Borders Community Action is seeking a dynamic and highly motivated individual to join our team. This is an exciting role in a fresh dynamic organisation that is looking to maximise the capability of the vital third sector across the Scottish Borders.

The Community Development Lead role includes direct support to local charities, voluntary organisations, and social enterprises by providing guidance on governance, capacity building, and partnership development. A key aspect of the role involves assisting groups with funding applications and pre-assessment of funds distributed by Borders Community Action. The Community Development Lead will also be responsible for promoting volunteering and work with partners to foster collaboration and help drive sustainable social impact.

Strong communication, networking, project management skills and good understanding of grant processes are essential for success in this role. It is expected that a significant proportion of this work will be dedicated to Eastern Borders.

The post will be one of a team of development officer posts specifically intended to work closely with Third Sector Organisations (TSOs) throughout the Inner Moray Firth. This role will be focused on capacity building role that will support organisations around their governance, board development, or strategic planning as well as health checks. This role will work with organisations who are starting out, going through difficulty, changing their governance or closing down.

The post holder will be responsible for guiding groups around these topics, ensuring that they are informed of the regulatory and legal information necessary.

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We are looking to recruit a Communications and Business Support Officer who will perform a vital role in enhancing our visibility as an organisation and increasing our ability to achieve our aims through effective use of communications including social media and our website.

The role also supports the smooth running of our office through some administration for our room hires and for our wider areas of work . More detailed information can be found in the job description.

This role will suit someone with strong organisation skills and experience of using social media and websites for business purposes.

Our business hours are generally 9-5, Monday to Friday with very occasional evening/ weekend work and we have some flexibility as to which days/ times could be adopted as the work pattern.

We are looking to recruit a Business Support Officer who will perform a vital role in ensuring the smooth running of our office, including maintaining oversight of service contracts to ensure payment of bills and renewals, compliance with health and safety requirements, recording of income, processing of payments, preparation of documents and records for the book-keeper and auditor, general administration to support our functions and activities, dealing with our room hires and along with other staff regularly opening/ closing our office .

More detailed information can be found in the job description.

This role will suit someone with good administrative and finance skills and experience of client facing roles.

Our business hours are generally 9-5 Monday to Friday with very occasional evening/ weekend work and we have some flexibility as to which days/ times the 21hrs per week could be adopted as the work pattern.