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ARK is a major provider of Care and Support to people with long term and enduring conditions such as learning disability, mental health issues, dementia and autism. As a housing association we are one of the smaller providers. Our aim is to ensure that those who use our services get the very best out of ARK to enable them to live a good life and to provide the best quality of housing to our tenants, some of whom we provide support to.

As a member of the Executive Team (ET), reporting directly to the CEO, your role will be accountable for the delivery of ARK’s Business Development and Improvement plan which focuses upon of integrated strategic business development and improvement objectives. You will have a lead role to play in aiding ARK to achieve its vision of “inclusive communities where quality of housing and care enable people to thrive and live a good life” by creating a business development plan and business improvement plan that will deliver high quality housing and care solutions that are financially sustainable into the future.

This is one of two new roles at Executive team level following a major piece of work where ARK have reviewed and developed the Business Plan for the next 5 years and beyond. This is an exciting time to join the team where you will have the opportunity to review and determine what resources you require to deliver your plans and work within an already well established Executive team.

The aim of the revised business plans is to:

• Have a reputation for excellence and be recognised as a high quality provider of housing and care

• Be known as an excellent employer where employees will enjoy rewarding careers

• Build our technological and digital capability to support a successful business

• Have in place Leadership to create a culture of excellence throughout the business

Your role will be critical in delivery of these aims and will lead the development of ARK’s Business Development and Improvement Strategy, which will focus upon the development of new build properties, improving quality in existing housing stock, redesign of existing stock for supported tenants, delivery of integrated business development priorities relating to housing and care, developing thinking on energy efficiency and ARK’s carbon omissions, creating an evaluation framework for diversification into other business areas and developing strategic partnerships to further the aims of ARK’s Business Plan.

We are looking for dynamic and passionate individuals that have significant prior experience operating at a senior management level in a Housing and/or Care related role with excellent knowledge of the regulatory environment in which ARK operates. If you have extensive experience in designing and delivering housing and care interventions that improves the lives of tenants and service users, then we would like to hear from you.

ARK is a major provider of Care and Support to people with long term and enduring conditions such as learning disability, mental health issues, dementia and autism. As a housing association we are one of the smaller providers. Our aim is to ensure that those who use our services get the very best out of ARK to enable them to live a good life and to provide the best quality of housing to our tenants, some of whom we provide support to.

As a member of the Executive Team (ET), reporting directly to the CEO, your role will be accountable for the customer facing services to ARK tenants and service users via the Housing Services and Care and Support teams. You will be responsible for ensuring that ARK provides tenant services and care and support services of the highest standard, which are safe; compliant; cost effective and responsive to the needs of tenants and service users.

This is one of two new roles at Executive team level following a major piece of work where ARK have reviewed and developed the Business Plan for the next 5 years and beyond. This is an exciting time to join the team where you will have the opportunity to review and determine what resources you require to deliver your plans and work within an already well established Executive team.

The aim of the revised business plans is to:

·Have a reputation for excellence and be recognised as a high quality provider of housing and care

·Be known as an excellent employer where employees will enjoy rewarding careers

·Build our technological and digital capability to support a successful business

·Have in place Leadership to create a culture of excellence throughout the business

Your role will be critical in delivery of these aims andwill lead the delivery of all operations at the customer interface to ensure the highest standard of customer service. Your role will have a key focus upon communication and engagement and building digital communications with our customers; ensuring staff resources operate efficiently and have the competencies to deliver the highest quality of housing and care services to our customers; leading on all regulatory requirements relating to housing and care services; leading on the development of ARK’s continuous improvement approaches and further developing the Care and Support business to achieve financial sustainability.

We are looking for dynamic and passionate individualsthat have significant prior experience operating at a senior management level in a Housing and/or Care related role with excellent knowledge of the regulatory environment in which ARK operates. If you have extensive experience in delivering improvements to the lives of tenants and service users, then we would like to hear from you.

Visualise Scotland is seeking a new Chief Executive. We are looking for someone who can provide our staff and the people we support with the leadership they deserve.

Whilst we are all currently living in challenging and uncertain times, we do know that the people we serve will continue to need our support and services. It is essential that we have the right person at the helm as Chief Executive who can take Visualise forward and ensure the quality of our services are maintained and our people and staff supported.

Visualise Scotland is an Edinburgh-based charity that supports adults with a variety of disabilities, including physical, learning disability and social communication impairment. We support individuals in five residences, run a day service and operate an outreach 'care at home' service. Our care ethos is firmly centred on the people we support. We aim to contribute to their quality of life, providing choice, purpose and direction and recognise that people with disability should lead a fulfilling life.

We have a team of 70 support workers and a head office team that includes a development manager, service manager, financial director and administrative personnel.

We are looking for an energetic new Chief Executive who will deliver a key operational role and who will work with our Board to take forward Visualise’s strategic vision for the next 5 to 10 years.

We are seeking candidates who can demonstrate experience of the third sector, excellent communication, strong management and leadership skills as well as a passion for the care and support of disabled people.

We are currently recruiting for a new Chief Officer to lead Kincardine and Mearns Citizens Advice Bureau. The Board of Directors have developed an exciting new strategy, in which there is a greater emphasis on digital delivery, positive stakeholder engagement, marketing and community fundraising and our new Chief Officer will be expected to lead the team to carry out that strategy and vision.

The Chief Officer is responsible for ensuring both the smooth operation of all bureau services and in driving the strategy forward to ensure that KAMCAB continues to develop and deliver a high quality advice and information service. This will include ensuring that there are effective finance, HR and quality assurance processes in place. The Chief Officer will lead and encourage a supportive working culture and ensure that teams are empowered to deliver the highest quality service to clients. The ability to build and maintain effective relationships and partnerships with stakeholders is an essential part of this post.

Kincardine & Mearns CAB is a small bureau but has a large impact on our local community. So far in the 2019/20 year we provided advice on over 3000 occasions and achieved £2.5 million in client financial gain. We strive to maintain high levels of client satisfaction; in our last client satisfaction survey 100% of clients said they were satisfied with the advice given and 100% said they would use the service again.

Enquiries are across a wide range of fields, and clients expect high quality advice and on what are, at times, highly complex matters. The main enquiries at the present time relate to problems with welfare benefits, money and debt, employment, consumer issues, housing and family and personal situations. We would be unable to deliver this service without our team of 30 volunteers and 12 members of paid staff.

For an informal discussion about the role contact Jane Adams jane.adams@kamcab.casonline.org.uk

This exciting 2 year post is the result of a partnership between the Scottish Land Commission and the Development Trusts Association Scotland which seeks to address the challenging problem of vacant and derelict land. In particular the post will focus on the smaller derelict sites, which often cause the most harm to local communities, but can equally be well suited to community-led regeneration. Working alongside development trusts or other community organisations, the post-holder will develop practical and innovative approaches to bringing different types of these small and persistently problematic sites back into productive use, in a way that could support and scale-up community led regeneration across Scotland.

The post-holder will be based within DTAS, the national membership organisation for development trusts, and will require to have good experience of delivering community-led regeneration. This is a unique post which will also require good negotiating and communication skills, knowledge of financing projects of this nature, a creative and solutions-focussed approach and the ability to capture and report on the learning from the project.

The post will engage with communities in Perth and Dundee, finding practical ways that people can participate in active travel; mapping these out in co-designed events with 3rd Sector, council and community organisations. We will offer support and resources to facilitate a range of activities including Dr Bike, Led rides, Cycle Training, Bike Loans, as well as skills and maintenance training.

The post will be responsible for building relationships with these communities and key stakeholders to articulate these barriers as an Active travel Action Plan and a key role in empowering these communities to start walking cycling and wheeling more often as a first choice for travel thereby empowering their communities to reduce heath and transport inequalities and build stronger communities.

The Officer will work with the Cycle Friendly Officer, Social Cycle Officer and Communities Manager to provide advice to organisations on opportunities to dovetail with this programme in schools, campus and community settings to share cycling and infrastructure best practice, as well as funding opportunities.

The work is based in Perth Bike Station with travel to Dundee.

Key Responsibilities

• Set up an Active Travel Action Plan with a Perth and Dundee Community.
• Support the Bike Station’s membership scheme.
• Develop and deliver activities to support the Bike Station’s Community as a Cycle Friendly Community.
• Providing advice to these Communities on cycling opportunities, cycling best practice, in combination with the Cycle Friendly Award Officer.
• Utilising social media to support the delivery of the programme.
• To operate within a set delivery budget that is prescribed and monitored.
• To comply with all current legislation and Recycle to Cycle policies.
• Work with the Bike Station team.
• Provide advice to organisations on the Cycle Friendly programmes in schools, campus and community settings to promote cycling and infrastructure best practice, as well as on available funding opportunities.

Person Specification

Experience:

• Delivering behaviour change programmes using a community development approach.
• Partnership working with local authorities, community planning partners and the community and voluntary sector.
• Ability to work independently and make decisions with minimal supervision; enthusiastic and self-motivated.
• Good level of IT literacy including use of MS Office suite.
• Good understanding and experience of community development theory and practice.
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of the workings of the community and voluntary sector.
• Understanding of local and national social policy.
• Developing and delivering projects in seldom heard communities.
• Excellent track record of organising, promoting and carrying through events.
• Leading group workshops and training activities.
• Contributing to successful funding applications.

Skills:

• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Understanding of the community and voluntary sector.
• Good time-management skills and attention to detail.
• Innovative, analytical and a great problem solver.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Experience of participatory processes of community engagement.

Blue Triangle Housing Association is a provider of accommodation and support to vulnerable people across the West of Scotland. The mission of the organisation is to support, accommodate and assist vulnerable people to achieve better lives. The organisation works with people of all ages and backgrounds and provides access to learning and development, training, housing and additional support to those affected by drugs and alcohol.

Blue Triangle Housing Association is an award-winning charitable organisation that work with individuals with challenging behaviours and needs and help them to build better lives that lead to better futures.

Harris Hill are working with Blue Triangle to recruit a new Chief Executive that will lead them into the next stage of the organisations growth and development in order to further impact their service users.

The new CEO will have the wide-reaching task of developing new income streams, digital transformation and providing strong and effective leadership that impacts performance and leads to the best possible outcomes for service users. Ideally the preferred candidate will have experience within the charitable and sector as well as knowledge and experience of the homeless sector and regulatory issues in Scotland.

As many of the organisations employees are based in regions across the West of Scotland the new CEO must have strong communication skills and have a flexible and entrepreneurial approach of how best to take the organisation forward in line with its strategic objectives.