Move On Wood Recycling Sessional Development Worker
- Part time
- Sessional
- On site: 3 New Broompark Edinburgh, Scotland EH5 1RS
- Closing 12th February 2025
- Advertised from 4th February 2025
- Minimum 14 hours, Monday & Saturday with opportunity for additional hrs. £15 per hour.
Role
Move On is an established and successful Edinburgh and Glasgow-based charity supporting people to achieve personal goals and make positive lasting change in their lives. We are seeking to appoint a Development Worker with proven skills and experience in one of our social enterprises based in Edinburgh, Move On Wood Recycling.
Move On Wood Recycling (MOWR) is a social enterprise dedicated to creating positive environmental and social impact. We operate circular services across multiple sectors in Edinburgh and The Lothians; waste wood collections, reclaimed timber sales, upcycled, bespoke furniture and employability training and volunteering opportunities for local and young people in our workshop.
Main job responsibilities:
As a sessional Development Worker, you will be an essential part of the Move On Wood Recycling team alongside staff, volunteers, and young trainees:
- Ensuring that the enterprise operates to a high standard and in a manner that is consistent with the values and purpose of Move On.
- Working closely with the MOWR Operational Manager and other colleagues.
- Attending team meetings and wider Move On meetings, where required.
Your duties will vary and will support MOWR operations day-to-day:
Woodworking/carpentry
- Skills and experience of building wooden furniture products
- Competent with hand tools and machinery
- Responding efficiently and creatively to customers bespoke furniture ideas
- Ensuring furniture orders are built and completed in a timely manner
- Working closely alongside fellow Development Workers in our workshop.
- Processing used wood ready for resale
- Ensuring that health and safety standards are established, implemented and maintained.
Waste wood collections
- Support collections schedule driving our 3.5 tonne caged pick-up truck to numerous locations across Edinburgh and The Lothians to construction sites, businesses & homes.
- Communicating with site managers and customers.
- Handling/loading timber on and off vans.
Customer service
- Serving and communicating effectively with customers in our timber shop.
- Processing orders at sales desk
- Answering call and email queries regarding products, orders and bespoke furniture projects
- processing used wood ready for re-sale, delivering timber, making furniture and working in the shop.
- Deliver customer furniture orders.
Supervision
- To co-ordinate supervision of volunteers and young people in the wood workshop.
- Ensuring all payments relating to training allowances and lunch expenses are recorded accurately and within timescales.
- Operating a trauma informed approach to young people and volunteers working alongside you in the workshop. We have a number of staff who are working at a trauma-informed and trauma-skilled level to train fellow staff.
Key Relationships:
Internal:
- Manager of Move On Wood Recycling
- Director of operations
- Volunteers
- Wider Move On staff team
- Trainees and students on placements
External:
- Builders
- The general public
- Community-based projects and other service providers
- Various referral agencies
Person Specification and Profile
SKILLS QUALITIES and EXPERIENCE
Essential:
- PVG check
- Woodworking/carpentry skills and experience of wood products or similar
- Competent with hand tools
- Excellent communication skills
- Hands-on approach
- High level of motivation and enthusiasm
- An entrepreneurial attitude
- Positive and caring attitude
- In good health and physically fit
- IT skills
- A full, clean UK driving licence
- Experience of recruiting, training and co-ordinating volunteers, especially disadvantaged groups
Desirable:
- Some experience of the construction and/or recycling industries
- Familiarity with the third sector
- Experience ofdelivering accredited training
- Experience working with vulnerable and young people
- Health and safety award
- An interest and/or knowledge of environmental and social issues
Application notes
To apply for our Sessional Development Worker vacancy, please send your CV to
You can also view the vacancy on our website here:Vacancies | Move On Wood Recycling
The deadline to apply is Friday 7th February 5pm.
The Scottish Policy & Research Exchange (SPRE) is seeking new trustees to help shape the organisation as it moves into the next phase of its growth. SPRE exists to support more equitable public governance and positive outcomes for people and the environment in Scotland. We do this through a range of capacity strengthening activities aimed at supporting meaningful connections and learning between researchers, knowledge mobilisers, policymakers and practitioners.
SPRE is a values-led organisation seeking to live these values through our intersectional praxis. We are particularly keen to appoint new Trustees who align with these values and have strengths in any of the following skills and experience:
- Scottish politics and policy.
- Entrepreneurship and start-ups.
- Third sector governance.
- Business development and consultancy.
- Organisational policy development.
- Human resources and people matters.
- Experience as a Treasurer or with the financial governance of small charities.
We aim to recruit 5-7 Trustees, including a new Treasurer. We would welcome applicants with experience in setting up financial systems and good governance in a new, small, organisation.
Top job! Head of Fundraising & Development
- Part time
- £45,000 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Glasgow or Edinburgh
- Closing 26th March 2025
About Scottish Athletics
scottishathletics is the national governing body for athletics in Scotland. Our vision is for everyone in Scotland to have the opportunity to participate in athletics and running and to achieve their personal ambitions.
Our mission is to deliver an integrated, inclusive and adaptable model of athletics and running provision that inspires everyone in Scotland to enjoy the sport and experience personal success. Equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the heart of the work that scottishathletics leads, and the organisation works closely with all stakeholders in athletics across Scotland, to continue improving diversity and create an inclusive culture in the sport, and to be reflective of Scottish society.
Our strategy, Building a Culture of Success (2023-2027), captures the breadth of work that scottishathletics facilitates, from supporting performance athletes on the world stage to providing opportunities for people to participate in the sport within their local community. The member clubs play a crucial role in growing and developing the sport and, along with the volunteer workforce, they are integral to the sport’s future success.
Everyone in Scotland can participate in athletics and scottishathletics strives to continuously evolve to deliver on our vision for the sport.
About Athletics Trust Scotland
Athletics Trust Scotland was launched in 2021. The Trust aims to use the power of athletics and running to transform lives in Scotland and supports people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities across the country to improve their physical health, mental health, social health and wellbeing.
The Trust works closely with national partners scottishathletics and Scottish Action for Mental Health (SAMH), and through the delivery of our Transforming Lives grants, we are supporting athletics clubs, jogscotland groups and other community organisations across Scotland.
The Board of Trustees are led by Chair, Graeme Jack, and supported by our Patron, Eilidh Doyle, and inspiring network of Athletics Trust Scotland ambassadors.
About You
Are you looking for a role which will enable you to make a significant positive impact on the wellbeing of the three most underrepresented communities in athletics and running in Scotland?
scottishathletics collaborates closely with Athletics Trust Scotland to help get Scotland moving, through increased participation in running and more widely athletics. We are looking for an ambitious ‘go getter’ to help us to develop and deliver our fund-raising strategy which underpins our objectives.
The role will involve identifying and securing funding commitments from our three priority sources – grant funding organisations, the corporate community and the running community. You will also engage with the wider athletics community and play an active part in developing wider partnerships to support the organisations objectives
You will be able to demonstrate how you would establish, engage, maintain and develop relationships across these audiences. To support you in delivering the objectives of the role, you will have the full support of ATS Trustees alongside the scottishathletics team.
This is a fixed term role with a desired commitment of between 18 to 30 hours per week, offering hybrid working opportunities. The role can be based in either Edinburgh or Glasgow, at one of the scottishathletics’ offices.
About the Role
Working closely with the Trustees and ambassadors, the Head of Fundraising & Development will lead on the delivery of the Trust’s objectives for 2025-2027 with a specific focus on increasing fundraising across three priority sources:
Running and athletics community
Grant funding
Corporate sponsorships and partnerships
This is an exciting time to work with Athletics Trust Scotland as they enter the next phase of their development and work closely with national and local partners to increase our impact across Scotland. Particular focus is being placed on increasing access and participation for ethnically and culturally diverse communities, people with disabilities and people living in poverty.
Staff
This role will be formally employed by scottishathletics, ensuring alignment with the broader athletics community in Scotland while supporting the Trust’s mission and activities. Athletics Trust Scotland is governed by a committed Board of six Trustees who provide strategic oversight and guidance.
scottishathletics employs 32 members of staff and 24 Club Together Officers.
Place of Work
The role will be based in one of scottishathletics offices located in either the Emirates Arena, 1000 London Road, Glasgow, G40 3HG or the Laurie Liddell Clubhouse, 42 Peffermill Road, Edinburgh, EH16 5LL. Additionally, this role offers a hybrid working arrangement.
Salary
The starting salary offered for the post will be pro-rata £45,000 (FTE). Annual pay awards will be made in accordance with the salary review procedures agreed by the scottishathletics Board of Directors.
Benefits
Enhanced statutory benefits
Hybrid working
Death in Service x 2
Hours of work
The person appointed will be expected to work for a minimum of 18 hours per week. We would like to provide flexibility for the successful candidate and can offer up to 30 hours per week. On a few occasions there may be a requirement to work in the evening and at weekends. The organisation encourages a flexible working approach from all staff, consistent with meeting the needs of the business.
Pension
scottishathletics operates a qualifying group pension scheme for auto-enrolment purposes and will match the successful candidates’ contribution up to a maximum of 6% of salary, including the legal minimum contributions required.
Annual Leave and Public Holidays
The annual leave entitlement for this post is 25 days pro rata. In addition, the public holiday entitlement is 10.5 days pro rata.
Travel and Subsistence
The post holder will be required to travel to meetings within Scotland and occasionally in the UK. Travel and subsistence will be reimbursed at scottishathletics’ current rates.
Probationary Period
All new members of staff will serve a six-month probationary period before their appointment is confirmed.
Notice
This post carries a one-month period to terminate employment after the satisfactory completion of the probationary period.
Moving Medicine Patients Project Manager
- Full time
- £40,000
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 17th March 2025
We have an exciting opportunity for a Moving Medicine Patients Project Manager to join our team.
Moving Medicine is an award-winning initiative of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine UK (FSEM) aimed at improving health through physical activity. It provides healthcare professionals with practical tools and evidence-based resources to promote physical activity in clinical practice. Moving Medicine is our free, award-winning initiative, designed to provide clinicians and allied health professionals with accessible, evidence based, condition specific information to help give advice on physical activity at all stages of a patient’s treatment pathway.
We are expanding our impact through the development of additional Moving Medicine resources for patients. This will include managing the build of a new patient facing Moving Medicine website; the development of resources with our Moving Medicine Clinicians and partners; and working closely with our partner organisation Nuffield Health to demonstrate social impact.
Our partner Nuffield Health is the UK’s largest healthcare charity, driven by its purpose to build a healthier nation. Through our hospitals, fitness and wellbeing centres, and innovative community rehabilitation programmes, we support people to live healthier, happier lives.
FSEM and Nuffield Health’s partnership is based on our shared mission is to educate, encourage, and provide tools for people living with long term conditions to adopt movement as a vital component of their health journey. By improving readiness for change and increasing activity levels, this partnership strives to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases and improve the quality of life for individuals across the UK.
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Project Manager to join our dynamic team.
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Lived Experience Project Worker (Part Time)
- Part time
- £34,314 pro-rata
- Remote: Home based, with some travel where required.
- Closing 28th April 2025
SWAN is an autistic-led Charity run for and by autistic women, girls and non-binary people across Scotland.
The post holder will deliver a range of neuro-affirming services and support for autistic women and non-binary people, as well as training and workshops for professionals and allies wishing to develop their knowledge and understanding of autistic people.
The postholder will have at least 2 years’ relevant experience (e.g. group facilitation, 1-2-1 support, peer support, training delivery and/or working with autistic people or other marginalised communities).
For this Lived Experience role, it is essential that the Project Worker is autistic (by formal diagnosis or self-identified). You will need to be comfortable with openly disclosing and discussing related experiences in group and open online sessions, public and professional meetings and in a training context.
SWAN is a small but very active Charity, so multitasking, time management skills, and the ability to prioritise tasks and function well at busy times are key. The role is interesting and varied and there are opportunities to develop the post in line with your strengths and skills.
SWAN offers staff a neuro-inclusive working environment, and takes a proactive, neuro-affirming approach to adjustments, support and flexible working which seeks to remove barriers and enable you to work to the best of your strengths and abilities.
You can find more information about SWAN on our website and in our Strategy.
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