Are you a funding or fundraising whizz looking for an opportunity to use your funding or fundraising skills to help Scotland's charities and voluntary organisations to understand the funding landscape better, increase their funding and build their fundraising skills?

Funding Scotland provides in-person and online funding learning and engagement, shares insights into the funding landscape, and manages the biggest grants and funding platform in Scotland. Every year we support hundreds of people and organisations on their funding and fundraising journey. This post is your chance to be at the heart of making that happen.

About the role

We’re recruiting a one-year post to cover the planning and delivery of our Funding Scotland service to ensure Scotland’s charities and other voluntary organisations are supported to thrive.

You’ll have the opportunity to contribute to the development of the service by using your funding/fundraising knowledge and your project management skills to:

• Engage and build relationships with stakeholders across the sector
• Design and deliver online and in-person learning opportunities
• Share funding/fundraising expertise through presentations and other events
• Identify ways to develop funding.scot and ensure its data is accurate and timely
• Contribute to our Fair Funding work
• Collaborate with teams across SCVO to support one another’s plans

About you

• You’ll have worked in a funding, fundraising or grants management post previously, and be comfortable sharing your expertise.

• Your strong project or service management skills will enable you to develop and coordinate the Funding Scotland service throughout the year.

• You’ll bring engaging communication skills to build relationships and present learning and support confidently to the sector.

How we’ll support you

While this is a standalone post, it works with teams across SCVO so you’ll be joining a skilled, experienced staff team who are keen to help you to succeed. This includes our digital, customer service, comms, and learning and events teams.

You’ll also be supported directly by the Head of Information and Support in finding your feet and prioritising your workload.

SCVO is a supportive employer, with many wellbeing support policies and a values-driven approach.

Part time hours and other flexible working options, including working from home for part of the week, will be fully considered. We encourage you to apply if you believe you meet most of the criteria in the person specification. We share our interview questions in advance. If you want to have a chat about the job or our flexible working approach, please contact us at HR@scvo.scot

Do you want to create a safer, brighter future for all children in Scotland?

Children First, Scotland’s national children’s charity, is seeking to appoint a part-time (17.5 hours) Support line Service Manager. By joining our team, you will help us stand up for children, keep them safe and support them to recover from trauma and abuse through our national and local services.

The role

Based in Edinburgh, with hybrid working an option, the role involves leading on the day-to-day implementation, management, development and growth of our free confidential support line for families, carers and professionals in Scotland.

Today’s generation are facing unprecedented challenges. From mental health, money worries and online harm, to struggles at school, our support line can offer emotional, practical and financial support to any family in Scotland. We also offer advice to anyone who is concerned about a child’s wellbeing.

Taking a child-centred approach, you will work to ensure the safety of children and young people by protecting and promoting their rights.

What we are looking for

You will be an inspiring leader and will possess a degree or diploma in social work, or equivalent professional qualification at SCQF level 9, in addition to recent significant experience in a relevant practice area relating to young people. Experience working in mental health, emotional wellbeing or trauma-informed support services is desirable.

What you can expect from us

As well as a rewarding career and development opportunities, we offer 40 days annual leave per year pro rata, a contributory pension scheme, generous maternity/adoption and paternity leave, flexible working opportunities and wellbeing support.

With a supportive and inclusive working environment, the salary for this role is £42,500 - £48,900 pro rate per annum covering 17.5 hours per week (21,250 to £24,450).

Our values

Living our values, you will make a direct impact to the lives of children across Scotland. With love, we put children first. With purpose, we transform children’s lives together. With strength, we do whatever it takes to protect Scotland’s children.

We believe all children should have hopes, dreams and opportunities. But for many they don’t exist. This has to stop. We must put children first.

We welcome and encourage applications from potential colleagues from all backgrounds, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, belief, disability who share our values.

Do you have what it takes to join our team and help us protect children and keep them safe? We would love to hear from you.

The Relationships Scotland Network is the largest provider of family and relationship support in the country. We offer relationship counselling, family mediation and child contact centres through a network of 20 member services across Scotland, which provide face-to-face support to around 15,000 people each year.

We are looking for a motivated and hardworking individual to join our team as a Communications and Marketing Manager, on a fixed term maternity cover basis. The primary purpose of this role is to work with the Chief Executive to deliver and further develop the Relationships Scotland Network’s Strategy as it relates to communications, marketing and political engagement.

This is a new post funded through the Whole Family Support Third Sector Delivery Fund and Weave Partnership. We are in this partnership with One Parent Families Scotland, Families Outside, and Fife Gingerbread. The Scottish Poverty and Inequality Research Unit (SPIRU) will be the learning and evaluation partner.

The post has been funded until 31st March 2027 in the first instance, with the intention set by Scottish Government that this funding will be extended to 31st March 2029.

We have an office in Edinburgh and would expect the post-holder to work from here on a Tuesday (this is our office day). The remaining hours can be worked remotely if needed, or there is a desk space at York Place if you prefer to be office based. Additional office days will be required for meetings in person.

Firefly International’s vision is to promote peace, stability and tolerance in communities affected by war. We support locally-led projects in areas severely affected by conflict that provide safe and inclusive spaces for children to learn and thrive. By focusing on education, the arts, health and well-being, we help to reduce local tensions and promote peaceful dialogue. Currently we support projects in Bosnia Herzegovina and Syria, and support Palestinian communities through funding to partners in Palestine and Egypt.

Firefly International is looking for a part-time Fundraiser to lead our work on legacy giving.

The Fundraiser position is a new post for Firefly International. This position has been made possible through a specific three-year grant we have been awarded to improve our organisational capacity and strengthen our fundraising systems, in particular for legacy giving. We are currently finalising a strategy for legacy and in memory giving and this post will be key for its delivery.

The main purpose of this post is to lead the development of this work on legacy giving and related organisational capacity development, to play a key role in Firefly’s wider fundraising and to co-ordinate closely with other colleagues in our small team of four, particularly those working on finance and on communications and external engagement.

The objective of this post is to strengthen Firefly’s current fundraising approaches and systems with the ultimate aim of increasing the charity’s income and thereby the support available for our partners and the children our joint work serves.

Responsiblities

The Fundraiser will be responsible for:

- Leading work to develop and deliver Firefly’s legacy fundraising approach as a key element within a wider fundraising strategy including in memory giving, community fundraising, etc.

- Identifying related capacity improvements required (e.g. database use, CRM information quality, external communications materials, etc.) and implementing such improvements.

- Contributing to Firefly’s wider fundraising strategy development and delivery.

- Representing Firefly when required, for example at meetings with potential donors, supporters or at fundraising events.

- Helping to shape strategies for, and undertaking, supporter engagement and stewardship.

- Managing key relationships across the Firefly team, Board, with supporters, their families and important interlocutors such as solicitors.

This Fundraiser post has no supervisory responsibilities. However, responsibilities may periodically, and in agreement with the post-holder, involve the oversight and support of volunteers or interns.

Person Specifications

Required experience and qualifications for this Fundraiser role would include:

- At least 3 years’ experience of fundraising, including of legacy fundraising.

- At least 3 years’ experience of supporter stewardship and engagement.

- Sensitivity and strong communication skills – the ability to engage a variety of people on potentially difficult topics and advocate and express themselves clearly.

- People skills and experience of relationship management.

- Attention to detail and a methodical approach to internal systems and external communications.

- Experience of financial management and analysis of fundraising income.

- Experience of and competence in using CRM systems, preferably Donorfy (Firefly’s CRM).

- Understanding of the constraints of a small charity, and willingness to be adaptable and supportive member of a small team.

- Fluent English and strong written and verbal communication skills.

Desirable experience and qualifications for this Fundraiser role would include:

- Membership of Chartered Institute of Fundraising

- Knowledge of the Scottish charity sector and/or of global development work.

- Knowledge and experience of ‘in memory’ giving.

- Knowledge and experience of fundraising for charity endowment funds.

- Training qualifications in CRM systems and/or fundraising.

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK or be eligible to obtain the right to work in the UK by the start date. Firefly International is not able to sponsor a visa for this role.