We’re looking for an enthusiastic and organised Volunteer Coordinator to join our team at Four Square!

As our Volunteer Coordinator, you’ll play a key role in developing our volunteering programme, creating meaningful opportunities for people to get involved and ensuring our volunteers feel welcomed, valued and supported.

Working closely with colleagues across our services, you’ll recruit, onboard and support volunteers, build relationships with local businesses and community groups, and coordinate corporate volunteering opportunities.

We’re looking for someone who is approachable, proactive and great at building relationships. You’ll have experience in volunteer coordination or a similar community-focused role, excellent organisational skills and a genuine enthusiasm for supporting people.

This is a fantastic opportunity to help shape our volunteering programme and make a real difference to the people and communities we support.

Do you want to use your content design skills to help people understand and act on their housing rights? Join Shelter Scotland as our Content Designer and play a key role in creating clear, accessible and user-centred digital content that helps people navigate the housing emergency with confidence.

About the role

As our Content Designer, you’ll create clear, reliable and people-first digital content that helps users navigate their housing rights with confidence. You’ll take part in research and discovery to ensure we design and maintain accessible content. You’ll work with colleagues in an agile team to test, publish and continually improve digital advice and supporter content. You’ll champion the needs of users, provide constructive feedback to other content designers, and use evidence and insight to influence decisions across Shelter Scotland.

Role specifics

You’ll have experience of communicating complex information clearly and producing high-quality, accurate content, ideally including online advice. You’ll be confident researching, analysing and translating complex information into accessible content, with familiarity with content design and creating user journeys that help people understand their options and take action.

Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

About the team

This role sits in our Digital function in the Communications and Engagement team and is a key role in ensuring that our online housing rights information fully supports our strategic goal to strengthen and enforce the right to a safe home for all.

The team is tasked with creating and delivering user needs focused, high-quality, user-friendly digital content on the Shelter Scotland website. The content must be of an exceptional standard, ensuring people who see it are reassured and confident about what they need to do next to fight the housing emergency.

Who we are

Alzheimer Scotland is Scotland’s national dementia charity. Our aim is to make sure nobody faces dementia alone. We provide support and information to people with dementia, their carers and families, we campaign for the rights of people with dementia and fund vital dementia research.

What you’ll do

The roles are transactional roles working as a team supporting a range of finance tasks including purchase ledger, sales ledger, bank processing alongside customer service and supporting donors across a variety of methods including phone and face to face, therefore, strong customer service skills alongside finance administration experience are essential.

What you’ll have

We are seeking applications from individuals with demonstrable high volume finance administration work experience within a complex organisation and who possess the skills to take on the tasks outlined in the job description.

You will be a strong communicator both verbally and written and able to balance competing priorities and deadlines.

You will have practical experience of working with a wide range of office systems including Microsoft 365 and databases or financial systems.

If you are interested by what you have read, and have the necessary skills and experience, or have experience in elements of the role and wish to develop these skills further, alongside the ability to make a success of this role, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Following completion of probationary period (6 months) there will be opportunities to undertake and progress further studies in relevant disciplines.