Cultural Glenkens Project Lead
- Part time
- £30,000 pro-rata
- Hybrid: New Galloway
- Closing 14th April 2025
- Advertised from 31st March 2025
- Hours Per Week: 28, £24,000 per annum. 3 year fixed contract, employee role.
Role
The Glenkens Community & Arts Trust has a long track record of economic regeneration through arts and community work in the Glenkens. We are a key anchor organisation for the area, with a clear vision of making the Glenkens an excellent place to live for people of all ages.
The CatStrand Arts delivers the CatStrand Artistic Vision, which has three key strands:
CatStrand Touring Arts – hosting high quality touring work and supporting the region’s artists.
Cultural Glenkens – preserving and celebrating our natural and cultural Heritage.
CatStrand Young Creatives – engaging and developing children and young people aged from 5 to 25.
Based primarily at CatStrand, New Galloway, the Cultural Glenkens Project Lead is an important role within GCAT. Working as one of the 3 keys strands of the Arts programme, you will be responsible for delivering the Cultural Glenkens project. This has six key components:
1. Delivering an Events programme, in collaboration with Glenkens grass-roots volunteer heritage organisations and regional partners. To include a Festival of Land.
2. Delivering Galloway Conversations – programme of hybrid talks on a heritage theme, with regional partners.
3. Supporting Glenkens grass-roots volunteer heritage organisations in their work, with a view to increasing their long-term sustainability and self-sufficiency.
4. Creating a digital archive for the Glenkens, including oral histories.
5. Delivering an intern programme across the Glenkens.
6. Working with local schools to improve heritage understanding.
In this post you will be a champion of heritage in the Glenkens – empowering and supporting our many committed volunteers, recruiting new volunteers to the cause and ensuring that the heritage of the Glenkens is both preserved, celebrated and created anew.
This post is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with thanks to National Lottery players
Application notes
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Application Deadline 2pm Monday April 14, interviews will take place on Tuesday 22 April
Community Engagement Manager
- Full time
- £33,600
- Hybrid: Edinburgh office at WHALE Arts / Project locations in Edinburgh and Fife, withsome work required across Scotland and possibly internationally.
- Closing 29th April 2025
About Starcatchers
We champion exceptional, innovative arts and creative experiences for our youngest children, those aged from birth to 5 years old and their parents and carers. The voice, needs and interests of this audience are at the heart of all our activity, providing inspiration and provocation in the development of projects and programmes. Our work is created by highly specialist artists who are attuned to the requirements of making work for and with this unique age group. Supported by nearly 20 years of high-quality work, evidenced through research and evaluation, Starcatchers is recognised around the world as being at the forefront of artistic practice for Early Years.
Primary Purpose
This is a new role within a refreshed Starcatchers Staff Team for 2025/26 and beyond. The post-holder will be pivotal in the development of our Community Engagement activity leading on the implementation of this work, supporting the specialist Starcatchers Artists who lead on delivery, nurturing existing and seeding new relationships within communities and securing funding to sustain activity moving forward.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
Community Engagement
- To lead on the development and delivery of all Starcatchers' Community Engagement activity including current programmes
- Seed new activities in line with organisational priorities
- To ensure the implementation of a continuous improvement framework within the team
- To ensure the principles of Starcatchers Voice of the Baby research are embedded and reflected in artistic practice
- To ensure the participation of the babies, young children, parents and carers who engage in Starcatchers activity is evident in all aspects of service delivery
- To develop and maintain relationships with partners to support the delivery andpotential future development of project activity
- To oversee the implementation of research and evaluation surveys across all Community Engagement activity and provide feedback and figures for reporting,evaluation and development purposes
- To manage the Community Engagement budgets and ensure delegated budgets operate within organisational monitoring and reporting arrangements.
- To regularly attend Community Engagement sessions and provide support to delivery staff
- To ensure the Health & Safety policy is implemented in accordance with best practice and all activity is planned to include risk-assessment and compliance with Health and Safety and event management regulations
- To ensure the effective implementation of Starcatchers policies and procedures
- To provide line management support to the Community Engagement Artists
Fundraising
- To identify and apply for funding for Community Engagement programmes, both existing and new initiatives
- To support or lead on reporting to funders as required
General
- To play an active role in the strategic development of Starcatchers as a member of the Management Team
- To fully participate in company meetings and events as required
- To contribute to the on-going fundraising of the organisation as required
- To attend relevant training as and when requiredTo positively represent Starcatchers at eventsAny other duties appropriate to the post and organisation
Wasps (Workshop & Artists Studio Provision Scotland Ltd.) is seeking an exceptional leader to guide one of Scotland’s valued cultural organisations into its next chapter. As we approach our 50th anniversary, we are looking for a visionary and strategic Chief Executive Officer to champion our mission, strengthen our impact and ensure our long-term sustainability.
For nearly five decades, Wasps has been at the heart of Scotland’s creative community, providing studios and workspaces for artists, makers, and creative businesses. With 19 sites across 14 towns and cities, from the Shetland Islands to the Borders, we support more than 1,000 artists, 25 arts charities, and 81 creative enterprises. Through our innovative property developments, we breathe new life into historic buildings, transforming them into thriving creative hubs that contribute to Scotland’s cultural and economic landscape.
The Role
As CEO, you will provide strong, visible leadership, ensuring Wasps remains a sustainable, artist-centred organisation that meets the evolving needs of Scotland’s creative sector. Reporting to the Board, you will drive the strategic vision of the organisation, leading an experienced team to deliver operational excellence, financial sustainability, and sustainable growth.
You will be the public face of Wasps, representing the organisation at the highest levels, advocating for our tenants and fostering relationships with key funders, policymakers, and stakeholders across the arts, business, and government. You will also oversee our capital projects, ensuring that we continue to develop and enhance our creative spaces across Scotland.
Who we’re looking for We are seeking an inspiring and entrepreneurial leader with the following attributes:-
- A strategic thinker who can demonstrate vision and identify opportunities for - and manage – change.
- Experienced in partnership working, business planning and organisational development.
- Respected and connected in cultural/charity/property networks and understands the opportunities and challenges facing the creative economy and Wasps communities across Scotland.
- Has an understanding of a property-based charity and legislative compliance responsibilities as a landlord.
- Committed to leading Wasps to achieve Net Zero in our properties and organisational practice.
- An outstanding communicator, networker and advocate, with the ability to build strong partnerships and influence key decision-makers.
- Experienced in complex stakeholder engagement and management
- A strong strategic and financial mindset, capable of leading a complex property-based organisation with a focus on long-term sustainability.
- Committed to diversity, inclusion, and community engagement, ensuring Wasps continues to serve artists, makers and creative people.
About Starcatchers
We champion exceptional, innovative arts and creative experiences for our youngest children, those aged from birth to 5 years old and their parents and carers. The voice, needs and interests of this audience are at the heart of all our activity, providing inspiration and provocation in the development of projects and programmes. Our work is created by highly specialist artists who are attuned to the requirements of making work for and with this unique age group. Supported by nearly 20 years of high-quality work, evidenced through research and evaluation, Starcatchers is recognised around the world as being at the forefront of artistic practice for Early Years.
Primary Purpose
To work with the Early Years Development Manager and Artists in the administration, co-ordination and delivery of Starcatchers Early Years Development activity
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
To work with the EYD Manager to support the successful delivery of all Early Years Development activity.
- To liaise with, coordinate and provide information to the Starcatchers Artists and Partners to support the delivery of sessions across a range of programmes and projects.
- To develop and maintain relationships with local authority partners, current and past participants to support the strategic development of Early Years Development activities.
- To administrate the day-to-day running of the Early Years Development activities –including scheduling, contracting, handling enquiries, and tracking income and expenditure.
- To maintain all databases, including participant data, local authority and external partner contacts To support the Evaluation & Marketing Manager and EYD Manager as they develop online resources and training, including using Canva and other design tools. To coordinate evaluation processes and provide feedback and figures for reporting, evaluation and development purposes. To attend practical sessions to gather evaluation and assist with event management. To work with the EYD team to compile robust evaluation reports To edit and transcribe podcast recordings.
General
- To fully participate in company meetings and events as required
- To attend relevant training as and when required
- To positively represent Starcatchers at events
- Any other duties appropriate to the post and organisation
16+ Coordinator and Practitioner
- Full time
- £28,000
- On site: Based in Cockenzie, but work can be across various locations in East Lothian
- Closing 18th April 2025
Overview of Organisation:
Heavy Sound is a Community Interest Company, incorporated in 2015, based in East Lothian. We work with disconnected young people and adults, re-engaging them through strength-based activities of interest including music, biking, sports, creative arts, education, mentoring and 1:1 therapy. By building trusting relationships we help inspire positive opportunities for further learning, life skills development, and future training and employment.
16+ Programme:
Heavy Sound transforms the lives of vulnerable, disengaged and, in the main, care-experienced 11–15-year-olds across East Lothian. Based on their needs, we have developed a 16+ Programme to extend this support to provide:
- Life skills development
- Qualifications
- Support into further education, volunteering, training and employment
Participants are referred mainly through education and social work, and engage in a variety of activities including education, music, biking, sports and mentoring, leading to qualifications and awards, and life skills development.
Flexibility in hours is required as there is a weekly evening 16+ drop-in.
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