PURPOSE OF POST:

• To effectively coordinate the delivery of all trainee activity across multiple Giraffe sites
• To build and maintain strong relationships with partner organisations
• To effectively manage the recording, tracking and reporting of all trainee activity.
• To organise and facilitate all follow up support as required
• Ensure effective practices and procedures are in place, providing staff training as required

MAIN DUTIES:

Strategic/ Operational:

• Drive internal projects and activities to support and enhance the trainee journey
• Develop new initiatives and partnerships to provide excellent outcomes for trainees
• Build and maintain strong working relationships both internally and externally
• Provide verbal and written reports as required by the Chief Executive and for the Board

Financial:

• Work closely with the Operations Manager/ CEO to oversee budget for activities and trainee focused projects

Trainees:

• Manage pipeline of trainee referrals, ensuring individuals are matched with appropriate opportunities based on goals and support needs
• Act as the main point of contact for trainees before, during and after their placement, offering advice and information face to face and by telephone/ email
• Oversee a caseload of 30-40 trainee placements at any one time
• Write/ share support plans with wider team for each new trainee
• Provide hands on support daily to ensure each trainee gets the most out of their experience, and to support the wider staff team
• Regular communication and interaction with referrers, parents, carers and external services to support individual journeys
• Organise and oversee all formal training (both in house and external) e.g. Modern apprenticeships, food hygiene, first aid etc.
• Support individuals with their progression to positive destinations e.g. into employment/volunteering or further education/training
• Complete all database data entry as required, ensuring correct processes are followed at each stage of the trainee journey
• Provide reports including case studies as required

Volunteers:

• Work with the Activities & Volunteer Coordinator to assess and monitor volunteer requirements for all trainee related activity
• Assist with volunteer meetings, inductions, training and reviews

HSEQ:

• Write and update risk assessments as required
• Uphold and implement all policies and procedures throughout all aspects of the work of the organisation
• Identify and organise staff training

General

• Contribute to the impact of the organisations functions through improving internal systems and identifying and implementing cost and time saving measures
• Be committed to the work we do, always representing the organisation to the best of your ability
• Work in accordance with the organisation’s policies and procedures
• Always follow and represent the culture of the organisation through your work

MAIN WORKING CONTACTS

Internal: Chief Executive, Operations Manager, Executive Chef, Café Manager, Head Chef, Volunteer & Activities Coordinator, wider team

External: Referrers, partner agencies, parents/ carers, local third sector networks and contacts, local authority, statutory services

OTHER DUTIES

The job description is a broad picture of the post at the date of preparation. It is not an exhaustive list of all possible duties as it is recognised that jobs change over time. Should the duties change radically then the post and grading will be reviewed.

ANNUAL LEAVE

29 days per annum on appointment increasing to 34 days upon 3 years’ service.

LOCATION

The successful candidate will be required to work across all Giraffe sites, including our café on South Street, Community Kitchen in the Friarton area of Perth, and our office building which is also located in Friarton. There will be a requirement to occasionally work offsite to support trainees and provide training/ information sessions to partner organisations.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the University of Stirling Students’ Union as Student Representation Coordinator to help deliver key academic and democratic activity in line with the charity’s aims and objectives and core responsibility. You will work closely with our elected student leadership and Student Voice Manager to establish relationships with university staff positioning strong student voice across the University. You will help the Union improve meaningful student engagement building effective student voice mechanisms across campus physically and digitally. You will take a lead role in the administrative aspects of our democratic process, from small committees to large student meetings helping to ensure that students are able to influence their learning and environment at all levels.

About Us

Stirling Students’ Union is the representative student body at the University of Stirling. We are a registered charity and exist to support students getting the best degree, helping students make friends, supporting students when they need support and building skills for the future. We do this by supporting academic reps, providing volunteering opportunities, societies and sports clubs. We also offer support, employability skills, advice and opportunities to influence our sustainability work. We are proudly student led and each spring elect four full time paid students to lead our work: President, Vice President Communities, Vice President Education and Sports Union President.

About You

We’re looking for a talented and passionate individual to join our organisation. You’ll be driven, using your initiative to support a wide range of organisational initiatives, programmes and projects. Specific duties of the role include:

Student Voice & Representation

• Coordinate an effective Academic Rep programme which supports and empowers students to raise issues and highlight good practice to continually improve the student experience.
• Organise, plan, develop and maintain a database of student academic representatives and identify any gaps in representative coverage.
• Design and deliver digital and in-person training for student representatives.
• Ensure that all academic Divisions and Faculties have access to student representation and that these structures effectively contribute student input.
• Contribute to student organising approaches for greater levels of student voice recognition.
• Organise, coordinate and administer the Union’s democratic process, including; zone and committee meetings, general meetings, and other relevant meetings as forums for student leaders to represent the student voice, ensuring they receive effective support.
• Support analysis of feedback data such as NSS to help plan and support the Union’s targeted approach to effective student representation.
• Provide insight, perspective, positive challenge and context to elected leadership on matters relating to student voice and representation.
• Support the various Union departments in building evidence-based systems to manage student feedback and enable our elected Student Officers to be impactful advocates for our members.
• Have lead responsibility for the delivery of RATE, the students’ union’s annual student-led teaching awards, including administration, logistics and event delivery.
• Ensure that an annual report is produced reflecting on student nominations in the RATE awards.

Democracy

• Contribute to stronger and accessible Union approaches to student democracy and change making.
• Contribute to the continued development of stronger, accessible and inclusive Union approaches to representation, student democracy and change making in line with good practice and with high levels of student engagement
• Champion student democracy, identifying opportunities to improve engagement, contributions and turnout.
• Develop relationships for effective knowledge transfer and good practice with other students’ unions and NUS.
• To monitor, evaluate and report on democratic activity.
• Coordinate voter activity in planning logistics of elections and democratic engagement.
• Organise and lead the Union’s campus presence during election periods, including organising candidate briefing, hustings and voter outreach.

Health Wellbeing & Sustainability

• Promote and evaluate student wellbeing through engagement with student representatives.
• Plan and take forward projects and campaigns that aim to use engagement and campus communities as a method of improving Health & Wellbeing whilst positively impacting on the student experience.
• Engage with Union, University and national campaigns and initiatives for establishing healthy and resilient student communities.
• Embed innovative practices in engaging student representatives to with sustainability opportunities.

Finance & Funding

• Work with the Student Voice Manager and Finance Manager to ensure representative and democratic budgets are set and managed appropriately.
• Oversee the effective use of campaign, activity and officer training budgets.
• In collaboration with Union colleagues support student celebration events as and when necessary.

Why apply?

At Stirling Students’ Union every day is different. If you like variety and would like to utilise your skills and experiences to make a difference within a fast-paced environment, then this could be the job for you. With a competitive salary for the non-profit sector, there’s plenty of reasons to consider building a career with us.

If you’re a passionate and driven individual, exciting by the opportunity to create change and make an impact as part of a dynamic organisation then we’d love to hear from you.

We are looking for someone with vision and enthusiasm who can work with us to enable, support, and grow our existing Christian ministry with young people in the church, local schools, and within the wider community; and to explore new potential for outreach, both in person and online.

JOB CONTEXT – ABOUT STRATHENDRICK BAPTIST CHURCH (SBC)

SBC is a small and informal church in the heart of rural Stirlingshire, meeting in Balfron village hall. We have around 50 regular attendees with around 20 of those being children and teenagers, from Balfron and many of the surrounding villages. It was founded around 35 years ago, has never had a formal ‘minister’, and is led by a team of volunteer men and women who jointly take responsibility for the life of the church.

SBC is a community of believers who value loving and serving each other in day-to-day life. Our vision is to be a Spirit-filled and empowered witnessing community, based on Acts 1:8. We believe that relationships are key to developing opportunities to share the Gospel and as adults seek opportunities in daily life to do so. However, we are acutely aware that our young people need discipleship and encouragement in their own faith in order to be confident to share it with others. We also have wide open opportunities within our local school (the High School for the whole rural area is located in Balfron) and community, yet at present do not have the capacity to do the many things that we feel God is calling us to do.

JOB DESCRIPTION – ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Role Description

The Youth and Outreach Worker will be required to:

• Lead, oversee and grow an effective youth ministry at SBC that reaches into the wider community and local schools. (SBC currently hosts regular ‘Prayer Spaces in Schools’ in the local High School. There is currently no regular Christian group in the school, but SBC has been invited to host one (e.g. Scripture Union) – what an exciting opportunity!
• Develop the youth ministry such that young people can both come to faith and flourish as enthusiastic disciples. He or she will be expected to model a lively and committed faith in Jesus Christ, that impacts all areas of life, and be an active member of the worshipping community at SBC.
• Increase church capacity for all age outreach by leading and co-ordinating events such as Alpha Courses and Holiday Clubs. The village currently has no regular youth group or toddler group, so opportunities abound!
• Lead, develop, encourage, and coordinate a committed and able team of volunteers to accomplish these goals – providing an overall vision and leading a strategy to achieve this.
• Engage in post-covid society online with regular uploading of content to website and social media, making connections to local web pages and raising the profile of SBC online locally.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead: To oversee an effective and growing youth ministry. The Youth and Outreach Worker will have overall responsibility for implementing a strategy to achieve this goal, working closely with volunteers and ministry leaders, as well as the Leadership Team of SBC.
• Care: To ensure excellent pastoral care for the young people and providing support and encouragement to the ministry volunteers.
• Plan: To work with the volunteer leaders to plan and organise successful programmes of groups and events, ensuring necessary administrative tasks; record-keeping; budget-management and communication are undertaken to the necessary high standard.
• Initiate: To create and deliver new events and initiatives as appropriate that cohere with the wider vision and strategy of the SBC.
• Motivate: To encourage the volunteers that enable the ministries to function effectively. This will include recruiting new volunteers, running relevant volunteer training and managing volunteers.
• Witness: To explore the potential for new ways of outreach in the community. To develop initiatives and cooperate with others in the local area as appropriate to reach out to unchurched youth and other age groups in Balfron and surrounding villages.
• Administrate: Ensure all youth ministry activities are well organised, properly administered, and relevant legislation and SBC polices are adhered to (such as Health & Safety, Safeguarding and GDPR) and relevant Risk Assessments completed.
• Communicate: To regularly update the youth and their parents making them aware of any relevant information. To ensure good lines of communication with the volunteers, ministry leaders and other staff. The Youth and Outreach Worker will update the Leadership Team on a monthly basis and will meet fortnightly with their line manager.
• Create: To create/upload online content that helps to engage with those who do not/cannot engage with us in person both on our website (under construction) and social media. To make connections to local web pages and seek ways to raise the profile of SBC online locally.
• Cooperate: To maintain and develop links with other Churches and the local High School. Liaising and where appropriate partnering with other youth leaders and supporting networks. To undertake other tasks, commensurate with the post as required by SBC Leadership Team.

Responsible to: SBC Leadership Team (volunteer only), of which one will act as line- manager.

Due to the nature of this role, this post is subject to an occupational requirement that the applicant be a practicing Christian under Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010.

SBC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The post holder will be required to take care to safeguard their own safety and that of others with whom they work and to co-operate with those designated with responsibility for health and safety.

The successful applicant will be subject to PVG checks with Disclosure Scotland.

Are you passionate about creating a positive student experience? Do you thrive in dynamic environments where no two days are the same? If so, join us at the Highlands and Islands Students' Association (HISA) as the Local Coordinator for Orkney & Shetland!

Why you’ll love this role:

• Be the face of HISA at UHI Orkney, engaging with students and stakeholders to enhance student life.
• Work closely with student officers and staff to bring student-led initiatives and events to life, from Freshers to club development.
• Enjoy a flexible hybrid working model—3-4 days on campus, with the option to work from home outside term time.
• Collaborate with a supportive team to drive student engagement, deliver impactful campaigns, and shape student representation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the go-to person for students, encouraging involvement in HISA activities.
• Support a range of exciting projects, including elections, Freshers’ events, student clubs, and societies.
• Build relationships with staff and stakeholders to ensure students’ voices are heard and valued.
• Provide advice and signposting for students seeking academic and pastoral support.
• Assist with the smooth running of the Student Voice Representative system.

What we’re looking for:

• Strong communication skills and a passion for student engagement.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience in a student-facing role or similar will be a plus.