Communications and Digital Assistant
- Full time or Part time
- £20,500
- Working remotely from home across Great Britain, occasionally co-working spaces, with business travel subject to current safety restrictions.
- Closing 29th September 2021
- Advertised from 7th September 2021
- Start date: Ideally October 2021. Salary: Depending on experience and qualifications up to £20.5k. Hours of work: Flexible: or full time (35 hours per week) or 4 days per week (28 hours) will be considered. Contract type: Permanent.
- 30 days Annual holiday (pro rata), Pension Scheme
Role
Do you feel passionately about improving the life chances of children, young people and families?
Are you able to use digital tools to communicate our work and engage our audiences?
Dartington Service Design Lab is an internationally respected social research and design charity focussed on using evidence and design in innovative ways to help those working with children and young people have a greater impact. As an organisation, we have more than 50 years of experience working across the public and voluntary sectors.
We are boosting our staff with a number of new positions including an early-career communications specialist. The successful candidate may be based across Great Britain and will enjoy a varied role in communicating our work that spans public system reform, service design, improvement methods, with systems thinking/dynamics approaches.
The successful candidate will support delivery of our communications strategy across multiple channels, as well as strengthening our capacity to deliver superb online workshops events, and publications. They will be able to communicate digitally, verbally and on paper extremely well with a wide range of stakeholders. We value empathy and collaboration and a focus on using evidence for social good.
We need a communicator who is able to quickly add value and integrate into our team, ideally with experience of working in research or policy environments. Key responsibilities are included in the job description document.
As a team, we operate remotely across Great Britain with regular project-related travel when it is safe to do so. Over the past 4 years we have successfully been using online and video communication tools to deliver our work. Our staff tend to work from home or when appropriate, together in local co-working spaces, and normally, every quarter we meet as a whole team in our beautiful Devon office.
We strive for diversity in our team. If we’re going to design impactful services for children and families, we need to ensure our team is inclusive. Dartington encourages applications from all backgrounds and we are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities.
The post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service certificate and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.
Application notes
Application timetable: 29th September 2021 at 23.59 Close
30th September 2021 Shortlisting
7th October 2021 Interviews
w/c 11th October 2021 Final selection
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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.
Volunteer Engagement Worker
- Part time
- £22,844 – £25,383 pro-rata
- Dundee (On site)
- Closing 29th April 2024
DVVA and the Dundee Alliance are seeking an enthusiastic person to work alongside the volunteer manager on the delivery of the Dundee Alliance Volunteer Strategy, collaborating closely with a wide array of partners and stakeholders to evaluate, refine and enact the Strategy.
The post holder will be employed by DVVA and work on behalf of the Dundee Alliance. The Dundee Alliance is a collaborative, cross-sector partnership deeply committed to fostering creativity, innovation and collaborative practices while actively pursuing the realisation of The Promise and Whole Family Support Principles.
Ideally you’ll have experience of engaging with and supporting volunteers as well as networking with a variety of partners and stakeholders. You’ll be able to design, deliver and evaluate information sessions and workshops, working with individuals to empower them. Ideally, you’ll have a relevant qualification in an area such as Social Services or Community Learning and Development, or equivalent professional or volunteer experience.
This brilliant opportunity to provide the platform for the Manorview Foundation in Coatbridge will require somebody who cares about children and young people, has a passion for building lasting and trusting relationships, with an eye for innovation and community development. The Manorview Foundation has the vision and passion to make life better for children and young people, and our whole team involved in that process will bring the level of care, compassion and consistency to the role on a daily basis.
As a community development worker working with the Manorview Foundation, you'll work with individuals, families, the wider community and partners, supporting them to:
- build trusting and supportive relationships with you and the wider team
- identify their assets, needs, opportunities, rights and responsibilities
- co-produce what they want to achieve and take appropriate action
- co-design activities and services to generate aspiration and confidence
You'll do this by acting as a link between the Foundation, the local community and a range of other local authority and voluntary sector providers to ensure that the Hub is a well-used resource with wide-ranging reach.
Your role will frequently involve addressing inequality and the projects you work on will be in communities perceived to be culturally, economically or geographically disadvantaged.
The Post
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the University of Stirling Students’ Union as Sports Development Coordinator to plan, coordinate and deliver our comprehensive sports development programmes, in conjunction with the Sports President. You will manage and develop the Sports Administrator. You will also support sports union members, with particular focus but not exclusively, in the areas of Club Development, Participation, Health and Wellbeing and Finance & Funding.
About Us
Stirling Students’ Union is the representative student body at the University of Stirling. We are a registered charity and exist to support students getting the best degree, helping students make friends, supporting students when they need support and building skills for the future. We do this by supporting academic reps, providing volunteering opportunities, societies and sports clubs. We also offer support, employability skills, advice and opportunities to influence our sustainability work. We are proudly student led and each spring elect four full time paid students to lead our work: President, Vice President Communities, Vice President Education and Sports Union President.
About You
We’re looking for a talented and passionate individual to join our organisation. You’ll be driven, using your initiative to support a wide range of organisational initiatives, programmes and projects. Specific duties of the role include:
Club Development
· Strategic approach to development and delivery of BUCS, ensuring improvement and effective use of funding.
· Develop and implement a comprehensive plan (actions, targets, responsibilities and resources).
· Increase club membership and participation.
· Ensure clubs are accessible and inclusive to all participants.
· Contribute to the formulation of policy and procedures as required, in collaboration with other Coordinators.
· Design and deliver training for committee members of Sports Clubs.
· Effectively engage students and provide ongoing support and assistance where appropriate.
· Coordinate and deal with member discipline and complaints, contributing to effective process development.
· Assist in the recruitment of coaches to ensure quality of sports provision within clubs.
Participation & Engagement
· Work in partnership with the University to provide opportunities for students to engage in physical activity and sports.
· Work closely with the Student Sport Development Officer on participation programmes for recreational sport.
· Develop mutually beneficial relationships with external partners, (BUCS, SSS, Community Clubs and National Governing Bodies) to increase the range, and quality of sports provision and coaching services provided.
· Work with BUCS, SSS and National Governing bodies to promote volunteering opportunities.
· To monitor, evaluate and report on club activities and identify opportunities for growth.
· To be a mentor on the panel of the Tier 2 programme.
Health & Wellbeing
· Promote and evaluate student wellbeing through engagement with student sport and club activity.
· Plan and take forward projects and campaigns that aim to use physical activity and sport as a method of improving Health & Wellbeing whilst positively impacting on the student experience.
· Engage with Union, University and national campaigns and initiatives for establishing healthy and resilient student communities.
· Embed innovative practices in engaging sports members with sustainability opportunities.
Finance & Funding
· Working with Sports President and Finance Manager to ensure club funds are managed appropriately.
· Oversee the effective running of the Sports Union budget.
· Responsibility for administration of funding requests for Coaches and Capital Equipment.
· In collaboration with Union colleagues deliver signature sports events such as Sports Ball and Varsity.
· Work with Stakeholders on the Kit Tender process.
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