Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust (FCCT) is a dynamic local charity and social enterprise working to make Fountainbridge a better place to live, work, do business and visit. From community canal boat trips to greenspace improvements, volunteer programmes, wellbeing walks and the annual Edinburgh Canal Festival, we deliver projects that promote inclusion, sustainability, and community wellbeing.

We are now looking for a motivated and skilled Senior Operations Manager to lead our small, dedicated team and help shape the next stage of FCCT’s growth — including the exciting development of our new Canalside Community Space.

About the Role

As FCCT’s most senior staff member, you will provide strategic leadership while staying closely connected to day-to-day operations. This is a hands-on and varied role, ideal for someone who enjoys combining big-picture thinking with practical community-focused delivery.

Key responsibilities include:

Leadership & Strategy

• Provide inspiring and inclusive leadership for staff and volunteers
• Work with the Board to deliver strategic and operational plans
• Oversee impact measurement and reporting, including the Annual Report

Governance

• Act as the key link between the Board and staff
• Support strong governance, including acting as Company Secretary

Finance & Fundraising

• Lead financial planning, budgeting, and reporting
• Drive fundraising, major grant applications, and income generation
• Build strong relationships with funders and partners

Operations & People

• Support and line-manage staff and volunteers
• Oversee social enterprise activities, community programmes, and events
• Lead delivery of flagship initiatives such as the Edinburgh Canal Festival
• Contribute to FCCT’s public profile and digital presence

External Relations

• Act as the public face of FCCT
• Build partnerships with local groups, businesses, and stakeholders
• Champion the value of blue and green spaces and community wellbeing

About You

Essential:

• Strong leadership and management experience in a charity, social enterprise, or community setting
• Proven project management and fundraising skills
• Confident with financial information and decision-making
• Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities
• Able to balance strategic thinking with hands-on operational delivery
• Committed to inclusivity, sustainability, and community empowerment

Desirable:

• Experience in community development, volunteering, environmental or heritage projects
• Income generation or social enterprise experience
• Understanding of impact measurement
• Experience supporting volunteers and inclusive participation

What We Offer

• A varied and meaningful leadership role in a friendly, purpose-driven charity
• Flexible working from day one
• Training and development opportunities
• Pro rata holiday allowance including bank holidays
• Christmas shutdown period
• 5% employer pension contribution
• An annual canal boat trip

All or Nothing is seeking an experienced administrator to support the smooth running of the organisation and its programmes.

This role offers an exciting opportunity for a proactive administrator to contribute to the company’s success and development and make a real impact in a small arts charity with big ambitions.

We’re looking for someone that has strong organisation skills and an eye for detail, someone that can confidently take on responsibility for administrative tasks across company operations and project delivery. The role will include leading on administrating our classes, as well as refining and developing processes and systems to help the company in this new chapter as a multi-year funded organisation.

Salary: £21,279.60 (0.8 FTE of £25,700)

Hours: 0.8 FTE, equivalent to 4 days/30 hours per week

Location: Edinburgh, happy to discuss flexible working and hybrid options

Permanent role

About You

You’ll have at least 2 years’ experience of working in an administrative or operations role, with experience implementing and/or developing administrative processes or systems. You enjoy organisation and planning, bringing a variety of tasks together to oversee processes that ensure things happen efficiently and on time. You’ll be confident with data handling and using spreadsheets and have excellent written and verbal communication skills. Importantly, you can work proactively and collaboratively in a small team and also have the ability to work independently to manage workload and priorities. You’ll have an understanding and commitment to the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion and be excited about joining a small arts organisation to help us develop and thrive.

About Us

All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre is a performance company and charity based in Edinburgh. Our work crosses the boundaries between the floor, the air and the space in between, merging aerial skills with dance theatre and contemporary circus. We have been creating exhilarating performances, enriching participation and pioneering the development of aerial arts in Scotland since 2006.

With performances ranging from small-scale theatre to large-scale outdoor spectacle, we tour extensively across Scotland and beyond, creating our own theatrical works as well as developing aerial elements for events.

Participation is vital to the company’s work; we believe that aerial is for everyone, developing and facilitating all kinds of opportunities for this to happen. All or Nothing constantly challenges assumptions of who can do aerial, opening up the artform to as many people as possible, developing audiences and participants, and collaborating with a wide variety of partners through our weekly recreational classes and community projects.

We are now entering the next phase of company development, having recently secured long-term core funding through Creative Scotland’s multi-year funding. We have an exciting few years ahead, developing and growing our creative work and our audiences and participants, and creating opportunities for aerial artists in Scotland including establishing Scotland’s first aerial performance ensemble. The Admin Officer will join the organisation at an exciting time and will have the opportunity to take ownership of, and propose developments and improvements to, our company systems and processes.

The Community Programme Producer will work with the Programme Manager and Programme Team to develop a creative programme which opens up new and diverse perspectives on the histories and heritage of our site, working with communities who are currently underrepresented within our audience.

Thanks to funding from the NLHF, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to research best practice in heritage and visual art community programmes, work with the local community to develop pilot projects, and propose a community programme for the future using evaluation from the pilot projects.

We are looking for someone with experience of working with community groups, and an interest in creative learning, heritage and/or visual art.

Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott, is one of Scotland’s most important heritage sites and easily accessible from Edinburgh by road and rail. Now cared for by an independent charity, we are seeking an exceptional individual to lead our historic collections and built heritage care, our visitor storytelling, and our community programmes.

In this interesting and varied role you will be responsible for the Trust’s heritage responsibilities, overseeing achievement of Museum Accreditation, as well as the further development of exceptional visitor storytelling experiences. If you also have some experience of volunteering and educational visits in a similar organisation, that will be an advantage. Overseeing a team of five, and working closely with the fundraising team to achieve your objectives, you will be a key member of our management team. As a small charity run by staff and volunteers, you should be personable and flexible in your approach to others, and be prepared to be bitten by our passion for Scott and Abbotsford.

Full time at 35 hours a week, salary of £38,311 per annum plus benefits, including 34 days annual leave.