Reporting to the Senior Delivery Manager and based at Celtic Park, Glasgow, this role is a vital part of Celtic FC Foundation’s operations. The Project Coordinator will support the delivery of a wide range of community projects, with a strong focus on poverty alleviation and social inclusion. In addition, the role will involve management responsibility, including the supervision of sessional staff or junior team members to ensure effective and consistent project delivery. The post-holder will work closely with colleagues and participants, ensuring the highest standards of safeguarding, integrity and confidentiality, while helping to create a meaningful and lasting impact in the lives of those we support.

Key accountabilities will include:

• Support the planning, coordination, and delivery of community-based projects aligned with the Foundation’s priority areas of poverty and inclusion
• Act as a key point of contact for project participants, providing guidance, support, and signposting as required
• Supervise and support sessional staff or junior team members to ensure high-quality and consistent project delivery
• Collaborate closely with internal colleagues and external partners to achieve project goals and outcomes
• Monitor project performance and participant progress, contributing to reporting and evaluation processes
• Take personal responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children and adults, ensuring all concerns are acted upon appropriately and in line with organisational policy
• Ensure all activities are delivered in accordance with safeguarding, data protection, and health & safety requirements
• Maintain accurate records and documentation in line with organisational standards and upload to our Salesforce CRM system
• Uphold the values and reputation of Celtic FC Foundation at all times, demonstrating professionalism, empathy, and integrity
• Maintain membership of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme for both children and adults, as required by the role
• Ensure all communications with colleagues is professional, appropriate and considerate of individual needs and circumstances
• Actively build and maintain positive working relationships with Colleagues across the Club, ensuring a collaborative approach is adopted at all times
• Treat all colleagues with dignity and respect by ensuring that your behaviour and approach during the course of all workplace activity is inclusive of all backgrounds and abilities and welcomes diverse contributions

Leadership & People

• Provide effective leadership to all direct reports, enabling the continuous development and improvement of team members
• Manage both individual and team performance appropriately, ensuring performance gaps are identified and addressed constructively
• Ensure team members feel valued and recognised by acknowledging and celebrating team and individual successes
• Alongside HR, provide relevant wellbeing support to colleagues and maintain open channels of communication ensuring sufficient opportunity is available for team members to ask for support
• Ensure the health and wellbeing of colleagues is considered in all team tasks, processes and communications

Skills and Experience required:

Essential

• Training or certification in safeguarding, mental health awareness, or trauma-informed practice.
• Demonstrable experience in coordinating or delivering community-based projects, ideally within the third sector or charitable organisations
• Experience working with vulnerable children, young people, and/or adults, including knowledge of relevant safeguarding practices
• Experience of supervising or supporting staff in a delivery setting
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders
• Ability to handle challenging situations with professionalism, including managing conflict or distressed individuals with empathy and appropriate boundaries
• Good organisational and time management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities effectively
• Competence in using Microsoft Office and digital tools for communication and reporting.
• Strong Communication Skills
• Teamwork and Collaboration
• Organisation and Planning
• Problem Solving and Conflict Management
• Safeguarding and Professional Integrity
• Leadership and Supervision
• Community Engagement and Inclusion
• Adaptability and Resilience

Desirable

• Relevant qualification in Community Development, Social Work, Education, Youth Work, Project Management or a related field
• Knowledge of the local community landscape in Glasgow and surrounding areas
• Experience of partnership working with local authorities, schools, or third-sector organisations
• Full, clean driving licence and access to transport

Additional requirements

• Ability to work flexible hours, including weekends, evenings and match days

A fantastic opportunity to come and join the Children First team in East Ayrshire

At Children First our ambition is for every child in Scotland to be safe, loved and well with their family. As a charity we offer emotional, practical, and financial support to help families to put children first and campaign to uphold the rights of every child.

We have two exciting opportunities to be part of either our innovative Restorative Family Group Decision Making Service, or our East Ayrshire Family Wellbeing Service.

Position one: Project Worker - Family Group Decision Making

The team and model of relational and restorative approaches, including Family Group Decision Making, will play a pivotal role in the delivery and development of the service, ensuring high quality relationships with children and families and working alongside our partners to evidence impact. We are therefore looking to recruit a dynamic, experienced individual who can help drive the successful development and growth of this new and innovative partnership.

Previous experience in the delivery of Family Group Decision Making is not essential but you must be able to demonstrate an understanding of the principles and values of the approach. You must also show a commitment to complete accredited training, which will be provided.

This is a part-time position of 28 hours per week.

Position two: Project Worker – Family Wellbeing

In this role you will be working alongside families of school aged children who are experiencing mental and emotional distress and subsequently struggling in school, in the community or at home.

At Children First we work with the whole family, and we see our relationships as the key to our approach in improving wellbeing. We offer families space and time to tell their stories, make sense of their difficulties and help them to find their solutions.

You will have a sound knowledge of the impact of trauma and adversity on parenting and on children’s development, and to promote children’s safety and wellbeing, will meet families at times and places that most suits their needs. This post requires flexibility, which mean daytime, evening and weekend work, in order to offer appropriate level of support to individual families and deliver community events.

This position is full-time 35 hours per week.

What kind of people are we looking for?

If you have experience of working within child protection processes, are committed to restorative approaches, meaningfully involving children and families, and have a professional qualification in a relevant area such as Social Work, Teaching or equivalent in Childcare/Social Care or related area, accredited counselling qualification, or other relevant qualification at SCQF level 9 or higher then we want to hear from you.

Children First along with partners share a determination to act upon the recommendations from The Independent Care Review and deliver The Promise to children and young people. We are also determined that the full incorporation of the UNCRC means that children will have their rights respected in all areas of their lives and will have a real say in the way they are supported. If you share this determination, we would love to hear from you.

Additionally, you:

• will have experience of keeping children safe in their own families
• are fiercely passionate about children’s rights
• think it’s a privilege to work with and on behalf of children and families and,
• are kind and will bring their whole selves to the job: heart and mind

What kind of team member will you be?

Knowing our ambition for children, you will be someone who is:

• resilient, skilled and knowledgeable who wants to transform children’s lives
• determined to support children to stay safely with their own family
• big hearted and courageous
• able to build strong relationships and to manage the tricky conversations
• is compassionate and understanding of trauma
• a cool head and clear minded at times of pressure
• inspiring colleagues and teams to be even better
• an amazing ambassador for children and Children First

Above all else, the most important thing to us is that you are someone who will do the right thing for children and their families at every turn.

Base

You will be based in East Ayrshire with our partners in the HSCP and will travel to connect with other parts of the organisation. You will work on an outreach basis to connect with children and families in communities across East Ayrshire which will require some evening and weekend working.

Salary, Conditions, Pension

We will offer you a competitive salary, generous annual leave entitlement (40 days inclusive of 9 public holidays). ​We have additional benefits such as a cash back health plan, cycle to work scheme, and option to join a ​Credit Union.+

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.

A fantastic opportunity to come and join the Children First team in North Ayrshire

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Family Wellbeing Service in North Ayrshire and an innovative partnership between Children First and CORRA Foundation, working alongside families, building strong relationships, taking an approach that is restorative, relational and trauma informed striving to achieving positive outcomes for families. This service is funded by the Scottish Government and is delivered over a period of 5 years.

We are also determined that the full incorporation of the UNCRC means that children will have their rights respected in all areas of their lives and will have a real say in the way they are supported. If you share this determination, we would love to hear from you.

Our project builds on the voices of the recovery community and our extensive experience in supporting children and families impacted by substance use. We will do this through early help providing community-based whole family support that can be accessed easily in a non-stigmatising way and more acute support for whole families through pathways related to our integrated drug and alcohol recovery service e.g. residential rehabilitation and/ or inpatient detox and rehabilitation.

Our project seeks to:

Ensure children, families and communities affected by substance use in North Ayrshire access early help to prevent crisis and to support the whole family to recover from the impact of substance use.

Reduce the number of people who develop problem drug use.

Promote a whole system’s approach personalised to the specific needs of families impacted by substance use, ensuring that individual’s most at risk, have access to specialist support that aids their recovery.

What kind of people are we looking for?

• have experience of keeping children safe in their own families
• are fiercely passionate about children’s rights
• thinks it’s a privilege to work with and on behalf of children and families and,
• are kind and will bring their whole selves to the job: heart and mind

What kind of Family Wellbeing team member will you be?

Knowing our ambition for children, you will be someone who is:

• resilient, skilled and knowledgeable who wants to transform children’s lives
• determined to support children to stay safely with their own family
• big hearted and courageous
• able to build strong relationships and to manage the tricky conversations
• is compassionate and understanding of trauma
• a cool head and clear minded at times of pressure
• inspiring colleagues and teams to be even better
• an amazing ambassador for children and Children First

Above all else, the most important thing to us is that you are someone who will do the right thing for children and their families at every turn.

Base

You will be based in Irvine, Bourtreehill within our Children First North Ayrshire space and will travel to connect with other parts of the organisation and North Ayrshire HSCP. You will work on an outreach basis to connect with children and families in communities across North Ayrshire.

Salary, Conditions, Pension

We will offer you a competitive salary, generous annual leave entitlement (40 days inclusive of 9 public holidays). ​We have additional benefits such as a cash back health plan, cycle to work scheme, and option to join a ​Credit Union.

Further Information

At Children First, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team that reflects communities across Scotland. Guided by our values, With Love, With Purpose, With Strength, we strive to create a culture where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported to thrive. We actively work to remove barriers to inclusion and promote equity in all aspects of our work. We warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, especially those from marginalised communities, and are dedicated to ensuring a fair and supportive recruitment process.