Interim Head of Marketing and Communications
- Full time
- £50,929 – £54,567
- Hybrid: Any CHAS site
- Closing 11th September 2024
- Advertised from 19th August 2024
- 35 hours per week. Temporary for 12 months (Maternity Cover)
Role
Are you ready to lead transformational change at CHAS by harnessing the power of authentic and inspiring storytelling?
About Us:
At CHAS, we provide unwavering care for children who may die young and their families, at every step on this hardest of journeys. We make sure that no family in Scotland has to face the death of their child alone. Since launching our new Strategic Plan in April this year, we’re embarking on our most ambitious journey yet - one that will transform the experience of children’s palliative care across Scotland for dying children and their families. Joining CHAS now is more than just a job; it’s about making a profound, lasting difference for generations to come.
The Role:
We’re seeking a visionary and dynamic Interim Head of Marketing and Communications (maternity cover) to lead our efforts in bringing this ambitious vision to life, at the cusp of an exciting period of growth and change for CHAS. You’ll be a key member of the organisation’s leadership team, responsible for leading your team to develop and execute comprehensive marketing and communications strategies that will raise awareness of CHAS, drive action in time, money and voice, and support an outstanding experience for all of our stakeholders and audiences.
About You:
• You’ll have an excellent track record of leading successful marketing and communications teams, particularly through periods of change and growth.
• You can see the big picture and are adept at translating vision into actionable plans that deliver measurable results.
• You’re creative and have a knack for excellent storytelling.
• You’re a natural leader who can motivate and empower others to achieve their best and bring others along with you to support your vision.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to craft compelling narratives that resonate with diverse audiences.
• You are well-versed in the latest digital marketing trends and tools, with a keen understanding of how to harness their power for good.
• You possess strong PR skills, with experience in media relations, reputation management, and crisis communications.
• Above all, you’re driven by a deep commitment to making a difference every single day.
Why join us?
This is more than a job—it’s an opportunity to be at the forefront of a transformational journey that will have a profound impact on children with life-shortening conditions and their families, all across Scotland. You will have the chance to work with a passionate, dedicated team who are committed to achieving our ambition. Together, we will create the conditions for success, not just meeting our goals but surpassing them.
If you’re ready to embrace this challenge and lead with passion, we want to hear from you.
We offer
• Flexible Working: our teams work flexibly and in a hybrid manner with time split between at home and onsite an any of our sites across Scotland. CHAS offers flexible and family friendly working, and are happy to discuss working arrangements that work for you.
• Professional Growth: Work with industry leaders in a high-performing team where you will be encouraged and supported to excel and develop your skills.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Including generous annual leave and pension, incremental salary progression, access to Blue Light discounts, and health and wellbeing support.
Application notes
Further information and how to apply
If this sounds like you, we would love you to apply!
If you would like more information about the role, please contact Iain McAndrew, Director of Income Generation and Engagement on iainmcandrew@chas.org.uk to arrange an informal and confidential conversation
Please visit our vacancy page for more information
Click the “Apply now” button to answer a couple of questions and submit your CV or complete our full application form.
If you would like more information about the role, please contact Iain McAndrew, Director of Income Generation and Engagement on iainmcandrew@chas.org.uk
For any queries regarding the recruitment process, please contact our HR Team on 0131 444 3293 or by emailing careers@chas.org.uk
We expect interviews to take place Friday 20 September 2024
This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Scotland check.
Top job! Centre Executive Director
- Part time
- £55,000 pro-rata
- On site: Heart of Scotstoun, Balmoral St, Glasgow
- Closing 15th November 2024
Heart of Scotstoun Community Centre is a charity owned by the people of Scotstoun in the north bank of the River Clyde in the west of Glasgow.
Welcoming more than 1000 visitors per week, our aim is to provide a vibrant community space that offers engaging activities and facilities for all parts of the community.
We provide a range of services and affordable welcoming spaces, as well as opportunities to grow, eat and access healthy food via our in-house cafe.
We require an enthusiastic and motivated leader to be responsible for managing all aspects of Heart of Scotstoun Community Centre and to work pro-actively with our Non-Executive Board during this new and exciting stage of our development.
Top job! Director of Finance
- Full time
- £80,000 – £85,000
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 15th November 2024
Myeloma UK is the only UK charity focused on myeloma and its related conditions. We ensure people affected by myeloma get the support, information and treatments they need and fund essential research towards a cure. We are here for people affected by myeloma, for healthcare professionals and researchers – and anyone who wants to be part of the cure, to make sure no-one faces myeloma alone because together we are the cure.
It is an exciting time to be joining Myeloma UK having recently launched our new strategy. We have the ambition to double our income over the next five years, allowing us to significantly increase both our reach and impact so that those affected by myeloma can live longer and have better quality lives.
To support our vision for a world where myeloma doesn’t exist, and due to an impending retirement, we are looking to recruit into the business critical role of Director of Finance. With accountability for the financial stewardship of the charity, encompassing effective financial control and reporting, you will also play a major role in shaping the strategic development and future direction of Myeloma UK, working with colleagues at the cutting edge of myeloma research, advocacy, and support. As a member of an experienced Executive Leadership team, you will work collaboratively to develop Myeloma UK’s strategies, goals, priorities and outcomes and report progress to Board.
The role requires a qualified accountant who is an inspiring and solutions-focused leader, able to demonstrate relevant experience of having supported the ongoing development and strategic growth of an organisation, either within the voluntary or private sector. The successful candidate will also bring well-developed business/commercial skills and the ability to get “behind the numbers” and carry out complex numerical and financial calculations and analysis to allow well-informed commercial decisions.
Are you experienced Finance leader who’s on the lookout for a fresh new challenge? We could have just the role you are looking for!
We have an exciting opportunity to join Cornerstone as our Head of Finance on a full-time, permanent basis.
Reporting to our Director of Finance, you will be responsible for the management and development of our Finance function, ensuring the provision of accurate, reliable and timely financial information and analysis to support our organisation in its activities. This is a varied role which encompasses many aspects within our Finance department.
Location
This role can be based in any of our main offices (Aberdeen, Dundee or Glasgow), or part of our hybrid working model. If opting for hybrid, we would need you to live within a reasonable commute of Aberdeen, Dundee or Glasgow. There will be occasions that we'll need you to travel to other Cornerstone branch locations (travel expenses will be reimbursed as set out in Cornerstone’s expense policy with travel reimbursed by HMRC legislation).
The Role
As a member of our Senior Leadership Team, you'll contribute to the delivery of Cornerstone's strategic, operational and departmental plans.
You'll assist our Director of Finance to establish and maintain effective financial management and business support to ensure that appropriate financial policies and management information systems are in place to guarantee ongoing stability and growth.
Providing an accounting service to all departments and areas within Cornerstone, you'll combine your accounting skills with effective financial management to provide concise communications to both financial and non-financial stakeholders.
You'll have responsibility for the preparation of monthly financial reporting and monthly written reports analysing performance and mitigation steps where necessary. You'll also support the preparation of annual budgets, monitoring reports, forecasts and annual accounts.
Please see the Role Profile attached to our advert for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
About You
What we'll need you to bring: -
- Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline
- Recognised chartered accountancy CCAB qualification
- Knowledge and experience of the legal and charitable framework
- Experience of leading, developing and managing a Finance team to deliver high quality and service within a similar type or size of organisation
- Proven experience in the development and maintenance of financial controls, policies and procedures
- Good analytical and evaluation skills with the ability to understand and carry out complex numerical and financial calculations and analyse data
- The ability to transfer strategy into operational and departmental work plans
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to plan and organise work
- Proven track record of working to tight deadlines and simultaneously managing several initiatives
- The ability to identify quality processes and procedures with the ability to communicate these clearly verbally and in writing
About Us
Established in 1980, Cornerstone is one of Scotland's largest charities with over 40 years' experience providing great care and support for adults and children with various support needs across Scotland.
We operate over 18 local authorities in Scotland and provide a wide range of services to over 2,000 individuals each year. Our focus is to encourage social inclusion, reduce loneliness, and improve health, independence and wellbeing by working closely with the people we support and their families, setting personal goals with them, and ensuring they receive the care and support they need to live the best life possible.
We are always flexible and responsive in meeting the ever changing needs of the people we support and work closely with individuals and families to agree what sort of support will work best for them.
Our strategic aims
- To become an expert provider of services to people with learning disabilities, autism and complex care needs
- To be the best employer in social care in Scotland
- To achieve stability and sustainability which supports future developments.
If you’re up for the challenge and think you have what it takes, then apply today with your CV and cover letter, we'd love to hear from you.
Have any questions? Contact Lynn Wallace, our Director of Finance at lynn.wallace@cornerstone.org.uk.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited along to an interview in person at our Dundee office on Friday 29th November 2024.
The successful candidate will need to undertake a Standard Disclosure check through Disclosure Scotland.
Top job! Head of Service Delivery (Triage, Clinical & Support Line Operations)
- Full time
- Circa £50,000
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 13th November 2024
Everyday people with chest, heart and stroke conditions are leaving hospital scared and alone. You can be part of our mission to make sure that there is no life half lived in Scotland.
By joining Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS) as Head of Service Delivery (Triage, Clinical & Support Line Operations) you can be the difference between people just surviving and really living.
You will be part of Scotland’s leading charity providing support to people with chest, heart, stroke and long covid conditions to live life to the full again. Our Community Healthcare Support Service model forms a nationwide network of local support groups, nurses, volunteers and one-to-one support teams helping families adjust to life with a heart or lung condition, long covid or after a stroke.
To support the delivery of our ambitious NLHL strategy, CHSS is seeking to appoint a transformative leader as the Head of Service Delivery (Triage, Clinical & Support Line Operations). In this pivotal role, the post holder will spearhead the operational execution of our clinical services across Scotland, shaping the future of clinical service provision for those we serve.
A critical mandate of this position will be to implement a unified single point of access to CHSS Services. This will ensure that routes into our service provision for partners, referrers and those with our conditions, is effective, meets their needs and will enhance the overall value of our offerings.
Collaboration is essential in this role, and the post holder will work closely with the Head of Service Delivery (Prevention & Community Service Operations) to co-lead the development and implementation of a whole system approach to supported self-management. This includes the strategic expansion and dissemination of our NLHL model throughout Scotland, encompassing all clinical services. The post holder will strive for best practice in the delivery of care/support of people living with our conditions and will hold responsibly and accountability for rigorous clinical governance and quality assurance of our services fulfilling our obligations to both partner contractual regulations and national legislation.
The role will strategically and operationally support a culture that inspires service excellence, innovation and underpins the principles of supported self management across all service provision, ensuring that our contributions to the broader health and social care systems are both impactful and demonstrably beneficial.
CHSS is seeking an exceptional leader with in-depth knowledge of the health and social care landscape, who comprehends the evolving needs of service delivery and supported self-management for both individuals and our partners. Applicants should possess a current NMC or HCPC professional registration and bring substantial managerial and leadership experience from within the health, social care, or third sector arenas.
A foundational objective of this role will be to lead the implementation of a streamlined single point of access for our services across Scotland. Therefore, prior experience with triage services, systems design, and service redesign will be a distinct advantage. This is an opportunity to make a profound impact on the lives of individuals living with our conditions and to elevate the standards of care provided by CHSS.
The line manager is happy to take enquiries if you have any questions prior to applying for the role. Please email joanne.graham@chss.org.uk if you wish to raise any questions.
CHSS employees enjoy a variety of organisational benefits including: Company pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, company sick pay, employee welfare support and life assurance.
CHSS also supports flexible recruitment through Working Families and we are “Happy to Talk Flexible Working”.
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