Training & Employability Coordinator for Volunteers
- Part time
- £26,582 – £29,367 pro-rata
- Glasgow and across West and South Bike for Good Hubs
- Closing 25th August 2023
- Advertised from 7th August 2023
- (On the appointment, salary is at the start of the pay band) Fixed term until the 31st of March 2024 (possible extension of the contract subject to successful funding application) - 22.5 hours per week
Role
The Volunteer Coordinator will lead on all aspects of the day-to-day administration and supervision of a large team of volunteers and their activities.
Responsibilities include recruiting and coordinating the daily activities of new and existing volunteers, keeping a database of volunteer information and skills, matching volunteers to opportunities that suit their skills, and keeping volunteers informed and connected to wider Bike for Good developments and opportunities. The coordinator is responsible for ensuring all volunteers have an active Personal Development Plan.
Application notes
An application pack is available for download below.
Deadline: Friday, 25th of August 2023
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Top job! Charity Manager
- Full time or Part time
- £38,788
- Hybrid: Campbell House, Gartnavel Royal Hospital in Glasgow’s West End
- Closing 9th January 2026
Common Wheel is a Glasgow-based charity dedicated to supporting people with mental health issues. Our vision is for individuals to live meaningful, satisfying lives and contribute to society. Our mission focuses on improving mental wellbeing, building skills, reducing isolation, and challenging stigma through creative, practical activities like music, art, bike building, and climbing. We have been supporting people manage or recover from mental illness for 25 years. We work in the community, in hospital wards and care homes and at our 2 purpose-built bike workshops in Maryhill and Glasgow.
Role Overview
The Charity Manager will lead the day-to-day operations of Common Wheel, ensuring the effective delivery of programmes, sound financial management, communications as well as contributing to successful fundraising. With an annual income of between £250,000 and £300,000, the charity is at a pivotal stage of growth and impact. The Manager will play a key role in shaping strategy, managing the team, and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Management
- Lead and manage a small team of 7-10 staff, a pool of freelance practitioners and a team of volunteers.
- Foster a positive, inclusive, and high-performing organisational culture.
- Work closely with the Board of Trustees to develop and implement strategic plans.
Programme Delivery
- Oversee the planning, execution, and evaluation of all programmes and services, such as build-your-own-bike workshops, climbing, art, music and others.
- Ensure programmes align with the charity’s mission and deliver measurable impact to participants.
- Monitor performance and report on outcomes to funders and trustees.
Fundraising & Income Generation
- Develop and implement a fundraising strategy to sustain and grow income.
- Cultivate relationships with funders, grant-makers, corporate partners, referrers and community supporters.
- Work with our Fundraiser to prepare funding applications and manage grant reporting requirements.
Finance & Governance
- Manage the charity’s budget, ensuring financial sustainability and compliance.
- Oversee financial reporting, including monthly management accounts and annual audits, working with our finance manager and treasurer.
- Ensure compliance with charity legal and regulatory requirements.
Communications & Stakeholder Engagement
- Represent the charity externally, acting as a spokesperson and champion for Common Wheel when required.
- Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including beneficiaries, partners, and funders.
- Oversee marketing, communications, and public relations activities.
Person Specification
Essential
- Proven experience in charity management or a leadership role in an equivalent organisation.
- Strong understanding of fundraising, financial management, and governance.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to lead and motivate a team.
- Strategic thinker with hands-on operational capability.
- Interest in mental health and a commitment to challenge the stigma surrounding mental illness.
Desirable
- Experience working with a charity of similar size and scope.
- Knowledge of the charity’s sector or beneficiary group.
- Familiarity with regulation, relevant systems and processes
Investigations Support Officer (ISO)
- Full time
- £31,514
- On site/Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 23rd January 2026
Are you looking for a meaningful role with a public sector organisation which has a clear purpose, vision and values and which makes a tangible difference to people’s lives in Scotland?
Would you like to contribute to society by supporting the good conduct of people in public life in Scotland?
Do you have highly developed team-working and communications skills alongside a background in supporting a team handling complaints and investigations?
Are you empathetic, respectful, committed to fairness, diversity, equality and inclusion and honest and transparent in your dealings with others? Would you like to join a team of like-minded people and work with an organisation that genuinely cares about the people that come into contact with it and about your welfare and wellbeing? If this is you, we’d love you to apply.
We are ambitious about the future and we are committed to being a great employer and really effective at what we do. We value people and we know that our work matters.
If you’re interested, please read on.
The Investigations Support Officer (ISO) provides integral administrative support to the Standards team. The Standards team consists of Investigating Officers (IOs) who report to the Senior Investigating Officer (SIO) and/or Hearings and Investigations Officer (HIO).
The Commissioner receives complaints about possible breaches of the Code of Conduct for Councillors, the Code of Conduct for MSPs and of Codes of Conduct based on the Model Code for members of public bodies. The Commissioner also deals with complaints covering regulated lobbying.
The IOs are responsible for investigating complaints to a conclusion including carriage of the related administrative duties and all contact with the complainer, respondent, local authority staff, and others involved in a given case. The ISO provides administrative support to the IOs in accomplishing these tasks.
The successful applicant will be experienced and effective case administrators, with relevant professional or regulatory backgrounds, and strong analytical skills. They will also share our values. We act ethically and with empathy; we value people.
It is desirable that the successful candidates will have a track record of working in or with the public sector, particularly with local authorities and/or other public bodies subject to ethical standards regulation.
Our work makes a significant contribution to the good conduct of people in public life in Scotland. Our standards team plays a key role in this so if you are motivated to contribute to society in this way, we’d love to hear from you.
The post is full time, pensionable and based at our offices in Edinburgh, which is currently operating flexibly to accommodate remote, hybrid or office-based working. The flexible working options are set out in our Remote Working Policy.
Please note that the ISO role requires at least 1 day of in office work per week in addition to some travel in connection with investigations-related work, attending external training or networking events, or public hearings.
Starting salary: £31,514 per annum rising to £34,066 per annum after 1 year in post (please note: the starting salary is non-negotiable)
Working hours: Full-time, Monday to Friday (35 hours effective from 01 March 2026)
Leave allowance: 25 days increasing to 30 days with 11.5 public holidays
Other benefits include membership of the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
Introduction
The Wynd Centre, Paisley has been in existence for over forty years as the mission and outreach centre of Oakshaw Trinity Church. Its purpose is to provide outreach to the local community of all faiths and none in both Paisley, and the surrounding areas.
Our Centre fulfils this role by providing Counselling Services and also accommodation for local community groups. It has an auditorium used for various types of functions and entertainment. There is also office space that is available to rent for either short or longer term use.
The Centre has been presented with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Services.
The Opportunity
The Development & Administration Officer is responsible to the Board of Directors (the Board)
The Development & Administration Officer has a responsibility for employees and budgets and is accountable to the Board of Directors for the implementation of vision, strategy, priorities and policy as determined by the Board and the administrative requirements of Oakshaw Trinity Church. With an instruction from the Board of Directors to reach a balanced budget by 2027, the Development & Administration Officer will play a pivotal role in delivering this, ensuring that the Centre’s resources (human, financial, and material) are aligned to support a sustainable presence. The Development & Administration Officer holds a crucial role in creating and sustaining the conditions in which growth is possible.
Join us as an Operations Manager in East Dunbartonshire.
Our team in East Dunbartonshire is recruiting for an Operations Manager, to join them in providing high quality recovery care to a diverse service user group. If you are a dynamic leader, who can inspire others to make a difference for their clients using a compassionate and collaborative approach, we want to hear from you.
As a leading charity supporting people with drug, alcohol, and mental health challenges, we operate over 80 services across England and Scotland, providing free and confidential support to more than 100,000 people each year. Find out more about us here.
Job Description
We are looking for a driven, dynamic & compassionate individual to lead our East Dunbartonshire Young People & Family Service. Our service provides free, confidential support to Young People and Families who are affected by their own or a loved ones substance use. We deliver a wide range of interventions including one to one support sessions, structured group-work, wellbeing activities. We can also provide in-house Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
You will strive to work collaboratively with partners and local communities, ensuring that we are as accessible as possible and that we deliver trauma informed support with the principles of a Recovery Oriented System of Care at the heart of all that we do. You will lead your team, providing development and clear direction aligned with the organisational aims and be a strong advocate for WithYou externally, maintaining and building our profile as you go. An SVQ Level 4 in Social Services and Health care & driving licence would be desirable for this post.
This is a permanent, full-time role working 37.5 hours per week between Monday - Friday 9am to 5pm, with some evening and weekend flexibility as required. The salary for this position is £29,272.60 per annum.
Company Benefits
- 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
- An extra day off for your birthday or a special occasion of your choice
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- 2 days paid volunteer leave per year
- Auto-enrollment into We Are With You’s pension scheme
- Access to a Blue Light Card - giving you great savings on big high-street and online brands
- Flexible working opportunities and access to a range of services and resources to support you with your wellbeing
- We have an excellent Refer a Friend scheme which offers you a £500 bonus for any recommendations, any role! Our scheme allows you to recommend your friends and family to work with us and earn a £500 bonus payment for every successful referral you make. Please note, the Refer a Friend scheme is only applicable if your recommended friend completes their 6 months probation period
Essential Skills
The most important thing you can bring to this role is clear and inspirational leadership. We’re open to discussions with candidates working in leadership roles outside of the drug and alcohol arena - for example, in mental health or housing. We’re most interested in your ability to demonstrate motivational leadership skills, with the drive to promote staff development and retention. You’ll have the support of a Head of Service Delivery and a wider team of experienced and dedicated stakeholders across the organisation.
If you have experience managing comparable services, as either an established manager or in a team leader or similar capacity and you are looking for the next step up in your career, we would welcome your application.
You should have:
- Experience in drug and alcohol support services, or in an equivalent social care setting
- A proven track record of managing and supervising others
- Experience working with vulnerable people (Young People and Adults)
- SVQ Level 4 in Social Services and Health care (or be willing to complete this)
- Experience of partnership working and within multidisciplinary teams
- Experience of working within community based services
- Ability to develop and lead a cohesive team
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to quickly establish credibility and/or make a positive impact
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
About Us
WithYou provides free and confidential support, without judgement, to more than 100,000 people every year experiencing challenges with drugs, alcohol and mental health across England and Scotland.
Our name reflects who we are – a positive place where people can progress, connect with others and get friendly, expert help in a way that’s right for them.
Our staff team changes lives. If you’re passionate about helping people get the support they need for issues with drugs, alcohol and mental health, we’d love to hear from you.
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