We are hiring for 3 new volunteer recruitment officers to join our membership development and growth team!

Location: This is a home-based role, with the option to work from our headquarters in Edinburgh part of the time. There is a requirement for regular travel throughout Scotland (including at evenings and weekends with occasional overnight stays). You will also be required to participate in monthly in-person staff meetings, plus additional ad hoc project meetings and staff trainings at Girlguiding Scotland Headquarters, 16 Coates Crescent, Edinburgh, EH3 7AH.

Purpose of the role

As a volunteer recruitment officer you will play a key part in transforming how we advertise volunteering opportunities, work with external partners and welcome more volunteers into guiding. You will work with the head of membership development and growth, other volunteer recruitment officers, and volunteers throughout the Girlguiding Scotland network to identify opportunities to improve how we recruit and welcome volunteers.

About Us

We’re Euan’s Guide, the award-winning disabled access review charity making it easier for disabled people to find places to go. At the heart of the charity is our disabled access review website - euansguide.com - where disabled people and their friends, families and carers can find and share disabled access information. We also make tens of thousands of accessible toilets safer and run the UK’s largest and longest running Access Survey.

We have ambitious plans to grow and have secured funding for an exciting new project for which we are looking for a Review Coordinator(s).

The Role

A Review Coordinator is responsible for visiting locations around the UK and sharing their experiences of disabled access on EuansGuide.com.

Locations, venues and businesses to be visited will be those that can enable our community to travel with confidence so will focus on transport hubs and surrounding facilities such as toilets, places to eat and drink and other everyday essentials.

You will have a passion for UK travel and should expect to spend a significant portion of your time exploring new locations particularly around UK transport hubs.

You will report to the Travelling with Confidence Community Manager and work closely with other members of the Euan’s Guide team.

We are an ambitious charity, passionate about making the world accessible to all disabled people. We have a strong focus on technology so Euan’s Guide is often in a unique position of having the advantages and challenges of both a tech start up and a charity… there is no ‘typical day’!

What you’ll be responsible for:

Generating Disabled Access Information

• Visiting and sharing your experiences of disabled access at locations around the UK on EuansGuide.com
• Community Mapping - Researching and identifying disabled access information gaps and planning how to fill them

Your day-to-day will focus on visiting places and documenting your disabled access experiences but you will also support the Community Manager with:

Community Outreach and Engagement

• Researching people and organisations to work with in geographical locations and virtual communities
• Charity and stakeholder engagement including in-person and virtual events
• Volunteer engagement and communication through in person and virtual channels
• Representing Euan’s Guide at partner events and contributing content for partner publications and communications
• Contributing to project materials including volunteer resources and marketing materials

Project Resources

• Involvement in producing organisation and volunteer resources such as handbooks, welcome kits and digital content
• Involvement in producing marketing and promotional materials
• Involvement in for ensuring materials are available in accessible formats

Project Management

Involvement in project Quarterly Catch Ups

Desirable skills:

• High levels of organisation, motivation and resourcefulness with the ability to think creatively and find solutions to opportunities and challenges
• Great communication skills, including producing content in various formats for online audiences.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships and influence others.
• Ability to work on your own initiative and to recognise and act on opportunities
• Sharing your interest in disabled access, inclusion and equality

Desirable experience:

• Experienced explorer who is used to visiting new places and meeting new people
• Reviewer, blogger or writer who has content published on the internet or other publications.
• Managing relationships with a diverse range of stakeholder groups, including volunteers, funders, charities, commercial organisations and other partners
• Personal lived experience of disability

Additional Information:

This is a new role, and we have funding for the equivalent of one full-time position but would consider two part-time roles if there were two suitable applicants.

We would like the role to start in May 2025 however we can be flexible and will discuss this with suitable candidates.

This is a two year role, with a full-time salary of £26,000 – £28,000 per year, plus National Insurance and pension contributions. If the role is part-time or a job share, the salary will be pro rata.

This is a two year role made possible by external funding

Flexibility is important to us at Euan's Guide. Talk to us if the standard 9-5 doesn't work for you and we can discuss other ways we're flexible.

We're based in Edinburgh, but that doesn't mean you have to be! Wherever you are based in the UK we'd welcome your application. There will be times when we bring the whole team together at our HQ in Edinburgh and would expect you to travel to those.

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

Candidates are encouraged to apply if you think you can bring something special to Euan’s Guide even if your experience does not precisely match the job description.

Euan’s Guide is committed to being an inclusive employer and encourages applications from under-represented groups of people including disabled people, black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ people, people with experience in the care system, non-graduates and first-in-family graduates.

The Boys’ Brigade is an international Christian youth organisation, providing opportunities for children and young people to learn, grow and discover in a safe, fun and caring environment.

Our vision is that children and young people experience ‘life to the full’.

We are seeking an enthusiastic communicator with experience of working with volunteers, to support existing BB groups and establish new groups in Scotland.

To find out more about this role, please visit boys-brigade.org.uk/vacancies

Forces Children Scotland supports children & young people from serving, reservist and veteran families across Scotland to realise their potential and thrive. We work with children and young people to co-produce services and projects to overcome their unique challenges to mental health and wellbeing, education and learning and important transitions.

Our approach to working with children and young people

Forces Children Scotland is committed to taking a children’s rights-based approach to all aspects of our work from planning to service delivery. This means we strive to ensure our work is grounded in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Engaging in co-production with children and young people can help ensure their right to participate in matters affecting them is meaningfully upheld and implemented.

Purpose of Job

Children and Young People from armed forces families face unique experiences and their voices are often unheard. In this role, you will provide an opportunity for them to share their experiences and inform policy and practices in our work and influence those in the MoD, Local Authorities, and the Scottish Government. You will work directly with children and young people to facilitate a broad range of participatory and engagement opportunities.