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- Advertised from 10th June 2026
- 35 hours per week, part time considered
Role
We are recruiting for an enthusiastic, creative, and dynamic Project Officer who loves working with children and is committed to the realisation of children’s human rights.
The Project Officer will be engaged in the development, delivery and reporting on a range of projects. Initially the focus of the role will be our Child Power project, which is building child activism to drive systemic changes to children’s involvement in decision making and parliamentary processes on child poverty.
Passionate about children, an excellent communicator and highly organised, the post holder will contribute to our work to support the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and deliver human rights for children.
The role is offered on a full-time basis of 35 hours per week. However, we are open to considering part-time arrangements for the right candidate, subject to mutual agreement on working hours and responsibilities.
This is a Scotland wide post with an office base at the Children’s Parliament in Edinburgh. Regular working at our Children’s Parliament office is required. Our office moves to Norton Park in Leith in September 2026. We offer flexible working and we are happy to discuss working patterns.
OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE
Children’s Parliament demonstrates children’s rights in action, supporting children to influence policy, practice and legislation, and we build the capacity and win the hearts and minds of adults to realise children’s human rights. Following the incorporation of children’s rights into Scots law, Children’s Parliament has a critical role to play to support the implementation of children’s human rights in the everyday.
In this context the role of the Project Officer is to embed the views, experiences and ideas of children into decision making around policy, practice and legislation in Scotland. Supporting children to engage adult key decision makers on what needs to change.
The Child Power project started in February 2026 in partnership with Save the Children UK and is supported through the Beyond Pledges fund from the Robertson Trust.
The project will create a Scotland-wide movement of child activists from low-income backgrounds campaigning to address the causes and impact of child poverty, to meet the 2030 child poverty targets, in a way that improves children’s lives and focusses on the action and policy change they care about.
Application notes
An application pack is available for download below.
The closing date is Tuesday 23rd June at midday
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Moving Medicine Patients Project Coordinator
- Full time
- £30,000
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 14th June 2026
Join FSEM as a Moving Medicine Patients Project Coordinator, supporting delivery of national programmes that help people with long-term health conditions become more active. This varied role involves coordinating projects, working with partners across healthcare and community sectors, and supporting events, communications, and evaluation. You’ll play a key part in reducing health inequalities and embedding physical activity into everyday care within a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
The College seeks to appoint a Project Library Cataloguer to catalogue modern (post-1900) library collections to agreed professional standards onto the College’s online library catalogue Liberty. The ideal candidate will have a postgraduate library qualification, experience of cataloguing library collections and an interest in the history of medicine.
The Role
- This role will focus on producing accurate catalogue records.
- The role will also be responsible for updating cataloguing guidelines where appropriate.
- The cataloguing target for this role during the duration of this contract is 4,000 books.
Person Specification
- Degree or postgraduate qualification in library/information science.
- Highly motivated cataloguer with a high level of accuracy.
- Ability to organise own workload and work to challenging deadlines.
- Well-developed IT skills.
- Good knowledge and experience of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2) standards and Machine-Readable Cataloguing (MARC) format.
- Knowledge and experience of DCRB, ESTC, MeSH and LCSH.
Remuneration Package
The salary for this role will be £34,384 per annum plus benefits. Additional benefits include:
- Pension: with employer contributions of 9%.
- Holidays: 23 days’ annual leave and 11 days’ public holiday/College close downs.
- Life assurance scheme.
- Long-term income protection scheme for those unable to work due to illness.
- Cycle to Work scheme.
- Discounted rates for use of the venue for personal events.
This is an excellent opportunity for you to join Scottish Book Trust as an Early Years Trainer (TCP Project).
Scottish Book Trust is a national charity that believes books, reading and writing have the power to change lives. A love of reading inspires creativity, improves employment opportunities, mental health and wellbeing and is one of the most effective ways to help break the poverty cycle. We work towards a Scotland where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive through literacy.
What we offer
• Full-time role working flexibly around school term times
• Competitive salary
• Flexible hybrid working between home and our Edinburgh City Centre Office, with great access by train, bus, and tram
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Company Sick Pay
• Pension with 5% employer contributions
• Death in service benefit
• Free access to employee assistance programme
The Early Years (EY) team delivers Bookbug, an evidence-informed programme which aims to promote parent-child bonding and attachment, support children’s language and communication skills, and help their social, emotional and cognitive development through reading, singing and rhyming. Key elements include universal book gifting at four stages, free story, song and rhyme Bookbug Sessions, Bookbug for the Home and community engagement, the Bookbug app, and professional learning opportunities and learning resources for people working with children in their early years.
The Early Years Trainer post will deliver a set program of Early Years training and ongoing support activities for Bookbug practitioners from a broad range of sectors and partner agencies. These include libraries, early education, the NHS and third sector organisations. The training is designed to support professionals to engage families with the benefits of sharing stories, songs and rhymes to promote speech, language and literacy in early years children.
The post holder will also work on discrete projects which support professionals and volunteers with ongoing Bookbug training and development. They will work closely with the Community Engagement Team on specific project work linked to the delivery of the Tackling Child Poverty (TCP) Project.
Other information
The role delivers training during school term time. Due to the variation in school term dates across Local Authorities the advertised dates can be flexible. Statutory holiday will be taken during the school holidays.
Evening and weekend work will be required. For training delivery in more rural and remote locations, overnight stays will be required. Overnight stays will be agreed in advance and will depend on the successful applicant’s home location.
Due to the travel requirement and geographical nature of Scotland’s more remote areas, the applicant must have a full, clean UK driving licence and access to a vehicle insured for business use.
Please note that the training Scottish Book Trust delivers is for adults who work with children and families and does not involve direct work with children.
Appointment will be conditional on securing a Level 1 from Disclosure Scotland.
Edinburgh Young Carers is seeking a suitably experienced and qualified applicant to co-ordinate our awareness-raising, training and support to schools and Higher Education (HE)/Further Education (FE) establishments across Edinburgh, with the aim to develop whole-school, sustainable approaches in the identification of, and support to, young carers.
The post-holder will support the delivery and development of the ‘We Care: Schools for Young Carers’ award to schools across Edinburgh, and nationwide, and will work in partnership with Capital Carers and Space to ensure consistent delivery of schools and HE/FE work across the four localities of the City.
The candidate will need to be experienced in working with children and young people in formal or informal education settings, with experience of project set-up, management and reporting and in developing and delivering presentations and running training events/workshops for young people and professionals.
Organisation Profile
EYC is a voluntary organisation working with and on behalf of young carers throughout Edinburgh. We are one of the largest and best established independent young carer organisations in Scotland. We have a strong commitment to the rights of children and young people.
Working at EYC and Staff Benefits
EYC is a passionate, fun, supportive place to work. We have a great team and take good care of our staff. Our benefits package includes: 27 days’ annual leave plus all public holidays, 6% matched pension, free healthcare through Benenden Health after 6 months’ probation, hybrid working, flexible hours, Cycle to Work scheme and extensive training opportunities. We are also a recognised Carer Positive employer.
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