Are you passionate about empowering students and shaping their university experience? AUSA is seeking two External Trustees to provide strategic guidance, ensure strong governance, and oversee financial decisions for our £1M charity, supporting 15,000 students. This voluntary role offers the chance to gain board-level experience in a student-led charity focused on inclusivity and student success.

Would you like to come and work at the number one Union in Scotland (as voted in the recent Whatuni Student Choice awards)? Strath Union is looking for a talented Activities Coordinator to join our growing team.

Strathclyde Students’ Union is committed to promoting diversity and equality for all and welcomes applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from applicants with disabilities, from ethnic minority backgrounds, and those with diverse sexualities or marginalised gender identities as these groups are underrepresented.

Summary

This role will work as part of a team to focus on maintaining and developing Strath Union’s approximately 200 varied societies. This will include working closely with elected students and colleagues in the team to ensure student societies and activities are diverse, inclusive, and accessible.

The role will support student groups with their events and deliver relevant training and workshops to volunteers. This position will also help to deliver and promote key Student Engagement department events and activities, such as welcome weeks and volunteering awards.

The ideal candidate will utilise their skills and experience to provide effective support to Strath Union’s societies and student activities, using initiative and problem solving to continually develop processes and resources. The successful candidate will enjoy a varied workday in a vibrant workplace with a competitive salary within the sector.

Glasgow Watersports Ltd (Pinkston) is now 10 years old. Our charity is a unique social enterprise, urban sports hub for the community and a thriving legacy project from Glasgow 2014.

We are home to Scotland’s only artificial white-water course, supporting paddlesports and rescue service training nationally. We offer meeting and training rooms, a full delivery programme aimed at schools, clubs and uniformed groups, storage for clubs, colleges and businesses who focus on paddlesports, and a growing offering to the general public.

Our sealed canal basin has bathing quality water, and we aim to continue to increase participation across our communities. We have a fully accessible pontoon, and an ever-widening range of services aimed a many different groups across the city.

We are currently looking to recruit to our volunteer Board. Our volunteer commitment is around 4 hours per month, which will include a Board meeting approximately every 2 months. We have a fantastic and broad range of skills represented but we are keen to build on this with sales/marketing skills, charity, HR or with a construction/ engineering background. We would particularly welcome applications from younger people and people living in our local community. Of course, Pinkston is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes inclusion and diversity.

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.