Top job! Chief Executive Officer
- Full time
- £53,000 – £60,000
- Hybrid: Edinburgh/Hybrid with some travel around Scotland
- Closing 5th May 2025
- Advertised from 14th April 2025
- 35 hours per week
Role
About the role:
LEAD Scotland is a national charity that has supported disabled people and carers by providing personalised learning, befriending, advice and information services for more than 45 years. LEAD provides SQA accredited Learning Services, provides a National Disabled Students Helpline and supports Befriending Services as well as involvement in Policy work.
With our current CEO stepping down after 10 years, we are seeking a replacement to guide Lead Scotland into its future.
About you:
We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic and person-centered strategic leader who can:
- Engage with senior policy makers, service providers, and organisational leaders across Scotland, working together to improve lifelong, life-wide opportunities for disabled people and unpaid carers seeking to live their best lives.
- Lead an organisation into the next stage of its own growth and development, ensuring that its financial security, asset management and risk appraisal is planned, maintained and enhanced.
- Take overall responsibility for achieving and monitoring performance against targets in all areas of the charity’s activities and ensure an effective internal infrastructure providing transparent reporting to the Team, Board and other stakeholders.
- Work with a strong team in the context of a well-developed person-centred, kind, respectful, and very effective team culture which supports the growth and development of its people.
- Work in a long-established and well-respected adult learning organisation as we head towards a half-century of working with communities across Scotland.
Critically, you will be an expert communicator, have strong leadership skills, be a strategic and forward thinker and have an in-depth understanding of disability issues.
Applications from disabled people:
Lead Scotland is a Living Wage and Disability Confident Employer. Lead Scotland values diversity and the unique contributions our staff, volunteers, and service users bring. We are committed to attracting, developing, and retaining talent from all backgrounds.
Lead has Disability Confident status; therefore, we encourage applications from disabled people. All disabled people meeting the minimum requirements will get a guaranteed interview. Information about our commitment to recruit disabled people is available on our website. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this in the online form. This will in no way disadvantage you in the recruitment process. All job application information can be made in alternative formats on request, including braille, large print and audio and people can make applications in alternative formats.
Recruitment paperwork is kept for 6 months before it is destroyed. Please complete our anonymous equal opportunities form to help us ensure we are attracting a broad range of candidates.
37 days annual leave, including public holidays
5% employer pension contribution
Wellbeing & Work-Life Balance: Flexible working
Annual Leave purchase scheme
Continuous Professional Development: Access to learning and development opportunities and support for continuous professional growth
Application notes
How to apply:
Complete our application form
Send your CV to recruitment@lead.org.uk
For further information and the job description, please head to Current Job Vacancies - Lead Scotland | Lead Scotland
If you have any further queries about the role, please email recruitment@lead.org.uk
Lead Scotland is a charity which provides learning, befriending and helpline services for disabled people and carers. Charity no. SC003949
Fly Cup Enterprises Ltd, in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, provides training and employment opportunities to adults with learning disabilities, difficulties and differences in the catering and hospitality sector.
Chief Executive Officer
Fly Cup Enterprise Ltd is seeking an exceptional candidate with strong leadership experience to become its Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
Key Details
As CEO, you will consolidate and build on recent growth while ensuring the charity delivers its objectives to provide high quality training and employment opportunities, through catering and hospitality, for adults with learning disabilities, learning difficulties and other vulnerabilities.
You will act as the public face of the charity, work with and advise the Board of Directors in relation to the business activities and oversee the management and administration of the charity.
Our new Chief Executive will be an accomplished communicator, able to build and sustain effective partnerships, and build our profile with a wide range of stakeholders. As a strategic thinker, you will bring a track record of successful leadership and be able to promote a culture of ideas, innovation and have the ability to translate strategic plans into reality. You will have an accomplished record of delivering outstanding performance and have a proven ability to secure new income streams.
We are open to leaders from any background or sector, although experience in the not-for-profit sector would be helpful. You must share our commitment to supporting adults and young people with additional support needs.
Communications & Policy Manager
- Full time or Part time
- £36,500 – £40,500
- Hybrid/Remote: Home/ Edinburgh Office based plus occasional overnight national travel. Remote working considered.
- Closing 5th May 2025
The Self Directed Support Scotland vision is “A Scotland where quality Self-directed Support is available to all as a route to Independent Living”. Our mission is “to work collaboratively to incorporate local Independent Support in every aspect of social care design and delivery, ensuring the needs and views of people accessing social care support and their support networks are valued and represented.”
SDSS is a Disabled People’s Organisation, a key partner in Scotland’s Independent Living Movement. We implement SDS policy and legislation at a national, strategic level, with responsibility for chairing major national forums. We also champion local Independent Support Organisations who provide quality advice and support for accessing Self-directed Support (SDS). We have a rapidly growing membership of independent and Disabled People’s Organisations and we aim to widen their influence in improving social care outcomes for disabled people and social care users.
Our focus in recruitment is to find the right people first, and look at how the team can be built around the skills and experience of those who have passion and connection to user led organisations, issues in social care or the liberating ethos of the social model of disability.
The Communication and Policy Manager role is pivotal to delivery of our mission, taking the lead in policy implementation and development that involves coordination across strategic partners in Scottish Government, public and third sectors. All applicants will have confidence in contributing to and delivering our communication strategy across a wide range of events and media, including accessible formats and know how to articulate complex issues and positively engage our member organisations. They should also be able to manage staff and support the wider team to deliver national events.
To attract maximum remuneration our Communications and Policy Manager would have experience in policy work specifically an understanding of Scottish social care reform. This would include SDS Improvement, Care Reform and the Personal Assistant workforce. This role has the potential to direct SDSS in its strategy and delivery and must represent SDSS confidently in these areas.
Do you have a passion for helping people?
Do you have excellent communication and customer service skills?
Do you want to work for one of the best employability providers in Scotland?
Would you like to help someone with barriers to work find their dream job?
Then come and work for Enable Works.
Your role, as Employment Coordinator is to provide support toyoung people who have barriers to work, to make progress towards and achieve well paid, sustainable employment. You will work in the local community engaging with young people face to face on a one to one and/or group basis to profile their skills and aspirations for work.
Enable Works are the leading specialist provider of employability services for people who have barriers to work. We believe that every person in Scotland has the right to work in a job that is high quality and well paid.
Enable Works supports over 5500 people every year across 28 Local Authorities to learn skills for work.
We partner with thousands of employers to create inclusive cultures and improve the diversity of Scotland's workforce.
We are incredibly proud of our smart, capable, and motivated colleagues across Scotland and following a period of significant growth we are looking to grow our team.
We offer a generous salary, excellent benefits, and opportunities to develop and grow in your role.
We offer flexible working practices that promote a strong work/life balance so that when you are at work you can be the best version of you.
Values are more important to us than qualifications or experience, so if you don’t think you meet every requirement that’s ok, we still want to hear from you.
Please make sure you include a detailed personal statement in the ‘More about you’ section of the application to tell us how you are suited to the post.
About You
About You
We really need you to have these
- The drive, energy and commitment to support young people to gain an aspiration for work as they transition from school
- Ability to build relationships with employers to offer opportunities for our young people
- Ability to manage your own workload and prioritise as needed
- Confident communicator
- Strong attention to detail
- Professional presentation and personality
- Some knowledge of the local community
- Ability to work with people at any age who have challenging barriers to employment
- IT literacy
- Comfortable working towards targets
- A natural, professional relationship builder
- A full driving licence
Why?
Our vision is that every person in Scotland is able to access the support they need to find a high-quality job that pays them well and your drive and commitment to this job will help them get there. You will recognise each client’s individual skills and aspirations and work with them to find a job that they love.
Our culture is autonomous so that means we trust you to make the right decisions for your clients, therefore you need to manage your work load well and be accountable for your time. Attention to detail is important as it means you can work accurately and follow instructions.
About Us
At Enable we believe in developing all our staff and we provide an extensive learning programme together with in-house career development opportunities.
We also have an excellent range of staff benefits on offer including but not limited to:
- Health cash plans providing a wide range of health benefits to help people cover the cost of their everyday health care.
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Season Ticket Loans
Starting a career with Enable is the first step towards making a real difference in our award-winning charity’s mission to help create an equal society for every person who has a learning disability.
Enable is an equal opportunities employer and our recruitment, selection and assessment process is based entirely on values, skills and competencies required of the specific roles.
Top job! Chief Executive Officer
- Full time
- £60,000
- Hybrid: Scotland, Office Based in Edinburgh with some flexible home working available on application.
- Closing 2nd May 2025
About Play Scotland and the role
Formed in 1998, Play Scotland is the lead organisation for children’s play in Scotland and works to make every child’s right to play a reality.
Play Scotland has an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated, competent and innovative leader, with a successful background as a strategic manager to lead and shape the future of the organisation.
The successful candidate will be an effective communicator, confident in public speaking, stakeholder engagement, and policy representation at a national level.
They will bring a natural ability to develop effective partnerships across public, private and third sector organisations and have strong experience developing and delivering a strategic vision and leading successful staff teams.
A genuine enthusiasm for the work of Play Scotland is essential and you will bring a strong commitment to the mission and vision of this important charity.
An understanding and appreciation of the legal framework and policy for play in Scotland is essential, together with the ability to work across Scotland’s national and local government structures.
Play Scotland is committed to building a fair, equitable and diverse organisation, so we welcome applications from all sectors of society, regardless of ethnicity, age, gender, disability and/or religious persuasion. In return, we offer you an employee-friendly organisation with flexible policies.
The role is based in Scotland, and it is essential that you have a right to work in Scotland and be a resident in Scotland. For more information on Play Scotland, visit: playscotland.org
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