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Learning & Development Officer
- Full time
- £29,500 – £33,000
- On site: Grassmarket Centre or 86 Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh EH1 2QA
- Closing 10th September 2025
- Advertised from 25th August 2025
Role
Role Purpose
The Learning & Development Officer supports the delivery of structured learning, training, and personal development opportunities for Grassmarket Community Project (GCP) Members, volunteers, and young people. Guided by the Head of Member Services and our Learning & Development plan, the role focuses on developing, delivering and coordinating high-quality learning experiences, employability opportunities, and wellbeing activities.
The L&D Officer will co-deliver young members’ services, training sessions, and day-to-day programme activities, supporting Members to build confidence, develop skills, and move towards positive outcomes such as volunteering, education, training, or employment.
KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
- Work alongside Members Services and Social Enterprise teams to deliver and support learning, training, and employability sessions for GCP Members as outlined in the Learning & Development plan.
- Co-deliver the GCP Learning Hub, Oot the Box, workshops and Young Member specific work placement opportunities.
- Work with the Members Services and Social Enterprise teams to ensure opportunities for development are person-centred, accessible, inclusive and clearly communicated
- Provide individual support for Members, volunteers, and young members engaged in placements or learning activities.
- Record attendance, progress, and outcomes, ensuring data is collected in line with GCP’s Impact Evaluation Framework.
- Oversee the monitoring and feedback of mentors and team members supporting learners through their programmes, and conduct regular planned evaluation sessions with pre-apprentices and work experience members particularly.
- Build and maintain positive working relationships with external training providers and referral partners to expand opportunities for Members.
- Support the delivery of welcome meetings, inductions, and activities that encourage engagement in GCP programmes.
- Encourage and promote Member participation in shaping and reviewing services to ensure continuous improvement.
- Promote equality, diversity, and inclusion in all aspects of learning and service delivery.
- Actively contribute to GCP’s collaborative team culture and values-driven approach.
- Work flexibly and collaboratively to support the work of both the Members services team and the wider organisation, including involvement at Member events, daily lunches, weekly Open Doors Meals, and other GCP activities .
- Ensure a consistently high quality of care and support in the organisation’s services.
- Managing your time effectively and productively, including multi-tasking and efficient prioritisation.
- Working flexibly on occasions, including weekend work and other events as required.
- The above list of duties is not exhaustive. To carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by your Line Manager, SMT or CEO.
Background
Grassmarket Community Project (GCP) is an inclusive community in the heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town, providing support, connection, and opportunity for some of our city’s most vulnerable citizens. Through mentoring, education, social enterprise, and a safe, welcoming environment, we support people to build confidence, develop skills, and realise their full potential.
Our vision is a society where everyone feels valued, has dignity, and can live with greater independence and self-reliance. We walk alongside people as they overcome barriers, build resilience, and reconnect with themselves, others, and the wider community.
Every year we work alongside hundreds of members, delivering over 800 hours of support each month and providing more than 10,000 nutritious meals every year. Together, we create a welcoming, compassionate space where Members can grow, contribute, and thrive.
Values
- Passionate about a strengths-based approach supporting individuals to participate and engage
- Compassionate and trauma-informed in their approach
- Believe in setting of challenging but achievable goals for those they support
- Demands high performance of self and colleagues
- Excellent communication skills
- Responsive to Members’ needs
- Works collaboratively and builds relationships with Members to establish the key issues and anticipate requirements
- Celebrates and promotes the service, the community and Members acting as an advocate for the Grassmarket Community Project
Aptitude & Attitude
- Experience of delivering learning, training, or support activities (formal or informal).
- Ability to work with vulnerable people with a wide range of needs.
- Strong organisational and time management skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Confident in using Microsoft Office and digital tools.
- Experience of monitoring and recording outcomes desirable.
- Knowledge of employability pathways, community learning, or youth work desirable.
Member Outcomes
The post holder will make a significant contribution to Grassmarket Community Project Members’ outcomes, undertaking Member evaluations to ensure:
- Increased confidence, self-esteem, and resilience.
- Improved physical, mental, and social wellbeing.
- Stronger social connections and reduced isolation.
- Greater knowledge, skills, and experience.
- Progression into volunteering, training, education, or employment.
- Feeling valued, heard, and included within the GCP community.
Application notes
Closing Date: 10th September 2025 at 12 midday
Application Process
Please email your CV (max of 4 pages) & Covering letter (max 2 pages) to our Head of Members Services perry@grassmarket.org
The covering letter must address the following questions:
Why are you applying for this position?
What skills, personal qualities, experience, knowledge and training will you bring to this post?
If you have any questions please email Perry to arrange a brief chat.
Interviews: w/c 15th September
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Ask & Act Education Manager
- Full time
- £36,128 – £40,686
- Hybrid: Fife, West Lothian, Perth ,or Edinburgh and WfH, with occasional travel, across sites.
- Closing 7th January 2026
Who We Are
We are Scotland’s leading youth homelessness charity. We believe that no young person should ever face homelessness. That’s why we deliver bold, youth-specific solutions, built around young people’s experiences and what evidence tells us works.
We support young people to avoid and move on from homelessness, helping them build the confidence, skills and stability they need to thrive in adulthood. We also influence policy and practice to create a Scotland where no young person is left behind.
We don’t follow the system, we change it, continually championing the voices and experiences of all young people.
Context
Rock Trust delivers the Upstream prevention project in schools and the post holder will work with the Upstream Team, pilot schools and education departments to create a toolkit for the implementation of Upstream. This will involve working with current pilot schools to document the changes required in school systems, the challenges and how to overcome them and an assessment of the resources required to deliver Upstream. The Ask & Act Education Manager will use this learning to create a toolkit and implementation plan to be used for national implementation.
This role is responsible for:
- Coordinating work with multiple local authority Education departments, senior leaders and cross-sector partners (Housing, Social Work, Health, third sector)
- Designing and documenting processes, guidance and training materials that enable schools to embed early identification of housing risk
- Capturing learning, gathering data and producing a national implementation framework
- Ensuring all activity aligns with statutory duties, local contexts and Rock Trust’s prevention approach
The Ask & Act Education Manager will need to be methodical, have strong report writing skills and interpersonal skills to co-ordinate the information gathering and documenting. They will be responsible for delivering the toolkit to a high standard, making a lasting contribution to Scotland’s homelessness prevention system.
Development Workers Amplify
- Full time
- £32,204 – £37,327
- Remote: Home based in region with occasional travel to Edinburgh office
- Closing 5th January 2026
Youth Scotland, Scotland’s national charity for the support and delivery of community-based youth work, would love you to come and join our dynamic team.
We are looking for two new workers to help us deliver our brand new Amplify Project.
Amplify is a 3-year, Scotland-wide, large-scale Youth Participation programme funded by The National Lottery Community Fund (UK Fund). It builds on Youth Scotland’s experience of supporting youth voice and aims to increase young people’s involvement in decisions that affect their lives, communities and services. The project will support young people, youth workers and wider community stakeholders to embed youth voice into decision-making and community life.
If you have experience of youth and community work and a passion for supporting young people’s participation, leadership and youth voice, then this role is for you.
Location
Post 1: Ref: YS-DWAMP25W
West Region – This post will be home-based in Glasgow or one of the named West Region areas: East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, West Dunbartonshire, Argyll & Bute, with regular travel across the West Region and occasional travel to Youth Scotland’s Office in Edinburgh.
Post 2: Ref: YS-DWAMP25NE
North East Region – This post will be home-based in one of the named North East Region areas: Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Dundee, Moray with regular travel across the North East Region and occasional travel to Youth Scotland’s Office in Edinburgh.
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Do you have a good understanding of social and/or economic policy issues and a proven ability to undertake policy development or campaigning work on specific issues in a wider context? Then join Shelter Scotland as a Senior Advocacy Officer and you could soon be playing a vital role in helping us to deliver positive change for those affected by the housing emergency in Scotland.
About the role
Your main focus will be to lead Shelter Scotland in effectively advocating for the structural policy changes required to end the housing emergency, driving forward our strategic goals to secure more social homes, strengthen housing rights, and build a lasting movement for change. You’ll develop and communicate clear, evidence-based policy recommendations – drawing on research, lived experience, and sector insight – to influence key stakeholders across government, parliament, and beyond. You’ll commission and manage external research, lead stakeholder events, and work collaboratively across teams to ensure our policy work supports public affairs, media, and operational activity. You’ll also line manage an Advocacy Officer, supporting their development and overseeing their performance.
Role specifics
You’ll bring strong experience in crafting high-impact communications that influence decision-makers and persuade key stakeholders. With a solid understanding of Scotland’s political landscape and public policy processes – particularly within the Scottish Government and Parliament – you’ll have a proven track record of driving change through effective advocacy and relationship-building at a senior level. You’ll be proactive in spotting opportunities to influence policy, responding strategically to external developments. Alongside this, you’ll have experience managing externally funded projects, including budgeting and reporting, and will be confident leading and motivating a team to achieve shared goals.
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.
We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.
About the team
The Advocacy Team is part of Shelter Scotland’s Communications and Advocacy Department and is responsible for developing the charity’s policy positions, research plan, and public affairs and professional stakeholder engagement.
The Advocacy team works closely with colleagues in Community Advice and our Telephone and Online Advice services to capture evidence of how Scotland’s broken and biased housing system is impacting communities, and colleagues in Communications and Engagement to translate this evidence into compelling public campaigns and fundraising appeals. The team have led the organisation on developing an anti-racism evidence base, the economic and social benefits of social housing investment and the case for a human rights-based approach to meeting housing need.
Custody Peer Mentor - Positive Outcomes Project (POP Plus)
- Full time
- £25,773 – £27,938
- Hybrid: Glasgow
- Closing 6th January 2026
Do you believe in second chances? Do you have the energy and commitment it takes to support someone to turn their life around?
We are looking for a dedicated individual to forge strong relationships with people and services across the city of Glasgow. Using a trauma-informed approach you will work with people of all ages and from every walk of life, supporting them in making positive changes. You will work alongside Police Scotland’s POP team and attend custody suites across the city of Glasgow to identify and help those that need support and direction.
You must be a skilled communicator who has an ability to connect with people facing a challenging range of issues. A team player, you will work closely with partners across Glasgow to achieve the right outcomes for those we are supporting. Often the people you encounter will be at a low point in their lives so you must be able to show empathy and forge a connection during that ‘reachable moment’, then back it up with the ability to create strong, trusting relationships which support people to access the help they need.
If people describe you as; level-headed, a listener, compassionate, patient, a great communicator, hard worker, resilient, dedicated, great in a crisis - and you have the energy and commitment to always go the extra mile to support people effectively then we would like to hear from you.
The role demands regular evening weekend work, followed up with community outreach support during the week.
We are looking for individuals who have:
- Direct experience of recovery and/or mental health issues
- Past experience of the Criminal Justice System (Please note that successful candidates will have to go through Police Vetting before being authorised access to Police Scotland Custody Suites).
It would be beneficial for applicants to have a full driving licence and access to a car satisfying the appropriate insurance requirements.
Membership of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme is a requirement for the post.
For further information, please email: mcooke@sacro.org.uk.
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