We are seeking to appoint a well-organised, self-motivated, and flexible professional, with strong administrative and organizational, to assist and support the Director of Corporate Services with a broad range of administrative and operational duties and to support colleagues across the wider organisation, including our offices in Africa.

The Business Support Officer will be responsible for ensuring transparent and efficient office administration and operational activities contributing to the achievement

of Water Witness’s overall objectives.

S/he will be responsible for general administrative and operational duties including, support to the Senior Leadership Team and other staff, facilities and asset maintenance, supporting meetings including correspondence, convening, and preparing material and documentation, as well as taking minutes and tracking and chasing actions as required. The post holder will also support the setting up and management of contact databases and filing systems and management of our media and photo library. They will also assist the CEO and SLT with diary management.

The Business Support Officer will be based in our Edinburgh headquarters. Some hybrid working and international travel may be required. If you are looking for an exciting opportunity to use your experience and skills to support positive change in the world, then we urge you to apply.

Join us in making a difference!

Scottish Huntington’s Association is the only charity in the country exclusively dedicated to providing expert and personalised support for those impacted by Huntington’s disease.

We are seeking a proactive, confident and dynamic individual with experience in event fundraising who shares our values as an organisation and is driven to make a difference. Your role will play a vital part in our Community and Events Income Generation Team, helping to realise our vision of providing the best possible care and support for everyone impacted by Huntington’s disease in Scotland.

In this role, you will manage both third-party and Scottish Huntington’s Association-organised events from start to finish, which include runs, walks, abseils, zipslides, firewalks, and our flagship event, Dance 100.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Event creation: Conceptualising and planning engaging fundraising events.
• Marketing: Promoting events effectively to reach a wide audience.
• Participant recruitment: Attracting and securing participants to raise funds in aid of Scottish Huntington’ Association
• Stewardship: Ensuring participants feel valued and appreciated.
• Timely execution: Delivering all event tasks on schedule and according to annual plans and budget.

Your goal will be to create positive experiences that generate essential unrestricted income, ultimately transforming one-time event participants into lifelong supporters.

If you are passionate about event management and eager to connect with supporters while collaborating with communities to raise funds for a meaningful cause, this opportunity is perfect for you.

We offer:

• Workplace pension scheme
• TOIL system
• Childcare Voucher Scheme
• 25 annual leave days and typically 12 public holidays per year (pro rata)
• Note: Your annual leave and public holidays are combined, with four mandatory public holidays that must be taken from your entitlement on 25 and 26 December, and 1 and 2 January each year.
• Staff loyalty scheme: Employees with four completed years of service are entitled to an extra day for each additional year served, up to a maximum of five days.
• Flexible working options to support our staff and promote inclusive working practices.

Place of work

This position follows a home-working model, with the option for a hybrid arrangement from our National Office located at Business First, Burnbrae Road, Paisley, PA1 2FB. You will be required to travel on occasion to support fundraising efforts. A full driving licence and daily access to a car are essential requirements for this role.

Working hours

The is a part-time role (30 hours). Some hours will need to be worked outside of standard working hours, including evenings and some weekends, for which time off in lieu will be agreed.

You will be joining a friendly and passionate organisation at an exciting time for Scottish Huntington’s Association, now in the third year of Standing Tall: A Strategy For Growth 2023 - 2028. If you are interested in this role and can demonstrate you meet most of the criteria, we would love to hear from you.

At Scottish Huntington’s Association, we celebrate diversity and the innovative ideas it brings. We actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.

About Scottish Huntington’s Association

Join us in making a difference!

Are you enthusiastic about forging connections with supporters and collaborating with communities to generate funds for an important cause? If so, we are looking for a highly organised and dynamic individual to help raise income by engaging with individuals, businesses, schools, and community groups across the north of Scotland, including Aberdeenshire, Angus, Inverness-shire and Perthshire.

About you

You will possess outstanding interpersonal skills and a deep passion for community fundraising that rivals our most dedicated supporters, ensuring we raise the funds needed to deliver our specialist services for every family impacted by Huntington’s disease. We welcome applicants from a variety of backgrounds including (but not limited to) community fundraising, account management, marketing, or sales, and candidates who live permanently in any of the following postcode areas: AB, DD, IV or PH.

We Offer:

• Workplace pension scheme
• TOIL System
• Childcare Voucher Scheme
• 25 annual leave days and typically 12 public holidays per year (pro rata)
• Note: Your annual leave and public holidays are combined, with four mandatory public holidays that must be taken from your entitlement on 25 and 26 December, and 1 and 2 January each year.
• Staff loyalty scheme: Employees with four completed years of service are entitled to an extra day for each additional year served, up to a maximum of five days.
• Flexible working options to support our staff and promote inclusive working practices.

Place of Work

This position follows a home-working model. You will be required to travel within our north region of Scotland to support fundraising efforts. A full driving licence and daily access to a car are essential requirements for this role.

Working hours

The is a part-time role (28.5 hours). Some hours will need to be worked outside of standard working hours, including evenings and some weekends.

You will be joining a friendly and passionate organisation at an exciting time for Scottish Huntington’s Association, now in the third year of Standing Tall: A Strategy For Growth 2023 - 2028. If you are interested in this role and can demonstrate you meet most of the criteria, we would love to hear from you.

At Scottish Huntington’s Association, we celebrate diversity and the innovative ideas it brings. We actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.

About Scottish Huntington’s Association

The ALLIANCE is excited to be recruiting an Energy Efficiency Outreach Worker!

The post holder will be responsible for developing and delivering our Energy and Efficiency outreach project to Glasgow and West Dunbartonshire and will provide a specialist service to people who often experience complex social circumstances, using agreed, person-centred principles for monitoring, auditing and evaluating programme delivery

The successful candidate for this role should have:

• Experience at delivering advice to a wide range of citizens and be familiar with benefit entitlements as well as showing empathy and understanding of the issues faced by our citizens.
• Knowledge and understanding of the environmental, social and economic problems of deprived areas and the roles of the public, private and voluntary sectors in tackling them.
• Demonstrable experience and knowledge of the provision of advice to low-income households in energy efficiency or related fields.
• Self-motivation and the ability to work with limited supervision.
• The ability to work with a wide range of people and proven experience of working with vulnerable householders, low income and/or other disadvantaged groups, including a strong understanding of the challenges faced by people living in areas of deprivation in relation to living well.
• Tact and diplomacy when liaising with a wide range of organisations.
• A solution-focused approach.
• Non-discriminatory values.
• Proven and highly effective interpersonal and communication skills in working with people on a 1:1 basis and with organisations.
• Excellent influencing, negotiation and motivational skills in order to engage people and to enable them to take up a wide range of community services and activities.
• Excellent networking, recording and information management skills.
• Knowledge of facilitating service improvement and appreciation of different organisational cultures and workforce development.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and on own initiative.
• IT skills in word processing, spreadsheets, email and internet.
• An ability and willingness to travel extensively within the local community and wider area.
• It would be desirable for the candidate to hold City & Guilds Level 3 Award in Energy Awareness or equivalent.

Terms and conditions

This post is a fixed-term contract. This is a full-time role, 35 hours per week, based in Glasgow. The post holder will be required to adopt a flexible approach to working hours as travel throughout Scotland and occasional additional hours may be required. However, this will be reimbursed through the organisation’s Time off in Lieu scheme.

As an ALLIANCE employee you will benefit from:

• 210 hours annual leave (equivalent of 30 days)
• 91 hours of public holidays (equivalent of 13 days) that can be taken flexibly
• Additional leave between Christmas and New Year
• Contributory pension scheme
• Open to flexible working (formal and informal)
• Hybrid working – opportunity to work from home for part of the week
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Enhanced sick pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Learning and development opportunities
• Time off in lieu
• Cycle Scheme
• Carer Positive Employer

The ALLIANCE is a healthy working lives employer and encourages a healthy work life balance and is happy to talk flexible working.

The ALLIANCE recognises that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. Even if you don’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our organisation feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.