The Super Power Agency (SC046550) is a Scottish charity founded in 2016. Our mission is to engage and re-engage disadvantaged and under-resourced young people aged 8 - 18 through a range of creative writing workshops, interdisciplinary programming, and mentoring. Our programmes provide opportunities for students to explore the potential of the written word all while fostering aspiration, creativity and strengthening valuable writing skills, skills that will help them in the classroom, in employment, and in life.

Job Purpose

Volunteers are the lifeblood of the Super Power Agency and this role will be an integral part of the team. Reporting directly to the CEO, the Volunteer Coordinator recruits and coordinates volunteering positions and volunteer staff for the SPA and manages the relationships between the organisations we work with.

The Volunteer Coordinator will be responsible for developing and maintaining a positive and supportive volunteer experience across the organisation. This includes maintaining the organisational policies and procedures; recruiting, training and supporting volunteers; running events to train, retain and acknowledge the accomplishments of volunteers; and ensuring that volunteering is effectively coordinated across SPA’s programmes and projects.

The role will also be responsible for maintaining accurate volunteer records and monitoring volunteer engagement, participation and impact, and presenting relevant updates and metrics to colleagues and the board.

The hours will be primarily during the week and during normal office hours, but some evening and weekend work may be required to attend volunteer events and support organisational events. The part time hours are to be conducted across 3 or 4 days. Our office is in central Edinburgh and, given the collaborative nature of the role, we would expect you to come into the office at least 1 day per week.

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Digital Communications, Marketing and Fundraising Coordinator to lead on developing and operating PEEK’s digital communications and fundraising campaigns, ensuring effective digital marketing and PR in support of fundraising, the organisation, and its services. This includes responsibility for managing communications with supporters and using data insights to increase its effectiveness and strengthening PEEK’s visibility, voice and impact. This role ensures PEEK’s stories are told consistently, powerfully, and ethically, and that communications directly contribute to income generation, partnership development, and community engagement.

Scottish Book Trust is a national charity that believes books, reading and writing have the power to change lives.

Reading together and sharing personal stories is a powerful mechanism to connect people, support relationships and provide activities which prioritise authentic, equal participation from each partner.

Project: Development of the Life Story Book Box

We are seeking a consultant to create a co-designed toolkit and guidance to develop and implement our existing “Life Story Book Box” tool.

The new model should support people living with dementia to create their own “Life Story Book Box” during the earlier stages of their dementia journey and explore how this tool can be used by carers to support person-centred practice. The consultant will co-design an actionable, practical guide for the creation and use of this resource by people living with dementia. This builds upon and complements the training currently provided to carers of people living with dementia to co-design “Life Story Book Boxes” in later stages of the dementia experience by giving the individual greater ownership and agency.

This resource will supplement the existing Reading is Caring shared reading approach.

Project: Development of the Group Delivery Model

We are seeking a consultant to design and develop a group-based training model that complements our existing one-to-one approach.

The new training model should explore how participants can learn from and support one another through peer engagement, helping us reach more people while maintaining programme quality and effectiveness. The consultant will help design an approach that is engaging, practical and scalable, enabling the programme to support a greater number of participants.

Projects timeline: Sept 2026 – Feb 2027.

Budgets: Max. £9,000 per project (inc. VAT & exp)

Applicants should provide details of their approach against this budget.

Deadline for questions: 9:00am 27th July

Interested parties can contact readingiscaring@scottishbooktrust.com

If you are interested in undertaking both pieces of work, please note this in your application and reflect this in your suggested timings and budget allocation. We are open to some flexibility on the suggested timescale.

Full details are on our website.

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.