Senior Education Delivery Officer
- Full time
- £25,731
- On site: McDiarmid Park, Crieff Road, Perth, PH1 2SJ
- Closing 17th April 2026
- Advertised from 20th March 2026
- 35 hours per week, with evening/weekend work as required
Role
Job Purpose
The Senior Education Delivery Officer plays a leading role in the development and delivery of the Trust’s school-based and community learning programmes, supporting children, young people, and families to build essential META Skills, STEM understanding, resilience, and wellbeing through high-quality, engaging, and hands-on learning experiences. In addition to delivering whole-class sessions, targeted small groups, and structured out-of-class activities, the Senior Officer provides leadership, mentoring, and modelling of best practice to other delivery staff. This includes leading and delivering targeted small-group interventions for pupils with additional support needs, ensuring activities are inclusive, trauma-informed, and adapted to meet individual developmental needs. The role also contributes to the design and improvement of innovative learning resources and projects, including wellbeing initiatives, intergenerational experiences, and alternative holiday programmes such as LEGO Clubs and creative learning camps. Acting as a key representative of the Trust, the Senior Education Delivery Officer builds and maintains strong partnerships with schools, community organisations, and families - supporting improved life chances, reducing inequalities, and helping children and young people thrive. The role also leads on aspects of monitoring, evaluation, compliance, and project coordination to ensure high standards of delivery and the achievement of project outcomes.
Job Role & Responsibilities
• Lead and deliver targeted small-group interventions for pupils with additional support needs, adapting activities, resources, and approaches to ensure inclusive, trauma-informed, and developmentally appropriate learning for every child.
• Plan, develop, and deliver engaging whole-class, small-group, and out-of-class activities, ensuring alignment with the Trust’s strategic aims and contributing to the design of innovative learning resources and session plans using tools such as physical activity, LEGO Six Bricks, and Sphero BOLT robots.
• Lead, mentor, and support colleagues, sessional staff, and volunteers, modelling best practice in facilitation, behaviour management, and inclusive pedagogy to ensure consistent, high-quality delivery across all programmes.
• Lead team building, structured play, and social-emotional learning activities and contribute to intergenerational programmes which promote empathy and positive relationships between children and adults.
• Oversee the development and continuous improvement of alternative holiday programmes, including LEGO Clubs and Cardboard Creation Clubs.
• Lead monitoring, evaluation, and quality assurance, including data collection, observations, session audits, coaching feedback, and reporting to the Senior Management Team, using insights to drive improvements.
• Manage resources and operational logistics, overseeing the organisation and procurement of materials, and supporting staff rotas, delivery schedules, and multi-site readiness.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with pupils, families, schools, community organisations, and local authorities, acting as a key representative of the Trust at meetings and public events.
• Champion trauma-informed and inclusive practice, supporting colleagues to meet the needs of children with SEBN and embedding these approaches across the team.
• Lead specific projects or thematic areas, managing planning, delivery, performance tracking, and reporting, and contribute programme insights for funding bids and strategic planning.
• Ensure all activities comply with safeguarding, health & safety, and data protection requirements, and undertake additional duties as reasonably requested by the Senior Management Team.
Application notes
A full job pack with details of how to apply can be downloaded from our website at: saintsinthecommunity.co.uk/vacancies.php
Closing Date: 8pm, Friday 17th April
Top job! Chief Executive Officer
- Full time
- £45,000 – £50,000
- On site: McDiarmid Park, Crieff Road, Perth, PH1 2SJ
- Closing 2nd April 2026
Job Purpose
The St. Johnstone Community Trust is seeking an experienced and values-driven leader to serve as Chief Executive Officer.
The CEO will provide strategic leadership and overall management of the Trust, working closely with the Board of Trustees to deliver the organisation’s mission, ensure long-term financial sustainability, and maximise impact for our beneficiaries.
You will lead and inspire a small, dedicated team, overseeing a diverse portfolio of initiatives across sport, education, and wellbeing, while building strong relationships with partners, stakeholders, and the wider community.
Job Role & Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
• Lead the development and delivery of the charity’s vision, mission, and long-term strategic plan.
• Work closely with the Board of Trustees to ensure strategy aligns with organisational objectives and stakeholder needs.
• Identify opportunities for growth, partnerships, and innovation to maximise impact.
• Monitor progress against strategic goals and set appropriate performance targets.
Governance & Compliance
• Ensure the charity operates within its governing document, charity law, and relevant regulations.
• Support effective governance by providing timely and accurate information to the Board.
• Develop policy proposals for Board discussion and assist in decision-making.
• Ensure an annual calendar of Board meetings, including reporting and compliance documentation, is maintained.
Financial Management & Sustainability
• Oversee financial planning, budgeting, and reporting, ensuring income is maintained, expenditure controlled, and risks identified and managed.
• Lead the development and implementation of income generation strategies, fundraising initiatives, and sustainability planning. Diversify revenue streams to ensure financial sustainability and growth.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with sponsors, donors, and funding partners to secure resources.
Operational Management
• Lead, manage, and support senior staff to maximise their contributions and ensure high-quality delivery of programmes and services.
• Ensure programmes harness the power of sport to promote wider benefits, including education, health, and social inclusion.
• Develop and maintain effective policies, systems, procedures, and operational controls.
• Ensure appropriate monitoring and evaluation processes are in place to measure and report the impact of activities.
• Define and secure the human, material, and financial resources needed for effective operation.
External Relations & Promotion
• Act as the public face and spokesperson for the charity, representing it at events, conferences, and in the media.
• Maintain and develop relationships with partners, stakeholders, government bodies, regulators, and other key decision-makers.
• Seek opportunities to expand and promote the role and profile of the charity.
People & Culture
• Promote a positive, inclusive, and values-led organisational culture.
• Ensure effective recruitment, performance management, and professional development for staff.
• Champion equality, diversity, safeguarding, and the wellbeing of all staff and beneficiaries.
Funding & Partnership Manager
- Full time
- £36,000 – £38,000
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 30th March 2026
Spartans Community Foundation is a charity and social enterprise in North Edinburgh. We aspire to be a valued organisation that helps to improve the quality of people’s lives in a meaningful way, with love, compassion and dignity at the heart of our approach. We are Here for Good.
We have a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic and committed Funding & Partnership Manager to join our Senior Management Team here at the Foundation. The successful candidate will be a key driver of the Spartans Community Foundation’s growth and impact, leading efforts to secure and manage financial resources and strategic partnerships.
The role will ensure all funding and partnership activities are strategically aligned with the Foundation’s vision and values, maximising both community impact and organisational sustainability. This is a high-impact role for a proactive, relationship-focused professional passionate about empowering communities and creating lasting change.
Programmes Manager (Social Change Movements)
- Full time
- £49,951 – £56,006
- Hybrid: Glasgow
- Closing 3rd April 2026
The Robertson Trust is looking for a Programmes Manager (Social Change Movements) to lead a new Programmes team. Based primarily at Robertson House, Glasgow, with hybrid working available, this is a leadership role supporting The Trust to secure big change that lasts in preventing and reducing poverty and trauma in Scotland.
Over the next decade, we are committed to using all our tools and resources to reduce poverty and trauma across four themes:
• Education Pathways
• Financial Security
• Nurturing Relationships
• Work Pathways
As a senior member of the team, you will lead the design and delivery of our new approach to ‘social movement funding’, a new part of our Programme Awards funding stream. You will lead the team to work to proactively build cohorts of projects, aligned to our strategic priorities, utilising knowledge of the full range of social change activity (including influencing, campaigning, policy work and community empowerment).
For further details, including the full job description and person specification, please visit: Job Vacancies | The Robertson Trust
The Role
This role supports the Head of Programmes and Practice and leads the development and delivery of our ‘social movement funding’ approach, our most proactive Programme Award work, aligned to our long-term change priorities. It will contribute to spending a planned budget rising to up to £10m per year for Programme Awards as a whole.
You will play a key role in delivering the Trust’s approach to direct and indirect influencing, strengthening strategic relationships across policy and practice, and ensuring our funding and influencing activity is coherent and aligned.
You will line manage the Social Change Movements team, including our direct influencing capacity, and contribute as a member of the Management Team, working collaboratively across the organisation to support delivery of our strategic priorities.
Key responsibilities
• Lead the development and delivery of our new ‘social movements funding’ approach – our most proactive Programme Award cohorts aligned to long-term change priorities
• Contribute to shaping and delivering the Trust’s approach to direct and indirect influencing
• Build and sustain strategic relationships with policymakers, sector leaders, funders and experts by experience
• Ensure coherence across proactive and responsive Programme Awards and the wider organisational strategy
• Oversee programme budgets, governance and strategic risk
• Line manage and develop the Social Change Movements team
• Embed participation and co-production with people with lived experience in strategy and delivery
• Represent the Trust externally and contribute to cross-cutting organisational priorities
About You
We are looking for an experienced and thoughtful leader with a strong understanding of poverty, trauma and the policy landscape in Scotland.
You will bring:
• Significant experience contributing to long-term social change through influencing, policy, systems change, campaigning and/or advocacy
• A strong understanding of poverty and poverty-related trauma as both a subject and policy area
• Experience shaping and delivering strategic programmes, including managing substantial budgets
• Experience leading and developing high performing teams
• Strong political and strategic judgement, including the ability to assess reputational and strategic risk
• A deep understanding of the third sector and independent funding landscape in Scotland and across the UK
• Experience building networks and working collaboratively across sectors
• A commitment to embedding lived experience in strategy and delivery
• High emotional intelligence and the ability to build trusted, strategic relationships
You will be collaborative, values-led and motivated by securing long-term change that prevents and reduces poverty and trauma in Scotland.
We encourage applications from suitably qualified candidates from all parts of the community, regardless of age, disability, race, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief or socio-economic background. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience or knowledge of how poverty or trauma impact lives.
Benefits
• Salary £49,951 to £56,006 FTE
• 35 days holiday per calendar year, inclusive of public holidays
• Pension – 10% employer contribution or 14% if employee contribution is 7%
• Additional employee benefits package (currently under review)
• This role is advertised as full-time, but we are open to applicants who wish to work part-time.
The Robertson Trust is committed to hybrid and flexible working. We are open to reasonable adaptations to overcome barriers and are a Living Wage employer accredited by the Living Wage Foundation.
Top job! Director of Operations and Impact (North of Scotland)
- Full time
- £92,000
- Hybrid: Dundee, Aberdeen, Peterhead or Elgin
- Closing 29th March 2026
Do you bring a strong track record of strategic leadership in health and social care, coupled with an unwavering commitment to person centred support? If so, this could be the opportunity that shapes the next chapter of your career.
We are looking for an exceptional, forward thinking leader to join us as Director of Operations and Impact (North) on a full time, permanent basis. This is a key role within our Executive Leadership Team, offering the opportunity to shape operational excellence, strengthen organisational impact and influence the future of social care across Scotland.
As Director of Operations and Impact (North), you will hold full accountability for operational performance, service quality and contract delivery across the North of Scotland.
This is a hybrid working role, with an expectation of regular, meaningful engagement across our offices and services. You will therefore ideally be located within reasonable reach of one of our key hubs in Dundee, Aberdeen, Peterhead or Elgin.
This is an exciting time to join Cornerstone as we deliver our new strategic plan, Improving Lives Together, built around the following organisational priorities:
The Foundation – Digital innovation: empowering everything we do
- Pillar 1 – Voices of the people we support at the heart of all decisions
- Pillar 2 – People: leadership, workforce and culture
- Pillar 3 – Financial sustainability: building for the future
- Pillar 4 – Partnership working: collaboration for greater impact
- The Roof – Quality: evidence based improvement
Purpose of the role
As a key member of our Executive Leadership Team, you will provide strategic, values driven leadership that strengthens Cornerstone’s culture, performance and long term sustainability. You will champion our mission, guide the delivery of our strategic plan and inspire teams across the North of Scotland to deliver exceptional, person centred care.
Central to your success will be the ability to build trusted partnerships, model courageous and authentic leadership, and drive high impact, evidence led improvement.
A detailed overview of responsibilities can be found in the role profile on our website.
What you will bring
- A proven track record of strategic leadership within an organisation of comparable scale and complexity
- Deep insight into the social care landscape, including commissioning, market dynamics and sector wide trends
- A thorough understanding of regulatory frameworks and the wider policy context for social care in Scotland
- Demonstrated success in developing leaders, building organisational capability and nurturing high performing, psychologically safe teams
- Strong financial and commercial acumen, with experience overseeing substantial budgets
- Confidence in championing digital tools to enhance collaboration, insight and operational excellence
If you believe you have the vision, expertise and drive to excel in this role, we would be delighted to hear from you.
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