As the General Manager (GM) of The Ecology Centre, you will have the opportunity to make a real difference and impact at an operational level for the benefit of the community and the environment. You will take a strategic lead in developing and sustaining the organisation's community-facing services, activities, volunteering, fundraising, and external partnerships, working closely with the Board of Trustees, our staff and our membership base. Building on our current strengths, you will lead our competent teams and our growing number of volunteers to deliver a wide range of grant-funded projects and income-generating activities, including, but not limited to, trading from The Nest Café and the employability pipeline in Fife.

A full Job Description and Person Specification is available for download below.

Start Up Stirling has been helping those in hardship in the Stirling Council Area since 1994.

We need a part time Warehouse Assistant to work alongside our Facilities manager to process the food donations that we receive, identifying stock shortages as they arrive and helping our volunteer teams to ensure our packs are ready for all those we support.

Responsible to: Facilities Manager

Overall responsibility of the job: To lead a team of volunteers to ensure that all our hubs are stocked with the supplies needed; to coordinate effective stock control in the warehouse and arrange timely transportation of collections and deliveries, while meeting legislative standards - i.e. Health & Safety/Environmental Health.

Specific responsibilities:

• Support the Facilities Manager by providing reports on stock levels and requirements and any concerns about the day-to-day operation

• Ensure that all warehousing processes and procedures are followed

• Take responsibility for the building, its contents, and security of the warehouse

• Work with Foodbank Co-ordinator to prepare food packs for our foodbank and rural clients

• Manage the loading and unloading of the van, deliver and pick up supplies and manage a rota of volunteer drivers

• Coordinate and support the volunteer team at the warehouse

• Coordinate the day-to-day running of the warehouse including sorting, packing, stock rotation, monitoring stock requirements, issuing stock, maintaining accurate records, and disposal of unsuitable items

• Assist with Health and Safety, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements and good practice

• Monitor stock levels and liaise with the Manager about specific shortages and requirement and take responsibility for the ordering and purchase of stock

• Ensure that all warehouse paperwork is stored securely and passed on regularly to the admin volunteer/team for entering onto the data collection system

Person Specification

Experience

• Previous warehouse experience an advantage

• Observing relevant regulations, including manual handling and health and safety

• Working as part of a team

Key Skills:

• Good oral communication

• Driver with clean licence

• Ability to work independently and unsupervised

• Ability to carry out manual work

• Numerate and comfortable interpreting statistical data

• Empathy and ability to work with people from disadvantaged, marginalised, or socially excluded backgrounds

Personal attributes:

• Passionate about tackling poverty

• Honesty and integrity

Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each service user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options.

Our core values are ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’ and our team members apply these daily to achieve our mission of helping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.

We are currently recruiting an Administrator to join our busy CGL service in Forth Valley. As well as undertaking administrative tasks, this post will involve daily meeting and greeting of all service users and visitors to the service so having a friendly and courteous manner is essential.

About the role

• Working front of house in the service reception area
• Greeting and managing external visitors/professionals, ensuring they are signed in and out of the building
• Managing the reception area to ensure we are providing a confidential environment
• Discussing what support the service offers
• Liaising with staff to ensure service users needs are met
• Greeting service users as they attend and notifying the appropriate member of staff they are here, signposting to other services, advising of upcoming appointments
• Navigating our case recording system to ensure we are recording all conversations and presentations at the service
• Capturing servcie data in support of Data Analyst
• Managing local input to National Data Systems

About you:

• Knowledge of general office procedures
• IT literacy including proficiency in word processing, excel spreadsheets and data entry
• Good interpersonal skills and a willingness to work flexibly as part of a team
• The ability to respond to appropriate requests for assistance, maintaining confidentiality whenever necessary
• Solid numeric skills
• Good organisational skills
• Confident and effective communication skills, both verbally and in writing
• A professional, empathetic and non-judgmental attitude towards service users
• The ability to respond flexibly to the demands of the post
• The ability to work as a member of a team

What we will give to you:

• 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service
• Flexible working arrangements
• Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme
• Contributory pension scheme
• A great selection of benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
• A friendly and supportive team
• Training, career development & progression opportunities

If this sounds like you and you’d like to begin your journey with Change Grow Live, then we’d love to talk to you.

Concrete Garden are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced youth worker for its Outdoor Play project in Possilpark, Glasgow.

This post will form part of a dedicated team of Outdoor Play and Learning Youth Workers who enrich and expand outdoor child-led play and learning in the Possilpark community. Outdoor Play and Learning is all about playing outdoors, but the right candidate will also find themselves involved in supporting children and young people to cook and eat together, build fires, make dens, climb trees, and use the nature around them to create art or design and build new playful structures.

We are keen to hear from people who are passionate about free play, community participation, promoting the rights of children and young people, and striving to create positive radical change through grassroots movements.

In return for choosing to work with Concrete Garden, we will offer:

• Generous annual leave entitlement of 38 days (inclusive of bank holidays and pro-rata’d)
• Regular supervision and reflection team meetings
• Training opportunities available depending on personal development needs

For more information about the role, please see the Job Description document.

Concrete Garden is an urban community providing growing space, outdoor play, activities, events, and volunteering opportunities for the people of Possilpark and the wider North Glasgow area. We work alongside local folk to create a healthier, happier Possilpark by creating opportunities to grow, work, socialise, play, and learn together.

Concrete Garden charity began in 2010 with our flagship site at the St Matthew’s Centre. Since then, the organisation has grown to a second site – the ‘Back Garden’ – behind Possilpark Health & Care Centre.

Concrete Garden is a registered charity: No. SC043154.