Top job! Improvement Lead (FTC)
- Full time
- £39,659 – £47,485
- We are based in Edinburgh and currently remote working in line with Scottish Government advice.
- Closing 3rd March 2022
- Advertised from 9th February 2022
- Contract – until 31 March 2023
Role
Community Justice Scotland are looking to recruit for the role of Improvement Lead on a fixed term basis to March 2023. We are seeking someone with energy and expertise to support our role as the national body for Community Justice, to promote and drive improvement activity across Scotland, while our current post holder is on a promoted secondment.
Skilled in engaging with partners at all levels and with experience of working alongside senior colleagues and stakeholders, you will play a key role in Community Justice Scotland, developing and managing strong relationships and partnerships with national and local community justice partners. You will be experienced in analysis and presentation of complex information to inform decision making which will support the delivery of national community justice outcomes.
Application notes
For more information and to access the application form, please visit our website.
Closing Date – 3 March 2022
Interviews Dates – w/c 21 March 2022
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Project Delivery Manager - Scottish Seascapes
- Full time
- £30,000 – £35,000
- Remote: Home-based, UK
- Closing 4th January 2026
About Us
We are a leading UK environmental charity dedicated to protecting our ocean - defending crucial habitats, regenerating vital ecosystems and inspiring volunteers. We unite communities, governments, and industry, and champion science-based solutions for cleaner, healthier seas to tackle the climate and nature emergency.
The Scottish Seascape project lies within our ambitious Atlantic Coast Programme and is focused on the regeneration of marine habitats across Scotland’s west coast coastal and inshore waters. The project aims to deliver measurable ecological recovery through habitat regeneration and community-led stewardship.
We are currently looking for a Project Delivery Manager to join us on a full-time basis for a two-year, fixed-term contract, working 35 hours per week.
The Benefits
- Salary of £30,000 - £35,000 per annum
- 25 days’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays (increasing with service)
- Extra time off at Christmas
- 8% employer pension contributions (no match required)
- Sick pay at full pay for 8 weeks, then 8 weeks at half pay (after probation)
- Flexible working and remote-first approach
- Health and wellbeing support, plus an employee assistance programme
- A paid volunteering day to support a charity of your choice
- Cycle-to-work scheme
This is a standout opportunity for an individual with experience in marine habitat regeneration, conservation, or marine monitoring to join our passionate and values-driven organisation.
You’ll have the chance to work on a project that creates real change for the marine environment, supporting the people who care and want to get involved and helping the habitats that are important.
What’s more, you’ll be enabled to further develop your skills and expertise, growing your abilities and making sure you are the go-to expert for future marine conservation work.
The Role
As a Project Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for delivering and implementing Scottish Seascape projects focused on restoring some of Scotland’s most iconic coastal habitats.
Specifically, you will manage a range of marine habitat regeneration projects, co-ordinating regeneration activities, supporting ecological monitoring efforts, and managing partnerships. Ensuring each project contributes to our strategic goals, you will also support community engagement objectives and social impact.
Ensuring milestones and targets are achieved, you will collaborate with coastal communities and local stakeholders, building trusted partnerships and enabling local stewardship through workshops, training, and outreach in order to build capacity and awareness.
Additionally, you will:
- Support the development of funding proposals and project sustainability plans
- Contribute to wider strategic planning linked to marine restoration programmes
About You
To be considered as a Project Delivery Manager, you will need:
- Demonstrable experience in marine habitat regeneration, conservation, or marine monitoring
- Applied knowledge of marine biology and environmental science, gained by study or through equivalent experience in a related field
- Demonstrable experience in managing project budgets
- Working knowledge of Scottish marine ecosystems and environmental policy
- Experience in social impact measurement or working with social data to inform reporting and decision-making
- GIS and data analysis (preferably R) skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong relationship-building skills
Top job! National Policy Lead – Children and Young People
- Full time or Part time
- £34,877 – £40,023
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 16th January 2026
The role
Scottish Women’s Aid has an opportunity to join their Policy team. This is an exciting position where the role holder will be responsible for working on policy relating to children and young people and domestic abuse, violence against women and girls, and gender related topics. They will work closely with the Membership, Training and Communications teams.
Background
Scottish Women’s Aid is Scotland’s leading voluntary sector organisation working to end domestic abuse and promoting effective policy and practice responses for women, children and young people who experience domestic abuse. We are the umbrella organisation for 32 autonomous Women’s Aid groups delivering direct services to women, children and young people across Scotland.
What you’ll do
Working across third sector organisations you will build and maintain relationships to input to policy and influencing, as SWA as well as jointly with others. You will maintain good working relationships with civil servants, challenging ideas and find solutions where necessary.
The role includes inputting to and submitting consultation responses, researching and writing briefings, preparing for SWA to providence evidence in parliament, keep our communications team up to date with policy inputs and changes, and input to good practice stemming from policy changes. All of these roles, requiring great working relationships across the organisation, but especially with Membership, Training and Communications.
What We Need
We’re looking for someone with experience in a similar role, with specific knowledge of the Scottish policy landscape and the potential that offers. We’re looking for someone who can work across domestic abuse as it relates to children and young people – examples include the Children’s Hearing system, child contact, the welfare system. We ask that you’re a self-starter, ready to apply these skills creatively to meet our strategic priorities. Excellent written and verbal communications skills go without saying: you’ll be skilled in the ability to engage confidently with a range of different audiences, and be adept at writing to suit them, working alongside colleagues across SWA and our members across the country.
We’re looking for someone who has:
- Knowledge of the Scottish policy landscape
- Awareness and understanding of the feminist analysis of domestic abuse and the impact on women, children and young people
- Demonstrable track record of developing and writing successfully in a policy context
- Highly organised approach to effective planning, delivery and the development of applicable tasks
- Drive to make a difference in a fast moving time of policy
Location
Blend of home working and office, based in Rose Street, Edinburgh or can be entirely home based anywhere in the UK. Please talk to us about your flexible working requirements!
What we offer
There are many reasons to work for Scottish Women’s Aid. We have a great working culture and our mission and vision attracts a brilliant staff team. Your hard work is rewarded with a package of support and benefits including:
- Flexible working - We offer flexible hybrid working options for the majority of our employees. Some posts are eligible for full-time homeworking. We also offer flexibility for staff and work/life balance through a number of flexible working options such as flexi time, condensed hours, job sharing.
- Pay - SWA are a Living wage employer, our pay and grading system offers a competitive starting salary and yearly progression.
- Annual Leave - We offer a full-time annual leave entitlement of 30 days (210 hours) per year plus 10 Public Holiday days (70 hours) per year. Leave is accrued at the rate of 3.33 days (23.3 hours) per month.
- Pension - SWA believes it's important that we help you save for your retirement so access to Nest pension scheme is given to all eligible employees. SWA contributes 10% of gross contractual earnings on the provision that the employee contributes a minimum of 3% towards their pension contributions.
- Learning and Development - SWA supports and develops staff to ensure they have the necessary skills, knowledge and abilities. There is an internal schedule of training on key skills and knowledge relevant to all staff. There is also scope to attend ad hoc training for employees who are working to develop specific skills.
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay - SWA offers staff who meet the criteria for Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) an enhanced maternity pay of 20 weeks on full pay and 20 weeks on half pay.
- Wellbeing - As part of SWA’s commitment to staff wellbeing, staff are offered access to a confidential 24/7 health and Wellbeing service with AIG which provides confidential advice, counselling and legal support to all staff, and where applicable, immediate family members.
- Bike 2 Work - An interest-free loan to purchase a bike, can be arranged up to the value of £1,000.
- Edinburgh Leisure Gym Subsidies - Edinburgh based staff are able to access Edinburgh Leisure facilities for the reduced price of £1 per session.
POSITIVE ACTION
Applications will be accepted from women only under Schedule 9, part 1 of the Equality Act 2010.
Scottish Women’s Aid is an equal opportunities employer, all women, including women with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, may apply for women-only roles.
SWA are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce that is representative of the people we serve.
We are taking positive action to address an under-representation of minoritised and marginalised women within our workforce. We offer Disabled and racially minoritised women the option of requesting that their application is considered under the terms of our Guaranteed Interview Schemes. You will be asked if you wish to be considered when you complete our application form.
If you would like to discuss the job or any adjustments, whether due to disability or any other reason, please contact us on recruitment@womensaid.scot or on the phone on 0131 226 6606.
Ask & Act Education Manager
- Full time
- £36,128 – £40,686
- Hybrid: Fife, West Lothian, Perth ,or Edinburgh and WfH, with occasional travel, across sites.
- Closing 7th January 2026
Who We Are
We are Scotland’s leading youth homelessness charity. We believe that no young person should ever face homelessness. That’s why we deliver bold, youth-specific solutions, built around young people’s experiences and what evidence tells us works.
We support young people to avoid and move on from homelessness, helping them build the confidence, skills and stability they need to thrive in adulthood. We also influence policy and practice to create a Scotland where no young person is left behind.
We don’t follow the system, we change it, continually championing the voices and experiences of all young people.
Context
Rock Trust delivers the Upstream prevention project in schools and the post holder will work with the Upstream Team, pilot schools and education departments to create a toolkit for the implementation of Upstream. This will involve working with current pilot schools to document the changes required in school systems, the challenges and how to overcome them and an assessment of the resources required to deliver Upstream. The Ask & Act Education Manager will use this learning to create a toolkit and implementation plan to be used for national implementation.
This role is responsible for:
- Coordinating work with multiple local authority Education departments, senior leaders and cross-sector partners (Housing, Social Work, Health, third sector)
- Designing and documenting processes, guidance and training materials that enable schools to embed early identification of housing risk
- Capturing learning, gathering data and producing a national implementation framework
- Ensuring all activity aligns with statutory duties, local contexts and Rock Trust’s prevention approach
The Ask & Act Education Manager will need to be methodical, have strong report writing skills and interpersonal skills to co-ordinate the information gathering and documenting. They will be responsible for delivering the toolkit to a high standard, making a lasting contribution to Scotland’s homelessness prevention system.
Senior Fundraising Officer - Legacies
- Part time
- £33,230 – £37,038 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 7th January 2026
Use your skills and experience to save endangered species from extinction and improve people's lives through closer connection with nature. Join our small but highly successful fundraising team based in the heart of Edinburgh Zoo and you'll have an amazing opportunity to make an impact on conservation in Scotland and around the world.
The role:
Building on a successful individual giving programme at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS), this role focuses on developing a new legacy and in-memory giving programme, encompassing marketing campaigns, stewardship, legacy administration and events.
This is permanent, part time role (22.5 hours per week) based at Edinburgh Zoo, but working across both sites which also covers Highland Wildlife Park.
Some of the things you’ll do:
- Work with the Fundraising Manager to develop and deliver compelling new legacy and in-memory giving campaigns for RZSS.
- Liaise with relevant colleagues, including fundraising, marketing and communications teams, to gain insights into our audiences and help to prepare legacy and in-memory giving copy and messaging.
- Lead on activities to promote legacies and in memory giving across all relevant RZSS platforms, including our websites, digital channels, events and direct mail.
- Lead on the planning and promotion of legacies and in-memory giving through on-site collateral and signage at Edinburgh Zoo and Highland Wildlife Park
- Develop and manage fundraising data on the CRM system relating to legacy and in memorial giving, supervising other staff when necessary to ensure all data is entered correctly and kept up to date, producing reports upon request and ensuring that financial information is handled with sensitivity.
- Use supporter data to inform and improve the legacy and in memorial programme.
- Identify trends in fundraising and recommend opportunities to senior colleagues.
What we’re looking for:
- Educated to Degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience in a similar role.
- CIOF Certificate of Fundraising or equivalent experience
- Extensive knowledge of donor cultivation and stewardship principles
- NEBOSH general certificate or equivalent qualification.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, e.g. producing creative materials for fundraising, with the ability to tailor complex information to a wide range of audiences/donors including those a senior level or requiring a sensitive approach
- Demonstrable experience of working in a similar role, meeting deadlines in a busy environment.
What you’ll get in return:
- Starting salary between £19,938 - £20,436 (offer based on experience / salary pro-rated based on 22.5hrs per week) with future salary progression up to £22,223 per annum (FTE £33,230 - £34,060 with future progression up to £37,038 per annum)
- 22.5hr working week (may require some occasional evening/weekend working)
- Hybrid working option available
- 34 days annual leave (pro rata)
- Discount in both retail/catering
- Access to a healthcare plan
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), that provide 24-hour counselling and support, including health, legal, finance, wellbeing and family advice.
- Employer contributory pension scheme
- You will receive a staff membership which will give you (and family/friends) free (and discounted) entry to both the Highland Wildlife Park and Edinburgh Zoo as well as a number of other Zoo’s across the UK.
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