Where the role fits in our organisation

Our Partnerships and Communities Group are responsible for our work with the third sector, partners and communities across Dumfries and Galloway. The group leads on community insights and involvement, Locality Hubs, sector advice, training and development, building sector capacity, encouraging community involvement and representing the third sector. Key partnerships are with Dumfries and Galloway Council, NHS Dumfries and Galloway, Community Planning, Scottish Government and national sector bodies. The team includes Lead Officers, Development Officers, Support Officers, Coordinators and professional advisors.

What You'll Do

We are looking for a dedicated and relationship-driven colleague to lead an exciting one-year programme focused on improving community support for people living with Energy Limiting Conditions (ELCs). You’ll be at the heart of strengthening understanding, coordination, and sector capacity across Dumfries & Galloway — with the opportunity to shape future work around wider long-term conditions.

If you thrive on engagement, insight-gathering, and helping organisations build their confidence to support people with fluctuating conditions, this role is for you.

What you’ll do

• Carry out a region-wide mapping and gapping exercise to understand current community support.
• Build strong relationships with third sector organisations, community groups, practitioners, and lived experience voices.
• Facilitate conversations, engagement sessions, and two forum-style events to deepen shared understanding.
• Develop resources, guidance, and introductory capacity-building activity to strengthen sector confidence.
• Capture insights, identify priority needs, and highlight opportunities for future development and investment.
• Produce clear reports, summaries, and a baseline evidence report with recommendations for future work.
• Explore how learning from ELCs can inform support for wider long-term conditions.
• Represent TSDG and support collaborative working across our community health and wellbeing portfolio.

More about you

• You bring experience from within, or closely alongside, the third sector — ideally in community health, wellbeing, or long-term conditions.
• You are exceptionally organised — able to manage multiple priorities, track actions, and keep workstreams aligned.
• You’re confident creating and maintaining documentation, whether that’s action notes, work plans, trackers, or briefing materials.
• You have strong communication skills and can build positive relationships with partners from different sectors.
• You’re comfortable analysing information, capturing learning, and communicating it clearly and accessibly
• You’re digitally confident, with experience using tools such as Teams, shared drives, spreadsheets, or project management platforms.
• You work well both independently and as part of a dispersed team, sharing knowledge and supporting colleagues.
• You are self-motivated, committed to improvement, and keen to contribute to a programme that strengthens the sector and the communities we serve.

Borders Community Action (BCA) is seeking a highly motivated and dedicated Third Sector Employability Lead to strengthen employability pathways across the Scottish Borders and champion the vital role of the Third Sector in achieving positive employment outcomes.

This role will support volunteers, organisations, and partners by developing coordinated employability activity, enhancing sector capacity and promoting volunteering as a key route into employment.

The postholder will work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders, contribute to strategic employability planning and ensure the Third Sector’s voice and impact are recognised locally and nationally.

Since 2021, Loco Home Retrofit CIC has earned a respected position as an independent retrofit adviser and as an intermediary helping to scale Scotland’s retrofit sector.

Our purpose is to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuel heating in Greater Glasgow. We do this by providing services to households wishing to make their homes more comfortable, less expensive to heat, greener and more resilient to climate change. As a non-profit cooperative owned and governed by over 300 households our approach promotes consumer protection and community wealth building.

Our innovation programme is centred heat pump performance, solutions for tenements and novel methods of community engagement.

Following recent commercial success we are looking for a new Technical Manager to head up our homeowner support services and relationships with retrofit and renewables contractors.

THE ROLE

This is an opportunity to take a leading role in an innovative climate action social enterprise.

The Technical Manager will report to the Managing Director and will be responsible for leading the delivery and ongoing evolution of our retrofit support services for households.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver the service: carry out surveys and provide retrofit advice.
• Oversee service delivery by other team members ensuring standards are maintained in terms of customer service, technical robustness, health & safety and privacy.
• Lead service improvement for greater technical robustness and productivity.
• Develop and maintain commercial relationships with retrofit contractors

Skills And Experience

Required

• Demonstrated success in delivering projects in housing retrofit / building services/ construction.
• Practical expertise in one of these fields, as well as a strong desire to learn about the other:
• retrofit fabric and improvements, including risk management, or,
• heating system design, especially heat pumps.
• Proactive, entrepreneurial attitude
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills. At ease with varied audiences.
• Confident with business software including Google Workspace/ MS Office.
• Competent user of Google Sheets/ MS Excel
• Driving licence

Desirable

• Trained Domestic Energy Assessor and Retrofit Assessor
• Heating system design qualifications such as Heat Geek Awakening/ Mastery, or LCL Domestic Heating and Hot Water System Design in Dwellings
• Fabric retrofit qualifications such as AECB Carbonlite Retrofit, Retrofit Coordinator, Passive House Consultant/ Designer/ Tradesperson.
• Experience in managing health and safety policies and procedures
• Experience in implementing data privacy policies and compliance with GDPR
• Line management experience

Location

• You should be based within a commutable distance of our office in central Glasgow.
• There will be a mixture of office working, site surveys and flexibility to work from home.
• We serve households and communities across central Scotland, focussed on Greater Glasgow.

Schedule

• 8 to 4 or 9 to 5, Monday to Friday.
• This role involves limited community engagement activity in evenings and at weekends, managed with Time Off in Lieu.

ABOUT YOU

We are looking for team members who share our commitment to our aims, mission and values. See more information on the Vacancies page.

You may be…

• looking for a fresh challenge in a related career path
• making a change of career and bringing relevant transferable skills.
• returning to work after an absence, such as for caring responsibilities.
• You must have a legal right to work in the UK. We are not currently in a position to act as a sponsor.

St Andrew’s First Aid is Scotland’s national first aid charity with a proud 140-year heritage and a strong public reputation.

We are seeking an experienced Communications and Engagement Lead to take ownership of our external and internal communications — strengthening visibility, reputation and engagement across Scotland.

This is a senior communications role reporting to the Executive Director of Marketing, Communications and Inward Investment.

You will:

• develop and deliver an integrated communications and engagement strategy
• lead media relations and reputation management
• act as a senior advisor to leadership on messaging and reputational risk
• oversee storytelling across volunteering, training and community impact
• lead digital communications strategy across social and online channels
• strengthen internal communications for staff and volunteers
• use insight, performance data and audience feedback to improve impact
• line manage the Marketing and Content Executive

We are looking for:

• significant communications or PR experience in a charity, public sector or values-led organisation
• demonstrable experience leading digital channels and social strategy
• a track record of delivering high-impact campaigns and securing positive media coverage
• experience handling reputation or crisis communications
• excellent writing and editorial skills
• strong analytical capability and experience using insight to drive decisions
• collaborative leadership and line management experience

This is an opportunity to shape the voice of a respected national charity and play a visible leadership role in how we communicate our impact across Scotland.