Top job! Managing Director
- Part time
- £40,000 – £45,000 pro-rata
- CCDC’s office at the Coigach Community Hall with hybrid working from home also permissible, with flexibility offered for the right candidate.
- Closing 30th January 2023
- Advertised from 6th January 2023
- Salary based on experience, working 21 hours – 28 hours per week. Contract: Three years.
Role
Do you have the knowledge and skills to lead and deliver a forward-thinking strategy in a local community setting? Does developing and delivering a pipeline of projects centred on affordable housing, alongside local transport, home energy, community food growing, and other emerging local priorities sound like a challenge you could use your talents and experience to tackle? If so, this exciting opportunity to lead the Coigach Community Development Company (CCDC) through a period of ambitious growth and development could be for you.
Established in 2010 to deliver sustainable development for the community of Coigach, we have achieved numerous successes to date, most notably the construction of a community owned wind turbine, which provides a healthy income stream for investment in our community. This new role will report directly to CCDC’s Board of Directors and be responsible for the line management of CCDC’s two part time Local Development Officers (LDOs) and contractors engaged for specific project delivery. The post will also work closely with CCDC’s partners, including many local organisations, and across the wider community.
Candidates will have demonstrable experience in a strategic, leadership role. You will have proven ability in managing significant budgets and developing successful funding bids, and be committed to ensuring the continuous improvement of the organisation. A passion for securing positive change for local communities is essential, and you will be adept at building positive relationships with the local community and other key partners and stakeholders. A good understanding of the relevant sectors, and a background in developing community led projects is essential.
We welcome applications from all walks of life with diverse backgrounds, cultures, perspectives, and experiences to support CCDC’s work to make the community of Coigach more sustainable.
Application notes
For further information about CCDC, the role, and how to apply, please download the Job Application Pack below.
Closing Date: 5pm, Monday 30th January
Please note that for successful applicants, first interviews will be held virtually on Friday 17th February.
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Are you passionate about working with communities? Do you love nature and the outdoors, and have the enthusiasm and versatility to help our community be more engaged with the land in our guardianship and actively involved in its management?
We are seeking a part-time, freelance Community Ranger to strengthen connections between local communities and the land Tayvallich Initiative (TI) owns on their behalf, encompassing its natural and cultural heritage, with a particular emphasis on people who are experiencing barriers to becoming involved.
- Freelance opportunity, 24 months fixed term, from early June 2024 to 30 May 2026
- Hours: on average 2 days a week (with flexibility to meet the varying demands of this role). Some out-of-hours working will be required
- Remuneration: £150 per day (inclusive of VAT if applicable) for 104 days per year. £31,200 total fee
- Allowance: for travel and mobile phone expenses plus use of a laptop for work purposes only
- Budget: There is a generous budget available for volunteer expenses, materials, signage, tools, the creation of a new web resource, and the development of the TI website
- Reporting to: the Coordinator of the Land Working Group who in turn reports to the Board of Directors of TI. Working closely with other groups and staff members of Tayvallich Initiative
- Location: This role would ideally suit someone based in the Mid Argyll area who can travel to the community for events and engagement meetings. However, it is important that an applicant with a suitable level of experience is appointed and, as such, they could be from further afield with the ability to remote work and attend meetings in the community on a scheduled basis. The Tayvallich Community Hall is available for community events and has some space for office working.
Top job! Venture Support Manager
- Full time or Part time
- £36,000 – £44,000
- Edinburgh (Hybrid)
- Closing 21st April 2024
We're on the lookout for a Venture Support Manager to join The Ventures Lab team at The Challenges Group.
This role is at Senior Manager level and part of our senior team in Scotland, reporting to the Chief Executive.
Download the full recruitment pack below or from our website:thechallengesgroup.com/jobs
About us:
Challenges Group is an international enterprise development organisation which improves organisational capabilities through learning and leadership development for people and strengthening enterprises and their ecosystems. The Ventures Lab by Challenges Group provides an inclusive, supportive path for aspiring or early-stage entrepreneurs to bring their purpose-led businesses to life.
Part Time Finance Director
- Part time
- £70,000 – £75,000 pro-rata
- Edinburgh (Hybrid)
- Closing 29th April 2024
Inspiring Scotland is a registered Scottish charity and as one of the world’s largest venture philanthropy organisations has the vision for every person in Scotland to enjoy a happy, healthy life free from poverty or disadvantage. We currently support over 500 charities in Scotland and between 2023-2024 managed over £42.6m of investment in charities and not-for-profit organisations.
We are inspired daily by the commitment and drive shown by people working in the voluntary sector, and the people they support and believe in harnessing the power of all sectors and long-term funding to make lasting changes in people's lives.
One of the main reasons for our success is our people, who have been attracted from roles across the private, public and third sectors by the opportunity to make a difference and work for an organisation that is forward-thinking, and people focused. As our Part-time Finance Director (0.6 FTE) you will be responsible for optimising Inspiring Scotland's financial performance and strategic position whilst also maintaining the smooth operation of finance, HR, IT, facilities, and governance. As a key member of a small Executive Team, you will directly contribute to the strategic and operational decision-making process and ongoing development of the organisation.
You will be a fully qualified accountant with a proven track record of robust financial management gained within the private, public or third sector. With direct involvement in providing financial information and analysis to allow informed decision-making at both executive and ideally board level, you will also be an accomplished communicator able to build and maintain strong working relationships with a range of stakeholders. A ‘Self-starter’ and results-driven, it is likely the successful candidate will have experience working in a position where they have been used to taking on a range of responsibilities and balancing several competing priorities.
Above all else, we are looking for more than simply an ‘Accountant’. We want someone who shares our passion to make a difference, will fully embrace a flat structure, show initiative, thrive within a culture of flexibility, and most importantly shares our values, by being bold, compassionate, knowledgeable, and effective.
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Do you believe in the power of data to improve people’s lives and know that working with the public is vital to our mission? Research Data Scotland needs you!
We have an exciting opportunity to work in a multifaceted Business Management role to support the delivery of exemplary governance and operational excellence. This role works with stakeholders at every level in our organisation and as such we are looking to appoint a highly motivated and conscientious individual.
About us
Research Data Scotland (RDS) is a charity set up by the Scottish public sector and leading universities. We help researchers find and make use of data that can improve the lives of people in Scotland. Working in partnership, we do this by widening the range of data available, creating new data assets and providing a single point of contact for safe, secure and effective access to public data in a trustworthy manner.
Data is often locked away in lots of individual systems, across many different organisations, and isn’t in a format that makes access or integration easy. We can help researchers to unlock the potential of this data by giving them information and advice that speeds up and simplifies their work.
RDS aims to provide a step change in the service to researchers, whilst maintaining the high standards of information governance and data security already in place. We aim to work as openly as possible, maintaining standards in transparency and ethics. Our focus is on providing a streamlined service for researchers, as well as extending the range of data available through the service, particularly in the areas of Covid-19, NHS imaging, geospatial data, children and justice services.
Our partners include: Scottish Government, Public Health Scotland, National Records of Scotland (NRS), and the Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow. We work closely with the national and regional safe havens. And we are in contact with other organisations in Scotland and across the UK in the data research sector, including public sector, research and commercial bodies.
About the job
The Business Manager will work closely with the Chair, CEO and Operations Director to manage, coordinate and schedule the regular cycle of our governance and business activities. This will include coordinating board meetings as well as maintaining our internal registers and ensuring our reporting mechanisms are top-notch! This post will be highly varied and vital to the successful delivery of our Business and Delivery plans.
There is a strong focus on developmental projects, operational risk, records management, governance, improving our performance and delivering our day-to-day charity operations. You’ll be an important member of our Operations Team, sharing your expertise with colleagues and board members, as well as independently leading on activities.
Reports to Operations Director
About you
You are a self-starter, with experience of working with stakeholders at every level. You’ll understand the importance of engaging well with board members, senior leaders and your colleagues to get their input into your work and support great governance. You are highly organised and thrive on managing multiple projects with different deadlines. You are keen to deliver, with an eye for detail and the pragmatism to understand our context and environment.
Life at RDS
We are a small friendly and highly engaged team of people. We promote continuous learning and work hard to build an inclusive and supportive workplace culture. We live our values of; integrity, transparency, courage, collaboration and humility.
Our people typically work a 35-hour week, with hybrid working on offer from day one. You can choose to work flexibly from home or use one of our desks in the Bayes Centre in central Edinburgh. The whole RDS team meets one day per month in-person in Edinburgh or at an off-site away day in the Central Belt. Individual teams organise their own in-person days to collaborate, develop and socialise together.
We offer 33 days’ annual leave (including public holidays) and have no set closure days. We have a generous pension and enhanced pay for parental/adoption leave. This list of benefits is being added to as the organisation develops, and you can help shape it as part of the team. Our Culture Group helps us seek feedback from colleagues across the organisation to make RDS an even better place to work.
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