We’re on a journey to create fairer communities by facilitating 10 million social entrepreneurs globally by 2030. Do you want to help make this a reality?

We are looking for a talented and values-driven Head of Adult Learning to join our highly skilled, motivated and supportive team in a maternity cover position.

This is a rare opportunity to join an organisation with a global footprint and a deeply local purpose — helping individuals unlock their potential and drive change in their communities. As Head of Adult Learning, you will take on a senior leadership role in shaping how we deliver transformational learning to thousands of social entrepreneurs, community leaders and changemakers.

At the Academy, we believe learning should do more than transfer knowledge — it should change how people see themselves. Our approach is built on practitioner-led, peer- learning, where skilled facilitators — who are themselves social change practitioners — create the conditions for real, human-centred transformation. We support people develop their leadership practice. Please read our manisfesto – if it chimes with you, please get in touch. This is learning that removes barriers, unlocks confidence, and helps people step fully into their purpose.

We’ve seen how powerful this can be — not just in individual growth, but in the collective impact that ripples out when people see their own potential clearly and feel equipped to act on it. Since 2004, we’ve supported over 28,000 adult learners in more than 30 countries, and our ambition is to reach 10 million social entrepreneurs by 2030.

If you have a strong grounding in adult learning and facilitation and share our belief in the power of learning to create lasting social change, we’d love to hear from you.

Job Purpose:

The role plays a pivotal role in championing, embedding, and promoting transformational learning principles, ethos, and skills internally and across the sector, positioning the Academy as a leading provider of transformational learning.

It will lead the sales and delivery team responsible for adult learning programmes, including large-scale contracts and projects and manage key client, funder, and sector stakeholder relationships. The role will ensure the continuous innovation and impact of the adult learning offer, ensuring impactful learning and building the organisation’s reputation for learning excellence and long-term sector influence.

The role will provide leadership, mentorship, and performance management to the Strategic Partnerships and Delivery Leads. It will play an active role in driving and supporting sales, proposals, and funding bids in collaboration with the Sustainability Lead, Strategic Partnership and Delivery Leads and CEO, including attending key sales meetings and pitches.

The post-holder will work at a senior specialist level across the organisation, contributing to the long-term business sustainability, strengthening the organisation’s reputation, and ensuring excellence and innovation in the design and delivery of experiential learning interventions.

Main Responsibilities:

• In collaboration with the Senior Leadership Team, develop and drive the Academy’s business development strategy and implementation plan.
• Take ownership of business development targets and efforts including sales, pitches, and proposals ensuring Adult Learning function financial targets are set and met.
• Build and maintain excellent relationships with clients, funders, partners and sector stakeholders, acting as a champion and ambassador for transformational learning and the Academy.
• Provide strategic leadership of the Adult Learning function, ensuring sustainability, growth, and innovation.
• Champion, embed, and promote transformational learning and development design principles and ethos both internally and across the sector.
• Lead, mentor and manage three Strategic Partnership and Delivery Leads and the Business Sustainability Lead, ensuring high performance and professional development.
• Oversee the quality, design, delivery and impact measurement of all adult learning programmes, ensuring they hold true to the ethos and principles of Academy learning, are impactful, and sector leading.
• Oversee the quality, development, and effective management of the Academy’s adult learning facilitator pool, maintaining high standards of delivery and alignment with the organisation’s learning ethos and values.
• Represent the Adult Learning function at Senior Leadership Team meetings, contributing to broader organisational strategy and decision-making.
• Ensure excellence and continuous improvement and innovation in learning and development service delivery, design, client experience, and impact measurement.
• Be a role model for the organisation’s values, creating a culture that encourages a growth mindset, continuous learning, and professional learning across the Adult Learning team and wider organisation.
• Model and champion the organisation’s values, culture, and commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI).

For a full set of criteria please download the recruitment pack below.

Organisation profile:

At the Social Enterprise Academy, we believe social entrepreneurs play an essential role in changing the world.

We strengthen their role in local communities through transformational learning programmes that will increase their community impact.

Our programmes are accredited, responsive to learner needs, and are delivered by experienced Facilitators who are social change leaders themselves.

Since 2004, we have delivered over 1,900 learning programmes to 28,000+ learners in over 30 countries. We have also engaged over 55,000 young people around the world, using social enterprise as a tool to help them reach their full potential and create positive change in their communities.

Care Support Scotland is on the move – join us to shape the future of homelessness services in a modern, values-driven organisation.

We’re seeking a strategic and compassionate leader to join us as Head of Homelessness Services, a pivotal role within our management team. As we conclude a major organisational transformation and embark on our new five-year strategy, this role will lead high-impact services and help drive innovative change.

About the Role

This new senior leadership post oversees our homelessness services, including temporary and emergency accommodation and youth housing support. You’ll lead a management team and support 70+ colleagues delivering services worth over £2.5m annually.

You’ll play a central role in shaping and delivering our homelessness strategy, ensuring services are trauma-informed, psychologically safe, and designed around the people we support.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop managers and teams across a multi-site division
• Drive strategic development, service innovation, and contract performance
• Embed psychologically informed practice and a culture of learning and accountability
• Build and maintain strong relationships with commissioners, partners, and stakeholders
• Ensure services are high quality, financially sustainable, and aligned with organisational values
• Take a key role in safeguarding and risk management across services

What We’re Looking For

• A skilled, emotionally intelligent leader with experience in homelessness, housing, or closely related fields
• Strong strategic thinker with proven experience leading distributed teams
• Confident with budgets, service development, quality assurance, and compliance
• Able to work at pace, spot problems and opportunities, and deliver real solutions
• Strong communicator who thrives on collaboration and developing others
• Registered or eligible for SSSC registration as a Housing Support Manager
• Car and driving licence required.

You don’t need to have held a ‘Head of’ role before, if you’ve got multi-site leadership experience, a deep understanding of homelessness services, and the drive to make a difference, we want to hear from you.

Why Join Us?

• Lead transformational change in a dynamic, high-trust environment
• Join an ambitious and compassionate team with big plans for the future
• Enjoy flexible working and real autonomy in your role
• Help shape service strategy and influence national practice
• Be part of an organisation that values kindness, inclusion, and continuous learning

Interested? Let’s Talk.

Get in touch with Jack Rillie, CEO, for an informal chat:

Jack.rillie@caresupport.scot

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.

Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland (CHSS) is on an exciting journey to extend its influence and support across Scotland, aiming to reach over 175,000 people per year living with chest, heart, and stroke conditions. With a bold and ambitious strategy, CHSS is dedicated to ensuring that no life is half lived, advocating for, and providing support to those in need.

To spearhead this mission, CHSS seeks to appoint a Head of External Engagement and Peer & Participation. This critical role is at the heart of CHSS's strategic plan to enhance its community health care support services, amplifying our relationships, reach and income.

The role will be responsible for:

External Stakeholder Engagement

The role will be responsible for delivery of our external engagement strategy, implementing comprehensive engagement strategies with stakeholders and embedding an external engagement culture across the organisation.

To deliver our No Life Half Lived Strategy we need to increase our relationships, reach and income through identifying new and amplifying our existing external stakeholders.

The role will lead on mapping, building and maintaining an extensive network of NHS, Health & Social Care, Primary and Secondary Care and Third Sector partners to promote our CHSS No Life Half Lived and Community Health Care offer.

Evidencing the value, we can contribute to their strategic and operational ambitions to help us reach everyone who lives with our conditions who needs us.

Our ambition is to be fully recognised as the leading provider of supported self management through our Community Health Care Support Model in Scotland by 2028.

Peer & Participation

The role will also lead our participation and engagement function and ambition to expand our peer reach from 3,000 to 10,000 over the next 3 years.

Leading on our Participation and Involvement Framework, ensuring that all of our activities are informed by those affected by our conditions and embedding the lived experience across the organisation and services.

The role functions at both strategic and operational levels to ensure that there is early engagement, connection and long-lasting buy-in from both internal and external stakeholders, as new and creative solutions are developed, proposed, implemented and evaluated.