- Advertised from 17th February 2022
- 21,- 25.5 hours per week, 18 Months Fixed Term Contract
Role
Citizens UK is a people power alliance of diverse local communities working together for the common good. Our mission is to develop leaders, strengthen civic organisations and make change. Our 550 member communities are deeply rooted in their local areas and connect every day to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Through the method of community organising we enable people experiencing powerlessness to develop their leadership and come together with the power and strategy to make change.
This leads to hundreds of neighbourhood improvements - from zebra crossings outside primary schools to renovated public toilets in cemeteries. And it leads to some of the biggest campaign impacts in the UK, such as winning over £1.5 billion of wages through the UK Living Wage campaign, securing a legal cap on the cost of credit to control exploitative lending, and ending the detention of children for immigration purposes. We enable local campaigns to grow into large-scale social change projects such as the Living Wage Foundation, Parents and Communities Together (PACT), and Sponsor Refugees, that form an integral part of our theory of change. The most prominent of these is the rapidly growing Living Wage Foundation with a network of nearly 9,000 accredited Living Wage Employers across the UK.
Refugees for Justice
R4J sits within Citizens UK’s Together We Can team. Refugees for Justice (R4J) is a refugee-led campaign for justice, accountability, and change in the UK asylum accommodation and support provision system. The group was launched in the aftermath of the Park Inn Incident in Glasgow (26 June 2020) and the mishandling of asylum accommodation and support during COVID-19 pandemic that led the deaths, injuries, and physical and psychological harm on people in the asylum system and wider community. R4J uses community organising, independent inquiry, and legal action to challenge and change the UK asylum support and accommodation provision, including the use of detention-like institutional accommodation and associated conditions. Visit our website for more information: refugeesforjustice.com
Purpose
To achieve its overarching goals of Justice, Accountability, and Change, R4J conducts the following activities:
- Community organising and power building
- Legal Action
- Independent inquiry
- Campaigning and direct influencing work
The R4J Project Officer is a key post within R4J team ensuring that R4J’s work is supported by effective administrative systems and practice that contributes to the efficient and compliant delivery of the R4J workplan and budget and in line with relevant policies and procedures.
Main Responsibilities
Reporting directly to the R4J Project Manager, the post holder will be expected to manage their own independent workload, as well as support the broader team. The main responsibilities are outlined below:
Contribute towards achieving CUK and R4J project strategic objectives
- Provide administrative assistance to R4J Senior Project Manager and Advisory Board to ensure effective development and delivery of Citizens UK and R4J project strategic objectives.
- Build and manage projects & achieve work targets
- Maintain and process project paperwork including funding paperwork, bookkeeping, recording invoices, payments, and budget.
- Manage project calendar to ensure timely delivery of reports, meetings, and other deadlines. Book and manage project level appointments in calendar.
- Work with the Citizens UK Finance to efficiently administer the R4J budget, income, expenditure and manage petty cash.
- Provide administrative assistance to R4J team in processing contracts, commissioning, partnerships, invoices, and other operational paperwork.
- Organise, store, and manage R4J information, documents, files, and data in line with GDPR and Citizens UK relevant procedures.
- Ensure compliance with all relevant procedures and regulations including Health and Safety, safeguarding, confidentiality and GDPR.
- Provide administrative tasks related to R4J projects including event organising, liaising with interpreters, legal representatives, clients, and other stakeholders.
Learning & expertise
- Support administrative tasks in relation to programme statistics and reports including in relation to programme monitoring and evaluation.
- Develop and manage external relationships
- Manage R4J main programme mailbox and act as first point of contact for external general queries to R4J.
- Contribute to R4J networking and external meetings
Communications
- Manage R4J online infrastructure including internet/phone providers, Microsoft Office licence, staff and volunteer user accounts, SharePoint, zoom account.
- Support media and communication administration activities.
Develop and manage internal relationships
- Support R4J Programme Coordinator and volunteers with record keeping volunteer expenses and purchase of equipment.
- Participate in and contribute to CUK organisational team meetings
- Develop and manage effective work relationships and mechanisms between R4J and CUK relevant HQ teams e.g., finance and operations
Generate income and resources
- Provide administrative support to R4J Senior Manager in relation to grants paperwork
- Work closely with R4J Senior Manager and Citizens UK Finance to maintain accurate payment and reporting schedule of all R4J grants
- Any other reasonable tasks as required by the line manager.
Application notes
Deadline: 2 March 2022 at 10am
Interviews: Week commencing 7 March 2022
To find out more about the role and to apply, please visit our website
Senior Community Fundraiser – Scotland
- Full time
- £31,000 – £34,000
- Remote: Edinburgh
- Closing 6th January 2026
About us
We’re Breast Cancer Now, the research and support charity. We’re the place to turn to for anything and everything to do with breast cancer. However, you’re experiencing breast cancer, we’re here.
The brightest minds in breast cancer research are here. Making life-saving research happen in labs across the UK and Ireland. Support services, trustworthy breast cancer information and specialist nurses are here. Ready to support you whenever you need it. Dedicated campaigners are here. Fighting for the best possible treatment, services and care for anyone affected by breast cancer.
About the role
Do you live in Edinburgh or the surrounding area?
As a senior community fundraiser, you’ll be an important part of the team building Breast Cancer Now’s presence in Scotland, with a particular focus on Edinburgh and the surrounding areas.
We’re looking for someone who is an experienced relationship builder, someone who can find and develop new supporters. You’ll need excellent local knowledge, and the enthusiasm to develop a brand-new fundraising region.
The successful candidate will also be part of the team working on our large-scale project supporting and growing Asda Tickled Pink, our award-winning partnership with Asda and CoppaFeel! which has already raised over £100 million.
You’ll work directly with passionate colleagues across Asda stores in your region driving new fundraising initiatives, inspiring communities and celebrating incredible successes.
No 2 days will look the same as you travel, connect and engage supporters to help us grow income to deliver our mission.
The role is initially offered as an 18-month contract with the potential to become permanent.
About you
You’re confident in approaching new contacts and are experienced in developing new relationships from scratch. This may currently be in a customer service, account management or stewardship role.
You’re experienced in managing and building new and established relationships with a focus on retention and income growth.
You’re enthusiastic, proactive, organised and unafraid to test and try new ideas.
You’re required to be involved being out and about in the community that you’re building, so you must be able to work independently outside of the office in varying locations and enjoy being busy.
Previous experience working in a charity is not required.
Job description and benefits
Please download the job description and our attractive benefits package.
Primary location of role
This is a remote role, and the candidate will need to be based in the Edinburgh area with unlimited access to their own car. Regular travel will be required to meet supporters and visit Asda stores in your region, as well as occasional travel to our London, Sheffield or Glasgow office.
Business Support Officer
- Full time
- £28,000
- On site: McDonald Road, Edinburgh, with regular visits to Teens+ Centres and Hubs in Edinburgh and Musselburgh
- Closing 11th January 2026
Purpose of role
As the Business Support Officer, you will play a key role in supporting the smooth and effective running of Capella’s central operations. Your work will ensure strong governance, robust data protection practices, and high-quality organisational coordination, helping us deliver meaningful impact for the people we support.
You will be a trusted source of support to the Senior Management Team and Board, enabling strategic decision-making that advances our mission. Through strong administration, excellent organisation, and attention to detail, you will help safeguard our organisational integrity while contributing to a positive, collaborative charity environment.
What we offer:
- A full and robust training and induction programme, including access to additional training during the course of employment
- Holiday entitlement of 36 days from the start of employment
- Free Confidential Employee Counselling Service
- Flexible and agile working
- Family-friendly policies, including family-friendly working hours (8.30 am – 4.30 pm Mondays to Thursdays and 2pm finish on Fridays)
About Capella
At Capella, we believe in lasting change through lifelong learning, because everybody deserves to thrive.
Capella is a registered charity that runs a number of charitable services, including Teens+, a transitional education project for young adults with complex and severe communication needs and Sleep Action, the UK’s oldest sleep charity and leading provider of sleep support, training, and resources in the UK.
Capella is a great place to work with fantastic people, strong values and a clear sense of the difference we make. 94% of our team are proud to work for our organisation and 98% think we take positive action on health and wellbeing. We invest in our staff and offer extensive training and mentoring opportunities. As a growing organisation, we want to attract ambitious staff with a desire to achieve great things. If this sounds like a journey you’d like to join us on, we would love to hear from you.
Capella was awarded Employer of the Year at the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce Awards 2023 and is nominated for the Outstanding Leadership Award at this year’s Scottish Living Wage Awards.
Our values
For us, it’s not so much about what you know, but your attitude and values that are most important. We will provide full training on what you need to know, but you must be able to live our values:
Tailored – We always put people at the centre of our work.
Humour – Great things can be achieved when we are happy and have fun.
Resilient– Flexibility, confidence and creativity turn challenges into opportunities.
Integrity – Passion and professionalism are vital for all involved in our organisation.
Value– Everybody deserves respect and we are enriched through our differences.
Empathy – Compassion and care are in everything we do.
Trustees
- Management Board
- Unpaid
- Remote: Home based/online meetings anywhere in the UK
- Closing 18th January 2026
Join us – Independent Age is looking for new trustees!
Would you like to use your skills and experience to help us end poverty in later life? Independent Age is the only national charity focused solely on improving the lives of people facing financial hardship in later life. We currently achieve impact through three key activities: advice and support, grant-making, and policy, influencing and campaigning. This year, we have supported over 20,000 people who called our helpline and identified over £6.5 million in unclaimed benefits. We have awarded £3 million in grants, enabling local organisations to reach even more older people living in financial hardship. We also successfully campaigned for the Winter Fuel Payment to be restored to a large number of older people who rely on it, and to improve protections for older renters through the Renters’ Rights Act and the Housing (Scotland) Act.
We are looking to appoint several new trustees to our Board. We are interested in hearing from people who are concerned about the growing impact of poverty in later life on our society, and can bring us any of the following skills or experience:
- finance
- fundraising
- brand / marketing / engagement
- business development / transformation / innovation / technology.
Every day at Independent Age, we hear from older people who don’t have enough money for a decent standard of living. While they are resourceful, careful and resilient, and employ many tactics to make their low-income work for them, life is hard.
The people who engage with us are part of a group of two million older people living in poverty and a further million living with precarious financial security. Concerningly, our research shows that this number could rise to four million by 2040, without effective policy interventions. This projection must not become a reality.
Certain groups of people aged 65 and over are at greater risk of financial hardship, including one person households, women, people from racially minoritised groups, private renters, carers and people with long-term conditions or disabilities. We particularly encourage applications from people who have backgrounds, characteristics or perspectives that align with any of these priority groups. We’d also like to encourage applications from candidates outside the south-east of England and, in particular, from Scotland.
Previous trustee experience is not necessary because you would be joining a strong, experienced Board and we can provide mentoring and support. The time commitment will be around 1-1.5 days a month on average, focused around the quarterly cycle of board and committee meetings. Trustee roles are not paid. However, we want to help overcome the barriers some people might face to becoming a trustee. We pay reasonable travel, accommodation, subsistence and the cost of care provision for children and dependents when acting on behalf of the charity. Some of these costs can be paid upfront by the charity, if needed. We also pay reasonable costs associated with attending the initial interview.
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Senior Project Officer (maternity cover)
- Full time
- £34,254 – £38,060
- Remote: Home-based in Scotland
- Closing 5th January 2026
There’s never been a better time to join the team at Cycling UK! We have launched an ambitious new strategy – and we want you to be part of it. There are loads of reasons to love cycling, even if you’re not someone who cycles. From cutting pollution, to making us healthier and happier, cycling can help us all thrive.
The Cycle Access Fund (CAF) provides capital grant funding to organisations in Scotland to support the purchase and repair of cycles for use by individuals who would not otherwise have access to a bike. We’re looking for a highly organised and motivated Senior Project Officer to help manage this impactful project and ensure the effective dispersal of funding.
This is a collaborative role that will suit an organised, proactive individual with solid experience of using Microsoft Dynamics 365 to monitor and manage projects. Managing external stakeholders and multiple grant applications is a key part of ensuring the continued success of this programme, so strong prioritisation skills are essential.
If you are enthusiastic about supporting communities and improving access to cycling, we want to hear from you!
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