The Springboard Media Training and Youth Engagement Project supports Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) young people aged 16–25, including refugees, asylum seekers, young offenders, ex-offenders, and those at risk of offending, who are experiencing homelessness, insecure housing, social exclusion, or multiple barriers to participation.

The project aims to provide a safe, supportive, and nurturing environment where young people can develop confidence, resilience, life skills, employability skills, and aspirations, enabling them to progress towards positive destinations such as stable accommodation, further education, training, volunteering, or employment.

Through a combination of group activities, media training, podcasting, radio broadcasting, mentoring, and one-to-one support, participants will be empowered to overcome barriers, improve their wellbeing, and become active and valued members of their communities.

Purpose of the Role

The Development Worker will be responsible for developing and delivering a high-quality youth engagement programme that combines media training, personal development, employability support, mentoring, and volunteering opportunities.

The postholder will provide individual and group support to young people, deliver practical media and radio training, manage the organisation’s social media platforms, support and train volunteers, present radio programmes, and contribute to the day-to-day activities of Awaz FM.

The Development Worker will ensure that project outputs, outcomes, and targets are achieved while supporting young people to develop the skills, confidence, and motivation needed to reach positive destinations.

This post is funded by St James Quarter under the brand area of FUSE. The core job purpose is to support the manager and other support staff in FUSE with the recruitment of clients into jobs available within the St James Quarter and the wider Business Improvement District (city centre area) when relevant or required.

FUSE is a world class retail and hospitality offer setting standards for skills, training, recruitment and career support. FUSE has been established to work across Edinburgh and beyond, connecting people to training courses, accredited qualifications, employers and jobs in both retail and hospitality within St James Quarter but also the rest of the city. St James Quarter opened in 2021 bringing approximately 3,000 new jobs to the city.

The successful candidate will have an operational remit, connecting with employers and assisting the FUSE Manager and staff with understanding, promoting and filling vacancies on a rolling basis.

Through Capital City Partnership, FUSE has access to a wide supply chain of clients who are supported through over 60 organisations and agencies within the Joined Up for Jobs network. These clients are given support to become job ready or may be job changers who require additional support to move into employment. FUSE brings employers closer to job ready clients for a successful transition into work.

As part of this wider offer, we also have Joined Up for Business which offers community-based job fairs and a training through JobFit where we work with recruiting employers to design short training courses with a guaranteed interview. FUSE can link into these offers.

As this is a location-based service, we anticipate that much of the work will be delivered in person within dedicated offices within the St James Quarter. Remote/home working is supported when necessary.

West Lothian Drug & Alcohol Service offers a diverse range of services for adults and young people including, counselling, psychological therapies, support, education, training, health promotion on drugs/alcohol and harm reduction e.g. Naloxone (THN) training and supply and injecting equipment provision (IEP).

We are looking to recruit a new Business Manager to join the Extended Management Team, taking over financial responsibilities including preparation of month end and annual accounts; planning and reporting; playing a lead role in costing services; supporting commissioning and funding applications; day to day financial and administration duties; management of facilities including the costing and ordering of services and equipment; liaison with suppliers; HR delivery; and the supervision of the Administrative Team.

You should have experience of working in a similar role, XERO accounts or similar accounting package, excellent communication and organisational skills and the ability to work accurately under pressure. A recognised business, accountancy, HR or fundraising qualification is desirable along with significant experience of working at this level.

Please note: this post is office based. The Service operates from premises at The Almondbank Centre in Craigshill, Livingston.

The Pyramid at Anderston is a community owned and led anchor organisation. Our purpose is to MAKE ANDERSTON FLOURISH.

We offer a wide range of activities, services, and support to our local community and beyond, including community food, sports and wellbeing, adult learning, holiday clubs, and many community events.

We’re seeking a Head of Development who will play a vital role in delivering our core objectives and will be responsible for fundraising and income generation. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and experienced person with a strong community focus and an entrepreneurial spirit to shape our work.

We are open to flexible working (min 21 hours to max 35 hours per week), to be agreed with the successful candidate. FTE £37,000 - £41,000 per annum, pro-rata for part-time hours. We are willing to consider freelance/self-employed applicants. It is expected there will be some evening and occasional weekend working. The postholder will be required to work in The Pyramid at least 2 days a week, with hybrid/home working by agreement.