Top job! Investment Executive
- Full time
- £33,000 – £40,000
- Scotland (Remote Working)
- Closing 7th December 2022
- Advertised from 24th November 2022
- This is a full-time (or 4 days per week), fully remote working position.
- Reference: HQ00182575
Role
Foundation Scotland is Scotland's community foundation, helping communities take action, create positive change and deliver lasting impact through transformative funding. Their purpose is to support communities to shape their own future, with the capacity and resources to deliver it. They believe for every community to thrive, it should be resourced to match its vision.
Foundation Scotland is trusted by hundreds of communities across Scotland, and over four hundred donors are supported by their services. More than £150 million has been distributed to charitable organisations, social enterprises, and community groups across Scotland through innovative funding programmes and social investment since the Foundation launched in 1996.
This is a full-time (or 4 days per week), fully remote working position.
The role:
Working closely with the Head of Social Investment, this role will be responsible for processing applications from social enterprises, carrying our loans/credit assessments, preparing detailed financial reports and making recommendations to decision making panels. Assessing affordability, financial modelling, report writing and proactively promoting the work of the Foundation will be all be important components of the work. This role will also manage a portfolio of social enterprise investments coordinating financial draw down and ensuring regular reports are provided. Delinquency and provision management, implementing monitoring, evaluation processes and reporting outcomes alongside problem solving are key elements of the job. This role will also deliver support for the Social Investment Committee in all aspects of its work whilst simultaneously working in partnership with stakeholders and investees to make sure the whole process runs smoothly and all interested parties receive the best possible experience from the Foundation. This role will sometimes be responsible for representing the Foundation at various Forum and events used to spread the word about the work of the organisation throughout Scotland whilst sharing best practice with peer Funders in the region.
Working collaboratively with all concerned stakeholders both internally and externally will be absolutely core to this role.
The person:
This successful candidate will have substantial, hands-on experience of managing, assessing and providing investment. This experience could have been gained in the corporate banking or financial services sector or indeed with another funder in the charity or not-for-profit sector. A sound knowledge of utilising financial models, assessing credit and financial reports in addition to managing relationships with stakeholders from a financial investment perspective. This person will be logical, analytical with strong report writing skills and an effective gatherer of information and the ability to interpret it to provide reasoned and effective solutions and decisions. This person will also have strong stakeholder engagement and relationship building experience and will have deal with people navigating the financial investment world, sometimes for the first time. This person will be helpful, diplomatic and decisive with clear and concise communication skills and the ability to appreciate the bigger picture whilst assessing risk and making sound judgements.
This person will be a collaborator and committed to the good work of the Foundation and the very high level of customer service it provides to its donors and its investees across the region. It would be advantageous but not essential for this person to have a working knowledge of Social Investment, Subsidy Control Regulations and a UK driving licence will be useful but again, not essential. This role represents a fabulous opportunity for someone with Financial Investment experience to join a team which is working to improve the lives of people in the Scottish region.
Application notes
Date closing: 07/12/2022
Do you love working with volunteers?
Are you inspired by matching their support with opportunities that will make a tangible positive impact on breaking the cycle of homelessness?
Are you good at gathering information and organising people?
If so, we would love to hear from you!
Social Bite is looking for someone special to join our team and to coordinate our volunteering programme.
You will come with experience of working with volunteers. You will help to deliver our services, campaigns and events – leading on volunteers’ recruitment, logistics, stewardship and communications. You will be playing a key part in helping to look after and grow our volunteers, ensure volunteering processes are smooth and efficient, and identify volunteering needs and roles. You will enjoy taking your own initiative but also working as a part of the team. You will be required to travel around our various locations. You will be resilient, always bringing a smile and can-do attitude to your work.
We need you to be:
- A person who has good knowledge and experience of working with volunteers in a professional capacity
- A person who understands barriers to volunteering that people in situation of homelessness might face
- A person who can quickly build strong relationships for developing effective internal relationships and partnerships with a range of stakeholders
- Flexible with willingness to learn
- Passionate about people with a drive to make a change.
Fundraising Assistant
- Full time
- £23,000
- Hybrid/Remote: Remote with travel and option of office in Central Edinburgh
- Closing 16th August 2024
The Veterans’ Foundation (VF), an armed forces’ charity, seeks a talented and enthusiastic Fundraising Assistant to work remotely with occasional travel throughout the UK. What is the VF? The VF is a charity passionate about supporting the vulnerable veterans and it has paid out in grants over £21M since inception in 2016. It operates as an independent grant-making foundation offering targeted support to a broad range of charities and charitable organisations that support those in need among serving armed forces’ personnel, veterans, operationally qualified seafarers, and their immediate families.
Funded projects include those that tackle homelessness, increase employment, overcome poverty, and provide welfare and medical support. It also supports initiatives that increase confidence and social integration, as well as reducing dependence on alcohol and drugs.
The VF gives priority to well-run small and medium-sized charities and organisations in need of funds that help the target beneficiaries.
To date the majority of funds raised by the VF have come from the highly successful Veterans' Lottery (VL). However, individual donations are growing significantly and show potential for further development. We now need a member of staff to support the VF’s Fundraising Manager in building a broader fundraising base.
More information about the VF can be found at: veteransfoundation.org.uk.
A summary of the VF’s work can be seen here:Impact Film 2024
About the post
The position of Fundraising Assistant has been created to support the Fundraising Team with administrative tasks, working with our donors and volunteer fundraisers to raise funds. The postholder will work under the direction of the VF’s Fundraising Manager, as well as working closely with other team members in the VF and partner organisations.
You will be joining our Fundraising Team who attract funding from many sources, from individual donors to high profile corporate partners. The post holder for this role will work with the whole Fundraising Team at different times, providing administrative and operational support.
We are looking for someone with great people skills, as well as drive, initiative, and determination. You’ll be diligent and accurate, as well as having a dynamic approach to your work. You will be a natural problem-solver, always looking to improve upon current processes to ensure efficiency.
A full Job Description is available for download below.
Top job! Breast Cancer Centre House Manager
- Full time
- £37,500 – £45,000
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 12th August 2024
The House of Hope will exist to help people in Edinburgh and the surrounding areas. The centre will be a haven away from the outside world where those who are impacted by breast cancer can be who they need to be in a safe space, whilst offering connectivity, support, and friendship.
Cancer is hard and takes its toll on you and those around you. We aim to nurture, improve the quality of life, and enrich the emotional wellbeing of our users by offering sanctuary and support within a home-like environment at a time when they need it most.
You are more than a diagnosis. The service will be designed to be person centred with the voice of the patients and their families at the heart of The House.
The Role:
This is an exciting opportunity to be responsible for leading the launch, growth and development of professional, effective and accessible breast cancer support services for The House of Hope Scotland.
We have an experienced and passionate board of trustees, working alongside an active network of volunteers. You will report to the Chief Executive Officer and will work closely with our trustees and patient volunteers.
This dynamic role requires an individual who displays strong interpersonal skills and the ability to manage a multi-disciplinary team. The successful candidate must be proactive, adaptive and responsive to the changeable demands of working in a person-centred environment.
You will be the first point of contact for operations within The House of Hope. You will with the board and CEO to develop the launch operational strategy and programme, overseeing the refurbishment of the building and begin to carve out relationships with service providers and stakeholders.
We need a self-starter who is passionate about supporting those impacted by breast cancer - no two days will be the same.
Signposting and working in partnership with organisations across Scotland who can provide services of benefit to our user group will play another key part in this role. You will support the CEO and trustees with building relationships both across the Scottish cancer network and with potential service providers. We also want to work to increase our networks with health professionals, to help them support their patients.
Within the House of Hope itself and digitally we will provide information and support for those with breast cancer via a direct patient support service. You will help to establish and sustain support groups for breast cancer patients and their families, providing patient information about breast cancer to patients and major centres of breast cancer treatment, and running events (both online and face to face).
This is a unique and exciting role that will allow you to use your skillset to work with us to develop and open The House of Hope Scotland. The CEO, trustees, founders and wider voluntary team will support you at every stage.
Top job! Head of Development - Scotland
- Full time
- £40,000 – £45,000
- Remote: Home
- Closing 28th July 2024
The Organisation
Do you believe in the power of dogs to help transform people’s lives?
Dogs for Good believes that dogs, and the bond shared with them, can help people become happier, healthier, and more independent. This is an exciting time to engage with the organisation as it embarks on an ambitious new strategy to adopt a more community-led model, with a greater emphasis on training, education, and advocacy. Over the next five years, this approach aims to enhance their impact in three priority areas: improving the quality of life for people and dogs; increasing understanding of the value of connections with dogs; and fostering a more inclusive society.
Having developed a strong presence in Scotland, in partnership with Alzheimer Scotland over the past decade, Dogs for Good is excited to have secured funding to further develop and expand this work. This initiative forms a core part of their new strategy, which focuses on building community ties to enhance services and support more people, with Scotland playing a leading role.
Thanks to the generosity of a large grant, we are delighted to launch this exciting new role for Head of Development - Scotland.
The Role
Thanks to the generosity of a large grant, we are delighted to launch this exciting new role for Head of Development - Scotland.
The role involves leading the development and expansion of Dogs for Good’s work in Scotland, ensuring engagement with relevant team members and partners to maximise success. Key responsibilities include updating the 2019 business case overview to assess feasibility and demand, managing the current partnership with Alzheimer Scotland for the Dementia Dog project, and researching and developing new delivery partnerships and funding opportunities specific to Scotland.
Additionally, the role requires creating a volunteer model to support work in Scotland, in collaboration with the Head of Volunteering and Community Engagement. Establishing a communications plan to promote Dogs for Good in Scotland and engage new audiences is also essential. Line management of the team in Scotland is a critical aspect, providing training and support for staff and volunteers as well as tracking and measuring progress against key targets and ensuring alignment with organisational plans for hub development.
The key deliverables include an updated feasibility project and development plan for Scotland, continued development of the Dementia Dog project, establishing strong links with new delivery partners, securing income from new funding sources, promoting the Dogs for Good brand in Scotland, and ensuring that objectives in Scotland align with the wider organisational hub plans.
The successful candidate will bring together the knowledge and experience of colleagues to lead the design and strategic planning for Dogs for Good’s work across Scotland. With experience in community-led practice, network development, and/or partnership building, this role is ideal for a self-starter with an interest in innovative social and healthcare outcomes at the community level.
The role is home-based, within Scotland, with occasional travel across Scotland, and to the centre in Banbury.
If you think you can thrive in this role and possess the desired traits and capabilities, please do not hesitate to get in touch by following the below steps to either submit your application or speak with the hiring manager for further information.
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