Are you ready to make a significant difference? CrossReach is seeking an experienced and passionate Donor Relations Manager to lead our efforts in building and managing relationships with high-net-worth donors. Your expertise will be crucial in increasing our unrestricted income and supporting our mission.
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If you're passionate about making a difference and have a background in fundraising, we want to hear from you! Join us at CrossReach and help us create a brighter future for our communities.
Are you a seasoned fundraising professional with a passion for making a difference? CrossReach is looking for a dynamic Trust and Grants Manager to join our team on a fixed-term contract in Edinburgh. If you have a proven track record of securing substantial funding and thrive in a collaborative environment, we want to hear from you!
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Ready to make a real impact? Join us at CrossReach and be a part of something truly meaningful. Apply today and help us secure the future of our vital projects
After 5 years of enormous fun and hard work as Chief Executive of The Cumnock Tryst, Jennifer Martin is stepping away to spend more time as a music maker herself.
We are therefore looking for an inspirational, dynamic, creative, hard-working strategic thinker to become our General Manager.
You will have a passion for music and its transformational power on people and places. Your natural flair for cultural administration, the ability to deliver high quality cultural programmes; combined with motivational leadership qualities, is what we need to deliver our vision.
The successful candidate will thrive on the challenge of ensuring long-term sustainability, bringing world class music to unexpected places, and will have the courage to lead the organisation into its second decade of growth and development without losing sight of our artistic vision, values and history.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious self-starter to work with a small, dedicated team, a supportive board of trustees and one of the world’s leading composers, Sir James MacMillan.
The One World Shop was established over 40 years ago and has played a lead role in the Fair Trade movement in Scotland, including helping Edinburgh and Glasgow become Fairtrade cities. As well as running a thriving city centre shop, we have an online shop and we support schools, faith groups and local businesses to learn about and sell fair trade products. We currently employ 7 paid staff and over 20 volunteers. Our aim is to reduce poverty in deprived areas of the world through trading fairly and we are committed to reducing our carbon footprint and promoting low-carbon living.
We are seeking to appoint several new voluntary Management Committee members; we are particularly looking at people with skills and experience in any of the following:
- Human Resources
- Property, leases, surveying
- Retail sales and management
- Business management
- Finance, funding, ethical investment
Board meetings are held every two months by Zoom
We are a charity with decades of experience supporting people across Scotland, providing those who need us with support that ranges from Mental Health, Learning Disability and Neurodiversity, Youth and Adult homelessness and Older People services.
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Who we are looking for
We are looking for an experienced Business Development Professional who is looking for a new challenge. WithYOU is at an exciting point in our journey. This post will have a high level of input and involvement in future business development opportunities that withYOU will explore. The successful candidate will work closely alongside the Head of Development to ensure the organisation is able to respond to tender opportunities, develop new service models and maximise income generation opportunities. The post will be part of the highly skilled Development Team.
We have ambitious plans for the future and are keen to expand our work into other areas across Scotland. As part of that, we are in the process of finalising a rebrand and new organisational name. We are also in the process of a large-scale transformation of our services and operations.
Critical Role elements of the Development Partner – Business Development
Support the delivery of key business development priorities, including:
Putting people at the heart of our work.
Foundation Scotland puts people at the heart of its work. We rely on the expertise, trust and experience we’ve gained in the last 25 years working with communities, philanthropists and companies all over Scotland.
Our people are passionate experts in bringing lasting, positive change to Scotland’s communities. We take great pride in supporting local projects by taking a personal approach to every meeting and decision. We’re in a unique position to fully understand communities’ needs and fund solutions that will make a difference.
Our work is nationwide. We’re working with different industries, funding various projects from renewables to digital, through to arts and heritage. Our people are always challenged and have an opportunity to learn and grow. In short - no two days are the same. Ultimately, our work is highly rewarding, and the best part is seeing the real impact we can make within Scottish communities. If you share our passion for shaping Scotland’s communities' future, think about joining our team.
We are recruiting for an organised and motivated Grants Officer to join our Communities Team, supporting a portfolio of community funds across Scotland.
As outlined above, the Communities Team distributes place-based funds coming from a range of sources, primarily wind farms. We support communities and donors to ensure funds are well governed and administered and that the funding furthers the ambitions of the community.
You will use your experience and expertise to help deliver positive impact from community funds. Your key responsibilities will include supporting the efficient delivery of a range of community funds, assessing funding requests and providing general grantmaking administrative support.
If you have experience in grant-making and have strong analytical and written skills, then we’d love to hear from you. Please note, that while this role is home based, some travel is required.
Foundation Scotland offers a range of staff benefits including Pension Scheme, Life Assurance, 2 days volunteering per year (pro-rata), flexible working options and a progressive pay system.
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Midlothian Young Peoples Advice Service (MYPAS) promotes the health and wellbeing of young people across East Lothian and Midlothian and currently focuses on working in the areas of mental health and substance use. MYPAS is a community-based organisation with charitable status and based in Dalkeith.
The postholder will be responsible for providing a range of business support functions including fundraising and business development to the Chief Executive, Management Team, the staff team and to the Board, to allow the service delivery teams to provide services that meet the needs of young people. This will include elements of business development, fundraising, communications, marketing, policy development, research and administrative support.
Educated to degree level/equivalent professional qualification or can demonstrate equivalent experience, you will be comfortable working with a wide range of organisations and individuals, have excellent communications skills and able to manage the pressures of working in a swift moving landscape in a service dedicated to improving outcomes for vulnerable young people.
This post may require evening and occasional weekend work.
The amazing charity Downs Syndrome Scotland are recruiting for a Trusts & Grants Fundraiser.
Working alongside the Community Fundraiser and the Corporate & Events Fundraiser, the Trusts and Grants Fundraiser will play a crucial part in making the charity’s vision and mission a reality for people in Scotland.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is an experienced Trusts and Grants Fundraiser looking for flexibility in their role, possessing the research, analytical and creative writing skills to be successful in this role for an opportunity to work for a well-regarded and passionate charity who make a huge difference to the lives of others.
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Grants and Trusts Fundraiser to secure transformational income from charitable Grants, Trusts, Foundations and statutory bodies through compelling and persuasive applications, to sustain and grow the Charities service provision throughout Scotland.
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The Halliday Foundation meets both the immediate, practical needs and providing sustainable pathways out of poverty for people impacted by homelessness and deprivation - primarily in east end of Glasgow.
Using volunteers, the Halliday Foundation designs and delivers services to build self-esteem, reduce isolation, connect communities and develop employability skills. We build strong, trusting relationships free from stigma and judgement among the people who use our services, with donors and local community partners.
The Halliday Foundation have vacancies on the Board to oversee the management of the charity and ensure that it is financially viable, properly governed and complies with all relevant regulatory frameworks.
We are looking for individuals who can also add
• Legal – charity, employment, and commercial law
• Marketing / Fundraising
• Finance
• Strategic planning
• Grant writing
• Business development
• Governance
In addition to monitoring the charity’s governing work with volunteers and members, successful candidates should have a general interest in the health and well-being of those in poverty or those who are homeless and at-risk people and be able to contribute to the strategic work of the Board.
As a voluntary position, it will not be paid but travel and other expenses for attendance at meetings are reimbursed in line with our policy. As a local, inclusive charity we are keen this diversity continues to be reflected in our Board.
Women’s Aid South Lanarkshire & East Renfrewshire (WASLER) is a charity that delivers domestic abuse services to women and children across South Lanarkshire and East Renfrewshire, whilst raising awareness of domestic abuse, and we are currently looking for women to join our Board of Directors. The Board of Directors is responsible for the effective governance and strategic direction of WASLER.
We are looking to appoint a new treasurer to join our Board. The treasurer will be responsible for overseeing financial matters on behalf of our Board and will ensure that the organisation has robust financial processes to meet its legal and constitutional requirements. We are keen to hear from candidates that have experience of charity financial management and/or are chartered in a suitable accountancy field.
We are also looking for new board members with diverse skills and backgrounds that complement the existing board skillset; previous experience on a Board preferred but not essential. We are specifically interested in recruiting Board Members with skills and expertise in relation to:
• Domestic abuse / gender-based violence
• Social Work / Social Care
• Financial Management
• Procurement
• Service Management / Service Delivery
• Fundraising / Marketing