An ability to work collaboratively across a wide range of teams and stakeholders
About the role and team
Working within the Community Fundraising team, you’ll need to be able to start and build relationships effectively, to tell the story of why people should support Shelter’s fight to end homelessness. You will achieve this by working closely with Services colleagues in our Community Hubs to plan exciting local fundraising opportunities and engaging with local community groups. As the Regional Community Fundraiser, you’ll be responsible for establishing relationships with new supporters, with a focus on regional corporate partners and faith groups, and maintaining existing supporter relationships in Aberdeen and the surrounding areas.
Supported by the Senior Community Fundraising Area Manager and the rest of the team, you’ll have the space to develop your fundraising and relationship management skills, learning from high-performing Income Generation colleagues.
We are committed to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation. We’ve taken significant steps to achieve this, working closely with our Anti-Racism Steering Group, but appreciate there is more hard work to come. We welcome you on our journey.
About Shelter Scotland
A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet over a million people in Scotland struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change, with individuals, in communities, across society, and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.
At Shelter Scotland we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent.
We have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter Scotland and welcome you on our journey to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.
Shelter Scotland helps over half a million people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help.
Fundraising & Communications Worker
- Part time
- £29,122 pro-rata
- Inverness office
- Closing 24th April 2023
RASASH is looking for a new Fundraising and Communications Worker to join our team.
Are you an experienced fundraiser, looking to make a real difference? Do you understand the value of great storytelling and enjoy connecting with people? Are you passionate about gender equality and ending sexual violence?
We have an amazing opportunity to join our team and play a key role in delivering vital services to survivors of sexual violence in Highland.
You will be responsible for raising money from a variety of revenue streams, with a particular focus on corporate and community fundraising. You will also help RASASH to deliver engaging communications to a wide range of audiences.
This is an exciting time to join RASASH as we further develop our service. The post is also new to RASASH, which provides an exciting opportunity to develop the role and its direction.
The Fundraising & Communications Worker has been created to raise the profile of RASASH and increase funding so that we can continue to deliver vital services to those affected by sexual violence in Highland.
The post-holder will seek to raise funds by coordinating events and engaging with local business and individual donors (approximately 70% of the worker’s time).
The worker will also run RASASH’s social media and website, developing content to support our organisational aims and values (approximately 30% of the role).
To promote Edinburgh Zoo and Highland Wildlife Park as world class visitor attractions and the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) as an international leader in conservation, growing brand awareness, income and support.
Some of the things you’ll do:
- Support and deliver an annual marketing activity plan to meet agreed targets
- Assist and develop a market research programme to enable data-led decision making
- Making use of data and insight, develop promotional campaigns to increase visitor numbers and income at Edinburgh Zoo and Highland Wildlife Park.
- Develop promotional content and assets, ensuring brand consistency, value for money and quality
- Working with the marketing manager, support the management of the Society’s website, delivering continuous improvement in performance through development and search engine optimisation, maximising income through ticket sales, events, experiences, membership and retail
What we’re looking for:
- You’ll be Degree qualified (relevant degree) or hold equivalent experience
- Have a good understanding of the marketing industry and understanding of current Gift Aid and GDPR guidelines
- Excellent standard of written and spoken English. Assertive communicator, confident in dealing with a wide range of stakeholders
- Marketing, including digital advertising, Google Analytics, email marketing and direct marketing
- Experience of working in a busy marketing environment, delivering to deadlines.
We offer a range of amazing benefits which can be found at rzss.org.uk/about-rzss/staff-benefits
Peacebuilding Coordinator
- Part time
- £25,285 pro-rata
- Hybrid working. Based for half the time at our premises in Edinburgh.
- Closing 21st April 2023
Are you passionate about building social justice, and committed to peacebuilding?
Do you have some experience of community education, and fundraising for projects?
Could you help us develop a project around peace education?
We are looking for a self-starter who could help us build on our peace education work, and also fundraise to extend the post.
You’ll need good communication and networking skills, and some experience of project development, advocacy and event organising.
You’ll be based for half your time at our shared premises and peace shop in Edinburgh. And you’ll work closely with our administration and information coordinator, and the charity trustees.
This is a fixed term contract for eight months, although part of your role will be to fundraise to extend your post.
We particularly welcome applications from marginalised groups, especially people of colour and other ethnic minorities, people who identify as LGBTQIA, disabled people and those who identify as working class or have done so in the past. If we can offer support with the application process, please do get in touch: admin@peaceandjustice.org.uk
Would you like the opportunity to develop your experience in the community sector and support a flourishing women’s organisation?
We’re looking for new people to join the Glendale Women’s Cafe Board of Trustees!
The Glendale Women’s Cafe creates a cohesive neighbourhood in Pollokshields by empowering local women. We offer a safe and welcoming space in which women can come together to learn, create, enjoy and support each other.
In this role, you will help shape the direction and governance of the organisation, supporting the fantastic staff team to deliver a variety of social and well being opportunities for the women of Pollokshields.
Right now is a really exciting time to join Glendale, as we embark on our 3 year strategy for the organisation. In the last 10 years the organisation has grown and developed, and we are now in a position to begin the next phase of our work. To support us in this we have lined up development and strategy sessions with Kinharvie, who will help guide the board into this next phase. Joining the board now means playing a very valuable part in this direction, and will have a meaningful lasting impact on the lives of the women who are part of the cafe community.
We would welcome people with the following experience:
- fundraising
- HR
- charity management and strategy
- communications and marketing
- most importantly a passion for what we do and a desire to support it
Time commitment
Time commitment is a big question for most people when thinking about joining a board. We hope that the time you give to Glendale will be rewarding and beneficial to you, however, we will do our best to make sure the role can work around your life, work and other commitments. Please note we meet six times a year, usually on Tuesdays during cafe hours (9am-3pm).
Director/Trustee
- Management Board
- Unpaid
- Home based with occasional in person meetings.
- Closing 16th April 2023
The Iona Community is seeking applicants to fill two vacancies on its Council as Director/Trustee.
Who are we?
The Iona Community is an international, ecumenical Christian movement working for justice and peace, the rebuilding of community and the renewal of worship.
Call for a Director/Trustee replacement.
The Iona Community seeks applications to fill two vacancies on its Council as Director/Trustee. Membership of the Council can be for one or two four-year terms, with members rotating off after a maximum of eight years’ service.
Is this for you?
This is a great opportunity to be part of a dynamic, motivated Council who are integral to working with the leadership and staff in shaping and delivering the vison and values of the Iona Community. If you think we could be doing things differently, or if you feel you could never apply for this role, please read more about the role and if you're interested, apply. The Iona Community really wants to hear from you. For more about the Iona Community please visit iona.org.uk
Applications are particularly encouraged from people aged 18 – 30 as we try to improve the age diversity of our Council
We have identified the following skills which would strengthen the Council:
- New technology – cyber security; social media.
- Business – trade, commerce, investments and marketing.
- Fundraising and finance.
However, lack of experience in these areas will not exclude applicants to the role.
The Iona Community is committed to ensuring that equality, diversity and inclusivity is part of the organisation, reflecting the equality, justice and belonging which it wants all people to feel in the world. The more diverse its Council and workforce, the better its able to respond to, bring new perspectives to and tackle the challenges it faces in delivering the purposes of the Community.
The Iona Community welcomes applications from everyone committed to its purposes regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or disability. As those from minority racial or ethnic groups, of female gender and younger people are currently under-represented on the Council, applications from those individuals would be particularly encouraged. All appointments will be made on merit, following a fair and transparent process. In line with the Equality Act 2010, however, the Iona Community may employ positive action where candidates from underrepresented groups can demonstrate their ability to perform the role equally well.