Fundraising Manager (Scotland)
- Part time
- £35,000 pro-rata
- Remote: Home based
- Closing 1st May 2026
- Advertised from 7th April 2026
- This is an 18-month fixed term contract and part time (21 hours per week).
Role
Reporting to our Head of Scotland, you’re Dogs for Good’s very first Fundraising Manager in Scotland, and you’ll play an important part in establishing and developing fundraising activity in the region.
Over an initial 18-month period, you’ll explore and demonstrate the viability of fundraising and income generation in Scotland. You’ll lead on identifying, researching and applying to trusts, foundations and local grant funders, while also supporting community fundraising activity to increase income, engagement and awareness of Dogs for Good’s work.
This is an 18-month fixed term contract and part time (21 hours per week).
About you
You show a real commitment to Dogs for Good’s person‑centred values and approach, and you bring a proactive, motivated and solution‑focused way of working. You enjoy coming up with creative and innovative ideas when developing funding opportunities, while keeping a close eye on detail and meeting deadlines reliably. You work well with others, offering support and collaboration, and you’re confident representing Dogs for Good in a positive and professional way.
Your responsibilities
As our Fundraising Manager in Scotland, you'll:
Establish fundraising activity
- Identify and develop a pipeline of funding opportunities from trusts, foundations, statutory bodies and local funding programmes across Scotland.
- Develop and submit high-quality funding applications and proposals that demonstrate the impact of Dogs for Good’s services and growth ambition.
Test and develop community fundraising opportunities
- Support the development of community fundraising activity in Scotland, identifying opportunities to grow income, engagement and awareness through local supporters, groups and events.
Build relationships and partnerships
- Develop and manage relationships with trusts, funders, supporters and partners across Scotland, ensuring strong stewardship and engagement with Dogs for Good.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues to gather insight, outcomes and stories that strengthen funding applications and demonstrate impact.
Contribute insight and learning
- Track fundraising activity and funding outcomes, contributing learning and insight to help assess the longer-term potential for sustainable income generation in Scotland.
Work within established fundraising systems
- Manage funding opportunities through Dogs for Good’s CRM and fundraising processes, ensuring accurate records and opportunity management.
- Ensure fundraising activity follows organisational policies and processes, including safeguarding and risk management.
- Adhere to fundraising and data protection regulations, including the Fundraising Code of Practice.
Your key relationships
You’ll regularly interact and collaborate with our:
- Scotland Service Delivery team
- Services and Operations teams
- Philanthropy and Partnerships team
- Volunteering and Supporter Engagement team
- Volunteers, supporters and partners
Outcomes of the role
By the end of your 18-month contract, you’ll have:
- Established Dogs for Good’s trust and community fundraising presence in Scotland, building awareness of the organisation among relevant funders, supporters and partners.
- Developed a pipeline of funding opportunities across a range of grant sizes, including relationships with trusts, foundations and local funding programmes.
- Secured a number of new grants, demonstrating the potential for sustainable income generation in Scotland.
Your skills, experience and approach
It's essential that you:
Have experience of:
- Securing income from trusts, foundations or grant-making bodies.
- Writing successful funding applications and reports.
- Managing external relationships with stakeholders, supporters or partners.
- Working within fundraising, charity, community or voluntary sector environments.
- Using CRM systems and managing fundraising data.
Have knowledge and understanding of:
- The Scottish funding landscape.
- Equality, diversity and including principles.
- Fundraising regulation, data protection and Gift Aid requirements.
The following skills:
- Exceptional written communication and the ability to craft clear, compelling narratives.
- Strong capability in research and analysis.
- Highly organised, with effective time management and the ability to manage multiple deadlines.
- A natural ability to build relationships and provide stewardship to supporters.
- The ability to work independently and collaboratively within a geographically dispersed team.
It's beneficial if you:
Have experience of:
- Supporting community or volunteer fundraising.
- Working within disability, health, social care or community-based services.
- Working across regional or national teams.
Have knowledge and understanding of:
- Scotland’s broader 3rd sector landscape.
The following skills:
- Use of Microsoft Dynamics365.
Other requirements
- You must have the right to live and work in the UK.
- You must be comfortable working around dogs.
- Sometimes you may need to work flexibly so we can deliver our services effectively, and this may occasionally involve working evenings and/or at weekends. You’ll be given time off in lieu (TOIL) for this.
- Driving the charity’s vehicles from time to time may be part of the role so a full driving licence is preferred but we will work with you to find alternative solutions if reasonable adjustments are required. You must be over 21 years of age to drive our charity vehicles.
- As you will be working with vulnerable people, you will be required to undergo a PVG Disclosure Scotland check. This will be renewed every 5 years.
- You’ll be expected to have a good understanding of safeguarding issues and how they should be applied to the work of the charity and its partner organisations. Full training on this will be provided during your induction.
Application notes
How to apply
Please apply by visiting our Careers Page by clicking on the link below:
https://careers.dogsforgood.org/jobs/7509589-fundraising-manager-scotland
As well as your CV and a covering letter, please also upload an example of a trust or grant application form that you have completed (you can, of course, anonymise where appropriate). We're unable to consider applications without this.
Closing date
The closing date/time for applications is Friday 1st May 2026 at 12:00
Interviews
1st stage interviews will be held virtually, on Teams, on Wednesday 13th May 2026
2nd stage interviews will be held at Alzheimer Scotland, Oxford Street, Glasgow on Wednesday 27th May 2026
Haemophilia Scotland invites applications for the role of Advocacy Support Worker, a new and important position within our organisation.
This is a great opportunity for a compassionate and motivated individual to join our small but dedicated team, supporting members affected by the infected blood tragedy across Scotland.
In this role, you’ll provide person-centred advocacy and support to individuals and families as they navigate the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme and related processes. You’ll act as a trusted first point of contact, offering clear information, answering questions, and helping people understand the scheme and how it works. The role will also involve advocating on behalf of members where needed, engaging with the Infected Blood Compensation Authority and other organisations to help resolve issues and make sure our members’ voices are heard.
We’re looking for someone with significant experience in an advocacy, advice or support role, who can explain complex information clearly and with sensitivity. Strong interpersonal skills, empathy, and the ability to support people in extremely difficult or emotional situations are essential. Experience of working with vulnerable individuals or people with long-term health conditions would also be an advantage.
As a small charity, our work is varied and rewarding, and this role offers the chance to make a real difference. You’ll need to be comfortable working both independently and as part of a team, managing a varied workload, and contributing to the development of clear, accessible information for our members.
We’re committed to supporting the successful candidate with training and development, particularly around the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme, so you feel confident in supporting the people we work with.
Organisation Links
Website: haemophilia.scot
Facebook: facebook.com/HaemophiliaScotland
Instagram: instagram.com/haemophiliascotland
Are you a compassionate and experienced community nurse leader ready to take the next step in your career? Community support for children and families is evolving and growing rapidly, and home is increasingly becoming families preferred place of care. The addition of a third Senior Charge Nurse (SCN) community role within CHAS demonstrates our commitment to supporting this need and providing leadership as services develop and we work towards transforming the experience of children’s palliative care across Scotland.
About the Role
As a Senior Charge Nurse, you’ll be a visible leader, responsible for the coordination and delivery of safe, high-quality, holistic, person-centred care for children and young people with life-shortening conditions. You’ll lead clinical practice, enhance patient experience, manage team performance, and contribute to CHAS’s strategic goals. You’ll also participate in our nurse on-call rota and hold the role of registered manager under Care Inspectorate regulations.
“Working with CHAS provides a unique opportunity to support children and families to make the most of their precious time together; as a team, we make extraordinary things happen every day.”
About You
To thrive in this role, you’ll bring:
- Paediatric Nursing Degree / Registered Nurse (Child), Registered Nurse (Learning Disability) (Master’s level study is an advantage)
- Extensive experience in senior nursing roles (NHS Band 6 or above) (Community experience an advantage)
- Expertise in children’s palliative and end-of-life care
- Proven leadership and service development experience
- Strong clinical skills in paediatric complex care
- Track record of supporting change management in teams
- A passion for quality improvement and collaborative working
Why CHAS?
Working with CHAS provides a unique opportunity to support children and families to make the most of their precious time together; as a team, we make extraordinary things happen every day.
Our children’s palliative care nurses report great satisfaction in being able to provide high quality nursing care in a supportive team with exciting career development opportunities.
Some of the benefits you can expect to receive from working with CHAS:
- The opportunity to pay into an existing NHS scheme or membership of local government pension scheme
- Enhanced pay for unsocial hours and overtime
- Generous annual leave entitlement (matched to current service-based enhanced entitlement with NHS, up to a maximum of 40 days)
- Ability to offer choice around preferred place of care and support
- Opportunities for further learning and development
- Access to a range of tools to support wellbeing
- The opportunity to work within a multi-disciplinary team which includes volunteers
- Working within an experienced and supportive team,
- Free on-site parking.
- Commitment to support clinical skills to enable development and support collaborative working across all health and social care settings.
Award-winning animal charity Pet Blood Bank UK is recruiting for a Regional Coordinator based in Scotland.
Working closely with the Area Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring the successful coordination of donation sessions within your region. With a regional collection team comprising of between 15-25 Vets, Nurses and Donor Assistants, you will be a key person in building relationships with our venues, increasing donor recruitment and retention, and developing our growing pool of regional volunteers whilst striving to make sure our donation sessions are successful.
Background
Launched in 2007, Pet Blood Bank UK is the only charity that provides a blood bank service for all vets across the UK. As part of our charitable remit, our aim is to advance animal health and welfare and to relieve suffering by providing quick and convenient access to blood. Every unit of blood helps save up to four other lives, saving thousands of lives every year.
Our values
Caring. Pioneering. Real. These are the values Pet Blood Bank UK is built upon. Our values bind us together as a charity and guide everything we do. We expect every team member to know, understand and embody our values, helping to build our reputation as a pioneering, caring and practical charity. Read more about our values.
What you’ll do
As the Regional Coordinator, you will be responsible for ensuring all the relevant tasks and procedures are adhered to, to successfully coordinate donation sessions within your region. This will involve:
Working closely with the Area Manager who will provide support and guidance on this evolving role.
Ongoing development and support of donation sessions within your region, ensuring sessions run as efficiently and effectively as possible, whilst increasing donor recruitment and attendance.
Responsible for ensuring that any feedback is communicated between the Area Manager and the regional clinical team at the earliest opportunity.
Working alongside the Area Manager to ensure the region is meeting the key performance indicators set out for the collection teams, looking at methods to motivate the team and encourage them to achieve the most successful outcome for each potential donor.
Support the building of a volunteer team within the region, develop a pool of volunteers trained to support sessions, events and, where appropriate, the transport of kit and blood.
Organise and manage the rota for your region by liaising with the team to ensure all sessions are fully covered.
Help organise and attend events to raise awareness of Pet Blood Bank in your region. You will be required to deliver presentations on Pet Blood Bank to potential donor owners, veterinary professionals, and other organisations.
As part of this role, you will be required to build relations with the other departments within Pet Blood Bank and support the communication between the collection team and other departments.
Due to the nature of the work carried out by Pet Blood Bank, flexibility is key to this role. You will be expected to be part of a weekend duty on-call rota (1 in 6 weekends).
What we need
An excellent, confident communicator (written and verbal) who has a proven background working effectively with a variety of people including peers, clients, and volunteers. Good time management, ability to self-motivate, think proactively, and be an enthusiastic team player who strives for continued improvement. Experience of working within or knowledge of the charity sector is beneficial.
We’re looking for someone who:
Has an animal health related qualification, proven experience working with dogs, or holds a veterinary qualification
Has previous team leadership or supervision experience
Experience using Microsoft Office (word, outlook, excel)
Holds a full UK driving licence and has access to their own transport
Has a confident and professional manner with the ability to problem solve
Is committed to positive customer experience
Confident engaging and speaking to the public and professionals.
What’s in it for you
In return, we offer full training, competitive salary with pay progression, contributory pension scheme, lifestyle rewards, and 30 days annual holidays (pro rata, including bank holidays).
Further details
This role comprises of 15 hours administration time per week, these hours are home based and worked across Monday/Wednesday and Friday, working 5 hours per day you will have flexibility to pick the hours worked between 9am-5pm ensuring the core hours of 10am-12noon are covered. In addition, it includes a minimum of working 12 blood donation sessions annually (average 3/quarter) at varied locations on weekend days. Flexibility around the time work is undertaken is essential as some evening and weekend work will be required. Full training will be given for both the administration role and to perform a team role on a donation session relevant to qualifications.
Living within the region you are supervising is essential, a central location to sessions with easy access to our Dunfermline offices is preferable. Working a minimum of one day per month from the Dunfermline office will be required to help maintain our donation session equipment.
Travel is required within your region to and from donation sessions and our Dunfermline office, a mileage allowance is paid for this, there is no access to a company vehicle. Occasional travel to neighbouring regions or Pet Blood Bank offices (Loughborough) will be required with notice.
For more information or to request a full job description, please contact: recruitment@petbloodbankuk.org
Income Generation and Partnerships Manager
- Part time
- £30,102 pro-rata
- On site: Glasgow
- Closing 10th April 2026
North Glasgow Community Food Initiative (NGCFI) is entering a significant phase of organisational development, with access to a new community-owned building, a long-term lease of Milton Community Garden, and the launch of a community food truck in early 2026. These assets present a major opportunity to develop social enterprise activity and earned income that supports long-term financial sustainability.
The Income Generation & Partnerships Manager is a fixed-term, two-year development role. The purpose of the role is to design, test, and embed sustainable income-generation models linked to NGCFI’s assets, ensuring that successful approaches can continue beyond the funding period.
This role is focused on social enterprise development, partnership building, and business planning, and is separate from core frontline service delivery.
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