Are you our next Chair?
Killin, Callander and District Search and Rescue Group, a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) known as “Killin Mountain Rescue Team (KMRT)” was established in 1967.
Mountain Rescue is a voluntary service, with members giving up free time to train and respond to people in difficulty on the mountains and other remote locations. The team maintains its original policy of keeping a local membership who provide the local knowledge and skills necessary to provide quick response and resolution to incidents in the areas our members live and work in.
The Team is facing an exciting future with ambitious plans for recruitment, training and ensuring the organisation has the depth of skill, processes and procedures to operate safely and effectively on the hills.
If you are a passionate leader, with Board/Trustee experience, then we look forward to hearing from you.
The Role
This is a rare opportunity to lead a talented group of Trustees and Operational Managers who have a progressive strategy which they deliver by providing inclusive and inspiring leadership to the team members and supporters.
The Chair will work closely with and hold the Board of Trustees and Operational Managers to account for KMRT’s mission and purpose, providing leadership to the Board of Trustees. The Chair will enable and encourage each Trustee to fulfil their duties and responsibilities towards effective governance and advancement of the charity’s purpose and values. The Chair will coordinate and optimise strength and expertise of the Trustees, Operational Managers and Team Members so the charity can remain effective but also grow and develop as required.
The Person
KMRT is looking for an experienced, inspirational and credible leader, who brings excellent communication, people skills and governance experience. They would have an inclusive leadership style which creates a culture where everyone can be ‘their best self’, open to feedback and input and committed to supporting this inspirational charity.
It is not essential that the person is local to our operating area, whilst it would be very beneficial given the location of Board meetings, we are open to a hybrid working model. We will support the new Chair with an understanding of the location and terrain we operate in, and a commitment to support their understanding of mountain pursuits and the work we carry out.
Experience
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
Desirable
Additional Information
This is an unremunerated role, however Travel and Subsistence monies are reimbursable for attendance at Board meetings. KMRT operate between Callander and Tyndrum, our Board meetings are held either in Callander, Lochearnhead or Killin
PRINCIPAL ROLE:
As a key member of the Fundraising Team, the post holder is responsible for developing, implementing, and evaluating a fundraising strategy to retain and increase income from charitable Trusts and Foundations against agreed targets.
Key tasks for which the post holder will be responsible.
Additional Responsibilities
Working in a vibrant community project within the heart of the Lincoln Avenue estate, Knightswood, Glasgow, this role would suit a skilled Community Development worker with a background or an interest in supporting people through the cost of living crisis and in developing community activity., including signposting drops in, food related activity and our forest garden.
Edinburgh Development Group is looking for Support Brokers (self-employed role)
Are you looking for a meaningful role in which you can develop and use your skills and knowledge? Do you want to make a difference to the lives of disabled people and their families?
EDG has been awarded funding by the National Lottery Community Fund to establish a network of Support Brokers in Edinburgh to work with disabled people, their families and parent carers of disabled children and young people.
As part of this three year project we are recruiting people to become self-employed Support Brokers. The role will be on part time basis so will interest people -
As part of this opportunity you will receive free training.
The course covers values and qualities for the role, as well as understanding Self-Directed Support and Empathy in Support work. It is five days in total (spread over 6 weeks). There is a per diem of £100 towards travel and childcare.
We seek a part time (28 hours per week) Learning Coordinator to promote and deliver Lead Scotland’s Perth and Kinross Digital Skills Project. This is a learning service for digitally excluded people, including disabled people, carers and those who experience barriers.
About you:
Are you committed to engaging and supporting disabled people and carers to build confidence and digital skills? Are you committed to delivering accessible learning opportunities and supporting people to progress?
Are you passionate about using a community-based adult learning approach, supporting people to get online safely and to realise the benefits of thinking digitally? Are you confident in communicating one to one and with groups and have a flexible and creative approach to problem-solving?
Would you enjoy being an active part of the Lead Scotland team as we develop new, exciting accessible digital learning opportunities?
Do you have great organisational skills, previous experience of supporting disabled people experiencing a range of barriers, of working one-to-one and in groups with learners, and of designing and delivering learning programmes?
Do you have access to transport as you will be working in homes and communities across Perth and Kinross?
Do you have an assessor’s award? No? Would you be willing to work towards this?
Interested in hearing about working with Lead? Watch our information video at lead.org.uk/current-job-vacancies .
This post is home-based in Perth and Kinross and involves regulated work for which a satisfactory PVG will be required. Lead Scotland has a Recruiting People with Convictions Policy.
Trustees/Board Members for greenspace scotland
Are you passionate about greenspace? Would you like to help shape the work of greenspace scotland?
We have exciting opportunities for four new Trustees to support the governance and strategic leadership of our organisation. Suitable for experienced or first-time trustees, you will be joining a supportive and welcoming Board. We are seeking diversity in experience, thinking and background. If you could contribute to our future please find out more on ourwebsite.
The Role
Our Trustees play a key role in the governance and strategic leadership of our organisation. You will be joining an experienced Board and we are looking for Trustees who will bring their own individual range of knowledge, skills and experience to contribute to the overall richness of the Board.
Specific areas we are looking for technical/professional input in are:
We want a diverse board of Trustees with a depth and breadth of insight experience and perspective. We welcome and value people of different backgrounds, thinking and skills. We recognise that the environment sector is under-represented by people from ethnic minority and low-income backgrounds, LGBT+ and disabled people, and we want to change that. We especially welcome candidates from these backgrounds and from young people.
We are interested in hearing from first-time Trustees who are interested in our work and can commit to training so they are able to make a valuable contribution to our long term development.
About Us
Greenspace makes a big difference to our quality of life and sense of place. Parks and greenspaces are our natural health service, our children’s outdoor classrooms and our cities’ green lungs.
greenspace scotland has provided a national lead on greenspace since 2002. As Scotland’s parks and greenspace charity, we have been influential in shaping a supporting policy context for greenspace, promoting good practice on greenspace delivery, and pioneering new approaches to managing and resourcing parks and greenspaces.
Never before has our work been more important. Recent experiences of extreme weather events have led many to re-evaluate the importance of greenspace and blue-green infrastructure in our lives and places. The Covid 19 pandemic highlighted the value of local high quality greenspace and the related socio-economic disparity across the nation in terms of easy access to this resource.
Who are we?
At Worldwide Cancer Research, we start new cures. Cancer is still one of the leading causes of death worldwide, but cutting-edge science can give us hope. Discovery research seeks to uncover new knowledge that could change the way we think about cancer. It reveals new ways to prevent, diagnose, and treat cancer that can save lives.
We actively seek unconventional and imaginative ideas from scientists at all stages of their career, across the globe. In some cases, we are the only organisation that will fund a scientist’s idea. We take an unbiased approach to research funding by focusing on supporting only the best ideas for new cures. By having a diverse research portfolio, we increase our chances of finding breakthroughs.
Our vision is of a day when no life is cut short by cancer, and we believe we can achieve this by starting the life-saving advances of the future by sowing the seeds of discoveries. Anyone that helps bring forward breakthroughs – including our staff, our supporters, and the researchers we fund – is a Curestarter.
As a charity, we are committed to opportunity without barriers, and we are striving to seek, value and learn from different perspectives and experiences. We want Worldwide Cancer Research to be an inclusive organisation – where everyone can be themselves and feel valued – as diverse as the scientific community we fund and the families whose lives we impact.
We are committed to ensuring that we provide equal opportunities to every applicant regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We aim to ensure that our recruitment process is unbiased and that everyone is treated equitably. In support of this, we have pledged to ‘Show the Salary’ for our roles and we are a registered Disability Confident Committed Employer, because our team members are at the heart of everything we do.
To help start new cancer cures around the and fund discovery cancer research, we are looking for a Trusts and Foundations Officer to join our busy Philanthropy team.
About the Trusts and Foundations Officer role and why we need you
By joining our friendly, committed charity you’ll be making an impact every day. Working within the Fundraising & Philanthropy team, you will have the opportunity to shape and deliver our Trusts and Foundations Strategy by seeking out new funding opportunities, building lasting relationships and writing compelling applications. These three priorities will need you to be proactive in organising and planning your workload. You will be comfortable communicating with people at all levels, both your internal colleagues and external organisations. The role also gives you the chance to show why discovery research is vital to starting new cancer cures, and as a highly collaborative charity, your colleagues will be eager to share their expertise with you.
The charity’s values are Curious, United, Real, Entrepreneurial and Spirited, which you can readily demonstrate day to day. You will be an advocate for our vision and act as a role model for the charity when in touch with prospects.
Benefits: 10% employer pension contribution; employee assistance programme and counselling service; enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption pay; enhanced sick pay; 31 days’ paid holiday/year plus four paid winter public holidays; 2-weeks fully remote working/year; three paid carer days/year; death in service benefit; cycle to work and travel season ticket schemes.
To support the Team’s work-life balance, we work a nine-day fortnight where the charity is closed every second Friday.
Tiny Changes is Scotland’s first national young people’s mental health charity. We run projects with young leaders that help young minds feel better. The charity was set up in memory of artist and Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison. Through his music and art Scott made tiny changes that had a big impact on people from all walks of life.
We believe that Scotland’s young people deserve great mental health, and we believe in their insight and innovation to make this possible. We exist to nurture the talent of young people to find solutions that work for them.
In three years, we’ve funded 69 innovative mental health ideas - from bubble therapy with refugees to peer-led crisis prevention cafe and d/Deaf youth wellbeing resources - supporting over 4,000 children and young people, with many of them leading change in their communities. You can read more about our strategy here.
The Tiny Changes team is growing all the time. We currently have 6 Trustees and will be looking to recruit another 2 trustees to join the Board later this year. The Tiny Changes Team is made up of 3 employees and 1 consultant, creative partners and young advisors. You can read more about our team over on our blog.
Role Summary
As a freelance operations consultant at Tiny Changes, you will support the interim CEO with the management of all charity and day to day operational activities, continuing the development of the charity in line with organisational objectives and strategic direction. Working closely with our small team, you will contribute to the overall direction of charity-wide operations. Supporting the management of co-production (youth lead projects), fundraising, human resources, health and safety and equality diversity and inclusion, to ensure our processes are up to date, compliant, meet the overall needs of the organisation and reflect our values.
What will you bring to Tiny Changes?
We are looking for applicants with the following characteristics:
1. Share our vision and values - we are Hopeful, Brave, Honest and Kind
2. Have knowledge of or interest in mental health issues affecting children and young people in Scotland
3. Active listener, equalities driven and self-reflective
We particularly welcome applications from the following groups:
• Young people under 30
• Young people with experience of mental health issues
• Disabled people
• Neurodiverse people
• People with experience of caring roles
• Care experienced people
• People from minority ethnic communities
• Asylum seekers or refugees
• People who identify as any gender that’s not cisgender
• People who identify as LGBTQIA+
• People from gypsy traveller communities
• People from a wide range of religious and cultural backgrounds
You can find more information in the Job Description and Person Specification linked below.
Role Accessibility: This role requires frequent travel and use of your own vehicle
This is an exciting new role designing and delivering digital communications to strengthen the reach and impact of the Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ) and offering some support to the Institute for Inspiring Children’s Futures (IICF) and aims to build on the synergies and complementarity between the two University centres. Both centres have complementary missions, yet with their own distinct partners, projects and work across Scotland and internationally. The post is based within CYCJ.
About Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice:
CYCJ works towards ensuring that Scotland’s approach to children and young people in conflict with the law is rights-respecting, contributing to better outcomes for our children, young people and communities. We produce robust, ground-breaking work by bringing together children and young people’s contributions, research evidence, practice wisdom and system know-how to operate as a leader for child and youth justice thinking in Scotland and beyond. An evaluation of CYCJ, published in 2020, highlights how our significant contribution stems from our unique role and positioning:
‘CYCJ is a boundary-spanning intermediary organisation. Boundary spanners are capable of contributing to system change. Their work to redress the imbalances of information, to connect and share insight across groups, to coordinate people to collaborate on key issues as well as focused interventions on seemingly intractable issues can come together to create paradigm shifts in the system’.
Our focus for 2020-2025 is on supporting Scotland to comply with its international commitments for children and young people in conflict with the law in relation to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). You can read more about this in our strategy.
We work across three workstreams: Practice and Policy Development, Research, and Participation and Engagement.
CYCJ is primarily funded by the Scottish Government and is based in the School of Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Strathclyde. Our Executive Governance Group has oversight of CYCJ and our strategic direction, and consists of representatives from across policy, practice, research and lived experience.
About the Institute for Inspiring Children’s Futures (IICF)
The Institute for Inspiring Children's Futures works with partners to reveal and resolve the structural barriers to children in adversity reaching their potential. We bridge multiple perspectives to tackle big, complex challenges. We seek new solutions to long standing problems. We have an international outlook, a policy orientation, and a focus on the role of government, drawing on multiple disciplines to enable sustained impact for children.
We partner with international organisations and young people, and across the University and around the globe. Together, we engage governments to support policy responses that benefit children who face adversity. Our work focuses on Justice, Rights and Wellbeing.
We are a small team with international reach, and a range of established networks, including UN, intergovernmental, service-delivery, governmental, academic and advocacy bodies.
We actively seek to bridge research with impact, across disciplines and perspectives, convening people with differing experiences and roles to identify new solutions intergenerationally, and to apply this learning together for transformative change, with and for children.
Together - with our staff team, our Doctoral Research Centre doctoral students, a wide range of Non-Governmental Organisations and multilateral agency partners, and at times with children and young people themselves - we work to develop the evidence-base, strengthen political will, and support effective policy and practice responses for children facing adversity worldwide.
Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Carly Elliott, Participation and Policy Lead (carly.elliott@strath.ac.uk).
We are the Third Sector Interface for Dumfries and Galloway. We work alongside the sector, partners and communities to address key local priorities, build capacity and maximise investment in our region. As part of the national network of Third Sector Interfaces across Scotland, our joint manifesto sets out commitments to enhancing and developing the role of the third sector as a key partner; a focus on place, community and locality; volunteering and the strengths of local people & communities; a fairer and wellbeing-focussed economy.
We’re now looking for an experienced leader in the third sector to join us as our Lead for Children, Young People and Families,
You will lead development of our priorities for children, young people and families, engaging with third sector organisations, partners and stakeholders. This will include learning from the sector across Dumfries and Galloway working alongside children, young people and families, highlighting the work and impact of the sector across the region and building models of support, learning and collaboration. You will also understand and support the interpretation of national and regional policy for the sector.
Our Lead Officer is integral to supporting our sector involvement in Children’s Services Planning and supporting our representation in the Children’s Services Strategy & Planning Partnership. Given the significant focus on children and family involvement, there may be times where the Lead Officer will facilitate or take part in consultation and forum activities involving children, parents and carers. For this reason, full PVG registration will be required.
As a member of our Lead Officer Group, there will also be active participation in wider organisational planning and delivery to ensure progress towards our medium-term outcomes.
To be successful, you’ll join us with experience in a programme or leadership role within the third sector and bring a good understanding of third sector children, young people and family policy in Scotland. You will be a compassionate and supportive leader with a commitment to excellence and improvement, someone who values the capacity of people to make change. You will have interest in involvement & participation, the voices and experiences of children and families, children’s rights and the work of the third sector across communities.
For a confidential conversation about the role, please get in touch by email ceo@tsdg.org.uk or by calling 0300 303 8558. To apply, please follow the link to our online application form. For advice and technical help, please call us on 0300 303 8558