- Advertised from 16th July 2024
- £13,440 per annum. 20 hours per week with a degree of flexibility, covering the open times of our foodbanks, occasional evening presentations and limited weekend work.
Role
Dunfermline Foodbank is offering an exciting and challenging job opportunity to assist the foodbank manager to help manage and lead a committed group of volunteers as they seek to alleviate hunger, put food on the table, restore dignity and revive hope to local people in crisis in the west of Fife.
Dunfermline Foodbank, established as a Scottish Charity in 2012, has fed over 26,000 men, women and children through its network of five foodbanks covering the west of Fife, as a franchisee of the respected Trussell Trust network of UK foodbanks.
Over the last 12 years, we have expanded our operation to include 5 satellites and a central warehouse, also increasing the number of volunteers to over 200 to better support those affected by food poverty in the West Fife area.
We require a passionate, enthusiastic and organised Assistant Foodbank Manager to continue to help lead us forward to meet future challenges and provide an excellent service for the community.
The working hours are 20 hours per week with a degree of flexibility, covering the open times of our foodbanks, occasional evening presentations and limited weekend work.
Remuneration reflects the responsibility of the post at £13,440 per annum.
The successful candidate will have the following key skills:
- Ability to manage and monitor the development of a project
- Experience of managing people
- Experience of working or volunteering in an organisation that deploys volunteers
- Good oral communication
- Driver with clean licence
- Confident user of email, word processing and internet
- Ability to work independently and unsupervised
- Numerate and comfortable interpreting statistical data
- Honesty and integrity
- Empathy and ability to work with people from disadvantaged, marginalised, or socially excluded backgrounds
As well as having the following personal attributes:
- Passionate about tackling poverty
- A sound understanding of, and experience of engagement with a wide range of stakeholders, including churches and other religious organisations, charities, statutory agencies, organisations, private companies and community groups.
Application notes
To apply please complete and submit an application form along with your CV by email to office@dunfermlinefoodbank.org or by post or in person to:
Dunfermline Foodbank
Liberty Centre
Pitreavie Business Park,
Dunfermline,
Fife
KY11 8QS.
An application form can be downloaded from our web site dunfermline.foodbank.org.uk or requested by emailing office@dunfermlinefoodbank.org
Closing date for applications is: 5pm 9th August 2024
Interviews will be held on 27th August 2024 in Dunfermline, Fife.
Dunfermline Foodbank is run in partnership with local churches.
Registered charity number SC043216 | Registered in Scotland
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About East Lothian Foodbank
East Lothian Foodbank is at the forefront of the fight against poverty in East Lothian. We believe passionately that everyone should have the right to respect, dignity and self-determination, in a world without hunger and poverty; our advice services and campaigning activities are designed to help achieve these goals, sitting alongside our core role of providing emergency food & essentials to those who need them.
As an independent Scottish charity, we are also fortunate to be part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working towards combatting poverty and hunger across the UK.
About You
We are looking for someone to join our team, who has a similar passion for driving meaningful change in our community. As one of our key “faces” to the outside world, the role would be suited to someone with strong communication skills and relationship building skills, who is driven and well organised.
About the Role
The East Lothian Foodbank Service Co-ordinator is at the frontline of our crisis service. As the first point of contact for our service users and referral partners you must be a confident communicator who can work well managing multiple tasks in a busy environment. Duties will include processing requests for emergency food support received via phone, email and online.
You will be taking care of day-to-day contacts and building relationships with partners, service users and others with regards to our crisis service. You will be expected to handle service user and referral partner information in line with data handling policy and procedures, notifying the Foodbank Manager of specific requests or requirements.
As an emergency food service, you may be dealing with people who are often in distress so the ability to deal with people sensitively and with compassion is required. The core values of East Lothian Foodbank must always be observed and promoted to ensure we offer the best possible support.
The Service Co-ordinator must maintain good working relations, not only with our referral agents and partners, but also with our volunteers. The core values of East Lothian Foodbank must always be observed and promoted to ensure we offer the best possible support to those in food crisis.
In line with our Recruitment and Selection Policy this role will be subject to a criminal record check.
Participation Consultant Invitation to Tender
- Other
- Sessional
- On site/Remote: Levenmouth
- Closing 1st October 2024
We are looking for a skilled participation consultant to evaluate our participation work and support us in creating a three-year participation plan. This work will compliment our wider work to end the need for our crisis food support service. We seek someone with facilitation experience and excellent communication skills, and a strong understanding of the complex issues surrounding food insecurity, financial crisis and destitution who can complete this work before June 2025.
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- Full time
- £47,057
- Remote: Home based within North or East Scotland - travel required within with area and occasional travel out of area including 121's and staff conferences (this role requires the post-holder to hold a valid driving license and have access to a car)
- Closing 9th September 2024
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- Develop and execute a strategic plan for reducing the need for food banks’ services locally.
- Work alongside local partners to increase public will for long-term solutions to end the need for food banks.
- Develop and manage strategic relationships with key stakeholders to assist evidenced-based policy change at a local level and feed into activity to drive policy and practice at UK wide and national levels.
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- Part time
- £31,000 pro-rata
- On site: Dunfermline
- Closing 27th September 2024
Safe Space supports survivors of childhood sexual abuse through one-to-one counselling, therapeutic group-work, and an outreach service.
This new post forms part of the team at Safe Space, providing a counselling service to Young People (age 12-18 years old) at our base in Dunfermline and any other outreach buildings as identified. The coordinator is responsible for leading, supervising and coordinating a small team of a part time counsellor and 2 trainee counsellors to work with young people who have experienced childhood sexual abuse. The post holder will liaise with all relevant agencies associated with young people.
Within the 15 hours the post holder must include the team meetings once a month, group supervision and external supervision. Evening client appointments may be required, as may be occasional weekend work, for which time off in lieu will be granted as appropriate. The holiday entitlement will be 5.6 weeks plus 9 public holidays pro rata.
This post is a 3-year fixed term contract.
Full job description can be downloaded below.
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