We are looking for a Youth Engagement Officer to play a critical role in making sure that young carer and young adult carer voices are heard. We are looking for a creative, inclusive worker who is equally comfortable working directly with young people, as they are telling truth to power.

This important role will support a diverse range of young people, delivering and supporting young carers and young adult carers to engage in the Scottish Youth Parliament, the media and other key stakeholders.

In this role you will be responsible for the development and delivery of our flagship event, the Scottish Young Carers Festival. Working with our partners at Scottish Government, you will design an event programme for over 500 young carers and their workers. This will include activities in consultation, wellbeing and information, and most importantly, be lots of fun.

To have an informal chat about the role please feel free to contact Nicola Bell at scotland@carers.org.

About Iriss

Iriss supports people, workers and organisations to make social work and social care support work better through evidence based innovation. Iriss is a charity that works across Scotland and our principal funder is the Scottish Government.

About the role

The Finance Officer ensures the smooth running of Iriss’s finances, including bookkeeping, invoicing, purchasing, budgeting, grant claims and audit.

Who we are looking for

We are looking for someone who can help keep Iriss running smoothly and efficiently:

• Analysis: You can analyse financials to explain why budgets have over or underspent and what the forecast going forward is.
• Organisation: You will be able to work within structures and deadlines.
• Working in a team: We are a small, busy team that works hard to make best use of everyone’s skills.
• Diplomacy and customer focus: We want everyone who comes into contact with Iriss to have a good experience. You are the kind of person who takes pride in doing excellent work and supporting others.

You will have skills and experience in:

• Bookkeeping: This should include keeping financial records and software (preferably XERO) up to date including invoicing and purchasing.
• Reporting and forecasting: You will have experience producing quarterly/yearly reports for senior management that include a year end forecast and producing draft budgets for the coming year.
• Working with Auditors: You will have experience working with external auditors to produce annual accounts.

You will have knowledge of:

• Financial procedures and systems including XERO, setting and reporting on budgets, payroll and pensions.
• Charity financial reporting.

A typical week in the role

In a typical week in the role, you might be doing the following:

• Updating XERO with the purchase invoices.
• Chasing a client for payment on an overdue invoice.
• Working with the Head of Resources to ensure a planned event is running on budget.
• Taking part in a project retrospective to understand more about Iriss’ work and ensure Iriss is financially stable.

Do you have proven experience of audio and copy typing, managing team diaries and setting up and maintaining filing systems, ideally in a legal service environment? Then join Shelter Scotland on a fixed-term contract as a Legal Secretary and you could soon be playing a vital support role within our Scottish Housing Law Service.

About Shelter Scotland

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet over a million people in Scotland struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change, with individuals, in communities, across society, and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

At Shelter Scotland we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent.

We have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter Scotland and welcome you on our journey to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.

About the Team

Based in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee, but serving all of Scotland, our Scottish Housing Law Service is funded by the Scottish Government and Scottish Legal Aid Board. It also receives income through legal aid casework. This particular role is based at our Edinburgh office.

About the role

As a Legal Secretary, you’ll be responsible for audio and copy typing, including the typing of legal documents, often to tight deadlines. We’ll also rely on you to manage the team's diaries and assist with the running of seminars and training activities by producing training notes and publicising and administrating the courses. Dealing with telephone and written enquiries from clients, lawyers or Shelter staff, providing a reception service, sorting the post, helping to produce financial information and opening and closing files on our case management CRM system – all are aspects of this interesting and varied role.

About you

To succeed, you’ll need a demonstrable relevant background and good written and verbal communication skills, including a professional telephone manner. Experience of financial procedures would be useful, but isn’t as essential as proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel, email and internet and the ability to deal confidentially and tactfully with sensitive information.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter Scotland helps over half a million people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help.

To find out more about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter Scotland please visit our website. Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.

Safeguarding is everyone’s business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

The U-Turn Peer Education Worker will support the U-Turn Peer Education Harm Reduction Service, which is to benefit young people 12 – 18 years old across South Lanarkshire. This service has been funded by NHS Lanarkshire, on behalf of the South Lanarkshire ADP.

The main focus of this service is Peer Education, with the added provision of one to one support and supervision for young Peer Educators. The service adopts an active citizenship approach when working with young people. There will be an expectation that the Peer Educators will work towards achieving qualifications through training and as a result of the work they undertake.

This service will target and focus on some of the most vulnerable young people (aged 12-18 years) living within South Lanarkshire.

The Peer Educators will be supported to deliver peer-led inputs across South Lanarkshire to other Young People and Young People focussed groups incorporate a harm reduction approach as well as a separate element of addressing stigma/language around drug and alcohol use.

In return for choosing to work for GCA, the benefits you will receive are:

• Very generous annual leave entitlement: full time employees start with an annual leave entitlement of 37 days (inclusive of 12 bank holidays) which increases to 38 days after 2 years, 40 days after 5 years and 42 days after 10 years length of service.
• 5 duvet days where employees may take time off at short notice.
• Death in service policy of 2 times salary.
• Cycle to work scheme where employees can save money on a new bike and spread the cost.
• Training and development commitment to help employees perform to the best of their abilities.

Organisation Profile:

GCA was founded in 1965 and is the oldest established Council on Alcohol in Scotland. GCA is a voluntary organisation working to reduce the harm caused by alcohol misuse through the provision of a range of high-quality advice, information, counselling, support, prevention and education and training services.