Do you love working with volunteers?

Are you inspired by matching their support with opportunities that will make a tangible positive impact on breaking the cycle of homelessness?

Are you good at gathering information and organising people?

If so, we would love to hear from you!

Social Bite is looking for someone special to join our team and to coordinate our volunteering programme.

You will come with experience of working with volunteers. You will help to deliver our services, campaigns and events – leading on volunteers’ recruitment, logistics, stewardship and communications. You will be playing a key part in helping to look after and grow our volunteers, ensure volunteering processes are smooth and efficient, and identify volunteering needs and roles. You will enjoy taking your own initiative but also working as a part of the team. You will be required to travel around our various locations. You will be resilient, always bringing a smile and can-do attitude to your work.

We need you to be:

• A person who has good knowledge and experience of working with volunteers in a professional capacity
• A person who understands barriers to volunteering that people in situation of homelessness might face
• A person who can quickly build strong relationships for developing effective internal relationships and partnerships with a range of stakeholders
• Flexible with willingness to learn
• Passionate about people with a drive to make a change.

The Veterans’ Foundation (VF), an armed forces’ charity, seeks a talented and enthusiastic Fundraising Assistant to work remotely with occasional travel throughout the UK. What is the VF? The VF is a charity passionate about supporting the vulnerable veterans and it has paid out in grants over £21M since inception in 2016. It operates as an independent grant-making foundation offering targeted support to a broad range of charities and charitable organisations that support those in need among serving armed forces’ personnel, veterans, operationally qualified seafarers, and their immediate families.

Funded projects include those that tackle homelessness, increase employment, overcome poverty, and provide welfare and medical support. It also supports initiatives that increase confidence and social integration, as well as reducing dependence on alcohol and drugs.

The VF gives priority to well-run small and medium-sized charities and organisations in need of funds that help the target beneficiaries.

To date the majority of funds raised by the VF have come from the highly successful Veterans' Lottery (VL). However, individual donations are growing significantly and show potential for further development. We now need a member of staff to support the VF’s Fundraising Manager in building a broader fundraising base.

More information about the VF can be found at: veteransfoundation.org.uk.

A summary of the VF’s work can be seen here:Impact Film 2024

About the post

The position of Fundraising Assistant has been created to support the Fundraising Team with administrative tasks, working with our donors and volunteer fundraisers to raise funds. The postholder will work under the direction of the VF’s Fundraising Manager, as well as working closely with other team members in the VF and partner organisations.

You will be joining our Fundraising Team who attract funding from many sources, from individual donors to high profile corporate partners. The post holder for this role will work with the whole Fundraising Team at different times, providing administrative and operational support.

We are looking for someone with great people skills, as well as drive, initiative, and determination. You’ll be diligent and accurate, as well as having a dynamic approach to your work. You will be a natural problem-solver, always looking to improve upon current processes to ensure efficiency.

A full Job Description is available for download below.

STAND International

STAND International, through its learning centre, works with people in the UK and overseas to promote learning and understanding, and support practical structured learning opportunities for those who have experienced barriers to education and employment.

The acronym STAND comes from Start A New Day, denoting the idea that participating in projects allows participants to re-evaluate the opportunities they are presented with in life and to consider positive involvement in, and contributions to, their communities. Our learners have all experienced disadvantage in their lives, many of them through the care system, homelessness, substance use and other challenges.

Our learning programmes are delivered with partner organisations overseas and can lead to accredited qualifications. The projects support our learners to fulfil their potential, widen their horizons, and enhance their employment opportunities, whilst at the same time becoming more involved in an inclusive society.

Purpose of the Job:

This role will be accountable for developing and nurturing key strategic partnerships in the UK, as well as managing existing partners and connections.

To succeed in this role, you will need to be able lead from the front while ensuring you work as a key team member. As well as being able to build strong partnerships, you will have the ability to gather, analyse and use data to drive the Partnerships strategy forward.

Paths for All is a Scottish Charity. We have a very clear focus. We want to get Scotland walking: Everyone. Everyday. Everywhere. Our vision is for Scotland to be a walking nation. We want everyone to have the opportunity to be active every day, creating a happier, healthier and greener Scotland. A key element of this work involves significantly increasing the number of people who choose to walk in Scotland for both leisure and practical journeys.

The Development officer will work as part of a team delivering the Community Transition Fund, in a partnership between Tactran (Tayside and Central Scotland Transport Partnership) and Paths for All. This role will sit within Tactran and will support them with additional capacity to deliver. This will involve managing the quarterly reporting requirements from both a Tactran and a Transport Scotland perspective. The role will also be involved in the delivery of the co-design and networking elements of the programme.

If you’re looking for a new challenge in a varied role, and you’re interested in supporting communities to thrive and reducing health inequalities and working towards net-zero, we’d love to hear from you.

We offer the opportunity to be part of an organisation that recognises staff as our most valued asset. Attractive employment conditions include a contributory pension scheme and flexi-time policy.