Due to a significant period of change and growth for the charity, we’re looking to fill new posts.

The Admin Assistant will undertake general administration and reception duties and provide support to the SCLD project team to enable the delivery of organisational priorities.

The post holder will produce accessible communications and have good knowledge of Microsoft packages, particularly Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, SharePoint, Forms, Teams and other packages like Adobe.

The post holder must have effective communication and organisation skills with a high level of accuracy.

About SCLD:

The Scottish Commission for People with Learning Disabilities (SCLD) vision is of a fairer Scotland where people with learning disabilities live full, safe, loving, and equal lives.

SCLD is a human rights defender organisation and aims to make a significant contribution to systems and culture change across Scotland to ensure people with learning disabilities are empowered to live the life they choose.

People with learning disabilities drive the charity’s work and are at the heart of all design and delivery.

Our key aims:

1. People with learning disabilities champion and defend their own and other people's human rights and lead the work to improve policy, practice, and legislation.
2. People with learning disabilities are confident about what they can achieve and use their voices to lead, participate and influence change.
3. Practitioners and service providers learn from shared experiences, resulting in improved practice and services informed by human rights standards, data, and evidence.

The amazing charity Downs Syndrome Scotland are recruiting for a Trusts & Grants Fundraiser.

Working alongside the Community Fundraiser and the Corporate & Events Fundraiser, the Trusts and Grants Fundraiser will play a crucial part in making the charity’s vision and mission a reality for people in Scotland.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is an experienced Trusts and Grants Fundraiser looking for flexibility in their role, possessing the research, analytical and creative writing skills to be successful in this role for an opportunity to work for a well-regarded and passionate charity who make a huge difference to the lives of others.

Main Purpose of Post:

Grants and Trusts Fundraiser to secure transformational income from charitable Grants, Trusts, Foundations and statutory bodies through compelling and persuasive applications, to sustain and grow the Charities service provision throughout Scotland.

Key responsibilities are to:

• Secure income predominantly from medium to large sized Grants, Trusts and Foundations against agreed targets.
• Research, prepare and submit bids to funders – including planning budgets.
• Complete funding applications within tight deadlines to the highest standard.
• Actively engage with charity staff, volunteers, families, and board members to develop case studies and compelling funding narratives for funding and social media purposes.
• Support delivery of services to comply with funders’ criteria.
• Collect and analyse data from spreadsheets and databases for reporting purposes.
• Produce reports for all funders within tight deadlines to the highest standard.
• Liaise with funders to update as and when required.
• Provide outcomes and statistics to funders when required.
• Ensure databases are recording all relevant monitoring and evaluation information required by funders.
• Maintain existing pipeline and develop a pipeline of new prospects for Grants and Trusts.
• Assisting the organisation in creating a long-term fundraising strategy.
• Proactively promote the charity to potential funders and represent the organisation confidently at external meetings.
• Input into Fundraising and Project campaigns.
• Undertake other fundraising duties as required.
• Flexibility to adapt workload to meet the business’s needs.

Skills and experience required:

• Good standard of education sufficient to enable the postholder to fulfil the requirements of the role.
• Knowledge of the trust and foundation funding landscape in Scotland.
• At least two years’ experience in a Grants and Trusts fundraising role.
• Demonstrable experience of writing successful fundraising bids and proposals.
• Confident using IT, including the full Microsoft Office suite.

About The Role

Do you have a passion for helping people?

Do you have excellent communication?

Do you have the ability to drive high performing teams whilst ensuring a high-quality service, delivering excellent customer service to our clients?

Do you want to work for one of the best employability providers in Scotland?

Would you like to contribute to helping people with barriers to work find their dream job?

Then come and work for Enable Works.

Your role, as a Performance Manager will be to manage the performance and quality of our contracts in Glasgow and the surrounding area. You will be responsible for performance management; key to this will be developing positive professional relationships with our staff teams and programme partners in each area.

Enable Works are the leading specialist provider of employability services for people who have barriers to work. We believe that every person in Scotland has the right to work in a job that is high quality and well paid.

Enable Works supports over 5500 people every year across 29 Local Authorities to learn skills for work.

We partner with thousands of employers to create inclusive cultures and improve the diversity of Scotland's workforce.

We are incredibly proud of our smart, capable, and motivated colleagues across Scotland and following a period of significant growth we are looking to grow our team.

We offer a generous salary, excellent benefits, and opportunities to develop and grow in your role.

We offer flexible working practices that promote a strong work/life balance so that when you are at work you can be the best version of you.

Values are more important to us than qualifications or experience, so if you don’t think you meet every requirement that’s ok, we still want to hear from you.

About You

We really need you to have these:

• Experience of working in a performance focused team.
• Ability to effectively coach and motivate teams to achieve high performance.
• Effective project management skills and ability to think strategically to achieve long-term goals.
• A natural, professional relationship builder with the ability to partner and negotiate with stakeholders.
• Experience of delivering on financial expectations and forecasting change.
• Strong attention to detail with professional presentation and personality.
• Self-management skills and the ability to meet duties effectively within agreed timescales.
• Confident communicator.
• Role model.
• IT Literacy.
• Some knowledge of the local community.
• A full driving licence and access to a car.

Why?

Our vision is that every person in Scotland is able to access the support they need to find a high-quality job that pays them well and your drive and commitment to this job will help them get there.

You will understand that each client has individual skills and aspirations and you will work with your team to ensure they are supporting our clients to progress towards their chosen career goal whilst recognising our commitment to our funders in terms of both performance and financial targets.

About Us

At Enable we believe in developing all our staff and we provide an extensive learning programme together with in-house career development opportunities.

We also have an excellent range of staff benefits on offer including but not limited to:

• Health cash plans providing a wide range of health benefits to help people cover the cost of their everyday health care.
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Season Ticket Loans

Starting a career with Enable is the first step towards making a real difference in our award-winning charity’s mission to help create an equal society for every person who has a learning disability.

Enable is an equal opportunities employer and our recruitment, selection and assessment process is based entirely on values, skills and competencies required of the specific roles.

Do you have experience managing documents in a secure and effective manner? Are you looking for a role where you can make a difference? If so then we could have the perfect role for you!

We have an exciting opportunity for someone who is highly organised, has an eye for detail, and an ability to implement change to join Cornerstone as a Records Management Officer on a 2 year fixed term contract.

This role can be based out of our any of our main offices in Glasgow, Dundee, or Aberdeen or part of our hybrid working model. If opting for hybrid, we would need you to live within a reasonable commute of one of these offices. Some travel within Scotland will be required.

The Role

Here at Cornerstone, we are one Scotland’s Largest Charities with over 40 years providing support and care for adults and children across Scotland with varying support needs.

The purpose of this role will be to develop and implement systems and procedures to systematically control the lifecycle of our records with an emphasis on any records containing personally identifiable information.

You will be responsible for the development and implementation of the systems and processes that focus on, the security, storage, disposal or preservation of Cornerstone records. This includes effective systems for the filing and maintenance of both paper and electronic records.

Working closely with the Data Protection Officer and other stake holders, you will develop and deploy policies, procedures and best practices to ensure Cornerstone remains compliant with our data protection policy and relevant legislation.

About You

What we'll need you to bring: -

• Previous experience of developing a records storage plan along with carrying out classification of existing records.
• Have a talent for problem solving and a passion for implementing change.
• Be organised with clear communication working in collaboration with other departments.
• The ability to take initiative, analyse issues effectively and identify solutions
• The ability to produce high-quality, accurate work to strict and tight deadlines
• A strong commitment to professionalism and quality, combined with a practical ‘can do’ approach