Fife Law Centre supports individuals and families at a time of crisis – at risk of eviction, denied legitimate financial support, on the wrong side of bureaucratic decision making, or the victim of injustice and discrimination.
Our vision: legal rights of people in Fife are protected and represented through challenging inequality and injustice.
Our purpose: to provide an accessible, professional legal service to defend the legal rights of those unable to otherwise access legal representation.
Are you highly organised, detail-orientated, and passionate about helping others. We’re looking for a Legal Administrator to join our Firm to provide essential administrative support to our small team of solicitors and business manager.
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package with opportunities for professional development in a supportive and collaborative work environment.
To apply, please submit your CV, including details of current remuneration, together with a covering statement outlining your suitability for the post and email to:
Angela Clark – Business Manager angela.clark@fifelawcentre.co.uk from whom job description/person specification may be obtained.
Closing date: Friday, 7 February 2025 at 1700hrs
Legal Administrator
Postcode: KY5 0BW
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Victim Support Scotland – Empowering 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.
VSS is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all of our service users and has a thorough and rigorous recruitment and selection process including PVG scheme checks in place to ensure this commitment is met.
What is the role
We are looking for a Bid Writer, working 35 hours per week Monday - Friday.
Reporting to the Head of Income Generations & Partnerships you will take a lead role in researching and reviewing funding and bidding opportunities, identifying key requirements and communicating the requirements effectively with internal and external stakeholders. You will be responsible for gathering information required to produce compelling, high-quality bids from internal and external stakeholders, including through own research. You will work collaboratively with key members of the Service Delivery teams to ensure that bids and proposals can be operationalised and are positioned in line with agreed priorities. You will drive continuous improvement through analysis of feedback, taking account of market/sector knowledge and suggesting changes/improvements.
What you’ll need to be successful
We are looking for a dynamic, driven, and motivated individual with University degree or equivalent professional qualification that demonstrates excellent analytical and writing skills. You must have the ability to plan and organise workloads with shifting deadlines in order to meet specific targets, ensuring quality output. You will have a good understanding and knowledge of trusts, statutory and lottery fundraising in the third sector. You should have experience in collating information for reports with knowledge and understanding of an outcome-based approach to measuring and monitoring performance. You should have excellent communications skills, along with the ability and confidence to develop effective internal and external relationships which deliver organisational goals. A willingness to be flexible on working hours and to travel as required is expected.
Further details of this role are available in the job description - Bid Writer - Victim Support Scotland
Please note - This post will be subject to a satisfactory Basic Disclosure and two satisfactory references.
To ensure you are in the best position to perform to your highest standards during our selection process, make sure you review the competencies outlined in the Job Description and have prepared examples of times you have successfully demonstrated these behaviours in the past.
What we offer?
When you work for Victim Support Scotland, your wellbeing is important to us. Not only do we offer a generous 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. Supporting employee development is important to us and we offer comprehensive learning and development opportunities.
If you are looking for a role with a purpose, where you can really make a difference, then this may be the role for you.
Victim Support Scotland – Empowering 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.
VSS is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all of our service users and has a thorough and rigorous recruitment and selection process including PVG scheme checks in place to ensure this commitment is met.
What is the role
This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Support Co-ordinator , working 35 hours per week will be worked between Monday - Friday between 8AM - 8PM & Saturday 10AM - 4PM
Salary: £27,598 - £36,445. Salary on appointment will normally be at the lower salary point, with progression subject to regular review - in line with VSS performance appraisal arrangements. A higher salary placing will be considered in exceptional circumstances subject to experience demonstrated.
Reporting directly to a Locality Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring, within your Service(s), that VSS’s local service development and delivery plan is being implemented within your geographical area(s). Service delivery is provided by a team of skilled and knowledgeable volunteers. You will be responsible for planning volunteer deployment to ensure that the service delivered meets the desired outcomes of victims and witnesses of crime, our service users. Responsible for all aspects of a volunteer engagement with VSS at your services, including recruitment, induction, learning and development, ongoing performance management and support. You will also contribute to business planning and co-ordination ensuring that continuous learning takes place to monitor the outcomes of service users are being met.
If you are looking for a role with a purpose, where you can really make a difference, then this may be the role for you.
What you’ll need to be successful
You will be experienced in a similar role and can evidence continuing professional development, effective leadership style, able to build confidence, motivate and improve performance. You will have analytical skills and be able to understand, collect, analyse, report and present data. You will also have the ability to challenge stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination and bias. You will have a good working knowledge of the voluntary/charity sector required and willingness to be flexible in working hours. Ability to travel is required for this post.
Further details of this role are available in the job description.
Please note - This post will be subject to a satisfactory PVG check.
As a Disability Confident Committed employer, please advise if you require any adjustments in the application process by contacting Jobs@victimsupportsco.org.uk
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. Supporting employee development is important to us and we offer comprehensive learning and development opportunities.
About the role
The Communications Manager will lead and develop Clan’s communication and marketing strategy with the goal of enhancing our visibility, shaping policy, boosting revenue, and strengthening our brand recognition. By implementing innovative campaigns and strategic influencing efforts, the Communications Manager will work to expand our reach and impact. Additionally, they will oversee both external and internal communications, ensuring alignment and effectiveness in supporting the organisation's objectives.
Location: Edinburgh or Glasgow
You can choose the location that works best for you. We operate hybrid working with the opportunity to work from home some of the time. The role will also require travel between our office locations on a regular basis and throughout Scotland as required.
About Clan Childlaw
Clan wants a Scotland where all children and young people’s rights are respected, protected, and fulfilled. For that to happen, Scotland has to be a place where all children and young people can stand up for their rights. That means children and young people need:
Clan is an award-winning, independent children’s charity that actively supports children and young people to take ownership of their rights. We are the only charity in Scotland that provides free, independent legal representation exclusively for children and young people, which is child-centred by design. Because our lawyers work directly with children and young people whose lives are affected by legal decisions, we bring that unique practice-based knowledge to every aspect of our work. This includes our specialist training, our helpline supporting others who help children to use their voices and their rights, and our work to influence children’s rights respecting changes to practice, policy and law.
What We Do
Through our membership and training for legal professionals and in legal education we are making being a “children’s lawyer” an accredited legal skill set in Scotland. Our practical training and helpline and support for advocacy in Children’s Hearings provides adults that support children and young people information and guidance that they can use to empower young people to stand up for their rights.
We want our work to have as much impact as possible. We listen to what children and young people tell us about what they need from lawyers and others who support them to use their rights. We use what we learn to develop and design the services they need and talk about why young people’s rights matter, and why children and young people need lawyers.
We are lawyers for children and young people representing children and young people in court, at Children’s Hearings, and in important meetings working to give them equal opportunity to heard and use their rights. We take cases that make change for individual children and young people and help shape better rights respecting policy and practice. We use our knowledge of the law, and experience as practising lawyers for children and young people, to ask decision makers and lawmakers to change the law and the way the law is used to make sure that children and young people's rights are respected, protected and fulfilled.
Our Values
Our values are the principles we uphold in all our work, no matter what. They are the foundation of our workplace culture. Everyone who works at Clan shows our values in all they do and say.
We are supportive: We listen and respond, we provide encouragement and emotional help to children and young people, to others who support young people, and to each other.
We are bold: We are confident and courageous in amplifying the voices of children and young people. We are prepared to take risks when we need to, to defend children and young people’s rights.
We are dynamic: We are always active, always progressing. We are positive, full of energy and new ideas. We ask for change where it is needed.
What we can offer you
Clan Childlaw’s mission is very important to us, but our people are important too. We recognise the importance of a good work-life balance and a friendly supportive work environment. We offer:
Learning and development is important to us and our team. We hope it’s important to you too. You will be encouraged to engage in learning and continued professional development.
"I have never worked in such a lovely organisation before! I feel valued, seen and heard as an individual here." - A member of the Clan Childlaw team
"I love my job at Clan. It's busy and varied and no two days are ever the same. We have a great team here and everyone is really supportive." - A member of the Clan Childlaw team
Are you motivated by the opportunity to play a key role in delivering Clan Childlaw’s vision of a Scotland where all children and young people are empowered to use their rights? We are looking for someone who wants to work as part of a dynamic, supportive team on the development and implementation of a bold fundraising strategy that will secure diverse and robust funding to sustain our important work. There is also significant scope and opportunity for the Fundraising Manager to develop support for our work through individual giving and corporate partnerships.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced fundraiser with a genuine drive to make a meaningful impact, who is comfortable with responsibility If you have a proven track record in securing significant grants from trusts and foundations, through writing compelling funding proposals and managing donor relationships, then we want to hear from you. You will need to be a highly effective and engaging communicator with exceptional organisational skills who is confident with responsibility for securing funding and managing funder relationships.
“There is nobody else like them in Scotland. They have got credibility, integrity and reach as well. There are lots of advocacy providers, and that is really important, but actually being able to legally represent young people in Scotland, there is nobody else that does that, not as purely as they do it, other people do it attached to other law firms but that complete commitment to the upholding of children’s rights is a really unique thing”. (Stakeholder).
About Clan Childlaw
Clan wants a Scotland where all children and young people’s rights are respected, protected, and fulfilled. For that to happen, Scotland has to be a place where all children and young people can stand up for their rights. That means children and young people need:
Clan is an award-winning, independent children’s charity that actively supports children and young people to take ownership of their rights. We are the only charity in Scotland that provides free, independent legal representation exclusively for children and young people, which is child-centred by design. Because our lawyers work directly with children and young people whose lives are affected by legal decisions, we bring that unique practice-based knowledge to every aspect of our work. This includes our specialist training, our helpline supporting others who help children to use their voices and their rights, and our work to influence children’s rights respecting changes to practice, policy and law.
What We Do
Our Values
Our values are the principles we uphold in all our work, no matter what. They are the foundation of our workplace culture. Everyone who works at Clan shows our values in all they do and say.
We are supportive: We listen and respond, we provide encouragement and emotional help to children and young people, to others who support young people, and to each other.
We are bold: We are confident and courageous in amplifying the voices of children and young people. We are prepared to take risks when we need to, to defend children and young people’s rights.
We are dynamic: We are always active, always progressing. We are positive, full of energy and new ideas. We ask for change where it is needed.
"I love my job at Clan. It's busy and varied and no two days are ever the same. We have a great team here and everyone is really supportive." - A member of the Clan Childlaw team
What we can offer you
Clan Childlaw’s mission is very important to us, but our people are important too. We recognise the importance of a good work-life balance and a friendly supportive work environment. We offer:
Learning and development is important to us and our team. We hope it’s important to you too. You will be encouraged to engage in learning and continued professional development.
*You can choose the location that works best for you. We operate hybrid working with the opportunity to work from home some of the time. The role will also require travel between our office locations on a regular basis and throughout Scotland as required.
"I have never worked in such a lovely organisation before! I feel valued, seen and heard as an individual here." - A member of the Clan Childlaw team
"I love my job at Clan. It's busy and varied and no two days are ever the same. We have a great team here and everyone is really supportive." - A member of the Clan Childlaw team