Do you have some experience of advice work, preferably with a focus on housing issues, and a real desire to advance your specialist level knowledge? Then join Shelter Scotland as a Housing Rights Worker and you could soon be playing a vital role in helping to identify and resolve the homelessness and bad housing issues facing local communities.

About the role

We’re looking for someone who can provide high-quality housing advice, advocacy and casework to people facing the housing emergency, both in local communities and remotely. You’ll work collaboratively with colleagues and external partners to promote housing rights, deliver capacity-building activities and respond to local housing issues through influencing and advocacy. You’ll also gather evidence and insight to help shape our work, build strong relationships with communities and decision-makers, and support people with lived experience to influence services, campaigns and wider change. Through everything you do, you’ll help ensure Shelter Scotland delivers high-quality, person-centred support while working to tackle the root causes of housing injustice.

Role specifics

We’re looking for someone with excellent communication and relationship-building skills who enjoys working collaboratively to make a real difference. You’ll be confident delivering workshops and presentations, engaging with individuals, communities and partners, and explaining complex information in a clear and accessible way. Experience of housing advice or social justice work would be an advantage, alongside the ability to challenge poor practice, influence decision-makers and solve problems creatively. Ideally, you’ll also be comfortable using a range of IT systems, including Microsoft Office and CRM systems.

Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

About the team

There are three Community Teams - North, West and East. These teams of housing rights workers engage with and activate communities in delivering insight and evidence and targeted interventions, to address local issues and contribute towards the Shelter Scotland Housing Emergency campaign for structural change.

Are you looking for flexible work where you can make a real difference? Join Four Square Scotland as a Casual Relief Practitioner and help support people across a range of our supported accommodation services in Edinburgh.

We are currently recruiting for:

• Relief Practitioners across all of our supported accommodation services.
• Waking Night Relief Practitioners at Keymoves, our domestic abuse and gender-based violence refuge.

• Click here to view the Relief Practitioner job description.
• Click here to view the Keymoves Waking Night Relief Practitioner (Female Only) job description. Due to the nature of the Keymoves service, applications for the Waking Night Relief Practitioner role are invited from women only. This post is exempt under the Equality Act 2010.

Rock Trust is looking for a Trustee and Company Director to help us expand the range of skills around the table.

We are looking for people who are interested in being on our People Committee, Finance & Risk Committee or Services Committee. We would welcome people with experience of strategic fundraising & communications, organisational & people development or delivering and developing social care & youth services.

Political acuity would also be highly desirable.

Candidates do not need experience or knowledge of youth homelessness but must be committed and passionate about making a difference for young homeless people.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community and are committed to creating a diverse team.

Who We Are

We are Scotland’s leading youth homelessness charity. We believe that no young person should ever face homelessness. That’s why we deliver bold, youth-specific solutions, built around young people’s experiences and what evidence tells us works.

We support young people to avoid and move on from homelessness, helping them build the confidence, skills and stability they need to thrive in adulthood. We also influence policy and practice to create a Scotland where no young person is left behind.

We don’t follow the system, we change it, continually championing the voices and experiences of all young people.

Are you passionate about building relationships and helping communities thrive? Are you able to work towards and achieve targets? Do you have experience of analysing data to inform decisions?

If so, we would love to hear from you.

About Cyrenians FareShare

We are part of the UK wide FareShare network, working to reduce food waste and tackle food inequality. From our depot in Edinburgh we redistribute quality surplus food to charities and community organisations supporting people across Central and South East Scotland. Our Community Food Members include foodbanks, community pantries, breakfast clubs, community meals, veterans' organisations and many other local groups who use food to support the people that they work with.

About the role

We're looking for a Community Food Member Development Officer to help grow and support our network of Community Food Members, ensuring more good food reaches people who need it while reducing food waste. This is a varied and rewarding role where you'll be responsible for growing, supporting and strengthening our Community Food Member network.

About You

You will be an enthusiastic, proactive individual who can work independently to build strong relationships and identify new opportunities for partnership working. Your excellent communication and organisational skills will help you work effectively towards achieving targets. Your ability to analyse data will support informed decision making and continuous service improvement for our Members.

You will travel across Central & South East Scotland to visit CFM’s so access to own vehicle or use of public transport is expected (costs will be reimbursed).

How we'll support you

You will work independently as part of the Enterprise Team, while also collaborating closely with the Depot Operations Team and receiving ongoing support from your Manager. You will have access to wider Cyrenians support, including our learning and development programme and staff wellbeing services.

About us

At Cyrenians we tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness by taking a Public Health Approach to Homelessness Prevention. We take a values-led and relationships-based approach to delivering all our services.

Read more about our impact and our values.