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This is a rare opportunity to join a thriving organisation. Fidra is looking for an exceptional individual to bring significant experience of programme, senior management and strong people management skills alongside an enthusiasm for motivating and mentoring a team. Supported by an engaged Trustee board and working closely with the Chair and the Fidra team, you will be responsible for delivery of organisational and project strategy. You will have experience of reporting to a board of Trustees or equivalent and a strong commitment to the environment.

Further information is available on our website: fidra.org.uk/vacancies

Scotland’s Bravest Manufacturing Co. is an exciting new social enterprise situated in the Erskine Veterans Village Estate in Bishopton, Renfrewshire who are now looking to recruit a Senior Bid Writer to join our team.

Main Purpose of the Job

To secure grant funding and sponsorship for Scotland’s Bravest Manufacturing Co. achieving the annual income target. This fundraising is largely for employability support for Scotland’s most disadvantaged veterans including those with severe physical disabilities and mental health challenges. There are also other capital opportunities for SBMC including facilities, machinery and transport, and other RBLI activities such as LifeWorks and STEP IN that are relevant.

You will produce persuasive grant applications and sponsorship proposals, mainly for charitable trusts and statutory funding opportunities, although needs to be flexible to undertake corporate and HNWI approaches and occasionally engage RBLI’s community supporters in Scotland.

Experience of working closely with colleagues across delivery/operational departments to develop service proposals and a successful track record in generating income through writing competitive bids is essential. An ability to work independently is a prerequisite.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Lead on regional fundraising planning and activity to achieve annual income targets for Scotland’s Bravest Manufacturing Co.
• Pursue varied income sources including trusts, statutory, corporate partnerships and HNWI, to ensure the annual targets can be met.
• Pursue opportunities at different giving levels to ensure targets are met.
• Ensure bid writing and other fundraising activities align with SBMC income requirements.
• Liaise with SBMC’s Director, and with operational and welfare colleagues at SBMC to ensure that all content required to support applications achieves the highest possible quality.
• Provide creative input into bids and supporting business case documents, to ensure they are appealing to a wide range of funders including trusts, statutory, corporate and HNWI.
• Engage RBLI’s senior stakeholders including CE, Exec Team and Advisory Board, in support of funding applications wherever impactful and appropriate.
• Establish, develop and maintain relationships with funders and other influential external stakeholders to ensure greater support for SBMC, high levels of donor retention, and the highest quality relationship management.
• Write quality project reports to secure pledged funds and achieve repeat gifts.
• Record details of all of the applications submitted and the outcome of each on RBLI’s database ThankQ
• Record details of all relevant networking, e.g. senior stakeholders for statutory bids.
• Provide RBLI’s Director of Strategic Development with regular updates, response analysis, and recommendations for growing regional support for SBMC.
• Attend events, presentations, pitches, Trustee meetings and arrange site tours in support of winning applications.
• Other duties as may be reasonably required, including occasional communications and events activity with community fundraisers in Scotland.

Working Environment

This role will be based in Scotland. It will be mainly home based with some time at Scotland’s Bravest Manufacturing Co. at Erskine in Renfrewshire e.g. for donor tours.

Personal Attributes

• A ‘can do’ attitude, proactively looking for new opportunities.
• Organised and systematic ways of working on long term plans.
• Winning writing ability, in a range of different styles.
• Able to communicate complex issues and projects clearly and concisely.
• Ability to work to multiple deadlines and manage a varied workload.
• Strong interpersonal skills and experience of working well with a range of departments within a large organisation.
• A flexible team player able to go the extra mile to service supporter needs, and win for RBLI’s beneficiaries

Skills & Experience Required:

Essential:

• An evidenced track record of successful grant, trust or statutory funding applications including 6 figure gifts and multi-year commitments
• Track record managing programmes of mixed activity to deliver on annual financial targets
• Experience working on corporate partnerships or securing corporate sponsorship
• Ability to work at a fast pace, to multiple deadlines, and across a variety of projects
• Ability to work independently while regularly checking in with operational teams and senior managers
• Excellent written communication skills
• Ability to brief and involve staff at all levels, including CE and Board level.
• Evidence of flexibility in writing styles – ability to write differently for different audiences
• Strong understanding of trust and statutory stakeholders
• Good knowledge and understanding of the issues and debates important to trust and statutory stakeholders, their professional pressures and priorities
• Good knowledge and understanding of the Scottish charity sector, and statutory trends specific to Scotland
• Face to face presentation skills

Desirable:

• Education to degree level or specialist IoF training across several relevant disciplines or to Diploma level.
• Experience working for a social enterprise
• Experience in statutory business development roles
• Experience of capital fundraising campaigns

Benefits:

RBLI offer a competitive holiday allowance, a Group Flexible Retirement Plan and Life Assurance.

CVS Falkirk & District is recognised by Scottish Government and Falkirk Community Planning Partnership and Falkirk’s third sector as the Third Sector Interface (TSI) for the Falkirk area. We work to ensure the continuation and development of a vibrant third sector (charities, social enterprises, community and voluntary groups etc in Falkirk.

We’re looking for a new Chief Executive, someone who as a visionary leader and motivator, can lead the organisation through the delivery of its next strategic plan. The position is accountable to a Board of Trustees, and is responsible for working with the Board to ensure clear strategic direction, driving the organisation’s vision, mission and strategic aims, developing operational plans, demonstrating competent financial management and compliance, managing the resources that deliver against these.

The successful candidate will be a consummate networker, politically astute, with experience of business development or procurement, competent leader of change and prepared to invest time in seeking out knowledge to identify developing trends in the sector. But most importantly, they will be committed to community led, community development approaches and will employ their skills to develop and enable the local third sector to take forward leadership roles across a range of policy areas and activities that matter to their communities.

Applications are welcomed from individuals currently working in the Public, Private and Third Sectors.

CEIS has an exciting opportunity for experienced and enthusiastic business adviser to join our successful social enterprise business support team.

Our team specialise in helping third sector organisations strengthen their business through trade and enterprise. You will have an opportunity to work with a portfolio of clients to help shape the business and growth strategies of social enterprises in a wide range of market sectors such as childcare, health, and community regeneration.

We are looking for an experienced Finance Officer to join our fun, hardworking and ambitious team.

We work with unpaid Carers every day and have learned a great deal from them. We use this knowledge and our position as the Highland Carer Centre, to ensure that unpaid Carers in Highland are not caring alone, that they are acknowledged and supported and that they have access to the information they need to enable them to carry out their caring role.

The successful candidate will manage and develop the financial function of Highland Community Care Forum (HCCF) including policies, processes and procedures. You will be responsible for all aspects of the management and oversight of HCCF’s financial function, this includes advising managers and the HCCF Board, as well as liaising with external bodies as required.

The post holder will normally be office based in Dingwall but due to COVID-19 may be based at home initially.

Employee Benefits:

• Carer Positive Employer
• Pension – Employer contribution of 5%
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Salaries, exceed national living wage
• Discounts; access to discounts on top high street and online retail brands such as House of Fraser, Sainsbury's, Costa Coffee, ITunes and many more!

If you are passionate about providing positive change to food insecurity and improved wellbeing and leading an established charity and its team into the next stage in its development, then this job is for you!

Serving the whole of Clackmannanshire, The Gate is seeking to appoint an experienced Chief Officer who has the vision and skill to enhance, integrate and develop new initiatives with existing services and the ability to work successfully in partnership with a wide range of people and organizations.

About The Gate

The Gate is an established charity, which supports the most vulnerable members of our community. It employs 1 full time and 2 part time members of staff and provide services in the centre of Alloa. With a Christian ethos but open to all faiths and none, we also have a large team of up to 80 dedicated volunteers to help provide services within our community.

Currently our projects and services consist of a large and busy Foodbank, a Soup Pot, Starter Packs, Community Café, an annual School Uniform Bank together with a number of smaller peer led initiatives to support our community. We also host a Recovery café in partnership with Forth Valley Addiction Services. We provide hired space and a catering service for use by other charities, local organisations and social groups.

New funding now provides the opportunity to develop exciting new projects in partnership with HSCP and others to deliver sustainable initiatives to alleviate food poverty and social isolation. Two new members of staff are budgeted, and the Chief Officer will be key in developing this innovative new project.

Our annual budget is c £200,000, which includes a small service level agreement from Clackmannanshire Council and the remainder from medium term grants, charitable activities, fundraising and donations.

What are we looking for in a Chief Officer?

We are looking for a person with proven management and leadership skills, who can lead an organisation and has the drive and passion to help The Gate achieve its charitable objectives of providing practical support for the most vulnerable in our community.

As well as overseeing the day to day operations of the charity, the successful candidate will be someone who can bring entrepreneurial flair to project development and be able to deliver our strategy and realise our vision.

They will be a team player as well as a team leader and have the skills to develop and maintain partnership working at a strategic level.

A full Job Description is available for download below.

We are seeking a project manager to join our cross-functional team in delivering across evidence-informed practice projects in Scotland’s social services.

We are looking for a self-starter with a passion for using their knowledge and skills to improve services and generate and translate evidence. You will work on a number of projects and will be expected to manage your time across these projects.

Iriss is a charity working to support the social services workforce in Scotland to deliver positive outcomes for people who access care and support. We focus on enhancing the capacity and capability of Scotland’s social services workforce to access and make use of knowledge and research for service innovation and improvement. Our unique approach is characterised by a willingness to adapt and learn from a wide range of disciplines. Examples of our work are available at iriss.org.uk

The role is Glasgow-based, but travel to other locations across Scotland may be required. At present our organisation is currently working from home.

This is a full time, fixed term post until 31 March 2021, however, part-time applications will be considered.

Chief Executive of the Church of Scotland General Trustees (the property holding arm of the Church)

Are you the one to lead the rationalisation and improvement of the Church estate?

Due to the impending retirement of our long serving post holder, we are seeking an accomplished professional to provide executive leadership for the General Trustees of the Church of Scotland.

The General Trustees hold in trust for congregations around 3,500 buildings including churches, halls and manses, and approximately 13,000 acres of agricultural land spread throughout Scotland. The General Trustees also provide advice to congregations on repairs and maintenance and health and safety issues relating to these properties.

In recognition of the Church estate requiring rationalisation and improvement, the General Trustees recently carried out a strategic review following a membership wide consultation. We are now seeking a Chief Executive who will assist and guide the Board in supporting congregations in achieving their vision of ‘well equipped spaces in the right places’.

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 Senior Leadership Team (SLT), reporting directly to the CEO your role is responsible for developing and implementing the Governance and Compliance Framework which will ensure that Ark complies with all aspects of it’s regulatory and legal responsibilities; and you will also have responsibility for implementing key organisational improvement initiatives as delegated by the Chief Executive and the Executive Team.

There will be a key focus for ensuring that Ark complies with the requirements of the Information Commissioner, the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman in relation to complaints, and the Scottish Housing Regulator and OSCR.

You will have a lead role in setting the ARK culture, that aligns to our values and aims, integral to which is to operate to the highest ethical standards and in doing so set the example of how all Ark employees should behave.

This is a revised role 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 Senior Leadership 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

We are looking for dynamic and passionate applicants 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 good governance, compliance and risk management then we would like to hear from you.

The Glasgow School of Art Students’ Association (GSASA) is a student and creative led student union in Glasgow, offering space, activities, support, advocacy and representation for the students of the Glasgow School of Art. We are a non-profit charity that funds student representation projects, student exhibitions, and societies, as well as events and other programmes dedicated to members’ interests and development. As the students’ representative body we advocate for student interests and welfare. We try to make everybody feel comfortable and welcome, and have an ongoing and self-critical commitment to accessibility, safe(r) spaces and actively opposing all forms of discrimination.

We are seeking an enthusiastic leader who will work with our team of Student Engagement Co-ordinators, our Board of Charitable Trustees, student members, the local community and the Glasgow School of Art, to help us innovate and deliver a robust, vibrant Student Association in these difficult and challenging times.

The post of Executive Manager is one that will enable the right person to thrive and grow with our ambitions and values. If this excites you and you believe you have the attributes and skills detailed in our job description and person specification, then we look forward to receiving your application.