The MS Society is a community of scientists, campaigners, volunteers, fundraisers and staff who are dedicated to transforming the lives of people living with and affected by MS. We are building on our rich 70-year history. We have ambitious plans as we work towards the culmination of our current five-year strategy and prepare for the next phase. The evolving needs of the MS community, coupled with the challenges in the external environment, necessitate a steadfast, long-term commitment.

There are over 17,000 people with MS in Scotland. This makes MS more common in Scotland than most other countries in the world. The Director for Scotland role is to provide leadership and management of the MS Society’s work in Scotland and to act as the principal representative and spokesperson of the MS Society in Scotland. The position is an active member of the MS Society’s senior leadership team reporting to the CEO.

In particular, the Director for Scotland will represent the MS Society and engage with senior stakeholders to actively influence policy and support for the MS community in Scotland in line with the MS Society’s key campaigns and priorities. The role will build and maintain successful strategic partnerships with charitable, not for profit organisations, private organisations and individuals in Scotland and hold collegiate responsibility for the effective management and operations of the organisation as part of the senior leadership team.

Candidates should be able to take a strategic overview and work collaboratively and effectively with both Nation/local-level and organisation-wide teams to drive strategic delivery. Experience of working with relevant statutory and voluntary organisations, influencing policy, practice and managing stakeholders will be important as well as having high level planning, programme and project management skills to control effective use of resources. Knowledge of public policy and health and social care agendas within Scotland is desirable.

We are excited to share news of an opening for a new Senior Manager within our Partnerships and Philanthropy Team, focused on Partnerships and High Profile Events.

The Partnerships and Philanthropy team are moving through a period of change and growth which will set this team up to strategically align their resources and skill where it is most needed, in order to attract, cultivate and retain strategic partnership and income from high profile event.

Reporting to the Head of Partnerships & Philanthropy, the Senior Partnerships and High Profile Events Manager will lead a team to drive high-value income growth, developing relationships and securing income from Corporate Partners and High-Profile Events, delivering exceptional levels of tailored engagement and stewardship. This is a unique opportunity to join CHAS at a key moment in our future developments.

About you

To be successful in this role, you will have skill and experience in the following areas:

• Substantial experience of, and a strong track record in fundraising, including personally soliciting and stewarding 5, 6 and 7 figure gifts from corporate partnerships or major donors.

• Experience in income generating and stewardship event development, project management and delivery.

• Leadership skills with experience of leading a team, nurturing development and managing performance.

• Experience of strategy development and implementation.

• Excellent verbal, interpersonal and written skills with great attention to detail, and an ability to flex your style according to the audience.

• Managing a diverse workload with multiple deadlines, deliverables and stakeholders, thinking creatively to leverage opportunities and develop relationships.

Why CHAS?

At CHAS, we support families during the toughest of times. We have ambitions to reach every family in Scotland who is living with the heart-breaking prognosis that their child is dying and offer them our care and support to empower them to make the most of the short time they have together. The skill, determination and creative flair of our Fundraising Teams makes this possible.

We offer

• Flexible Working: our teams work flexibly and in a hybrid manner with time split between at home and onsite in Edinburgh and Glasgow. CHAS offers flexible and family friendly working. and are happy to discuss working arrangements that work for you!

• Development Opportunities: exposure to a variety of fundraising activities

• Professional Growth: Work with industry leaders in a high-performing team where you will be encouraged and supported to excel and develop your skills.

• Comprehensive Benefits: Including generous annual leave and pension, incremental salary progression, access to Blue Light discounts, and health and wellbeing support.

Are you a qualified accountant or currently working towards an accountancy qualification? Do you have the passion and energy to lead a high performing finance team? Can you build effective relationships across a range of stakeholders? If you're looking for a place that values your curiosity, passion and your thirst to learn, if you're seeking colleagues who are innovative and driven to take on fresh challenges as a team, then your future could be with BHA.

As a member of BHA Leadership Team, the Finance and Governance Lead is responsible for leading the finance team as well as overseeing governance within BHA. You will be responsible for the provision of dynamic, interactive, and real time financial information including monthly management reports, quarterly management accounts, financial accounts, KPI and performance analysis.

Reporting to the Executive Director–Business Support, you will lead a high performing finance team, ensuring a robust control environment supported by clear policies and procedures. You will support the development of, and implement, financial and procurement strategies, driving a culture of maximising value for money. You will oversee governance and risk management activities within BHA, ensuring continuous improvement.

This is an opportunity which offers a real purpose to your work and life and if that means something to you, we want to hear from you.

What we offer:

• A defined contribution pension scheme with an employer contribution up to a maximum of 9%

• Perkbox

• Westfield Health Care Plan

• Westfield Rewards

• Corporate volunteering opportunities

• Agile working

Stratherrick & Foyers Community Trust Limited (SFCT) is a dynamic not-for-profit community company dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for residents within the Stratherrick and Foyers area. Established in 2004, the Trust focuses on community development, environmental protection, and economic sustainability by managing and distributing funds from local green energy projects. Their vision emphasises engaging with the community on issues that matter most, supporting initiatives that prevent poverty, advance education, and promote heritage, all while fostering recreational opportunities and environmental stewardship.

The role

The Chief Executive of Stratherrick & Foyers Community Trust will lead and manage the organisation's operations, ensuring financial sustainability while fostering relationships with community members, stakeholders, and funders. Key responsibilities include overseeing staff, developing long-term financial strategies, ensuring effective project management, and maintaining governance standards.

The role also involves spearheading community projects, securing external funding, and promoting the Trust's mission to enhance the quality of life for residents in the Stratherrick and Foyers communities.

The person

The ideal candidate will possess significant experience in managing and motivating staff, and a solid understanding of public, private, and voluntary sectors. They should have a proven track record in community development or business management, excellent communication skills, and the ability to build professional relationships.

Expertise in financial management, project management, and securing funding is essential, along with a deep understanding of community development trusts. A degree or equivalent experience in business or community management is required. Previous experience working within a development trust or non-governmental organisation is desirable but not essential.

If you're a passionate leader who would like to drive the Trust forward and be an inspirational face to the organisation and to make a tangible difference to the lives of the Stratherrick and Foyers community, we’d love to hear from you.

Paths for All's vision is for a happier, healthier Scotland where physical activity improves quality of life and wellbeing for all. To achieve this mission, Paths for All are investing in their fundraising capability with a new Head of Income Generation role.

The Head of Income Generation will join Paths for All at an exciting stage, with a roadmap planned but plenty of opportunities to put your personal stamp on the role. Paths for All have some successful existing fundraising products such as their Step Challenge, and a huge volunteer base to tap into. They are continuing to invest, with a brand review also happening – there is plenty of energy, enthusiasm and ambition throughout the organisation, and they need the right person to join the team to use that energy to deliver fundraising success.

If you are an experienced leader, looking for a chance to make a fundraising function your own, this is a fantastic opportunity to join a popular cause at a pivotal time.

TIS is looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to fill the role of Tenant Participation and Engagement Manager within its core team. The successful candidate will support the Chief Executive and wider team to champion and promote TIS as experts in housing, community development, and engagement practices.

The Tenant Participation and Engagement Manager will work to secure and manage new consultancy projects and deliver independent tenant advice contracts and training courses for tenants, housing organisation staff, Elected members, and Board members at a national and local level across Scotland. They will possess excellent group facilitation skills, and verbal and written communication.

The right candidate will have knowledge of social housing sector policy, legislation, and/or regulatory framework.

The role of Tenant Participation and Engagement Manager includes (but not limited to) -

• Respond to and complete tender proposals for Independent Tenant Advice contracts, consultancy projects, and the delivery of training courses across Scotland.
• Design and deliver training courses and workshops for tenant, resident and community groups, scrutiny panels, federations, housing organisation staff, Elected members, and Board members.
• Secure and manage new consultancy projects.
• Assist in the delivery of work commissioned by the Scottish Government.
• Work with key partners including the Scottish Government, Scottish Housing Regulator, Scottish Federation of Housing Associations, and Chartered Institute of Housing to influence and shape national housing policy.
• Design and deliver presentations at national conferences, events, working groups, and panels.
• Produce guides, briefing papers, and reports focused on housing policy and legislation.
• Champion and promote meaningful tenant participation, engagement and scrutiny practices with tenants and housing organisations throughout Scotland.
• Support tenants to respond to national consultation, have their say, and influence policy development.
• Provide information to tenants and housing organisations on the functioning of tenant groups.
• Manage TIS Development Support projects, including the responsibility of line management support and supervision to project staff, and the development, implementation, and review of workplans.

This roles presents a fantastic opportunity to work on a wide range of projects, with a variety of key partners, within a fast-paced environment.

About TIS

TIS is the leading organisation promoting and inspiring innovative tenant participation, engagement, and scrutiny practices in Scotland. We deliver independent advice, training, and support to tenants, communities, and housing organisations to work together to influence national housing policy and practice.

As a national membership organisation, we represent over 240,000 homes across out housing organisation membership community alone.

We believe that by working together, we can plan more effectively to deliver high quality and affordable housing, and wider services to meet the needs of our diverse and flourishing communities. Our expert team finds creative approaches to encourage communities and housing organisations to work together to get things done.

Our aim is simple, we want to change social rented housing in Scotland for the better.

Age Scotland is the national charity for older people. We work to improve the lives of everyone over the age of 50 so that they can love later life.

Our people are central to our success in delivering services for older people in Scotland. We pride ourselves on having a positive working environment and culture.

As the Head of Dementia, you will provide strategic leadership for Age Scotland’s dementia work, including (but not limited to):

• About Dementia Human Rights and community engagement work
• Dementia Friendly Communities including Network and Grants work
• Dementia Training Team

Living our values, you will approach the role with integrity, while involving, inspiring, and empowering our teams, so that together we can create better outcomes for older people in Scotland.

The post will be Scotland-based, a blend of office (Edinburgh-based) and home working. As a hybrid role the intention is that office based and external facing work will constitute 40% of working time over each month. Age Scotland is a flexible employer and flexible work patters are available. In return for your hard work, enthusiasm and commitment to our values you’ll receive a generous benefits package:

• Generous holiday allowance of 39 days (FTE)
• A range of learning and development opportunities
• Company sick pay
• Healthcare benefit through Westfield Health
• Discounted gym membership
• Cashback scheme from major retailers
• Contributory pension scheme with employer contributions of 9%
• A comprehensive package of support though our Employee Assistance Programme
• Group life cover up to three times your annual salary
• Cycle to work scheme
• Paid carers leave and dependents’ support
• The option to buy more holidays or sell them
• Enhanced maternity and paternity policies.

Are you looking for a fantastic opportunity in an exciting and rewarding role making a difference to children’s lives?

The Lucy Faithfull Foundation is a UK-wide charity that exists to prevent child sexual abuse and exploitation. We’re bold, we’re pioneering, we’re growing and we want your help.

Our Edinburgh based team – formerly known as Stop It Now Scotland – covers the whole of the country. Our practitioners have extensive backgrounds in child protection and sex offender rehabilitation. We provide individual and groupwork to around 150 adults and adolescents every year who present a sexual risk of harm to children who cannot access statutory service. We work with around 100 partners, family members and members of wider networks around these individuals. We use what we learn from our work to develop and deliver resources, information and training for professionals and the public, so that they can better protect children from harm and prevent abuse before it happens.

About you and the role

We are recruiting a practitioner to join our multi-disciplinary team in Edinburgh to lead our work with children, young people and young adults up to the age of 21.

You will head up our flagship project working with high schools in Edinburgh promoting the prevention of harmful sexual behaviour in an educational context. This includes running workshops for parents on how they can promote positive and healthy relational and sexual development. It will include helping teachers respond sensitively and effectively to early concerns about children’s sexual behaviour. And it will involve working with young people themselves to help develop a curriculum that actively promotes prevention of sexual harm. You will work with our research team to help establish evaluation methods for all aspects of this project and to develop a scaleable model of prevention that can be rolled out across all schools, better protecting children from harm. You will work closely with our UK based Schools Project Manager who will support all aspects of this project.

You will also have a small caseload, working with young people who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour online. You will contribute to training, consultation and policy work in relation to tackling youth perpetrated sexual abuse. It’s a wide ranging and exciting role, and we will be able to support and train the successful candidate in all aspects of our work. You will be supported by our UK based young people’s team.

Our ideal candidate will be a dynamic practitioner with a proven ability to drive projects to achieve required outcomes. You will be professional, proactive and outcome-focused with exceptional communication and engagement skills and an ability to develop partnership ways of working with professionals and agencies. The role requires expert knowledge in relation to working with children who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour and significant experience with supporting and advising leaders, child care professionals, young people and parents. You will have an impeccable understanding of child protection policies and principles and evidence of working with safeguarding partners to keep children safe from harm. A track record of providing consultancy and training to other professionals is desirable.

You will be able to demonstrate confidence in translating the charity’s mission into direct child protection practice and equipping other professionals in tackling child sexual abuse.

Key attributes we are seeking include:

• Deliver assessment and interventions for children, young people and families in relation to harmful sexual behaviour
• Vision and operational capabilities to co-ordinate and deliver on a substantial project focussing on the prevention of harmful sexual behaviour in education settings
• Leadership and management skills in producing successful outcomes
• Impeccable knowledge of safeguarding principles, policies and practices
• Proven track record of working in and/or with education providers
• Collaborative and supportive ethos, enabling effective working with team members and leaders across the charity
• Flexibility and passion to work alongside internal and external colleagues to ensure quality work is delivered efficiently
• Excellent engagement skills and experience of working professionally with professionals (including school staff), young people and parents
• Confidence in providing expert consultancy to internal and external professionals concerning best practices for working with children
• Ability to provide confidential advice to callers, including education leaders and staff
• Effective record keeping in line with the charity’s policy and practice
• Stakeholder engagement and excellent communication skills to promote the mission and values of the Lucy Faithfull Foundation.

This is a highly rewarding role making a genuine difference to children’s lives. It involves working within a friendly, supportive and hardworking team which is committed to keeping children safe from sexual harm.

Why Lucy Faithfull Foundation? We’ll offer you…

• An opportunity to make a positive difference to the lives of children who have the right to live free from sexual abuse and exploitation
• Access to continuous professional development
• A competitive salary and access to a pension scheme
• Access to a hybrid working scheme with a minimum of 2 days in the office
• Full time staff receive 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays (rising to 30 days following 5 years’ service and in line with our leave year January-December)
• A dedicated employee assistance programme
• Access to Benenden medical cover and Employee discounts
• Free eye tests, discounted gym membership and employee discount savings

About our Service:

The Bridge Community Project story began in 2014 when a small group of people reflected on their own life struggles and decided to make a difference to the everyday wellbeing of people across West Lothian.

Overseen by a Board of Trustees, the foundations of the Charity are based on the aims of providing financial and emotional wellbeing to the local community. In our story, however, we seek to be different - not so much in what we do, but in how we go about providing our services.

Building on the principles of compassion and love, a decade on, we continue to seek to share the journey with our clients to see lasting hope and change. Our vision is to “improve the everyday wellbeing of the people of West Lothian.” We aim to do this by “providing practical and relational support to families and individuals.”

The Role:

An exceptional opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and visionary leader to drive our strategic vision and lead our Charity to new heights. The CEO will be responsible for the overall strategic direction and vision of the Charity, reporting to our Board of Trustees (BOT). This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of our Charity and make a significant impact on the local community.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership: Provide dynamic leadership to the Charity, ensuring the successful implementation of our vision and strategic goals.
• Governance: Work closely with the BOT to ensure good governance and accountability and to support board development.
• Strategy and Development: Oversee thematic groups linked to strategic work plans.
• Financial Planning and Management: In conjunction with our Business Development Manager, ensure robust systems are in place for the financial management of the Charity.
• Operational Management: Oversee the Charity’s day-to-day operations, ensuring efficiency, effectiveness, and compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements.
• External Focus and Relationships: Enhance the Charity’s brand visibility and reputation through effective marketing strategies, including social media, public relations, and community outreach.

Candidate Profile:

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in nonprofit management, strategic development, and financial oversight. Experience in community-focused initiatives is highly desirable. The candidate should demonstrate excellent communication skills, the ability to inspire and lead a team, and a deep commitment to the values and mission of the Bridge Community Project. While previous experience as a CEO is advantageous, it is not essential.

Why Join Us?

• The opportunity to lead an established, well-respected Charity and make a tangible difference to the financial and emotional wellbeing of the West Lothian community.
• A supportive working environment with an exceptionally committed team.
• The chance to shape the future of the Charity and expand its impact.

We’re seeking a new leader for the Scottish Seabird Centre

After 6 years leading the Scottish Seabird Centre the Chief Executive Officer – Susan Davies FRSB - is moving on. This presents an opportunity for someone with a passion for inspiring people to act for Scotland’s marine environment to shape the future of our Charity and visitor attraction as we move into the next 25 years of our journey.

Chair, Stuart Housden said, “We are very grateful for the leadership that Susan has provided to the Scottish Seabird Centre on its path to playing a more prominent role in marine nature conservation in Scotland and to promoting our visitor attraction and activities to educate and inspire more people to act for Scotland’s seas and amazing wildlife found there. Despite this having been a challenging period, not least with the pandemic and rising business costs, we have established much stronger links with our local and science communities and continue to increase our reach and impact through new partnerships.

With a new 5-year strategy and business plan to develop in the coming year this is a great opportunity for someone to build on the progress made as we enter the next 25 years in our Charity’s journey”.

Susan Davies said “The Scottish Seabird Centre will always hold a place in my heart; especially our dedicated team and the conservation, education and community partnerships we have developed. The time is now right, with the recent support we have secured to grow our membership base, in developing partnerships and being more sustainable and inclusive in our approach, to pass on the reins to a new leader as we approach our 25th year”.