- Advertised from 20th May 2025
- 21 hours per week.
Role
The Scottish Council on Archives (SCA) is seeking a motivated and experienced Sector Development Manager to lead and coordinate the organisation’s support for the archives and records management sector across Scotland. This senior role is central to delivering SCA’s strategic priorities, strengthening professional practice, and promoting sector-wide resilience and innovation.
The Sector Development Manager will work closely with colleagues, partners, and stakeholders to design, manage, and evaluate initiatives that respond to the needs of archive services, professionals, and the wider heritage community. The post holder will also contribute to advocacy, policy development, and sector representation on national platforms.
Application notes
Closing date: Monday 9th June, 17:00
Interviews will be held week beginning 16th June
Further Information and Application
Further information and an application form can be found at scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/new-vacancy-sector-development-manager-p-t
For all queries, contact Marissa Trimble, m.trimble@scottisharchives.org.uk
Top job! Head of Adult Learning (Maternity Cover)
- Full time
- £53,000
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 2nd July 2025
We’re on a journey to create fairer communities by facilitating 10 million social entrepreneurs globally by 2030. Do you want to help make this a reality?
We are looking for a talented and values-driven Head of Adult Learning to join our highly skilled, motivated and supportive team in a maternity cover position.
This is a rare opportunity to join an organisation with a global footprint and a deeply local purpose — helping individuals unlock their potential and drive change in their communities. As Head of Adult Learning, you will take on a senior leadership role in shaping how we deliver transformational learning to thousands of social entrepreneurs, community leaders and changemakers.
At the Academy, we believe learning should do more than transfer knowledge — it should change how people see themselves. Our approach is built on practitioner-led, peer- learning, where skilled facilitators — who are themselves social change practitioners — create the conditions for real, human-centred transformation. We support people develop their leadership practice. Please read our manisfesto – if it chimes with you, please get in touch. This is learning that removes barriers, unlocks confidence, and helps people step fully into their purpose.
We’ve seen how powerful this can be — not just in individual growth, but in the collective impact that ripples out when people see their own potential clearly and feel equipped to act on it. Since 2004, we’ve supported over 28,000 adult learners in more than 30 countries, and our ambition is to reach 10 million social entrepreneurs by 2030.
If you have a strong grounding in adult learning and facilitation and share our belief in the power of learning to create lasting social change, we’d love to hear from you.
Job Purpose:
The role plays a pivotal role in championing, embedding, and promoting transformational learning principles, ethos, and skills internally and across the sector, positioning the Academy as a leading provider of transformational learning.
It will lead the sales and delivery team responsible for adult learning programmes, including large-scale contracts and projects and manage key client, funder, and sector stakeholder relationships. The role will ensure the continuous innovation and impact of the adult learning offer, ensuring impactful learning and building the organisation’s reputation for learning excellence and long-term sector influence.
The role will provide leadership, mentorship, and performance management to the Strategic Partnerships and Delivery Leads. It will play an active role in driving and supporting sales, proposals, and funding bids in collaboration with the Sustainability Lead, Strategic Partnership and Delivery Leads and CEO, including attending key sales meetings and pitches.
The post-holder will work at a senior specialist level across the organisation, contributing to the long-term business sustainability, strengthening the organisation’s reputation, and ensuring excellence and innovation in the design and delivery of experiential learning interventions.
Main Responsibilities:
- In collaboration with the Senior Leadership Team, develop and drive the Academy’s business development strategy and implementation plan.
- Take ownership of business development targets and efforts including sales, pitches, and proposals ensuring Adult Learning function financial targets are set and met.
- Build and maintain excellent relationships with clients, funders, partners and sector stakeholders, acting as a champion and ambassador for transformational learning and the Academy.
- Provide strategic leadership of the Adult Learning function, ensuring sustainability, growth, and innovation.
- Champion, embed, and promote transformational learning and development design principles and ethos both internally and across the sector.
- Lead, mentor and manage three Strategic Partnership and Delivery Leads and the Business Sustainability Lead, ensuring high performance and professional development.
- Oversee the quality, design, delivery and impact measurement of all adult learning programmes, ensuring they hold true to the ethos and principles of Academy learning, are impactful, and sector leading.
- Oversee the quality, development, and effective management of the Academy’s adult learning facilitator pool, maintaining high standards of delivery and alignment with the organisation’s learning ethos and values.
- Represent the Adult Learning function at Senior Leadership Team meetings, contributing to broader organisational strategy and decision-making.
- Ensure excellence and continuous improvement and innovation in learning and development service delivery, design, client experience, and impact measurement.
- Be a role model for the organisation’s values, creating a culture that encourages a growth mindset, continuous learning, and professional learning across the Adult Learning team and wider organisation.
- Model and champion the organisation’s values, culture, and commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI).
For a full set of criteria please download the recruitment pack below.
Organisation profile:
At the Social Enterprise Academy, we believe social entrepreneurs play an essential role in changing the world.
We strengthen their role in local communities through transformational learning programmes that will increase their community impact.
Our programmes are accredited, responsive to learner needs, and are delivered by experienced Facilitators who are social change leaders themselves.
Since 2004, we have delivered over 1,900 learning programmes to 28,000+ learners in over 30 countries. We have also engaged over 55,000 young people around the world, using social enterprise as a tool to help them reach their full potential and create positive change in their communities.
Food Insecurity Resource Coordinator
- Part time
- £26,000 – £28,000 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 7th July 2025
Edinburgh Community Food (ECF) is looking for a dynamic and compassionate Food Insecurity Resource Coordinator to strengthen how local organisations and frontline workers respond to food insecurity with dignity.
This new role is part of a Scotland-wide initiative supported by the Scottish Government to improve responses to food insecurity and financial resilience. It will lead on developing and delivering engaging, practical training and resources for staff and volunteers working in community settings. You’ll work with local partners across Edinburgh, including Menu for All members, to co-design relevant content that supports people affected by poverty and financial hardship.
The role builds on our existing Cash First Toolkit and contributes to a national Learning and Resource Centre delivered in partnership with CFINE, Glasgow Community Food Network and Lanarkshire Community Food and Health Partnership.
What You’ll Do
- Inform the design of and pilot new training sessions that help organisations respond to food insecurity with dignity and confidence.
- Build relationships with local partners to align training with real needs and referral pathways.
- Create and adapt practical tools and resources based on ECF’s Cash First Toolkit.
- Promote the programme across city networks and support shared learning nationally.
Who We’re Looking For
You’ll bring experience in community development, training, or public health and a passion for equity, inclusion, and practical change. Whether your background is in health, education or the third sector, you’ll be a confident communicator who enjoys developing relationships and making an impact.
Why Join Us?
You’ll be part of a small, committed team working to make good food accessible for all. We offer a supportive and flexible working environment, with opportunities for learning and collaboration across Scotland.
Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS) is the National Development Body for Scotland’s museums and galleries. We support a sector of 449 museums and galleries, through strategic investment, workforce development, advice and advocacy. We are a forward facing and inclusive organisation, committed to the ongoing development of a positive culture for our team.
We are recruiting for a Skills Development Manager who encourages good practice and drives continuous improvement in skills development and promotes a culture of learning and development within the sector.
The Skills Development Manager is a key interface between MGS and the sector, building rich and valuable networks and delivering a wide range of skills development programmes and activities for the benefit of the sector. The Skills Development Manager develops and manages partnerships with key stakeholders across the heritage landscape that maximise the quality of our products and programme delivery.
A core focus of this role is the development , delivery and evaluation of all our workforce development programmes. This will involve coordinating and codesigning with the Museums and Galleries sector, existing partners and exploring new partnership opportunities.
The post holder is joining MGS as we launch an exciting new programme aimed at building sector resilience, exploring new delivery models and facilitating more entrepreneurial approaches. Part of the role will be developing skills development activity in relation to this programme in collaboration with colleagues from across MGS teams.
A skilled communicator who is self-motivated, shows initiative and builds strong and effective relationships, the Skills Development Manager continually seeks out opportunities and more agile ways of working to develop content and enhance the MGS skills offer.
Overview of Responsibilities
- Act as an interface between MGS, the museums and galleries sector and key stakeholders on skills development
- Support the delivery of all accredited and non accredited learning opportunities across MGS’s service provision
- Work with the sector to deliver skills development priorities and embed a culture of learning and development
- Maintain an overview of the skills and knowledge needs for the museum sector and create, identify, develop and evaluate programmes and opportunities to meet these needs
- Manage the development, delivery and evaluation of a marketable schedule of training courses and programmes; and assist colleagues to deliver subject-specific workshops
- Contribute to research and development work carried out by sector-relevant organisations
- Budget holder responsibilities – involved in both planning and management
- Support MGS to deliver the Workforce strand of the National Strategy
- Stakeholder relationship management
The above mentioned tasks and responsibilities constitute an overview and not an exhaustive list. Workload and priorities are ultimately determined by the annual MGS Operational Plan.
Relationships
- Build and nurture effective working relationships across the organisation and with external partners
- Collaborate with other staff to support and deliver MGS projects, programmes and the National Strategy
- Contribute to the organisation’s expertise in the sector by sharing knowledge, information and good practice.
- Work fairly and with integrity and adapt style to different people, cultures and situation
Skills and Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of developing, delivering and managing a wide range of skills development programmes with defined learning outcomes, to a diverse range of learners
- Working knowledge of Scottish Government skills priorities and wider skills landscape
- Experience of composing bid applications and procurement documents
- Ability to build and maintain positive working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills including good presentation, influencing and facilitation skills
- Excellent written communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate
- Microsoft Office
Preferred
- Knowledge of the museums and galleries sector in Scotland
- Experience of evaluating training programmes and identifying areas for improvement
- Experience of working with vocational and accredited qualifications
- Confident speaking in public and hosting meetings online and in person
- Advocates for lifelong learning and professional development
- Experience of working with volunteers
We work with staff to help everyone reach their potential in the workplace and welcome conversations with individuals about their needs, circumstances and aspirations.
HOW YOU WORK
MGS has a behavioural competency framework which describes how we expect people to go about their work day-to-day. Staff must demonstrate the following skills areas at an appropriate level:
- Works collaboratively
- Communicating with impact
- Respect, inclusion and integrity
- Effective decision-making
- Sector focus
- Drive for results
- Innovation, agility and building capability
All staff are expected to champion and help deliver MGS’s commitments to anti-racism and climate.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
Travel – regionally is required. Approx. 40 days per year.
Capital City Partnership (CCP) is an arm’s length company of The City of Edinburgh Council and is tasked with the operational development, management and support of local and regional employability and poverty reduction measures. It takes a flexible approach to changing economic conditions, needs and opportunities but its core functions comprise:
• The management of all employability related grants and contracts awarded to external providers by the council and other key partners.
• The management of assessment processes related to bids received for such grants and contracts and making recommendations for funding.
• The provision of policy advice, research, and development support (including secretariat functions) to the city’s Local Employability Partnership and partners.
• The development and maintenance of common communications and management information infrastructure for the Local Employability Partnership.
• Development and support of the Joined Up for Jobs network and the Joined Up for Business partnership.
• Provision of support to the Edinburgh and South-East Scotland City Region Deal Integrated Enhanced Skills (IRES) programme.
Job Purpose
The Contracts and Grants Officer is a position requiring a wide-ranging skillset to meet the contract management and partnership relationships remit we deliver through our Joined Up for Jobs infrastructure. Joined Up for Jobs reflects the Scottish Government Fair Work Framework, No One Left Behind (NOLB) and Tackling Child Poverty strategies.
The Edinburgh Local Employability Partnership is the forum in which we manage the Edinburgh employability landscape. Joined Up for Jobs is the network infrastructure of employability provision available in the City. It provides a space to bring the collective strengths of stakeholders and funded partners together to identify shared opportunities, facilitate integration of services and align priorities, bringing added value wherever possible.
We require an Officer to support the Head of Contracts and Grants to oversee the contract and grants offer under Joined Up for Jobs. This involves direct support in overseeing contracts and grants by the City of Edinburgh Council of up to £8m per annum and working with third sector providers who are the recipients of these grants. The successful candidate will be expected to provide support with grant management, with a particular focus on working with youth-specific employability organisations. Other work includes contract and grant monitoring, audit and tracking whilst identifying opportunities for partnership working, and facilitating networking. The post holder will create and define materials that support effective project delivery.
Other significant duties include supporting the development, design, and commissioning of new services; supporting the Joined Up for Jobs Charter for service standards of delivery; co-ordinating communications linked to all contracts and grants, including a quarterly Joined Up for Jobs Forum to support the network; oversight of the Local Employability Partnership website; working alongside the management information team for client tracking; and ensuring best value from spend in this area.
The post holder will be part of a small team headed by CCP’s Head of Contract and Grants. Within the team, there are two Contracts and Grants Managers, two other Contracts and Grants officers and an administrator in place to support this work. The successful candidate will also liaise with our employer engagement team to link funded providers with clients to jobs and training opportunities.
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