The Robertson Trust is looking for a Governance Support Manager to join our Finance, Investments & Governance team. Based primarily at Robertson House, Glasgow, with hybrid working available, this role helps the Trust deliver its mission to prevent and reduce poverty and trauma in Scotland through effective governance.

We want to see a Scotland where everyone is valued and able to flourish. Good governance helps us make informed decisions, meet our responsibilities and use our resources effectively to support lasting change.

Working closely with the Finance Director & Company Secretary and supporting the Head of Administration, you will help manage the Trust’s governance arrangements, support our Board and committees, and strengthen our approach to risk management, performance reporting and organisational accountability.

The Role

This is a varied role combining governance and regulatory responsibilities with Board support, reporting and team management. You will work with Trustees, senior leaders and colleagues across the Trust to ensure our governance arrangements are well organised, accurate and effective.

Key responsibilities:

· Support the Finance Director & Company Secretary with the Trust’s legal and regulatory obligations, including relevant Companies House and OSCR requirements.

· Coordinate Board and committee arrangements, including agendas, papers, minutes, records and the annual meeting calendar.

· Support Trustee recruitment, induction and the maintenance of key governance documents.

· Maintain the policy register and help ensure policies are reviewed and approved appropriately.

· Maintain the organisational risk register, track actions and internal audit recommendations, and provide regular risk updates.

· Coordinate performance reporting and provide information for managers, committees and the Board.

· Lead the Trust’s Climate Commitment work and support other corporate responsibilities, including the Giving More initiative.

· Line manage a small team comprising an Executive Administrator and an Administrator, supporting effective governance and wider administrative services.

A full job description and person specification is available on The Robertson Trust website.

About You

We are looking for someone with strong governance knowledge, excellent organisational skills and the confidence to work with Trustees and senior stakeholders. You will be collaborative, proactive and comfortable balancing detailed work with competing priorities.

You will bring:

· A degree-level qualification in law, business or finance, or equivalent relevant experience.

· Previous Board support experience and an understanding of governance structures and accountability in charitable or public sector organisations.

· Experience engaging with senior stakeholders and building positive working relationships across teams.

· Proven ability to lead, develop and motivate a team.

· Strong project management, planning and prioritisation skills, including an understanding of risk.

· Excellent written communication, administrative and IT skills, with close attention to detail.

· Sound judgement, initiative and the ability to handle sensitive information with discretion and confidentiality.

A Chartered Governance Institute qualification, experience in strategic planning and knowledge of the third sector in Scotland would be welcome but are not essential.

We are proud to be an inclusive employer and welcome applications from people with a diverse range of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We believe that a diverse workforce strengthens our thinking, enriches our culture and enhances our ability to achieve our mission of preventing and reducing poverty and trauma in Scotland.

We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and guarantee an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. Please also let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process.

We welcome applications regardless of sex, gender identity, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, socio-economic background, care experience or any other aspect of identity or lived experience. We are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels valued, respected and able to thrive.

Benefits

· Salary: £51,450 to £57,686 FTE (Grade 4).

· Annual leave: 35 days’ holiday per calendar year, inclusive of public holidays, taken flexibly apart from the Christmas and New Year closure.

· Pension: 10% employer contribution, or 14% where the employee contributes 7%.

· Additional employee benefits: An attractive package, currently under review.

The Robertson Trust is committed to hybrid and other forms of flexible working and to reasonable adaptations to overcome barriers. We are a Living Wage employer accredited by the Living Wage Foundation.

WithYou is a drug, alcohol and mental health charity employing over 1,600 staff. With over 80 services across England and Scotland, we provide support and advice without judgement to more than 100,000 people a year. Find out more about us here.

Every year, WithYou in Scotland helps more than 14,000 people to overcome challenges with drugs and alcohol. We are working towards a future free from harm, where anyone seeking help feels welcomed and not judged.

Join us as a Commercial Business Development Manager -Job Description/Person Specification

We are recruiting for a Commercial Business Development Manager for Scotland. This is a key role focused on driving the growth and sustainability of our services. It is an exciting opportunity to join our charity; we have launched Highland Anywhere, the UK's first fully virtual drug and alcohol service and recently retained and grew our largest service in Glasgow.

This role sits within our Business Development and Communications Directorate, an innovative team committed to finding new, impactful ways of connecting with our stakeholders so that we can grow our work and reach more people.

If you are looking to join a forward-thinking, values-driven charity and have the passion and expertise to lead our growth in Scotland, we’d love to hear from you.

Job Description

You will be responsible for the overall operation, leadership and day-to-day running of our business development activity in Scotland.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Project management: leading a project team to produce excellent quality, competitive and financially viable bids.
• Bid writing: contributing to the writing of technical responses, implementation plans and service and staffing models.
• Commercial modelling: developing costed pricing models that reflect specifications, internal cost structures and delivery models.
• Strategic analysis and pipeline development: monitoring market trends, commissioner expectations and competitor positioning to inform our regional pipelines.
• Collaboration: working closely with Directors, Operational Leads and other subject matter experts to prepare for and design service models.
• Compliance and quality: ensuring all models comply with procurement regulations and public sector contracting expectations.

This role is home-based, with travel across Scotland to our services and external events as required. Therefore, you must live in Scotland and have knowledge of the commissioning landscape to be considered for this role. There will also be occasional travel to England for internal meetings. The salary for this role is £35,000 to £43,878, depending on experience.

Company Benefits

• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• An extra day off for your birthday or a special occasion of your choice
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• 2 days paid volunteer leave per year
• Auto-enrollment into We Are With You’s pension scheme
• Access to a Blue Light Card - giving you great savings on big high-street and online brands
• Flexible working opportunities and access to a range of services and resources to support you with your wellbeing
• We have an excellent Refer a Friend scheme which offers you a £500 bonus for any recommendations, any role! Our scheme allows you to recommend your friends and family to work with us and earn a £500 bonus payment for every successful referral you make. Please note, the Refer a Friend scheme is only applicable once your recommended friend has been employed for 6 months

Essential Skills

In your application, we’d be excited to see evidence of:

• Relevant experience in a similar role
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Experience and proven track record in business development, including writing tenders, designing services, producing budgets, developing new products and forming strategic and operational partnerships
• Knowledge of the third sector; health and social care; public health; criminal justice and/or housing business development and tendering processes in Scotland
• Excellent project management and organisational skills, including tender and pipeline planning and management
• Proven experience of writing successful tenders and the ability to write well and to develop others/teams to write well

Interviews are scheduled for 9th and 10th December at our Glasgow city centre office. All reasonable travel costs will be reimbursed.

If you would like to discuss the role further, please get in touch with Becky Harper (hiring manager - Head of Business Development Scotland and North England) at rebecca.harper@wearewithyou.org.uk, Natalia Naranjo at natalia.naranjo@wearewtihyou.org.uk (Head of Business Development South England) or our Recruitment team at recruitment@wearewithyou.org.uk.

Horatio’s Garden is a nationwide charity improving the lives of people with spinal injuries by creating and expertly staffing beautiful gardens.

The Patient Experience Manager will play a key role in helping patients and their families use and enjoy the garden. You will represent Horatio’s Garden in Scotland alongside the Head Gardener ensuring the garden runs smoothly as a thriving, welcoming space. Developing and nurturing relationships with numerous stakeholders is key to the success of this role.

You will join a national team representing seven other gardens across the charity’s existing projects. In the Glasgow garden you will have joint leadership with the Head Gardener. This will require you to have excellent communication and people management skills as you work within the framework of the Charity’s ethos and values. You will have joint line management responsibility for the part-time Garden Coordinator, and you will manage a team of volunteers to nurture the beautiful space for people with spinal injuries and their visitors.

As part of leading the team you will develop and maintain relationships with senior staff, clinical and non-clinical NHS staff, corporate sponsors, funders and colleagues in the Fundraising and Communications teams. You will work closely and collaboratively with the other garden teams and the National Patient Experience Manager to ensure our strategic goals are achieved and best practice shared. You will be managed by the Patient Experience Director.

The gardens have been beautifully designed and maintained, and the role of the garden needs to reflect an appropriate environment for patients and their families at all stages of their stay. From the initial welcome, right throughout their time in the unit and after they have left. Your role will ensure all internal spaces within the garden also reflect a beautifully curated, nurtured and comfortable environment, in line with the charity’s look and feel.

You will be responsible for developing and delivering activities, supported by the National Patient Experience Manager to ensure our high standards are kept, and in collaboration with the wider Spinal Injuries team in Glasgow. The activities need to be patient led, varied and suitable for all needs. They will mainly be held at the weekend or in the afternoons as these are critical times in the garden when most patients are available and often have friends and family to visit. The Patient Experience programme should include seasonal celebrations, social and art and craft activities. External facilitators also deliver workshops and live music performances.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a confident, proactive individual who has outstanding communication and relationship building skills and is efficient and well organised. You will need to be adaptable, friendly and confident working with a wide range of people including people with spinal injuries and their families, NHS staff, volunteers and many different teams within the charity.