Introducing Community Renewal Trust

Community Renewal is a dynamic and innovative organisation at the cutting-edge of work towards ending persistent poverty in Scotland.

Community Renewal works among deprived communities to develop, deliver and share better approaches to unlocking flourishing lives and flourishing neighbourhoods. These approaches always place people and communities in the lead: listening to them, identifying their strengths, supporting them on their terms, and building their capacity to flourish.

Community Renewal alleviates poverty by engaging and forming trusting relationships with individuals, whole families and whole communities together then supporting them by combining holistic case management (e.g. around income, work, health, wellness) with community development (e.g. forming new community activities/groups). This work is about testing change which can inform policy, be scaled up or replicated to achieve a much greater impact than our direct delivery alone.

THE ROLE

Citywide Caseworker – Edinburgh

The role will be as part of our Next Step City-wide Next Step Team specialising in providing employability and welfare advice support to people presently facing unemployment and who are actively seeking to return to work. The successful applicant will be home-based, working city mainly with clients remotely with some work taking place at community events and outreach locations mainly between 10-3 as required.

We are keen to hear from people with experience or knowledge in Employer Engagement.

Additional Benefits include:

• 4.5% employer pension contribution
• 36 days annual leave including public holidays
• Loyalty scheme with up to 48 additional days leave
• Free Access to Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme and online Health Portal

Are you an experienced Community Development worker with an interest in Climate justice work?

If so, then please see details of the role below

Purpose of role

To work with local people to explore and develop understanding of issues arising from the Climate Crisis.

To support communities to organise, take action and engage on the needs and issues that matter to them.

Help local people to come together to form:

• Action / issue-based groups to identify and challenge the economic, gender and race inequalities that exist within communities.

• Groups of mutual support aimed at building confidence and self-esteem and developing a positive sense of purpose.

Crossroads Youth and Community Association’s work and values are built on the central belief that “everyone had the right to live gloriously: whatever in society prevents this, should be challenged and whatever in the individual helps should be nurtured”

This role will involve working across the community with young people, families and the wider community.

Opportunity to develop your professional skills in a values-led context, supporting a fundamental part of Scotland’s social and economic fabric.

We’re looking for a qualified accountant who values the role of the voluntary sector to be co-opted onto our Board of Trustees and act as our Treasurer. No previous board experience is required.

SCVO is the national body for Scotland’s voluntary sector. Over 3,600 charities, community organisations, and social enterprises are members of SCVO, including grassroots groups, Scotland-wide organisations, and international bodies.

Through influencing and service provision, SCVO seeks to advance the interests of our members and the wider sector, and the people and communities they serve.

We believe that a thriving and effective voluntary sector is vital to Scotland’s economy and society. We support the sector to achieve its ambitions through delivering services, by giving the sector a voice at a national level and promoting and supporting innovation and improvement. Our strategic plan 2023-28 can be found here.

We are actively promoting better diversity of trustees across the voluntary sector, and we need our board to demonstrate diversity of thought, background and experience. We welcome applications for the role of Treasurer from people from ethnic minorities and people with disabilities.

Stirling Council Advice Services is an accredited provider of welfare benefits, money and debt advice under the Scottish National Standards for Advice and Information Providers. The service is also one of the key providers of digital inclusion advice and support in the Stirling area. Stirling Council Digital Inclusion project offers free and tailored help to complete beginners or those looking to improve their digital skills. The team aim to improve the confidence of Stirling Citizens using a wide variety of services online. We are currently recruiting for 2 full-time Digital Inclusion Workers to work within our Digital Inclusion Project as part of the Thrive to Maximise and Multiply Stirling Projects.

• Thrive to Maximise is a programme specifically targeted at parents across the Stirling Council area. The programme sets out to reduce in-work poverty as well as family and child poverty and aims to help families gain an improved financial situation.
• Multiply Stirling is a new community based numeracy programme funded through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund aiming to build the numeracy capacity of people across targeted areas and within targeted groups across Stirling.

The successful applicants will work in partnership with the wider Advice Services Team; as well as the Learning and Employability Team.

Both posts are currently funded until 31st March 2025 and will report to the Senior Digital Inclusion Worker.