This role will improve links between South Lanarkshire’s Third Sector and a range of partners including Community Mental Health, Children’s Services and Whole Family Wellbeing Services in South Lanarkshire Council, our Community Planning Partners, and the Scottish Government. You will work with public sector colleagues to ensure that the third sector locally are integral to service design and delivery, and that the voices of children and young people, families, and the wider third sector is central to that process. This role will establish and facilitate a thematic network for third sector partners interested in supporting children, young people and whole family working, supporting partnership and collaboration at a local level.

The Third Sector Chief Officers Group (TSCOG) was formed in 2016 when a number of CEO’s of third sector organisations in South Lanarkshire came together under the auspices of VASLan to support each other during a period of significant strategic and financial challenge and change.

The group met fortnightly to play a significant role in providing peer support and sharing information to ensure joined up services during the Covid pandemic. The TSCOG are now ready to move onto the next stage of their development, with this shared resource providing additional capacity to deliver upon our strategic objectives.

Job Purpose:

This role is a shared resource for the TSCOG, hosted within VASLan with the workplan directed by a TSCOG Steering Group. The purpose of this role is to provide capacity within the TSCOG to deliver upon our 3 strategic objectives; strategic engagement, being collaborative, and income and strategic commissioning.

CVS Falkirk have created the new role of Social Impact Development Officer to utilise the Empowering Communities Programme data to measure and help maximise our impact by ensuring evidence gathering and evaluations systems are robust and in place to support our own impact measurement of this programme, developing a deeper understanding of the progress made since the implementation of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act particularly around positive change, connecting communities to third sector provision and supporting safer and empowered communities.

The post holder will encourage and empower third sector groups and organisations to embed effective evaluation systems within their work activity, service delivery and outcomes and have confidence in demonstrating both the impact and the difference that they make in their community, to funders and stakeholders to enable them to seek investment and development opportunities.

The purpose of the Social Enterprise Development Officer role is to support and develop social enterprise activity within the third sector, working with key stakeholders and strategic partners to promote the social economy within the Falkirk & District area. Promote social entrepreneurship, through awareness raising events, knowledge exchange and peer networking within the third sector and with local and national strategic partners.

The position is 21 hours per week, with a salary of £27,000 per annum pro rata, and a permanent contract, subject to funding.