Communications Officer
- Full time
- £29,500 – £34,500
- Glasgow with regular travel throughout Scotland
- Closing 30th August 2021
- Advertised from 18th August 2021
Role
Scottish Recovery Consortium are looking for a pro-active, self-starter to join our small paid staff team. The successful post holder will be creative, co-operative and will relish the opportunity to Support, Represent & Connect recovery across the country.
This role is to support the effective communications of SRC, highlighting the impact of the recovery across Scotland. The role involves successfully planning and executing communication activity across multiple channels including social media, print and online marketing materials. This is a senior post in our organisation and requires a person who can act locally, regionally, and nationally with a strategic vision. All SRC staff work collectively with their organisational colleagues and our partners across Scotland.
You will be able to demonstrate your ability to work with lived experience volunteers, staff and strategic decision makers in order to deliver the following:
· The development and implementation of communication strategies and practise across SRC.
· Develop a comprehensive communications strategy for SRC to disseminate key messages to engage and promote recovery across all sectors, individuals in recovery and their families.
· Promote understanding of recovery in innovative ways, including stories of recovery that challenge stereotypes and stigma. Extensive consultation with those in recovery will be essential.
· Establish strong relationships with local and national media organisations.
· Increase recovery movement visibility to other online communities in Scotland.
· Manage and content curation on all SRC’s social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram).
· Manage & maintain the SRC organisational website.
· Ensure that the SRC’s online platforms are managed in line with both the SRC’s communication strategy, ethos and values and any other relevant legislation.
· Build online connections with recovery communities across Scotland and around the world.
· Develop and promote recovery principles and key messaging including development of information materials / resources, brand guidelines and website to ensure consistency and reach to those not in treatment services or mutual aid, including families.
If you think you have what we are looking for please contact our Chief Executive (Jardine Simpson) for an informal conversation on 0141 559 6933 about this exciting new role and to find out if our vision matches yours.
Application notes
Our deadline for applications for the position is close of business on Monday 30th August with a view to interviews being conducted on or around Thursday 9th September 2021.
For further information and to apply, please visit our website: scottishrecoveryconsortium.org/communications-officer
Senior Development Officer – Children and Young People
- Part time
- £33,173 – £36,011 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Glasgow
- Closing 23rd September 2024
The ALLIANCE is excited to be recruiting a Senior Development Officer – Children and Young People.
This role sits within the strategic aims and outcomes of the ALLIANCE. This includes an emphasis on the voice of lived experience, person centeredness and human rights. The ALLIANCE will be working with an increased focus on empowering disabled children and children living with long term conditions and their families to make Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC) work for them, the incorporation of the United Nations Rights of the Child into Scottish law, health and social care integration, the National Care Service and NHS recovery.
The successful candidate for this role should have:
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Excellent analytical skills and the ability to capture and convey findings effectively
- Strong, evidenced experience of developing resources
- Experience of facilitating accessible training and open exploratory discussions
- An understanding involvement of people with lived experience
- An understanding of GIRFEC policy and service landscape and United Nations Rights of the Rights of the Child
- Experience of partnership working
- An understanding of social research methods and evaluation principles and approaches
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team and on own initiative
- IT skills in word processing, spreadsheets, email and the internet
- Experience of organising and presenting at events
- Experience of managing a budget
As an ALLIANCE employee you will benefit from:
- 210 hours annual leave (equivalent of 30 days) pro rata
- 91 hours of public holidays (equivalent of 13 days) pro rata that can be taken flexibly
- Additional leave between Christmas and New Year
- Contributory pension scheme
- Open to flexible working (formal and informal)
- Hybrid working – opportunity to work from home for part of the week
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Enhanced sick pay
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Learning and development opportunities
- Time off in lieu
- Cycle Scheme
- Carer Positive Employer
The ALLIANCE is a healthy working lives employer and encourages a healthy work life balance and is happy to talk flexible working.
The ALLIANCE recognises that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. Even if you don’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our organisation feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.
NDR-UK is a charity and social enterprise dedicated to empowering clinicians and healthcare professionals with high-quality, evidence-based resources. Our materials are designed to support patient education, enable self-management, and improve overall health and well-being. We collaborate with dietitians, healthcare services, and other experts to meet the needs of patients and practitioners alike.
We are looking for a Development Officer to join our small, dedicated team to play a crucial role in advancing our strategic priorities. The ideal candidate will be committed to improving health outcomes and be ready to contribute to the success of our mission.
Do you want to join an innovative and collaborative Policy, Information and Communications Team? ASH Scotland is the place to come!
We are looking for a self-motivated and enthusiastic individual to complete our small team. You will aid in developing ASH Scotland’s evidence and lived experience informed policy positions through identifying and analysing policies related to tobacco control and public health improvement internationally, nationally and at community level in Scotland.
Through in-depth policy analysis, you will support our advocacy work which aims to reduce the harms caused by the use of tobacco and related products in Scotland and the delivery of a tobacco-free generation by 2034.
ASH Scotland (Action on Smoking and Health Scotland) is a Scottish health charity working for a Scotland free from the harm and inequality caused by tobacco and related products.
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Support Assistant
- Part time
- £24,598 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Glasgow office based with flexible working options
- Closing 27th September 2024
MND Scotland is the only charity in Scotland dedicated to supporting people with MND, their families, and friends.
Since being founded over forty years ago, MND Scotland has provided practical, financial and emotional support to anyone affected by MND whilst also funding essential research into finding effective treatments and a cure.
MND Scotland is funded entirely by donations and grants. The charity’s patron is Her Royal Highness, the Princess Royal.
Everything we do and the way that we do it puts the MND community at its core. As a Support Assistant, you will be the key point of contact for all support enquiries, playing a crucial role in ensuring that individuals affected by MND receive timely and compassionate assistance. The role will require working closely with all teams in Support Services including Advocacy, Welfare and Benefits, Wellbeing and Equipment and you will be expected to report into the Support Services Coordinator to provide appropriate support and cover.
You will help us Make Time Count.
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