Are you a strong communicator comfortable interacting with individuals at all levels and capable of writing compelling fundraising proposals and reports? Are you committed to building and maintaining strong relationships with funders, providing excellent stewardship? Are you skilled at creating and executing plans to secure funds from trusts and foundations? Are you adept at identifying potential funding sources and researching requirements to tailor applications accordingly?

If so, we would love to hear from you as we are currently recruiting a Trusts and Foundations Fundraising Manager within our Partnerships & Philanthropy Team. Working closely with the existing Trust Fundraising Executive, your primary focus will be to sustain and grow income from existing and potential funders through compelling proposals, timely reporting and effective stewardship.

You will work collaboratively across CHAS to craft innovative and persuasive proposals, provide outstanding account management and stewardship to current donors, and identify, research, and engage new prospects.

You'll also develop strategies to cultivate relationships with both current and potential donors from trusts and foundations, and manage the stewardship program to attract, cultivate and retain strategic philanthropic income.

About You:

• Personal values align to CHAS’ values and motivated to help us to reach our ambition.
• Familiarity with trusts fundraising and expertise in creating strategic plans.
• An excellent verbal communicator, confident in dealing with people at all levels, externally and internally, with a view to building relationships and increasing income.
• An exceptional written communicator with the ability to write compelling and detailed fundraising proposals and reports.
• Experience of managing income and expenditure budgetseffectively
• Organised with the ability to plan and prioritise a diverse workload, manage your own time and meet multiple deadlines under pressure.

Why CHAS?

At CHAS, we support families during the toughest of times. We have ambitions to reach every family in Scotland who is living with the heart-breaking prognosis that their child is expected to die young and offer them our care and support to empower them to make the most of the short time they have together. The skill, determination and creative flair of our Fundraising Teams makes this possible and your contribution will be valued.

We offer:

• Flexible Working:our teams work flexibly and in a hybrid manner with time mostly split between working from home and our Edinburgh and Glasgow offices, as well as occasional visits to our children’s hospices in Kinross and Balloch. We are happy to discuss working arrangements.
• Development Opportunities:exposure to a variety of fundraising activities as well as access to internal and external training opportunities
• Professional Growth:Work with industry leaders in a high-performing team where you will be encouraged and supported to excel and develop your skills.
• Comprehensive Benefits:Including generous annual leave policy (35 days inclusive of public holidays, rising to 40 days after 5yrs service) as well as pension, incremental annual salary progression, access to Blue Light discounts, and health and wellbeing support.

As a Community Cook you will be responsible for the organisation and delivery of food based activities including pop-up cafes, community meals and community focused workshops. You will be happy using your cooking skills to plan and prepare large meals using fresh produce, and able to share your skills and enthusiasm through the planning and delivery of cookery courses aimed at improving the cooking confidence and skills of local residents and their ability to make healthy food choices. You will develop classes and workshops which cover topics such as food waste reduction and cooking on a fixed budget, and will have an interest and enthusiasm for sharing diverse cooking cultures and traditions. Funded by The Robertson Trust.

This is a part-time role, ideally spread over 4 or 5 days. Availability on Fridays is essential to meet service needs, with flexibility on other working days There will be some evening and weekend (Saturdays) work on a rotational basis.

Positive Help is a well-established, third sector service provider – a registered charity – based in central Edinburgh. We have almost 40 years’ experience of supporting adults, children and families living with / affected by HIV and or Hepatitis.

With the support of a cohort of trained and supervised volunteers, we provide a range of services to help people who have complex needs live fulfilling, healthy lives in the community.

We are now looking for a Children’s Services Support Officer with proven experience of working or volunteering with children, young people or families. We work from our centrally situated office in Edinburgh, although there is the option to work from home depending on business need.

The ideal candidate will have the skills and experience we need to help us deliver our children’s services – specifically our Befriending and Study Buddy services - and support the wider organisation effectively and efficiently, having a genuine interest in this very rewarding work.

As our Children’s Services Support Officer, you will assist the Children's Services Manager in ensuring that volunteer-delivered Befriending and Study Buddies services to children and families run well. You will play a key role in ensuring that volunteers are appropriately matched and well supported / supervised to maintain a high standard of practice and satisfaction. This role involves coordinating day-to-day service delivery, liaising with families, volunteers, and professionals and ensuring services meet the needs of children and their families.

You will use your strong communication and interpersonal skills to build positive relationships with the children and families to identify their support needs, develop support plans, and ensure the service is tailored to individual children and their families. You will take a non-judgmental and empathetic approach, all while demonstrating commitment to safeguarding and confidentiality.

You will have good administrative and organisation skills, be able to work independently and manage your time effectively, with the ability to adapt to changing service needs.

Our work can be challenging though highly rewarding. Therefore, you will need to be motivated, ambitious and self-organised, and be prepared to play a part in our on-going organisational development.

In return, we offer you a supportive working environment, a 21-hour working week, 25 days annual leave plus 10 public holidays (pro rata) and an employer contributory pension scheme.

In 2023, the ALLIANCE adopted a new, five-year strategic plan and since 2024 we have been strengthening the way we effectively evaluate and report on the impact of our activity to share learning, influence decision-makers, and strengthen reporting.

To continue this work, we are seeking a dynamic and creative Impact and Evaluation Manager to undertake and support impact planning at individual, programme and organisation level, providing practicable support to enable and evaluate impact and help embed a culture of evaluation impact and knowledge exchange.

You will have previous experience of developing and supporting research impact and knowledge exchange activity, and of reporting on research activity. You will have strong organisational, analytical and communication skills, and an ability to work effectively with a range of stakeholders internally and externally.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the implementation of an organisation-wide approach to evaluating ALLIANCE activity and its impact.

• Work collaboratively with ALLIANCE colleagues and external consultants to develop and refine outcome maps and suitable evidence data-gathering tools

• Support ALLIANCE colleagues to gather accurate and meaningful data linked to our activities, programmes and strategic priorities

• Work with colleagues and partners to develop and embed a consistent approach to evaluation

• Ensure evaluation processes are used effectively to ensure that they provide accurate data and regular, meaningful reports

• Analyse, interpret and communicate monitoring and evaluation information to colleagues, external partners and funders

• Work with ALLIANCE colleagues to create a range of robust and accessible evaluation reports and other outputs from data gathered including the Annual Report and a mid-term review of our strategic priorities

• Support to teams to gather data and develop impact case studies for reporting and communications activities

• Any other duties as dictated by the evolving nature of the ALLIANCE’s monitoring and evaluation work

• Any other reasonable duty as required by senior management.

As an ALLIANCE employee you will benefit from:

• 210 hours annual leave (equivalent of 30 days) (pro rata)

• 13 days public holiday that can be taken flexibly (pro rata)

• Additional leave between Christmas and New Year

• Contributory pension scheme

• Open to flexible working (formal and informal)

• Hybrid working – opportunity to work from home for part of the week

• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

• Enhanced sick pay

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Learning and development opportunities

• Corporate rates for gym membership

• Time off in lieu

• Cycle Scheme

• Carer Positive Employer

We are a healthy working lives employer and encourage a healthy work life balance and we’re happy to talk flexible working.

The ALLIANCE recognises that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. Even if you don’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our organisation feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.