VSA is the largest city social care charity in the UK, with over 150 years of experience supporting vulnerable children, adults, and families across Aberdeen and beyond. The organisation delivers life-changing services through residential care and community outreach, promoting physical, emotional, mental, and social wellbeing. VSA supports individuals facing complex challenges, including mental health diagnoses, additional learning needs, addiction, isolation, and poverty, with a focus on empowerment, compassion, and enabling people to live the best lives possible.

VSA is seeking an outstanding Chief Executive Officer to lead the organisation through a period of strategic transformation within the Scottish social care sector. This is a pivotal opportunity to shape the organisation’s future, building on a long history of high-quality service delivery while responding to evolving policy, funding frameworks, and community needs.

Reporting to the Board of Trustees, the CEO will provide overall leadership and direction for VSA, ensuring strong governance, effective risk management, and financial sustainability. They will work closely with the Executive Management Team to deliver the organisation’s strategic objectives, embed a culture of innovation and accountability, and maintain the highest standards of care for service users.

The CEO will represent VSA externally, engaging with government, regulators, and partners to ensure the organisation’s voice is influential in shaping the future of health and social care. Through effective advocacy and stakeholder management, the CEO will strengthen VSA’s position in the sector and secure opportunities for innovation and growth.

Candidates will bring significant senior leadership experience, ideally gained within a health and social care context, with a track record of leading complex, multi-service organisations. They will demonstrate strong financial and commercial acumen, experience delivering sustainable change, and the ability to engage confidently with a wide range of stakeholders. Above all, they will be values-driven, visible, and authentic leaders, committed to supporting staff and ensuring that service users’ needs remain central to decision-making.

The successful CEO will guide VSA through this period of strategic transformation, ensuring the organisation remains resilient, sustainable, and well-positioned to continue serving Aberdeen’s communities as it has for over 150 years. This is an exceptional opportunity to shape the future of a historic, mission-driven organisation, leaving a lasting legacy and making a meaningful difference to the lives of the people VSA supports.

About the Scottish Mentoring Network

Scottish Mentoring Network (SMN) is a national intermediary organisation which was established in 2005 to promote and support the development of mentoring in Scotland. It is a membership organisation – the members are mentoring projects across Scotland. SMN currently has around 160 member organisations.

Our Mission is to increase the quality, reach and profile of mentoring across Scotland.

Our Vision is effective, high-quality mentoring recognised, valued and available to all.

Our values are:

We inspire: We are passionate and ambitious about mentoring. We encourage and support our members to continuously improve their mentoring practice and motivate others to start mentoring.

We collaborate: We work together with our members, potential members, stakeholders, and partners to achieve our shared goals.

We empower: We encourage our people and those we work with to use a creative, solutions-focused approach to emerging issues. We enable this by sharing information and creating a learning environment that celebrates and learns from both successes and challenges.

The primary purpose of the job

1. To provide leadership, strategic direction and continued development of the Scottish Mentoring Network.
2. To be responsible for management and performance within strategic and accountability frameworks agreed with the Board.
3. To continue to develop the Scottish Mentoring Network to meet the members' needs.

Are you an experienced communications professional who thrives on fast-paced media work, connecting colleagues internally, and meaningful storytelling?

The Church of Scotland is seeking a Senior Communications Officer to support the Head of Communications in delivering high-quality internal and external communications, protecting the Church’s reputation, promoting its mission and connecting with audiences in Scotland and beyond.

You’ll play a senior role in shaping how the Church communicates with the public, media and its own people. This includes proactive media relations, crisis communications, digital content creation and strategic internal communications.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing expert media and communications advice to Church leaders, staff, presbyteries and congregations
• Identifying and generating compelling news stories and features
• Managing sensitive issues and contributing to crisis communications
• Responding to requests from journalists and media stakeholders, including as part of out of hours rota
• Creating and coordinating content for corporate social media channels
• Producing high-quality multimedia content using the latest technologies
• Coaching colleagues and Church personnel in media engagement and best practice
• Supporting communications around the General Assembly
• Using analytics to inform and improve communications activity
• Supporting the development of effective internal communications across the Church

You’ll bring:

• At least five years’ professional experience in communications, journalism or press office work
• Strong news sense and a thorough understanding of the Scottish media landscape
• Proven crisis communications experience and knowledge of media law
• Excellent writing, digital and organisational skills
• Confidence working at pace, under pressure and with senior stakeholders
• A genuine interest in the work and mission of the Church of Scotland

This is a unique opportunity to use your communications expertise in a senior, influential role with real purpose — supporting a national Church at the heart of Scottish life.