- Advertised from 9th January 2024
- Permanent role, 35.75 hours a week, Monday to Friday.
Role
As one of the largest leisure employers in Scotland, we manage over 50 sports and leisure facilities across the city enabling people to get active and stay active. As a charitable trust, every penny goes into taking care of the health and well-being of Edinburgh.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Funding Officer to join our dynamic team and help support the growth of our fundraising activities.
In this impactful and exciting role, you will be responsible for:
- Supporting the Head of Funding in developing, managing, and administering our fundraising activity, focusing on fundraising events, trusts and grants to effectively engage current and new supporters, volunteers, and staff.
- Researching and preparing applications and reports for small trusts, foundations, community grants, and corporate foundations maintaining and growing our trusts and grants pipeline.
- Collaborating with colleagues from various departments, helping them prepare strong cases for support by proactively defining programme outcomes, indicators, and measurement methods for the funded work.
- Encouraging supporters to take part in external challenge events and developing and delivering internal fundraising events, working with colleagues to prepare timetables, book resources, secure staff engagement and communicate plans.
Our ideal candidate will have:
- Demonstrable experience with fundraising activities such as trusts, grants, and events, with a proven track record of successfully securing funding and creating relevant, compelling content for fundraising propositions.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to clearly convey information and ideas to people at all levels of the organisation.
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail with the ability to create accurate written and verbal communications.
- Strong organizational skills, excellent decision-making and judgment capabilities with the ability to problem-solve and develop creative solutions.
- Sound keyboard skills, and the ability to work with a range of IT software/systems e.g., fundraising CRM systems, MS Office programs including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and SharePoint.
In return, we offer:
- Generous holiday allowance (32 days, rising with service up to 40 days)
- Paid sick leave
- Company pension
- Flexible working hours
- Opportunities for training, career growth and development
- Free membership across all our centres with access to fitness centres, gyms, and swimming pools
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Access to discounts with a huge number of retailers (saving money in cinemas, restaurants, clothing, and electronics shops, on insurance and healthcare and much more)
This is a hybrid role with time spent between our head office at Meadowbank, Edinburgh Leisure venues across the city and home working.
Application notes
For further information and to apply, please visit our website.
Closing date – 28th of January 2024
Assessment date – 5th of February 2024
Fundraising Officer
- Part time
- £24,785 pro-rata
- On site: Edinburgh or Highlands
- Closing 19th January 2026
We are recruiting a Fundraising Officer to join Held In Our Hearts, where you will play a vital role in helping to raise funds
that directly support families impacted by pregnancy, baby and infant loss.
This is a meaningful and varied role focused on building strong relationships with local communities, individuals, volunteers, and grassroots groups across Scotland. You will support colleagues to develop creative, accessible, and engaging fundraising activities that empower supporters and ensure sustainable income for our services.
We are seeking someone with warmth, empathy, initiative, and energy – someone who thrives on connecting with people, meeting targets, and inspiring communities to make a difference. This is a unique opportunity to be the local face of our work, fostering support and compassion in every interaction.
This role requires travel across Scotland to attend events and engagement opportunities, this will also result in some weekend and evening work, for which time off in lieu will be given.
FearFree Support Worker
- Full time
- £24,570 – £25,077
- Hybrid: Edinburgh - Remote work plus some face to face (depending on location)
- Closing 31st December 2025
FearFree is the only male and LGBT+ domestic abuse victim support service in Scotland and continues to be recognised as the only person-centred support service in Scotland available for male and LGBT+ victims of domestic abuse. This is particularly important given the steep rise in reported domestic abuse incidents over the recent years.
We are looking for candidates who have experience of working with individuals who have experienced domestic abuse. You must also have experience of working with vulnerable people from diverse backgrounds as well as an excellent understanding of the effects and issues facing those who have experienced domestic abuse. You will need to be an effective communicator, highly organised and have effective casework management skills.
You will work closely with other partners and agencies and be expected to ensure the continued development of good partnership working.
Membership of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme is a requirement this post.
We particularly welcome applicants from the LGBT+ community for this post.
Sacro values diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community
To work within Crew’s Counselling Team providing trauma-informed drug counselling and a range of psychosocial interventions to support people wishing to address their consumption of psychostimulant drugs and other substances. To reduce harm and the incidence of physical and mental health problems associated with the consumption of psychostimulant drugs. Some counselling may be by telephone or the NHS Attend Anywhere secure platform.
Major Activities and Responsibilities:
- To provide trauma-informed drug counselling and evidence-based psychosocial interventions to support clients who wish to address their consumption of psychostimulant drugs and other substances.
- To take on a complex client caseload and work collaboratively with supervising psychologist to support clients presenting with underlying trauma and/or mental health difficulties and problematic substance consumption.
- To co-ordinate additional support and signpost clients who would benefit from specialist support by liaising with relevant services.
- To commit to working in a trauma-informed way and to undertake any further training to meet this requirement.
- To organise own case load and co-ordinate counselling and other appointments.
- To provide assessment appointments for clients entering the service and recovery-oriented support sessions for clients on the waiting list if and when required.
- To work constructively and supportively with the Crew Counselling Team.
- To contribute to the monitoring, evaluation and on-going development of the service.
- To liaise with other agencies and stakeholders if and when required.
- To undertake any other duties as requested by the Crew Counselling Coordinator or CEO
Chair and Trustee Recruitment
- Management Board
- Unpaid
- Hybrid/Remote: Edinburgh
- Closing 16th January 2026
Arts Culture Health & Wellbeing Scotland (ACHWS) are looking to recruit a new Chair and several new Trustees to join our Board of Trustees in 2026.
If you are passionate about the role of arts and culture in health and wellbeing outcomes, want to help shape the future of culture and health collaboration in Scotland, support the engagement with the growing membership and make a difference at a local and national level, we’d love to hear from you.
ACHWS is Scotland’s national network linking together, advocating for and supporting those working at the interface of arts, culture, health and wellbeing in Scotland. We seek to advance health and wellbeing in Scotland through the promotion and practice of arts and cultural work across a range of health, social, cultural, care and community contexts. Our vision is for arts and culture to be recognised as transformative to health and wellbeing and accessible to everyone in Scotland.
Applications are welcome from across Scotland with option to join meetings by Zoom with in-person attendance at one meeting per year and board away day. Travel, accommodation and childcare expenses are available for all meetings for those who live outwith Edinburgh, as well as support with access requirements and reasonable adjustments.
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