About Scottish Fair Trade

Scottish Fair Trade is the national network organisation for Fair Trade in Scotland.

We work to build a world where trade is fair, people are valued, and the planet is protected. We connect communities, campaign for change, and support ethical businesses to grow and thrive.

Scotland is a Fair Trade Nation, and we’re working to re-energise the movement for the future, bringing all sectors of Scottish society with us.

About the role

The Development & Business Partnerships Officer plays an important role in strengthening relationships between Scottish Fair Trade and businesses, public sector organisations, social enterprises and partner networks across Scotland. The postholder supports engagement and knowledge-sharing around Fair Trade, ethical sourcing and sustainable procurement, helping to grow understanding and participation across different sectors.

The role also supports the development of Scottish Fair Trade’s membership community, encouraging organisations and businesses to engage with and support the movement for fairer trade.

Alongside this, the postholder will help coordinate light-touch consultancy and advisory activity delivered through Fair Change Co., our trading subsidiary, working with external associates or consultants where appropriate.

This is a relationship-focused and coordination role suited to someone with strong communication and organisational skills, an interest in ethical business and sustainability, and the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders.

Want to lead a brilliant team making sure no child or family faces hospital alone? We’ve got just the role for you.

We’re looking for a compassionate, confident and values-led Family Support Team Lead to join our Children’s Wellbeing Service at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People. This is a unique role that combines day-to-day team leadership, family support practice and youth work delivery. You’ll support and coordinate a team of Family Support Officers and Youth Workers, while staying closely connected to frontline work with children, young people and families across the hospital.

You’ll help make sure families receive high-quality, trauma-informed support when they need it most, whether that’s emotional support on the wards, practical help during a difficult hospital journey, or creating calm, welcoming spaces where children, young people and families feel seen, heard and supported. You will need strong experience supporting children, young people and families, alongside the confidence to guide a team in a busy, emotionally complex environment. You’ll be someone who can stay calm under pressure, build trusted relationships, make thoughtful decisions and bring people with you.

Some of the things you’ll be doing:

• Providing day-to-day guidance, support and supervision to Family Support Officers and Youth Workers
• Coordinating staff deployment across wards, The Hub and family spaces
• Delivering direct support to children, young people and families through 1:1 family support, youth work and wellbeing-based approaches
• Supporting families with the emotional, practical and mental health challenges that can come with hospital experiences
• Modelling trauma-informed, child-first practice and maintaining clear professional boundaries
• Building strong relationships with hospital staff, external agencies and community partners
• Supporting peer support, youth voice and family participation across the service
• Helping ensure safe, welcoming and well-resourced spaces for families, including The Family Room and The Hub
• Supporting safeguarding, risk assessment, escalation and good decision-making across the team
• Recording activity, outcomes and impact so we can keep learning, improving and showing the difference we make

Let’s talk about you

Must haves

• Experience working directly with children, young people and families in a youth work, support, wellbeing, social care or similar setting
• Experience supervising, supporting or leading others
• Strong understanding of trauma-informed, child-centred and family-focused practice
• Confidence working in emotionally complex environments, where needs can change quickly
• Excellent communication, listening and relationship-building skills
• Ability to manage competing priorities and support others to stay focused and grounded
• Practical understanding of safeguarding, professional boundaries and when to escalate concerns
• Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues, hospital staff and external partners
• Values-led, reflective and committed to inclusion, dignity and respect

Nice to haves

• A qualification in youth work, community development, social care, health, education or a related field or equivalent experience
• Experience working in a hospital, healthcare or multidisciplinary setting
• Experience designing or delivering wellbeing, family support or youth work programmes
• Experience gathering feedback, recording outcomes or evaluating impact
• Understanding of children’s rights, child and adolescent development, and family support systems
• Experience supporting volunteers, sessional workers or small project teams
• Knowledge of local support services and referral pathways

Why ECHC?

Working at ECHC isn’t your average family support role. You’ll be part of a charity that stands beside children, young people and families through some of the toughest times in their lives.

Our Children’s Wellbeing Service offers non-clinical, relationship-based support across the hospital, helping families feel informed, included and more in control during their hospital journey. This role will strengthen that support by providing consistent day-to-day leadership and care for the team delivering it. You’ll join passionate, supportive colleagues who care deeply about making a difference. We’ll trust you to lead with warmth, judgement and courage, while giving you space to help shape a growing service that really matters.

Tiree Community Development Trust (known as “Urras Thiriodh”) are seeking a suitably experienced and skilled candidate to play a key role in development of commercial trading activity and income generation, in the beautiful and vibrant Inner Hebridean island of Tiree.

The newly created role is based within our Projects and Services Team, and will take on a lead oversight of existing commercial trading activity within our company group, as well as playing a key role in delivery of work to develop new income streams via trading activity, to support the future funding of the Trust, it’s development work and community services. The role has a dual focus around operational delivery and improvement, and project development and delivery to fund and deliver new assets and activities. Existing trading activities include a community filling station, leased premises for local businesses and delivery of useful assessment services and certifications such as EPCs. There is also an expectation that this role will support the current development of community housing, and the eventual administration of that housing for affordable let to local residents.

The role will play a key part in the ongoing delivery of our Community Development Plan – tireetrust.org.uk/the-development-plan

Strategic Development & Partnerships Lead

Join us at an exciting moment and help shape the future of the Crannog Campus and community-led development in Castle Douglas.

This is a rare opportunity to help shape the future of a growing community organisation and a significant local asset. You'll enjoy a high degree of autonomy, work within a supportive and collaborative culture, make a visible difference within the community, and develop valuable experience that can support your future leadership journey.

In a nutshell, you will:

• work alongside trustees, staff, volunteers and partners to help guide the next stage of CDDF's growth and development as a community anchor organisation
• build partnerships, support fundraising, strengthen organisational systems and help shape the future of the Crannog Campus as a sustainable and welcoming community hub.