As one of the largest leisure employers in Scotland, we manage over 50 sports and leisure facilities across the city enabling people to get active and stay active. As a charitable trust, every penny goes into taking care of the health and well-being of Edinburgh.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Funding Officer to join our dynamic team and help support the growth of our fundraising activities.

In this impactful and exciting role, you will be responsible for:

• Supporting the Head of Funding in developing, managing, and administering our fundraising activity, focusing on fundraising events, trusts and grants to effectively engage current and new supporters, volunteers, and staff.
• Researching and preparing applications and reports for small trusts, foundations, community grants, and corporate foundations maintaining and growing our trusts and grants pipeline.
• Collaborating with colleagues from various departments, helping them prepare strong cases for support by proactively defining programme outcomes, indicators, and measurement methods for the funded work.
• Encouraging supporters to take part in external challenge events and developing and delivering internal fundraising events, working with colleagues to prepare timetables, book resources, secure staff engagement and communicate plans.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Demonstrable experience with fundraising activities such as trusts, grants, and events, with a proven track record of successfully securing funding and creating relevant, compelling content for fundraising propositions.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to clearly convey information and ideas to people at all levels of the organisation.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail with the ability to create accurate written and verbal communications.
• Strong organizational skills, excellent decision-making and judgment capabilities with the ability to problem-solve and develop creative solutions.
• Sound keyboard skills, and the ability to work with a range of IT software/systems e.g., fundraising CRM systems, MS Office programs including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and SharePoint.

In return, we offer:

• Generous holiday allowance (32 days, rising with service up to 40 days)
• Paid sick leave
• Company pension
• Flexible working hours
• Opportunities for training, career growth and development
• Free membership across all our centres with access to fitness centres, gyms, and swimming pools
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Access to discounts with a huge number of retailers (saving money in cinemas, restaurants, clothing, and electronics shops, on insurance and healthcare and much more)

This is a hybrid role with time spent between our head office at Meadowbank, Edinburgh Leisure venues across the city and home working.

Do you want to help people move more and transform people's lives? Do you enjoy working with a diverse range of people? Yes? Then keep reading.

Working as a Health Instructor, within our Active Communities team, you will support people waiting for elective hip / knee surgery through a programme of physical activity to improve their health and wellbeing in preparation for and recovery from surgery.

Your role will involve delivering group-based and one-to-one physical activity sessions across the city. If you’re self-motivated, passionate about physical activity and great with people we think this is just the job for you.

You should have a Level 3 Exercise Referral qualification or equivalent, but we will consider applications from people with a Level 2 Gym qualification willing to work towards the Level 3 qualification.

Apply today and you could be changing lives tomorrow.

Do you believe in the power of physical activity and are you driven to make a difference? Yes? Then keep reading.

We are looking for someone with excellent project management skills, who has experience of leading a team and who is passionate about physical activity and the positive difference it can make on health and wellbeing.

You will be responsible for the citywide delivery, development, and evaluation of one of our largest Active Communities projects. Delivered by an enthusiastic team of specialist health instructors our Fit for Health programme supports people living with a long-term condition to be active to improve their health, wellbeing and quality of life.

Experience of working with health partners and community-based organisations to promote and deliver physical activity programmes for people experiencing health conditions and inequalities is also desirable. In return we are offering the best rewards packages in the industry, with generous holiday allowance and pension.

See the future. Be the future.

THIS IS A NEW POST and a new opportunity for an energetic people person to come in and set an inspirational vision for the wellbeing referral team. Then drive the change that’s needed to support more people with health conditions and inequalities, helping them on the path to a healthier life. Overseeing our wellbeing referral team, you will lead by example, engage with stakeholders, develop our wellbeing referral service and delight our customers, all with the end goal of helping people be active and improving the health of the city. If you can do all of this as well as demonstrate significant and successful experience in the physical activity and wellbeing sector, apply today. And take us with you tomorrow.

Leader, or boss?

How’s your management style? Tell or show? Fast talker or ready listener? Know it all or ready to admit when you’ve made a mistake? Stress head or level-headed? True leaders are in a different class from the common or garden boss variety and we want the former, not the latter for this top notch role. After all, you’ll be responsible for the overall operation, performance and service delivery of Europe’s largest indoor climbing arena. Leading from the front as you maximise the effectiveness and efficiency of your colleagues and stakeholders. So if you have strong operations management experience in the sport & leisure or adventure sectors, climb aboard and make a difference.

Make people smile.

And vice versa.

WANT TO HAVE A GREAT DAY every day? This job’s for you – delivering physical activity classes for people who need a little help getting back on their feet. It’s a win-win for everybody. Your participants will be delighted to see you as your impact on them will be, quite literally, life changing. And the smiles that you bring to their faces will really make your job worth-while. So if you are an empathetic people person with an outgoing personality, we’d love to hear from you. You’ll need to have a Level 3 Exercise Referral qualification and be willing to train to Level 4. Older adult experience will be a big plus. So go on, make somebody’s day. And make your own at the same time.

Edinburgh Leisure is a Registered Scottish Charity (No: SC027450) which is entirely focussed on making a positive difference to individuals and communities through providing a range of physical activity and wellbeing services.

The organisation has a turnover of around £30m per annum, circa 900 employees and (in normal times) attracts just under 5 million customer visits per annum. More information about us can be found on our website at edinburghleisure.co.uk.

Our vision? To make a positive difference by creating opportunities to get active, stay active and achieve more.

We currently have 3 Board vacancies for people who share our passion and want to give something back to the city. We’re especially interested in candidates with significant knowledge/experience in one of the following professions: Finance, Risk Management, Marketing & Communications, Energy & Sustainability, Health & Wellbeing and Property Management. We will provide Governance training. You will demonstrate a commitment to the purpose, vision and values of Edinburgh Leisure.

The positions are voluntary and will require a minimum attendance at 6 Board meetings per year. We welcome applicants from a diverse cross-section of society.