Top job! Head of Development
- Full time or Part time
- £37,395
- Remote: Scotland. Some travel to other areas in Scotland is likely to be required, while keeping our carbon footprint down following CES’ environmental policy.
- Closing 19th September 2024
- Advertised from 28th August 2024
- 28 to 35 hours per week with potential for flexible working/job share.
Role
Community Energy Scotland is recruiting for a Head of Development. The Head of Development role is vital to CES’ continuing function as a leading community energy development charity. It requires creativity, excellent networking and project development skills, foresight in identifying and accessing project funding opportunities and the ability to construct compelling funding bids. We’re looking for a colleague who will be highly committed to CES and our mission, experienced in either development and fundraising in the community and third sector and/or community energy and who will be able to work effectively on their own and in a team context.
Application notes
An application pack can be downloaded below or from our website.
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Top job! Head of Service (Enterprise and Learning)
- Part time
- £45,000 – £50,346 pro-rata
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 23rd September 2024
AWS Executive are working in partnership with Space to appoint their Head of Service (Enterprise and Learning) based The Broomhouse Hub in Edinburgh. This is a part time role 21 hours per week, over 3 days.
Space @ The Broomhouse Hub is a Scottish Award-nominated charity championing community development and bringing people together.
Job Purpose
- To be a key member of Space Management Team, providing leadership and building positive working relationships across the organisation, and externally.
- To develop and lead on Space Enterprise and Learning strategy, working collaboratively with the Board of Trustees and sub committees to deliver sound advice across all areas of responsibility, and contribute towards strategic decision making.
- To oversee the day to day operations across front line projects, bringing stability and resilience, enabling any growth and improvement that may be required in order to deliver on our strategic objectives, now and in the future.
- To drive income generation, building an understanding across the organisation of the need for successful commercial projects.
Key Responsibilities:
Delivery
- Set ambitious income targets for Enterprise and Learning services, identifying market gaps and trends, delivering sustainable commercial ventures which are both financially and environmentally sustainable.
- Contribute to the regular review of the needs within Space services, planning and delivering the implementation of any new business opportunities across the organisation.
- Working with the CEO and the wider Management Team to deliver the organisation wide strategy for Space.
- Contribute to the continual review and delivery of the organisation's Standard Operating Procedures, Risk Assessments and Risk Management Strategy.
- Ensure efficient reporting systems are in place for accurate data gathering to enable informed decision making.
- Ensure Enterprise and Learning services meet all statutory and regulatory requirements as a charity, company and service provider. Ensure that all data is kept and processed securely and in line with Data Protection Act and GDPR.
- Engage with the communications team to raise awareness and raise the profile of our work by sharing positive, impactful stories.
- Support the effective governance of Space by engaging fully with all relevant governance bodies and processes.
- Ensure Space is appropriately represented across all relevant networks, partnerships and collaborations.
Leadership and people management
- Provide line management to Enterprise and Learning managers in accordance with Space values and people policies, ensuring all direct reports and their teams have the support, information, skills and learning opportunities to be highly effective in their roles.
- Hold regular individual 1:1 meetings with line reports and provide coaching, mentorship and performance management.
- Provide direction and strategic support to line reports on Enterprise and Learning annual planning processes including service work plans and budget control.
- Be a role model to all staff across the organisation and provide leadership support to other members of management.
- Encourage all staff to engage and contribute constructively to matters across the organisation.
- Comply with organisational HR policies and employment law.
- Continually monitor and assess the effectiveness and efficiency of Enterprise and Learning services, identify opportunities for growth and development, writing the business cases for any adjustments and managing the change process.
Finance and Fundraising
- Be financially accountable for all Enterprise and Learning services, ensuring Project Managers have distinct budgets, and understand their responsibilities and targets.
- Work with the fundraising team to research potential new income streams, ensuring funding is in place for all areas of responsibility
- Keep abreast of sector knowledge and standards in order to inform practical funding bid submissions.
- Nurture relationships with existing funders, ensure all agreed conditions are met and data requested is provided.
Area Coordinator
- Full time
- £28,118
- On site: The post will be based in Kirkcaldy, but you must be willing to travel throughout Fife, a driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential for this role.
- Closing 18th September 2024
At Fife International Forum we work to engage with and support members of international communities to deal with the many challenges faced in health, social and the economic environment empowering and enabling families to successfully establish themselves in Scotland.
We have exciting opportunities for an Area Coordinator to join our established team.
We are looking for a personable, organised, and creative individual with good attention to details, a passion for delivering high-quality support, and good IT and administrative skills. You will have demonstrable leadership skills, including integrity, self-discipline, communication and people skills, trustworthiness, teamwork, conflict management, problem solving, sound judgement, initiative, and decision-making. The initial responsibilities of this varied role will include managing staff, creating, and maintaining work plans and programme schedules to deliver programmes of activities. You will also be required to prepare for and facilitate our Employability Skills Programmes in collaboration with other Area Coordinators. This is a very varied and responsible role, and the successful candidate will work as part of a small, friendly, forward-thinking team delivering a role with a purpose that benefits migrants and refugees in Fife.
The successful candidate will be expected to have a good command of English, both written and oral be able to communicate effectively with people whose first language is not English.
Community Renewal Trust is a values-led, dynamic and innovative organisation at the cutting-edge of work towards ending persistent poverty in Scotland. With 45 staff in three neighbourhoods and running two social enterprises there is always lots of impact and interesting learning.
Community Renewal works among deprived communities to develop, deliver and share better approaches to proactively find the right people in the right places where transformative and empowering work can make the most difference. These approaches always place people and communities in the lead: listening to them, identifying their strengths, supporting them on their terms, and building their capacity to flourish.
Community Renewal alleviates poverty by engaging and forming trusting relationships with individuals, whole families and whole communities together then supporting them by combining holistic case management (e.g. around income, work, health, wellness) with community development (e.g. forming new community activities/groups). This work is about testing change which can inform policy, be scaled up or replicated to achieve a much greater impact than our direct delivery alone.
A set of core values guides all the work of Community Renewal:
• TRUSTING – Our impact is built on choosing to place trust in people.
• TRUSTWORTHY – Our trustworthiness is what makes our relationships grow.
• LEARNING – Our charity is about learning so we celebrate success but also appreciate failure
• BUILDING ON STRENGTHS – Our aim is always to build on strengths: we reject paternalism
• ALONGSIDE COMMUNITIES – Our aim is always to stay alongside people for as long as it takes.
• ACHIEVING PREVENTION – Our choice is to be proactive so we can achieve prevention, build resilience and find the right people at the right time.
• INSPIRING TRANSFORMATION – Our focus is always inspiring towards transformation, rather than incremental change.
This role is part of the Community Renewal Lifting Neighbourhoods Together team. This team brings together community workers and transformative caseworkers with specialist knowledge of different ways to support people in deprived neighbourhoods – for example welfare rights, employability, community food and health/mental health.
A five year grant from National Lottery Community Fund is core to enabling this team to operate in a different methodology which is deeply aligned with Community Renewal Trust’s core approach and values as described above.
This role is a fixed term activity to:
- Recruit a cohort of additional volunteers to support activities and services in the community.
- Ensure the best possible support is available to existing volunteers in the area to consider their needs and aspirations.
- Create an effective volunteer recruitment, on-boarding and retention process and increase knowledge in the team of these topics.
- Provide training and support training to volunteers in leading listening conversations and holistic conversations.
- Learn from work in Walker to make good use of volunteers in a Lifting Neighbourhoods Together approach and share this with the team.
Citywide Caseworker – Employment specialist
- Full time or Part time
- £26,438 – £28,397
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 13th September 2024
Community Renewal is a dynamic and innovative organisation at the cutting-edge of work towards ending persistent poverty in Scotland.
In keeping with our atmosphere of trusting and valuing our staff we offer generous benefits, policies and a flexible approach to working.
Community Renewal works among deprived communities to develop, deliver and share better approaches to unlocking flourishing lives and flourishing neighbourhoods. These approaches always place people and communities in the lead: listening to them, identifying their strengths, supporting them on their terms, and building their capacity to flourish.
Community Renewal alleviates poverty by engaging and forming trusting relationships with individuals, whole families and whole communities together then supporting them by combining holistic case management (e.g. around income, work, health, wellness) with community development (e.g. forming new community activities/groups). This work is about testing change which can inform policy, be scaled up or replicated to achieve a much greater impact than our direct delivery alone.
The role will be as part of our Citywide Next Step Team specialising in providing employability and welfare advice support to people presently facing unemployment and who are actively seeking to return to work. The successful applicant will be working with clients across the city both in community settings and remotely taking an active role at job fares and setting up training sessions for clients. We are keen to hear from people with experience in Employer Engagement.
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