Circle is a children and families charity working at the heart of communities across central Scotland. Our purpose is to improve the lives of children by strengthening families.

Circle’s approach builds on strengths, is solution focussed and uses a whole family approach to create a family environment that promotes healthy development in children.

We are looking for a full-time Fundraising Officer to join our Fundraising Team. The individual will play a key role in:

• Income maximisation with a focus on events, corporate and individual fundraising.

• Raising the profile of Circle with a focus on internal and external communications and social media content.

Key Responsibilities:

• Event Fundraising: Develop and lead on events (e.g., Circle’s annual DARED challenge, Edinburgh Marathon Festival, Kiltwalk) to maximise income. Opportunity to plan, develop & lead a bespoke fundraising event.

• Individual Fundraising: Lead Circle’s work in engaging with different communities, including supporters, community groups and businesses to encourage support for Circle’s work (e.g. Youth Philanthropy Initiative and CAF Donors).

• Corporate Fundraising: Research and development to conclusion of corporate partnerships (e.g. Charity of the Year) and develop corporate sponsorship packages for bespoke events.

• Communications: Raise awareness of Circle’s work through internal and external communications (e.g., social media).

We’re looking for candidates who have experience in community engagement and fundraising event managing, as well as, skilled in social media and content creation.

We offer excellent staff benefits including a competitive salary, generous pension contribution, flexible working, an employee assistance programme, and generous annual leave. We are committed to finding the right people for the jobs that we advertise.

Circle is a children and families charity working at the heart of communities across central Scotland. Our purpose is to improve the lives of children by strengthening families.

Circle’s approach builds on strengths, is solution focussed and uses a whole family approach to create a family environment that promotes healthy development in children.

Offering individual support across Edinburgh to birth parents who have a child who is permanently fostered, adopted or in kinship care.

The post is funded for 1 year.

We have an exciting opportunity for a committed and skilled practitioner to join our Harbour Team and be part of our Sparrow Service, a city-wide partnership with Stepping Stones North Edinburgh and the City of Edinburgh Council.

Funded by Scottish Government, and administered by Corra Foundation, Sparrow aims to improve support for birth parents, reduce the likelihood of repeat care proceedings and improve professional knowledge and understanding of the needs of birth parents.

The post holder will work alongside a worker from Stepping Stones North Edinburgh and provide one to one holistic support to birth parents in Edinburgh.

A qualification in social work, social care, health or education is required.

We offer excellent staff benefits including a competitive salary, generous pension contribution, flexible working, an employee assistance programme and generous annual leave.

We are committed to finding the right people for the jobs that we advertise.

The Yard is an award-winning charity that runs adventure play services for disabled children, young people and their families in Scotland. Since we opened in 1986, our services have grown significantly, but we will always retain our holistic approach and ethos of child-centred and child-led play services.

As part of our fast-paced Office and Facilities team, you will be working together to provide a welcoming, friendly, positive and efficient service to our external members and internal colleagues.

With a wide range of shared responsibilities, no two days will be the same and you’ll thrive on multitasking, thinking creatively, and finding 'the Yardie way' to deliver excellent service.

You’ll not only cover our Reception and provide first class back office administrative support, you’ll also help us manage health and safety, hospitality, procurement and day to day maintenance across our whole organisation.

The Yard is all about adventures, why not join us and yours could start here. In return, you will be working with a values-led organisation where your colleagues are committed to delivering our purpose.

We offer regular development, flexible working and a culture where we strive for each person to be recognised for their contribution

Do you want to be a part of an award-winning team? We have vacancies for dynamic, enthusiastic, creative and organised individuals to join our team.

This is a permanent position.

This role requires you to provide administration support to the CEO, therapy and family support teams. You should ideally have experience of office management, experience of working with excel, word, client information system/databases, social media and website posting. You must have great people skills and be able to communicate effectively with families and professionals over the phone offering reassurance as required.

We can offer a flexible working pattern, within core business hours, the post is required to be based at our office in Edinburgh.