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.

Who Cares? Scotland is Scotland’s only national independent membership organisation for Care Experienced people. Our mission is to secure a lifetime of equality, respect, and love for Care Experienced people in Scotland and we currently have over 3000 Care Experienced members.

At the heart of Who Cares? Scotland’s work are the rights of Care Experienced children and young people, and the power of their voices to bring about positive change. We provide individual relationship-based independent advocacy and a broad range of imaginative participatory opportunity for Care Experienced young people across Scotland; we work alongside corporate parents and communities of all sorts to broaden understanding; we work with policy makers, leaders and elected representatives locally and nationally to shape law, policy and practice on the basis of all that can be learnt from the voices of those with experience of care - working together to build on the aspirations of The Promise and secure positive change.

The post holder will work directly with children and young people with experience of care, in an individual relationship-based advocacy role, and within participation and group activity across our Northwest region. This unique role requires you to listen to what children and young people with experience of care say and support them to ensure their rights are upheld and their voices are heard in the processes of making decisions about their lives. You will also help facilitate a broad range of participatory and engagement opportunities and create the conditions for collective advocacy.

The right candidate for this post will be brilliant at forming positive relationships with children and young people. You will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, adaptable to a wide range of contexts. You will enjoy working collaboratively with partners. You will be committed to children’s rights, inclusive working, equal opportunities, and believe that all young people can make transformative change happen in their lives if given the opportunity.

The successful candidate will be joining Who Cares? Scotland and working within the West Central locality team at an exciting time, when the voices of those who are in or have experienced care are growing in power, individually and collectively - bringing with them insight, challenge, hope and change. Flexibility will be required given the remit of the role. Some evening and weekend work will be necessary, as will a full driving licence and access to transport.

If this sounds like the role for you, we would love to hear from you. For an informal conversation about this opportunity please contact Jamie McAnally, our Advocacy and Participation Manager for our West Central team on jmcanally@whocaresscotland.org.

About the Roles:Access to Industry (AI) is one of 8 partners delivering the new justice National Voluntary Throughcare Programme (NVTP) which is led by Sacro. We are looking for enthusiastic and compassionate self-starter to support with the engagement of men across HMP and YOI Polmont and HMP Glenochil as they transition from custody into the community. Your aim will be to support positive outcomes for the individuals you work with.

The NVTP works with men, women and young people across Scotland. This role focusses on supporting men whilst they are serving a short term sentence or are on remand.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Delivering supportive and collaborative partnership working with the Scottish Prison Service as a key stakeholder.
• Delivering effective pre-release support and planning.
• Proactively engage with individuals throughout their journey to ensure appropriate touchpoints with the NVTP, raising awareness and encouraging engagement
• Facilitate and lead engagement sessions across the prison estate
• Conducting needs assessment for individuals.
• Establishing trusting & genuine relationships, rooted in trauma informed principles.
• Participating in multi-agency meetings.
• Completing risk assessments and adhering to safeguarding best-practice.
• Maintaining accurate and timely records on case management system.
• Maximising engagement with partners across the prison estate.
• Identifying appropriate onward referral routeways at the earliest appropriate point.

You will do this by:

• Working collaboratively with the wider AI and national partnership team to deliver relational support for people accessing the NVTP, supporting team meetings, and service improvement.
• Participating in partnership meetings to support team working and service improvement.
• Upholding high quality service standards.
• Undertaking required role training (including that provided by the NVTP, Scottish Prison Service and AI).
• Being flexible and responsive to service demand including working across cohorts and prison establishments as required.

AI Team:You will play a part in the wider team of AI through attendance at internal meetings and participation in shared services across the teams.

Health & Safety and Property Management: You will ensure a healthy and safe environment and the protection and best use of property and equipment by implementing and observing AI policies and procedures.

Other Requirements: The post holder will be expected to manage their own caseload and work with minimum supervision partly in an outreach capacity.

We help young people to build life-long belief in themselves, supporting them to take on their own challenges, follow their own passions and discover talents they never knew they had. Because when you prove yourself that you are ready for anything nothing can hold you back.

Do you want to be part of that?

This is a 12 month fixed term maternity cover contract.

This is an opportunity to join a small, dynamic, ambitious, and welcoming team that believes in the transformative power of youth work and the power of partnerships. Operations Officers support the operational delivery and development of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) through managing a portfolio of Licensed Organisations (LOs).

LOs range from local authorities, state and independent schools to youth organisations, secure units, and community groups. The DofE Scotland Operations team works with these licensed organisations to build their capacity, support their reach into more marginalised communities and ensure quality and compliance with the Award framework.

The DofE Scotland office covers DofE activity across the length and breadth of Scotland, working with over 140 Licensed Organisations and over 19,000 young people in the last year alone. Each Operations Officer manages a portfolio based on broad geographic region.

The role will be field-based and when not attending meetings, employees will work from home. You will need to have an appropriate home office set up and live within the region of East Scotland (Edinburgh, Lothians, and Scottish Borders).

What we are looking for:

The successful candidate will be a dynamic and proactive team player, who is able to embrace innovation and change. You will be a confident and effective communicator and collaborator and have experience of building and sustaining relationships with stakeholders across the education and/or youth and community sectors.

You will be a passionate advocate for the work of the DofE and motivated by the charity’s strategic ambition to give more than one million young people the chance to participate in our life-changing programmes.

What will you get in return?

The opportunity to work for a successful and dynamic charity that has the development of young people at its heart and the wellbeing and development of its people constantly in focus.

You will be joining a team of empowered colleagues working together.

Our staff benefits package includes a generous pension contribution, an employee assistance program, a healthcare cash plan, and paid volunteer leave. You will also receive 25 days of annual holiday, plus Bank Holidays, an extra 3 days of paid leave between Christmas and New Year, plus the opportunity to purchase additional leave. Additional benefits include access to a benefits discount website, a death-in-service benefit equal to four times your salary, incapacity coverage, and comprehensive family and sick leave policies (Pro-Rata).

About DofE

Since its launch in 1956, the DofE has empowered millions of young people to become the very best they can be. It was established by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, our Patron, and is still guided by the same set of principles he laid down.

The flexibility and adaptability of DofE have allowed the DofE to spread around the world. We operate through a social franchise model in the UK, licensing and supporting a wide range of organisations to deliver DofE programmes to hundreds of thousands of young people every year.

Despite the disruption caused by the COVID-19 outbreak our ambition to grow the number of young people who can access a DofE programme remains unchanged and we continue to engage new partners and develop innovative ways of working with businesses, the voluntary sector, and policymakers across the UK to ensure that any young person who wants to do their DofE can do so. To find out more visit DofE.org/about.