My Culture, My Heritage – Heritage Capacity Consultant
- Full time
- £29,000
- Hybrid: Glasgow based (office and home working) with a requirement to travel across Scotland
- Closing 22nd September 2026
- Advertised from 25th August 2026
- 35 hours per week,
- 4% pension contribution Annual Leave: 25 days + 12 public holidays per year
Role
Project Delivery: Scotland wide
CEMVO Scotland is looking for an enthusiastic and experienced individual to deliver My Culture, My Heritage – a new project supporting ethnic minority (EM) third sector organisations and community groups across Scotland.
This is an exciting opportunity to help establish and shape a new programme from the ground up.
You will work directly with organisations across Scotland, providing practical support to help them develop heritage project ideas, understand funding opportunities and submit strong applications to the Heritage Development Fund, managed by CEMVO Scotland through The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
You will also support organisations to successfully manage and deliver their funded project. Working alongside specialist training partners you will build sector knowledge, skills and confidence to identify and interpret, document and preserve and celebrate and share their own heritage.
A key part of the role will be developing peer networks, creating opportunities for organisations to connect, share experiences, exchange intelligence and learn from one another. You will help build relationships across the EM third sector and ensure that the programme responds to the needs and experiences of organisations and communities across Scotland.
We are looking for someone who understands the capacity building process and is passionate about cultural heritage and the contribution that ethnic minority communities make to enrich Scotland's heritage.
Application notes
If you wish to apply, please email your CV to info@cemvoscotland.org.uk
Please fill out and return the Equalities Monitoring Form in a separate email. Thank You.
If you would like more information about the post, please email Shaista Asghar on shaistaasghar@cemvoscotland.org.uk
Closing Date for Applications: Tuesday 22nd September 2026
Interviews scheduled for week beginning: 28th September 2026
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Top job! Solicitor
- Full time
- £33,652 – £38,500
- On site: Edinburgh or Glasgow
- Closing 6th September 2026
We are seeking enthusiastic and committed Children and Young People’s Lawyer to join our team and strengthen Clan’s work empowering children and young people in Scotland to use their rights to improve their lives. If you are looking for an opportunity to work differently as a lawyer, using your legal knowledge, problem solving and communication skills to represent the interests and rights of children and young people, then we want to hear from you.
You will provide professional legal advice and representation that makes a direct difference to the lives of individual children and young people in a range of areas including children’s hearings, child law, public family law, and youth homelessness. You will play a vital role in delivering our Children’s Rights Helpline giving practical information about children and young people’s rights to children and young people and those that support them. You will provide training to partner agencies and external stakeholders on children’s rights. You will have opportunities to be involved in innovative casework that contributes to systemic change, and make contributions from practice to influence the law, policy and practice. Comprehensive training will be provided to support you in developing your knowledge and practice in our key areas, and you will be expected to obtain certification as a lawyer for children.
Role Summary
You will be responsible for maintaining a varied caseload, reporting and consulting as appropriate. You will have the experience to give you confidence providing legal advice and representation to children and young people in at least one of our key areas of children’s hearings, child law and public family law or youth homelessness. Comprehensive training will be provided to support you in developing your knowledge and practice in our key areas, and you will be expected to obtain certification as a lawyer for children. You will be responsible for delivery of high-quality child-centred legal services (see below for details), including child centred legal outreach services, provision of high-quality information, second-tier advice and training on children and young people’s rights in Scotland. You will be highly effective in managing your time and workload, working independently with minimal supervision and managing competing priorities at a fast-pace. You will play an active role as a member of the legal team to ensure that our child centred legal services are delivered efficiently and effectively.
We operate hybrid working with the option to work from home for part of the working week. Regular attendance in offices to work collaboratively with colleagues is required. TOIL and flexibility around your working day is offered to allow travel to client visits, court and children’s hearings in different areas of Scotland as necessary.
Working Hours: Full time (35 hours a week), Monday to Friday, however, we will accept applications from candidates seeking to work upwards of 28 hours. Clan solicitors maintain a sustainable workload that supports them to work with clients in a child centered way.
About You
This roles will suit an effective, adaptable and resilient solicitor with excellent communication and relationship-building skills. You will be motivated by the opportunity to do things differently as a lawyer and committed to doing impactful, values-driven legal work that makes real change in the lives of children and young people You will be comfortable undertaking challenging and varied work and managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment, while maintaining high professional standards and a client-centred approach. You will work well with a minimum of supervision within a supportive and collaborative team culture.
Essential Criteria and Qualifications
- An enrolled solicitor with a full, post-qualified and unrestricted practising certificate from the Law Society of Scotland.
- Knowledge of civil justice systems including the Children’s Hearing System
- Experience in at least one of the following: housing and homelessness, the law on care and social work duties to children, Children’s Hearings, judicial review, public family law, child law, and a motivation to develop your knowledge to advance children’s rights and child-centred working.
About Clan Childlaw
Clan is an award-winning, independent children’s charity that actively supports children and young people to take ownership of their rights. Clan Childlaw was established to provide children and young people with their own lawyers, specially trained and supported to work with them in a child centred way. Because our lawyers work directly with children and young people whose lives are affected by legal decisions, we bring that unique practice-based knowledge to every aspect of our work. This includes our specialist training, our helpline supporting others who help children to use their voices and their rights, and our work to influence children’s rights, respecting changes to practice, policy and law. Clan Childlaw has successfully used strategic litigation and influencing the law to improve the lives of children and young people in Scotland, strengthen children’s rights and achieve lasting systemic change in a number of areas including sibling rights and care leavers rights to accommodation, care and support as well as the right to privacy, access to justice, voice of the child, and impact of childhood conflict with the law. We are committed to delivering on The Promise Scotland and to the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
What We Do
To find out more about what we do you can visit our website: About Clan Childlaw - Clan Childlaw
Our Values
Our values are the principles we uphold in all our work, no matter what. They are the foundation of our workplace culture. Everyone who works at Clan shows our values in all they do and say.
We are supportive: We listen and respond, we provide encouragement and emotional help to children and young people, to others who support young people, and to each other.
We are bold: We are confident and courageous in amplifying the voices of children and young people. We are prepared to take risks when we need to, to defend children and young people’s rights.
We are dynamic: We are always active, always progressing. We are positive, full of energy and new ideas. We ask for change where it is needed.
"I love my job at Clan. It's busy and varied and no two days are ever the same. We have a great team here and everyone is really supportive." - A member of the Clan Childlaw team
What we can offer you
Clan Childlaw’s people are important to us. We honour a good work-life balance and a friendly supportive work environment. We offer:
- 33 days annual leave (inclusive of public holidays) increasing to 35 after 2 years’ service
- Auto-enrolment into our pension scheme after 3 months service
- We support flexible working and are open to discussing arrangements that work for both the role and the successful candidate. We encourage candidates to talk to us about any flexibility they may need.
- Flexibility around your working day, with the opportunity to work your hours between 7am and 7pm and, the option to work from home for part of the working week. Flexibility arrangements will vary depending on the role and business needs, with some positions requiring closer alignment to core working hours to support service delivery.
- Sustainable workload: You’ll benefit from a workload that supports quality, focus and a healthy work-life balance.
- Access to our employee counselling service.
- Learning and development is important to us and our team. You will be encouraged and supported to engage in learning and continued professional development.
"I have never worked in such a lovely organisation before! I feel valued, seen and heard as an individual here." - A member of the Clan Childlaw team
"I love my job at Clan. It's busy and varied and no two days are ever the same. We have a great team here and everyone is really supportive." - A member of the Clan Childlaw team
Join our board and help shape an intergenerational Scotland Generations Working Together (GWT) is seeking to appoint two committed, proactive and passionate volunteer Trustees to join our Board at a particularly exciting time for intergenerational work. With the Global Intergenerational Congress coming to Glasgow in 2026, alongside our Global and National Excellence Awards taking place this year, GWT is at the forefront of celebrating and advancing intergenerational practice across Scotland and beyond.
We are recruiting the following:
- a Co-Vice Chair role– succeeding a long-standing Trustee stepping down after nine years and
- a Trustee position to strengthen the Board
We are particularly keen to hear from individuals who bring experience of working with or alongside older people, and who can help ensure strong representation of older voices within our governance.
About the role
We are looking for Trustees with experience in the voluntary, public or private sector who are motivated to contribute strategically to a growing national organisation. You will share our passion for building strong, connected communities across different generations.
We are especially interested in individuals with skills or experience in:
- Human Resources (including organisational development, workforce planning, or learning & development)
- Policy and influencing
- Marketing, communications and audience development
- Strategic leadership or organisational management
- Housing, place-based working or community development
- Environment / climate and regenerative practice
- Work relating to older people
What you will bring
- Our Trustees:
- Provide strategic leadership and oversight
- Act as ambassadors for intergenerational work
- Support the development of GWT’s corporate plan and future direction
- Contribute expertise through Board discussions and occasional task groups
We welcome applications from people who are enthusiastic, dependable and collaborative, and who are keen to contribute their skills to a purpose-driven organisation.
Commitment
Trustees are appointed for up to two x three-year terms (with potential extension).
The role typically involves:
- 4 Board meetings per year (hybrid/online, early evening)
- Annual General Meeting- Wed 11th Nov 2026, 12noon – 1pm
- 1 annual development session (in person, Glasgow – Sat 28th November, 10am – 4pm)
Optional attendance at key events including:
- Global Intergenerational Congress (Glasgow, 29 Sept– 1st Oct 2026)
- Global Intergenerational Week (24-30th April 2027)
As a small charity, Trustees may also contribute between meetings through sub-groups or specific projects aligned to their expertise.
About Generations Working Together
Generations Working Together is the nationally recognised centre of excellence supporting the development and integration of intergenerational work across Scotland. Our mission is to develop, expand and improve IG practice nationwide. Our vision is to live in a Scotland where different generations are more connected, where everyone has opportunities to build relationships that help to create a more inclusive society.
Intergenerational work means relationship-based projects, activities and events where people of different generations, who might not otherwise meet, do things together in positive and creative ways. It includes any activities which purposefully ignore, remove or break down social, environmental, cultural or institutional barriers between generations e.g. ageism, making spaces for older & younger people to meet naturally, get to know each other, share ideas, pass on &/or learn new skills, work together to identify solutions to problems, addressing challenges in their communities, all the while forging relationships and friendships.
An intergenerational lens can also be applied to the workplace which can now have up to five generational cohorts within. Organisations are considering the impact of this and are questioning whether they have the right policies, processes and ethos in place to support their diverse expectations. Applying an intergenerational lens to the workplace provides an opportunity to consider the benefits that come from diverse generational groups.
As a membership and capacity-building organisation, GWT operate locally and nationally raising awareness, sharing and expanding knowledge and understanding of intergenerational practice and its impact. We provide training and wide-ranging resources and organise learning events and facilitate local and thematic networking opportunities, to enable high quality intergenerational activity to take root on the ground & flourish. GWT lead and deliver pilot projects to support and encourage the development and delivery of intergenerational practice in new settings. We also participate in research projects and scan relevant research taking place across the world for distilling and sharing with our members and others.
A short film narrated by our retired chair Alan Hatton-Yeo MBE can be viewed here on our YouTube channel detailing our history and the background of intergenerational work and its growth in the UK.
Hear from our volunteer Trustees below:
Q.What is it like to be a volunteer Trustee?
A. “Volunteering with GWT this past few years has let me see the value of intergenerational practice in many arenas of life. It has given me greater insight into the passionate practice out there and also the resource and specialism required to support it to be done in ever more meaningful and measurable ways. I have loved the opportunity so far of being part of a Board with such great diversity of age and experience.” (Trustee)
A.“My experience volunteering as a Trustee for GWT over the past nine years has been both rewarding personally and beneficial professionally. Exposure to the Governance and Compliance aspects of Trusteeship has been useful supporting my role as a senior manager within a private sector business, while the opportunity to present to workshops and conferences has been invaluable experience of public speaking. Additionally, working alongside the other Trustees and GWT staff who have a wealth of diverse and in-depth experience has been extremely useful from a professional development perspective. From a personal perspective, being able to give my time to support a cause which is increasingly important to society overall and impacts on the lives of everyone I know is rewarding and well worth the investment in time.” (Trustee)
Project Lead: Advice & Information Service
- Part time
- £32,848 – £40,147 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Glasgow
- Closing 30th August 2026
Overview:
The Advice and Information Service is a national support service for single-parent families and professionals across Scotland. It provides multi-channel advice on a wide range of topics, ensuring accessibility and inclusivity. The service operates Monday to Friday, 9:30 am to 4:00 pm, excluding Christmas and Easter holidays.
The Project Lead for Advice and Information Service will play a key role in supporting the A&I Service Manager with the day-to-day management, operations and delivery of the OPFS Advice and Information Service. They will help ensure the service is delivered effectively, supporting staff, maintaining high-quality service provision and contributing to the ongoing development and continuous improvement of the service.
Working within the OPFS "My Life and Me" framework, the postholder will provide operational leadership, support and supervision to staff, ensure high-quality service delivery and undertake quality assurance activities. The Project Lead will be expected to deputise for the A&I Service Manager when required.
The Advice & Information Service is part of OPFS Support for Families Services, which provides holistic support to single parents and their children.
Our work is guided by the six My Life and Me priority areas: Money, Health & Wellbeing, Home, Work, Education & Training, Children, and Relationships.
Through a person-centred, strengths-based approach and guided by our organisational values and our strategic pillars, we work alongside families to:
- Involve them in shaping the support they receive.
- Strengthen their skills, confidence and resilience.
- Support them to achieve their goals and aspirations.
- Influence positive change in their lives and communities.
- Challenge the barriers and inequalities that impact them.
The support we offer includes:
Money
- Support to maximise income, improve financial wellbeing, access benefits and grants, manage debt and respond to financial crises.
Health & Wellbeing
- Emotional and practical support to improve mental health and wellbeing, including counselling, therapeutic interventions, wellbeing programmes and support to reduce isolation and build resilience.
Home
- Support with housing-related issues, advocacy and access to specialist services to help families maintain safe and secure housing.
Work, Education & Training
- Pre-employability and progression support, including confidence building, skills development, volunteering opportunities, training pathways and tailored support to overcome barriers to employment and learning.
Children
- Family support and group programmes that promote positive outcomes for children, strengthen parenting capacity, support child development and provide opportunities for children to participate in activities that enhance wellbeing.
Relationships
- One-to-one and group support that helps parents build positive relationships, strengthen family connections, develop peer support networks and reduce social isolation.
Top job! Lead Solicitor
- Full time
- £44,005 – £48,000
- On site: Edinburgh or Glasgow
- Closing 6th September 2026
We are seeking enthusiastic and committed Children and Young People’s Lawyer to join our team and strengthen Clan’s work empowering children and young people in Scotland to use their rights to improve their lives. If you are looking for an opportunity to work differently as a lawyer, using your legal knowledge, problem solving and communication skills to represent the interests and rights of children and young people, then we want to hear from you.
You will provide professional legal advice and representation that makes a direct difference to the lives of individual children and young people in a range of areas including children’s hearings, child law, public family law, and youth homelessness. You will play a vital role in delivering our Children’s Rights Helpline giving practical information about children and young people’s rights to children and young people and those that support them. You will provide training to partner agencies and external stakeholders on children’s rights. You will have opportunities to be involved in innovative casework that contributes to systemic change, and make contributions from practice to influence the law, policy and practice. Comprehensive training will be provided to support you in developing your knowledge and practice in our key areas, and you will be expected to obtain certification as a lawyer for children.
Role Summary
You will be responsible for maintaining a varied caseload, reporting and consulting as appropriate. You will have the experience to give you confidence providing legal advice and representation to children and young people in at least one of our key areas of children’s hearings, child law and public family law or youth homelessness. Comprehensive training will be provided to support you in developing your knowledge and practice in our key areas, and you will be expected to obtain certification as a lawyer for children. You will be responsible for delivery of high-quality child-centred legal services (see below for details), including child centred legal outreach services, provision of high-quality information, second-tier advice and training on children and young people’s rights in Scotland. You will be highly effective in managing your time and workload, working independently with minimal supervision and managing competing priorities at a fast-pace. You will play an active role as a member of the legal team to ensure that our child centred legal services are delivered efficiently and effectively.
The Lead solicitor will work closely with the Director of Legal and Policy, Head of Legal Services, and Head of Legal Policy to ensure high-quality legal content and contribution from practice in all our services and projects, comply with relevant external quality standards and regulatory frameworks and achieve Clan’s policy aims.
We operate hybrid working with the option to work from home for part of the working week. Regular attendance in offices to work collaboratively with colleagues is required. TOIL and flexibility around your working day is offered to allow travel to client visits, court and children’s hearings in different areas of Scotland as necessary.
Working Hours: Full time (35 hours a week), Monday to Friday, however, we will accept applications from candidates seeking to work upwards of 28 hours. Clan solicitors maintain a sustainable workload that supports them to work with clients in a child centered way.
About You
This roles will suit an effective, adaptable and resilient solicitor with excellent communication and relationship-building skills. You will be motivated by the opportunity to do things differently as a lawyer and committed to doing impactful, values-driven legal work that makes real change in the lives of children and young people You will be comfortable undertaking challenging and varied work and managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment, while maintaining high professional standards and a client-centred approach. You will work well with a minimum of supervision within a supportive and collaborative team culture.
Essential Criteria and Qualifications
- An enrolled solicitor with a full, post-qualified and unrestricted practising certificate from the Law Society of Scotland.
- Knowledge of civil justice systems including the Children’s Hearing System
- Experience in at least one of the following: housing and homelessness, the law on care and social work duties to children, Children’s Hearings, judicial review, public family law, child law, and a motivation to develop your knowledge to advance children’s rights and child-centred working.
About Clan Childlaw
Clan is an award-winning, independent children’s charity that actively supports children and young people to take ownership of their rights. Clan Childlaw was established to provide children and young people with their own lawyers, specially trained and supported to work with them in a child centred way. Because our lawyers work directly with children and young people whose lives are affected by legal decisions, we bring that unique practice-based knowledge to every aspect of our work. This includes our specialist training, our helpline supporting others who help children to use their voices and their rights, and our work to influence children’s rights, respecting changes to practice, policy and law. Clan Childlaw has successfully used strategic litigation and influencing the law to improve the lives of children and young people in Scotland, strengthen children’s rights and achieve lasting systemic change in a number of areas including sibling rights and care leavers rights to accommodation, care and support as well as the right to privacy, access to justice, voice of the child, and impact of childhood conflict with the law. We are committed to delivering on The Promise Scotland and to the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
What We Do
To find out more about what we do you can visit our website: About Clan Childlaw - Clan Childlaw
Our Values
Our values are the principles we uphold in all our work, no matter what. They are the foundation of our workplace culture. Everyone who works at Clan shows our values in all they do and say.
We are supportive: We listen and respond, we provide encouragement and emotional help to children and young people, to others who support young people, and to each other.
We are bold: We are confident and courageous in amplifying the voices of children and young people. We are prepared to take risks when we need to, to defend children and young people’s rights.
We are dynamic: We are always active, always progressing. We are positive, full of energy and new ideas. We ask for change where it is needed.
"I love my job at Clan. It's busy and varied and no two days are ever the same. We have a great team here and everyone is really supportive." - A member of the Clan Childlaw team
What we can offer you
Clan Childlaw’s people are important to us. We honour a good work-life balance and a friendly supportive work environment. We offer:
- 33 days annual leave (inclusive of public holidays) increasing to 35 after 2 years’ service
- Auto-enrolment into our pension scheme after 3 months service
- We support flexible working and are open to discussing arrangements that work for both the role and the successful candidate. We encourage candidates to talk to us about any flexibility they may need.
- Flexibility around your working day, with the opportunity to work your hours between 7am and 7pm and, the option to work from home for part of the working week. Flexibility arrangements will vary depending on the role and business needs, with some positions requiring closer alignment to core working hours to support service delivery.
- Sustainable workload: You’ll benefit from a workload that supports quality, focus and a healthy work-life balance.
- Access to our employee counselling service.
- Learning and development is important to us and our team. You will be encouraged and supported to engage in learning and continued professional development.
"I have never worked in such a lovely organisation before! I feel valued, seen and heard as an individual here." - A member of the Clan Childlaw team
"I love my job at Clan. It's busy and varied and no two days are ever the same. We have a great team here and everyone is really supportive." - A member of the Clan Childlaw team
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