Are you motivated by the power of strong financial systems to support meaningful social change? Do you take pride in accuracy, clarity and well-organised processes that help an organisation thrive? MCR Pathways is looking for a diligent and proactive Finance Assistant to join our friendly and dedicated Finance team in Glasgow.

About the Role:

This role sits at the heart of our financial operations, ensuring we can continue delivering life-changing mentoring support to young people across the UK. As Finance Assistant, you will play a key part in maintaining accurate financial records, supporting smooth transactional processes, and ensuring the integrity of the data we rely on to make informed decisions.

Working closely with our Finance Director and Finance Manager, you will help keep our systems running efficiently, supporting both day-to-day activity and the wider mission of the organisation.

Key responsibilities:

• Ensure all invoices and expenses submitted through Dext are accurate before publishing to Xero, resolving any discrepancies and confirming correct coding and tax treatment.
• Complete regular bank reconciliations in Xero, matching transactions and promptly investigating variances.
• Keep supplier and customer contact records in Xero accurate and up to date.
• Prepare and set up payment batches for approval, ensuring invoices are correctly coded, authorised and processed in line with internal procedures.

About you:

• Experience working with Dext and Xero and online expense management systems.
• Confident handling day-to-day financial processes.
• Organised, with an eye for detail and accuracy, you take pride in keeping data clean, reliable and easy to navigate.
• Comfortable following established processes but also able to improve or update them when needed.
• You enjoy solving problems and can work independently, managing your workload efficiently and proactively.
• You communicate clearly and professionally, and you work well with others across different teams.

About MCR Pathways:

MCR Pathways is an award-winning charity established in Glasgow in 2007. Our mentoring programme is now delivered in schools across the whole of Scotland as well as South East and North East England. We are committed to helping young people gain self-confidence, identify their skills and recognise and fulfil their potential. Our vision is for all young people to experience equality of education outcomes, career opportunities and life chances. Our mentoring programme has profound impacts on school pupils in their confidence, wellbeing and post-school progression. MCR Mentors are volunteers who make and experience a life-changing difference.

You will be joining a friendly and supportive team who love what they do and enjoy working with each other. MCR Pathways’ values are Respect, Communication, Trust and Growth and they inform everything we do.

Benefits of working for MCR Pathways include: 33 days annual leave in first year rising to 38 days from 2nd year of employment, additional day off for your birthday, Living Pensions Employer, Life Assurance - 4 x salary.

Could you be part of something different? We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to use their gifts, skills and experience to make a difference to the lives of the people in our parishes and communities.

This role is an exciting opportunity for a passionate and committed youth worker to engage with children and young people within a school and church setting, providing spiritual, emotional, and social support. The successful candidate will play a key role in discipleship, community-building, and outreach, helping young people explore and develop their faith within the context of the Church of Scotland.

The successful candidate will be a committed Christian with an active Church connection (Genuine Occupational Requirement in terms of the Equality Act 2010).

It is essential you have the right to work in the UKbefore applying to work with us. You will be asked to provide proof of your eligibility to work and remain in the UK if you are invited to attend for an interview.

Are you looking for a role to develop your background in partnership working, identifying and developing funding opportunities and working with others to help them reach their potential?

CISWO is a national charity whose mission is to improve the lives of individuals and communities facing disadvantage due to the impact of the coal mining industry.

We are looking for a Development Manager with a range of skills and experience to support other mining charities develop a sustainable future. You will have a background in partnership working and developing funding opportunities, as well as a good understanding of charity governance.

This is a great opportunity for someone with experience in community development with a good knowledge of the charity sector.

Key Responsibilities:

• To provide support for mining charities across the Scotland Region with regards to development opportunities, sustainability, funding and governance issues.
• To support mining charities to develop business plans and budgeting.
• To contribute to the development of CISWO’s support offer for other mining charities, seeking new methods of supporting local trustees.
• To promote CISWO’s support offer, undertaking site visits to miners’ welfare charities and meeting with local charity officers.
• To support mining charities to identify funding opportunities and develop funding proposals.
• To develop local partnership working with other voluntary sector organisations, tiers of local government and local communities.
• To ensure that CISWO’s interests and responsibilities in partner charities are retained and fulfilled.
• To represent the organisation with external parties, including, welfare charities, councils and local authorities as required
• To promote the organisation’s work with welfare charities through a range of marketing activities.
• To provide training for local charity trustees and officers, encouraging and building good governance.
• Support the recruitment of local trustees for local mining charities.
• To produce high quality reports with regards to funding, activity monitoring and evaluation.
• To undertake monitoring and reporting regarding the work undertaken with welfare charities
• To participate in personal development opportunities and develop such opportunities for team members to facilitate a learning and development culture in the region
• To work within a flexible framework in order to meet the demands of the service which may include outside the usual 9-5 hours and considerable travel.
• To undertake any other duties as requested and reasonable to the post.

Skills/Qualifications/Experience:

Essential:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Experience of community development and / or business development.
• Experience of building positive relationships with a range of stakeholders including at a community level.
• Experience of identifying and applying for funding on a national, regional, or local level.
• Understanding of business planning and budgets.
• Proven experience of working in the charity sector with a good understanding of governance requirements and the challenges facing the sector.
• Proven experience in building confidence and a positive reputation with stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral with the ability to influence and engage with a wide range of partners.
• Excellent IT skills using a range IT packages including databases.
• Evidence of ongoing personal development and participation in learning opportunities.
• Ability to be self-motivated, with good personal organisational and time management skills.
• Good judgement and logical decision-making ability
• Ability to resolve problems in a proactive, practical and positive manner
• Ability to take initiative with a practical, ‘hands on’ approach to work
• A valid driving licence and access to a vehicle.
• Flexibility to travel across a wide geographic area with occasional overnight stays

Desirable:

• Experience of designing and delivering training
• Knowledge and understanding of the issues facing former mineworkers and mining communities

This job description is not exhaustive but reflects the major tasks to be carried out by the jobholder and identifies the level of responsibility at which the jobholder will be required to work. This job description may be subject to review and/or amendment at any time to reflect the requirements of the job.

The Presbytery of Lothian and Borders ( Presbytery of Lothian and Borders ) offers an exciting opportunity for someone who is visionary, approachable and passionate about mission and the work of, and reform in, the Church of Scotland and who is willing to help shape Presbytery to best serve God and its communities.

The Presbytery was established on 1 January 2023 when the former Presbyteries of Duns, Jedburgh, Lothian and Melrose and Peebles came together as part of the reform programme established by the General Assembly.

Currently the Presbytery consists of 86 congregations in 57 charges; however as we continue to implement our Mission Planning process this may change. We have developed a set of planning principles in order to bring one cohesive Presbytery plan into being.

The successful candidate will lead a team consisting of a part-time Administrator and a full-time Mission officer as well as working closely with the Buildings Officer appointed by both the Presbytery and the General Trustees. We are seeking an individual who will bring experience of the Church of Scotland, inspirational leadership and flexibility on working practices to respond to the changing needs of our presbytery. The Presbytery Clerk is a key support to those serving in our parishes, such as Ministers, Deacons, MDS, Readers and voluntary office bearers.

The successful candidate will be expected to live within the bounds of the new Presbytery to facilitate an understanding of the needs of the people we serve.

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