Head of Communications and Marketing
- Part time
- £42,000 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Hybrid with in-person meet-ups in Glasgow for induction and training, team meetings, 1-1s, team socials and occasional events.
- Closing 8th October 2025
- Advertised from 23rd September 2025
- 22.5-30 hours a week, or 3-4 days
Role
Make work better for everyone
At Flexibility Works we believe flexible working is good for people, good for business, and good for society. We’re a social business and registered charity that helps employers across Scotland create successful flexible working cultures - through practical support, training, and consultancy.
We also lead the way in research and policy influence, publishing Scotland’s most comprehensive flexible working data and working closely with the Scottish Government and other changemakers to drive systemic change. Our work shows how flexible working can improve wellbeing, help businesses thrive and reduce poverty by enabling people to get into work and stay in work.
We’re now looking for a strategic, creative, and values-driven communications professional to join our small but mighty team as our new Head of Communications and Marketing.
What you’ll be doing
This is a rare opportunity to influence how flexible working is understood and adopted across Scotland. You’ll be both a strategic thinker and a hands-on doer – shaping our vision and voice, and then rolling up your sleeves to make it happen.
This role is perfect for someone who loves variety: one day you’ll be developing our marketing strategy and brand positioning, the next you’ll be writing copy for a campaign, refreshing the website, or sending out our newsletter.
You’ll have full ownership of the function, plenty of scope to be creative, and the opportunity to directly see the impact of your work on the growth of the business and wider use of flexible working. Please see our job description for more details.
We offer:
• A flexible, inclusive, and supportive culture - we walk our talk.
• A remote-first role with monthly in-person meet-ups in Glasgow.
• An annual training budget for CPD, and generous annual leave allowance.
• A chance to work on meaningful, high-impact projects with national reach.
• A team that values creativity, kindness, and getting stuff done.
This role is quite broad, so if you don’t meet all of the criteria but you’re interested, or you’ve got questions, please email hello@flexibilityworks.org to arrange a call with our current staff member in this role (Jenny):
Application notes
Application Notes:
To apply, please email your CV along with a short covering letter (no more than 1 page) detailing:
1. Why you are interested in the role.
2. Why you would be a good fit for the role and for our organisation.
• Please email the covering letter and CV to Laura-Jane Clements, Business Support Manager laura-jane.clements@flexibilityworks.org by the end of Wednesday 8 October 2025.
• First interviews to held online the week commencing Monday 20 October.
• Second interviews to be held in person in central Glasgow the week commencing Monday 3 November. This will include a presentation exercise.
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Top job! Participation Practice Lead
- Full time
- £47,389 – £58,225
- Hybrid: Glasgow
- Closing 13th November 2025
Change-makers sought!
Do you want to help Scotland Keep the Promise?
At CELCIS, we are driven by a powerful ambition: to create lasting, transformational change in the lives of children, young people, and families.
At the heart of this ambition is our unwavering commitment to ensuring that the voices, experiences, and rights of people with lived experience of support, care, or protection services are not only heard but understood so that these can meaningfully shape the decisions, services, and systems that affect their daily lives. And we are committed to embedding lived experience throughout CELCIS, ensuring it informs and influences our internal culture, our ways of working, and our activities, from policy and research to practice improvement and system change.
This exciting new role is central to that ambition. We’re looking for a values-led leader to join us as our Participation Practice Lead, to lead and manage our involvement and participation function.
The successful candidate will build on the strong foundations of participatory practice that have been established at CELCIS and will have an opportunity to shape the role and develop CELCIS’s work into new areas.
Leading our strategic approach to embed the voices and experiences of children and families, our Participation Practice Lead will work with our experienced, multidisciplinary teams across CELCIS and work in partnership with organisations and the children’s services workforce across Scotland and beyond.
While this is a strategic role, it is also about sharing good practice to equip and enable colleagues and stakeholders. In this role, you’ll support the workforce and leaders to create readiness and build the confidence, skills, and culture needed to involve people with lived experience in safe, ethical, and meaningful ways. You’ll design and facilitate reflective learning spaces, co-production activities, and inclusive activities that are trauma-informed and rights-based.
We’re looking for someone who brings integrity and a deep understanding of this work, someone who has “walked the walk” in social work, youth work, or a related field and is passionate about creating the conditions where children, young people, and families are truly seen, heard, and valued.
You’ll be a trusted facilitator, a credible leader, and a passionate advocate for children’s rights and wellbeing, helping to turn insight into impact, and experience into evidence for change.
Applicants with lived experience of support, care, or protection services are welcomed and valued.
Does this sound like you? Apply now.
This is an open-ended contract that is linked to grant funding, and the continuation of the post is linked to the renewal of this funding.
Top job! Head of Development & Enterprise
- Part time
- £50,000 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Glasgow
- Closing 16th November 2025
Wasps is now looking to recruit a dynamic and self-motivated Head of Development & Enterprise.
Leading our Development and Enterprise department, you will be in the engine room of the charity’s income generation; you will have a demonstrable record of planning and generating income – including trading and fundraising – from a range of sources and have an affiliation with the aims and objectives of Wasps and understand its cultural and social value. This role will focus on developing trading activities, securing grant funding, forming partnerships, and generating income to support the charitable mission.
The Head of Development & Enterprise will play a critical role in the delivery of Wasps’ charitable purpose and partnerships, as well as working with our CEO, consultants and Board of Trustees on major income generation initiatives. You will be comfortable communicating with a variety of stakeholders, understanding their aims and translating them into actionable results on behalf of the organisation. You will be excited to lead fundraising initiatives for capital, programmes and environmental projects.
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Top job! Head of Research
- Full time
- £52,166 – £58,687
- On site: Glasgow OR London
- Closing 30th November 2025
The Mental Health Foundation is recruiting for a Head of Research to lead our UK Research team.
This is an exciting new role with the UK’s leading public mental health charity. The Head of Research role is a fantastic opportunity to lead our UK research team to achieve social change. We are looking for research and management expertise, strategic thinking, operational delivery, and the ability to collaborate and communicate with a range of stakeholders including media, academics, policymakers and communities. You will be part of an outstanding leadership team committed to delivering change across the UK. The role will deliver our UK-wide research, reporting to the Director of Research & Lived Experience.
What does the role involve?
- Support the Director of Research & Lived Experience to develop and deliver a 5-year research strategy
- Lead our UK research team to deliver and commission studies and reviews to a high standard at pace
- Present research clearly and persuasively to media, governments, academics, funders and communities
What skills, knowledge and experience are we looking for?
- Excellent research skills, experience and credibility in health or social research
- Strategic thinker who can also effectively manage teams and projects
- Proven communication skills to different audiences
Safeguarding is Everyone’s business – Mental Health Foundation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of all its beneficiaries, those who surround them, its staff, volunteers, and anyone else who comes into contact with its services and expects all trustees, staff, and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to appropriate vetting procedures (proof of eligibility to work in the UK, proof of residency and satisfactory employment screening, including a Disclosure check and two most recent references) along with 3-year renewals of Disclosure checks. We are unable to provide sponsorship for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.
Service Lead: Connect Hub / Soft Edges
- Full time
- £36,609 – £42,736
- On site: Glasgow
- Closing 12th November 2025
About Simon Community Scotland
People are at the heart of who we are and what we do. Day-by-day, person-to-person, we tailor what we offer to what people need. We’re here to provide consistent, friendly and informed support so that people can explore options and take ‘the next step’ towards their future. We welcome people with a wide range of skills and experiences to our team – including those who have lived through homelessness. To make a difference we need to work flexibly, with everyday-leadership, humour and a ‘can do’ spirit. We want to make it easy, make it right, and make it happen – not only for the people we support, but also for each other. We care for and support each other regardless of our role, service or location. We want people who share these values to join us and become a part of the Simon Community Scotland team.
Job Specific Description
This is an exciting leadership opportunity to bring together two pioneering and transformative services working with women experiencing homelessness in Glasgow: the newly developed Soft Edges and the established Connect Hub.
Soft Edges is a multi-agency government funded project, with Simon Community Scotland leading on the operational delivery, the aim of the service is to connect with women who have experienced barriers to accessing support for a number of reasons.
Soft Edges will be a co-produced and trauma-informed service built in partnership with women, supporting women that services struggle to reach. The Connect Hub offers a community based, drop-in model that prioritises flexibility, safety, and meaningful engagement and support alongside women experiencing homelessness in Glasgow City Centre.
A key focus of this role in the first six months will be to lead the co-design of the Soft Edges service alongside women with lived and living experience. This includes collaboratively shaping the full service offer - from outreach and housing pathways to staffing structures, job roles, and operational design. The successful candidate will guide an inclusive, creative and empowering design process that ensures the resulting service is grounded in the real needs, strengths, and aspirations of women that traditional systems and structures have historically struggled to serve.
Alongside this, you will provide strategic leadership for the Connect Hub, an established four-day-a-week community service for women, and manage a skilled multidisciplinary team across both services. You'll work in partnership with clinical psychology and partner agencies to deliver responsive, trauma-informed and relational support that creates meaningful change in women's lives and challenges systemic barriers.
This role requires a compassionate and strategic leader who can build trusting relationships, lead with compassion, support staff wellbeing, and champion co-production, all while ensuring services are sustainable, integrated, and impactful
Key Responsibilities
Strategic and Service Leadership
Lead the co-design phase of the Soft Edges service, working alongside women to define:
- The service offer and model of support
- Team structure and job roles
- Values, principles and practice approach
- Service spaces and operational approaches
- Ensure lived and living experience drives every aspect of the Soft Edges design, embedding trauma-informed values from day one.
- Sharing and developing the service alongside broader strategic partners across Health and Social Care Partnership
- Translate the co-design outcomes into a fully developed, operationally ready service for launch after the initial six-month design phase.
- Ensure services remain aligned with trauma informed and co-production values.
- Provide ongoing operational leadership of the Connect Hub, ensuring it remains a responsive, trauma-informed, and accessible service for women in Glasgow.
Team Leadership
- Provide direct line management to the Soft Edges and Connect Hub team, and leadership support to the Practitioner Psychologist and Assistant Psychologist.
- Work in close partnership with the Clinical Psychologist and Head of Service to embed psychologically-informed environments (PIE) and trauma-informed care throughout the service.
- Ensure the recruitment and onboarding of new team members for Soft Edges aligns with co-designed values and role profiles.
- Ensure all staff are supported through supervision, coaching, and reflective practice, in collaboration with psychology colleagues.
- Actively promote wellbeing, emotional safety, and professional growth within staff teams.
- Model compassionate and values-based leadership in all relationships and decisions.
Partnership and System Engagement
- Build strong and strategic relationships across sectors (e.g. housing, health, VAWG, justice, social work, mental health) to improve pathways and systems of care for women.
- Represent the services and Simon Community Scotland in local forums and multi-agency settings.
- Champion systems change through storytelling, influence, and collaborative working, informed by women's lived experience, creating space for women to shape service design. Support team members to have regular care meetings to ensure multiagency working alongside women - steering the need for stronger communication across both public and third sector organisations involved in a women's care.
Budget and Resource Management
- Oversee and manage grant funded budgets across both services, ensuring accountability, transparency and delivery.
- Lead on securing additional funding and income generation opportunities, in collaboration with internal teams.
- Maintain clear and accessible reporting to funders, commissioners and stakeholders.
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
- Oversee service monitoring and evaluation processes that are participatory, woman-centred, and deliver on outcomes for women.
- Collaborate with the psychology team and research partners to capture and share learning, impact and insight.
- Embed continuous improvement through learning reviews, co-production forums, and meaningful feedback loops.
Our Values & Approach
All SCS employees are expected to demonstrate the following values in their work:
- Warmth and Regard
- Recognising and valuing everyone
- Treating people with kindness, dignity and respect
- Acting with compassion
- Showing warmth and welcome to everyone
- Taking difficult decisions sensitively and with due regard to others
- Taking a calm, professional and intelligent approach to stigma
Inclusion and Participation
- Encouraging the participation and inclusion of people we support
- Exploring choices and options with people we support or fellow colleagues
- Making things easy for others
- Embracing technology in delivering your role
- Supporting clients, staff and volunteers to become digitally included
Personalised and Creative
- Innovation and creativity
- Helping to find solutions that are a good fit for someone, irrespective of who they are or the problem they have
- When someone isn’t at their best, quickly recognising there’s probably something else. going on, and finding ways to respond with care
Supportive and Ambitious
- Helping to bring hope through our words and actions
- Helping to build trust
- Being supportive and showing care
Partnership and Collaboration
- Fostering positive relationships with our partners
- Building team togetherness and collaboration
- Fostering a positive problem-solving vibe
Leadership and Learning
- Making things happen
- Motivating and inspiring others
- Taking time to reflect on what’s working and what isn’t
- Taking care of our ‘places and spaces’ so they feel tidy and welcoming
- Asking for help and learning to do things better
- Playing an active role in our social media strategy
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