Communications Manager
- Part time
- £30,000 – £35,000 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 13th April 2025
- Advertised from 26th March 2025
- 3 days per week.
Role
We're looking for a Communications Manager to lead, oversee all the marketing, communications, and engagement functions for The Challenges Group. Working to increase our visibility as a purpose-led enterprise development organisation amongst our various audiences.
A recruitment pack can be downloaded below.
Application notes
Send your CV plus a cover letter to: caroline.wylie@thechallengesgroup.com
Closing date
Sunday 13 April
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
Challenges Group welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. We are dedicated to greater diversity and inclusion within our organisation and strive to provide equal opportunities to people of all races, ethnicities, religions, genders, sexual orientations, gender identifications and abilities.
Employment eligibility
To be considered for this role applicants must have British Nationality or have a right to live and work in the UK.
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Top job! Director of Venture Support Services
- Full time
- £45,000 – £50,000
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 11th April 2025
The Ventures Lab is a programme led by The Challenges Group, bringing over 25 years of experience in supporting impact-driven enterprises across 80 countries. Through The Ventures Lab, we apply this expertise to Scotland, building a pipeline of ventures that drive economic and social impact at scale.
The Ventures Lab is redefining how purpose-led enterprises access the expertise they need to grow and succeed. Through our pioneering Pooled Services model, we provide high quality business support in finance, legal, marketing, and business development, allowing ventures to focus on impact without the overheads of costly in-house teams.
Following a successful pilot with a select group of clients, we are now entering a crucial growth phase scaling pooled services into a national offering that will support social enterprises across Scotland. This is an exciting moment to shape and lead a transformative service.
We are seeking an experienced, strategic leader to drive the scaling, innovation, and long-term sustainability of pooled services, positioning The Ventures Lab as the go-to platform for social enterprises seeking expert business support
Role Overview
The Director of Venture Support Services will drive the strategic development and growth of The Ventures Lab’s pooled services. This role requires a strong balance of strategic leadership, operational oversight, and stakeholder engagement to ensure high-quality service delivery and long-term sustainability.
A key part of this role will be building and leading a team to deliver high-quality business support services. The successful candidate will be responsible for recruiting, managing, and developing a team of professionals to ensure seamless service delivery.
Additionally, the Director of Venture Support Services will develop a network of professional partners across various sectors and disciplines, securing a community of trusted advisors, pro-bono experts, and service providers who are committed to supporting purpose-led businesses through volunteering, discounted services, or strategic collaboration.
Growth Targets
In 2025, The Ventures Lab aims to recruit 20 new businesses into the pooled services model. From there, we plan to grow by a minimum of 50% year on year, steadily increasing our reach and impact. The Director of Venture Support Services will play a crucial role in achieving these targets by ensuring the model is scalable, effective, and financially sustainable.
Head of Communications and Gaelic
- Part time
- £35,340 pro-rata
- On site: Isle of Tiree
- Closing 17th April 2025
Tiree Community Development Trust (known as “Urras Thiriodh”) are seeking a Head of Comms and Gaelic to take on a lead role in delivering our ambitious ongoing community development work for the beautiful and vibrant Inner Hebridean island of Tiree.
The newly created role combines management and direct project delivery work and would suit a candidate with relevant experience, strong Scots Gaelic language skills, and a pro-active approach looking to take on a challenge in a unique, bustling and diverse community development environment. You’d join a strong established team with a track record of delivering ambitious projects and vital community services, with the goal of ensuring the sustainable development of a small island community, making Tiree the best possible place to live, work and grow. The role involves working across our company group to support communications with key stakeholders, and with a key focus on embedding the use of Gaelic across our work and ensuring ongoing efforts to retain Gaelic as a living community language.
The role will play a key part in the ongoing delivery of our Community Development Plan – tireetrust.org.uk/the-development-plan.
Advice Worker – Growing Families Project
- Full time
- £25,478 – £27,290
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 4th April 2025
Background information
Do you want to help alleviate poverty and improve the lives of families and children?
Within the UK there is over £22bn a year in unclaimed welfare benefits, and in Edinburgh it is estimated that 1 in 4 children are living in poverty. Are you understanding of people’s journeys and the challenges they face in their lives, and how poverty can have an impact on this?
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Growing Families project and help deliver a quality advice service to families with young children in Edinburgh. Working alongside the project’s current advice team and working in partnership with Health Visitors in Edinburgh, this post will support and develop this service. The Advice Worker will provide income maximisation; housing and debt advice as well budgeting support to expecting families and families with babies and young children who are supported by their Health Visitors. Comprehensive and continuous advice training is provided by CHAI to support this rewarding role.
The Advisor will be part of our wider CHAI ‘Advice For Families’ Team and will benefit from our comprehensive training programme, peer expertise, team support and ethos of continuous learning and development which is at the heart of our service delivery.
Are you?:
- Passionate and committed to making a meaningful difference for families and children.
- Able to quickly learn complex rules and legislation on Welfare Benefits, Debt and Housing.
- Able to grow trusting relationships in a formal setting.
- Understanding of people’s journeys and the challenges they have had in their lives, and how poverty can have an impact on them.
Advice Worker - Advice In Schools Project
- Full time
- £25,478 – £27,290
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 4th April 2025
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Do you want to help alleviate poverty and improve the lives of families and children?
Within the UK there is over £22bn a year in unclaimed welfare benefits, and in Edinburgh it is estimated that 1 in 4 children are living in poverty. Are you understanding of people’s journeys and the challenges they face in their lives, and how poverty can have an impact on this?
This is an exciting opportunity for an Advice Worker to join our ‘Advice In Schools’ team.
The project provides a high-quality advice service to families in Edinburgh who are impacted by low income and the effects of living in poverty. Working in partnership with all stakeholders including parents, schools and other statutory and third sector agencies, the project takes a whole family and trauma-informed approach to helping parents who may face multiple barriers to moving out of poverty. The Advice Worker will help families by maximising income, providing support to claim benefits as well as offering housing and debt advice. Continuous training is provided and the adviser is expected to contribute to the continued development of this successful service.
The Advisor will be part of our wider CHAI ‘Advice For Families’ Team and will benefit from our comprehensive training programme, peer expertise, team support and ethos of continuous learning and development which is at the heart of our service delivery.
Are you?:
- Passionate and committed to making a meaningful difference for families and children.
- Able to quickly learn complex rules and legislation on Welfare Benefits, Debt and Housing.
- Able to grow trusting relationships in a formal setting.
- Understanding of people’s journeys and the challenges they have had in their lives, and how poverty can have an impact on them.
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