Early Years Scotland (EYS) is a prominent organisation dedicated to supporting children from pre-birth to age five. With nearly 60 years of expertise, EYS delivers family-focused sessions in communities most in need, providing vital resources to improve the wellbeing and development of young children and their families.

On a path of growth, EYS is looking to appoint a Business Development and Impact Officer to lead and launch its social enterprise, manage impact evaluation, and communicate achievements. This pivotal role will drive income-generating activities to fund free community-based programmes, ensuring every child in Scotland has the best possible start in life. At EYS, relationships are highly valued, with staff actively engaged in making a difference through teamwork and collaboration.

The Role

Reporting to the Fundraising Manager, the Business Development and Impact Officer will play a key role in growing, launching and sustaining its social enterprise, developing services and programmes. The role will involve developing partnerships, advocate for meaningful community initiatives, and measuring and communicating project impact through data analysis and storytelling.

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in the third sector, particularly in social enterprise, community impact or similar fields, and demonstrate strong skills in impact evaluation, data analysis, communication, and stakeholder management.

We are looking for a go-getter with ambition, able to be proactive, organised, and innovative. Incredible relationship-building skills is also key, balanced with the ability to deliver high-quality reports, managing multiple projects, and driving initiatives that align with Early Years Scotland’s mission and objectives.

Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC) is looking for a pro-active, team player to join the team to work within our Prison and Healthcare project.

As an employee of the Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC), reporting to the Prison Recovery Development Lead. The successful post holder will have a unique opportunity to work within Scottish Prisons establishments developing and promoting peer lead recovery initiatives, creating a culture of recovery across the Scottish prison service by supporting the development of an operational approach to the “Recovery from Within” project, which works in collaboration with all stakeholders and promotes a person-centred approach to Recovery

The role involves facilitate groups delivering SRC’s “Recovery from Within” learning offerings to residents and staff across the prison service with a focus on developing community assets and supporting sustainable peer led Recovery development within prisons.

Your role will be to:

· Facilitate the delivery of SRC “Recovery from Within” learning offerings to residents, staff and partners developing greater awareness of the experience of addiction and recovery within key institutions

· Build relationships that will support the continuum of recovery for residents which compliments the core work and traditional approaches of prisons, substance use services, criminal justice and healthcare systems.

Victim Support Scotland – Empowering People Affected by Crime.

Do you want to work with an organisation that makes a difference to the lives of people affected by crime? We put victims and witnesses at the heart of everything we do so they are heard, have improved health and well-being, feel safer, more secure, and informed and that we are an effective organisation, that makes a lasting difference.

Who We Are

Victim Support Scotland provides support and information to people affected by crime and campaigns for victim and witness rights. Regardless of whether a crime has been reported, or when it happened, our services are free, confidential, and tailored to individuals’ needs.

Our vision is that people affected by crime – victims, witnesses, and their families – are treated with dignity and respect and are at the heart of the justice in Scotland. Our mission is to ensure that all those affected by crime receive high quality support that will help them to recover from their experiences. All our work is guided and underpinned by our six core principles of being engaging and compassionate; inclusive and accessible; person-centred; adaptive, flexible, and responsive; collaborative; and knowledgeable and skilled. Now is the time to join Victim Support Scotland, helping us work towards the ambitions of our 5-year plan: Empowering people affected by crime: VSS Strategy 2021-2026.

What you’ll need to be successful

The postholder will be the volunteering team lead on the strategic and cross-organisational approach to volunteer communications and engagement, ensuring our volunteers feel connected and committed to Victim Support Scotland and have the information and updates they need to carry out their roles. This involves acting as a source of expertise around volunteer communications and engagement and being a key enabler of engagement initiatives. For example, the postholder will keep up to date with innovative practice around volunteer engagement and retention, making recommendations to colleagues about new approaches, driving forward key programmes and projects such as Volunteers’ Week and advising and empowering colleagues and stakeholders to value and recognise volunteers. Alongside these responsibilities, the postholder will work closely with other members of the volunteering team on shared ongoing responsibilities within the team. These include the delivery of our volunteering strategy, the recruitment and induction of volunteers, and supporting the onboarding and offboarding of volunteers.

Further details of this role are available in the job description - Volunteer Co-ordinator – Communications and Engagement Lead - Victim Support Scotland

What we offer

When you work for Victim Support Scotland, your wellbeing is important to us. Not only do we offer an enhanced annual leave package of 39 days, but you will also have access to our free health cash plan which includes cover for you and your family across a range of benefits, which include, dental cover, access to a virtual GP, counselling, legal support and discounts on gym memberships, cinema tickets, retail and much more. In addition we offer a generous pension, enhanced maternity and paternity pay and access to a credit union.

Street Connect is a Christian organisation with a mission to offer hope and opportunity of recovery for people disadvantaged by addiction, homelessness and poor mental health.

As a Projects Worker you can contribute to profound and lasting changes in the lives of highly vulnerable individuals. In 2023/24 working with our church partners, Street Connect benefitted over 2,166 people overall with 806 people receiving support through one-to-one appointments or groupwork, with 160 of those individuals receiving formal key work support, and we supported 16 entries to residential rehabilitation. Our participants report stability and improvements not only in their recovery from drug and alcohol problems, but also in their living skills and situations, social skills and relationships, and in their physical, mental and spiritual health and wellbeing.

The focal point of the role of Projects Worker will be in supporting church partners and volunteers. Our experience has shown us that working closely with partner churches to deliver support within communities is a successful way for people to access the support that they need. We currently have Street Connect partner churches and projects in Glasgow city centre, Royston, Clydebank, Paisley central, Paisley Kilnside, Greenock, Motherwell, Dunoon and Wishaw. As we continue our vital work in each of these areas our aim is to grow into new communities and allow as many people as possible to access the support they need.

In this role you will be part of the Street Connect team seeking to develop and deliver community recovery support through a range of different routes to both male and female service participants who have a background of complex needs such as addiction, homelessness, and mental health issues, who are now at different stages in their recovery journey. This will include both those in aftercare who are living independently and free from such issues and those at an earlier stage in their recovery.