Lead Development and Support Officer
- Part time
- £32,791 pro-rata
- Remote: Home based with travel across Fife
- Closing 8th July 2026
- Advertised from 2nd July 2026
- £26,232 for 28 hours per week, Monday-Friday
Role
Are you an experienced leader with a passion for improving outcomes for Scotland’s youngest children and their families? Early Years Scotland is seeking a dynamic and committed Development and Support Officer to provide high-quality support to our members across Fife. This is a home-based role, with regular travel throughout the area, where you will visit settings, attend meetings and build and develop strong local relationships with a range of stakeholders.
With leadership-level experience and influence across settings, you will provide a wide range of support to EYS members, including remote advice, direct setting support, Business Health Checks, follow-up improvement planning and peer support opportunities. Working closely with local authority colleagues and member settings, you will help to strengthen quality, governance and leadership across the sector.
A key part of the role will include the development of EYS membership policies and resources, as well as supporting voluntary committees and recruitment activity where needed. You will also play an active role in partnership meetings with Fife Council and other stakeholders.
Early Years Scotland is a registered charity and Scotland’s leading national specialist organisation dedicated to supporting our youngest children, from pre-birth to age five. With over 50 years of experience as a Third Sector organisation, we take immense pride in our long-standing commitment to those who work for and on behalf of Scotland’s youngest children.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver universal and direct support to settings, both remotely and in-person, based on requests and identified needs
- Conduct annual Business Health Check audits and visits, analysing findings and developing individual action plans for settings, as well as facilitating follow-up meetings to support improvement
- Organise and attend termly in-person meetings for all members, in partnership with the local authority
- Share local and national information to support member settings
- Work collaboratively with Fife Council colleagues, as well as attending funded provider update, quality improvement support and collaborative EYS/Fife Council meetings
- Facilitate termly peer support meetings for EYS member managers and senior staff across the area
- Support voluntary committee governance through advice, training and practical guidance, as well as assisting with recruitment activity including job adverts, interview questions and professional advice at interviews
- Support the development of EYS membership policies and resources as directed
- Complete quarterly and annual reviews of the EYS Fife service and participate in ongoing professional development
What we’re looking for
- Proven experience of supporting early learning and childcare settings
- Knowledge of quality improvement, charity governance and the operational challenges facing ELC settings
- Strong communication, relationship-building and organisational skills
- Ability to work independently from home while managing a local caseload
- Experience of writing reports, action plans or support documentation
- Experience of working in partnership with local authorities or funded providers
- Experience of delivering training, facilitating groups or supporting peer networks
- Knowledge of the Fife early years sector
Please note, for this role a relevant professional qualification in early years, childcare, community development or a related field is required, as well as a full driving licence and access to transport, and a qualification meeting the requirements for a practitioner in a day care of children service, as a minimum, to be considered for this post.
What Early Years Scotland will offer
- Competitive salary and generous annual leave
- Family-friendly policies that support work-life balance
- 5% employer pension contribution after 3 months
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Ongoing professional learning and development opportunities
- A supportive, collaborative team culture where your contribution is valued
- A rewarding opportunity to support EYS members and strengthen early years provision across Fife
Application notes
If you're passionate about making a meaningful difference for Scotland’s youngest children and their families, we’d love to hear from you!
Please return a completed application form to recruitment@earlyyearsscotland.org by 8 July 2026.
Full details of this post and the application pack can be found at Job Vacancies | Early Years Scotland
Interviews expected to be held w/c 6 July 2026
MIST National Officer (Experiential Team)
- Full time
- £29,500
- Remote: Home-based with travel throughout Scotland
- Closing 27th July 2026
The Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC) is seeking a collaborative, proactive and values-driven individual to join our Experiential Team as a MIST National Officer (Experiential Team).
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the implementation and ongoing development of the Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Standards, helping to improve access to treatment and related services and reduce drug-related deaths and harms in Scotland.
Working closely with SRC colleagues and in partnership with Public Health Scotland’s Medication Assisted Treatment Standards Implementation Support Team (MIST), you will play an important role in supporting the development of the experiential agenda. You will help ensure that the voices and experiences of people accessing services, family members inform quality improvement and service development across Scotland.
The role involves building strong relationships with a wide range of partners, including Alcohol and Drug Partnerships, NHS services, Health and Social Care Partnerships, third sector organisations, grassroots recovery communities, and people with lived and living experience.
We are looking for someone with excellent relationship-building skills, a strong commitment to a human rights-based approach, and the ability to work collaboratively across national and local structures to support learning, engagement and continuous improvement.
Benefits include:
- 10% pension contribution
- Life assurance
- 28 days annual leave plus public holidays
If you are passionate about recovery, rights-based practice and making a meaningful difference in Scotland’s alcohol and drug sector, we would love to hear from you.
It doesn’t matter what your background is. If you care about the people we support and have the skills and experience to deliver operational excellence, this could be the next move for you.
Right There has spent 200 years making sure that fewer people in Scotland end up homeless and fewer families fall apart. Last year alone, almost 4,000 people got the support they needed to stay in their homes and stay close to the people they love. We are a charity with a clear, urgent mission. We need you to help us turn property into purpose.
This role exists to make sure the property, infrastructure and enterprise behind that mission are working as hard as they can and are growing. It is a brand-new seat on our Leadership Team, and it is a rare one.
It is complex, stretching, and the stakes are real. These are people’s homes. But it is also rewarding, challenging and, in the way that only work with meaning can be, genuinely good fun.
Your role
The first job is to make sure everyone – the Leadership Team, the Board, your colleagues across programmes and central functions – can see clearly what is going on with our properties. At the moment, that picture is not clear enough. Then you’ll look at how we commercialise our assets, which at the moment looks like our brilliant skilled tradespeople and the furniture we are donated. There will be more, and we need you to find opportunities.
- Getting the data right. You will build the systems, KPIs and reporting so we have a proper picture of the portfolio – every property, its status, and a clear RAG rating. You will know the numbers: how many properties, what state they are in, what maintenance is outstanding, and what things are actually costing us.
- Getting a handle on costs. You will bring real clarity on where we are financially exposed – what an empty property actually costs, what our turnaround times are, where reactive spend is leaking. Then you will do something about it.
- Being our point of knowledge on property. You will be the person everyone turns to on acquisition, maintenance and compliance. You will combine the theory of procurement with the practical reality of getting things done – turning decisions into delivered outcomes.
- Connecting property to the people we support. You will map what we have against what our services need across our local authority areas, so the right spaces support the right programmes.
- Growing what we have. Once the foundations are right, you will develop Furnish Forward – our furniture reuse shop – and build a longer-term case for trading our skills and services commercially. But that comes after visibility and control, not instead of them.
What you bring
Maybe this is the pinnacle of a career spent in property, estates, facilities or operations, and you want it to count for something. Or maybe it’s your change of direction: you might be searching for a more meaningful path after years in commerce. Either way, you’ll recognise yourself here.
- You’re commercial and creative – you spot opportunities and you make them pay.
- You love detail and data, and you turn a concept into a delivered result.
- You take responsibility, solve problems, and bring people with you.
- You’ve led change – perhaps you did a lot of it through the Covid years.
- And you genuinely care about social change – about homelessness, and about people getting a fair chance at a safe home.
Our offer
Salary up to £79,665 per annum. Based in Glasgow with agile working (around three days a week in the office). Full time and permanent, on our Leadership Team, reporting to the Chief Executive. You’ll get 30 days’ leave rising to 40 days in year two, the People’s Pension, and a wide range of wellbeing and lifestyle benefits.
If this sounds like the kind of challenge you’ve been waiting for, we’d love to hear from you.
About Us
We are a charity that recently celebrated 200 years of standing alongside people in Scotland. Last year we supported almost 4,000 people to stay in their homes and stay connected to the people they love. This role exists to make sure the homes, buildings and enterprise behind that work are safe, sustainable and ready for the future – and to grow new income that lets us do even more.
National Advocacy Service Coordinator (Maternity Cover)
- Part time
- £34,998 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Glasgow - occasional travel within Scotland
- Closing 6th July 2026
Rape Crisis Scotland (RCS) is Scotland’s leading organisation working to support survivors of sexual violence, transform attitudes, improve the justice response to sexual crime and, ultimately, to end sexual violence in all its forms.
The National Advocacy Service Coordinator (maternity cover) will be responsible for the operational coordination of the National Advocacy Service. This post will involve working closely with the National Advocacy Service network and will help to inform broader criminal justice work at Rape Crisis Scotland.
At RCS, we offer:
- A warm, welcoming and feminist organisational culture
- Access to internal and external training and development opportunities
- A generous employment package, including 43 days of leave (pro-rata)
- Flexible/hybrid working
- A commitment to employee wellbeing
We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and especially welcome applications from women of colour and those under-represented in the workforce.
Scottish Refugee Council is seeking a skilled Refugee Involvement Coordinator. The Refugee Involvement Coordinator will lead the development and delivery of Scottish Refugee Council’s refugee involvement framework. The role will build the foundations for meaningful and safe involvement, strengthen staff skills and organisational systems, support co‑design and co‑production projects, and guide learning and evaluation. This work will ensure lived experience insight is embedded across our services, policy and public influence. This is an organisational change and system-building role.
Scottish Refugee Council is Scotland’s national refugee charity. Every year, we provide direct support and advice to people rebuilding their lives in Scotland, standing up for people’s rights and campaign for a fairer and more humane asylum system and enhanced integration for communities in Scotland.
The vision is for a Scotland in which all people seeking refugee protection are welcome. A place where men, women and children are protected, find safety and support, have their human rights and dignity respected and can achieve their full potential. Together, we can build a better future with refugees in Scotland. Find out more at www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk.
Employee benefits package
- 39 days of leave (including public holidays)
- Progressive salary structure
- Flexible working options
- Training and development opportunities
- Union recognition
- Fresh fruit, tea & coffee in office
- Enhanced pay benefits
- Enhanced pension
- Counselling & coaching service
- Cycle to work scheme
- Eye care scheme
- Death in service & 24-hour GP service
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