The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh is seeking to recruit an International Assistant to join the College’s Department of Education, Training and Assessment. This is a part-time role based at the College in Queen Street, Edinburgh, with flexibility for a form of hybrid working to be agreed.

With a worldwide reputation for educational excellence, the College exists to promote the highest standards of patient care. One of the ways we do this is through our international contribution to conferences and events and a range of scholarships and bursaries to support doctors who are pursuing a career in medicine. We are looking for an assistant with excellent interpersonal and digital skills, who enjoy providing a high standard of customer service to exceed internal and external customer expectations.

The Role

To provide administrative support for a range of current and future fellowship and scholarship schemes, including the MSc scholarships, Brian Chapman and James Petrie Awards and the Medical Training Initiative (MTI) sponsorship scheme which provides training placements for international medical graduates. The International Assistant will organise and administer the application processes, arranging markers, processing results, and communicating with successful and unsuccessful applicants regarding the outcomes of the application process. This includes arranging publicity and liaising with the marketing department for promotion and co-ordinating the annual MSc graduate reception.

The International Assistant will also support College Fellows with international travel, liaising with the College’s appointed external travel company to facilitate bookings.

The role is based at the College in Queen Street, Edinburgh although an element of hybrid working is possible. The role requires two hours’ work per day; some flexibility is required to accommodate variation in workflow. There may be occasions when it is necessary to work outside normal hours and a system of TOIL is in place to accommodate this.

The Person:

We are seeking an enthusiastic self-starter with a pro-active approach and an interest in medical education and training. Good communication and IT skills are essential as well as meticulous attention to detail and the ability to process, store and analyse data accurately. With a varied range of activities to support, candidates must be able to manage potentially conflicting priorities, remain calm under pressure, and be excellent team players.

Please refer to the person specification for this role.

Remuneration Package

The salary for these roles will be £25,927 per annum (pay award pending, pro rata for 10-hour role) plus benefits. Additional benefits include:

• Pension: with employer contributions of 9%.
• Holidays: 23 days’ annual leave (with incremental increase over five years to 28 days) and 11 days’ public holiday/College close downs (Pro-rata for the PT role)
• Life assurance scheme
• Long-term income protection scheme for those unable to work due to illness.
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Discounted rates for use of the venue for personal events.

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.

We help young adults with additional support needs to realise their potential by providing person-centred education, life and social skills.

Under the guidance of the Deputy Head of Service, the Centre Manager will be responsible for the co-ordination, management and supervision of a staff team in the delivery of the Teens+ Programme at the McDonald Road Centre. The post holder will work closely with other members of the MDT team to ensure successful delivery of education programmes to our students in line with the organisational values.

The successful applicant for this post will be required to join for membership of the PVG (Protection of Vulnerable Groups) Scheme.

What we offer:

• A full and robust training and induction programme, including access to additional training during the course of employment
• Holiday entitlement of 36 days from the start of employment
• Free Confidential Employee Counselling Service
• Flexible and agile working
• Family-friendly policies, including family-friendly working hours (8.30 am – 4.30 pm Mondays to Thursdays and 2pm finish on Fridays)

About Teens+

Teens+ is a charitable service provided by the non-profit, Capella. Teens+ is a pathway for school leavers with additional needs to fulfill their potential. We do this by providing post-school education and lifelong learning services for young people with complex communication needs including autism and learning disabilities. The service is person-centred and individualised to ensure each student, regardless of their needs, can reach their fullest potential.

Our goal is to help our students and their families prepare for the next step into post-school education, work or a new home with tailored learning, and life and social skills. Teens+ operates four centres based at Ravenscroft, Liberton Brae, Leith, and Musselburgh.

Our values

For us, it’s not so much about what you know, but your attitude and values that are most important. We will provide full training on what you need to know, but you must be able to live our values:

• Tailored – We always put people at the centre of our work.
• Humour – Great things can be achieved when we are happy and have fun.
• Resilient – Flexibility, confidence and creativity turn challenges into opportunities.
• Integrity – Passion and professionalism are vital for all involved in our organisation.
• Value – Everybody deserves respect and we are enriched through our differences.
• Empathy – Compassion and care are in everything we do.

About Capella

At Capella, we believe in lasting change through lifelong learning, because everybody deserves to thrive.

Capella is a registered charity that runs a number of charitable services, including Teens+, a transitional education project for young adults with complex and severe communication needs and Sleep Action, the UK’s oldest sleep charity and leading provider of sleep support, training, and resources in the UK.

Capella is a great place to work with fantastic people, strong values and a clear sense of the difference we make. 94% of our team are proud to work for our organisation and 98% think we take positive action on health and wellbeing. We invest in our staff and offer extensive training and mentoring opportunities. As a growing organisation, we want to attract ambitious staff with a desire to achieve great things. If this sounds like a journey you’d like to join us on, we would love to hear from you.

Capella was awarded Employer of the Year at the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce Awards 2023 and is nominated for the Outstanding Leadership Award at this year’s Scottish Living Wage Awards.

Do you have a passion for helping young people make positive changes to their lives?

Do you have the skills to design and deliver a programme of fun and engaging food led group sessions to help people learn life skills?

If so, this role could be for you!

We’re seeking a creative and passionate person to join our Community Learning & Development team at Space to lead on our Changemakers project.

Changemakers is an exciting new food education project working with young people aged 16-24 who have barriers to employment and may have complex needs.

The Food & Life Skills Project Worker will support groups of up to 12 young people to build self-esteem and increase their independence via a programme of well-designed group-based sessions that use food education to teach life skills such as budgeting, cooking, nutrition, handling finances, numeracy, literacy and communication.

The Changemakers sessions will run on Wednesday afternoons 12.30-3pm from The Broomhouse Hub.

We currently have funding for the project to run from April – October 2026. During this period you would run two x 10 week programmes with time for recruitment and promotion before each programme.

Ideally all working hours will be competed on a Wednesday, however there is a degree of flexibility around working hours out with the times the sessions are to be delivered.

Key tasks in the job:

• Design and deliver a series of 10 group-based sessions that support people to develop confidence and life skills using food education as a driver
• Create detailed session plans for each session outlining activities, equipment, ingredients and timing
• Promote the Changemakers programme across networks and partner organisations such as local schools, colleges, community groups and other voluntary organisations to recruit cohorts of suitable candidates
• Conduct initial meetings with potential learners to assess their suitability for the project and their motivations and aims
• Carry out risk assessments and create a safe but nurturing environment for learners to thrive
• Complete all administration tasks relating to the project including collating learner registration information, updating database with detailed progress reports, recording attendance, collating data for funder reporting
• Provide 1:1 support to learners to review individual progress and address any barriers
• Engage with external partners/suppliers/trainers to provide relevant accredited training courses or specialist topics
• Recruit, train and support volunteers for the programme
• Manage the project budget

The full job description and person specification for the role is attached.

About Space

Space is a community anchor organisation supporting people and their families in South West Edinburgh, with some of our services stretching city wide.

WE BELIEVE THAT CONNECTIONS BUILD COMMUNITIES

Space delivers 22 projects, with 60+ staff and 100 volunteers. We deliver diverse services supporting young people, families, older people and carers amongst others.

For more information about Space and all our projects can be found on our website – spacescot.org