The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is one of the world’s leading botanic gardens and a global centre for biodiversity science, horticulture and education. Our vision is of a positive future for plants, people and the planet. Our team works to raise the funds and public awareness to make this vision a reality, and we are looking for a motivated individual to join us. We are in the midst of our hugely exciting Edinburgh Biomes project, a seven-year initiative to restore our heritage Palm Houses, build new research facilities, and protect the Garden’s unique and globally important plant collection for the future.
As part of this we are looking to expand our dynamic Individual Giving team. You will work closely with the Head of Individual Giving to develop multi-channel public appeals, utilising print, digital and on-site opportunities. You’ll play a key role in writing our stewardship communications, growing a pipeline to further engage donors and members, leading to increased income.
Applicants will ideally have previous experience in managing digital campaigns, and the ability to write creative and compelling cases for support. You will need to have excellent relationship building skills, as the role requires collaboration with other teams across the Garden.
Further information on the Palm Houses appeal can be found on our website at rbge.org.uk/palmhouses
About us
At Sound Lab, we believe ‘music matters’ and that music and creativity should not just be available for those who can readily access and afford it; it should be available to everyone.
Our vision is that, irrespective of age, gender, race, ethnicity or economic background, everyone should have equal access to the resources and support they need to fulfil their creative potential. We work to overcome barriers that can prevent people accessing opportunities in music by providing expert music-making education and mentoring support. We focus on children and young people who often do not receive the same opportunities as their peers, specifically care experienced young people; children with disabilities; and young people from an unaccompanied, asylum-seeking or refugee background.
In recent years, in a challenging external funding context, we are proud to have carefully maintained a steady growth as a small charity. We have recently recruited a fantastic new staff team who are taking our programmes and operations to the next level, and helping to accommodate the ever-increasing demand for our programmes.
We are recruiting for a new treasurer to help steward and maintain our financial good health at this exciting point in our journey. This is a voluntary role with travel and other subsistence expenses paid.
Role Summary
The Treasurer will help to monitor and steward the financial position of The Sound Lab, maintain processes to ensure financial stability and ensure that the Board of Trustees fulfils its duties in safeguarding the sound financial health of the charity. Detailed responsibilities can be found overleaf.
Who Should Apply?
You do not need to be an accountant, but it would help if you like working with numbers.
You do not need to be a musician, but it helps if you love music!
We would welcome candidates with previous Treasurer experience, however, would be happy to support the development of someone who is earlier in their career and hoping to gain further knowledge and skills. This extends to offering any training and support to develop in the role.
You come to Sound Lab at a point of financial health and with effective financial processes in place, proportionate to a charity of our size; however, we always look for continuous improvement, and an exciting facet of the role is looking proactively to continuously improve our financial infrastructure.
You will form a key part of a small board of trustees who, alongside the staff team, help to maintain and foster a culture of support and care for everyone involved with Sound Lab. We believe in the power music can have in people’s lives. If you share that belief, we’d love to hear from you.
Our current Treasurer is also happy to support your induction and walk-through of our financial systems. This role is expected to take 2-3 hours per week when the Treasurer is fully inducted.
Detailed Responsibilities:
• Oversight and strategic guardianship of Sound Lab’s legal and financial integrity
• Reporting to the Board of Trustees on issues of cash-flow, forecasting and the overall management of Sound Lab’s financial resources
• Preparation and approval of payment runs in conjunction with the Programme & Development Manager
• Lead on ensuring all Sound Lab’s strategic plans are financially appraised and budgets are aligned to both short-term and long-term objectives each year.
• Keeping accurate financial records and invoice management.
• Use of Bank of Scotland online platform for payment runs and updating account signatories as required
• Assisting in the preparation of grant funding applications on an ad-hoc basis.
• Ensure our annual accounts and report are prepared and submitted to OSCR on a timely basis
• Liaise with an external examiner in relation to the annual preparation of our financial accounts
• Develop and maintain reserves policy to safeguard the organisation’s finances, ensuring the board are kept informed of the position regularly and given financial forecasting advice
• Understand Sound Lab’s business plan for and support the Board of Trustees and other volunteers to help achieve its aims
• Attend six Board meetings per annum, or as required.
Do you want to make a difference to the environment, diverse local communities and the North East of Scotland as a whole? Are you seeking a role as a community learning and development practitioner where you can use your skills for the good of the planet? If so, join NESCAN Hub as our new Community Development Lead.
NESCAN Hub is a fast-paced diverse non-profit organisation run by an inclusive small, committed team dedicated to achieving a sustainable N.E. Scotland by enabling community led climate action.
We are looking for an engaging and skilful individual who has a rich understanding of community learning and development practice (with a relevant CLD qualification), can lead and co-ordinate delivery to support community climate action and is passionate about working towards transformative change.
Main Purpose:
To provide immediate holistic person centered advice, information and representation to vulnerable individuals/families with young children (pre-birth to 3) & support to colleagues working with vulnerable families and where necessary, refer and support clients to access appropriate advice agencies
The advice and representation offered will focus on the consequences of the Welfare reform Act and the economic downturn – seeking to resolve the practical barriers and stressors that inhibit attachment, primarily (but not exclusively) Money, Benefits, Debt, and Housing
This new innovative service has three specific outcomes/ objectives:
To represent clients at Social Security Appeal Tribunals and Disability Appeal tribunals focusing on those which are a consequence of Welfare reform and the economic downturn.
Delivering a series of training sessions/information sessions to front line family workers & parents primarily, (but not exclusively) on Money, Benefits, Debt, Financial capacity, Employment rights and Housing
Project Delivery
The Rural Parents Advice Project worker covers Stirling District and access to advice on the frontline is essential and the worker would construct their availability and geographic location to maximise opportunity for vulnerable families to engage with the minimum of obstacles.
Appointment to this post is conditional on two satisfactory references and a current PVG certificate.
Organisational Responsibility:Directly line managed by the Stirling District Citizens Advice Bureau CEO
Every day people with chest, heart and stroke conditions are leaving hospital scared and alone. You can be part of our mission to make sure that there is no life half lived in Scotland.
By joining Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS) as Finance Officer (Sales Ledger) you can be the difference between people just surviving and really living.
You will be part of Scotland’s leading charity providing support to people with chest, heart and stroke conditions to live life to the full again. Our Hospital to Home services form a nationwide network of local support groups, nurses, volunteers and one-to-one support teams helping families adjust to life with a heart or lung condition or after a stroke.
The Finance Officer Sales Ledger (SL) provides finance support across the charity with specific focus on the Sales Ledger and associated elements. This position is a great opportunity for anyone who wants to develop their experience in a finance role, being part of a team and supporting the delivery of our No Life Half Lived Strategy.
The Finance Officer (SL) role key aims are to manage, record and process our sales ledger financial activities for both the Charity and the Trading Company, support the period end processes and preparation of the monthly management accounts.
CHSS employees enjoy a variety of organisational benefits including: Company pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, company sick pay, employee welfare support and life assurance.
CHSS also supports flexible recruitment through Working Families and we are “Happy to Talk Flexible Working”.
Blue Triangle is a social care organisation that empowers people to thrive, by delivering solutions in connected communities which focus on the needs of each individual. We are looking for enthusiastic people who share our values (Kind, Passionate and Creative) to join our services accommodating and supporting people experiencing homelessness and empowering them to thrive.
If successful, you will be required to register with the Scottish Social Services Council within 6 months of your start date. After registration, there is a requirement to be qualified and to maintain professional learning, which we will support you to achieve.
Blue Triangle recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.
We welcome applications from all sections of the community.
What we offer:
Aside from offering a supportive and friendly environment where our people are valued and appreciated, we’ll see that your hard work and drive to succeed is rewarded.
And many more!
About the Role:
As a Peripatetic Support Worker, you will be a valuable and flexible resource for your assigned geographical regions to provide cover when required. You will provide a dynamic response to ensure that our services continue to deliver high quality support to our Supported People across various Local Authority areas. As the role is spread across different services, you must hold a UK driving licence and be able to drive to be considered for this role, your travel time will be taken into account when travelling to different services as well as the relevant travel expenses if applicable. With the Peripatetic Support Workers covering various services, a full induction per service will be delivered and you will have a dedicated manager to oversee.
Main Responsibilities:
This is a new exciting opportunity with Blue Triangle as a Peripatetic Support Worker role. These roles involve working on a rota covering various days per week across multiple locations which may include periods of lone working and weekend work completing 12-hour night shifts between the times of 8pm-8am. We are looking for 2x 24 hour per week contracts and a 36 hour per week contract.
The Peripatetic Support Worker will:
About You:
Stroke Association. Rebuilding lives after stroke.
When stroke strikes, part of your brain shuts down. And so does a part of you. That’s because a stroke happens in the brain, the control centre for who we are and what we can do. It happens every five minutes in the UK and changes lives instantly. Recovery is tough, but with the right specialist support and a ton of courage and determination, the brain can adapt.
We believe everyone deserves to live the best life they can after stroke. And it’s a team effort to get there.
We provide specialist support, fund critical research and campaign to make sure people affected by stroke get the very best care and support to rebuild their lives.
We’re working to improve the diversity of our team. Because we know that individuality leads to a richer experience for our people and better support for those affected by stroke.
We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. And we’re particularly looking to increase the number of applications from those with lived experience of stroke and those from under-represented communities.
Every five minutes, stroke destroys lives. Help us rebuild them and join our team.
We developed a bold new corporate strategy so that we can rebuild more lives after stroke and make a bigger difference to people’s lives.
To help us deliver our strategy and make a real difference, we are looking to recruit talented people to a number of roles.
If you would like to support stroke survivors to rebuild their lives, we want to hear from you!
We are looking for a Communications Officer to support our team in Scotland to respond to Scottish media enquiries, delivering campaigns to influence health policy and support our fundraising and engagement comms activity.
Reporting to the PR Manager, the role will help deliver key media campaigns that call for change to support people to rebuild their lives after stroke.
Key responsibilities will include:
You will have experience of:
This role requires occasional travel across the UK to attend team days, conferences and researcher events. Candidates must be able to meet this requirement of the role.
To fulfil the role, you must be a resident of the UK and have the right to work in the UK.
Are you an experienced manager in health or social care and are looking for an exciting and challenging career development opportunity?
Do you believe that people with disabilities should have the same opportunities in life as everyone else and are you passionate about making a positive difference in people’s lives?
Are you self-motivated and able to lead and inspire others?
If your answer to these questions is “Yes”, then you may be the very person we are looking for!
Key is committed to developing high quality, flexible services which support people with a range of disabilities and complex needs to enjoy life to the full as active citizens within their communities.
We are seeking a highly motivated, confident, and enthusiastic individual for this role, with excellent leadership qualities and a commitment to personalised support that helps people lead their best lives.
We currently provide support to 30 amazing people and this post will help us develop and grow our services across Clackmannanshire.
Now is an exciting time to be part of the people we supports’ lives, and to join our team, so we really want to hear from you!
We are seeking someone who is confident in leading social care services, loves supporting people in their own homes and communities, and has experience leading and managing teams, and must be able to:
The post includes occasional evening and weekend working as well as support to teams out with ‘normal working hours’.
Elderpark Housing are a community based housing association operating within Govan and the surrounding areas. We are committed to providing high quality homes and supporting those living within our communities to prosper. We have an exciting opportunity for the right person to join our team as Tenancy Sustainment Advisor on a part time permanent basis.
This is a key role within our Housing Management Team. The successful candidate will work closely with our Housing Manager and Housing Officers to assist and support our tenants fully in sustaining their tenancies by providing them with information and guidance whilst forming strong partnerships with external support agencies.
The ideal candidate will have experience in working with vulnerable people, identifying their needs and assisting them to achieve positive outcomes. They will have knowledge of developing and implementing tenancy sustainment strategies, promote equality and diversity at all times building trust whilst maintaining confidentiality.
We are looking for someone who can demonstrate empathy and care with a willingness to support our tenants with sensitive and complex issues. Our values are caring, reliable, fair, open, adaptable and so we are looking for someone who will live these values through the service they provide helping us in our vision to create ‘a vibrant neighbourhood where everyone can prosper’.
In return you will join an award winning organisation who are committed to investing in the development of employees, encouraging a positive work life balance, who actively promote the wellbeing of employees with excellent terms and conditions and pension offering. We are committed to equality and diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
To Manage all aspects of the “The Knowe” Garden, growing and resource garden in Auchinleck.
KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: