Assistant Community Fundraiser
- Full time
- £24,750 – £26,150
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 30th September 2024
- Advertised from 13th September 2024
- 35 hours per week
Role
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Income Generation and Engagement Team as an Assistant Community Fundraiser!
As an Assistant Community Fundraiser, you will play an integral part in supporting the Community Fundraising team to reach their annual income target. You will oversee the running of the Edinburgh fundraising office, including stock management and managing a small team of volunteers. You will help support the team by co-ordinating supporter and volunteer communications, and attend fundraising events when required.
About You
• Experience in an office or customer facing environment
• Ability to work independently within the role, under your own initiative and cooperatively as part of the Community fundraising team.
• Excellent administration skills with a sound working knowledge of CRM databases, Windows-based software, including Word, Excel and Outlook and Teams.
• Exceptional time management and organisational skills, with experience of managing multiple projects at any given time, prioritising and meeting agreed deadlines.
• Ability to vary communication style (both written and verbal) to reflect the needs of the audience.
• Excellent attention to detail
• Knowledge and demonstrable experience of adhering to data handling/GDPR laws and codes of conduct
Why CHAS?
At CHAS, staff and volunteers work together as one team, focused on the common goal of reaching every family in Scotland who needs our support. All CHAS staff will at some point work with or alongside volunteers and will be expected to support volunteers.
Our ambition is to reach every family in Scotland who is living with the heart-breaking prognosis that their child is dying, and offer them our care and support to empower them to make the most of the short time they have together because no-one should face the death of their child alone. As Assistant Community Fundraiser, you will be instrumental in achieving this vision.
This role will be based in the Edinburgh office 4 days per week, Monday -Thursday, with flexibility on a Friday. There will be some travel to other CHAS sites required for meetings and for picking up / dropping off materials with supporters.
Application notes
Further information can be found atchas.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/3620943
For an informal chat about the position, please contact Sarah Dannfald (Senior Community Fundraiser) on SarahDannfald@CHAS.org.uk
For any queries regarding the recruitment process, please contact our HR Team by emailing careers@chas.org.uk
This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure.
Provisional Interview Date: 11 October 2024
Finance Assistant
- Part time
- £25,610 – £28,577 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Edinburgh/flexible
- Closing 24th November 2024
About you
Do you want to use your skills to make a real difference to the myeloma community?
We’re looking for a professional to join our Finance team on a part time basis. If you have experience of using an accounting system and knowledge of charity specific accounting requirements, this role may be for you. You will need to have excellent IT skills in a financial environment, including being highly proficient in the use of excel, excellent numeracy skills with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail and a high level of written and verbal communication skills. You will need the ability to work as part of a team and to build relationships working in partnership with both internal and external stakeholders.
Experience of Xledger cloud accounting software and Raiser’s Edge CRM software as well as accounting qualification to AAT or equivalent is desirable but not essential.
About the role
This is an exciting time to join Myeloma UK as we launch our new five year strategy. The Finance Assistant role is varied and encompasses many aspects of the Finance Department work. You will be responsible for processing of income and expenditure and assist other colleagues with compliance with controls and procedures.
The role includes processing of of all expenditure and payments to the finance system, matching purchase orders, ensuring correct coding and authorisation procedures as well assisting in processing all income streams to Raisers Edge and the finance system..
The post holder will be assisting with the day to day activities of the finance function ensuring financial transactions are efficiently and accurately recorded, thus enabling the Finance Department to provide a first class finance service to our stakeholders.
About us
Myeloma UK is the only UK charity focused on myeloma and its related conditions. We provide support and influence access to treatments, while researching a cure. Thanks to life-extending treatments and support, today many people affected by myeloma are able to live longer and to live well. Together, we support, so no one faces myeloma alone.
We are committed to bringing together the best and brightest people to help us ensure that every patient has an empowered present and a hopeful future.
Our ultimate goal is to find a cure and make myeloma history. Until then, our mission is to help every patient live well with myeloma for as long as possible. We are committed to diagnosing myeloma earlier, discovering and sharing knowledge, transforming the patient experience and influencing positive change in care.
Our culture
Wellbeing and staff engagement are at the heart of our culture. We offer our employees a range of benefits including a pension salary exchange scheme, flexitime, flexible working from home with hub-based office working, health plan, employee assistance plan and holiday purchase scheme and we are committed to providing learning and development opportunities for all our employees.
Business Services Officer
- Part time
- £35,489 – £40,229 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 26th November 2024
ASH Scotland is currently recruiting for a Business Services Officer to carry out a varied and interesting business support role within the organisation.
We are looking for a self-motivated, dedicated and experienced individual who will support staff learning and development, help look after our premises and facilities and support our Health and Safety, Human Resources and IT.
Action on Smoking and Health Scotland (ASH Scotland) is the independent Scottish health charity working for a Scotland free from the harm and inequality caused by tobacco.
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Alternatives has been established since 1996 as a charitable company, with premises across West Dunbartonshire.
Alternatives’ core theme and purpose is to facilitate the personal journey from chaos to wholeness for individuals who have a substance dependency, by normalising a lifestyle without such a dependency.
To deliver the Foundation, Advanced and Move On phases of the Community Recovery Programme. This involves working with individuals and families affected by drug misuse, collaboration with partner organisations with specific focus on the delivery of our new innovative groupwork programme aimed at promoting positive alternatives to drug use and stability in the community.
PVG Scheme Membership is required for this post
Alternatives operates an Equal Opportunities Policy
Community Links Practitioner
- Full time
- £26,170 – £32,517
- On site: Glasgow
- Closing 26th November 2024
The ALLIANCE is excited to be recruiting new members to join our Community Links Practitioner team that will be based in Glasgow.
We have 2 full-time positions available: one is fixed term until 31 March 2026 and one maternity cover post fixed term until end of November 2025. Please note on your application which post you are applying for.
As part of the Links Programme, you will provide a person-centred service that is responsive to the needs and interests of people living in areas affected by socio-economic deprivation. You will support people to identify issues that affect their ability to live well. The post-holder will work collaboratively with individuals to support them through decision making processes and help them decide upon the issues that they would like to address; helping them overcome any barriers to addressing these.
Using service improvement methodology, the full time Community Links Practitioner will support the existing primary care team to adopt a links approach and the part-time Community Links Practitioner will support the existing foodbank team to adopt a links approach.
They will support staff in becoming skilled in identifying local services and matching They will support existing staff in becoming skilled in identifying local services and matching them to the needs of individual people. Typical examples include social or lunch clubs, self-help groups, befriending organisations, hobby clubs (such as gardening clubs) and employment or voluntary-work agencies.
The Community Links Practitioner will identify community resources and facilitate relationships between these resources and the practice for the benefit of the patient. They will also build relationships and processes with statutory organisations, health services and voluntary organisations such as the Citizens Advice Bureau, Money Advice Service, NHS services and charities.
The aim of the Links Practitioner Programme is to support people to live well through strengthening connections between community resources and primary care in deprived areas in Scotland.
As an ALLIANCE employee you will benefit from:
- 210 hours pro rata annual leave (equivalent of 30 days)
- 91 hours pro rata public holiday that can be taken flexibly
- Additional leave between Christmas and New Year
- Open to flexible working (formal and informal)
- Hybrid working – opportunity to work from home for part of the week
- Enhanced maternity and sick pay
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Learning and development opportunities
- Time off in lieu
- Cycle Scheme
- Carer Positive Employer
The ALLIANCE is a healthy working lives employer and encourages a healthy work life balance and is happy to talk flexible working.
PVG Scheme membership is required for this post.
Please note, this salary scale does not meet the Home Office requirements for visa sponsorship as a skilled worker.
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