The ALLIANCE is excited to be recruiting for Gambling Harm Development Officer.

This role requires the postholder to play a key role in developing and leading Scotland Reducing Gambling Harm Lived Experience Forum. The role will contribute to a wider portfolio with an emphasis on the voice of lived experience, person-centredness and human rights. The postholder will operate within the broader landscape of Scottish Government health and social care reform and relevant UK Government strategies, ensuring that activity is aligned, collaborative and effectively delivered.

The successful candidate must have:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent through experience
• Experience of engaging with people in interactive and creative ways
• Experience of facilitating safe, trauma-informed, human rights based spaces
• Excellent relationship building and interpersonal skills with experience of building and sustaining relationships with people who have experience of gambling harm or substance use or mental health or relevant community learning work
• Enthusiastic approach to involving, supporting and responding to stakeholders
• Excellent inclusive communication skills, particularly written skills
• Understanding of the effect gambling harm, commercial determinants of health and social issues have on people’s lives
• Experience of carrying out research and consultation, and interpreting and analysing data
• Confident IT skills, including word processing, email, internet use, databases and presentations
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and own initiative
• Good organisational, time management and event management skills
• Experience of using social media as an engagement tool
• Good understanding of data protection
• Understanding of the health and social care sector and third sector, and where the ALLIANCE sits within it.
• Understanding and commitment to equal opportunities; non-discrimination; and the principle of people being the experts in their own lives and being at the heart of policy, support and services

As an ALLIANCE employee you will benefit from:

• 210 hours annual leave pro rata (equivalent of 30 days)
• 91 hours public holiday that can be taken flexibly pro rata (equivalent of 13 days)
• 24.5 hours additional leave between Christmas Eve and New Year pro rata (equivalent of 3.5 days)
• Contributory pension scheme 6%
• Annual incremental increase in salary (until top of grade)
• Flexible working (formal and informal)
• Hybrid working – opportunity to work from home for part of the week
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption pay
• Enhanced sick pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Learning and development opportunities
• Time off in lieu
• Cycle Scheme
• Bike storage
• Carer Positive Employer
• Disability Confident Employer
• Up to 35 hours (pro rata) paid carers leave per annum
• Up to 35 hours (pro rata) paid special leave per annum
• Up to 70 hours (pro rata) paid compassionate leave per annum
• Paid day off to move house
• Employee forum

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.

PVG Scheme membership is required for this post.

Working for Erskine:

“ERSKINE is an iconic Scottish charity, formed in 1916 by Scotland’s compassionate response to the horrors of war. A century later, we still believe that Veterans and their families deserve our utmost respect and compassion, for the sacrifices they made and the challenges they now face. At Erskine, we work as a dedicated team to ensure that Veterans of all ages are cared for to the highest of standards in a beautiful, fun-filled environment, made up of two care homes and a Veterans Village of cottages, activities centre and apartments.

Working in social care can be demanding. However, at Erskine it will also be rewarding and fulfilling. You will be making an incredible difference to the lives of our residents and their loved ones, at a critical time. We value skills and qualifications, but we prize kindness and compassion, above all. Our team is crucial to providing the best care possible, so we recognise and reward our employees with benefits including employer pension contribution, fantastic career opportunities, and enhanced annual leave.

If you are kind and committed, then you do have what it takes to be part of the team here at Erskine! The ultimate aim is exceptional care and support to our ex-service community and everyone in every role, in every department plays their part.”

The Role:

The postholder will be part of a team providing support to Veterans and their spouses/partners, in their own homes and local communities within the Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, Glasgow and East & West Dunbartonshire areas, enabling them to live as full, active and independent a life as possible, aligned to the individual assessed needs.

The postholder will be based within the Erskine Veterans Village and will lead the Home Support Team, ensuring a quality service is delivered to service users in receipt of the support visits. You will lead and manage the Home Support staff group, ensuring all staff have the abilities to deliver a quality service. You will be required to visit and assess new services users and agree support plans, if appropriate. You will be educated to degree level in a relevant subject and have experience assessing and planning care/support. Experience leading, supervising and supporting a care/support team is also essential.

Benefits:

• Dayforce Wallet – employees have the power to request up to 90% of their earned pay, on-demand, in between pay periods with Dayforce Wallet
• 28 days annual leave plus 5 public holidays, increasing to 33 days per year, at the rate of 1 additional day for 5 years
• Employer pension contribution
• Structured Induction programme
• Flexible working considered
• Opportunities for training & development
• Enhanced sick & maternity pay
• In-house Occupational Health Service
• Health and Wellbeing Scheme
• Blue Light Card

Please note:

Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK. Erskine are unable to provide sponsorship. If you are selected for interview, you will receive an invite by email (please ensure you check your spam / junk mailbox).

The successful candidate will be required to undergo a Disclosure Scotland Check. Where a candidate has resided in the UK for less than five years and lived / remained in a country for six months or more, in addition to a Disclosure/PVG, they will be asked to complete a criminal records check application via HireRight.

Due to internal promotion, we are excited to share news of an opening for a new Executive within our Partnerships and Philanthropy Team, aligned to Corporate Partnerships.

The Corporate Partnerships team are moving through a period of growth which will set this team up to strategically focus their resources and skill where it is most needed in order to attract, cultivate and retain valuable corporate partnerships.

Reporting to the Senior Partnership Executive, the Partnership Executive will be involved in maintaining existing supporter relationships through the Corporate Fundraising journey, ensuring all possible opportunities for revenue generation are utilised.

This role is contracted for a temporary period until 31 March 2027 when this arrangement will be reviewed.

About you

To be successful in this role, you will have skill and experience in the following areas:

• Experience of working in account management in either a fundraising or commercial environment.
• Experience of achieving and exceeding income targets or growing income.
• The ability to seek out, identify and build on opportunities to maximise income.
• Ability to represent CHAS internally and externally.
• Excellent communicator with the ability to adapt communication style to meet the needs of varied audiences.
• Driven and engaging personality with strong people skills.
• Driving Licence and access to a car

Why CHAS?

At CHAS, we support families during the toughest of times. We have ambitions to reach every family in Scotland who is living with the heart-breaking prognosis that their child is dying and offer them our care and support to empower them to make the most of the short time they have together. The skill, determination and creative flair of our Fundraising Teams makes this possible.

This is a pivotal moment to join CHAS. We’ve just launched More Than A Hospice - a £20 million appeal to change how Scotland cares for children who will die young, and for the families who love them. Every week, three children in Scotland die from an incurable illness, and advances in medicine mean more children are living longer with complex, life‑shortening conditions - a gift, but one that demands change.

Right now, too many families don’t have real choice throughout their child’s life, or at the end of it - and are sometimes forced into decisions because the care they need isn’t always there when it’s needed. We believe Scotland can - and must - do better. Joining CHAS now means being part of an ambitious appeal that aims to ensure care follows the child - at home, in hospital, or in a hospice so no family faces that moment alone

We offer

• Flexible Working: our teams work flexibly and in a hybrid manner with time split between at home and onsite in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
• Development Opportunities: exposure to a variety of fundraising activities
• Professional Growth: Work with industry leaders in a high-performing team where you will be encouraged and supported to excel and develop your skills.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Including generous annual leave and pension, incremental salary progression, access to Blue Light discounts, and health and wellbeing support.