This is a fantastic opportunity for a Early Years Policy Manager to join our client at an exciting and challenging time for Scotland’s early learning and childcare (ELC) sector.
Position: Early Years Policy Manager
Location: Edinburgh
Hours: Part Time (30 hours per week)
Salary: £30,000 to £37,350 Pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Benefits: Include 25 days paid holiday (rising to 29 days with service increments) plus 8 bank holiday, Personal Pension Scheme, Healthcare Cash Plan, Online Discount Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, Staff Awards Scheme, Company Sick Pay Scheme, Flexible working patterns
Closing Date: Friday 27th September
Interview Date: Tuesday 8th October
The Role
Our client is anticipating an unprecedented level of public policy attention with less than twelve months until the full roll-out of the Scottish Government’s policy of delivering 1140 hours of ELC for all three and four-year-olds and eligible two-year-olds in Scotland.
As Early Years Policy Manager leading the organisations work in Scotland, you will play a key role in representing and supporting nurseries to deliver high-quality early learning and childcare. The Early Years Policy Manager will lead on the delivery of their work with the Scottish Government to support policy development and guidance.
The Early Years Policy Manager duties will include:
- Managing the work of the Scotland team towards the overall strategic objectives.
- Representing private and voluntary sector ELC providers with the Scottish Government.
- Ensuring members have access to appropriate information, support and guidance.
- Reporting on the delivery and financial status of key contracts and projects.
- Ensuring the sustainability and identifying areas for potential growth.
About You
The successful candidate will have:
- Excellent relationship building skills and be able to digest information and analyse complex issues.
- A good knowledge of the early years and childcare sector and the national and local government policy context for nurseries.
- A good honours degree or equivalent.
- The ability to lead a team and colleagues across the organisation to achieve results.
- Project and budget management experience, with the ability to produce accurate reports and analysis.
- A good knowledge of the early years and childcare sector, in particular the nursery sector.
- Line management experience.
- A proven track record of securing or delivering contracts.
To apply you will be asked to submit your CV along with a covering letter detailing how your skills, knowledge and experience meet the requirements of the role.
About the Organisation
Our client is a national charity and membership association specifically for nurseries. They work in partnership with nurseries, local authorities, national government and a range of partners to develop an environment in which early learning and care can flourish.
They are committed to a policy of equal opportunities and is actively opposed to discrimination in society
You may have experience of the following: Early Years Manager, Early Years Policy Manager, Policy Officer, Policy Development, Government Early Years, Charity, Early Years Education.
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Do you have proven experience of implementing and maintaining technical solutions for use across an organisation and an enthusiasm for learning new skills? Then join Shelter as Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer and you could soon be playing a vital role at the heart of our IT Operations team.
A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain we are striving for change — with individuals, in communities, across society – and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So,, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.
About the role
Our IT Service Delivery function works to ensure Shelter’s software, systems and infrastructure remain available, flexible and secure. Within this team, IT Operations maintains and develops our end user environment and infrastructure – and it’s here that we need your expertise. Your primary challenge will be to support and assist with the professional delivery of our private and public-facing server and network infrastructure, ensuring it remains reliable, secure and fit-for-purpose. However, we’ll also rely on you to manage, resolve and provide technical escalation for highly complex support issues, or those that require specialist knowledge. Keeping abreast of emerging IT technologies will be important too, as will making recommendations and implementing security and feature enhancements.
About you
To succeed, you’ll need experience of managing major updates and the replacement or commissioning of new services. You’ll also need to have worked with Linux and Windows server Azure deployments. An awareness and understanding of best working practice around information and technology security is important too, while it goes without saying that you have great problem solving skills. Comfortable working as part of team and independently, it is anticipated that some tasks may fall outside of your prior experience, so you’ll also need to be keen to learn and develop. A practicable knowledge of data-driven web applications would be desirable but not essential.
Benefits
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Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.
To find out more about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter please visit our website. Apply to join our IT Operations team and be the change you want to see in society.
Safeguarding is everyone’s business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.
At Shelter, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them.
Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.