People and Culture Officer
- Full time
- £30,002 – £35,076
- On site: Edinburgh or Glasgow
- Closing 16th September 2025
- Advertised from 3rd September 2025
- Maternity Cover until October 2026
Role
Do you want to help create an outstanding workplace where our people can thrive?
At Children First, Scotland’s national children’s charity, we stand up for children, keep them safe, and support families to thrive. We are now looking for a confident, organised, and tech-curious People & Culture Officer to join our friendly People & Culture team on a fixed-term basis, covering maternity leave.
The Role
This post will support the day-to-day running of our HR and learning systems, employee lifecycle administration, and first-line People queries. You will also contribute to process improvement and help ensure our systems and tools are used effectively across the organisation.
You will:
- Lead on the day-to-day management of our HR system (Personio) and support the rollout and maintenance of our Learning Management System (LMS).
- Maintain accurate employee records, workflows, and templates, and ensure GDPR compliance.
- Prepare contracts, offer letters, onboarding materials, and support offboarding processes.
- Track key dates such as probation reviews, appraisals, and training completion.
- Respond to employee queries with warmth and professionalism, signposting as needed.
- Support Learning & Development coordination, including scheduling sessions, tracking completion, and gathering feedback.
- Contribute to process improvements to make HR systems and administration more efficient and user-friendly.
This is a great opportunity if you enjoy a role that combines structure with variety, and if you want to develop your HR, systems, and process skills while working in a supportive, values-led environment.
What We’re Looking For
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- Previous experience in HR, People Administration, or HR Systems roles, supporting the full employee cycle.
- Confidence using HR systems (Personio or similar) and a curiosity for digital tools.
- Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills.
- A calm, friendly communication style (written and verbal).
- A proactive, solutions-focused approach and ability to handle confidential information.
- Team player attitude and a willingness to support colleagues where needed.
- Desirable: CIPD Level 3 or equivalent HR qualification; experience managing an LMS; experience in a fixed-term or cover role.
What You Can Expect from Us
- Contract: Fixed-term (Maternity Cover until Oct 2026)
- Location: Edinburgh or Glasgow (flexible working available)
- Salary: Starting salary £30,002 (scale £30,002 - £35,076)
- Annual Leave: 40 days (inclusive public holidays)
- Pension and Wellbeing Support
- A welcoming, supportive team and opportunities to develop skills in HR systems, learning, and process improvement.
- The chance to make a real difference in how we support our people across the organisation.
Our Values
Living our values, you will help create a workplace where our people can thrive, ensuring we deliver the best possible support to children and families. With love, we put children first. With purpose, we transform lives together. With strength, we do whatever it takes to protect Scotland’s children.
Application notes
For further information and to apply, please visit our website.
The Yard is an award-winning charity that runs adventure play services for children with disabilities and/or additional support needs and their families across Scotland.
We are seeking an experienced HR Manager who is passionate about driving positive change at The Yard. You will bring the expertise and gravitas to influence and support senior leadership on HR and cultural initiatives.
About the role:
Some of your key responsibilities will include:
• Ensuring The Yard maintains the roles, skills and experience to deliver on its strategic priorities
• Measure employee engagement and agree action plans to develop and improve organisational culture
• Ensuring our recruitment policies and processes embody our values and enable us to recruit people with the skills and qualities to meet our goals
• Developing and managing our renumeration policy
About you:
This job is for you if you have:
• Proven experience of HR management
• Can lead by example, fostering a culture of trust and respect
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills
• Ability to develop HR strategies aligning with our strategic plan
If our ethos inspires you and you are eager to bring your knowledge and experience to a team that is deeply committed to our purpose, we would love to have you on board.
If you would like to discuss the role with our Director of Resources, please let us know and we can arrange a call.
Top job! Head of Influence and Campaigns
- Full time
- £51,257 – £57,613
- Hybrid: Edinburgh or Glasgow
- Closing 9th January 2026
Children First is Scotland’s national children’s charity. We stand up for every child because all children should have a safe childhood. We protect children from harm and support them to recover from trauma and abuse through our national and local services.
In this role, you’ll:
- Lead the development and delivery of high-impact influence and campaigning activity that drives policy and practice change for children and families.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues across communications, policy, services and fundraising to deliver bold, integrated campaigns.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, partners, influencers and decision-makers.
- Ensure campaigns are informed by evidence, data and the lived experience of children and families.
- Provide leadership and direction across policy and participation, creating a culture of connection, accountability and impact.
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- Significant experience leading influence, campaigning, policy or public affairs work at a senior level.
- A proven track record of delivering campaigns that achieve meaningful change.
- Experience of leading and developing high-performing teams.
- Strong communication and influencing skills, with confidence engaging senior stakeholders and partners.
- A collaborative, values-led approach and commitment to children’s rights and inclusion.
What we offer:
- A workplace with values of with love, with purpose and with strength
- 40 days annual leave, inclusive of bank holidays
- Pension scheme and wellbeing support
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
- Access to Westfield Health, giving colleagues and their families confidential counselling support, wellbeing resources, and access to health and lifestyle benefits to support physical and mental wellbeing.
- Blue Light card discount
- A Fair Work accredited workplace
Our Values
Living our values, you will help create a workplace where our people can thrive, ensuring we deliver the best possible support to children and families.
With love, we put children first.
With purpose, we transform lives together.
With strength, we do whatever it takes to protect Scotland’s children.
Chair/Treasurer
- Management Board
- Unpaid
- Hybrid: Scotland (Quarterly Board meetings online annual get together central belt)
- Closing 26th January 2026
Volunteer Chair and Treasurer (Trustees) – Help Dads Rock Support Dads and Families across Scotland
Dads Rock is a fast-growing, dynamic Scottish charity with a clear vision: Children thrive when Dads thrive. We are looking for passionate and experienced individuals to join our Board of Trustees.
We are currently recruiting for two key volunteer leadership roles:
- Chair: To provide strategic direction and ensure strong governance as we expand our services across Scotland.
- Treasurer: To utilise your financial expertise in overseeing our financial viability, budgets, and compliance. Experience in a finance role is highly valued.
This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute your skills to a critical mission with a low time commitment (approx. 2-3 hours per month) and a high societal impact.
Permanent and Freelance Therapists
- Part time
- £45,047 pro-rata
- On site: Within 60 mile radius of our office 111 Oxgangs Road N, Edinburgh, EH14 1ED
- Closing 5th January 2026
We are looking for a permanent therapist and a freelancer to join our Therapy Centre Team. We are open to considering a range of accredited therapists - art, music, drama, filial, play. If you are an experienced therapist with skills in working with children individually and in groups, we’d like to hear from you.
Scottish Adoption and Fostering is an established voluntary sector provider of specialist adoption services. We have built our reputation on the delivery of high quality and innovative services based on best practice. This is an exciting time to join the Agency as we expand our work to include a mainstream fostering service.
The permanent role is for 18 hours a week and will involve some travel to work with children and families within a 60-mile radius of our Edinburgh Office. We want to take a flexible approach so if there are therapists who can commit to a set number of hours a week that are fewer than 18 hours we would love to hear from you.
The freelance role is primarily to work with families in Glasgow and the West of Scotland, again we are flexible and could vary the number of hours for the right candidate.
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