Sistema Scotland’s vision is to thrive together through music. Working with children, young people and their families, we focus on early intervention and stimulating generational social change. By playing music together in ensembles and orchestras, we aim to grow confidence, respect, teamwork and aspiration in the children, young people and communities we work with.

We deliver our work through six Big Noise programmes: in Raploch & Fallin in Stirling, Govanhill in Glasgow, Torry in Aberdeen, Douglas in Dundee and Wester Hailes in Edinburgh.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an organisation that truly champions fundraising. You will be welcomed into a successful team with the opportunity to make the role your own, bringing your skills and experience to grow income and make meaningful change to children and families across Scotland.

You will maximise income from trusts, foundations, and corporates through innovative and compelling proposals, applications and reports, supporting Sistema Scotland to deliver its Big Noise programmes. Along with a proven track record of raising significant income for charities, you will have experience of composing complex and compelling applications to corporate funders and trusts, and experience of identifying and researching funding opportunities.

This is a permanent, part-time post, working 21 hours a week (working pattern to be agreed with line manager).

Office base can be any of our Big Noise centres in Scotland. Regular travel to all our Big Noise programmes across Scotland will be required.

We are looking for a new Change Programmes Lead to join the FST Team!

Scotland’s performing arts sector is full of talented people, ambitious organisations and inspiring ideas. It also faces significant opportunities and challenges that no single organisation can address alone. Increasingly, progress depends on bringing people together, building partnerships and turning shared ambitions into practical action.

That’s why this role matters.

We’re looking for someone who enjoys combining strategic thinking, partnership-building and practical delivery to help shape programmes that strengthen Scotland’s performing arts sector. Someone who can understand complex challenges, build trusted relationships, develop realistic plans and ensure ideas are followed through to meaningful outcomes.

The Change Programmes Lead plays a key role in helping FST turn ideas into action.

Working closely with members, partners and colleagues, you’ll identify opportunities for positive change, develop practical responses and lead programmes that strengthen Scotland’s performing arts sector.

Some programmes are already well established and ready to grow. Others are emerging ideas that require research, partnership development and careful planning. This role therefore combines strategic thinking with practical delivery, helping shape both current and future areas of work.

Current programmes span areas such as workforce development, mentoring, accessibility, environmental sustainability, organisational resilience and leadership development. While every programme is different, they all share a common purpose: helping Scotland’s performing arts sector become stronger, more connected and better equipped for the future.

This isn’t simply a project management role. It’s about understanding complex challenges, bringing people together, building trusted relationships and creating the conditions for meaningful change. You’ll work across organisations, balancing different perspectives while maintaining a clear focus on shared ambitions and tangible outcomes.

Current Programmes & Priorities

The Change Programmes portfolio continues to evolve in response to member needs and emerging opportunities. Some of the current programmes and workstreams you’ll help lead and develop include:

Bursaries & Professional Development

Leading FST’s professional development bursary programme while exploring opportunities to strengthen its impact, reach and long-term sustainability.

Mentoring & Coaching

Refreshing FST’s mentoring offer through reconnecting previous participants, piloting new models and lighter-touch support surgeries and peer learning.

Workforce Development & Training

Developing and delivering programmes around technical skills, leadership, sustainability and Fair Work through partnerships and targeted professional development opportunities.

Access & Inclusion

Working with Birds of Paradise, Creative Scotland and sector partners to support the future development of Access Scottish Theatre, Scotland’s engagement with the UK-wide All-In programme and wider accessibility infrastructure.

Emerging Needs & Opportunities

Working with FST members and partners to identify new priorities, develop collaborative initiatives and secure partnerships and funding that support the future development of Scotland’s performing arts sector.

This is an excellent opportunity for you to join Scottish Book Trust as a School Communities Regional Outreach Co-ordinator (West of Scotland). The position offers flexible, part-time working within our School Communities Team.

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:

• Part time, fixed-term role
• Competitive salary
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Company Sick Pay
• Pension with 5% employer contributions
• Death in service benefit
• Free access to employee assistance programme

The School Communities (SC) team delivers a range of programmes that inspire schools, learning professionals, children and young people, and families to establish a culture of reading and writing for pleasure. Key programmes include Reading Schools, Read Write Count with the First Minister, Authors Live, the SC events programme, and the delivery of professional learning opportunities and learning resources.

The Regional Outreach Co-ordinator (West of Scotland) post is designed to cover the local authority areas of East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Glasgow City, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, and South Lanarkshire, with the initial focus on East Renfrewshire and Glasgow City. The post holder will work closely with the School Communities Manager (Learning and Development) on the delivery and development of the SC Outreach programme in the West of Scotland. The ROC’s are a remote team of four people based across Scotland supporting schools both within their areas and more widely across Scotland.

The role involves working closely with individual schools or key stakeholders in the designated local authorities to identify ways that they can engage with and benefit from our School Communities programmes. They will also join their ROC colleagues in delivering sessions that may require travel/ overnight stays away from home to ensure that we can cover the whole of Scotland to meet the needs and focus of the funding.

The post will also deliver professional learning opportunities to a range of audiences, in-person and online, to support the SC programmes, providing support to the Learning Content Manager to develop resources and working alongside the SC team and other SBT colleagues to ensure maximum impact for the programmes and audiences.