PURPOSE OF POST: Engage with Angus communities to promote community development and encourage volunteering, while supporting initiatives that drive positive change. This role helps build a more resilient and sustainable Third Sector in Angus by offering inclusive volunteering opportunities, organisational support, training, and evidence-based interventions.

MAIN DUTIES:

• Build capacity of voluntary organisations, volunteering groups and aspiring social enterprises.
• Create up to date and engaging resources tailored for specific target audiences.
• Identify barriers to volunteering and implement strategies to overcome them.
• Promote volunteering and the benefits to individuals and groups by a variety of means, including community events, delivering information sessions and online sessions
• Create positive working relationships with organisations where there is the potential for people to gain new skills, lead to employment and give back to the community
• Work in partnership with Angus Health and Social Care Partnership (AHSCP) and Community Planning Partnership (CPP) developments at an operational level.
• Develop local empowerment opportunities through meaningful community engagement approaches with local communities, organisations and volunteer movements.
• Build strong working relationships with community workers, key organisations, and local communities to encourage participation and promote coordinated approaches across Angus.
• Collaborate with communities and key partners through consultation, as well as awareness, learning, and training events.
• Coordinate with communities and partners to evaluate needs, including addressing issues raised by community planning partners, and contribute to collaborative efforts.
• Facilitate and develop volunteer management/coordination through providing facilitated forums and sharing best practice.
• Offer communities opportunities to build their capacity and empower them to foster positive and sustainable change, using models of best practice and co-production.
• In collaboration with communities and key partners, create and support new initiatives and opportunities that enhance service delivery
• Assist Community Link Workers in the area by facilitating continuous learning and development, sharing local information, and providing monthly updates.
• Assist in creating and delivering networking, learning, and development opportunities to help organisations and groups meet best practice standards
• Provide guidance on best practice and signpost to funding opportunities
• Help support the start-up of organisations by helping with constitutions and organisational governance support.
• Recognise and report issues and 'knowledge gaps' among volunteers, volunteer-involving organisations, and communities.
• Make links with local health workers to identify other opportunities through VAA online directory system (Community Connector) and other means to ensure people get the right help at the right time.
• First point of contact for all local Third Sector organisations, community/volunteering groups and social enterprises within the locality.
• Engage with communities and groups to establish needs and wants to promote preventive work around mental health and wellbeing.
• Undertake monitoring requirements, report outcomes and provide service updates as required

This list is not exhaustive and other duties may be required.

We have a post available for each of the below areas, please state which area you would like an application for when applying:

Brechin/Montrose

Forfar/Kirriemuir

Arbroath

Purpose:

The post is a joint commitment between HTSI and the Highland Council and is intended to support strengthening employment outcomes for the people of the Highlands through improving the capacity, scope and influence of third sector employability provision.

The postholder will engage actively with local and national third sector providers to understand their strengths and challenges, identify opportunities for and support partnership working across sectors. They will support third sector employability providers with organisational and business development. They will advocate for the sector strategically on relevant partnership boards and working groups.

We’re looking for an ambitious and enthusiastic individual to support a number of projects that promote community justice in Inverclyde and beyond.

The Community Justice Coordinator will play a key role in Inverclyde’s partnership approach to community justice. The successful candidate will contribute to the local community justice agenda through cross-sectoral meetings, events and writing evaluations and reports on local activity. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to lead on specific projects and gain wider experience in relation to supporting people involved with the justice system, their families, survivors of crime and the wider community.

As Inverclyde’s Third Sector Interface, CVS Inverclyde offers a dynamic place to work where you can make a positive difference to the local community.

Organisation profile:

CVS Inverclyde is Inverclyde’s Third Sector Interface. CVSI aims to support the third sector to deliver the best outcomes for Inverclyde by providing practical support and improving the strategic environment for the sector. This project is in partnership with Inverclyde HSCP.

The organisation is committed to its people and is accredited with Disability Confident, Committed to Excellence, Flexible Working, Healthy Working Lives and the Living Wage.

This is an exciting opportunity to manage the work and people of our social policy team, who lead our influencing and advocacy work on; social security, housing and energy.

Working closely with our Head of Social Justice, at the heart of Scotland’s largest independent advice and advocacy network, this role will focus on building culture, developing people and delivering a strategic work plan, alongside putting into practice policy and influencing skills to deliver outcomes that improve the lives of people across Scotland.

This role offers you the opportunity to use your passion and insight into pursing social justice, alongside your expertise in the coordination and delivery projects that enable team members to flourish.

Employee benefits

Citizens Advice Scotland offers excellent terms and conditions. We want our people to have a great work life balance and we have designed our working practices and benefits to support this. Here are some of things our employees benefit from: a 35-hour full time working week, 40 days annual leave, genuine flexibility in working hours with a flexi-time system, and hybrid working opportunities for every role.

Citizens Advice Scotland is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies and flexible working arrangements to support all our staff. We are also committed to equality of opportunity for all and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

CAS provides options for hybrid working to allow employees to balance their time attending the office with time working from home. The number of days you will be able to work from home each week will be dependent on your job role and can be discussed as part of the recruitment process.