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.

Why apply for this role?

Children’s Hearings tribunal panel members play a vital role in Scotland’s society. They listen and make legal decisions with and for infants, children and young people. They ensure that the young person is at the heart of every decision taken – because every decision, no matter how big or small, has an impact.

Children’s Hearings Scotland (CHS) is undergoing an exciting period of reform designed to make a step change in improving the outcomes for infants, children and young people who need us most. This role offers you the opportunity to work alongside our tribunal members, and those who attend hearings to realise our aim to be a “forward looking and evolving children’s hearings system, working as a community to ensure infants, children and young people are cared for, protected and their views are heard, respected and valued”.

If you are an inspiring leader with great people skills join us as we continue to embed ournew regional new support model across Scotland, changing the way we deliver high quality hearings. By providing an enhanced and consistent support structure to better enable our volunteer tribunal panel members to support children and young people throughout Scotland we will provide a strong foundation to support and enabling our panel community to deliver our duties from the Care & Justice Bill and the recommendations agreed in the ‘Hearings for Children’ report.

This role will lead the Highland, Moray & Eilean Siar region. Highland, Moray & Eilean Siar is one of 9 regional CHS Area Support Teams across Scotland and will work alongside and support our volunteer community through change and transition now and in the future.

Your role

The role holder will be expected to be an exemplar for the values of CHS including listening to and valuing the voice of children and young people, the contribution of volunteers, and ensuring a respected, quality based, and sustainable tribunal system is delivered on behalf of the National Convenor.

Reporting to the Director of Tribunal Delivery, the Regional Tribunal Delivery Manager is a Senior Manager post responsible for one of 9 regions across Scotland. You will lead and manage a team of staff and volunteers to deliver the National Conveners statutory duties for the provision of Children’s Hearings across a dedicated region in Scotland to a consistent high quality standard.

You will be joining CHS at a pivotal point. Alongside the team of Regional Tribunal Delivery Managers, your Partnership and Wellbeing Coordinators and Area Support volunteers you will play a pivotal role in ensuring our volunteer communities are effectively supported to continue to embed our regional tribunal support model; implementation of the Children’s Care & Justice Act and future Hearings for Children reforms.

The core purpose of this role will be to provide, management and support to the regional team members (including volunteers) to deliver the National Conveners statutory duties around the provision of Children’s Hearings across a dedicated region in Scotland. The role holder will be key to managing the relationship(s) between Tribunal Members who are volunteers and the organisation more broadly.

The role holder will share collective responsibility for delivering organisational objectives, through active engagement and collaboration with colleagues at all levels in the organisation.

About you

You will be an effective leader, demonstrating your ability to lead and motivate high performing teams including volunteers. You will have experience of guiding and supporting others through continuous improvement projects; having the willingness and ability to enable changes to take place in the most productive way.

You will be an excellent communicator, building links and networks across teams (internally and externally), effectively initiating dialogue across the organisation recognising that we have a shared responsibility to provide the best experience for our colleagues and wider stakeholders.

Energetic and enthusiastic, you will be a brilliant collaborator with demonstrable experience of project/process management and improvement with a track record of using data / MI to manage team improvements.

You will be digitally literate, comfortable with using digital systems and supporting others to do so. ideally have experience of or good knowledge of the sector.

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 hybrid role and you are expected to travel within your region in line with business needs. This will involve being 'on-site' an average of two days per week. You are also expected to travel on occasion to the CHS Head Office at Thistle House, Haymarket, Edinburgh. This involves attending 16 directorate meetings across each year and any other

additional organisational activities of which you will be given reasonable notice.

The standard working week is Monday to Friday but this role will require a level of evening and weekend work in line with business needs.

Every day people with chest, heart and stroke conditions are leaving hospital scared and alone. You can be part of our mission to make sure that there is no life half lived in Scotland.

By joining Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS) as a Physiotherapist -Pulmonary Rehab Project Lead, you can be the difference between people just surviving and really living.

You will be part of Scotland’s leading health charity providing support to people with chest, heart and stroke conditions and Long Covid to live life to the full again. Our Community Healthcare Support Service provides access to a range

of supported self management and community recovery services to support people across Scotland to manage their health as well as possible and adjust to life after a diagnosis of a chest or heart condition or after a stroke.

In partnership with the Scottish Government, we are overseeing the development of digital pulmonary resources for patients and healthcare professionals.

This is a pivotal opportunity to shape the future of Pulmonary Rehab (PR) Services across Scotland by driving consistent and system-wide improvements across PR pathways.

The role is for an initial period of 6 months with opportunity to extend to one year and secondment from the NHS will be considered.

We are seeking a highly motivated Physiotherapist with experience of working as part of Pulmonary Rehab Services to lead the development and implementation of a national model of Pulmonary Rehab for Scotland.

This opportunity will allow the post holder to provide strategic direction in shaping pulmonary rehabilitation in Scotland, working in partnership with both the Scottish Government and the third sector to digitally transform access to pulmonary rehabilitation for the over half a million Scots living with respiratory conditions.

CHSS employees enjoy a variety of organisational benefits including: Company pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, company sick pay, employee welfare support and life assurance.

CHSS also supports flexible recruitment through Working Families and we are “Happy to Talk Flexible Working”.

In line with our commitment to safeguarding, this role is subject to a PVG check. CHSS is committed to equality of opportunity and to providing a service which is free from unfair and unlawful discrimination. We therefore aim to ensure that no applicant, volunteer or member of staff is unfairly treated on the grounds of offending background.

With the retiral of our long-standing colleague, Manor Estates Housing Association is seeking to recruit a full-time Corporate Services Manager to join our busy Corporate Services team of 8.

Manor Estates Housing Association is a social landlord, responsible for over 1,100 homes in Edinburgh. We have a staff team of 32 and are based in lovely offices in New Mart Place. The role is to lead and manage the team who are responsible for finance, office administration, ICT and governance/compliance.

You must hold a relevant accountancy qualification (or be working towards one), be committed to the delivery of excellent internal customer services, have experience of managing both staff and budgets as well as analytical and financial skills.

The post holder will report to the Corporate Services Director, Kathryn Miller.

The Operational Manager post is a leadership appointment to the EWA management team reporting to the Deputy CEO. There are two operational managers within EWA who work together to ensure that EWA provides a professional and consistent service to women, children and young people accessing our services. The operational managers are jointly responsible for managing EWA services for women and children. Responsibilities of the post include management of day-to-day operations; management of seniors and team leaders; HR management for all operational staff; supporting the development of service delivery; implementation of quality assurance measures and monitoring and reporting on service delivery; active participation in the leadership of EWA.

Location: This post is open to hybrid working between office and home, if the candidate can evidence an appropriate environment for home working, ensuring confidentiality and privacy for calls and online meetings. Time spent in EWA’s offices in Edinburgh will be required, as well as the ability to travel locally.

A satisfactory Disclosure Scotland Adult and Child PVG scheme membership check is required for this position.

Do you want to use your fundraising skills to help transform children’s lives across Scotland?

Children First is Scotland’s national children’s charity. We stand up for every child because all children should have a safe childhood. We protect children from harm and support them to recover from trauma and abuse through our national and local services. We help children, their families and the people who care for them by offering emotional, practical and financial support. We give children hope and a safer, brighter future.

We are now seeking adynamic and inspiring head of fundraising to grow the vital income that enables this life‑changing work. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of fundraising at Children First - driving strategy, championing innovation and ensuring our decisions are guided by insight, purpose and compassion.

In this role, you will lead with vision and heart. You will support and empower a talented fundraising team, nurturing a culture where creativity thrives, supporter journeys deepen and donors feel genuinely valued. You will build meaningful, values‑led relationships with individuals, funders and corporate partners, inspiring them to stand with us so that more children can be protected, nurtured and given the futures they deserve.

You will bring strategic clarity and strong financial stewardship - overseeing budgets, forecasting and compliance - while ensuring everything we do reflects fundraising best practice and our commitment to ethical, trauma‑informed work. Your leadership will help unlock new opportunities, strengthen performance and drive growth across all income streams.

We are looking for an experienced, passionate fundraising leader with a proven track record of success, a collaborative spirit and the confidence to be bold. You will be an exceptional communicator, a thoughtful relationship‑builder and someone motivated by impact. Most importantly, you will bring absolute dedication to keeping children safe and transforming their lives for the better.

At Children First, our values guide everything we do. With love, we put children first. With purpose, we transform children’s lives together. With strength, we do whatever it takes to protect Scotland’s children. If you share these values and want to make a meaningful impact, we would love to hear from you!

At Scottish Refugee Council we believe data isn’t just numbers – it’s key to understanding the lives we touch and the change we create. We’re looking for an Impact and Improvement Manager to lead our dedicated Data and Impact team and ensure we measure, learn and improve to do ever better for the people and communities we serve.

What you’ll do:

• Lead a small, passionate team focused on impact measurement and continuous improvement
• Transform data into meaningful insights that inspire action and learning
• Work across the organisation to embed a culture of learning and evidence- based decision-making

What you’ll bring:

• Experience in impact measurement, data analysis or continuous improvement
• Strong leadership skills and the ability to inspire a team
• A commitment to using evidence to drive positive change for people and communities.

This is more than a job – it’s an opportunity to shape change and help us create a fairer, more compassionate world.

About us

Scottish Refugee Council is Scotland’s national refugee charity. Every year, we provide direct support and advice to people rebuilding their lives in Scotland, standing up for people’s rights and campaign for a fairer and more humane asylum system and enhanced integration for communities in Scotland.

The vision is for a Scotland in which all people seeking refugee protection are welcome. A place where men, women and children are protected, find safety and support, have their human rights and dignity respected and can achieve their full potential. Together, we can build a better future with refugees in Scotland. Find out more at scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk.

Employee benefits package

• 39 days of leave (including public holidays)
• Progressive salary structure
• Flexible working options
• Training and development opportunities
• Union recognition
• Fresh fruit, tea & coffee in office
• Enhanced pay benefits
• Enhanced pension
• Counselling & coaching service
• Cycle to work scheme
• Eye care scheme
• Death in service & 24-hour GP service