Bruce Tait Associates (BTA) is excited to present a unique leadership opportunity at Positive Changes (Scotland) CIC. As the organisation prepares for a significant transition, with founder Joyce Murray stepping aside, a new visionary is needed to lead this transformative social enterprise.
Positive Changes is dedicated to empowering women who have touched the Scottish justice system, helping them to forge a brighter future. Through their initiative, Grace Chocolates changing lives, they produce and sell exquisite artisan chocolates. All proceeds are reinvested into the enterprise, supporting women in gaining valuable work experience and life skills, and funding their personal development through mentoring and well-being programmes.
The incoming CEO will have the privilege of building on a solid foundation and guiding Positive Changes to new heights. This role is a remarkable opportunity to drive social impact, foster sustainable growth, and lead a team committed to changing lives through the power of employment and support.
BTA seeks a leader who is not only aligned with the ethos and goals of Positive Changes but also possesses strong business acumen and a proven track record in leadership, ideally within the justice system or social services. This role offers not just a career but a chance to make a significant social impact, providing the right candidate with a fulfilling leadership position in social transformation.
The position is based in Stirling and comes with a competitive salary, reflecting the crucial role the CEO will play in the organisation.
For those driven to lead, inspire, and advocate for social impact, this CEO role at Positive Changes represents an amazing opportunity to effect change. The new leader will not only continue the legacy of impactful work but also can innovate and expand the reach of the organisation, ensuring its continued success and increased influence in the community.
As a public body determined to play our part in tackling the twin climate and nature crises the National Park Authority is aiming to be a net zero organisation by 2030 and for the National Park to be a net zero place in time. Over the next decade we will make a real step change in how we operate – putting emissions reduction and climate adaptation at the heart of our decision-making and actions.
The purpose of this key role is to drive the delivery of the National Park Authority becoming a climate ready organisation. This includes our Mission Zero; the rapid decarbonisation of our operations to become net zero Greenhouse Gas emissions by 2030, and leading climate adaptation planning across our estate.
Responsibilities:
·Lead delivery of the organisation’s Mission Zero Route Map by 2030, a multi-year programme of decarbonisation across the National Park Authority’s estate and fleet.
·Lead the planning and delivery of agreed climate adaptation measures for our estate (comprised of offices, visitor centres, ranger bases, piers, slipways, car parks, public greenspaces).
·Develop and deliver a comprehensive, timely and effective monitoring programme for Mission Zero, which includes but is not limited to meeting the annual statutory climate change reporting duties. Produce regular reports on the progress of decarbonisation and performance against the 2030 target date.
·Identify and secure internal and externally sourced resources to help deliver decarbonisation and adaptation measures. Manage associated budgets. Lead an effective, cross-organisational Mission Zero programme team.
·Procure and manage specialist consultants and contractors to help deliver Mission Zero and climate adaptation measures.
·Develop the necessary partnerships and engagement with other public bodies, such as local authorities and key private sector partners, to develop and deliver decarbonisation and adaptation of National Park Authority sites.
·Work with colleagues to help engage fellow staff, Board members and stakeholders in Mission Zero and estate adaptation. Help inform and advise engagement, education and communications that share our journey of becoming a climate ready organization.
·Undertake any other duties appropriate to the grade as required.
Who we are looking for:
Your skills, abilities and experience should include:
·Experience of leading delivery of capital infrastructure projects with associated procurement and contract management
·Experience or understanding of estate decarbonization
·Experience of leading successful programme/project management, including development, delivery, coordination, forward planning, monitoring, and reporting
·Experience of leading budget planning and management
·Experience of managing internal/external stakeholders
·Excellent organisational skills
·Strong, logical problem-solving skills
·Ability to manage a diverse workload, prioritise tasks, plan and meet deadlines
·Degree in a related discipline (e.g., built environment professions) or equivalent experience
Ideally, but not essential, you’ll also have:
·Experience of multi-year capital infrastructure programmes/projects
·Experience of emissions monitoring and reporting, and assessing progress on achieving net zero
·Experience of climate adaptation planning
·Experience of securing external funding for capital delivery projects
·Experience of energy audits, energy efficiency measures, retrofit projects, and/or renewable energy technologies
·Experience in the public sector
·Understanding of the current Scottish Government’s priorities and strategies in respect of Climate Change mitigation and adaptation
Who we are and our values:
We offer flexible and remote working, with a generous pension scheme and annual leave allowance. Staff have access to wellbeing services and there is a strong focus on wellbeing throughout the organisation.
Being part of Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park Authority means being passionate about what you do, working hard to inspire and lead the way for others. We care about each other and are accessible and friendly treating each other with respect and understanding, we think about our planet with each decision we make. Together, we are the difference.
Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park Authority are proud to celebrate difference. Diversity of experience is vital in our success; we want our business to be representative to the communities we work alongside. As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applicants from a wide range of individuals, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, gender identity and expression, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
Victim Support Scotland – Empowering People Affected by Crime.
We put victims and witnesses at the heart of everything we do so they are heard, have improved health and well-being, feel safer, more secure, and informed and that we are an effective organisation, that makes a lasting difference.
Who We Are?
Victim Support Scotland provides support and information to people affected by crime and campaigns for victim and witness rights. Regardless of whether a crime has been reported, or when it happened, our services are free, confidential, and tailored to individuals’ needs. Our vision is that people affected by crime – victims, witnesses, and their families – are treated with dignity and respect and are at the heart of the justice in Scotland. Our mission is to ensure that all those affected by crime receive high quality support that will help them to recover from their experiences. All our work is guided and underpinned by our six core principles of being engaging and compassionate; inclusive and accessible; person-centred; adaptive, flexible, and responsive; collaborative; and knowledgeable and skilled. Now is the time to join Victim Support Scotland, helping us work towards the ambitions of our 5-year plan: Empowering people affected by crime: VSS Strategy 2021-2026.
VSS is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all of our service users and has a thorough and rigorous recruitment and selection process including PVG scheme checks in place to ensure this commitment is met.
What is the role
This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Support Co-ordinator , working 14 hours per week.
Thursdays 9-6pm
Saturdays 10-4pm
The successful candidate must have access to their own vehicle and willingness to travel off the islands on occasion (e.g. for training or development activities)
Primary location: Lerwick, however you will be expected to cover throughout the locality is required.
Reporting directly to a Locality Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring, within your Service(s), that VSS’s local service development and delivery plan is being implemented within your geographical area(s). Service delivery is provided by a team of skilled and knowledgeable volunteers, you will be responsible for planning their deployment to ensure that the service delivered meets the desired outcomes of victims and witnesses of crime, our service users. Responsible for all aspects of a volunteer engagement with VSS at your services, including recruitment, induction, learning and development, ongoing performance management and support. Contributing to business planning and co-ordination ensuring that continuous learning takes place to monitor that the outcomes of service users are being met.
If you are looking for a role with a purpose, where you can really make a difference, then this may be the role for you.
What you’ll need to be successful
We are looking for someone who is experienced in a similar role and can evidence of continuing professional development, effective leadership style, able to build confidence, motivate and improve performance. Analytical skills, must be able to understand, collect, analyse, report and present data. The ability to challenge stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination and bias. Good working knowledge of the voluntary/charity sector is required, as is a willingness to be flexible in working hours and able to travel as required.
Please note - This post will be subject to a satisfactory PVG check, references, and proof that you have the right to work in the UK.
What we offer?
When you work for Victim Support Scotland, your wellbeing is important to us. Not only do we offer an enhanced annual leave package of 39 days, but you will also have access to our free health cash plan which includes cover for you and your family across a range of benefits, which include, dental cover, access to a virtual GP, counselling, legal support and discounts on gym memberships, cinema tickets, retail and much more. In addition we offer a generous pension, enhanced maternity and paternity pay and access to a credit union. Supporting employee development is important to us and we offer comprehensive learning and development opportunities.
It is an exciting time at Inclusion Scotland as we recently welcomed our new Chief Executive. We have created new positions so that we can better serve our membership and continue our work to influence policy and practice. We are delighted to have opportunities for new people to join us and want to meet candidates who share our values and commitment to Inclusion Scotland’s mission.
We are looking for a Senior Administrator who will work closely with the Chief Executive to enable the Board of Trustees to effectively govern the organisation in conjunction with the senior leadership team. The Senior Administrator will lead on ensuring Inclusion Scotland is an accessible employer, contributing to achieving the vision of disabled people being fully included throughout all Scottish society as equal citizens.
Leading the administration team, the Senior Administrator will provide line management and oversee the team’s work, ensuring that a highly effective and accessible administrative service is provided.
It is an exciting time at Inclusion Scotland as we recently welcomed our new Chief Executive. We have created new positions so that we can better serve our membership and continue our work to influence policy and practice. We are delighted to have opportunities for new people to join us and want to meet candidates who share our values and commitment to Inclusion Scotland’s mission.
We are looking for an experienced leader to join us as Head of Programmes and Development. This is a new senior leadership position, focused on strong leadership and collaboration to enable the organisation to deliver, innovate and serve its membership to achieve the vision of disabled people being fully included throughout all Scottish society as equal citizens.
The Head of Programmes and Development will take a lead role in developing Inclusion Scotland’s social enterprise. They will identify business development opportunities which improve experiences for disabled people across Scotland, and lead on implementing agreed income generation activities.
They will lead on ensuring high quality programmes are delivered and continuously improved and will identify opportunities for new projects which aim to increase the inclusion of disabled people.
They will contribute to the development of organisational strategies and those involving programmes and business development and lead their team to deliver those strategies.
It is an exciting time at Inclusion Scotland as we recently welcomed our new Chief Executive. We have created new positions so that we can better serve our membership and continue our work to influence policy and practice. We are delighted to have opportunities for new people to join us and want to meet candidates who share our values and commitment to Inclusion Scotland’s mission.
We are looking for an experienced leader to join us as Head of Programmes and Development. This is a new senior leadership position, focused on strong leadership and collaboration to enable the organisation to deliver, innovate and serve its membership to achieve the vision of disabled people being fully included throughout all Scottish society as equal citizens.
The Head of Programmes and Development will take a lead role in developing Inclusion Scotland’s social enterprise. They will identify business development opportunities which improve experiences for disabled people across Scotland, and lead on implementing agreed income generation activities.
They will lead on ensuring high quality programmes are delivered and continuously improved and will identify opportunities for new projects which aim to increase the inclusion of disabled people.
They will contribute to the development of organisational strategies and those involving programmes and business development and lead their team to deliver those strategies.
Clan Childlaw is Scotland’s law centre for children and young people. Clan Childlaw is a team and everything that everyone at Clan Childlaw does to deliver our services and keep things running all helps to protect and strengthen children’s rights and improve their lives.
Purpose of the role:
You will provide professional and efficient business management to Clan Childlaw’s operations functions. Supporting the senior management team in ensuring quality delivery of our strategic aims, you will be responsible for fostering an environment of continuous improvement for all our business operations. This is a vital role in a busy team that provides essential support for all the important work of our ambitious organisation.
Person Specification:
This is a great role for an experienced senior administrator or business manager who really wants to get to know how a charity operates across all departments. As you’ll be the lynchpin of our organisation, working with everyone across Clan and interacting with key external stakeholders you will be a confident and effective communicator in a variety of settings and formats, including both verbal and written communication. In this varied and fast paced role, you will use your critical thinking and problem-solving skills to overcome challenges and your ability to think outside the box to come up with new ways of doing things. You will utilise your people management skills to support and develop the Operations team to deliver their best. To find out more about the role please download the job description here.
Membership of the PVG Scheme is essential for this role and the successful candidate will be required to apply for the scheme and produce an acceptable PVG Scheme Record.
Scottish Drugs Forum (SDF) is Scotland’s national resource of expertise on drugs and related issues. We seek to lead and represent the drugs field in Scotland in order to improve Scotland’s response to problem drug use. SDF works with policy makers, service planners and commissioners, service managers and staff as well as people who use or have used services to ensure service quality and evidence-based policy and practice.
We are pleased to be recruiting a Development Officer – Living Experience. This is a great opportunity to work as part of a busy and dynamic team.
About the Project:
SDF has been funded by the Scottish Government to deliver a project ensuring the opinions and experience of people living with drug problems, ‘the voice of living experience’ in Scotland informs and influences policy and the development of services across Scotland.
The focus of the Development Officer’s work is to recruit, train, support and sustain local and regional networks of people with current living experience of problem drug use / being in treatment. Regional representatives will form a national group which will inform the drug treatment and care sector, the government and the wider public about the experience of drug use, accessing and being in treatment and other support services.
About the Post Holder:
We encourage applications from people with their own direct lived experience of problem drug use who can use their experience and their own peer networks in developing these roles. As the role requires the post holder to engage with a diverse range of people with living experience, it is essential that applicants are knowledgeable of problem use of various substances and are knowledgeable and supportive of recovery including having a sound understanding of harm reduction, all available treatment and all forms of mutual aid.
Benefits of working at SDF:
As an SDF employee you will benefit from generous annual leave entitlement, a range of learning and development opportunities, competitive pension contribution, enhanced sick pay and an employee support and counselling service. SDF encourage a healthy work life balance and offer a flexible working scheme.
Our ambition is to work together to promote a more inclusive environment, which attracts all candidates and signals our commitment to celebrate and promote diversity.
Whilst this position is home-based, is envisaged that approximately 70% of the role will be in person work inclusive of travel time covering a wide geography across Scotland. Regular travel to the head office in Glasgow is required based on needs of the project.
Role
Do you have relevant experience of working with volunteers and community groups around the topic of local heritage?
What was there before the tenements?
Our Management Board would like to develop a digital heritage platform to host (What was there before the Tenements?) with the aim to explore Royston's history and heritage through archived photography and document collections available at local and national archives and how it relates to the local and national story of industry, transport, and housing.
Through community and partnership collaboration we aim to celebrate and share our history and culture in new and exciting ways. The heritage activities we have planned are incredibly valuable to our community and will help people have a greater sense of identity, place, and increased community spirit, pulling people together and encouraging learning.
A heritage engagement officer will be recruited whose role will be to coordinate and administrate the project whilst providing additional support to learner /volunteers’ personal development. A community engagement/volunteering mentoring programme will be established to recruit and build capacity through volunteers whose role will be to research, promote and share our heritage findings by increasing the use of digital technology, digital participation whilst creating an online digital heritage platform.
We want to see the benefits of our past heritage delivered to people to feel a greater connection with their heritage and that of others by :
• Researching the archived Garngad/Royston collection held at the Mitchell Library including accessing the digitised Special Collection of photographs and research documents providing alternative means of access via our online digital platform. Participants and volunteers will have the opportunity to visit the Mitchell Library and browse the collection in person whilst receiving onsite training increasing volunteer's skills.
• Our community reminiscence sessions guided by trained experts, will provide opportunities for gathering our rich heritage sources and allow people to recall their experiences of living, working, and socialising in the local area.
• Providing public access by creating a local and national online digital presence. sharing and celebrating our local history/heritage resources making them more available to visitors and increasing access to virtual visitors via our online website.
• Volunteers will become familiar with the range of skills needed for the meaningful documentation of our heritage and cultural assets, and the ability to present them effectively for the use by varied user groups and audiences engaged in areas such as cultural heritage tourism both locally and nationally
• People have shared stories that they felt would be lost due to an ageing community if not captured now, stories regarding the regeneration and development of the area with regards to housing, industry, and social relationships.
What we are looking for....
You will facilitate project delivery and support the development of Community Engagement using Heritage as an engagement tool to increase participation in our new, What was there before the tenements? project.
You will liaise with organisations, community groups and individuals to create volunteering opportunities.
The Heritage Engagement Officer will recruit, engage volunteers in training programme and provide guidance and support to volunteers.
What we offer...
As well as a supportive team and excellent training opportunities, we want all our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, an excellent employer pension scheme and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers.
Advice Direct Scotland is Scotland’s largest digital advice agency, with twenty years’ experience in supporting the people of Scotland across a range of complex and challenging issues. We have developed a reputation as an innovative, forward-thinking organisation, working with a diverse range of partners, including the Scottish Government.
We have an excellent opportunity for a Consumer Project Lead to join our team. This is the perfect opportunity to work in a role with clear career progression, with full support and training offered. Our collaborative, supportive environment gives you the chance to build solid relationships with senior leaders, peers and clients alike. This is a place where you can thrive and grow!
Innovation, creativity and staff engagement are at the heart of everything we do, as it ensures that we are providing our customers with a high-quality service.
We are working to ensure that as many people as possible can benefit from high quality advice services when and where they need it.
We are one of only 30 estimated companies currently operating in the UK who offer a "4-Day Same-Pay" working week.
Purpose of Role
To aid the Director of Business Development and Policy in ensuring that the organisation is a leading brand within Scotland's consumer advice sector.
We also offer:
30.5 days annual leave (38 days pro rata)
Up to 8% employer pension contribution
Death in service insurance
Reward and benefit programmes such as car and bike schemes