Job Purpose

Working within ACDI’s youth work team there will be a strong requirement for innovation and creativity to encourage, inspire and support children and families living in Auchinleck and surrounding communities.

Delivery of programmes of empowering activities to assist them to be aware of their rights and responsibilities and enable them to take greater control of their lives.

You will have the ability to lead and undertake appropriate marketing activities in the community to ensure families are aware of the initiative.

You will help to deliver high quality and inspiring health and wellbeing workshop sessions that will achieve the programme outcomes complementing the Scottish Government National Outcomes.

A full Job Description is available for download below.

Are you an energetic and self-motivated individual with strong people and development skills?

Do you have a passion for helping people from a range of different backgrounds?

Do you love the canal and surrounding natural environment?

If you can answer yes to these questions, then read on.

With thanks to funding from the Volunteering Support Fund, Go Forth and Clyde, a canal-based charity in Camelon, Falkirk, wish to recruit for a new position of Volunteer Coordinator, to support our existing c30 volunteers, develop new activities for them, and recruit more volunteers. As well as supporting more volunteers, we also wish to create more opportunities for them, both within the organisation and in the wider community, including a range of training and employability options in conjunction with various partner organisations. To that end, we have created this new role of Volunteer Coordinator to help us achieve this aim, and to even better support, develop, and add to our excellent volunteers who are mostly drawn from the local area, recognised by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation as being in the 5-15% areas of deprivation.

This role will initially be for 16 hours a week, to be worked flexibly as agreed, but subject to further funding, has the potential to be a larger role.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with the correct skills and enthusiasm to make a real difference in a community that has so much to offer, with a group of people who have the drive and determination to succeed. This may not be easy but it will be hugely rewarding. A Job Description and Person Specification is available at goforthandclyde.org.uk.

Midsteeple Quarter is a community benefit society, a community-led initiative to revive the heart of Dumfries town centre. We are transforming a row of underused High Street buildings into a vibrant and inclusive neighbourhood called Midsteeple Quarter. The project involves bringing properties into community ownership and renovating them to create affordable housing, workspaces, social enterprises, and cultural activities. By empowering the community to shape their own future, Midsteeple Quarter hopes to restore civic pride, economic vitality, and social cohesion in the town.

Our Enterprise Manager will:

• enable our Standard Building to become an inclusive, welcoming and vibrant venue for young people.
• develop partnerships with a wide range of organisations and co-ordinate a diverse programme of activities, opportunities and events for young people.
• enable young people to access support, training and advice which helps them to realise their ambitions for enterprise, career growth and skills development.
• contribute towards Midsteeple Quarter’s overall vision of breathing new life into Dumfries High Street.

What we are looking for

We are looking for a creative and hard working individual with a background in working with people aged 15-25. You will be well connected to local initiatives that are supporting young people and able to foster and new partnerships to enable our Standard Building to become a vibrant hub for young people. You will have experience of working with social or start up enterprises and the ability to foster long term partnerships. You will be flexible, enjoy working in a small team and be able to regularly work evening and weekends.

Community Energy Scotland is recruiting for a Senior Technical Officer with experience of all aspects of technical project delivery, including scoping of technical work, writing bids and tenders, managing client relationships, overseeing and providing expert input into technical content creation, and delivering outputs on time and to budget.

The role will be part of a wider technical team that delivers the technical aspects of several of Community Energy Scotland’s projects, as well as stand-alone technical work such as feasibility studies and options appraisals. This new senior role requires an energetic, well organised self-starter.

We are particularly looking for candidates who can demonstrate experience and skills in at least two of the following areas:

• Grid assessments
• Development of 30-50MW renewable generation projects
• Non-loan financing for renewable projects
• Cost estimation for renewable generation projects
• System integration of renewable generation projects to buildings or off-grid systems