- Advertised from 18th June 2025
- Weekly Hours 35 with flexibility options. FTC Until Mid-Jan 2026.
Role
Amnesty International UK (AIUK) has a simple aim: an end to human rights abuses. Independent, international and influential, we campaign for justice, fairness, freedom and truth wherever they are denied. If you want to use your skills, knowledge, and experience to help fight for human rights, you could be our Advocacy Manager – Scotland. This role is temporary, fixed-term job cover available from July 2025 until mid-January 2026.
Due to the nature of this contract, the ideal candidate will be available for an immediate start.
About the role
The Nations and Regions team help us achieve our goal of protecting, defending and advancing human rights at home and around the world. The Advocacy Manager – Scotland (fixed-term cover) is accountable for Amnesty’s advocacy at the Scottish Parliament and with various Scottish Government departments. You will work with colleagues in the Nations & Regions team and our UK and international headquarters to develop and deliver advocacy strategies with MSPs, MPs in Scotland, civil servants and other government and public body officials.
More details can be found by downloading the job description from our careers portal.
The role may be for you if:
- You’re skilled and experienced in political advocacy in Scotland and can demonstrate excellent influencing skills
- You have experience of leading projects with multiple components and ability to switch between tasks and policy issues with ease.
- You have excellent knowledge of the Scottish political scene, legislative processes at Holyrood and Scottish civil society.
- You positively contribute to an inclusive culture and can work with multiple internal and external stakeholders to achieve change.
Our Commitment to you
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) are at the core of our values. We want to be an organisation that tackles structural inequality and prejudice as well as be an actively anti-racist organisation. This means taking a meaningful and equitable approach to supporting and developing you and others during your time with us.
New colleagues receive 27 days leave annually (29 after five years), as well as bank holidays (pro rated for part time) and 3 wellbeing days. 2-5% employee pension contributions are matched at 6-9% and we offer 6 months full pay for family leave. We offer flexible working such as compressed work patterns and job shares.
Application notes
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This vacancy advert may be taken down from job boards earlier than the stated deadline if a high standard of applications is received (if you have started an application in our portal, you will still have opportunity to complete it by the original deadline).
We welcome applications from everyone and particularly encourage applications from people from an ethnic minority background, and people with a disability to help us achieve a balanced representation in our workforce, especially at senior grades.
Top job! Head of Business Development and Impact
- Full time
- £50,880 – £54,696
- On site: Glasgow
- Closing 31st July 2025
About Advice Direct Scotland
Advice Direct Scotland is Scotland’s national advice agency, delivering free, impartial, and practical support on consumer, debt, energy, and a range of other issues. We empower individuals and communities across Scotland through accessible digital and telephone services, working in partnership with government, third sector, and private organisations.
We are entering an exciting period of growth and innovation. To support this, we are seeking a dynamic, strategic, and values-driven individual to lead our Business Development and Impact functions.
Role Purpose
The Head of Business Development and Impact will play a pivotal role in driving the strategic growth of Advice Direct Scotland. They will identify and secure new opportunities for funding, partnerships, and service delivery.
In addition embedding impact measurement with our data, reporting across the organisation and to the wider sector.
This senior role requires a strategic thinker with a proven track record in business development, income generation, and social impact leadership within the charity or public sector.
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Seeking Board Members
ScotWays (The Scottish Rights of Way & Access Society) is an independent charity which has been upholding public access rights since 1845. We are seeking Directors with the time, commitment and passion to contribute actively to ScotWays’ work. If you would like to help defend and promote Scotland's outdoor access rights, this could be the ideal role for you!
We are the experts on Scottish outdoor access law and support others to uphold the public’s rights of access to land and inland water, providing information to the public, local and national government, and landowners. We developed and maintain the Catalogue of Rights of Way (CROW), a database of information on routes across Scotland. With assistance from our volunteers, we install and maintain over 3000 directional signs on tracks and paths.
Our publications include The Law of Access to Land in Scotland, the comprehensive guide to outdoor access law, and Scottish Hill Tracks, a unique resource for walkers, cyclists, riders and runners wishing to explore the network of paths, old roads and rights of way which criss-cross Scotland’s hill country.
We are a small charity with eight staff and an office in central Edinburgh. Our board of trustees is responsible for the strategic leadership and governance of the Society.
We are looking for skills and experience in the following areas:
- Strategic management
- Organisational change
- External communications and/or public relations
- Fundraising & financial management
- Law
- Digital
- Human Resources
- Land management
- On-the-ground access experience
- Working with government, both local and central.
Board meetings are held in Edinburgh five times a year. Attendance can be in person or remotely and we welcome directors from across Scotland. As well as attending Board meetings and our AGM, directors are expected to join and assist with the work of one or two sub-committees.
Previous experience of being on a board, love of the outdoors and a knowledge of Scotland's outdoor access rights is useful, but not essential.
Trustee
- Management Board
- Unpaid
- Hybrid: Scotland (online meetings occasionally on site: Ayr or Glasgow
- Closing 15th August 2025
Company Description
Action Against Stalking is a charity organisation that provides free professional confidential independent support advocacy for individuals who are experiencing stalking. Founded by Dr. Ann Moulds CBE, AAS shares knowledge and expertise with justice agencies, provides training and CPD to professionals, and influences policy and practice nationally and internationally. See our website actionagainststalking.org for information.
Role Description
This is a non-renumerated Board of Trustees role at Action Against Stalking. The Trustees are responsible for the overall governance, strategic direction, and financial oversight of the charity. The role involves attending board meetings, participating in committee work, contributing to the development and implementation of strategic plans, and ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. alongside the chair, CEO and appointed trustees. This is a hybrid role, ideally based in and around Ayrshire, Glasgow, the Lothians and Lanarkshire. Remote work is the norm, with a requirement to attend at least two board meetings per annum, along with the AGM in person
We are seeking individuals with a passion for supporting our charity with our primary focus on victim rights and victim support. We hold relationships with agencies and support partners across Scotland, and the wider national and international communities.
You may have a background in social care, policing, or previous experience with championing the rights of victims. You could be a HR specialist, or a communications expert. We are seeking committed individuals from wide and varied backgrounds to join us.
We welcome individuals from all backgrounds, heritage, culture, religious beliefs, colour, race, sexual orientation, and gender.
We welcome you with or without physical challenges, if you are neurodivergent or anything else that celebrates your uniqueness.
If you have the skills, and you think you’ve got what it takes, we want to hear from you.
Qualifications
- Experience in governance and strategic leadership
- Appreciation and understanding of the issues surrounding stalking
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work collaboratively, as a team player and make collective decisions
- Financial literacy and experience in financial oversight
- Experience at a senior level with committees and board representation
- Commitment to the mission and values of Action Against Stalking
- Availability to attend board meetings and engage in committee work
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Senior Political Adviser (Scotland)
- Full time
- £49,503 – £54,093
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 30th July 2025
About Us
Uplift is a campaigning and research organisation helping to move the UK and Scotland towards a fossil fuel-free future and to support a just transition for workers and communities. At this crucial time for accelerating the shift away from oil and gas, we have an opportunity for an experienced Senior Political Adviser to join our team and lead our Scottish political engagement strategy.
The Role
As Uplift’s Senior Political Adviser (Scotland), you will be a skilled advocate, strategist and communicator able to lead delivery of Uplift's Scottish political strategy. Your role will sit within Uplift’s Politics Team, although you will work closely with partner organisations in Scotland, and you will seek to build support for ambitious climate and just transition policies within the Scottish Parliament and Scottish Government as well as supporting our engagement with MPs whose constituencies are based in Scotland. Scotland is at the forefront of the UK’s transition away from fossil fuels and the Scottish Government has a crucial role to play in delivering a fair transition for the North Sea that supports workers and communities. With Scottish Parliament elections taking place in May 2026, this is an exciting opportunity to join our team to secure support and action for a fair oil and gas transition in Scotland.
Core responsibilities will include:
- Leading the execution of Uplift’s Scottish political strategy, and providing updates as required.
- Seeking avenues for influence and engagement with Scottish parliamentary and legislative programmes, including delivering impactful events
- Engagement with Members of the Scottish Parliament and Scottish Government Officials as well as cross party MPs who are from Scottish Constituencies
- Close collaboration with key Scottish partners, as well as engagement with stakeholders including think-thanks and caucuses
- Representing Uplift at events, and fora in and around the Scottish Parliament.
- Developing briefings and communications suitable for a Scottish political audience
- Line management within Uplift’s politics team.
Our ideal candidate will have:
- Thorough knowledge of Scottish parliamentary procedures, policy-making and regulatory processes.
- A track record of securing political or policy changes.
- Highly organised, with experience in programme delivery, coordination, and administration
- Experience working with a broad range of stakeholders and able to manage competing priorities
- Excellent networking and relationship-building skills
- Motivation, initiative, exceptionally high standards, a collaborative approach.
- Ability to work independently and within a team who is based remotely.
- A good understanding of Devolved or UK climate and energy policy.
- A strong commitment to Uplift’s mission and core values of equity and climate justice.
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