Communications Manager
- Full time or Part time
- £51,885 – £57,496
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 16th November 2026
- Advertised from 4th November 2026
- All offers will be made at £51,885.33 and are based on 35 hours per week. 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday with flexibility to consider 28 hours over 4 days (0.8 FTE)
Role
Help shape our voice, strengthen our profile and make sure our communications have impact.
We are an equal opportunities employer and we’re open on both professional and work experience. We want to build a diverse team, so would positively encourage applications from all candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion, pregnancy or maternity.
Who we are
The Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) is the independent body responsible for handling complaints about lawyers in Scotland. We play an important role in Scotland’s legal services sector, helping to resolve complaints and driving improvement in how legal services are delivered.
Clear, accessible and effective communication is central to that work. We communicate with a wide range of audiences, from consumers and legal professionals to stakeholders, the media and the wider public, and we want our communications to be engaging, inclusive and easy to understand.
The role
We’re looking for an experienced Communications Manager to lead our strategic communications and help shape how we tell our story.
This is a varied and influential role, combining strategic thinking with hands-on delivery. You’ll develop and deliver our communications strategy, strengthen our organisational narrative and ensure our communications are clear, consistent, accessible and focused on the needs of our audiences.
You’ll work across the organisation, providing trusted communications advice to senior colleagues and our Board, helping us manage our reputation and ensuring our work, priorities and impact are communicated effectively.
This is a role for someone who can see the bigger picture, turn strategy into action and isn’t afraid to get stuck into the delivery too.
What you’ll be doing
As our Communications Manager, you’ll:
- develop and deliver our communications strategy, ensuring it supports our wider organisational objectives
- shape and maintain a clear and consistent organisational voice and narrative
- provide strategic communications advice to senior colleagues and the Board
- lead communications planning for key organisational priorities, projects and campaigns
- lead the development of corporate publications, including annual reports and other key publications
- oversee media relations, including press releases, public statements and responses to media enquiries
- create and oversee clear, engaging content for a range of audiences and channels
- help ensure our website and digital communications are current, accessible and user-focused
- champion plain English, accessibility and inclusive communications
- support effective communication with stakeholders and wider audiences
- manage relationships with external communications, design and digital suppliers
- monitor the effectiveness of our communications and use insight to continually improve our approach.
What we’re looking for
We’re looking for someone who can combine strong communications expertise with strategic thinking, sound judgement and excellent writing skills.
You’ll be able to take complex information and turn it into clear, accessible and engaging communications, adapting your approach for different audiences and channels.
You’ll bring:
- experience of developing and delivering effective communications strategies
- excellent writing, editing and proofreading skills
- sound judgement when dealing with reputation, messaging and sensitive communications
- confidence in advising and constructively challenging senior colleagues
- experience of corporate and external communications
- an understanding of media relations and reputation management
- a strong commitment to plain English and accessible communication
- excellent planning and organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines
- strong relationship-building and influencing skills
- a creative and proactive approach, with a willingness to challenge how things have always been done and look for better ways of communicating.
Most importantly, you’ll understand that good communication isn’t simply about getting information out.
It’s about understanding your audience and making sure what we say is clear, useful and has impact.
Why join us?
This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping how the SLCC communicates.
You’ll have the scope to bring ideas, influence our approach and help us build a strong, consistent and trusted organisational voice. You’ll also be close enough to the work to bring that strategy to life and see the difference effective communication can make.
If you enjoy combining strategy, creativity and practical delivery, we’d love to hear from you.
Where and how you’ll work
We support hybrid and flexible working, giving you flexibility while making sure you have plenty of opportunity to connect and collaborate with colleagues.
You’ll spend at least one-third of your working time each quarter in our Edinburgh office, which for a full-time colleague will usually work out at around two days a week. There may also be occasional meetings or events where you’ll need to attend in person.
We know starting a new job is easier when you have the right support around you, so you’ll spend more time in the office during your induction while you get to know the SLCC, your colleagues and your new role.
This is a full-time role of 35 hours over five days, with flexibility to consider 28 hours over 4 days.
We also offer a flexitime scheme. When working from home, you can work between 6am and 10pm, and on office days between 7am and 7pm, giving you flexibility around how you structure your working day.
What we offer
As well as flexible and hybrid working, you’ll receive:
- 42 days’ paid holiday, including public holidays
- Group Self-Invested Personal Pension
- company sick pay
- life assurance
- cycle to work and travel loan schemes
- volunteer days
- confidential employee assistance programme
- opportunities for learning and development
- staff charity and social activities
- a staff-led Wellbeing and Inclusion Group.
We pride ourselves on providing a supportive and enjoyable place to work. In our most recent staff survey, 97% of colleagues said they have a good working relationship with their colleagues.
Application notes
To apply for this role, please click on the link below and submit your basic details through our online application form.
We will then email you a link to submit your CV and a covering letter explaining why you are interested in the role and what you will bring to it (a maximum of 300 words) by midnight on 16 November 2026. Candidates will be invited to an in-person interview in Edinburgh on either 4 or 7 December 2026. Candidates will also be emailed an exercise with their invitation to interview to be returned by 2 December 2026.
Please note if your application is unsuccessful at the assessment sifting stage, the SLCC cannot provide feedback on applications.
To apply please see Communications Manager | Scottish Legal Complaints Commission
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Senior Legal and Policy Manager
- Part time
- £44,337 – £47,988 pro-rata
- Remote: with regular meetings in Edinburgh/Glasgow and occasional UK/international travel
- Closing 10th November 2026
The Senior Legal and Policy Manager leads Together's influencing and scrutiny work and manages the legal and policy team. The postholder supports the Director and Assistant Director’s relationships with the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Government, leads our annual State of Children's Rights report and our Implementation Strategy Group, and leads our access to justice work. Through these, the role is central to holding Scotland to account for its implementation of the UNCRC and wider international human rights treaties.
The role oversees the quality of Together’s legal and policy work, including our legal analysis, consultation responses and committee submissions, and assuring the legal content of our training and consultancy. In doing so it ensures that the specialist expertise held in the legal and policy team reaches every part of Together's work.
Working closely with the Director, and alongside the Assistant Director and the Child Rights Implementation Manager, the postholder ensures that learning from our members and from our capacity building work informs Together's influencing, and that our influencing in turn shapes what we offer members.
About Together
Together (Scottish Alliance for Children's Rights) has a vision of Scotland becoming a place where all babies, children and young people can grow up in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding. To achieve this, we work with our membership to take action to ensure that babies, children and young people growing up in Scotland have all their human rights respected, protected, and fulfilled, all the time. Our three strategic priorities reflect a holistic approach to achieving our mission, focusing on proactive measures, responsive actions, and building the strength of the children's rights community to ensure the rights of every baby, child and young person in Scotland. Together is at the forefront of influencing policy, enhancing understanding, and ensuring the integration of children's rights across all aspects of life in Scotland, making us a pivotal voice and authority on children's rights.
Our values
- Courageous: We are independent, and we challenge when we need to. We always stand up for children's human rights.
- Collaborative: We involve, engage, and consult our members, children and young people, parents and carers. We are representative, open, and transparent in all we do.
- Constructive: We do things in a respectful way. We support all those we work with and for to reach their full potential.
- Inclusive: We actively enable everyone to participate equally and with dignity, especially those babies, children and young people whose rights are most at risk.
- Creative: We bring fun and creativity to everything we do, embracing imaginative and innovative thinking.
Top job! Head of Procurement
- Full time
- £58,132 – £63,603
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 6th November 2026
JOB PURPOSE
The Head of Procurement will lead the National Trust for Scotland’s procurement and supply-chain activity, ensuring that every pound spent supports our charitable purpose. The role will strengthen commercial control across a complex, multi-site organisation, deliver measurable cost efficiencies, simplify purchasing processes and improve the quality, resilience and sustainability of supply.
• Delivering sustainable reductions in expenditure, cost avoidance and wider organisational value whilst maintaining quality
• Standardising and improving source-to-pay processes and systems
• Strategic sourcing, tendering, contracting and supplier performance
• Governance, compliance, risk management and responsible procurement
• Building procurement capability across properties and central teams
With oversight of more than £40 million of annual non-staff expenditure, the postholder will set procurement strategy, policy and standards; provide clear spend and benefits reporting; and partner with colleagues to challenge demand, aggregate requirements and secure best value. Procurement decisions will balance whole-life cost, quality, risk, conservation, engagement and sustainability.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
Lead a trusted, proportionate procurement service that enables colleagues across the National Trust for Scotland to buy well, work efficiently and demonstrate responsible stewardship of charitable funds.
Key responsibilities include:
• Develop and deliver a procurement strategy aligned with the Trust’s corporate strategy, financial plans and conservation purpose.
• Create and maintain a prioritised savings and value pipeline, with clear baselines, owners, delivery dates and Finance-validated benefits.
• Use spend, contract and supplier data to identify demand-management, specification, aggregation, framework and sourcing opportunities.
• Lead strategic sourcing, tendering and negotiation for high-value and high-risk goods, works and services, securing best whole-life value.
• Embed environmental sustainability in sourcing and contract management by considering whole-life carbon, energy and resource use, waste reduction, circular-economy opportunities, biodiversity impacts and credible supplier environmental performance.
• Simplify and standardise end-to-end purchasing, using proportionate controls, clear guidance, automation and self-service where appropriate.
• Improve source-to-pay compliance, spend visibility, contract coverage and management information, including effective use of Microsoft Dynamics 365.
• Establish category plans and supplier performance frameworks that improve cost, service, quality, resilience and innovation.
• Manage procurement, commercial and supply-chain risk, including business continuity, supplier due diligence and contract expiry planning.
• Ensure compliance with applicable legislation, funder conditions, Trust policy, delegated authority and responsible procurement commitments, including environmental sustainability and climate objectives.
• Build constructive relationships with budget holders, properties, Finance, Legal, Scottish public bodies, sector partners and strategic suppliers.
• Lead, coach and develop the procurement team and strengthen commercial capability across the Trust.
The current duties of this job do require a criminal records (Disclosure Scotland) check to be carried out
For more information, please download the Job Description below.
Child Rights Implementation Manager
- Full time
- £39,783 – £43,133
- Remote: with regular meetings in Edinburgh/Glasgow and occasional UK/international travel
- Closing 10th November 2026
Following successful incorporation of the UNCRC into Scots law, Together is working to ensure this new law becomes reality for children. The post-holder will play a crucial role in supporting Scotland to implement children’s rights, by supporting adults across Scotland to use law and policy in practical ways.
The Child Rights Implementation Manager leads the planning and delivery of Together's capacity building work, with a particular focus on our Communities of Practice, and leads the growth of our membership. The postholder designs and drives the Community of Practice model and delivers both Communities of Practice, building the capacity of members and public bodies to embed a children's human rights approach in their own practice.
The role requires the confidence to interpret children's human rights law and policy to shape and drive capacity building activity like training, consultancy and Communities of Practice, drawing on the legal and policy team where deeper analysis is needed. This is also the route by which practice evidence reaches Together's influencing work, through the analysis and learning summaries drawn from Together’s capacity building activity.
The postholder works to the Assistant Director, who sets the strategic direction for capacity building and consultancy, and works closely with the Senior Legal and Policy Manager and the Senior Legal and Policy Officer so that evidence and learning move in both directions between Together's two teams.
About Together
Together (Scottish Alliance for Children's Rights) has a vision of Scotland becoming a place where all babies, children and young people can grow up in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding. To achieve this, we work with our membership to take action to ensure that babies, children and young people growing up in Scotland have all their human rights respected, protected, and fulfilled, all the time. Our three strategic priorities reflect a holistic approach to achieving our mission, focusing on proactive measures, responsive actions, and building the strength of the children's rights community to ensure the rights of every baby, child and young person in Scotland. Together is at the forefront of influencing policy, enhancing understanding, and ensuring the integration of children's rights across all aspects of life in Scotland, making us a pivotal voice and authority on children's rights.
Our values
- Courageous: We are independent, and we challenge when we need to. We always stand up for children's human rights.
- Collaborative: We involve, engage, and consult our members, children and young people, parents and carers. We are representative, open, and transparent in all we do.
- Constructive: We do things in a respectful way. We support all those we work with and for to reach their full potential.
- Inclusive: We actively enable everyone to participate equally and with dignity, especially those babies, children and young people whose rights are most at risk.
- Creative: We bring fun and creativity to everything we do, embracing imaginative and innovative thinking.
National Inter-agency Referral Discussion (IRD) Project Officer
- Full time
- £54,935
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 22nd November 2026
Social Work Scotland is the professional body for social work managers and leaders. We are a membership organisation with over 350 individual and corporate members. We exist to promote and support the development of the social work profession, and to inform, influence and improve public policy and public services.
We have an exciting opportunity for a qualified and registered social worker with experience of children and families social work to join a multi-agency team with a remit to deliver the National Inter-agency Referral Discussion (IRD) Learning and Development Programme. All applicants should have knowledge and experience of child protection and GIRFEC, and relevant legislation, policy and practice in Scotland.
Inter-agency Referral Discussion (IRD) practice is identified as a cornerstone of the child protection system. This process is central to ensuring risk to a child or young person is identified, mitigated and appropriate support is put in place.
Working collaboratively as part of a team from social work, police and health, this post will deliver a national learning and development programme for IRDs to build specialist knowledge and skills, to enhance the protection of children. Delivery of the programme will be in local area across the country to support consistency of practice based on the National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland 2021 - updated 2023.
Under a collaborative leadership and management model from Police Scotland, Social Work Scotland and NHS Education for Scotland, the team will work together to deliver the agreed objectives.
The work of the National Team contributes directly to policy and practice developments in the wider children’s services landscape, including, but not limited to, GIRFEC, The Promise, UNCRC, Bairns’ Hoose, Scottish Child Interview Model (SCIM), Age of Criminal Responsibility and implementation of the National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland.
The successful candidate will deliver the training programme to police, social work and health IRD participants, support the programme of ongoing practice evaluation and contribute to ongoing development of the programme.
The work will require travel and overnight stays across Scotland to deliver training in local areas.
The successful candidate should be an experienced social work professional, committed to working on a multi-agency basis, applying trauma informed practice and focused on the rights and needs of children and families and with experience or evidence of capacity in relation to training.
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