Reporting to the Head of Operations and Mentoring at Light Up Learning, the role would be responsible for two main areas in the service:

1. Rotation around our partner schools, getting to know the mentors, mentees and school contacts – covering mentor absences where necessary.
2. Communication with our partner schools. We are seeking two members of staff to do weekly rotational visits to a cluster of our schools to get to know mentors, their mentees and key contacts within the school.

This is to allow continuous communication between LUL and partner schools, covering sessions with mentees when mentors are absent, attending meetings within the school where appropriate, following up any delays from the schools such as referrals etc.

As this post involves work with young people, you will be required to obtain PVG scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland if successful at interview. We will process this for you. Employment will be confirmed after successful completion of this and any other necessary checks including references.

Candidates must have the ability to adapt to new environments and build relationships with young people quickly as this position involves covering sessions.

It will also involve frequent travel around our partner schools.

Please read the application pack to review the role.

We’re on a journey to create fairer communities by facilitating 10 million social entrepreneurs globally by 2030. Do you want to help make this a reality?

We are looking for a qualified and experienced finance professional to join our team and manage the finance function within the business.

We are looking for someone with a passion for social enterprise and a strong track record of financial management and reporting within a similar sized business or commercial environment. We are looking for someone with the right qualifications, as well as the mindset to ensure high quality and meticulous management and accounting with the ability to support the future vision of the business through sound and creative thinking and understanding what financial plans and mechanisms may be required to achieve it.

Your role as Finance Manager will be to lead the finance function within the Academy, to deliver a proficient and high quality service to the business. You will be supported by a highly competent full time Finance Officer who will undertake all day-to-day processing, bookkeeping and providing relevant reports to you. You will work as a member of the Operations Team as a core member of a small and closeknit team of specialist roles and will work closely with the Chief Executive, COO, Finance Sub-Committee and Board. A mindset if continuous improvement would be a great addition to the team who are always looking to make what we do, and how we do it, even better. The role is part time with the option for hybrid working, splitting time between home and office working.

Your role will make a critical contribution to the Academy’s financial ambitions through leading on financial planning and management, analysis, forecasting and reporting. You will have opportunities to work with colleagues across the business to support and raise financial awareness as well as improve processes and ways of working which enhance and strengthen financial management across the business.

Having the right mindset, attitude and approach is as important for us as having the right experience and skills. We appreciate that the best person might not have all the listed criteria yet so if you feel your experience, skills and attitude will help you to make a great contribution in this role and you have the right mindset, we would welcome an application from you.

Job Purpose:

To lead the Academy’s financial planning, supporting the identification of measures and actions which will enable the Academy to secure its financial ambitions. The role achieves this through:

• Management of the financial processes, maximising value from the allocation of resources and ensuring best practice in financial management and reporting.
• Leading on all aspects of financial planning, analysis, forecasting and reporting.
• Leads financial compliance and has operational responsibility for budgeting and the annual audit process.
• Contributes to strategic business planning through advising on financial approaches and decisions and leading on the financial progress reports and projections for the Leadership Teams, Finance Sub-Committee and Board.

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Planning

• Contribute to the future plans of the organisation through a future-focus on financial sustainability and opportunities for the business. Influence financial planning and decisions in collaboration with the Senior Leadership Team and Board.
• Provide high quality financial planning and forecasting which enable the organisation to reach its growth potential.
• Lead the yearly financial planning and review cycle, working in collaboration with the Senior Leadership Team and Department Heads.
• Work with the Senior Leadership Team to produce 3-5 year financial plans – ensuring financial resilience of medium to long-term organisational strategies and priorities.

Financial Management

• Produce and provide analysis of comprehensive financial management information reports and analysis including monthly management accounts, balance sheet analysis, weekly cash position reports and any other reports that may be required by the Senior Leadership Team, Board and Board sub committees.
• Hold Departmental Heads to account with regards budget spend and financial compliance through advising Heads of Departments on variance and financial strategy when required.
• Prepare year end accounts to FRS102 standards including profit & loss, balance sheet, cash flows and supporting information and manage the audit process including account management of the auditors and external accountants.
• Plan the annual audit and liaise with the auditors.
• Manage and control accounting systems to ensure that accounting information is effectively managed, accurate, and follows good practice.
• Manage the banking relationship and escalate wherever required.
• Maintain and ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory body requirements.

For a full set of criteria and information on how to apply please download the recruitment pack from our website.

Organisation profile:

At the Social Enterprise Academy, we believe social entrepreneurs play an essential role in changing the world.

We strengthen their role in local communities through transformational learning programmes that will increase their community impact.

Our programmes are accredited, responsive to learner needs, and are delivered by experienced facilitators who are social change leaders themselves.

Since 2004, we have delivered over 1,900 learning programmes to 28,000+ learners in over 30 countries. We have also engaged over 55,000 young people around the world, using social enterprise as a tool to help them reach their full potential and create positive change in their communities.

Changeworks is looking for a Customer Service Manager for our EcoCosi retrofit service. If you’re an outgoing people person with a passion for delivering quality customer service and can bring energy and enthusiasm to work every day, we want to hear from you!

You would be joining us at a very exciting time for Changeworks as we build on our 35 years of experience in delivering high-impact solutions for low-carbon living. We are growing and scaling up our work and this position will play a key role.

The Customer Services Manager is a new position within our expanding EcoCosi retrofit service delivery team and therefore at the forefront of our work to decarbonise homes across Scotland.

With a growing number of households wanting to use the service we are expanding the service delivery team. Reporting to the Retrofit Strategic Development Manager we are looking for an enthusiastic Customer Service Manager experienced in delivering quality customer service to paying clients.

The EcoCosi delivery team is the public face of the service. Working alongside and supporting our technical retrofit delivery team, you will be an ambassador for the service through positive promotion. The key focus of the role will be client satisfaction, service engagement as well as identifying and closing new sales opportunities. You will assist clients through their service journey, resolve queries and issues and implement changes that can strengthen the company’s relationship with its clients, while identifying opportunities to up-sell and develop our current client base.

About us

Changeworks is a great place to work. We hold Investors in People Platinum accreditation (something only a few organisations in Scotland have), and we were nominated for employer of the year by the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce this year. Our staff overwhelmingly would recommend us as an employer too.

The Climate Emergency has resulted in ambitious national targets to reduce carbon emissions from the built environment and reduce rates of fuel poverty. This has driven a significant increase in the number of pilot and large-scale interventions delivered by Changeworks and external organisations in this area. These include area-based domestic energy efficiency retrofit and decarbonisation projects and programmes.

We are a growing organisation, and this role is crucial to the delivery of our ambitious objectives. We want to decarbonise homes in Scotland on a massive scale, and that needs talented individuals like you to help us deliver on our objectives. You’ll receive full training plus coaching and mentoring.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits including flexible working, bike to work scheme, an excellent pension scheme and 26 days paid holiday plus 9 public holidays per year.

At Changeworks, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone.