Purpose of Role

Inverness Badenoch and Strathspey Citizens Advice Bureau (IBS CAB) are responsible for developing, implementing, and managing various projects which enable and support different regional specialist services. This follows the successful award of a grant by Macmillan Cancer Support. This post will have direct responsibility and accountability for the delivery of assigned projects from inception through to the successful operational running and where applicable exit and close out.

The main project, which will be allocated, will be to ensure that across 14 Local Authority Across Scotland including (Dundee City, Clackmannanshire, Fife, Aberdeen City, Stirling, Falkirk, Highland, Angus, Orkney Islands, Perth and Kinross, Na h-Eileanan Siar, Shetland Islands, Moray and Aberdeenshire) that advice and information is provided to individuals that are living with a diagnosis of cancer. This will include Welfare Benefits Advice and advice to improve Financial Health and Wellbeing because of the diagnosis of cancer. This “new” project brings together 12 previous advice projects into one regional project.

Supporting the other Delivery Partners to provide the service is crucial, ensuring they are appropriately resourced, trained, and contracts are managed to achieve and maintain the levels of competence required to deliver a quality service

The post holder supported by the Chief Executive will be responsible to the funder on all stages and aspects of projects, ensuring their strategic goals are aligned with the funder’s strategy. Report back via formal mechanisms to demonstrate the project is meeting its compliance and quality standards and any targets

The requirement will be to plan and manage resources, liaising with the wider team, to effectively deliver the projects, fostering a team culture across a dispersed team. Direct and support the team to communicate and engage with stakeholders effectively, monitoring performance and service design.

This includes identifying resources required, planning the work to realise the expected benefits as well as managing dependencies, workloads, and timetables. The role will coordinate the execution of work to help individuals deliver their part consistently and effectively, whilst managing change and risks through proactive performance monitoring, contingency planning, and formulating exit strategy processes.

The postholder also has an element of oversight and co-ordination across the active projects portfolio and assists each team with project planning and management, including but not limited to governance and controls, communication and engagement, performance, and risk management.

A key element of the role is to work with other stakeholders to sustaining this project with mainstream funding from Government of statutory agencies.

About the Scottish Mentoring Network

Scottish Mentoring Network (SMN) is a national intermediary organisation which was established in 2005 to promote and support the development of mentoring in Scotland. It is a membership organisation – the members are mentoring projects across Scotland. SMN currently has around 160 member organisations.

Our Mission is to increase the quality, reach and profile of mentoring across Scotland.

Our Vision is effective, high-quality mentoring recognised, valued and available to all.

Our values are:

We inspire: We are passionate and ambitious about mentoring. We encourage and support our members to continuously improve their mentoring practice and motivate others to start mentoring.

We collaborate: We work together with our members, potential members, stakeholders, and partners to achieve our shared goals.

We empower: We encourage our people and those we work with to use a creative, solutions-focused approach to emerging issues. We enable this by sharing information and creating a learning environment that celebrates and learns from both successes and challenges.

The primary purpose of the job

1. To provide leadership, strategic direction and continued development of the Scottish Mentoring Network.
2. To be responsible for management and performance within strategic and accountability frameworks agreed with the Board.
3. To continue to develop the Scottish Mentoring Network to meet the members' needs.

As Social Work Scotland’s Justice Social Work Policy and Practice Lead you will provide operational social work insight and expertise across the diverse range of issues currently facing justice social work in Scotland. The Justice Social Work Policy and Practice Lead will be provided line management from the Head of Policy and Workforce. Supporting the Justice Standing Committee’s Chair, you will be a visible representative of the profession in national discussions about policy, funding and reform. You will link in directly with Social Work Scotland’s Board, local authority Chief Social Work Officers and key partners (such as the Scottish Government’s Justice Directorate and Office of the Chief Social Work Advisor) to inform, influence and deliver the national agenda. You will assist colleagues and Social Work Scotland members to realise our organisation’s core objectives.

St Andrew’s First Aid is Scotland’s leading first aid charity, dedicated to saving lives and strengthening community resilience through high-quality training and volunteer-led services. With a proud history spanning over 140 years. The organisation provides first aid cover at thousands of events each year and plays a vital role in national and emergency response and public safety across the country. Through a nationwide network of committed volunteers and professional staff, St Andrew’s First Aid delivers first aid training to individuals, communities and workplaces, while supporting major public events by providing surge capacity during national events and emergencies.

The Executive Team is now seeking a Head of Volunteer Operations as the organisation are entering an important period of development. You will be passionate about delivering a high-quality experience to all our volunteers and galvanising the staff team to deliver and support this. The role will have a strong focus on building and strengthening our volunteer infrastructure, enhancing operational resilience and modernising systems that support service delivery across Scotland. This is a pivotal opportunity to shape the future of volunteer-led first aid services within a respected national charity.

Reporting to the Executive Director of Operations and Business Development and working closely with the Chief Executive and Executive Management Team, the Head of Volunteer Operations will provide strategic and operational leadership for St Andrew’s First Aid’s volunteer-led services across Scotland.

You will be responsible for ensuring a resilient, inclusive and high-performing volunteer workforce that is recruited, trained, deployed and supported to deliver safe, high-quality first aid services at events, in communities and during major incidents. The role spans the full volunteer lifecycle alongside responsibility for operational planning, rostering, safeguarding, clinical governance alignment, logistics and partnership working with key stakeholders including event organisers, local authorities and emergency services. The role also involves working collegiately with our Head of Commercial Training.

A central focus will be strengthening organisational readiness for peak demand and emergency response. You will lead service improvement initiatives, embed strong systems and performance frameworks, oversee budgets for volunteer operations, and develop robust risk management and business continuity plans. You will also champion digital solutions that enhance efficiency and the volunteer experience.

The successful candidate will be an experienced operational leader with a background in volunteer services or comparable safety-critical environments such as charities, emergency services, healthcare or major events. You will bring strong strategic and operational planning skills, alongside a sound understanding of safeguarding, governance and service quality.

You will be confident leading dispersed teams of staff and volunteers, able to influence senior stakeholders and partners, and comfortable working at Executive and Board level. Above all, you will combine operational experience with emotional intelligence and strong values, remaining calm under pressure and committed to creating an inclusive and supportive culture where volunteers can thrive.

This is a rare opportunity to lead and shape a national volunteer operation at a time of transformation, ensuring that communities across Scotland continue to benefit from high-quality, volunteer-led first aid services when they need them most.

Blackwood Homes and Care is one of Scotland’s most innovative providers of accessible homes, care, and independent living solutions. Our mission, helping people live their lives to the full, shapes services that promote independence, dignity and inclusion for people with disabilities, older people, and anyone who needs tailored support. As demand for independent living increases, Blackwood is modernising its systems, strengthening its foundations and investing in sustainable, future-focused solutions.

The Director of Finance & Business Services is a pivotal leadership role at a defining moment for Blackwood. Reporting to the Chief Executive and as part of the Senior Management Team, you will lead finance, business development, commercial activity, procurement and digital services. You will ensure that financial strategy, long-term planning, treasury and performance management are aligned to organisational priorities, translating complex financial information into clear insight for both financial and non-financial audiences and supporting effective decision-making and delivery of the Business Plan. You will also strengthen systems, controls and governance as we continue to work with the Scottish Housing Regulator on sustained compliance and improvement.

As a visible and values-driven leader, you will build a high-performance culture across Finance, Digital and Business Development, driving improvement, operational excellence and value for money. We are seeking a qualified accountant with a strong track record of strategic financial leadership, multidisciplinary team management, major budget oversight and organisational change. Commercially sharp and analytically strong, you will lead growth initiatives, build effective partnerships and identify opportunities while developing trusted relationships with colleagues, lenders, regulators and Board members.

This role offers a rare opportunity to shape the future of an organisation with a powerful social purpose, contributing to the sustainability and long-term success of Blackwood, helping create homes, services and technologies that transform lives across Scotland.

Blackwood is headquartered in Edinburgh and offers hybrid working, with three days per week expected in the office and travel to sites across Scotland as required.

The Church of Scotland is seeking a Deputy Treasurer (Wider Church) to act as deputy to the Head of Finance and General Treasurer. They will be responsible for providing support to presbyteries, congregations, and the Church of Scotland Investors Trust (COSIT) in all matters of financial governance and assisting the Head of Finance and General Treasurer with shaping and implementing the Church’s financial strategy.

We’re looking for an exceptional ACCAB-qualified professional with:

• Significant experience of operating as a senior member of a management team.
• Experience preparing SORP-compliant charity accounts and budgets
• The ability to deliver expert technical guidance on charity financial accounting.
• An excellent communicator with the ability to confidently communicate financial information to non-finance people.
• Prepare and present training sessions to groups of participants with varying levels of knowledge.

We're looking for a Chief Operating Officer to support excellence across our organisation and help us deliver our ambitious program of work in 2026 and beyond.

The Chief Operating Officer is at the heart of the business and plays an internally facing role in Four Square. With a focus on operational excellence, you will lead the development and delivery of core services, ensuring effective use of resources. You’ll lead a team of three and deliver on:

· People and Culture

· Governance

· Business planning

· Facilities management

· Risk Management

· Change management

· Quality and impact assurance

As a member of the leadership team you’ll be fully involved in the development of the organisational strategy and play a key role in ensuring and reporting on the delivery of that strategy. Naturally curious, you’ll be an agile thinker who can create a sense of urgency, developing others and empowering teams to drive progress and achieve operational excellence.

We're looking for someone who is:

· Passionate about homelessness and social enterprise and passionate about Four Square;

· Positive and proactive problem solver and strategic thinker;

· Highly confidential and professional;

· Excellent, visible communicator;

· Strategic thinker comfortable working over a range of issues;

· Proven experience in a similar role, or in significant elements of the role;

You'll have significant experience in:

· senior HR leadership and you might be HR qualified but you must have experience of complex employee relations; driving staff engagement, talent management and succession planning;

· managing corporate services including IT, H&S, property and compliance;

· project management across a range of tasks, business functions and projects

· working with boards (or equivalent) and a good understanding of using governance to enable growth and improvement

Lead. Influence. Champion communities.

VASLan is seeking an inspiring and values-driven Chief Executive Officer to lead the Third Sector Interface for South Lanarkshire and champion one of Scotland’s most vibrant local third sectors.

VASLan represents and supports over 1,400 community, voluntary and social enterprise organisations. Our ambition is to make South Lanarkshire the best place in Scotland to start, run and grow a third sector organisation.

VASLan is committed to not competing with the local third sector on the delivery of services and to being genuinely accountable to and representative of it.

About the role

As CEO, you will:

· Provide strategic and operational leadership to VASLan

· Act as the principal advocate and system leader for the local third sector

· Build strong partnerships with Community Planning partners, funders and government

· Steward significant funding and ensure long-term sustainability

· Lead, support and develop a committed staff team

· Work closely with the Board to ensure strong governance and accountability

About you

You will bring:

· Senior leadership experience in the third, public or related sector

· Strong influencing, partnership and communication skills

· Sound financial and governance experience

· A deep commitment to community-led, asset-based approaches

· Knowledge of the Scottish third sector and policy environment

The Scottish Commission for People with Learning Disabilities (SCLD) Board of Trustees is looking for an inspiring new Chief Executive who will help make Scotland a fairer place to live, where people with learning disabilities can enjoy full, safe, loving and equal lives.

In this role you will be responsible for delivering the vision, mission, strategy and operational activity of SCLD in collaboration with people with learning disabilities, the committed SCLD Board of Trustees, the skilled staff team and our allies.

Working collaboratively, you will bring your inspiration, vision, organisational skills and drive along with your core belief that people with lived experience are at the centre of everything we do.

The CEO will work with the Board and senior leadership team to build on strong foundations, to invest in people and leadership capability and to shape the next strategic period, and beyond.

Your ability to influence partners including the Scottish Government and strengthen wider relationships will be key.

You may already be in a similar role or looking to step into a CEO role. What is important is your strong track record of senior leadership and delivery, your credibility and your ability to lead with humanity and clarity.

The Board wants to hear from people who are strong leaders, successful change makers and champions for marginalised people.

This is a high-profile and influential position in an ambitious organisation and if you are a collaborative and visionary leader, then we would love to hear from you.

SCLD is committed to creating an inclusive working environment, therefore flexible working will be considered.

Established in 1977 as one of Scotland’s first community-based Housing Associations, we have a strong track record of fantastic work in the local community. We now have a housing stock exceeding 1,750 units across a wide range of types and ages.

The group now comprises Parkhead Lettings Company, Parkhead Development Company, and we have a refurbished community and business facility at Parkhead Schoolhouse.

We are positioned close to Celtic Park and the Emirates Arena. The centre of our community is Parkhead Cross, which is a conservation area hosting a number of listed buildings.

We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and talented Director of Operations & Compliance who will be responsible for strategic leadership and oversight of all aspects of housing operations, including housing management, property investment programmes, repairs and cyclical maintenance, support services, and health and safety. You will contribute at a strategic level to our Senior Management Team, embedding a culture of continuous improvement and ensuring compliance with all regulatory requirements.

The successful candidate should hold a relevant professional qualification and have a proven track record in leading complex, multi-disciplinary teams to deliver business transformation and great customer service.

We offer full EVH terms and conditions of employment, including a Strathclyde Pension Fund Career Average Pension Scheme to the successful candidate.