Top job! Impact and Improvement Manager
- Full time
- £41,526
- On site: Glasgow
- Closing 2nd February 2026
- Advertised from 12th January 2026
Role
At Scottish Refugee Council we believe data isn’t just numbers – it’s key to understanding the lives we touch and the change we create. We’re looking for an Impact and Improvement Manager to lead our dedicated Data and Impact team and ensure we measure, learn and improve to do ever better for the people and communities we serve.
What you’ll do:
- Lead a small, passionate team focused on impact measurement and continuous improvement
- Transform data into meaningful insights that inspire action and learning
- Work across the organisation to embed a culture of learning and evidence- based decision-making
What you’ll bring:
- Experience in impact measurement, data analysis or continuous improvement
- Strong leadership skills and the ability to inspire a team
- A commitment to using evidence to drive positive change for people and communities.
This is more than a job – it’s an opportunity to shape change and help us create a fairer, more compassionate world.
About us
Scottish Refugee Council is Scotland’s national refugee charity. Every year, we provide direct support and advice to people rebuilding their lives in Scotland, standing up for people’s rights and campaign for a fairer and more humane asylum system and enhanced integration for communities in Scotland.
The vision is for a Scotland in which all people seeking refugee protection are welcome. A place where men, women and children are protected, find safety and support, have their human rights and dignity respected and can achieve their full potential. Together, we can build a better future with refugees in Scotland. Find out more at scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk.
Employee benefits package
- 39 days of leave (including public holidays)
- Progressive salary structure
- Flexible working options
- Training and development opportunities
- Union recognition
- Fresh fruit, tea & coffee in office
- Enhanced pay benefits
- Enhanced pension
- Counselling & coaching service
- Cycle to work scheme
- Eye care scheme
- Death in service & 24-hour GP service
Application notes
Please visit our website to apply.
Closing Date: 2nd February 2026 at 9 a.m.
Our aim is to relieve destitution and promote wellbeing for people within the asylum system in Scotland. We have been established in the city for over 30 years and are currently seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic CEO to lead us into the future in an ever changing landscape.
Chief Executive – Refugee Sanctuary Scotland
Purpose of Role
Provide visionary leadership to ensure the charity delivers effective support in combatting destitution and homelessness for refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland. Champion the rights and dignity of displaced people while ensuring organisational sustainability and impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic leadership: Shape and deliver a clear strategy that responds to the evolving needs of refugees and asylum seekers.
- Advocacy and representation: Act as the charity’s public voice, influencing policy, raising awareness, and challenging misconceptions about refugees.
- Governance support: Work closely with the Board of Trustees to ensure compliance with charity law, safeguarding standards, and ethical practice.
- Operational management: Oversee services such as housing, financial support, legal advice, and social support.
- Safeguarding and welfare: Ensure policies and practices protect vulnerable individuals, particularly children and survivors of trauma.
- Financial stewardship: Secure funding through grants, donations, and partnerships; manage budgets responsibly.
- Stakeholder engagement: Build strong relationships with local authorities, NGOs, donors, volunteers, and refugee communities.
- Risk management: Identify and mitigate risks, including reputational, financial, and operational challenges.
Person Specification
- Proven leadership experience in refugee support, or related social justice sectors.
- Strong understanding of refugee issues, asylum processes, and integration challenges from lived or hands on experience.
- Commitment to safeguarding and trauma-informed approaches.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to inspire diverse audiences and advocate effectively.
- Financial and fundraising expertise with knowledge of charity funding models.
- Governance knowledge including charity law, safeguarding regulations, and international refugee frameworks.
- Strategic thinker with ability to translate vision into practical programmes.
- Cultural sensitivity and ability to work inclusively with diverse communities.
Top job! Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- Full time
- £58,000 – £65,000
- Hybrid: Glasgow
- Closing 2nd February 2026
About Us
The Bridges Programmes is a third sector organisation dedicated to supporting refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and anyone for whom English is a second language, supporting their social, educational, and economic integration in Glasgow. We deliver employability programmes, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) courses, and accredited training, working in partnership with local communities, employers, and service providers.
We are seeking a dynamic, compassionate, and visionary leader to guide our organisation through its next chapter — sustaining our impact, strengthening our financial resilience, deepening our reach and partnership working, and evolving our services to meet changing needs.
Purpose of the Role
The CEO will lead, manage, and develop The Bridges Programme, ensuring its sustainability, growth, and relevance, while upholding our values and commitment to inclusion, equality and opportunity.
Refugee Sanctuary Scotland (RSS) exists to relieve destitution and promote wellbeing for refugees and people within the asylum system in Scotland. Our vision is a welcoming, inclusive, safe Scotland for refugees and asylum seekers, where all live free of destitution and have the means and opportunities to realise their full potential. Our mission is to provide refugees and people seeking asylum with practical support when it is most needed, build connections between people and use what we learn to campaign for change.
Role Purpose:
We are looking for a dynamic individual to join our small committed and vibrant team of staff who deliver incredible impact for their size. Your role will be focused on our strategic objective to ensure the charity’s sustainability by maximising and diversifying income and maintaining/developing the charity’s profile among the public, policy makers and other migrant justice organisations. You will be delivering strategic fundraising and communications, building partnerships, raising unrestricted and restricted funds from diverse income sources to support the sustainability of the charity.
To thrive in this role, you will need to be driven, organised, tenacious, creative, flexible, have good communication skills and be confident in inspiring existing and new funders and donors to donate to raise money. You will build strong relationships and partnerships both internally and externally, managing a varied portfolio of work that touches all aspects of the charity, write compelling funding applications, create campaigns and come up with new and innovative ideas to capture the minds and hearts of potential philanthropists. Our ideal candidate will be an individual who fits with the values of Refugee Sanctuary Scotland
Scottish Refugee Council is Scotland’s national charity working to support refugees to build new lives in Scotland. Our central ambition is for Scotland to be the best place for refugees to thrive, challenge injustice, achieve their ambitions and empower their communities, no matter where they have come from or how they arrived.
We want integration policy and practice to be ambitious, equitable and consistent by leading policy development and advocacy to continually improve refugee integration policy and practice in Scotland. And we want the UK asylum and protection system reformed to be fairer, anti-racist and more effective through policy development and advocacy in partnership with others to build a fairer and kinder asylum and protection system at UK level.
We are seeking a Policy Officer to help us achieve positive change for refugees and the communities that welcome them. Working with teams across the organisation you will lead on specific agreed portfolios of work for change.
You will be passionate about achieving our central ambition with knowledge of social issues relating to refugees and asylum seekers and how change happens. You have excellent research and written communication skills. And you are a strong communicator with the confidence and skills to interact with civil servants, stakeholders, community groups and the people we exist to serve.
This role will focus on asylum and protection policy supporting Scottish Refugee Council’s policy development on asylum, resettlement, trafficking and advocating for change at a UK level with the UK Government and building support for longer-term change.
You will work in the Policy and Public Affairs team alongside the Policy Officer (Integration) and Policy Officer (Children’s Policy). This role specialises in policy at UK Government level but occasional cross-team working is required
Scottish Refugee Council is Scotland’s national refugee charity. Every year, we provide direct support and advice to people rebuilding their lives in Scotland, standing up for people’s rights and campaign for a fairer and more humane asylum system and enhanced integration for communities in Scotland.
The vision is for a Scotland in which all people seeking refugee protection are welcome. A place where men, women and children are protected, find safety and support, have their human rights and dignity respected and can achieve their full potential. Together, we can build a better future with refugees in Scotland. Find out more at scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk.
Employee benefits package
- 39 days of leave (including public holidays)
- Progressive salary structure
- Flexible working options
- Training and development opportunities
- Union recognition
- Fresh fruit, tea & coffee in office
- Enhanced pay benefits
- Enhanced pension
- Counselling & coaching service
- Cycle to work scheme
- Eye care scheme
- Death in service & 24-hour GP service
This post will be subject to a Disclosure check.
Applicants require to have existing right to work in the UK.
It is the policy of Scottish Refugee Council to start new employees on the lower end of the specified salary scale.
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