Top job! Chief Executive
- Full time
- £42,000
- Edinburgh office base, with potential for remote working
- Closing 5th June 2023
- Advertised from 15th May 2023
- 37.5 hours a week. Contract: Permanent (note that currently funding for the role is secured until 31 March 2025)
- Holidays: 40 days (including public holidays)
Role
Can you help us achieve our vision: ‘a Scotland where all parents and families are valued and supported to give children the best possible start in life’?
This an exciting opportunity to lead a small yet powerful charity dedicated to influencing policy and practice for parents, children, and families.
Parenting across Scotland (PAS) is offering an exciting opportunity for someone with senior leadership skills and vision to lead the organisation and to put our new strategy into action.
You will work alongside a supportive board to lead and to motivate PAS to realise its vision: a Scotland where all parents and families are valued and supported to give children the best possible start in life.
PAS is an important influencer in supporting and improving the lives of children and families. A small organisation, our reach is considerable because of our members and partnerships with other organisations in the third and public sectors that are working with and for parents. Since forming in 2004, we have had considerable success in promoting the voices of parents and caregivers in order to shape national policy.
This appointment comes at a time when the PAS board has been working on refreshing its strategy and needs a committed and experienced chief executive to finalise the key priorities and to lead the strategy.
This post will give you the chance to be a visible leader, to make your mark and to put your own stamp on an organisation which is held in high regard across the sector. You will have the scope to develop relationships with member organisations, the parenting sector, academia and statutory sector stakeholders. You will be able to build your own network to inform and support the work. You’ll have a unique opportunity to strengthen and apply your skills in strategic thinking and in generating income to enable PAS to flourish.
You should already be a senior leader, although not necessarily a chief executive. You should know about the parenting/children/families sector; how to promote the concerns of parents; and how to engage with, critique and contribute to policy development. You need to have the necessary skills and attributes to influence and persuade with authenticity, diplomacy, and commitment. You need to be a ‘horizon scanner’, able to navigate the many and complex issues facing both the sector itself and parenting policy and practice. You should have demonstrable experience in building strong partnerships and be able to generate grant and charitable income.
You will need to use your skills to manage PAS and its interests now and as the organisation develops. As well as having experience and knowledge of charitable governance, strategy, financial management and people management, you should be adept at engaging at various levels and with different interests such as those of local and national government, colleagues, partners, and parents/families.
Application notes
Interviews: to be held in person in Edinburgh
How to apply: send a covering letter outlining your previous experience and suitability for the post, along with your CV, to Margaret Gibb, margaret.gibb@parentingacrossscotland.org
Closing date: 5 June 2023 at 13.30
If you would like to have an informal discussion about the role, please contact Margaret Gibb, interim CEO: margaret.gibb@parentingacrossscotland.org
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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! 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.
Service Manager- Business Services
- Full time
- £34,621 – £39,305
- On site: Scotland
- Closing 29th July 2024
Come lead a Innovative and forward-focused team, helping Carr Gomm go even further in supporting people across Scotland to live their best possible lives.
The role
As the Service Manager in our Business Services Team, you will be reporting to the Senior Operations Manager and take a lead role in the following key areas:
- Support with the governance of Carr Gomm, directly enabling the Board of Directors and Chief Executive to lead the organization
- Management of records and schedules relating to properties
- Day to day management of the central administration team in Carr Gomm
- Monitoring and reporting on key compliance indicators relating to Health and Safety, GDPR and operational services
Who we are looking for
In our eyes, the best managers are proactive with a logical and organized mind whilst also being focused and flexible in both their outlook and approach. Although you will not have regular direct contact with the people we support, we expect that you will have an awareness of the support we deliver, and the service needs.
You will have strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to produce management reports, maintain databases, update policies, provide support to the wider organisation and support the development of your team.
You will be comfortable presenting information as well as participating in meetings / working groups. You will also be a confident problem solver with ideas to support new ways of working and provide expert knowledge to help motivate, shape and drive the people agenda within Carr Gomm.
Experience within social care is beneficial, but not essential.
About Carr Gomm
Carr Gomm is a leading Scottish social care and community development charity. We provide person-centered support to over 4500 people every year so they can live their best possible life.
Our services are based on our values and reflect the choices and aspirations of each individual and community we work with. Our qualified staff work with people in their homes and communities, supporting people in their day-to-day lives and making plans to achieve their hopes and dreams in the future. Carr Gomm also fundraises to tackle isolation and loneliness in our communities through projects and activities across Scotland.
Benefits
- 35 days’ holiday per year (Rising with length of service)
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and sick leav
- A Defined Contribution pension scheme, with incremental employer contribution.
- Membership to Lifeworks; employee well-being and perks platform access to the Carr Gomm App, with access to online physiotherapy, health coaching and counselling.
- Membership of a credit union
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounts with leading hotels; and more!
If you would like to discuss this role further please contact Paul Marshall- paulmarshall@carrgomm.org
Top job! Chief Executive and Nurse Director
- Full time
- £84,000 – £90,000
- Hybrid: Based in our office in central Edinburgh, with scope for flexible working from home
- Closing 12th August 2024
About us
The Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland (QNIS) is a small charity making a big difference. QNIS supports, develops and inspires Scotland’s community nurses and midwives to be agents for health improvement and catalysts for social change. We help them develop their wellbeing and commitment to self-care so they can drive positive action to build a healthier, kinder, fairer, greener Scotland.
About the role
The current post holder has been leading QNIS for 10 years and is moving on to take up a new role. For the right person this is a great opportunity to shape the evolution of the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland as it enters a new chapter. As Chief Executive and Nurse Director, you will have the chance to lead the strategic direction of the charity. Working with a group of expert and committed trustees, the postholder will be responsible for the development of a small charitable organisation with a large reputation.
As Chief Executive, the postholder is accountable for the running of the charity, providing leadership and management to the team of 10 staff (6.5 WTE) and the delivery of programmes. They will lead on strategy, vision and values creating a compelling narrative to support income generation. They will nurture and manage relationships with funders and potential funders to enable a sustainable future.
As Nurse Director, the role requires representing the Institute and community nursing/midwifery in strategic forums, bringing professional expertise, good evidence and wisdom to high level discussion.
The post holder is accountable to the Board of Trustees (QNIS Council). They have regular meetings with the Chair and an annual appraisal. The post is full time (37.5 hours), based in our office in central Edinburgh, with scope for flexible working from home. We are offering a salary of £84-90k depending on experience. There is 10% employers’ contribution to a group pension scheme, life cover and 28 days annual leave plus 10 bank holidays and an additional birthday leave day.
About you
A nurse, or midwife, you will be an experienced leader and manager. You will be highly numerate, able to set, monitor and manage financial plans including fundraising. You will be experienced in and knowledgeable about governance, particularly managing risk.
To support and supervise the team, you will be an experienced programme manager; familiar with designing and managing processes, budgets, evaluation and reporting on impact. You will be a highly skilled facilitator of learning and improvement, experienced in creating safe spaces for development. You will bring a range of creative, methodologies for improvement and change.
With a broad and deep knowledge of the health and social care policy landscape of Scotland, you will have a nuanced understanding of the range of issues affecting community nurses and midwives and Scotland’s public health challenges.
You will be highly self-aware and committed to wellbeing and self-care of yourself and others, bringing your own compassionate and creative leadership to setting a healthful workplace culture for the team at QNIS.
For more information about the role and the organisation, please download the Excellence Profile and visit the QNIS website.
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