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B healthy together are looking for a Community Development Worker to help improve health and wellbeing, reduce social isolation, and support community-led activities in our local area.

You’ll work with local people to deliver and develop activities such as cooking sessions, wellbeing workshops, craft groups, seated exercise, and walking groups—helping ensure they are shaped by community needs and feedback.

You’ll build relationships, support volunteers, and work with partners to strengthen community connections and increase impact.

We’re looking for someone with experience in community work or volunteering, confident working with groups, and passionate about community-led approaches and teamwork.

Edinburgh University Students' Association is looking to recruit an Officer (Wellbeing and Personal Development) to join our Student Opportunities team.

Edinburgh University Students’ Association is an award-winning organisation, which exists to provide diverse services, representation, and welfare support to the community of over 49,500 students at the University of Edinburgh. By providing opportunities, helping to create change and offering support, we're here to help students get the most out of their time in Edinburgh. We have five venues around the University of Edinburgh campus – Teviot, King’s Buildings House, Potterrow, the Pleasance and Edinburgh College of Art’s Wee Red Bar – which house our offices, cafés, bars, clubs, spaces for students to meet, study and socialise. These spaces transform into some of the most well loved Edinburgh Festival Fringe venues throughout the month of August each year.

We are a registered charity and all of the income we generate from our commercial activity goes back in to supporting our members. We’re also an organisation with a strategic commitment to support and empower all our staff, and have some exciting plans for the future. Plus, over 90% of our staff would recommend the Students' Association as a place to work. There's never been a better time to apply and join our organisation.

We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. Edinburgh University Students’ Association is committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination.

The Student Opportunities team focusses on supporting and developing a wide range of student-led activity, and additional opportunities to ensure students have the opportunity to meet each other and have fun; to build community amongst our members; and to support their personal and professional development.

The Officer (Wellbeing and Personal Development) will support the development and expansion of learning, development and wellbeing activities for Association members include supporting an annual workshop calendar, liaising with students, university and community partners, supporting staff-led learning and development practice (student-focused) and encouraging students to take a holistic approach to building communities of common interest and experience. Through a visible on-site presence, you will be the first point of contact for day-to-day activities and inquiries throughout the year, enabling students and activity leaders to make the most of wellbeing opportunities in Teviot.

The Officer will support a curated programme of wellbeing and community-building events aimed at meeting evolving student needs. You will be the face of our programme for students, community members and activity hosts, providing on-the-ground support and assistance to our contributors and participants.

Salary: £29,280 - £30,190 (Band C)

In line with our Pay Policy, the successful candidate will typically be offered the lowest salary band point, dependent on experience.

Plus a generous benefits package:

• 35 days per year holiday entitlement
• Company pension with 14.5% employer contribution
• Enhanced company sick pay, leave and loan policies
• A comprehensive package of support via our Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to money saving discounts from hundreds of retailers via our Pluxee Discounts Hub
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Discounts on food and drink across our venues

Western Isles Rape Crisis Centre is seeking an Advocacy & Support Worker to join our team and provide specialist advocacy and support to survivors of sexual violence who are engaging with, or considering engaging with, the criminal justice system.

The role includes providing emotional and practical support, working collaboratively with partner agencies, and contributing to the development of advocacy services across the Western Isles in a compassionate, survivor-centred, and community-based way.

We are looking for someone with relevant support or advocacy experience, strong communication skills, and a clear commitment to survivor-centred, anti-discriminatory practice.

We offer family-friendly policies and are committed to supporting staff wellbeing, creating a workplace where people feel valued and supported.

About St Andrews Environmental Network

St Andrews Environmental Network (StAndEN) is an award-winning environmental charity delivering practical climate action, fuel-poverty support, reuse initiatives, community well-being projects, and environmental engagement across Fife.

We believe sustainability should be practical, accessible, and genuinely useful to local people. Our work focuses on improving lives, reducing environmental harm, and strengthening communities through pragmatic, community-led solutions.

StAndEN delivers a diverse portfolio of environmental, anti-poverty, and community wellbeing projects across Fife in partnership with local authorities, NHS services, universities, businesses, and national funders.

The Role

We are seeking an organised, proactive, and community-minded Operations Coordinator to help support and develop our growing work across North East Fife and beyond.

This is an exciting entry-level management opportunity within a well-established and highly respected charity. The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting day-to-day operations, coordinating projects and volunteers, and helping shape the future direction of community climate action within StAndEN.

The role combines operational coordination, project support, community engagement, and team leadership within a fast-paced and varied working environment.

The successful candidate will line manage our Projects Administrator and help coordinate volunteers, projects, partnerships, and community activities across the organisation.

Occasional evening or weekend work may be required.

A full job description can be downloaded below.

Are you a creative and motivated individual with the passion and drive to support people with a recent diagnosis of dementia to live well in their community?

If so, you can be part of a National Team of Post Diagnostic Support Link Workers (PDS Link Workers) providing high quality, person centered support to people living with dementia and their families for a minimum of a year following diagnosis in line the Scottish Government’s minimum guarantee.

The aim of the PDS National Service is to enable people to live well with dementia and is centered around Alzheimer Scotland's 5 pillar model so that people move on to a period of supported self- management.

The model includes understanding the illness and coming to terms with the diagnosis, peer support, connecting and maintaining links with their community along with planning for future care and decision making to develop an outcome focused plan to support their future hopes, desires, and aspirations.

Supporting our Edinburgh locality, the post will be based within the North West of the city. Alzheimer Scotland’s PDS Link Workers are required to be effective team workers and have the skills to build and maintain relationships with colleagues both within Alzheimer Scotland, the NHS, and other stakeholders.

Skills in using digital platforms are essential as we use a blended approach to support people that involve some virtual meetings and on-line groups.

Applicants must hold a recognised relevant professional qualification, have a good understanding of dementia and how it affects people and their families along with excellent communication skills, a warm flexible approach, combined with skills in empathy and relationship building.

In addition, you should have skills and knowledge at the Enhanced Level of the Promoting Excellence Framework or be able to evidence you are working towards its completion.

This post requires a full driving licence and access to a car.

About Chapter One

Chapter One is a dynamic, growing charity with a vision of a world in which all children have the literacy skills needed to thrive. Our mission is to close the reading gap by providing children with one-to-one support at the time they need it most. We work in thirteen areas/regions of the UK and will support over 4,000 children in 2026-27.

Our unique Online Reading Volunteer programme pairs struggling five to seven-year old (P2-4) readers with reading support volunteers who are working professionals. The volunteer ask is very focused: readers commit 30 minutes a week to read with a child using a bespoke digital platform for an entire academic year. The results are transformative, boosting children's reading confidence and ability.

From a school perspective, online reading volunteers provide direct, meaningful literacy support for up to 10 pupils per class. The programme is particularly suitable for communities where it might be challenging to find parents and other volunteers who can commit to physically visiting schools to boost reading.

About the Role

Chapter One is seeking a Scotland Programme Manager who is an excellent communicator and is able both to motivate and support schools and teachers to implement our online reading volunteers programme, and also to ensure that the programme’s impact and benefit to disadvantaged communities is maximised throughout the academic year.

The post is ideal for someone looking for part-time, flexible, term-time only work from a home base and who is able to travel frequently in and around Edinburgh and Glasgow. The postholder will be joining a team of established Programme Managers who work in different parts of the UK and will need to have some flexibility to work some additional hours during busy autumn weeks, and conversely to work fewer hours during quieter periods of the year.

Key Responsibilities:

• Effectively explain Chapter One’s online reading volunteer programme and its benefits to school leaders and teachers.
• Install, setup and maintain Chapter One equipment in participating classrooms. This will include technical configuration/troubleshooting of mobile internet hotspots with IT team support.
• Organise and conduct initial teacher training and follow-up.
• Ensure a smooth initial launch of Chapter One’s programme in every classroom.
• Fully understand the operation of the Chapter One platform and database and effectively communicate this to others as needed.
• Liaise with colleagues performing technical and volunteer support roles.
• Through regular visits to/contact with schools, provide on-going embedded professional learning and support to teachers throughout the year as needed.
• Proactively monitor classroom adherence/fidelity to the Chapter One model, including systematic review of data reports and volunteer feedback, taking proactive action to resolve problems that arise.
• Analyse and manipulate data (largely in Google sheets) to produce reports and identify trends.
• Create regular data summaries for all participating classrooms.
• Lead annual review meetings for senior leadership at participating schools.
• Support programme monitoring, evaluation and research as required.
• Coordinate in person and virtual school ‘visits’ of volunteer teams to classrooms where necessary. This may include opportunities for Chapter One children to visit the office of the volunteers.
• Liaison with corporate partners as required.
• Weekly communication and status updates with Senior Programme Manager(s) and wider team.
• As a new school year approaches, secure commitments from returning schools and help find and target new schools to join Chapter One’s programme.

We are looking for applicants with the following essential qualities:

• Highly motivated individual with excellent interpersonal and organisational skills.
• Proven track record of working at a senior level in education, project management or a related field.
• Proven strength in both written and verbal communication.
• Highly IT literate, with excellent computer skills, able to troubleshoot software and technical hardware issues, adept with Google suite and Microsoft Teams.
• Ability to manipulate and analyse data to draw useful conclusions to improve programme delivery.
• Proven ability to work independently.
• Self-starter and quick learner.
• Ability to adapt and embrace a changing environment.
• Ability to drive and access to a car for work purposes.

Ideally, applicants will also have the following desirable qualities:

• Two years of teaching/education experience with primary age children.
• University degree.

Poverty and inequality are the greatest challenges Scotland faces. The Poverty Alliance is working to create a wide coalition that can being about real change. A significant part of our approach to is to recognise employers for their commitment to schemes that support fair work such as Living Wage, Living Hours and Living Pension accreditation.

An opportunity has arisen to join our Living Wage Scotland team as an Administrative Assistant, to support our efforts to further grow the Living Wage employer movement in Scotland.

The real Living Wage has been one of the most successful civil society campaigns in Scotland and the UK in recent years. Not only has it won cross-party political support, and gained increased acceptance amongst employers, it has also delivered tangible benefits for thousands of workers.

The post holder will be responsible for providing administrative support to the team, to help service our growing network of 4000+ accredited Living Wage employers and support additional employer accreditation schemes. This will include a wide range of administrative tasks, such as managing and responding to queries, maintaining accreditation records and systems, organising events and day-to-day administrative support to the hybrid team, and regular collaboration with partner organisations to navigate shared systems.

We are looking for candidates with a sound understanding of the administrative operations needed in small organisations. In addition to the necessary technical skills, the role requires strong attention to detail, excellent communication skills, the ability to manage a varied workload, and an enthusiasm for working as part of a team, as well as autonomously.

Poverty and inequality are the greatest challenges Scotland faces. The Poverty Alliance is working to create a wide coalition that can being about real change. An opportunity has arisen to join our administration team and help us achieve our vision of a Scotland without poverty.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Administrative Assistant to join the Poverty Alliance’s small and fast-moving Administration team.

The post will be responsible for providing administrative support across our busy organisation. This will include a wide range of administrative tasks, such as event organisation, system maintenance as well as managing and responding to queries, and day-to-day administrative support to the hybrid team.

We are looking for candidates with a sound understanding of the administrative operations needed in small business and strong knowledge of the sector. In addition to the necessary technical skills, the role requires a strong attention to detail, excellent communication skills, the ability to manage a varied workload and an enthusiasm for working as part of a team as well as autonomously.