Do you have a heart for young people, a passion for faith and the energy to help pre teens/teenagers feel they truly belong?

Fairmilehead Parish Church, Edinburgh, is seeking an enthusiastic and caring Sunday Youth Worker to help grow and develop our teenage group within the life of our church, building relationships, encouraging faith and creating a space where young people feel safe, valued and excited to come along.

What the role involves:

• Leading and growing a teenage group on Sunday mornings from 10:15am to 12:15pm.
• Supporting young people in their faith journey in creative and relevant ways
• Organising a fun, social outing once a month to build friendships and community
• Organising a yearly fundraiser
• Working alongside the Minister and volunteers to shape an engaging youth programme

What we’re looking for:

• A proven track record of working with young people
• A background in church or Christian youth work. The successful candidate will be a committed Christian with an active church connection (Genuine Occupational Requirement in terms of the Equality Act 2010).
• Someone creative, relational and reliable who has a genuine desire to invest in teenagers and help them flourish

What we offer:

• Pro rata pay according to qualifications and experience.
• A supportive church community
• The chance to make a real and lasting difference

Future Asset is looking for a creative and organised Project Coordinator to lead Investment Investigators — an exciting new educational project helping secondary school students across Scotland explore investing, finance and business in an engaging, accessible way.

This part-time role will coordinate the development and delivery of a hybrid digital and physical game, alongside classroom resources designed for students aged 11–17. You’ll work with educators, developers and partners to shape high-quality materials, support pilot testing and help roll the project out to schools.

If you enjoy bringing ideas to life, building relationships and creating resources that inspire young people, there is more information in the job description.

Salary: £32,000 FTE pro rata for 14 hours per week (£12,800)

Hours: 0.4 FTE (e.g., two days per week). Some flexibility needed around pilot events.

Term: Fixed term until June 2027

Place of work: Home based with regular travel for school visits and workshops. Due to the nature of the role, the successful candidate must be able to travel for school visits and events (travel expenses will be reimbursed as per policy). We are unable to support relocation costs.

About the Electoral Commission

The Electoral Commission is the UK’s independent body overseeing elections and regulating political finance. Everything we do is about ensuring trust, participation, and integrity in the democratic process.

As we progress through a bold new chapter under our five-year Corporate Plan, we are increasing our workforce and transforming how we plan and deliver core services. This post plays a central role in that journey.

About the role

As a Partnerships and Education Officer, you will help deliver engaging outreach and partnership activity across Scotland to support voter awareness and participation.

Working with colleagues and external partners, you will build relationships, support campaigns and events, and contribute to the development of resources that help more people understand and take part in the democratic process across Scotland

This is a varied role where you will play an important part in reaching underrepresented communities and making a real impact on how people engage with democracy.

About the team

You will join our growing Scotland team, working at the heart of our partnership and voter education activity. We are a collaborative and supportive group, focused on increasing participation and ensuring everyone has access to clear, accessible information about the democratic process.

We work closely with colleagues across the UK, including our voter engagement, education and partnerships teams as well as those in our communications, policy and research teams. Together, we share knowledge, test new approaches and deliver impactful work that helps more people engage with democracy.

Who we’re looking for

We are looking for a proactive and organised partnerships or engagement professional who is passionate about increasing participation in democracy. You will have experience working in education, community outreach or stakeholder engagement, ideally including work with young people and under-represented communities. You will be confident in building and maintaining effective relationships with external partners, and supporting the delivery of engagement campaigns, events and outreach activity.

You will also be:

• A confident communicator, able to produce clear and accessible content, briefings and resources

• Comfortable working collaboratively across teams to deliver shared goals

• Able to manage multiple priorities and organise your work effectively

• Motivated by improving democratic participation and voter engagement in Scotland

An interest in the political and electoral landscape, and enthusiasm for this area of public service, would be an advantage.

As this role involves working with children and young people, the successful candidate will

be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check.

We recognise that no candidate will meet every requirement. If you are excited about this role and feel you could make a difference, we would encourage you to apply.

Why work for us?

At the Electoral Commission, you will be part of an organisation that makes a real difference to democracy. We offer a supportive and inclusive environment, opportunities to develop your skills, and the chance to contribute to work that helps more people take part in the democratic process. We offer a strong total reward package, including:

• Flexible working and hybrid model (40% office minimum)

• 28 rising to 30 days annual leave + bank holidays

• Civil Service pension scheme (28.97% employer contribution) WCv2.2 September 2025

• Study support for professional qualifications

• Ongoing learning and development opportunities

• Ride2Work, eye care vouchers and more

The Board of Trustees of Better Lives Partnership is recruiting a Service Lead – West.

The Service Lead role is key to the delivery and development of our services. They are responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality, safe, and person-centred services in the West of the region by leading the team, managing budgets, and maintaining compliance with relevant standards and expectations. They oversee daily operations, support staff through supervision and training, and implement the delivery of the area based Operational Plan. The Service Lead will promote and adhere to the values, philosophy and policies of BLP at all times.

We are recruiting a Service Lead to:

• Ensure the effective operation of all BLP services for the West of the region, working to the objectives which will be set out in the Strategic Plan for BLP and work with the Operations Director to create an area-specific Operational Plan and then lead on the delivery of said plan to grow, develop and enhance our service delivery in a sustainable way.
• Provide clear leadership and line management to the delivery team, by providing and ensuring regular support and supervision, annual reviews, training and development. Ensuring BLP services maintain a high standard of delivery and that all BLP policies and procedures are adhered to.
• Oversee the operational delivery of accredited qualifications to ensure compliance with awarding body requirements. Ensure the integrity of assessment through rigorous moderation and quality assurance mechanisms.
• Be the named Deputy Safeguarding Lead for the organisation and ensure service users, staff and volunteers have knowledge of and operate within the BLP Child and Adult Protection Policy and Procedure at all times.
• Maintain links to service users through involvement with BLP activities; ensuring services are delivered and developed to meet their needs by listening to and involving service users. Ensure all service users are tracked through our programme using our systems, policies and procedures, ensuring that all service users have a clear understanding of their journey with our service and have active input into their journey in a person-centred way.
• Budgetary management of the BLP services delivered in the West of the region.
• Lead on gathering, monitoring and evaluating service performance data to demonstrate outcomes and impact. Provide high quality information, analysis and case studies to the Operations Director and the Head of Fundraising and Communications for reporting to funders, trustees and partners. Be the person responsible for local communications and promotion of the service.

The Board is looking for a dynamic and innovative person to deliver on our first Strategic Plan. The person will need to be able to plan their own work patterns, be flexible and able to deliver to tight deadlines. The post will be based in the West of the region at our Stranraer site. Access to a car is essential since the position will cover wide areas of rural Dumfries and Galloway.

This is a great opportunity for a person with experience of leadership in the Third Sector, education, employability or working with young people to be at the forefront of exciting developments in Dumfries and Galloway.