Our award-winning Government Partnerships Team in Scotland seek someone with passion, drive and creativity to join us as Head of Partnerships on a Maternity cover basis.

You will manage relationships with a variety of public bodies, including national and local government, stewarding 7-figure contracts, developing new business opportunities and influencing policy-makers. Your work will be critical to delivering our work with young people, at a time when our support is needed more than ever.

If you can demonstrate success in a results-driven role, enjoy motivating and developing others,  thrive working on your own initiative and want to make a difference, this role is perfect for you. You will be joining an ambitious, supportive and close-knit team, with the flexibility to work from home and fit your hours around caring commitments.

For more information and to apply, please click 'apply now' to be directed to our website. 

Perks for working at The Trust:

• Great holiday package! 30 days annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays. Office closure the days between Christmas and New Year
• Fantastic Family leave! Receive 13 weeks full pay and 13 weeks half pay for maternity and adoption leave. Receive 8 weeks full pay for paternity leave.
• Flexible working! Where operationally possible, you can work hours to fit in with, school hours or care arrangements for example and you can also work from home.
• Interest-free season ticket loans
• Benefits platform! Everything from health and financial wellbeing support to discounts on your favourite restaurants, shops and cinemas
• In-house learning platform! Develop your skills for your career and your role
• The Trust will contribute 5% of your salary to the Trust Pension Scheme
• You can volunteer for and/or attend events – music festivals, The Prince’s Trust Awards, active events etc.
• Generous life assurance cover (4 x annual salary)

The job of a Save the Children's UK Squad Lead is challenging and fulfilling.

• Do you have proven leadership experience in developing and driving change strategies?
• Do you have practical experience working in a complex institution and proven ability to navigate effectively in such organisations?
• Are you able to translate strategic objectives into clear deliverables?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn't just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

Our Policy, Advocacy, and Campaigns department is where we drive political agendas at national and global levels. We've integrated lobbying, policy, research, and campaigning into one agile, powerful engine for change. Together, we save children's lives, fight for their rights, and help them fulfil their potential.

About the role

As Squad Lead/Head of UK Influencing, you will be responsible for driving whole organisational progress against Save the Children UK's strategic mission to deliver this vision, taking accountability for the delivery of a specific set of squad objective(s) of ensuring change in the UK. Initially this role will play a leading role in delivering our next Global Campaign which will focus on inequality and climate.

This is a cross-organisational leadership role, and the post-holder will lead a multi-disciplinary team (known as a squad), made up of colleagues from across Public Affairs, Campaigns/Organising, Policy, Media, and others to design and deliver an ambitious change programme that delivers the squad's objective here in the UK.

The post-holder will be fully accountable for their squad's objective and is expected to draw upon every relevant discipline across Save the Children UK to achieve it, working closely with colleagues from different divisions, including Fundraising & Marketing Division, which will be crucial for delivering the mass-marketing activities that will support the squad's objectives, as well as working with colleagues from across the wider sector in the UK and beyond.

Key Accountabilities of the Role

• Lead development of the objectives and strategy for one of Save the Children UK's mission squads aimed at influencing policy, practice and/or attitudes in the UK
• Lead a multi-disciplinary squad made up of staff from across policy, advocacy, campaigning and media disciplines (at a minimum), plus other relevant functions, to achieve those objectives
• Develop and articulate a clear vision for what needs to be done to achieve the squad's objective(s), over a range of time horizons
• Take responsibility for the impact of the squad and ensure the squad's work supports the achievement of the overall mission objectives and is in alignment with Save the Children UK's supporter-engagement and “world-class impact” strategies, including through a focus on the rights of the world's most deprived and marginalised children
• Liaise extensively with stakeholders
• Own and manage prioritised deliverables that realise the squad's objectives
• Attend relevant Supporter Engagement strategy and planning meetings and work closely with the thematic Campaign Manager, who will lead the public-engagement aspects of the squad's work
• Support squad members to complete squad deliverables autonomously and in a way that leads to maximum impact

Competencies

• Leading and inspiring others: demonstrates leadership in all our work, embodies our values, and articulates a compelling vision to inspire others to achieve our goals for children.
• Innovating and adapting: develops and implements innovative solutions to adapt and succeed in ever-changing and uncertain global and working environments
• Networking: builds and uses sustainable relationships and networks to support the work of Save the Children
• Working effectively with others: works collaboratively to achieve shared goals and thrives on diversity of people and perspectives; knows when to lead and when to follow and how to ensure effective cross-boundary working
• Problem solving and decision making: Takes effective, considered and timely decisions by gathering and evaluating relevant information from within or outside the organisation.

Technical skills

• Proven leadership experience in developing and driving change strategies, including working across the full theory of change and bringing together policy, advocacy, media, campaigning and public engagement
• Knowledge of, or willingness to acquire knowledge of, agile methods of working
• Good technical knowledge in the squad's thematic area of focus (e.g. international development, conflict, or UK poverty)
• Practical experience (over 5 years) working in a complex institution and proven ability to navigate effectively in such organisations
• Experience of running high-impact projects within Save the Children UK or another organization
• Practical knowledge and experience of relevant organisational processes
• Practical knowledge and experience of using coaching tools and of team management

Behavioural and personal skills

• Translates strategic objectives into clear deliverables
• Proactively and accurately identifies needs and requirements of a wide range of stakeholders
• Delegates tasks effectively and supports team members' autonomy, while simultaneously taking care to ensure high-quality outputs in line with agreed expectations
• Continuously verifies assumptions and reacts well to unforeseen situations
• Constantly develops new skills in ways of working and relevant technical fields
• Explores new approaches and innovates in order to increase impact
• Collaborates effectively between a wide range of colleagues in order to achieve the best results

Remote Working:

The majority of SCUK employees are currently working remotely within the UK in line with UK Government guidance. Commencing July 2021 we will transition to flexible and hybrid ways of working (i.e. a mixture of remote/home and office-based working) as social distancing restrictions ease.

We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: 

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. 

To provide quality support and services for the frontline disability inclusion work of the CBM UK Programme Development Department. Particular objectives include supporting programmes systems and processes (financial, data and knowledge management), supporting funding proposals and providing general administrative support to the Programme Team.

Key objective

• Be working to clear and agreed objectives and plans
• Have a good understanding of CBM UK programme systems and procedures, and how these contribute to CBM UK’s organisational strategy as well as its accountability to donors
• Acquire close familiarity with CBM internal systems and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), including planning and reporting formats and ‘Global Online‘ management system
• Have built up strong, mutually accountable, relationships within the Programme Development Team and with other internal stakeholders and within the CBM federation
• Be providing timely, clear and accurate support and services to colleagues, particularly the Programme Department Director and Heads.

The Programme Support Officer role (PSO) is an excellent ‘entry level’ role that will ensure quality support for the smooth running of the project and financial management systems and programme funding initiatives to help realise quality programmes for CBM UK.

Please download a recruitment pack for full details.

Purpose

The Programme Funding Manager will secure funding from institutional donors for CBM UK and our implementing partners, to resource strategic programme developments in global disability inclusion. This will include relationship building with donors and consortium partners; coordination and support of proposal development; and active contribution to ensuring donor compliance and due diligence.

Key objective

Contribute to securing new institutional funding commitments which fit with CBM UK’s strategic priorities.

Key responsibilities

1. External Relations (20%)​

2. Proposal Development (60%)​

3. Donor Compliance (10%)

4. Internal Relations and Management (10%)

Please download a recruitment pack for full details.

Purpose

The purpose of the role is ensuring alignment and close working with the CBM Country offices and partner organisations to ensure quality delivery, monitoring and reporting of programmes for CBMUK.

Key criteria for success

After 3 months, the Programme Manager (PM) will:

• Be working to clear and agreed strategic objectives and plans
• Be managing a portfolio of programmes and have built up strong relationships with the CBM staff and partners associated with the assigned programmes
• Be a confident user of CBM financial and project tracking systems
• Be contributing to the implementation of the Programme Strategy

For full details please download a recruitment pack.

The Action Group is about ‘no barriers – for all of life’. We offer support and advice to over 1700 children, young people and adults across East Central Scotland: Edinburgh, Falkirk, West Lothian, Midlothian and East Lothian. We are a big team and our Support Workers play a vital role in the lives of the people we support to encounter no barriers in their chosen lifestyle, and to follow a path of choice and enrich their opportunities.

• We have full-time, part-time and casual vacancies available.
• £20,376 – £21,189* per annum, pro rata and based on 39-hour work week (*these apply from 1st December 2021).
• Casual hourly rate: £10.02* per hour (*this applies from 1st December 2021).
• Sleepover payment of £80.16* (*this applies from 1st December 2021). Sleepovers are not counted as part of your contracted hours, and are paid in addition to your regular salary.

We are looking for people who are caring, fun, motivated, creative and great at problem solving.  The people we support want workers who are friendly, practically minded and are great communicators. The ideal candidate will be fully committed to The Action Group’s values of equality, inclusion and opportunity for all. 

We tailor the support we provide according to each person’s needs and wishes. The job can include anything from supporting people to get out and about, taking care of themselves and their homes, and going about their lives in general, to support with work, health and well-being, or attending and participating in activities. 

No experience is required since we will provide bespoke training and support you in achieving relevant qualifications. In fact, many of our support workers go on to complete formal qualifications in social care as they develop their professional skills!

Benefits include:

• Pension
• 24/7 employee assistance programme, with access to free legal advice and counselling
• Good annual leave entitlements
• Ongoing support, bespoke training and development opportunities
• TAG Rewards – our exclusive discounts and savings programme
• Travel time payable where applicable
• Mileage allowance where applicable

Children’s Hospices Across Scotland, better known as CHAS, is Scotland’s national children’s hospice service which cares for children with life shortening conditions and their families. We operate across the country through our two hospices as well as in hospitals and our home care service in the community.

Three children die every week in Scotland from an incurable condition. At the moment, CHAS can only reach one in three of these families but we are determined to reach them all. We must be there for every family that needs us to help families to celebrate the lives of their children whilst they are together and to honour their memory after they have died.

Do you want to be part of this amazing ambition and help us reach every family in Scotland that needs us?

We are looking for a highly organised, efficient and professional administrator to fill the role of Executive Support Coordinator, providing essential administrative and corporate support to the Director of Organisational Development. Ideally a confident communicator with great attention to detail and excellent organisational, creative problem solving and prioritisation skills. Must be fully proficient in Microsoft Office and enjoy creating PowerPoint presentations under the guidance of the Director.

The Director of Organisational Development has an exceptionally busy, varied and extensive workload, leading the HR, strategy and volunteering functions.  As Executive Support Coordinator, you will provide excellent proactive, adaptable and professional support to the Director, maximising their capacity and time to ensure that key deadlines, project deliverables and business objectives are achieved. 

The ideal candidate should be able to operate flexibly and professionally in a fast paced environment and should possess excellent customer service and interpersonal skills as the role will frequently involve dealing with external stakeholders.

At CHAS, staff and volunteers work together as one team, focused on the common goal of reaching every family in Scotland who needs our support. We have a 3:1 ratio of volunteers to staff members in CHAS. All CHAS staff will at some point work with or alongside volunteers and will be expected to support volunteers.

A commitment to CHAS core values, vision and purpose is essential.

This role is subject to a Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check.

Closing Date:  Thursday 9th December 2021.

We are looking for a new Communications Officer to raise awareness of lung disease, mobilise supporters and deliver our media strategy. This is a great opportunity for a media expert who is looking to take the next stage in the career.

One person in five in the UK is affected by lung disease. As the only UK charity for people affected by all lung and respiratory diseases – from mild asthma through to lung cancer – Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation is here for every one of them. We provide support, fund vital research, and campaign for better prevention, treatment and care.

You will deliver an integrated social media and media relations service in Scotland which generates both reactive and proactive opportunities and raises the profile of Asthma UK and the British Lung Foundation. Responding promptly and authoritatively to media requests, you will proactively identify and maximise media and social media opportunities across a range of outlets and channels.

You will be energetic and enthusiastic and bursting with ideas. Your work will convince both the public and decision makers to support our campaigns to reduce air pollution and invest in respiratory services in Scotland.

Interacting with colleagues at all levels and all teams across the organisation you will find this a great opportunity to develop your communications skills in a creative and energised workplace.

As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a range of benefits including our cycle-to-work scheme, 30 days annual leave (plus Scottish bank holidays), pension scheme and much more.

This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to an organisation committed to supporting everyone whose life is changed by lung disease.

Please note that CV’s in isolation and any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.