Senior Service Designer-Scotland Team
- Full time or Part time
- £47,000 – £52,000
- Working remotely from home in Scotland, occasionally co-working spaces, with business travel subject to current safety restrictions.
- Closing 11th May 2022
- Advertised from 12th April 2022
- Start date: Ideally by Summer 2022. Salary: Depending on experience and qualifications up to £47,000-52,000 pro-rata. Hours of work: Flexible: 4 days per week (28 hours), or full time (35 hours per week) 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 curious about the possibilities of integrating Design with social research and systems thinking?
Dartington Service Design Lab is an internationally respected research and design charity focussed on using evidence and design in innovative ways to help those working with children and young people to 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 a Senior Service Designer. We are looking for the successful candidate to be based in Scotland to support our dedicated Scottish team to do meaningful work in the Scottish context, as well as working on projects across the UK.
The Senior Designer will enjoy a varied and independent role spanning public system reform, service design, co-design with young people and place-based systems change related to services for children and families. The role involves collaboration and support for the growing Design team. It also involves working in an inter-disciplinary and collaborative way with the Senior Management, Research and Communications teams to continue to develop methods to integrate Design with evidence-informed social science, research and systems thinking approaches.
The work is rarely routine and the successful candidate would have the opportunity to make the role their own. We are often experimenting and trying to innovate together and with those who we work with. We value empathy, collaboration and community participation, with a focus on using evidence for social good.
We need a Senior Service Designer who is able to take a leading role on Design and related projects, provide support to colleagues and actively grow our Design culture. We are seeking a Designer with at least 3-5 years’ experience, this may be directly in service design or in a related field, ideally within the social sector, and with experience using evidence and research processes.
Key responsibilities are included in the job description document.
We value curiosity, collaboration, rigor and practicality. As a team, this looks and feels like a creative team who share ideas and inspiration daily; a team who celebrates each other’s successes, and shares the load when work is challenging; a team who is committed to advancing the highest standards through learning and evolving our practices; a team that focuses on the impact of our work and the difference we can make.
Our approach to design is intentional, relational and evidence-enriched. We work in complex environments with people actively working to improve the life changes of children, young people, their carers and communities. Our design work is grounded by social purpose, robustness of practice, anti-racist approaches to design and a culture of learning and improvement. We are currently strengthening our design team, and this role has the opportunity to shape both design strategy and practice at Dartington.
We operate remotely across the 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 are committed to supporting the health, wellbeing and professional development of all of our staff and offer a modest additional and very flexible individual allowance to contribute to this investment.
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 are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences, including lived experience, and abilities.
Application notes
To apply, please visit dartington.org.uk/vacancies
Application timetable:
Wed 11th May at 23.59: Close
Thu 12th May 2022: Shortlisting
23-25th May 2022: Interviews
6th June 2022: 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.
Top job! Head of Business Development & Grants
- Full time
- £50,450
- Glasgow (Hybrid)
- Closing 2nd May 2024
Do you have a passion for developing funding opportunities to make a difference? Are you a natural leader who is skilled in managing a team who play an important part in organisational success? If so, we have a great opportunity for you to join Quarriers as Head of Business Development & Grants.
Your new opportunity
Quarriers have a rare and exciting opportunity for a Head of Business Development & Grants to work in partnership with our Associate Directors and Operational Managers to identify opportunities and develop new and existing services. You will manage and work closely with the Business Development & Grants team leading and implementing development strategies to support growth and funding for the overall organisation. You will play a key part in liaising with internal and external stakeholders and overseeing tender and funding opportunities including submissions.
As the Head of Business Development & Grants you will closely monitor and track potential tender opportunities including managing a portfolio of grants and funding aligned with department income and expenditure against budget and set targeted income.
This is a full-time permanent role working 35 hours per week (Monday – Friday) in line with our agile working policy, which blends home-working with office time and service visits.
What you will need to bring to the role
- Proven experience and understanding of implementing and managing business development strategies ideally within the social care/healthcare sector.
- An understanding of social care/healthcare service design.
- Skills in managing risk and business development with an understanding of the Grant funding landscape and innovative practice.
- Excellent IT knowledge and experience in using database systems.
- Extensive knowledge and experience at a senior level in a complex organisation.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and organisational skills to support strict deadlines and work in partnership with internal and external stakeholders.
- Previous experience of managing a team and delivering positive results.
- Driving licence is essential
What’s in it for you?
- Substantial holiday entitlement.
- Generous workplace pension.
- Family-friendly working policies and procedures.
- Life Assurance.
- Wider benefits including our Employee Assistance Programme, free physiotherapy & occupational health support.
Quarriers have Investors in People Platinum accreditation and are a Scottish Living Wage Employer
About Us
Quarriers is one of Scotland’s leading social care charities. We provide practical care and support for vulnerable children, adults and families who face extremely challenging circumstances. We challenge poverty and inequality of opportunity to bring about positive changes in people’s lives.
Top job! Operational Manager
- Full time
- £65,874 – £69,075
- The role is based in Glasgow with responsibility for designated regional services across Scotland and requires regular travel across the locality (On site)
- Closing 29th April 2024
At Key and Community Lifestyles, we provide person-centred support to over 2,000 disabled people, across 17 Scottish local authorities, to enable them to lead full, active lives in their own homes and communities.
We are recruiting a new Operational Manager to join our small senior team with responsibility for our services across Scotland. This role requires an exceptional leader who has a passion for developing high quality, outcome focused, personalised support to disabled people of all ages. You will work alongside local Area Managers, supporting them to develop and deliver great services for people we support. You will also lead on strengthening relationships with commissioners and partners in those areas with a focus on building our reputation for creative, flexible, and reliable support.
You will have substantial experience of management at a senior level in social services, with a proven track record in supporting continual improvement, innovation, and creative service design. Resilience, compassion, and kindness will be hallmarks of your approach, along with a strong focus on people and outcomes.
About Aberlour …
Aberlour is Scotland’s leading children’s charity. Our strategy is to be bold and brave, to ensure that every child in Scotland has an equal chance.
As an organisation we are ambitious to deliver real and lasting change for children, young people and families. Our reach and impact has grown exponentially over the last few years and we are proud of the impact we have had. We recognise however that there is more to do – child poverty is deepening, the fiscal pressures are increasing and in some areas the implementation gap is widening. We are committed to continuing to doing all we can to make the greatest difference to children and families.
That’s why we are investing in a strategic lead who will deliver on our vision and ambition. This new leadership role work will work alongside key partners to- lead Policy into Practice (The Promise, UNCRC), extend and deepen our impact, create new opportunities for change and design services with and for children and families ensuring they get the right help and support for as long as it takes.
What we are looking for...
A confident, values driven and inspiring leader who can create a vision and build strong strategic partnerships.
A leader with extensive experience in social care, ideally Children’s Services, who can confidently manage complexity and a range of different service types to help Aberlour develop our continuum of care model.
A changemaker who can create new opportunities –
- who can help and support senior operational managers design new services to meet the needs of children, young people and families across Scotland, while also provide strategic oversight of the evaluation and impact of services, sharing learning and helping put policy into practice.
- who can relentlessly focus on creating opportunities for and with children and families.
Please see the job description on our website for further details about the role.
What we offer...
As well as a supportive team, we want all our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, an excellent employer pension scheme, life assurance worth 3x salary and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers.
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