Do you like to work as part of a compassionate, knowledgeable, and effective team?

Would you like to use your skills to support charities and help people live independent and flourishing lives?

If so, we have a fabulous opportunity for you as a Performance and Impact Advisor (PIA) with our Support in the Right Direction (SiRD) fund team. We are looking for a full time (35 hours per week) PIA to join our small team delivering this important funding stream on behalf of the Scottish Government Social Care Directorate.

SiRD is a highly regarded, multi-year, funding programme delivering independent support for people, social care users and unpaid carers to be equal partners in their social care planning and maximise their right to ‘choice and control’ under Self-Directed Support legislation. Independent support organisations in the SiRD programme are locally based across Scotland and include advocacy organisations, Carers Centres, Centres of Inclusive Living, and other community groups.

As a PIA you will support our SiRD Fund Manager to provide high quality support for funded groups and the Scottish Government, ensuring the best impact and learning from the funding. As part of a small team you will have a varied role, from grant administration and monitoring through to communications, event planning, research, and programme development.

This position is suitable for people who like to work collaboratively, who can apply sound judgement, and have the confidence to ask questions, take the initiative and problem solve. The successful candidate will be joining a dynamic organisation focused on delivering for essential charities and dedicated to improving lives and creating positive change.

Looking for an opportunity to work for a flexible and family friendly organisation doing amazing work to support Scotland’s voluntary sector?

At SCVO, we strongly believe that an organisation’s people are its greatest resource.

Our HR advice service is in demand and we’re looking for an HR generalist to join us. You’ll answer HR related queries from voluntary sector organisations, provide best practice and best fit HR advice, develop resources, and contribute to the recruitment and retention of HR Service subscribers.

If you have experience of working in a generalist HR role with CIPD Level 5 (or working towards), we’d like to hear from you!

Part time hours and other flexible working options, including working from home for part of the week, will be fully considered. We encourage you to apply if you believe you meet most of the criteria in the person specification. We share our interview questions in advance. If you want to have a chat about the job or our flexible working approach, get in touch with us at recruitment@scvo.scot

SCVO is the membership organisation for the voluntary sector in Scotland and our mission is to champion the role of voluntary sector organisations in building a flourishing society and support them to do work that has a positive impact.

This is an opportunity for an Advice and Employability Worker to join our exciting partnership within the Whole Family Equality Project (WFEP). This project is built on our award winning Maximise! service and aims to ensure that this innovative model is extended to families from ethnically diverse backgrounds.

The Advice Worker will offer benefits, housing, debt and employability advice to families from ethnically diverse backgrounds who are affected by poverty and disadvantage. Based on the Maximise! whole family support model, the advisor will work in close partnership with colleagues in other organizations, in order to deliver a joined-up service which incorporates advice, family support and employability.

The successful candidate will have a good level of insight into and be sympathetic to the needs of families who may be facing multiple barriers to moving out of poverty, including the impacts of systemic disadvantage and discrimination.

The Advisor will be part of our wider CHAI ‘Advice For Families’ Team and will benefit from our comprehensive training programme, peer expertise, team support and ethos of continuous learning and development which is at the heart of our service delivery.

We know that there are significant social and economic disparities between families from ethnically diverse backgrounds and their white counterparts and that such families often experience multiple compounding factors which make their experience of poverty more complex.

Are you:

• Passionate and committed to making a meaningful difference for families and children from ethnically diverse backgrounds?
• Able to motivate, mentor and support adults looking to develop their confidence and skills and progress along the employability pathway?
• Able to quickly learn complex rules and legislation on Welfare Benefits, Debt and Housing?
• Able to grow trusting relationships in a formal setting?
• Understanding of people’s journeys and the challenges they have had in their lives, and how poverty and inequality can have an impact on them?

At CHAI we offer the following:

• Extensive training programme
• Flexible working
• Access to Simply Health benefit plan
• 33 days annual leave (inclusive of public holidays)
• Enrolment to NOW Pension Scheme
• Supportive work environment
• Opportunities to improve services and make a difference.

To provide free and impartial energy advice service to tenants and homeowners across the Scottish Borders.

The post will allow 20 days per annum annual leave plus public holidays. Additional leave may be granted to facilitate low carbon holiday travel.

Our Energy Advisors help people save energy, stay warm while spending less on fuel and develop skills and confidence to take more control of their energy use and bills. Our work plays a vital role in supporting people in, or at risk of, fuel poverty and makes an important contribution to tackling carbon emissions and climate change.

Location: Sustainable Selkirk office, 5 Tower Street, Selkirk, TD7 4LR (or hybrid of home and office), community locations and people’s homes throughout the Scottish Borders. Some local travel will be required to fulfil the needs of the project, using low-carbon sustainable travel where possible.