- Advertised from 23rd August 2023
Role
Opened in 1969, the Scottish Fisheries Museum is situated on the harbour front in Anstruther, a picturesque coastal village close to St Andrews. The collection includes stories of Scotland’s fishing communities from times long since passed as well as valuable items such as fishing gear, paintings, model boats and archive photographs amongst its tens of thousands of exhibits. The Museum is also custodian of several vessels, including the 122-year-old Reaper, a Fifie sailing herring drifter.
The museum, galleries, and offices are in a series of historic buildings owned by the Charity, including two category A listed buildings, while the collections are recognised as nationally significant by Museum Galleries Scotland.
The Board of Trustees is looking for a new, inspirational, and dynamic Director to help it create a new vision for the future and an organisation which has the ability to deliver it. You will need to have senior and strategic leadership experience, outstanding income generation skills, be an excellent communicator and stakeholder relationship manager as well as experienced in motivating and leading a team.
If this sounds like you and you are truly excited by this opportunity, then we’d like to hear from you
Application notes
Please email recruitment@brucetaitassociates.com to request the full Candidate Pack. You are advised to get in touch well in advance of the closing date. The Recruitment Manager will be delighted to discuss the role with you at any point.
Closing Date: Midday, Wednesday 20th September
First Stage Interview Date: Monday 2nd October
Second Stage Interview Date: Tuesday 3rd October
This search is being conducted exclusively for the Scottish Fisheries Museum by BTA (Bruce Tait Associates). Our leadership team have all worked in the voluntary sector and we use this experience to match organisations and individuals to create great appointments.
Top job! Assistant Director (Programmes and Participation)
- Full time
- £44,790 – £49,740
- Remote: Temporarily, otherwise central Edinburgh.
- Closing 6th August 2024
As a member of the senior management team, the Assistant Director (Programmes and Participation) is instrumental in leading Together’s strategic initiatives across a broad spectrum of programme development, with a significant focus on enhancing the rights and participation of babies, toddlers, and early years children. This role is pivotal in supporting the Director by managing essential areas of operational and strategic responsibility, facilitating the effective implementation of Together’s strategic priorities, and ensuring programmes are impactful and aligned with organisational goals.
Key areas of responsibility include:
- Overseeing the development of Together’s programmes, leading innovative initiatives and supporting Together's Director as a spokesperson on key children’s rights matters.
- Developing and managing fundraising strategies, building and maintaining strong relationships with funders and stakeholders, and overseeing the financial management of all programmes and participation budgets.
- Enhancing children’s participation initiatives and implementing participatory practices across all programme activities.
- Management and mentoring of the Programmes and Participation team, encouraging a culture of high performance, collaboration, and continuous learning within the team.
Throughout the role, the post-holder will be expected to involve Together’s membership – including children and young people – whenever possible and appropriate.
Reporting to: Director
Top job! Chief Executive
- Full time
- £55,000 – £60,000
- Hybrid: Edinburgh City/Home-working
- Closing 31st July 2024
The current Director of Live Music Now Scotland (LMNS) was appointed at the date of its founding in 1984 and has led LMN’s activities in Scotland ever since. In March 2025, she will step back from that position and the Board is now looking to appoint a Chief Executive.
The Chief Executive, reporting to the Chair and Board of Trustees, will provide strategic leadership and operational management to deliver the overall vision of LMNS.
Top job! Income Generation and Partnerships Lead
- Full time
- £55,066
- Hybrid/Remote: Head Office (Alloa)
- Closing 4th August 2024
Scottish Autism is dedicated to enabling autistic people to lead happy, healthy and fulfilling lives. We believe in the power of relationships to transform the lives of the people we support. We help build a more caring, compassionate, and inclusive Scotland; relationship by relationship. Our people work in teams, supporting each other through the challenges and triumphs that happen every day.
About the role:
Reporting to the Director of Practice and Innovation, the focus of this role is to lead our income generation strategy; manage corporate partnerships; and to support business development as we diversity and grow of our service offerings.
The post holder will oversee income generation through:
- community fundraising;
- grant and trust applications;
- developing corporate partnerships.
You will identify and nurture corporate partnership opportunities, stewarding relationships with corporates and business ambassadors.
In addition you will provide business development support for our external training consultancy for the 3 year start- up period, implementing processes such as mapping customer journeys; relationship management; record keeping; and risk mapping.
You may also be asked to provide advice on business development across the organisation when growth and development opportunities arise.
Scottish Autism offers you:
- 32 days holiday pro-rata (which increases with your length of service)
- Non-contributory life assurance scheme
- Workplace Pension (Employer matched up to 9%)
- Employee Discount Platform
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Personalised learning pathway - We keep it simple with 3 pay points. You progress at your pace as you develop. We benchmark regularly to ensure the rates are competitive.
This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure check.
GSASA are excited to be recruiting a new Charity Director!
It is a great time to join the organisation as we develop our key strategies and policies, and this role will take on lead responsibility for these developments. The Charity Director has the overall responsibility for the running of the Association for the full benefit of the students.
We are looking for someone who has experience of managing a small, values-driven team; can facilitate and manage projects; and is able to use their own initiative to solve problems effectively and imaginatively.
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