Penumbra is one of Scotland’s largest mental health organisations which works to promote mental health and wellbeing, prevent mental ill health for people who are at risk, and support those with mental health challenges to live a fulfilling life.

As an advocate for change, Penumbra campaigns to influence government policies at both national and local levels. It also strives to enhance public awareness and understanding surrounding mental health issues, paving the way for a more compassionate and inclusive society.

Penumbra is dedicated to delivering exceptional care through high quality, personalised, and recovery focused services to adults and young people experiencing mental ill-health. Penumbra delivers a range of services including supported living and supported accommodation services; community/social inclusion services including Crisis, and Distress Brief Intervention Services; self-harm projects, including the Self-harm Network Scotland; support for Survivors of In-Care Abuse; and suicide bereavement support, to name but a few.

Penumbra has experienced and responded to a significant increase in demand for its services. Over the last year, the charity delivered 77 individual services, supporting 17,755 people. As an organisation it therefore needs to develop so that it can support the mental health needs of Scotland in the years ahead. Empowered by its 2021-25 strategic plan, Penumbra is committed to expanding its reach so that people have access to the right support at the right time.

To do this, Penumbra needs to achieve its full income generating potential as a national third sector organisation. As a key part of Penumbra’s Leadership Team, you will develop and implement our Business Development strategy, blending statutory and commissioned funding with trading and fundraising, You will develop and lead our Business Development team and will play a vital role in how we grow and deliver for the people of Scotland.

We are looking for someone who has experience of working at a senior strategic level and who has extensive experience in a commercially focussed environment. We are happy to hear from you if you are from the third, private or public sector. You will need to evidence that your strategy and execution have produced significant income benefit for your organisation. You will also need to have drive, determination to succeed, and leadership experience in getting your team to produce tangible results and, above all, an empathy and passion for the work of Penumbra.

If this sounds like you and you would like to learn more about this opportunity, please contact us today for the full candidate pack. PLEASE NOTE, THIS ROLE CLOSES ON WEDNESDAY 29TH MAY SO EARLY APPLICATIONS ARE WELCOMED.

Looking for an exciting challenge at the heart of our world leading cultural brands? This is an unmissable opportunity to make a substantial contribution to the success of Edinburgh’s Festivals.

Are you looking for an exciting challenge at the heart of our world leading cultural brands? After nearly a decade of transformative leadership, our current Director is stepping aside, creating an exciting opportunity for a new leader - an unmissable opportunity to make a substantial contribution to the future success of Edinburgh’s Festivals.

Edinburgh’s Festivals are world-class cultural assets for Scotland with an international reputation and appeal unmatched by any other cultural event on the globe. They are distinctively Scottish and yet profoundly international.

Festivals Edinburgh is the high-level organisation, created and driven by the directors of those festivals. Our mission is simple - to work collaboratively to maintain and develop Edinburgh’s position as a world leading sustainable festival city.

Transformation and renewal in our operating environment brings unique opportunities to develop strong relationships with new leaders due to be appointed in 2024; and to work in partnership towards planned new investment from a pioneering Visitor Levy for Edinburgh that will benefit Edinburgh’s culture and heritage, city management and promotion.

This is a unique opportunity for a proven leader. You will have exceptional influencing skills, be able to broker and manage partnerships, and be a passionate advocate. You will be able to command the respect of peers and partners, and work collaboratively and authoritatively to deliver success.

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 Head of Professional Engagement 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, stroke and long covid conditions to live life to the full again. Our Community Healthcare Support Service model forms 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, long covid or after a stroke.

To support the delivery of our ambitious NLHL strategy, CHSS seeks to appoint a Head of Professional Engagement who will lead the operational delivery of all of our education and health information services for health care professionals across the country and service users alike.

This critical role will have responsibility for the creation and execution of a professional engagement strategy, including a clear CHSS prospectus for continuing professional development for health care professionals working with those with our conditions, and the design, development and implementation of a new CHSS Learning Management System.

CHSS is in search of a leader with an exceptional knowledge of the health & social care landscape and who understands the evolving educational needs of health Care professionals who work within those environments. They should have a background of working with educational and / or health information services and have the ability to lead a team to deliver an educational prospectus that provides a quality of experience that matches health care professionals needs and expectations and demonstrably adds value to the wider health/social care systems within which we operate.

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”.