Coordinator
- Full time
- £31,941
- On site: Pennywell/Muirhouse
- Closing 3rd November 2025
- Advertised from 10th October 2025
- 0.6FTE, £31,941 – pro rata £19,164.60 for 21 hours per week.
Role
Coordinator (including Community Casework and Community Food roles)
Community Renewal Trust is a dynamic charity with a vacancy for a Coordinator within our Pennywell/Muirhouse office. While a small charity it is at the forefront of developing and delivering new, better ways to end poverty for people and neighbourhoods which are of national importance. We work in a whole-person, whole-neighbourhood mentality and all staff, all the time seek to use our seven values. The role seeks to take a community development approach, building capacity in the community by identifying and working with community activists/groups. This role requires one-to-one work with community members. The coordinator will also oversee a new social enterprise veg shop. Although not essential some project management skills are preferred.
If you are someone with a little experience in bottom-up community approaches and/or holistic casework and who is excited by our values then absolutely contact us to apply. https://www.communityrenewal.org.uk/about-us/our-values/
TRUSTING – Our impact is built on choosing to place trust in people.
TRUSTWORTHY – Our trustworthiness is what makes our relationships grow
LEARNING – Our charity is about learning so we celebrate success but also appreciate failure
BUILDING ON STRENGTHS – Our aim is always to build on strengths: we reject paternalism
ALONGSIDE COMMUNITIES – Our aim is always to stay alongside people for as long as it takes.
ACHIEVING PREVENTION – Our choice is to be proactive so we can achieve prevention, build resilience and find the right people.
INSPIRING TRANSFORMATION – Our focus is always inspiring towards transformation, rather than incremental change.
Application notes
Questions to John Halliday (john.halliday@communityrenewal.org.uk) by 12noon Thursday 30 Oct 2025.
Application in form of CV and covering letter emailed to recruitment@communityrenewal.org.uk by 10am Monday 3rd Nov 2025.
Applicants without cover letters or those overseas who do not include evidence of right to work in the UK will not be considered.
Interviews will be held mid Nov.
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- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 17th November 2025
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We are an independent charitable Buildings Preservation Trust formed in 1997. Our mission is to create viable futures for heritage buildings and their communities by inspiring and enabling visionary conservation projects. Fife has a particularly rich and varied heritage with over 6,200 listed buildings and 48 conservation areas. We have helped deliver over £50m in historic environment regeneration projects in Fife, supporting town centres, businesses, tourism and local communities.
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- £30,871 pro-rata
- On site: Glasgow
- Closing 26th November 2025
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- £27,500
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