About us
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it.
Crisis works throughout Edinburgh, offering advice, support and access to training and employment opportunities for people experiencing homelessness.
About the role
This is a 12 months temporary role to cover the secondment of the current Administration Manager to another role within Crisis.
You will play a crucial role in the Skylights Management Team, overseeing the core administration functions across the service, including education, progression and reception, Events and Christmas and provide effective and efficient customer service function for Crisis Skylight Edinburgh services and members. In addition, in a varied and challenging role you will have delegated responsibility of appropriate budgets and overseeing financial processes such as petty cash and processing of invoices in addition to partnership working with the other organisations and supporting activities running within Edinburgh Skylight and outreach services
About you
To be successful in this role you must have:
- Experience of developing, implementing and monitoring office administration procedures to support a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of managing a reception where, at times, people may present with challenging demands
- Ability to manage a busy and diverse workload whilst maintaining attention to detail and accuracy
- Experience of managing a budget and managing financial procedures
- Experience of managing, developing and supporting staff or volunteers
- Ability to use own initiative and proactively contribute to the effective running of the centre
- Excellent interpersonal skills with a high level of written and communication skills
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word/Outlook/Excel)Sound knowledge of health and safety issues and safeguarding procedures to ensure a safe environment is provided for members, staff, volunteers, supports and visitors
Benefits
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:
- Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy
- Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8.5%
- 25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days
Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your on-going development to build your skills, experience and career.
How To Apply
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, please click on the 'Apply For Job' button below.
Closing date: Sunday 15th November 2020 (at 23:59)
If you need to request an application in an alternative format, please contact the Recruitment Team, contact details can be found on our website.
We value diversity, promote equality and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness
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Managing Lawyer - Biodiversity and Climate Law Projects
Hours: Full time, but with full flexible and remote working.
Location: Anywhere in the UK (outside of UK also considered)
We are hiring a dynamic, passionate and ambitious lawyer to join The Lifescape Project, to play an integral part in our environmental law projects.
Who we are:
Lifescape Project is a start-up charity which designs and undertakes projects that support wildlife, rewild landscapes, and help to provide a future for all life on earth. We focus on ambitious projects that look at new ways of solving complex problems and bring together the skills and expertise of the public and private sectors.
Our legal work:
Lifescape’s legal work focuses on applying the law to solve problems facing the protection of biodiversity, the environment and the rewilding of landscapes. At present, this covers three specific projects: (1) International Litigation Against Forest Biomass Energy, (2) Threatened Species Protection, and (3) Legal Mechanisms to Protect Nature.
Your role:
The successful candidate will be in an exciting and dynamic position as the second employee of Lifescape, with the opportunity to help shape the future direction of the Lifescape Project as a charity. You will be responsible for running litigation and legal projects, reporting directly to the CEO, and for expanding the legal arm of the charity.
The candidate will therefore play a fundamental role in Lifescape’s development. Candidates will need to be comfortable with taking on significant responsibility, guiding the direction of a new and expanding NGO, and managing teams of professionally qualified volunteers.
TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION
If you would like to find out more about this position, please download a copy of the job description. To apply, please submit a cover letter and CV by clicking the Apply button.
Closing date: Friday 23 October 2020. Late applications may still be considered.
National Partnerships Manager, Scotland
(Ref SUS3022)
£31,369 per annum
37.5 hours per week – based in Edinburgh (negotiable)
The exciting challenges of this role including the building and maintenance of effective partnerships with national bodies who can help Sustrans to deliver the Scottish Government commitments on walking, cycling and wheeling. By identifying and developing new opportunities, you will develop new partnership relationships and approaches and lead a team to delivery shared outcomes.
With experience of delivering complex, multi-partner projects at a senior level and experience of successful and productive partnership working, you will be experienced in delivering to deadline and on budget and in effective networking. You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills, the ability to diplomatically communicate authoritatively and persuasively and the ability to develop innovative new projects. You will also have strong effective leadership skills. You will have good working knowledge of transport planning and be committed to the promotion of sustainable transport.
Closing date for the receipt of completed applications is 9am on Wednesday 28 October 2020. Interviews will take place via MS Teams during week beginning Monday 23 November 2020.
Should Sustrans receive an overwhelming number of applications for this vacancy, the decision may be taken to close it earlier than the advertised closing date, so please ensure your application is submitted as soon as possible.
Sustrans is committed to reducing inequality, valuing diversity and enabling inclusion. We welcome applications from people from all parts of the community, particularly where we are under-represented. Currently this includes people who identify as having a disability and those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups.
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About You
Are you a committed, flexible Occupational Therapist with a minimum of 2 years of post-graduate experience looking to expand your skills and would enjoy the opportunity to work with military veterans? Can you work independently but still enjoy having the support of a team and are happy to embrace a flexible work pattern that might include some overnight stays? If you also have experience of delivering Occupational Therapy (OT) in both physical and mental health conditions, as well the areas of sleep difficulties and sensory needs then this is the role for you. Intrigued? Keep on reading.
About the Role
In this role you will work in the homes and local communities of our veterans and be able to support them with physical and mental health needs that are creating barriers to meaningful occupation. You will also be able to identify those barriers that are affecting our veterans’ ability to be as independent as possible and enable them to live the life they want to live. You will be assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating OT interventions and have the space to be creative in your solutions that will improve the lives of our Heroes.
About the Team
Here in the Clinical Team we are resourceful in finding ways to deliver what is right and fair for our veterans in the healthcare domain seeing the bigger picture, focusing on ideas that deliver the best results for our veterans and actively challenge, test, learn and adapt ideas, making them a reality. Our aim is to champion the wounded, injured and sick as they transition to civilian life so if you want to join a passionate, fun, and forward-thinking expert team, wait no longer. Apply now.
What we offer
To enable our employees to thrive in all aspects of their lives we proudly support flexible working practices. You can tailor your working day around your work and private commitments providing you maintain high class service to the team and our veterans at all times. And there is also a wide range of other benefits we offer like 26 days paid holiday, enhanced maternity pay, health cashback plan, and so many more.
Areas
- The Borders including Scotland and Northern Ireland
- South
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