About Us

The International Association for Community Development (IACD) is a global multi-disciplinary network for professional community development practitioners and others with an interest in community development practice. As an organisation, and collectively as members we are committed to promoting participative democracy, sustainable development, human rights, economic opportunity, equality, and social justice, through the organisation, education, and empowerment of people within their communities, whether these be of locality, identity, or interest, in urban and rural settings.

About the Role

The International Association for Community Development (IACD) is seeking a passionate, experienced, and visionary leader to join us as Strategic Director. This senior role offers the opportunity to shape and deliver on IACD’s 2024–2029 Strategic Plan, ensuring our values and voice are represented on the global stage.

As Strategic Director, you will be responsible for delivering the organisation’s mission, managing operations, guiding international advocacy efforts, and fostering member engagement across diverse communities worldwide.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation and ongoing evaluation of IACD’s strategic goals and global initiatives.
• Champion community development values and amplify practitioner voices—especially those from minority and marginalised groups.
• Strengthen IACD’s role in global policy arenas, including the UN and other multilateral forums.
• Develop sustainable funding strategies and manage budgets and resources effectively.
• Represent the organisation publicly and support IACD’s international network of members and partners through events, forums, and knowledge exchange.
• Provide strategic support to the Board of Trustees and ensure strong organisational governance.

About You

The successful candidate will be a seasoned community development professional with:

• A third-level qualification in community development/community work.
• Significant practical experience in community development and at national policy level.
• Proven leadership experience in strategy, international engagement, and stakeholder management.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and report writing skills.
• Experience working with funders and delivering large-scale programmes.
• The ability to work flexibly across time zones and travel nationally and internationally when required.
• Strong commitment to IACD’s values of inclusion, participation, and global solidarity.

Eligibility:

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK and be equipped to work remotely.

About us

FARE Scotland is a voluntary organisation working within disadvantaged communities throughout Central Scotland. At FARE Scotland we strive to raise people’s aspirations, encourage them to become more involved in their communities, create opportunities for personal development and equip them with the skills required to deal with the demands of 21st century life.

Working at FARE Scotland, you will be part of passionate and hard-working team that aims to improve the lives of the people in the communities we serve.

What you’ll do

We have an exciting opportunity for 2 Employability Keyworkers to join our Employability team which delivers accredited industry training and support to members of the local and wider community to access further education, training and/or employment. You will work closely with the Employability Manager and across the team to ensure high-quality employability support and programme delivery to achieve individual aims for participants across the employability pipeline.

You will provide holistic support to young people and adults that will minimise barriers to employment and offer training to increase skills, development, and support access to further training, and education to allow people to move on to sustained progressions along the employability pipeline.

As part of your role, your main responsibilities will include:

• Designing, delivering, and evaluating training for young people and adults that supports sustained progressions into further education, training, employment, or re-engagement in schools.
• Establishing relationships with key stakeholders including, SDS, local colleges, GCC and local retailers at Glasgow Fort, promoting the employability programme and representing FARE Scotland at external events.
• Liaising with employers to identify job opportunities, and further training or education opportunities within the employability pipeline to meet recruitment targets and outcomes for our Youth Action Fund and Training for Work programmes.
• Designing all referral/induction and training materials and providing an induction and assessment to all participants to identify holistic support to remove barriers.
• Recruitment for programmes and ensuring programme evaluations are completed.
• Undertaking one-to-one goal setting interviews and reviews.
• Delivering training in group settings, using a range of learning materials to accommodate different learning styles.
• Challenging negative attitudes and behaviours whilst motivating individuals to retain focus.
• Ensuring Employability programme trainees get the support that they require to help them remain engaged, focused and progress to their identified goals.
• Supporting participants’ further education and job search activities, personal development, goal setting, identifying, and overcoming barriers, CV development, completing applications, interview skills, and accredited qualifications.
• Providing 52-week post-employment support to achieve sustained employment outcomes, including tracking and database record-keeping.
• Working alongside Youth Workers within school settings to plan and deliver tailored employability support for young people.
• Maintaining up to date knowledge of employment sectors and pre-employment training.

About you

The successful candidate for this role will have:

• Sound knowledge of the national and local policies including No One Left Behind, The Young Person’s Guarantee, the Local Employability Partnership, Training for work initiative, barriers people face to enter employment and the skills to support their development and ability to achieve goals.
• Experience of delivering employability support and training provisions for young people and adults.
• Experience working with young people and adults in the employability sector, supporting sustained progressions.
• An organised and systematic approach to monitoring and reporting.
• The ability to challenge, in a constructive manner, negative attitudes, motivating young people and adults with multiple barriers to employment.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Good knowledge of the employability landscape.
• Excellent IT skills in Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access particularly for database-related work and report writing.
• An HNC or HND in a relevant field, or a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.

Along with the above, we would be looking for an individual who shares, and is able to demonstrate, the organisation’s values of being compassionate, open, collaborative, innovative and driven.

What we can offer

In return, we can offer you:

• Enhanced holiday entitlement
• Christmas shutdown period
• Company Sick Pay
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Death in Service benefit (4 x basic salary)

PlayPeace is recruiting!

We have an exciting job opportunity for a Peer Information and Support worker to deliver our recently funded project; Peer and Collective Power ( ASN Parents). The postholder will be instrumental in developing an online directory of information for parent and other carers of children and young people with additional support needs, bespoke to and informed by our PlayPeace community. This will involve working directly with parents and other carers , primarily as part of the support to our parent carer breather activities.

The post is fixed term for one year from commencement of contract; on a 21 hour per week basis . Salary is £14,400.00 p.a based on a whole time salary of £24,000.

More details are contained in the detailed Job Description and Person Specification attached.

For an informal discussion, or if you have queries regarding the post please text your name and telephone number to 07752227924 to arrange a phone call.