Edinburgh University Students' Association is looking to recruit a Maintenance Electrician to join our Estates team.

Edinburgh University Students’ Association is an award-winning organisation, which exists to provide diverse services, representation, and welfare support to the community of over 49,500 students at the University of Edinburgh. By providing opportunities, helping to create change and offering support, we're here to help students get the most out of their time in Edinburgh. We have five venues around the University of Edinburgh campus – Teviot Row House, King’s Buildings House, Potterrow, the Pleasance and Edinburgh College of Art’s Wee Red Bar – which house our offices, cafés, bars, clubs, spaces for students to meet, study and socialise. These spaces transform into some of the most well loved Edinburgh Festival Fringe venues throughout the month of August each year.

We are a registered charity and all of the income we generate from our commercial activity goes back in to supporting our members. We’re also an organisation with a strategic commitment to support and empower all our staff, and have some exciting plans for the future. There's never been a better time to apply and join our organisation.

We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. Edinburgh University Students’ Association is committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination.

Collaborative Environment: Our team fosters a collaborative and supportive work environment where everyone's ideas are valued. You'll have the opportunity to work closely with skilled professionals who are passionate about what they do. We believe in teamwork and encourage knowledge sharing to ensure continuous growth and development.

Diverse Range of Projects: Working with us means you'll have the chance to work on a diverse range of projects. From small repairs to large-scale commercial renovations, every day brings a new and exciting challenge. This variety keeps the work interesting and helps you expand your skills in different areas.

Professional Growth and Learning: We prioritize the professional growth and development of our team members. We provide opportunities for training, workshops, and seminars to enhance your skills and knowledge. Whether you're looking to refine your existing skills or learn new ones, we're committed to supporting your career advancement.

Job Satisfaction: As a member of our team, you'll experience a sense of job satisfaction knowing that your work directly contributes to improving the lives of our members. Whether it's changing a light bulb or transforming a space, your craftsmanship and problem-solving skills make a real difference and bring smiles to our customers' faces.

Respect and Recognition: We believe in recognizing and appreciating the efforts of our team members. Your hard work, dedication, and contributions will be acknowledged and rewarded. We have a culture that values and respects everyone's ideas, and your input will be actively sought and appreciated.

The Role:

To use a complete customer focused approach to ensure excellent service, maintain the highest levels of technical support, repair and maintenance of electrical equipment as well as minor works of alteration and refurbishment in all Edinburgh University Students’ Association premises.

A proactive open eye approach is expected to ensure the delivery expectations of other stakeholders are met.

The post holder will work as part of the Maintenance and Estates Team. The Maintenance team will ensure the facility premises and contents are kept in good repair and efficient working order to an agreed and excellent standard, in line with regulatory requirements, to ensure safe operation. Each team member will be required to work as business needs dictate and in all buildings across the estate.

The Person:

An enthusiastic, confident and competent individual with the ability to achieve high standards in a multi-function maintenance role.

A person with very high expectations of themselves and others, with a passion for detail, who takes pride in their work, and who has the ability to maintain delivery at a consistently high standard.

It is an exciting time at the DRC Youth Project! Our charity is growing, and we are looking to strengthen our team by welcoming a new motivated group worker onto our team of staff.

• Are you motivated and passionate about working together with young people?
• Do you have a ‘can do’ attitude?
• Can you inspire young people to make positive changes in their lives?
• Are you excited about working for a modern charity with great opportunities for career progression?
• Do you have a UK Driver’s License?

The DRC Youth Project is a modern youth service which offers safe spaces and supports young people. The new group worker will work together with groups of young people across DRC personal development initiatives. The aim of each group is to provide support, advice and guidance on employment, training and career and personal development for the young people. In doing this, the new group worker will liaise with relevant bodies as directed with a key focus on prevention, employability and in some cases, recovery. At the DRC, young people are at the heart of everything we do, and our aim is that every young person we work with is empowered to live their life to its fullest potential.

The group worker’s core function is to offer a variety of information and support that will help fulfil the personal development requirements of each young person. The group worker will equip the young people to meet life challenges and in particular allow them to access employment and a career path within their own aspirations and capabilities. To achieve this, the post holder will continually engage with young people utilising various DRC Youth Project resources and key specialist partners. The post holder will also support the DRC management team in the day to day running of the project’s various youth provisions.

About the Organisation

St Paul’s Youth Forum (SPYF) aims to alleviate the worst effects of poverty in the Blackhill/Provanmill area of Glasgow through our programmes for young people and our local community, focusing on eating, education, exercise and empowerment.

Purpose of the role

Are you passionate about using your skills and talent make a difference to the lives of the people we support? Fundraising is a crucial part of our work at SPYF and allows us to continue our life-changing work with our local communities.

As our Fundraising Officer you will work across St Paul’s Youth Forum (SPYF) to build our fundraising capacity across the organisation. The role will be managed by our Molendinar Community Centre Manager and will have plentiful opportunities for networking and professional development for candidates looking to establish themselves in a career in community development and fundraising.

This is a year-long position funded by the Rank Foundation as part of their Time to Shine programme. Time to Shine provides a unique learning and development opportunity for a candidate who is underemployed or looking for a career change to grow their leadership potential. The programme’s distinctive culture incorporates a range of personal and professional development activities for the Time to Shine leader. Please see attached candidate guide from The Rank Foundation for more information about this programme.

We are looking for someone who is keen to work with dedicated and passionate colleagues and who is a good fit with the values of our organisation. For this role, having the right mind-set, attitude and approach is as important to us as having the right experience and skills. We appreciate that the best person might not yet have all the general requirements listed, so if you feel that your current skills and experience will help you to make a great contribution in this role and you have the right mind-set, we would welcome an application from you.

Are you passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people? Do you want a flexible, varied and meaningful job in a supportive team? Do you value great employee benefits such as generous holidays and an annual training budget? Apply to join us!

Bridges Project is a leading youth work charity that helps young people aged 12-25 in East Lothian and Midlothian overcome challenges and adapt to adulthood. Since 1984, we have helped young people develop their life skills, improve their educational attainment and move into employment or further education. Join our team as we celebrate 40 years of empowering young people!

We have a vacancy for a GIRFEC Support Worker to provide bespoke, individually tailored support packages to young people who have been identified as not engaging or coping with mainstream school.

The successful candidate will:

• Provide a mixture of one to one intervention and group learning to young people, including support in areas such as wellbeing, personal and emotional development and employability
• Support young people to gain employability skills, life skills and accreditation; helping them in to work, apprenticeships, further education or vocational training
• Deliver tailored support packages to young people enabling them to create and realise their career pathways and progress in to post school opportunities

It is essential that candidates have a full, clean driving licence with business insurance and constant use of a car. Membership of the PVG scheme will be an essential requirement of the post. A contributory company pension scheme is offered with a 10% employer contribution.