The Society is looking for a new member of staff to develop, manage and coordinate the financial operations of the Society following the retirement of the current post holder. This is a key role providing strategic financial leadership, ensuring strong financial governance, accurate management information, and long-term financial sustainability.

Job Description

The Finance Manager is responsible for strategic financial leadership, ensuring robust financial controls, statutory compliance, and the delivery of accurate and timely financial information.

The role oversees financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, restricted fund management, audit and year end processes, investment oversight, HR administration, and operational workflows. It also supports the modernisation of financial systems and digital processes to ensure efficiency and good governance. to the Director, Treasurer, SMT and trustees. They attend and provide reports to the Finance, Audit and Risk Committee and Council, attend SMT meetings as required, and line manage the Finance & Operations Officer. They are line managed by the Director.

Since 1996, Foundation Scotland has distributed significant funding to charities and community groups across the country, creating happier, fairer and more sustainable communities. We support philanthropists to help their personal giving make the most difference, work with donors to invest in community action, and work alongside communities to ensure that local funds are distributed by communities themselves. We also offer social investment opportunities to enable social enterprises, community organisations and charities to grow and deliver positive social impact. For a quick introduction to how we make a difference, watch our animation.

Foundation Scotland is looking for an interim Grants Assessor to join us on a six month fixed term contract. In this role, you’ll review grant applications from charities and community organisations, explore the evidence behind each proposal and assess whether projects are well planned, financially sound and capable of creating meaningful impact.

You’ll balance careful analysis with clear communication, spend time examining budgets, governance and safeguarding information, speaking with applicants where further detail is needed, and producing concise assessment reports. Your evidence based recommendations will help ensure funding decisions are fair, consistent and focused on the needs of communities.

About the role

• Assessing grant applications consistently and proportionately, considering organisational strength, community need, project design and potential impact.
• Review budgets, governance, safeguarding and other due diligence information.
• Write clear assessment reports and make well-reasoned funding recommendations.
• Communicate professionally with applicants to clarify information and manage assessments to agreed timescales.

What you’ll bring

• Experience assessing funding applications, grants or similar decision-making processes.
• Strong analytical skills and confidence reviewing budgets and financial information.
• Excellent written communication, sound judgement and close attention to detail.
• An understanding of Scotland’s voluntary and community sector and the ability to build positive stakeholder relationships.

More information about the role can be found in the Grants Assessor Role.pdf profile.

If you are motivated by purposeful work and enjoy turning complex information into balanced decisions, we’d love to hear from you.

Please note, this is a six-month fixed-term contract position.

We can be flexible on hours and working pattern so please speak to us about what might suit you best.

Door in the Wall Arts Access CIC (DITWAA) is looking for an organised, proactive and dependable Executive Assistant to join our growing neurodivergent-led arts organisation.

We support neurodivergent and disabled artists across Scotland through creative projects, artist development, exhibitions, workshops, accessible communication support, consultancy and peer-led community work. We also run Neuk Collective, a neurodivergent-led creative community connecting artists across Scotland.

This is a new role, created to provide reliable administrative support to our Executive Director and help keep the organisation running smoothly behind the scenes.

You will help manage priorities, communications, meetings, actions and deadlines, making sure important information is organised and tasks are followed through. You will also provide wider administrative support across the organisation, including Board administration, record keeping and routine programme and communications tasks.

We are looking for someone who enjoys keeping track of things, creating useful systems and making sure things actually get done.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing the Executive Director's diary, meetings and forward planning
• Helping manage correspondence and inbox activity
• Keeping track of actions, deadlines and commitments
• Coordinating meetings and following up actions
• Maintaining organisational records and administrative systems
• Supporting recruitment and onboarding administration
• Coordinating Board meetings, papers, minutes and actions
• Providing routine administrative support to colleagues
• Helping with booking systems, participant communications and event administration
• Proofreading, formatting and making routine website updates
• Making sure organisational information and records are accurate and up to date

The primary focus of the role is supporting the Executive Director, freeing up more of their time for strategic leadership, partnerships, fundraising and organisational development.

You will also work with colleagues across the organisation, but you will not be responsible for leading programme delivery, artistic decision-making, financial management or organisational strategy.

We are particularly interested in candidates with:

• Experience in an Executive Assistant, Personal Assistant, Office Manager, Senior Administrator or similar role
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
• Experience managing diaries, meetings and correspondence
• Confidence managing several priorities and following tasks through to completion
• Clear, professional and warm communication skills
• Confidence working independently and using initiative
• Good judgement and an understanding of when something needs to be escalated
• Confidence using digital systems and learning new software
• Experience handling confidential or sensitive information appropriately

Experience of Trello or similar project management systems, website administration, online booking platforms or social media scheduling would be helpful but is not essential.

Experience in the arts, charity, community or voluntary sector would also be useful, as would an understanding of accessibility, disability-inclusive or neurodiversity-informed ways of working.

Holiday entitlement: 5.6 weeks' annual leave pro rata (equivalent to 117.6 hours per leave year for this 21-hour-per-week role).

Door in the Wall Arts Access CIC is a neurodivergent-led organisation and we actively encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent people. We are committed to creating an accessible recruitment process and welcome requests for adjustments.

The postholder will be expected to operate in line with our values which are: justice, equity, trust, collaboration and compassion.

Overview

All roles at OPFS contribute to our mission of working with and for single parent families, providing support that enables them to achieve their potential and help create lasting solutions to the poverty and barriers facing many single parents and their children. Our core values of justice, equity, trust, collaboration and compassion are at the heart of everything we do and underpin all aspects of our work.

About this role

The Governance and Administration Officer provides efficient, proactive and values led governance support to the Head of Corporate Services to ensure that all governance work is achieved within the timescales set whilst maintaining quality of delivery. They have a crucial role in enabling the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to focus on strategic priorities and lead with clarity and purpose. This role supports our governance functions including effective running of the Board and Committees and risk management to ensure compliant, efficient and transparent decision-making supporting our strategic purpose, direction and organisational values. This role will contribute significantly to strategic implementation and is key to ensuring we maintain focus and clear reporting using appropriate levels of governance administration and coordination.