As Project Coordination Assistant you’ll be responsible for administration for a number of fuel poverty related projects that work directly with project delivery partner organisations from within our charity’s membership and the funders of these activities. You will ensure that project reporting is compiled to enable the projects to support low income, vulnerable and fuel poor households in Scotland.

You’ll be curious, driven, impact-focused with attention to detail, passionate about “doing the right thing” and ensuring that Energy Action Scotland continues to be able to delivery it’s key aim of helping vulnerable fuel poor households in Scotland.

Energy Action Scotland secures funds through grants, donations and contracts to help people who are unable to heat and power their homes to a safe standard for their health and wellbeing. Over 1 in 3 households need help, many with underlying health conditions or needs that should mean they are warmer for longer, but this is out of reach for far too many people. Join us and make a difference.

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join the Moira Anderson Foundation (MAF), a values-based organisation, that supports children and adults of all genders affected by Childhood Sexual Abuse. We are recruiting an Administrator with excellent inter-personal and organisational skills to join our existing team at our base in Airdrie. A warm nature and previous admin experience are very important for this role. A sound understanding of the third sector would be beneficial.

This 12 month fixed term position is for 21 hours per week. On-going funding will be sought to extend the post. Days and hours to be negotiated, evening work will be required on a regular basis.

The Moira Anderson Foundation is a Real Living Wage employer. The salary is £21,840 pro rata, per annum, this will increase to £22,932 from 1 April. Induction training will be provided, as well as enhanced employer pension contribution and death in service scheme (following 3-month probationary period), and attractive holiday leave benefits.

This is an opportunity to join a first-class team making a real difference to survivors of CSA.

Values in Action Scotland (VIAS) is recruiting for the post of Lead Consultant (The Life I Want), based in Glasgow with some travel throughout the wider Glasgow and Clyde area. Reporting to the Depute CEO, this is an exciting opportunity to coordinate ‘The Life I Want’, a project for people with learning disabilities and/or autism living in Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Our aim is to include as many people with a learning disability and autistic people as we can to have more influence over and say about things that are important to them. The post-holder will also support the lived experience peer worker to carry out their role.

Background

Values in Action Scotland is a Quality Improvement Service. Our vision is for a Scotland where people with learning disabilities and/or autism have the same opportunities as everyone else and are supported to achieve their goals including access to meaningful paid employment.

The Candidate

You will be enthusiastic, enjoy speaking to and meeting people, going to new places and will have the skills to build good working relationships. You must be able to provide unbiased information and be able to facilitate meetings, groups and workshops where all opinions and contributions matter equally. With proven experience working with people with learning disabilities and/ or autism, the successful candidate will have an understanding or experience of issues affecting people with learning disabilities and/ or autism. The successful candidate will also work with a range of stakeholders, demonstrating excellent interpersonal skills and an aptitude for building and nurturing successful partnerships. They will ideally have a high-level ability to plan, analyse and think through issues that arise and an ability to identify, prioritise and deliver a varied programme.

What We Offer

We offer excellent training and development opportunities, competitive salary, contributory pension scheme and pro-rata 32 days annual holiday (including bank holidays)

Further Details

The post is funded for six months initially. VIAS will carry out a PVG check on the successful applicant.

For further information or an informal discussion, please call Donna-Marie on 0141 212 3395.

RISE Highland is a partnership between Barnardo's Scotland, Highland Child Protection Committee, Highland Council, Police Scotland, and other local stakeholders

Barnardo's are looking to recruit a highly skilled individual with experience and knowledge of working with children and young people who are vulnerable to exploitation. You will join our RISE Highland Service working alongside colleagues who are motivated and passionate about protecting children and young people from abuse through exploitation.

As a service our aims are:

• To protect children and young people from child exploitation.
• To provide one-to-one person-centred support to young people to help them on their journey of recovery.
• To empower children and young people who are survivors of exploitation, or at risk of such abuse, to develop strategies that will support them in their recovery and to manage risk.
• To reduce the risk to vulnerable children and young people being abused through providing training and awareness raising to professionals, parents/carers as well as to children and young people.

Our service provides bespoke packages of emotional and practical support to young people in response to identified needs. We are trauma informed and person- centred ensuring that the voice of the young person is central to the support they receive.

Pay & Reward Framework

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out 1st April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a key pillar of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to grow and develop in their career at Barnardo's as it will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues to progress through the pay band of their role.

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay progression steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.

Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

About Barnardo's

At Barnardo's we believe in children – no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is reflected in our values and our practice, and we have invested in this area of our work to ensure that we can deliver on our commitments to be an inclusive employer. EDI is a key enabler of our purpose as a charity and we want to ensure that the diversity of our teams is reflective of the communities we serve and that we continue to learn and develop our work with a focus on inclusion. We particularly encourage applications from candidates from Black, Asian and Minoritised Ethnic Communities, candidates who are LGBT+ and Disabled candidates.

Our basis and values