Do you have the skills and motivation to be part of an innovative team of advocacy workers?

At The Advocacy Project, we pride ourselves on being a great place to work and put the people we support at the centre of everything we do.

We provide independent advocacy for adults across Glasgow and East Renfrewshire. We are driven by our values which are fairness, independence, inclusion and resilience. We offer our staff a generous package of salary, pension, dynamic working, annual leave, CPD, and a wellbeing package.

Are you passionate about human rights, social justice and amplifying the voices of people who are often unheard? Do you bring energy, creativity, and a commitment to empowering communities? If so, we want to hear from you!

We’re looking for a Collective Advocacy Worker to help build and support dynamic, inclusive groups where people with lived experience can come together, speak up, and influence change in services and society.

You’ll help shape collective advocacy opportunities that reflect people’s needs, build confidence and connection, and champion the right to be heard.

What You'll Do:

• Develop and support collective advocacy groups across East Dunbartonshire
• Build relationships with individuals and partner organisations
• Facilitate safe, inclusive group spaces for discussion and action
• Support people to identify shared issues and take collective action

What We’re Looking For:

• A vibrant, compassionate, and imaginative individual
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills
• Experience of community development, group work, or advocacy
• Understanding of equalities, rights-based work, and inclusive practice
• A commitment to working alongside people to create meaningful change

We are a Disability Confident employer.

Partners in Advocacy has established itself as one of Scotland's leading providers of independent advocacy, delivering exceptional advocacy services since 1998.

We are recruiting for our Children's Hearings advocacy team for an Independent Advocate for Dundee (14 hours). You will be joining a busy team supporting children and young people going through the Children's Hearings System. Please note, applicants for this role must be based in Dundee.

Through this role, you will ensure that young people's voices and wishes are heard, enabling them to make informed choices, protect their rights and have a meaningful impact on decisions that affect their lives.

We strongly encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds to apply. If you believe your skills, experience, and expertise align with the criteria outlined in the person specification, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please complete the application form, ensuring that you provide examples of how your knowledge and experience fulfil each aspect of the person specification.

Partners in Advocacy takes pride in being a Disability Confident Employer, fully committed to creating an inclusive and accessible work environment.

The ALLIANCE is excited to be recruiting an Energy Efficiency Outreach Worker!

The post holder will be responsible for developing and delivering our Energy and Efficiency outreach project to Glasgow and West Dunbartonshire and will provide a specialist service to people who often experience complex social circumstances, using agreed, person-centred principles for monitoring, auditing and evaluating programme delivery

The successful candidate for this role should have:

• Experience at delivering advice to a wide range of citizens and be familiar with benefit entitlements as well as showing empathy and understanding of the issues faced by our citizens.
• Knowledge and understanding of the environmental, social and economic problems of deprived areas and the roles of the public, private and voluntary sectors in tackling them.
• Demonstrable experience and knowledge of the provision of advice to low-income households in energy efficiency or related fields.
• Self-motivation and the ability to work with limited supervision.
• The ability to work with a wide range of people and proven experience of working with vulnerable householders, low income and/or other disadvantaged groups, including a strong understanding of the challenges faced by people living in areas of deprivation in relation to living well.
• Tact and diplomacy when liaising with a wide range of organisations.
• A solution-focused approach.
• Non-discriminatory values.
• Proven and highly effective interpersonal and communication skills in working with people on a 1:1 basis and with organisations.
• Excellent influencing, negotiation and motivational skills in order to engage people and to enable them to take up a wide range of community services and activities.
• Excellent networking, recording and information management skills.
• Knowledge of facilitating service improvement and appreciation of different organisational cultures and workforce development.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and on own initiative.
• IT skills in word processing, spreadsheets, email and internet.
• An ability and willingness to travel extensively within the local community and wider area.
• It would be desirable for the candidate to hold City & Guilds Level 3 Award in Energy Awareness or equivalent.

Terms and conditions

This post is a fixed-term contract. This is a full-time role, 35 hours per week, based in Glasgow. The post holder will be required to adopt a flexible approach to working hours as travel throughout Scotland and occasional additional hours may be required. However, this will be reimbursed through the organisation’s Time off in Lieu scheme.

As an ALLIANCE employee you will benefit from:

• 210 hours annual leave (equivalent of 30 days)
• 91 hours of public holidays (equivalent of 13 days) that can be taken flexibly
• Additional leave between Christmas and New Year
• Contributory pension scheme
• Open to flexible working (formal and informal)
• Hybrid working – opportunity to work from home for part of the week
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Enhanced sick pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Learning and development opportunities
• Time off in lieu
• Cycle Scheme
• Carer Positive Employer

The ALLIANCE is a healthy working lives employer and encourages a healthy work life balance and is happy to talk flexible working.

The ALLIANCE recognises that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. Even if you don’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our organisation feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.