Join Our Team as an Outreach Development Officer

Are you passionate about supporting people with a spinal cord injury across Scotland? Do you have the confidence, coordination skills, and compassion to lead a small team and build meaningful connections?

Spinal Injuries Scotland is looking for a dynamic and proactive Outreach Development Officer to lead and coordinate our national peer support service. You’ll be responsible for overseeing our peer support team, developing networks across health and third sector services, and ensuring that people living with a spinal cord injury receive timely, relevant, and compassionate support.

You’ll also help deliver our Smart Tech programme, support data reporting for funders and internal use, and play a key role in shaping how we reach and support underrepresented areas across the country. This is a fast-paced, varied role with real scope to make a lasting difference.

The ALLIANCE is excited to be recruiting a Digital and Communications Officer.

The Digital and Communications Officer will have a blend of technical expertise and communications skills to effectively support the ALLIANCE’s digital and communications presence. They will support the delivery of the ALLIANCE’s Communications and Engagement Strategy, ensuring all campaigns and communications are high quality, effective and professional.

The post holder will raise awareness and maintain a high profile for ALLIANCE programmes and activities, across a variety of channels, ensuring that activity is tailored and measurable to appropriate audiences of our members and wider stakeholders.

The successful candidate for this role should have:

• Experience of content creation and posting content to growing engagement across social media
• Experience of analytics to track and improve digital performance
• Experience of crafting compelling content for other external methods, like newsletter and website and tracking their metrics
• Experience of stakeholder engagement, liaising with partners, and other external organisations to amplify a message
• Experience of content management for website, and other online platforms, like YouTube
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Track record of working effectively and innovatively as part of a team
• Experience of engaging people in interactive and creative ways
• Understanding and commitment to equal opportunities and non-discrimination
• Strong understanding of accessibility issues
• Good time management and ability to produce to deadline
• IT skills in word, email, internet and databases.

Terms and conditions

This post is a fixed-term contract. This is a part-time time role, 17.5 hours per week, based in Glasgow. The post holder will be required to adopt a flexible approach to working hours as travel throughout Scotland and occasional additional hours will be required. However, this will be reimbursed through the organisation’s Time off in Lieu scheme.

As an ALLIANCE employee you will benefit from:

• 210 hours annual leave (equivalent of 30 days) pro rata
• 91 hours of public holidays (equivalent of 13 days) pro rata that can be taken flexibly
• Additional leave between Christmas and New Year
• Contributory pension scheme
• Open to flexible working (formal and informal)
• Hybrid working – opportunity to work from home for part of the week
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Enhanced sick pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Learning and development opportunities
• Time off in lieu
• Cycle Scheme
• Carer Positive Employer

The ALLIANCE is a healthy working lives employer and encourages a healthy work life balance and is happy to talk flexible working.

The ALLIANCE recognises that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. Even if you don’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our organisation feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.

Our vision

A Scotland where everyone has a strong voice and enjoys their right to live well with dignity and respect.

Our purpose

The ALLIANCE works to improve the wellbeing of people and communities across Scotland. We bring together the expertise of people with lived experience, the third sector, and organisations across health and social care to inform policy, practice and service delivery. Together our voice is stronger and we use it to make meaningful change at the local and national level.

We aim to:

• Ensure disabled people, people with long term conditions and unpaid carers voices, expertise and rights drive policy and sit at the heart of design, delivery and improvement of support and services.
• Support transformational change that works with individual and community assets, helping people to live well, supporting human rights, self management, co-production and independent living.
• Champion and support the third sector as a vital strategic and delivery partner, and foster cross-sector understanding and partnership.

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MND Scotland is the only charity in Scotland dedicated to supporting people with MND, their families, and friends.

Since being founded over forty years ago, MND Scotland has provided practical, financial and emotional support to anyone affected by MND whilst also funding essential research into finding effective treatments and a cure.

MND Scotland is funded entirely by donations and grants. The charity’s patron is Her Royal Highness, the Princess Royal.

Everything we do and the way that we do it puts the MND community at its core.

The successful candidate will manage a national caseload, primarily by phone and email, with occasional in-person contact where appropriate. Your work will empower families to spend precious time making memories, rather than worrying about practical or financial challenges.

This is a developing role in a growing service, and you’ll also contribute to shaping systems, resources, and policies that ensure consistent, high-quality support.

Everything we do is to enable people with MND to spend their precious time building special memories.

Together we will make time count.

About Revive MS Support

Revive MS Support is the only charity in the West of Scotland providing nationwide support for people who are affected by Multiple Sclerosis. The charity was set up in 1984 by people living with MS and their families, and helps people manage the physical, emotional, financial, and social impacts that come with a diagnosis of MS. Anyone affected by MS can use Revive’s services, and they are free to access.

Job Purpose

As Social Media Officer, you will take the lead in managing and growing our social media presence across multiple platforms. You will be responsible for developing and delivering engaging content that raises awareness of our services, strengthens our online community, and supports our fundraising efforts. Working closely with the Marketing and Communications Manager, you will ensure our messaging aligns with Revive MS Support’s mission, values, and goals, while driving engagement and increasing our reach. This role is ideal for a proactive, creative and strategic thinker who has a passion for making a difference through digital storytelling.

A key focus of this role is expanding our video content, including launching a TikTok channel and producing storytelling content from our service users whose lives have been positively impacted by Revive MS Support.

This role requires a naturally proactive and confident communicator who can engage with our service users, making them feel comfortable sharing their stories. You should be passionate about digital content, knowledgeable about the latest social media trends, and skilled in using these to benefit the charity sector.