This role is responsible for coordinating, monitoring and managing operational activities and service delivery for Bikes for Refugees (Scotland) and its two community Hubs in the West and East of Scotland. Supported by the CEO and the board of trustees, you will work on a variety of tasks and projects, including staff management, support and supervision; volunteer co-ordination and support; risk management; health & safety; implementation of policy and procedures; recruitment and induction; supporting the monitoring of expenditure and budgets; providing reports; project monitoring and evaluation; partnership working, and engaging with refugees and asylum seekers in the delivery of activities.

The post holder will be expected to maintain an excellent working knowledge of Bikes for Refugees (Scotland) programmes, policies, systems and procedures, particularly in relation to health and safety as the designated H&S officer.

You will maintain good working relationships with a variety of external stakeholders and partners.

You will be expected to travel between community hubs (Glasgow and Edinburgh) on a regular basis in the management and support of staff, overseeing of health and safety, and implementation and monitoring of activities. As Glasgow is our largest community hub with staffing, volunteers and demand for bikes you will be expected to be based in Glasgow at least 3 to 4 days per week.

If you are passionate about bikes and cycling; are an experienced people manager; have an interest in project coordination and development, and supporting disadvantaged groups, then this could be the job for you.

Community InfoSource (CIS) is looking for a key person with a passion for working within an organisation led by people seeking asylum and refugees, which works to help people seeking asylum to secure their rights and be empowered to support others. The Asylum Seeker Housing (ASH) Project Manager will ensure this well establish and highly respected project continues to achieve it’s aims. The person should be committed to a human rights ethos and to CIS’s values.

• An interview is guaranteed to anyone with lived experience of the UK asylum system who fulfils the essential criteria of the person specification.
• An interview is guaranteed to anyone with a disability who fulfils the essential criteria of the person specification.

The aim of this post: is to ensure the smooth running and effective operation of the ASH project in providing housing support to asylum seekers, maintaining project sustainability, including fundraising, and further developing CIS’s ability to bring positive change on housing for asylum seekers. is to provide support to the Board, to ensure the smooth running of the organisation.

Community InfoSource has secured funding for this post from two funders for 21 hours a week for a minimum of 1 year. Thereafter it is subject to successful fundraising. We are also negotiating an increase of one day a week for this post, for this year.

Responsible to: Chief Executive Officer

Responsible for: Staff in the ASH Project (3 others)

Phone: 07915 720 741 if you require more information about the post or wish to discuss it

*Notes: You will be required to travel Scotland-wide, with potential overnight stays aware from home with expenses paid.

We’re looking for Community Youth & Family Support Workers to join our Includem Response Team working across Scotland to support children, young people, and families, when they need it most.

You will manage your own caseload ensuring support plans are developed with the young person to respond to their individual needs and supporting them to improve outcomes in line with GIRFEC principles and the organisations model of support.

You will be expected to actively demonstrate leadership and ownership over effective service delivery to young people, by managing their outcomes through use of line managers, colleagues, and organisational tools, processes, policies and procedures.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Build relationships and deliver outcome-based support to young people and families, involving all key stakeholders.
• Explore values and attitudes with young people in a supportive manner.
• Ensure a focus on regular and appropriate case progression to help young people and families recognise progress.
• Actively participate in the delivery of the Helpline evening and night service so support is available 24/7.
• To support with crisis management and generate solutions for young people and families.
• To build relationships with Local Authorities with varying demands and priorities.
• To ensure support is delivered in line with organisations Policies Procedures, SSSC Codes of Practice & National Guidelines.

A full job description can be found below.

About you

As a Community Youth & Family Support worker, you will have experience of working with young people and engaging vulnerable young people and families who are likely to have faced challenging life circumstances.

You will also have:

• Experience of effectively engaging vulnerable young people and families.
• Experience of managing caseloads and influencing decision making.
• Experience of responding to difficult circumstances where people may be in crisis or engaged in risk taking behaviour.
• Able to provide emotional, practical and social support to young people and families.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Able to routinely evidence practice, including completion of formal reports.
• Reliable and committed to deliver the relationship-based model of intervention.

A UK driving license is an essential requirement to the role.

WorkingRite seeks to stop the cycle of deprivation and poverty that occur in so many communities across Scotland. We do this through our award-winning, youth employability programme, which sees practical work skills coupled with personal development, strengthened through a mentored work placement with a small, local business of the young person’s choice. Our flexible, person-centred programmes of training, support and work placements put the young people at the heart of their future, helping those 15 – 24 years old who are furthest from the job market, to gain confidence, real skills and a foothold on the employability ladder. We have been operating as a charity since 2011 and in that time have supported over 3,500 young people into a positive destination. We currently operate programmes in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Argyll & Bute, Aberdeen and East Ayrshire.

All this means it is a very exciting time to be joining WorkingRite.

This exciting role will support young people from different secondary schools across Glasgow to prepare for employment when they leave school. By delivering WorkingRite’s in-school model, Rite to Work, this post will work will support the delivery of small groups of young people in their last year at school to gain the confidence and skills they need to progress into jobs, apprenticeships or further vocational learning – or gain further support with WorkingRite’s post-16 work experience programme in local businesses. Working alongside WorkingRite Project Coordinators; this important post will enhance the experience of RTW participants.

We require a Rite to Work Employability Assistant who can:

• Support and progress participating young people

• Understand the challenges and barriers some participants may face

• Be comfortable in a group setting with RTW groups

• Engage and motivate young people in groups and 1:1

• Offer new and creative ideas

• Provide holistic and ongoing support to participants

• Work alongside the Project Coordinator in the delivery of the programme

You will be confident, have excellent communication skills with our young people, stakeholders and other partners and above all, you must be enthusiastic and want to support young people.

Applicants must be able to travel to schools within the South of Glasgow.