Lead a venue that makes a difference

The Robertson Trust exists to prevent and reduce poverty and trauma in Scotland. We bring organisations, communities and partners together to help create lasting change.

We are looking for an exceptional Venue Manager to lead The Barracks, our unique conference centre and charity hub in Stirling.

This is not a traditional venue-management role.

As Venue Manager, you will take responsibility for the overall operation, performance and future development of a vibrant and growing venue that brings together charities, community organisations, partners and visitors from across Scotland. You will lead an experienced onsite team, oversee customer and tenant experience, manage commercial performance, build strategic partnerships and play a key role in shaping the future direction of the venue.

Whether you come from conference and events, hospitality, facilities management, visitor attractions, property management or another customer-focused operational environment, this is an opportunity to combine commercial thinking with genuine social impact.

Why join us?

This is a rare opportunity to:

· Lead a highly regarded conference centre and charity hub with a strong reputation.

· Shape the future development, profile and growth of The Barracks.

· Work with a wide range of charities, public bodies, businesses and community partners.

· Lead a talented and committed team.

· Enjoy a broad and varied leadership role spanning operations, customer experience, commercial development and stakeholder engagement.

· Join an organisation recognised for its values-led culture and commitment to supporting communities across Scotland.

· Benefit from flexible and hybrid working arrangements where operational requirements allow.

About the role

As Venue Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring that The Barracks delivers an outstanding experience for venue users, event organisers, tenants, visitors and partners.

You will lead day-to-day operations while also driving longer-term improvement and growth. You'll oversee venue performance, financial management, business development activity, health and safety compliance, property-related matters and contractor relationships. You'll use data, feedback and insight to identify opportunities to enhance services, grow income and maximise the impact of the venue.

A key part of the role will be building strong relationships, both within the venue and externally. You'll work closely with tenants, community organisations, partner agencies, suppliers and colleagues across The Robertson Trust to ensure The Barracks continues to thrive as a welcoming, accessible and sustainable charity hub.

About you

We're looking for an approachable and credible leader who combines strong operational oversight with excellent people skills.

You will bring:

· Experience of managing a venue, conference facility, hospitality operation, visitor destination, facilities function or similar customer-facing service.

· A track record of leading and developing teams.

· Experience of managing budgets, income and expenditure.

· Strong commercial awareness and a focus on sustainable growth.

· Excellent relationship-building and stakeholder-management skills.

· Experience of working with suppliers and external contractors.

· Confidence managing multiple priorities in a busy operational environment.

· The ability to make sound decisions and remain calm under pressure.

· Knowledge of health and safety and risk management within a public-facing environment.

Experience within the charity sector would be welcome, but it is not essential. We are interested in hearing from talented leaders from a range of sectors who can demonstrate a commitment to excellent service, inclusive leadership and continuous improvement.

About The Barracks

The Barracks is a distinctive conference centre and charity hub based in Stirling. Home to a diverse community of organisations, it provides high-quality meeting, event and collaboration space for charities and other organisations while serving as a welcoming and accessible environment for tenants, visitors and partners.

As Venue Manager, you will play a central role in ensuring that The Barracks continues to be a place where organisations connect, collaborate and create positive change.

Ready to make an impact?

If you're an experienced operational leader looking for a role with purpose, challenge and variety, we'd love to hear from you.

Join us and help shape the future of one of Scotland's most distinctive charity venues.

Join the Scottish Recovery Consortium and Help Shape Recovery Across Scotland

Are you passionate about learning, recovery and the power of lived and living experience to create lasting change?

We're looking for a Recovery Training, Learning & Development Officer to join our team and help design, deliver and evaluate learning opportunities that strengthen recovery communities across Scotland. Working with individuals in recovery, Lived Experience Recovery Organisations, communities and professionals, you'll play a key role in ensuring lived and living experience is recognised, valued and influential at every level.

This is an exciting opportunity to help build recovery learning pathways, support peer-led learning, strengthen participation and contribute to developing recovery-oriented systems that improve lives and communities.

Be part of a team committed to making recovery visible and creating meaningful opportunities for people to learn, grow and lead change.

The role is offered on a fixed-term basis, for a period of 12 months initially.

What you will do

As an employee of the Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC), the post holder will report directly to the Community Team Manager. Working alongside our Community Team, you will play a key role in developing and delivering high-quality, engaging learning (online and in person) for individuals in recovery, Lived Experience Recovery Organisations (LEROs) and professionals with an interest in recovery and human rights.

The role focuses on:

• Building accessible recovery learning pathways

• Supporting co-production and peer-led learning development

• Promoting peer-led learning initiatives that harness lived and living experience to build confidence, resilience and practical skills, creating a supportive and empowering learning environment

• Ensuring learners receive access to high-quality learning opportunities that strengthen lived and living experience participation in local and national government

• Embedding a robust framework to measure the impact of learning opportunities on recovery outcomes, wellbeing and social inclusion, using data to drive continuous improvement and demonstrate value

What you will bring

• Excellent training facilitation and training delivery skills

• Demonstrable experience in writing training sessions, creating interactive workshops and producing training materials

• Excellent relationship building and communication skills

• Ability to monitor, evaluate and contribute to robust impact measurement

About us

The Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC) is a national intermediary organisation dedicated to supporting the development, growth and sustainability of recovery in Scotland. We work at individual, community, organisational and policy levels, across communities and prisons, to make recovery visible, and champion lived experience as a driver of change. Through collaboration and co-production, SRC supports the creation and implementation of recovery-oriented systems of care and strategic system change, ensuring recovery is embedded in policy, practice and culture.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits, including flexible working, an Employee Assistance Programme, an excellent pension scheme and 25 days’ paid holiday plus nine public holidays per year.

Migrant Voice are looking for a part-time Project Coordinator for to join our team in Glasgow 3 days per week. Join us to help capture, preserve and share migration histories as an integral part of Scotland’s history.

This role is ideal for someone living in Glasgow and well-connected to the migrant communities in the city.

Through training and co-creation the ‘Our Place in History: Migrant Stories Shaping Scotland's Heritage’ project will engage migrant communities in Glasgow to record and display their heritage in physical and digital exhibitions.

The Project Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating the delivery of the 'Our Place in History' migrant heritage programme and for setting up and running the project from start to finish. This role combines project leadership, community engagement, and operational management.

Working closely with our Artistic Producer, and the project steering group, the post holder will engage participants and volunteers in a co-design process and coordinate workshops and events.

The Project Coordinator will be responsible for ensuring the programme is delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest standard.

The Project Coordinator will join our team three days per week from January 2027 and be based in our Glasgow office.

The 'Our Place in History' project is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to National Lottery players.

You will be part of an enthusiastic and caring team with your co postholders and be an integral support to the Leadership team for Sight Scotland veterans’ services. No two days are the same. One moment you might be supporting a colleague, welcoming a new veteran into the centre, or helping resolve an operational challenge. Facilitating activities which are fun and support the wellbeing and independence of the veterans The next, you will be working with colleagues to keep data base up to date and contact potential new veterans to the centre via phone completing all steps in the processes Working with various teams from our organisation, volunteers, and team members to improve services and create new opportunities.

The current duties of the role require a criminal records check or membership of the PVG scheme through Disclosure Scotland for the protection of adults and children and clean driving licence.

You don’t need to meet every single requirement to be a great candidate. Most people learn parts of the job once they’re in post, so if a role interests you and you believe you could grow into it, we’d love to hear from you.

We’re committed to fair, accessible recruitment. If you need any adjustments, like extra time, a different format, or other support, at any stage of the process, just let us know. Please contact People and Culture on 0131 378 2793 or via peopleandculture@sightscotland.org.uk who can arrange for any support you need.

About us

For more than 230 years we've been supporting and empowering people with sight loss to live fulfilling lives. We’re proud of what we’ve achieved, but we want to do more. We will build on our rich history to create an organisation which is prepared for the future, and ready to respond to the needs of people impacted by vision loss.

Our vision is bold. We want to be at the leading edge of positive societal change by:

• Investing our funds in the support that makes the biggest difference
• Putting our community at the heart of what we do
• Campaigning for change
• Accelerating prevention and treatment of eye conditions
• Fostering a collaborative culture of innovation and learning

We're determined that no-one should face sight loss alone. We're committed to improving, diversifying and growing our services to make sure we can reach many more people with sight loss - when and where they need us.

Our organisational values - Transform, Unite and Thrive - underpin all the work we do at Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland Veterans.

Benefits

• Generous employee pension scheme
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Employee assistance programme
• Discounted cinema tickets
• Discounts for
• carers