Top job! Senior Project Officer, Innovation and Practice
- Full time or Part time
- £38,975 – £43,584
- Flexible. Must be comfortable with committing to regular travel both for project work and Involve team activities. Must be able to travel across the UK. (Remote)
- Closing 29th April 2024
- Advertised from 11th April 2024
- Full time preferred, 35 hours per week, with flexible or part time considered.
Role
We're looking for a Senior Project Officer, to work in our Innovation and Practice team and support exemplary, agile project management across Involve.
This is an exciting time to join the Involve team. Alongside increasing public and political interest in our approaches, we are increasing the size and impact of our project work. We have a couple of new multifaceted projects which need really effective and agile project management. As a Senior Project Officer you will contribute to all aspects of our delivery, with a particular focus on project and programme management of larger projects. Your main focus will be on:
- Project management and delivery - core project management and logistics, running onboarding for participants, event management, analysis and reporting, and facilitation
- Building our project management approach further - supporting Involve to build our project management capacity and resources that are appropriate for our creative, inclusive processes and culture
- Project and programme design - working with project teams to design entire projects and processes which use deliberative, qualitative and participatory methods
- Project impact - recording and monitoring how our projects work, the kinds of impacts they have, and the ways they contribute to Involve’s mission.
This Senior Project Officer role sits in our Innovation and Practice Function. Our team’s daily work includes setting up, managing, designing, delivering and reporting on a wide range of participatory and deliberative processes, ranging from small scale, hyper-local community engagements to large, national, multi-event Citizens’ Assemblies and longer term projects. Our processes can be face to face, hybrid, or online, and often involve bringing together different groups from within the public with interested parties and experts from across government, business , academia and civil society.
In addition, you would work closely with our Capacity Building and Standards team to support their work helping others to deliver these approaches and contribute to our communications and advocacy work. You will also support fundraising for grants and projects, responding to tenders and writing proposals and building relationships with our funders, collaborators and clients.
We are looking for an excellent project manager, able to manage fairly large projects and task manage others at all levels to ensure smooth delivery. You will be great at managing relationships at all levels and working with others to get things done. Given the nature of our work we are also looking for public participation skills, or relevant or transferable expertise and an understanding of deliberative practice. That will enable you to design and deliver project management, and support facilitation that fits our work and enables you to contribute to advising our clients on designing and delivering effective engagement. It is critical that you are open to new ideas, a good team player, committed to shifting power and addressing inequities in our society and that you are passionate about furthering our vision. Experience of building project management capacity, fundraising and staff management is desirable.
Application notes
The closing date for applications is 9am on Monday 29 April 2024. Applications submitted after this date and time will not be considered.
Shortlisted candidates can expect to hear by Friday 3rd May if they are being invited to interview.
Interviews will be held on Wednesday 15 May and Friday 17 May via Zoom video call. There maybe an informal second interview that will be confirmed at the time.
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Programme Lead (Training and Reconciliation)
- Part time
- £37,309 – £38,372 pro-rata
- Home working, with regular travel for events throughout Scotland & UK (Remote)
- Closing 27th May 2024
Are you a skilled Project Manager who would like to make a real difference?
Would you love a coordination and training role that allows you to support people and faith communities to flourish as they navigate change, conflict, and differences well?
Then this exciting new role might be for you…
Job Summary
The role of Programme Lead (Training and Reconciliation) is a key new position in supporting Place for Hope’s strategic goal of growing our partnerships with faith communities to support and equip more people to reach their potential as peacemakers.
The Programme Lead will co-ordinate all work related to our new 5-year partnership with the United Reformed Church (URC). The partnership will involve two key areas (i) the development and staged roll-out of a mediation team within the URC who will work ecumenically with the wider Place for Hope Practitioner team; and (ii) embedding the understanding, skills, and confidence in how to deal well with conflict, change and difference through a set programme of trainings.
The Programme Lead will draw on the entire Place for Hope team (staff and volunteers) to develop and deliver an agreed 5-year programme plan. The role will also involve supporting the wider work of Place for Hope, particularly working with our training team to deliver our training programme (online and in-person) with a wide range of partners.
Previous experience of project management, training, as well as excellent organisational and communication skills are essential to the role. The ideal candidate would also have an interest in supporting faith communities to transform conflict and a willingness to undertake CPD provided by Place for Hope to build their knowledge and skills in this area. This is an exciting time to join Place for Hope and play a pivotal role in equipping individuals and faith communities to choose peace in times of fear and division.
Organisation Profile
Place for Hope is a Scottish Charity working across the UK, passionate about developing peacemakers in faith communities. We accompany people experiencing conflict and support, equip and train them to navigate change and conflict well and build strong, healthy relationships and communities. To deliver this purpose, we are privileged to have a highly trained, diverse and multi-denominational team of volunteer Practitioners who have expertise in mediation, training, coaching and facilitation. The Practitioners are supported by our small, dedicated staff team.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Place for Hope has a genuine commitment to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. Place for Hope, as an independent Scottish Charity (SCO45224), is an equal opportunity organisation and does not discriminate on the grounds of race, religion or belief, gender, disability, sexual orientation or age.
For more information about us, please visit placeforhope.org.uk
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
Top job! Corporate, Trusts & Community Events Fundraising Manager
- Full time
- £39,000 – £42,000
- Edinburgh (Hybrid)
- Closing 19th May 2024
Our mission is to inspire, involve and empower older people in Scotland, and influence others so that people can enjoy better later lives. To help us achieve that, our fundraising activity aims to successfully increase donations and raise our profile and impact. In this role you’ll aim to achieve this and deliver impact for older people in Scotland by providing leadership, insight and guidance to the fundraising team.
As a key member of the charity’s management team, you will bring your professional expertise and high-quality people management skills to develop the team to deliver their best.
Working closely with the Associate Director of Fundraising and Marketing you will develop and implement the fundraising strategy for corporate, trusts and community events income as part of the charity’s overall income generation strategy. You will manage, direct and support the team to meet ambitious annual targets whilst keeping expenditure within agreed limits.
You will maximise income with a focus on corporate, trusts and grants and community and events fundraising.
You will support with raising the profile of Age Scotland with a focus on storytelling, demonstrating the impact of our services and working closely with our Individual Giving, Legacies and Brand Manager to ensure all fundraising activity aligns with our brand.
You will work in partnership with colleagues at Age UK in the development and implementation of fundraising projects.
This role is a hybrid blend of office-based (in Edinburgh) and home-based work.
In return for your hard work, enthusiasm and commitment to our values you’ll receive a generous benefits package:
• Generous holiday allowance of 37 days (FTE) plus 2 fixed public holidays
• Flexible working opportunities from day one
• A range of learning and development opportunities
• Company sick pay
• Healthcare benefit through Westfield Health
• Discounted gym membership
• Cashback scheme from major retailers
• Contributory pension scheme with employer contributions of 9%
• A comprehensive package of support though our Employee Assistance Programme
• Group life cover up to three times your annual salary
• Cycle to work scheme
• Carers support
• The option to buy more holidays or sell them
• Enhanced maternity and paternity policies.
Top job! Head of Scotland and Northern Ireland
- Full time
- £72,258
- Scotland or Northern Ireland, with travel around the UK as necessary (Remote)
- Closing 28th May 2024
The Head of Scotland and Northern Ireland is responsible for leading our vision to end the need for food banks in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Scotland currently leads the way in having a rights-based, progressive agenda to ending the need for food banks, but there is much to do to ensure political intentions become a reality. This role directs Trussell Trust’s policy and public affairs work in Scotland and Northern Ireland, leads our Scotland and Northern Ireland department as they support our network of food banks and works strategically with key partners to tackle the underlying reasons why people need to come to food banks.
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