School Programmes Officer
- Full time
- £24,700 – £30,900
- Hybrid: between the Glasgow office, schools in the region (Scotland) and home.
- Closing 15th December 2024
- Advertised from 28th November 2024
- Salary depending on skills and experience. 37.5 hours per week with flexibility for early starts & overnight stays.
- 25 days annual leave per year plus bank holidays & additional 'EDT day' (at discretion of CEO). Pension: Up to 10% employer contribution. Life insurance: 3 times annual salary.
Role
JOB PURPOSE:
The School Programmes Officer is part of a UK wide team delivering high quality STE(A)M engagement programmes and events to schools/colleges. This role involves delivery (face to face and virtual), event organisation and administration.
ABOUT EDT:
We are an established educational charity and our mission is to connect youngpeople with STEM and inspire STEM futures. Our vision is a society where young people acrossthe UK have equal access to engage with STEM subjects and achieve their potential in STEMcareers and opportunities for further study whatever their background. Our values arepassionate, dynamic, collaborative and respect.
At EDT we deliver our own series of programmes & tailored activities supporting young peopleat every key decision-making point throughout their educational journey. Industrial Cadets isour widely recognised, accredited awards scheme providing industry-based pathwayexperiences through education to employment, delivering an employability equivalent ofDofE, patroned by His Majesty the King.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
By joining EDT as a School Programmes Officer, you will have the opportunity be a key part of our success and support thousands of young people each year by delivering engaging content to young people both virtually and face-to-face. You will work closely with our partners and volunteers to create and deliver STE(A)M-based and future-skills projects.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver and present large-scale programmes and events with schools and industry mentors to a high standard.
- Take responsibility for the overall planning and implementation of specific activities within a defined geographical area.
- Recruit and build strong relationships with local schools, working with the Development and Delivery Lead to match educators to funders requirements.
- Develop and maintain good working relationships with teachers and industry mentors.
- Use our CRM system to manage delivery, report and track progress, ensuring that all relevant data is reviewed, managed and kept up to date.
- Be the face of EDT – take a ‘Front of house’ role at face-to-face and virtual events.
- Contribute to the expansion and development of inspirational, hands-on, virtual or face-to-face activities for young people.
- Work dynamically with all levels of the organisation to help create new and exciting additions to our programmes.
- End to end event planning with venues to ensure all programme requirements are met.
- Volunteer recruitment and management.
Competencies and Attributes:
- Professional and proactive, with a real pride in quality of work.
- Possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- The ability to use dynamic and engaging presentation skills with the confidence to deliver activities to large groups of young people.
- A team worker who can liaise and collaborate with colleagues and other stakeholders.
- Attention to detail and good IT skills (databases, CRM, Excel, Canva & LMS).
- Organised: can manage workload and deadlines and demonstrate effective time management.
- Positive and resilient attitude.
- Experience in the third sector and/or youth sector is desirable.
Special conditions:
The successful candidate will be required to fulfil an enhanced DBS/PVG check and should hold a clean driving licence. The role will require regular travel around the region (Scotland) and at times nationally (involving overnight stays), access to reliable transportation is essential (own car preferred).
Application notes
Please submit your CV and covering letter which outlines your specific interest and ability to successfully fill this role to Steven Brown: s.brown@etrust.org.uk
Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, so we would strongly encourage you to submit your application as soon as you can.
Closing date: Sunday 15th December, 11:59pm
Interview Date: Interviews will be conducted on rolling basis
We are looking for a Strategic Communications Lead to develop and implement our communications strategy, engaging a wide variety of audiences. Collaborating across teams, you’ll oversee media relations, storytelling, digital campaigns and stakeholder engagement to ensure MCR’s voice is heard by a wide variety of audiences and inspires action.
About the role:
The Strategic Communications Lead oversees a small communications and campaigns team to create, build and deliver spectacular multi platform campaigns and communications activities. The role is crucial in managing both internal and external communications, enhancing public engagement, supporting partnerships staff in mentor recruitment and supporting fundraising activity aligned with the mission of bridging the education, skills and opportunity gap for Scotland's most disadvantaged young people. The role involves strategic thinking, creativity, operational planning and delivery.
Key responsibilities:
- Develop and deliver an integrated communications strategy aligned with our goals.
- Lead media relations, securing impactful coverage and managing key relationships.
- Oversee content creation, including digital, social media, and campaigns, ensuring consistent messaging.
- Act as brand guardian, ensuring clarity and cohesion in all communications.
- Provide strategic advice to leadership on key messaging and public engagement opportunities.
- Powering our drive to be recognised nationally, and loved locally and regionally in the communities we serve.
About you:
You’ll have a proven track record in strategic communications, media relations, and campaign delivery, ideally within the charity sector. A skilled communicator and collaborator, you’ll bring creativity, adaptability, and a passion for delivering positive change for young people. You’ll have a relevant portfolio of work that shows your passion for high quality communications and impactful creative output.
About us:
MCR Pathways is an award-winning charity with a passionate team dedicated to helping the UK’s most vulnerable young people gain self-confidence, identify their skills and recognise and fulfil their potential through mentoring. Our vision is for all young people to experience equality of education outcomes, career opportunities and life chances. Our relationship-based mentoring is transformative and has profound positive impacts on young people in their confidence, wellbeing, achievement and post-school progression. All 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 volunteer mentors.
Bereavement Support Practitioner (Outreach) - Scotland
- Full time
- £28,000
- Hybrid: based at Child Bereavement UK’s Family Service in Glasgow, and providing outreach support across Edinburgh and Forth Valley.
- Closing 5th January 2025
With thanks to a grant from The Scottish Lottery Community Fund, Child Bereavement UK are able to build on the success of the well-established services based in Glasgow to begin to offer a hybrid model of outreach bereavement support to individuals, couples, families and in group settings, across Edinburgh and the Forth Valley. This is an exciting opportunity for the post holder to support the Bereavement Support Service Lead in Scotland in the provision and evaluation of a developing and extending service that ensures families and professionals can access high quality bereavement support in situations where a baby or child of any age has died, or where children or young people up to the age of 25 are bereaved.
The role will include:
- To support the Bereavement Support Service Lead in developing and establishing Child Bereavement UK’s service as a source of advice and support for families and professionals.
- To manage a caseload and provide a programme of individual and couple sessions and to develop and provide facilitated Groups for Parents bereaved of a baby or child.
- To contribute to the provision of a programme of individual and family support sessions, Groups for Families, Groups for Young People and school liaison.
- To outreach with diverse organisations and community groups including BAME, LGBQT+ organisations to positively support inclusion and engagement of these groups and individuals, and their access to bereavement support services.
- To support the Bereavement Support Service Lead in the selection, training and support of volunteers for the Bereavement Service.
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.
Child Bereavement UK offers a generous package of benefits including an employee assistance programme, 5% pension contribution and life assurance scheme.
If you are interested in knowing more, please see the attached job description and person specification or contact karen.smith@childbereavementuk.org
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Top job! Communications and Engagement Advisor
- Full time
- £36,924 – £45,163
- On site: Glasgow
- Closing 5th January 2025
The Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ) works towards ensuring that Scotland’s approach to children and young people in conflict with the law is rights-respecting; contributing to better outcomes for our children, young people and communities. We produce robust ground-breaking work by bringing together children and young people’s contributions, research evidence, practice wisdom and system know-how to operate as a leader for child and youth justice thinking in Scotland and beyond. An evaluation of CYCJ, published in 2020, highlights how our significant contribution stems from our unique role and positioning:
‘CYCJ is a boundary-spanning intermediary organisation. Boundary spanners are capable of contributing to system change. Their work to redress the imbalances of information, to connect and share insight across groups, to coordinate people to collaborate on key issues as well as focused interventions on seemingly intractable issues can come together to create paradigm shifts in the system.’
Our focus for 2020-2025 is on supporting Scotland to comply with its international commitments for children and young people in conflict with the law in relation to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), find our strategy on our website.
We work across four workstreams: Practice Development, Policy, Research, and Participation.
CYCJ is primarily funded by the Scottish Government and is based within the University of Strathclyde, in the School of Social Work and Social Policy. Our Executive Governance Group has oversight of CYCJ and our strategic direction, and consists of representatives from across policy, practice, research and lived experience. This post has funding to March 2026 with indicative funding for future years.
Youth Participation Worker
- Part time
- £27,040 pro-rata
- On site: The Broomhouse Hub
- Closing 22nd January 2025
About Space:
Space is a community anchor organisation supporting people and their families in South West Edinburgh, with some of our services stretching city wide.
WE BELIEVE THAT CONNECTIONS BUILD COMMUITIES
Space delivers 22 projects, with around 65 staff and over 200 volunteers. We deliver diverse services supporting young people, families, older people and carers amongst others.
For more information about Space and all our projects can be found on our website – spacescot.org
About the role:
The Youth Participation Worker will work as part of a small team designing, planning and delivering the Space Training Academy’s exciting new project – Wellbeing onto Work (WOW).
The WOW project will work with young people aged 16-24yrs, supporting the transition between school and employment. The Youth Participation Worker will offer group sessions and 1:1 support to help young people build on their skills and improve their confidence. Sessions may take place at the Broomhouse Hub and in other outreach locations throughout Edinburgh.
Key tasks in the role will include:
- Create promotional material and network locally, recruiting suitable young people on to the programme
- Plan and deliver WOW group sessions
- Meet with young people on a 1:1 basis to deliver appropriate individual support
- Track and evaluate the progress of the project to demonstrate impact and inform funder reporting
- Maintain accurate, detailed, records for each young person including attendance and progress
- Stay abreast of local opportunities for young people, such as community groups, jobs, work placements, further education and voluntary opportunities
- Source and commission external trainers/suppliers to deliver sessions where specialised knowledge and/or skills are required
- Supporting volunteers in the project
If you would like to have a chat about the role before applying please contact joyce.juma-phiri@spacescot.org
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