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Engagement Manager

  • Full time
  • £33,570 – £34,552
  • Edinburgh
  • Closing 19th October 2023


  • Advertised from 6th October 2023
  • 35 Hours – Fixed Term for 22 months

Role

About Sight Scotland

For 230 years, Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland Veterans has been supporting people impacted by vision loss. We believe we play an important role in continually shifting the conversation around sight loss, and contributing to achieving a fair, equitable society. Over the years, we’ve seen a positive shift in expectations, with individuals and communities increasingly empowered to live lives the way they choose, free of discrimination.

And we’ve had to transform too, so that our services reflect the times we live in and meet the changing needs of the people we support. We’re now looking at how we continue to evolve, considering how we contribute now and what we could do differently in the future.

We work with charities across our sector to make sure people with sight loss have access to the right resources, when they need them. But what makes us unique is:

  • Together, Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland Veterans is the largest Scottish charitable organisation that supports people impacted by vision impairment.
  • We’re the only Scottish vision impairment charities that fund medical research into eye health.
  • We’re the only Scottish vision impairment charities that have a dedicated policy and campaign team.
  • Our services span all age groups, including people born with a vision impairment, and those that acquire a vision impairment throughout their lives

These unique attributes of our organisation allow us to become something more than we have been up until this point.

About Visibility Scotland

Working locally and nationally, Visibility Scotland aims to affect positive change and improve outcomes for visually impaired people of all ages. We want to empower and encourage children and adults to focus on what they can do; not what they cannot.

What this job is about

Sight Loss Councils are led by blind and partially sighted volunteers and a consortium of charities made up of Sight Scotland, Sight Scotland Veterans, Visibility Scotland & Thomas Pocklington Trust. Sight Loss Council members use their lived experience to identify and tackle local and national issues to improve the accessibility of services. The work of Sight Loss Councils is driven by three key priority areas: employment and skills, health and well-being, inclusive communities.

For this role we are particularly seeking someone who not only is passionate about the cause, but who is blind or partially sighted themselves, with the ability to use their experience to be an effective voice to influence the lives of blind and partially sighted people and create an effective change within Scotland.

Job overview

To deliver two area-based Sight Loss Councils in the Central Belt and Dumfries and Galloway by:

  • Engaging with blind and partially sighted people across the region making sure that their voices are represented and to respond to key issues and themes as they arise
  • Developing and implementing VI forums across the region
  • Leading on engagement with other sector partners and stakeholders to ensure a robust regional networks to successfully deliver all engagement project work

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