By joining Scottish Huntington’s Association (SHA) as a Community and Events Fundraising Officer you can play a full and active role in securing income to improve the lives of families impacted by Huntington’s disease.

Scottish Huntington’s Association is the only charity in the country exclusively dedicated to providing expert and personalised support for those impacted by Huntington’s disease when they need it, regardless of where they live.

Organised, motivated and a confident communicator, you’ll be responsible for driving income and building relationships throughout the West Coast of Scotland, to ensure we have the funds needed to deliver our specialist services for every family impacted by this devastating disease. We welcome applicants from a variety of backgrounds including (but not limited to) account management, marketing, fundraising, event management, or sales, and candidates who live permanently in any of the following areas: Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire or Ayrshire.

From supporter stewardship, event management, delivering inspiring presentations, and managing volunteers, no week will be the same. The Community and Events Fundraising Officer (West Coast of Scotland) will be joining a hard-working and talented fundraising team, working closely with our Head of Income Generation and Senior Community, Event & Individual Giving Fundraising Officer, as well as our Community and Events Fundraising Officer (East Coast of Scotland), our Communications team and the wider SHA team.

We are looking for an engaging, passionate and tenacious person who can deliver strong, cost effective and sustainable income growth for the charity, along with excellent and engaging copy writing skills, proficient admin and organisational skills, experienced at developing professional relationships and can manage a busy and varied workload. This is a chance for you to channel your varied skills, qualities, and passion for relationship building to improve the lives of families impacted by Huntington’s disease in Scotland.

In line with our commitment to safeguarding, this role is subject to a Basic Disclosure check. SHA is committed to equality of opportunity and to providing a service that is free from unfair and unlawful discrimination. We therefore aim to ensure that no applicant, volunteer, or member of staff is unfairly treated on the grounds of offending background.

As we offer flexible working, this role benefits from a hybrid work model, home and office working.

There will be periodic travel required throughout the West Coast of Scotland to attend fundraising events, presentations and there will also be occasional travel required for organisation-wide meetings.

This role will require occasional weekend and evening working for which time off in lieu will be agreed.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer benefits including flexible working practices and a generous leave allowance totalling 37 days (25 days Annual leave and 12 days public holidays). Upon 4 completed years of service, you will receive an extra day for each completed year up to a maximum of 5 days, and the opportunity to opt into our competitive pension scheme.

This is an exciting time for the charity, now in the second year of Standing Tall: A Strategy For Growth 2023 - 2028 to transform the care and support of Huntington’s families, expand specialist services and deepen involvement in research and clinical trials.

Division: Income Generation

Responsible to: Senior Fundraising Officer (Head of Income Generation During Maternity Leave)

About Scottish Huntington’s Association

People impacted by Huntington’s disease need specialist services to cope with a severe and complex disease, its impact on families, and a lack of awareness amongst health and social care providers and the wider public.

Scottish Huntington’s Association is the only charity in the country exclusively dedicated to providing expert and personalised support for those impacted by Huntington’s disease.

Our personalised support reduces unnecessary hospital admissions, supports carers and other family members; lowers household poverty; and alleviates wellbeing risks to children and young people living in Huntington’s families.

We are commissioned by NHS Boards and Health and Social Care Partnerships throughout the country to share our expertise with front-line staff and build support for improved services and higher standards of care for every family impacted by this devastating disease. Scottish Huntington’s Association plays a full and active role in attracting the global research community to Scotland to work in partnership with us to improve the lives of families impacted by Huntington’s disease.

If you wish to apply to join a values-driven organisation, founded by families for families and recognised at national and international levels for its expertise and support delivered through a nationwide network of Huntington’s Disease Specialists, Specialist Youth Advisors, and Financial Wellbeing Officers, please follow the application notes below.

RSPB Scotland is a leading nature conservation charity dedicated to protecting Scotland's wildlife and natural habitats.

We are looking for a Fundraising Officer to join our Fundraising Team in Scotland to help generate and maximise income from external funding sources (mainly charitable trusts and grants). This role is based in Scotland but flexible - The ideal candidate will be home-based unless there is a need for a reasonable adjustment.

Role involves:

• Researching and identifying potential funding opportunities and matching these with agreed priority work
• Writing compelling fundraising applications, as well as detailed and accurate evaluation reports and grant claims
• Collating relevant financial information for both funding applications and grant claims
• Communicating with project partners and other charities to share knowledge and experiences
• Accurately recording income and donor communications on a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system

The ideal candidate would have excellent writing skills as well as an attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple tasks. Fundraising is a dynamic area of work and an ability to re-prioritise workloads to meet tight deadlines is essential. The successful candidate must also be confident in building and developing strong relationships, both externally with funders and internally with RSPB staff from other departments and nature reserves, whom you will work with to draft applications and updates to funders.

This role is primarily responsible for fundraising to enable work undertaken by RSPB Scotland, and as such the successful candidate will ideally be based in Scotland. This role will be home-based; but will involve some infrequent travel to offices and reserves across Scotland.

Essential skills, knowledge and experience:

• Excellent writing skills in multiple formats and writing styles – experience in writing persuasive and compelling fundraising applications is desirable
• Ability to communicate confidently and professionally over email and phone, and develop good working relationships with both internal teams and external funders and partners
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Excellent organisational and time management skills with the ability to prioritise work and meet tight deadlines
• Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities, often at short notice
• Capability to work both within a team environment and independently
• Strong numeracy skills – experience working with budgets is desirable
• Excellent data management skills are a necessity for this role, as you’ll be recording data on Customer Relationship Management systems (CRM’s)
• Competent user of the full suite of Microsoft Office programmes
• Awareness of, and interest in, the challenges facing the natural world

Dementia Friendly East Lothian is committed to supporting people living with dementia and unpaid carers to have connected and meaningful lives; to exercise their rights, have choices and be respected and valued citizens.

What we do is determined by people living with dementia and unpaid carers with a focus on peer led support, dementia enabled communities and coming together as a community to share ideas and influence the things we care about. Our work led to the establishment of the Musselburgh Meeting Centre which we opened in April 2023. We are developing the Meeting Centre approach across East Lothian as part of the East Lothian Dementia Strategy. Musselburgh Meeting Centre is a ‘hub’ with an important role as a resource for practice and learning.

About the job:

We are looking for an experienced administrator to join our small and enthusiastic team to provide essential administrative support to both Dementia Friendly East Lothian's direct work with people living with dementia and the communities in which they live and to the critical behind the scenes work which makes everything else work. You will support the development of the existing administrative and financial processes and

design and initiate new processes as required. This role will work directly to both the CEO/founding Director and to the Musselburgh Meeting Centre Manager.

Main duties:

Management of finance

• Manage the quickbooks accounting system

• Set up routine payments and authorisation of payments in banking system

• Manage the application for and retrieval of all banking cards

• Process and record invoices and expenses claims, checking for accuracy

• Issue receipts for all income received.

• Ensure up to date, accurate financial information is available to the CEO, Directors and Musselburgh Meeting Centre Manager in line with agreed financial procedures to support grant reporting and applications.

• Manage and maintain the petty cash system, checking and coding transactions and preparing period end documentation and reconciliation.

Provide efficient general office administration

• Respond to enquiries and incoming mail/emails, ensuring appropriate redirection or action.

• Communicate in a professional manner with a range of people within and out with DFEL to provide information and signpost to the right person.

• Filing - support the management of DFEL filing systems. Implement daily, weekly, and monthly routines in filing.

• Monitor and manage stock and other DFEL assets.

• Research and obtain quotes from range of organisations and companies to support the work of DFEL

• Manage the administration of corporate services such as renewing IT licenses, insurance policies, servicing agreements, PAT testing and arranging for repairs or maintenance.

• Liaise with IT support providers, where necessary, to ensure smooth running of IT hardware and software systems.

• Support the administration of compliance systems and processes such as HR,

Health and Safety, and The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in conjunction with the Meeting Centre Manager.

• Prepare resources and documents - printing/scanning/collation of MC resources, training materials, Board papers and reports.

Management: There are no management responsibilities for this role

Finance: There are no budgetary responsibilities in this post

Reporting: You will report to the Musselburgh Meeting Centre Manager

About you:

You will share our vision and have the enthusiasm and commitment to work with us to make our aspirations a reality. You will be a ‘people person’, with excellent time management and organisational skills combined with excellent IT skills.

You enjoy working as part of a small team, working together to make a real change to people’s lives and you have a flexible, creative and positive attitude.

You can work independently with minimum supervision. A planner who looks ahead and does not solely focus on the day-to-day. You are a self-starter who takes ownership of their role and their development.

Skills and experience:

Essential: You should be able to demonstrate experience, skills and confidence in the following areas:

• You will bring at least 3 years’ experience of implementing and managing administrative support functions and procedures

• You will have excellent IT skills - you will be a confident user of Microsoft Teams, Word, Outlook, Excel and SharePoint.

• You will have experience of bookkeeping systems, ideally, QuickBooks or similar financial recordkeeping software, and strong numeracy and analytical skills. (If you do not have experience of Quickbooks you should be able to demonstrate that you can become competent over your probation period.)

• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to multi-task and manage competing priorities to meet challenging deadlines.

• Excellent inclusive written and verbal communication skills, able to communicate with a wide range of people.

• Experience of handling personal and private information and an understanding of the values and ethics required

• Experience of supporting a geographically dispersed team, ensuring people are involved and up to date

You should also be willing to:

• Undertake training and learning in areas as required

• Join the Protecting Vulnerable Adult scheme if required

Desirable: We would like you to be able to demonstrate experience, skills and confident in the following areas:

• A good understanding of the challenges faced by people living with dementia, unpaid carers and friends and families

• A good awareness of Data Protection legislation and appreciation of the need for discretion and confidentiality in the workplace

• Experience of working in a small community or social enterprise.

• It would be useful if you were a driver with a clean current driving licence, access to a car for work purposes which is insured for business travel. You will be paid a mileage allowance at the current HMRC rate of .45p per mile

Personal attributes

• Creativity and flexibility

• Willing to learn and develop knowledge and skills

• Ability to work in partnership

• Ability to use own initiative

• Team player

• Positive, ‘can do’ attitude

• Confident

• Good timekeeper

• Honest, trustworthy & reliable

Qualifications:

We value your experience, your ability to demonstrate you have the skills and confidence for the post and are willing to learn and grow. There are therefore no essential qualifications for applicants. If we feel you have the skills, confidence and commitment to take this role on, we will offer you the role subject to successful completion of your probationary period which will involve mandatory training. We will agree a personal induction programme so the successful applicant can achieve the required qualifications/training.

We positively welcome applications from people living with dementia and unpaid carers/supporters and people with a wide range of experience, relevant to the requirements of the job.

About Dementia Friendly East Lothian CIC

Dementia Friendly East Lothian is a social enterprise focused on changing lives and communities. Our approach is inspired by the power of people with lived experience to lead and influence decisions that matter to them and the important role of communities in helping people stay connected and manage living with dementia. Our work is led by people with dementia and care-partners.

As a community-led social enterprise, started by an unpaid carer, we work in ways that build personal and community capacity and assets. We believe we go further together and that how we work is as important as what we achieve. Change happens when people coming together to talk, share and plan through community conversations, peer led support and Gatherings. You can read how we got here on our website: dfel.org.uk

Blue Triangle is a social care organisation that empowers people to thrive, by delivering solutions in connected communities which focus on the needs of each individual. We are looking for enthusiastic people who share our values (Kind, Passionate and Creative) to join our services accommodating and supporting people experiencing homelessness and empowering them to thrive.

If successful, you will be required to register with the Scottish Social Services Council within 6 months of your start date. After registration, there is a requirement to be qualified and to maintain professional learning, which we will support you to achieve.

Blue Triangle recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community.

What we offer:

Aside from offering a supportive and friendly environment where our people are valued and appreciated, we’ll see that your hard work and drive to succeed is rewarded.

• Competitive Salary and Pension Options
• Full time & Part time hours available
• Double pay for festive bank holidays
• Long service awards
• Fully funded SVQ3
• Access to our benefits platform with high street voucher and tech discounts and cycle to work scheme to name a few!
• Inhouse training programmes
• Significant Gym discounts
• Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
• 24/7 access to employee assistance programme, including counselling
• A wide range of family friendly policies
• Life Assurance cover of 3 times your salary
• Credit Union
• £200 refer a friend scheme

And many more!

About the Role:

As a Support Worker, you’ll work as part of a team in providing safe, secure, supported accommodation for the people who use our services. You’ll do this by providing practical and emotional support and encouraging them to achieve their own personal outcomes in all aspects of their daily lives.

Main Responsibilities:

This Support Worker role working at our Musselburgh Port Seton service in East Lothian involves working on a rota covering various dayshift patterns. This role involves working 31.5 hours per week. The Support Worker will:

• work as part of a team providing safe, secure, supported accommodation for homeless people.
• support, review, monitor and evaluate through our case management system, to achieve a positive person-centred outcome for the people we work with in line with organisational, statutory and legislative requirements.
• maintain and update all recording systems and documentation in line with relevant policies, procedures and practice guidelines, including the occupancy agreement, within required timeframes.
• provide, plan and facilitate key work meetings, key work sessions, meetings, reviews and other internal/external meetings in conjunction with the person’s support plan.
• provide general advocacy and advice to the people we support, including assistance to enable them to meet the conditions of their occupancy agreements.

Support Worker Role Profile

About You:

• To join us, you need to have a genuine passion for helping people.
• Ideally, possess 1 year of experience of working with vulnerable people and challenging behaviour which can be from personal, voluntary and/or professional experience.
• Demonstrated commitment and ability to undertake care practice in accordance with Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) code of practice, National Care Standards, Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care and the Associations policies and procedures.
• Ability to relate empathetically to people and recognise their right to choice and independence.
• Ability to work flexibly and as a lone worker.
• Able to use Microsoft or equivalent applications competently.
• Ideally, hold and SVQ level 2 or above and be willing to work towards an SVQ 3.

We care about one another whilst taking pride in the service we offer. You will be working in a company with a strong identity and with the guidance and support of experienced Managers you will be able to develop in your career.