To oversee all aspects of the Hamilton District Foodbank operation and ensure alignment to the agreed operating model as follows:

• Recruiting volunteers including interviews, reference checks, disclosure checks (as required), and obtaining signed confidentiality / GDPR agreements
• Recruiting and supporting Duty Co-ordinators
• Organising and facilitating volunteer training
• Ensuring that all volunteers adhere to the confidentiality agreement
• Ensuring that the Foodbank meets Health and Safety standards
• Ensuring that the Foodbank meets Environmental Health standards
• Developing, maintaining and ensuring compliance to policies and procedures (e.g. Safeguarding)
• Maintaining awareness of the benefit system and any changes to it, and understanding and responding to the impact of those changes on the Foodbank operation and future plans
• Communicating with all the relevant people including churches, volunteers, Trussell Trust, Referring Agencies and Committee members
• Ensuring that the Foodbank maintains the online database, website, and social media
• Communicating with local media and positively promoting the Foodbank service
• Organising Foodbank representation at Community events
• Working in partnership with the Salvation Army in Hamilton

Background

We have developed expertise in stimulating interest in green home improvement through community based social marketing, especially in-person events. This report summarises some pilot work in this area. We have since refined our approach and seek to expand it across Glasgow City Region, complemented by traditional and digital marketing.

The Role

This is an opportunity to take a front line role in an expanding climate action enterprise.

The Marketing and Community Engagement Officer will drive demand for green home improvement and our services through community engagement events, online communications and traditional advertising.

In addition, they will gather customer feedback to steer improvements in service design.

Key Responsibilities

• Organise in-person community events including arranging venues, speakers, catering.
• Coordinate our volunteering programme
• Drive engagement through digital marketing including social media and website.
• Coordinate and/or write story-telling content such as case studies and home owner testimonies.
• Produce design content for posters, leaflets, social media,
• Coordinating video content including managing our YouTube channel and creating clips for social media.
• Organise and execute other marketing activities including webinars and exhibition stands.

Monitoring customer feedback.

• Operate within our data protection policy and comply with GDPR.
• Continuous improvement driven by performance metrics

Skills And Experience

Required

• Experience of organising in-person community engagement events such as talks or tours.
• Demonstrable success in driving engagement through digital media, including use of analytics.
• Skilled with design tools such as Canva, Adobe InDesign or similar.
• Confident with IT including Google Workspace/ MS Office, collaboration tools.

Preferred

• Creative skills in designing art content for leaflets, posters, social media.
• Skilled in writing copy.
• Skilled in managing WordPress websites.
• Experience in analysing consumer feedback, consumer personas and product/service development.
• Experience in workshop facilitation, public speaking.
• Driving licence (although we aim to cycle or use public transport whenever practical).

Location

• You should be based within a commutable distance of our office in central Glasgow.
• There will be a mixture of office working, events in the community and flexibility to work from home.
• We serve households and communities across Glasgow City Region.

Schedule

• 4 or 5 days per week, as preferred by the successful candidate.
• This role involves community engagement events in evenings and at weekends, managed with Time Off in Lieu.

About you

We are looking for team members who share our commitment to our aims, mission and values. See more information on the Vacancies page.

You may be…

• looking for a step up or a fresh challenge in a related career path
• making a change of career and bringing transferable skills.
• returning to work after an absence, such as for caring responsibilities.

Legal right to work

You must have a legal right to work in the UK. We are not currently in a position to act as a sponsor.

Every day people with chest, heart and stroke conditions are leaving hospital scared and alone. You can be part of our mission to make sure that there is no life half lived in Scotland.

By joining Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS) as Sunday assistant manager you can be the difference between people just surviving and really living.

You will be part of Scotland’s leading health charity providing support to people with chest, heart and stroke conditions and Long Covid to live life to the full again. Our Community Healthcare Support Service provides access to a range of supported self management and community recovery services to support people across Scotland to manage their health as well as possible and adjust to life after a diagnosis of a chest or heart condition or after a stroke.

We are looking for an enthusiastic Sunday Assistant Manager for our shop in Melrose. To work every Sunday (and may need to flexi up for holiday cover during the week throughout the year). You’d be responsible for leading a team to engage with the community to deliver the set Key Performance Indicators. You will have the autonomy to be innovative in achieving your targets.

CHSS also supports flexible recruitment through Working Families and we are “Happy to Talk Flexible Working”.

In line with our commitment to safeguarding, this role is subject to a Basic Disclosure check. CHSS is committed to equality of opportunity and to providing a service which is free from unfair and unlawful discrimination. We therefore aim to ensure that no applicant, volunteer or member of staff is unfairly treated on the grounds of offending background.

We are recruiting a Café Manager to manage the RNIB Community Café in Edinburgh.

As part of the role, you will lead a small and robust team of volunteers in successfully and profitably managing the operation of the Café.

As Manager, you will also oversee group activities in the building and be a source of information and signposting to community members and partners. The Manager will develop useful links with external organisations such as local suppliers, businesses and community groups, adhering to the most recent government guidance.

Ideally, you should hold Level 2 Food Safety Certification (however, this is not essential as training can be given).

The Manager and team will directly provide support to blind and partially sighted people, ensuring that the Café acts as a resource for community members, campaigns teams and fundraising teams.

What We Offer

RNIB prides itself on being a great place to work with a positive, progressive culture. We offer a wide range of benefits including 26 days of holiday per year (plus bank holidays) which rises with service, enhanced family friendly benefits, a contributory pension scheme with an employer contribution of up to 11% and a rewards platform with employee discounts across over 800 retailers.

For more information on our available benefits, please visit our Benefits of Working at RNIB page