VisionPK is an exciting and growing charity, recently opening our new Sensory Hub in the heart of Perth. We provide specialist services for people with sight and hearing loss living within the Perth and Kinross local authority area.

We are currently recruiting a Community Involvement Coordinator, which is a newly created role, funded by the National Lottery Community Fund. This role will strengthen VisionPK’s presence in the community by overseeing volunteer recruitment and governance, building stakeholder relationships and managing our telephone befriending project.

The Role

Volunteer Recruitment and Governance

• Collaborate with the CEO to update and implement volunteer management policies, ensuring legal compliance and best practices.
• Develop and deliver induction and ongoing training for volunteers, equipping them with the skills needed to contribute effectively.
• Provide continuous guidance and supervision to volunteers, ensuring a positive experience and high performance in their roles.

Community Engagement and Relationship Building

• Establish strong connections with local community groups, service users, and stakeholders to expand VisionPK’s network and influence.
• Work with community partners to align VisionPK services with local needs and identify opportunities for collaboration.
• Raise awareness of VisionPK’s services through participation in local events, presentations, and outreach activities.

Telephone Befriending Project Leadership

• Lead the setup and delivery of VisionPK’s new telephone befriending project, designed to support isolated individuals with sensory impairments.
• Build and manage a dedicated team of volunteers for the befriending service, ensuring they are well-trained and supported.
• Promote the befriending project throughout the community to engage potential service users and volunteers.
• Track the project’s impact, providing regular reports and recommending improvements as needed.

Raising Awareness and Promoting VisionPK

• Actively promote VisionPK’s services, events, and initiatives through local and digital channels.
• Work closely with the Fundraising Manager to implement community-based fundraising events that engage local supporters and raise essential funds for the charity.

About You

• Experience in volunteer management, community engagement, or project coordination.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build relationships with diverse groups.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• A proactive, collaborative, and compassionate individual who is passionate about making a positive difference.

Why Join Us

• Be part of an exciting time as we grow and develop our newly opened Sensory Hub in Perth.
• Make a real difference in the lives of people with sensory loss.
• Join a supportive and fun team that values hard work and collaboration.
• A supportive and collaborative working environment.

Child Bereavement UK helps families to rebuild their lives when a child grieves or when a child dies.

We support children and young people (up to the age of 25) when someone important to them has died or is not expected to live, and parents and the wider family when a baby or child of any age dies or is dying.

We provide training to professionals in health and social care, education, and the voluntary and corporate sectors, equipping them to provide the best possible care to bereaved families.

Child Bereavement UK has an exciting opportunity for an experienced manager to lead on the provision, evaluation and ongoing development of a Scotland-wide Bereavement Support Service that ensures families and professionals can access high-quality bereavement support when a baby or child has died, or when children or young people are bereaved. The Bereavement Support Service Lead will also support the strategic development of the Charity’s services in Scotland.

In this role you will:

• Lead/manage/contribute to and further develop the provision of a blended model of bereavement support across Scotland
• Provide training, consultancy, and support for professionals whose work brings them into contact with bereaved families
• To collaborate with partners to develop bereavement support services across Scotland.
• To support Child Bereavement UK’s Fundraising Team in the generation of sustainable income to fund our Scottish operations, providing information and data to support applications and reporting.

A regular presence at our offices in Finnieston, Glasgow will be required initially, once established hybrid working is available.

Reporting: Head of Support Services

Child Bereavement UK offers a generous package of benefits including an employee assistance programme, 5% pension contribution and life assurance scheme.

Applicants should have a recognised, health, social care, or counselling qualification, experience in working with children, young people and families, excellent communication skills and be passionate about supporting bereaved families and those whose roles bring them into contact with these families.

The successful candidate will be required to complete a PVG check.

If you are interested in knowing more, please see the attached job description and person specification or contact karen.smith@childbereavementuk.org

We are looking for a Pathways Coordinator at Blairgowrie High School, to work with young people, mentors and school staff involved in our programme.

About the role:

You will be an integral part of the school community and wider MCR team and be the key person delivering the MCR programme to young people in the school.

Key responsibilities:

- Helping to build exceptional individual relationships with young people across S1 to S6 and delivering S1 & S2 group work.

- Helping to drive volunteer mentor recruitment. Consistently supporting, actively engaging and motivating mentors from training through the length of their engagement with the programme.

- Actively support MCR young people to set, experience then follow their education and employment pathways.

- Evidence progression, impact and best practice with YP input, quantitative feedback and qualitative case studies.

About you:

- Exceptional ability to build meaningful relationships with young people aged 11-18 years, education colleagues, volunteer mentors and local employers.

- Awareness and understanding of the principles of safeguarding and child protection.

- Ability and confidence to present programme information & deliver prepared training sessions to groups.

- Ability to work well on own initiative, as part of a team and on a flexible basis in response to young person and organisational need.

- An understanding of the challenges and barriers that care-experienced and/or vulnerable young people may encounter.

- Experience or a knowledge of processes to document and evidence good practice and positive outcomes.

You may have experience as a Youth, Community or Advice Worker. You will be an empathetic person who is open minded, non-judgemental, resilient and who is driven to improve outcomes for care experienced and other vulnerable young people.

About MCR Pathways:

MCR Pathways is an award-winning charity established in Glasgow in 2007. Our mentoring programme is now delivered in schools across the whole of Scotland. Our passionate team is dedicated to helping the most vulnerable young people gain in self-confidence, identify their skills and recognise and fulfil their potential. Our vision is for all young people to experience equality of education outcomes, career opportunities and life chances. Our in-school mentoring has profound impacts on school pupils in their confidence, wellbeing, achievement and post-school progression. MCR Mentors are volunteers who make and experience a life-changing difference. You will be joining a friendly and supportive team who love what they do and enjoy working with each other. We model our values and many of us are also mentors ourselves.

Benefits of working for MCR Pathways include: 33 days annual leave in first year rising to 38 days from 2nd year of employment, additional day off for your birthday, Living Pensions Employer, Life Assurance - 4 x salary.

We are looking for an experienced manager with a strong understanding of the third sector and a genuine passion for social justice to help lead our organisation through challenging economic times.

The role requires someone who can think creatively, adapt to change, and handle challenges with a solution-focused mindset. Experience in budgeting, financial planning, fundraising, and running impactful organisations on limited resources is essential.

The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills, a non-judgmental approach, and the ability to connect with and manage a diverse team.

This office-based role is a vital position, ensuring the organisation thrives in a difficult climate, working closely with the CEO to oversee operations and drive the organisation’s growth and development.

If you’re ready to make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you!

scrapantics.co.uk

Job Purpose:

• To support ScrapAntics’ CEO in the running of the organisation
• To support and coordinate the team - maintaining a positive and cohesive working environment
• To manage, document and lead multiple projects
• To maintain business bookkeeping and project accounting spreadsheets
• Internal and external communications and all associated admin duties
• Collaborating on funding applications and reporting as part of the management team

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Project management of commissioned projects
• Internal communications within the team - distributing information, answering questions, carrying out supervisions and being available for support
• Communicating and liaising with external partners and organisations including Dundee City Council and national organisations, ensuring positive relationships are maintained and information is shared
• Creating and collaborating on funding applications and project reporting
• Attending and facilitating organisational meetings; taking minutes and distributing these as appropriate
• Creating and updating/maintaining booking schedules and staff rotas
• Maintaining an overview of larger projects and supporting the project leads to deliver to budget and timescale
• Handling enquiries and taking bookings for activities, play sessions, workshops and space rental
• Creating and maintaining budget spreadsheets
• Maintaining a general overview of ScrapAntics organisational running and communicating changes and issues to ScrapAntics’ CEO

Skills, Knowledge and Experience Required:

• Experience of working in a thriving third sector organisation
• Passion for sustainability, community and social justice
• Positive leadership skills and experience of managing a team
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and a welcoming, friendly and helpful manner
• High level of IT and written skills
• Project management experience
• Experience of applying for and reporting on funding
• Experience of working with budget spreadsheets

Further Details:

• Training opportunities will be available.
• Your line manager will be Sandy Greene, CEO.

Equal opportunities:

ScrapAntics is committed to being an equal opportunities organisation and welcomes all applications for consideration.

We know there are candidates who may not fit every criteria we’ve outlined here, or who have key skills we haven’t listed. If this is you, please do apply if you feel your particular experience or skill set could enhance this role.