We are looking for a Youth Engagement Officer to play a critical role in making sure that young carer and young adult carer voices are heard. We are looking for a creative, inclusive worker who is equally comfortable working directly with young people, as they are telling truth to power.

This important role will support a diverse range of young people, delivering and supporting young carers and young adult carers to engage in the Scottish Youth Parliament, the media and other key stakeholders.

In this role you will be responsible for the development and delivery of our flagship event, the Scottish Young Carers Festival. Working with our partners at Scottish Government, you will design an event programme for over 500 young carers and their workers. This will include activities in consultation, wellbeing and information, and most importantly, be lots of fun.

To have an informal chat about the role please feel free to contact Nicola Bell at scotland@carers.org.

The Community Development Officer (CDO) will develop mechanisms to engage communities of place and interest with SCOTLAND: The Big Picture’s rewilding projects, with particular emphasis on engaging communities with rewilding taking place within our Northwoods Rewilding Network.

Specifically, the CDO will work with communities and support them to:

• Co-create community benefit packages funded by private investment.

• Learn more about local nature restoration projects, improving understanding of rewilding.

Ultimately, this role will support more people to become informed about and involved with rewilding via recreational and educational activities across Scotland.

See the job description, available for download below, for the duties and responsibilities associated with the role, as well as the experience, skills and attributes we are seeking.

Organisation profile

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture (SBP) is a charity that works to drive the recovery of nature across Scotland through rewilding, in response to the growing climate and biodiversity crises. Our vision is of a vast network of rewilded land and water, where wildlife flourishes and people thrive.

We are a small, friendly, agile and progressive team that works in collaboration with many different interest groups to:

• Drive support for rewilding

• Commit more land and water to rewilding

• Return missing species

• Develop rewilding business

Please see our website for more information on our work: scotlandbigpicture.com.

Building Funding Capacity Programme

CEMVO Scotland has an exciting new opportunity to be part of a programme that is making a difference to the Ethnic Minority (EM) third sector. We are working in partnership with The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF), to build the funding capability of the sector. As part of the programme, in the first year, we distributed around £142 000. For the next two years we will be distributing £400 000 a year. Working as a team, your role will be to help manage the Ethnic Minority Development Fund, provide one to one funding support to EM organisations as well as capture learning and share intelligence about the sector with the TNLCF.

Main Purpose of the job

To provide funding capacity building support to the EM (ethnic minority) third sector organisations and community groups across Scotland.

Provide support to organisations applying for the Ethnic Minority Development Fund (EM-DF) managed by CEMVO Scotland on behalf of The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF).

Manage the Knowledge and Learning Network space to encourage collaboration, intelligence gathering and mutual learning between TNLCF and the EM third sector.

Full Job Description can be downloaded below.

Beatroute is a community-led music and arts charity based in Balornock, in the North East of Glasgow. From its premises 'The Beatroute Arts Centre', the organisation offers free, high-quality creative and holistic activities for local community with a particular emphasis upon young people and vulnerable community groups (such as older people and young people/adults with disabilities). Beatroute aims through its member-led programmes to improve quality of life for local people and to increase free learning opportunities for both young people and adults in an area sited as being within the 5% most impoverished regions in Scotland (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation Analysis 2020), addressing the 'poverty gap' and advocating for a fairer and more equal society.

Main Purpose of Job: To deliver the adult engagement programme at the Beatroute Arts Centre and to work under the advisement of the Project Manager in the planning and development of all member-led activities.

*Beatroute Arts is currently trialling a 4-day working week which results in a percentage uplift in salary for part-time staff, rather than a reduction in hours. If this trial is to be continued beyond the trial period, this uplift will be reflected in contract for this post. To be discussed further at interview.