As a national public body, Children’s Hearings Scotland is one of a number of dedicated organisations that work as part of the Children’s Hearings System. This care and justice system is unique to Scotland and exists to protect the safety and wellbeing of infants, children and young people nationally, and ensures their rights are upheld and protected. CHS recruits, trains and supports around 2,300 volunteers to ensure children’s hearings take place.

CHS want to recruit a Learning Transformation Manager, a national role, to both lead teams creating and delivering learning, and enable CHS to transform to a digital-first approach to learning. Reporting to the Director of Positive Outcomes, the role will lead the implementation of a refreshed 5-year Learning Strategy, including driving digital transformation and strengthening the CHS Learning Academy brand. The postholder will build on existing foundations to enhance learning across CHS, using innovative and flexible delivery methods to increase engagement. They will deliver a comprehensive national curriculum for our volunteers, ensuring high-quality training that supports children’s rights and meaningful participation from those with lived experience of the hearings system.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate a strong track record in fostering a culture of continuous learning, developing and delivering modern, digitally enabled learning solutions. You will have achievements in using learning as a driver of transformation and improved outcomes demonstrating how learning drives organisational performance, culture, and adaptability.

Job Purpose

The St. Johnstone Community Trust is seeking an experienced and values-driven leader to serve as Chief Executive Officer.

The CEO will provide strategic leadership and overall management of the Trust, working closely with the Board of Trustees to deliver the organisation’s mission, ensure long-term financial sustainability, and maximise impact for our beneficiaries.

You will lead and inspire a small, dedicated team, overseeing a diverse portfolio of initiatives across sport, education, and wellbeing, while building strong relationships with partners, stakeholders, and the wider community.

Job Role & Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Lead the development and delivery of the charity’s vision, mission, and long-term strategic plan.

• Work closely with the Board of Trustees to ensure strategy aligns with organisational objectives and stakeholder needs.

• Identify opportunities for growth, partnerships, and innovation to maximise impact.

• Monitor progress against strategic goals and set appropriate performance targets.

Governance & Compliance

• Ensure the charity operates within its governing document, charity law, and relevant regulations.

• Support effective governance by providing timely and accurate information to the Board.

• Develop policy proposals for Board discussion and assist in decision-making.

• Ensure an annual calendar of Board meetings, including reporting and compliance documentation, is maintained.

Financial Management & Sustainability

• Oversee financial planning, budgeting, and reporting, ensuring income is maintained, expenditure controlled, and risks identified and managed.

• Lead the development and implementation of income generation strategies, fundraising initiatives, and sustainability planning. Diversify revenue streams to ensure financial sustainability and growth.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with sponsors, donors, and funding partners to secure resources.

Operational Management

• Lead, manage, and support senior staff to maximise their contributions and ensure high-quality delivery of programmes and services.

• Ensure programmes harness the power of sport to promote wider benefits, including education, health, and social inclusion.

• Develop and maintain effective policies, systems, procedures, and operational controls.

• Ensure appropriate monitoring and evaluation processes are in place to measure and report the impact of activities.

• Define and secure the human, material, and financial resources needed for effective operation.

External Relations & Promotion

• Act as the public face and spokesperson for the charity, representing it at events, conferences, and in the media.

• Maintain and develop relationships with partners, stakeholders, government bodies, regulators, and other key decision-makers.

• Seek opportunities to expand and promote the role and profile of the charity.

People & Culture

• Promote a positive, inclusive, and values-led organisational culture.

• Ensure effective recruitment, performance management, and professional development for staff.

• Champion equality, diversity, safeguarding, and the wellbeing of all staff and beneficiaries.

With an annual turnover of approximately £2.5–3 million and a workforce of over 100 staff LASC is a community-based charity delivering childcare, young people’s services, and wider community benefit across multiple sites. We are seeking a Chief Executive Officer to provide strategic leadership and executive accountability at a pivotal moment for the organisation.

This is a senior leadership role focused on clarity, sustainability, and good governance. The CEO will work in close partnership with the Board to co-create organisational strategy, lead a capable senior team, and ensure the organisation remains financially resilient, well governed, and compliant within a regulated environment.

This is not a hands-on operational role. We are looking for a leader who can operate at the right altitude, bring sound judgement, and create the conditions for others to succeed.

About the role

The Chief Executive Officer will:

• Work in partnership with the Board to co-create strategic direction and lead delivery of agreed priorities
• Provide executive leadership across a multi-site organisation with a strong community presence
• Hold accountability for financial sustainability, organisational risk, and regulatory confidence
• Lead and support senior staff, shaping a professional, fair, and resilient organisational culture
• Represent the organisation externally and build confidence with key stakeholders and partners
• Lead senior relationships with public sector partners and commissioners, including negotiation of sustainable funding and fee arrangements

The role is offered on a three day per week basis with flexible and hybrid working. The postholder will be expected to be locally based, or able to attend sites and meetings as required, with presence focused on where it adds the most value.

About you

You will be an experienced senior leader who brings:

• Experience working effectively with a Board or governing body
• Accountability for organisational performance, budgets, or outcomes
• Confidence leading teams through change, growth, or financial constraint
• Strong judgement, calm leadership, and the ability to influence at senior level

You do not need to come from the childcare or voluntary sector. We are actively interested in candidates who bring transferable leadership experience from other public, regulated, or community facing environments.

If you are interested in this role but do not feel you meet every requirement, we would still encourage you to apply.

What we offer

• A senior, part time leadership role with genuine flexibility
• Hybrid working and an outcome-focused approach to hours
• Employer pension contributions
• A values-led organisation with a strong community purpose
• The opportunity to shape the future of a well-established local charity

Our commitment to inclusion

We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion, and welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We recognise that leadership experience can be gained in many different ways and value varied career paths. We particularly encourage applications from women and individuals from under-represented groups and are happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and flexible working needs as part of the recruitment process.

Join Citizens Advice Scotland as our new Director of Advice Services and play a central role in shaping a national service that changes lives. As a key member of the Executive Leadership Team, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across our advice services, ensuring they are high-quality, accessible and responsive to the needs of people across Scotland. Acting as the primary senior contact for Citizens Advice Bureaux, you will drive delivery of our organisational strategy while championing innovation across face-to-face, digital, telephone and outreach channels.

In this pivotal role, you will lead national service delivery, quality assurance and performance improvement, ensuring compliance with membership standards and regulatory requirements. You will oversee major funded programmes, strengthen insight-led decision making and maintain the highest standards of data quality and governance. You will also play a significant role in business development, identifying opportunities, shaping compelling bids and tenders, and managing budgets with rigour and transparency.

We are looking for an experienced senior leader with a strong track record in delivering large-scale services, navigating complex stakeholder environments and driving continuous improvement. You will be an emotionally intelligent communicator, a confident decision-maker and a collaborative relationship-builder with the ability to influence at all levels, including government and national partners. Above all, you will bring a values-led, inclusive leadership style that inspires high performance and supports a culture of wellbeing and professionalism.

If you are motivated by delivering meaningful impact, improving client outcomes and advancing a mission-driven national service, we would love to hear from you. Join us in shaping the future of advice in Scotland.

This role offers you the opportunity to work at the heart of supporting Scotland's largest independent advice network and to make an invaluable contribution to citizen’s lives.

For more information about the role, please refer to the Job Pack which can be downloaded below.

Please familiar yourself with Our People Charter.

Employee benefits

Citizens Advice Scotland offers excellent terms and conditions. We want our people to have a great work life balance and we have designed our working practices and benefits to support this. Here are some of things our employees benefit from: a 35-hour full time working week, 40 days annual leave, genuine flexibility in working hours with a flexi-time system, and hybrid working opportunities for every role. For more details of some of the other benefits on offer to our employees, please see the section on employee benefits in the job pack.

Citizens Advice Scotland is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies and flexible working arrangements to support all our staff. We are also committed to equality of opportunity for all and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

CAS provides options for hybrid working to allow employees to balance their time attending the office with time working from home. The number of days you will be able to work from home each week will be dependent on your job role and can be discussed as part of the recruitment process.

WEAll Scotland is Scotland’s leading voice for building an economy that works for people and planet. Since 2018, we have become a nationally recognised and influential network driving the transition to a Wellbeing Economy that delivers good lives for all within planetary boundaries. As the longest-established hub of the global Wellbeing Economy Alliance, we convene partners, shape policy debate and influence decision-makers across sectors.

This is a rare opportunity to lead a respected and growing movement at a pivotal moment for Scotland’s economic future.

The Role

The Director will provide clear strategic leadership, ensuring WEAll Scotland remains the go-to organisation for the Wellbeing Economy in Scotland, visible, credible and high impact.

You will:

• Grow and mobilise our national membership network into a confident community of advocates
• Influence policymakers, politicians and senior leaders across sectors
• Represent WEAll Scotland in high-profile forums and media
• Translate strategic vision into deliverable projects with measurable impact
• Lead and develop a talented staff team
• Strengthen governance, operations and long-term financial sustainability

About You

You will bring:

• Deep commitment to economic system change and the Wellbeing Economy
• Strong understanding of Scotland’s policy landscape
• Proven experience of strategic leadership and team management
• A track record of influencing senior stakeholders
• Fundraising experience and organisational oversight skills
• A collaborative, inclusive and relational leadership style

WEAll Scotland offers a generous pension and annual leave entitlement.

Why apply for this role?

Children’s Hearings Scotland (CHS) is undergoing an exciting period of reform designed to transform Children’s Hearings and improve outcomes for children.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Delivery Manager to join our new Strategic Planning and Delivery team. You will use your skills and knowledge of what good change management looks like and have experience of leading projects and programmes in highly collaborative and complex systems.

Building on our work to date, and contributing to the development of a new function, you will support an ambitious programme of delivery across all areas of our work and impact.

Your role

As Delivery Manager at Children’s Hearings Scotland, you will be at the heart of transformation from large scale programmes to continuous improvement projects— driving innovation, fostering collaboration, and ensuring that every improvement reflects the voices of children, young people, and those who support them.

You will play a pivotal role in enabling CHS to achieve its strategic and operational priorities, delivering meaningful and sustainable improvements across the organisation and the Children’s Hearing system.

About you

You must have experience of managing end to end change and be familiar with the principles, methodologies and tools of change and continuous improvement. You’ll work closely with subject matter experts to deliver, so will have a collaborative, enabling and coaching approach.

You’ll be working in a system of complex stakeholders, roles and responsibilities where infants, children and young people are at the heart of what we do. For that reason you will be experienced at working in collaboration across team and organisational boundaries with a sharp focus on stakeholder engagement and management. You’ll be an excellent

communicator, holding the narrative of change and be confident in the use of data and information to inform and shape our decisions and actions.

You’ll be regularly reporting on progress and impact to stakeholders including senior management, so a confident approach to report writing, presenting and engaging people is critical.

You will have a resilient and problem solving approach, navigating the complexities of change with open communication, project and programme expertise and alignment to our values at Children’s Hearings Scotland.

For information on how to apply, please see bottom of the advert.

Life at CHS

At Children’s Hearings Scotland, our highly trained Panel Members make decisions for Scotland’s unique Children’s Hearings System that upholds and promotes the rights of infants, children and young people. Our 2,500 volunteer Panel Members take part in children’s hearings in their local areas, making decisions with and for infants, children and young people.

Our organisation also supports a network of Area Support Teams throughout Scotland who support Panel Members in their local communities.

As an organisation that works within the Children’s Hearings System, we are passionate about making a positive contribution to improving outcomes for Scotland’s infants, children and young people.

You can read more about our core values on our website as well as view an introductory video to our organisation. We also offer a generous benefits package from hybrid working to flexi hours and a fantastic pension scheme – check out our full benefits summary.

Diversity and Inclusion

CHS is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively encourage applicants from all protected characteristics and are committed to providing any reasonable adjustments required during the application and assessment process, and upon joining us.

Hybrid working and working pattern

This is a hybrid role and will involve being 'on-site' at our CHS Head Office an average of two days per week, it may be more on some weeks. This will be dictated by business needs. Our CHS Head Office is based in Thistle House, Haymarket, Edinburgh. The standard working week is Monday to Friday but the role may on occasion require a level of evening and weekend work in line with business needs.

VSA is the largest city social care charity in the UK, with over 150 years of experience supporting vulnerable children, adults, and families across Aberdeen and beyond. The organisation delivers life-changing services through residential care and community outreach, promoting physical, emotional, mental, and social wellbeing. VSA supports individuals facing complex challenges, including mental health diagnoses, additional learning needs, addiction, isolation, and poverty, with a focus on empowerment, compassion, and enabling people to live the best lives possible.

VSA is seeking an outstanding Chief Executive Officer to lead the organisation through a period of strategic transformation within the Scottish social care sector. This is a pivotal opportunity to shape the organisation’s future, building on a long history of high-quality service delivery while responding to evolving policy, funding frameworks, and community needs.

Reporting to the Board of Trustees, the CEO will provide overall leadership and direction for VSA, ensuring strong governance, effective risk management, and financial sustainability. They will work closely with the Executive Management Team to deliver the organisation’s strategic objectives, embed a culture of innovation and accountability, and maintain the highest standards of care for service users.

The CEO will represent VSA externally, engaging with government, regulators, and partners to ensure the organisation’s voice is influential in shaping the future of health and social care. Through effective advocacy and stakeholder management, the CEO will strengthen VSA’s position in the sector and secure opportunities for innovation and growth.

Candidates will bring significant senior leadership experience, ideally gained within a health and social care context, with a track record of leading complex, multi-service organisations. They will demonstrate strong financial and commercial acumen, experience delivering sustainable change, and the ability to engage confidently with a wide range of stakeholders. Above all, they will be values-driven, visible, and authentic leaders, committed to supporting staff and ensuring that service users’ needs remain central to decision-making.

The successful CEO will guide VSA through this period of strategic transformation, ensuring the organisation remains resilient, sustainable, and well-positioned to continue serving Aberdeen’s communities as it has for over 150 years. This is an exceptional opportunity to shape the future of a historic, mission-driven organisation, leaving a lasting legacy and making a meaningful difference to the lives of the people VSA supports.