Are you an experienced and creative storyteller, passionate about using your skills in writing, video production and design to help create a just world, free of poverty? If so, we want to hear from you!

The Role

SCIAF has an exciting opportunity to join our team as the permanent Content Production Officer. The role sits in the Marketing and Communications team and plays a vital role in helping us to gather and tell stories of change, primarily in support of our fundraising campaigns.

The post-holder will work closely with teams across the organisation, as well as our partner and sister organisations, and travel to visit SCIAF projects worldwide, in order to gather powerful stories and turn them into emotional and compelling content that captivates, inspires and compels action. They’ll focus on producing materials and content for fundraising appeals, campaigns and core supporter communications, as well as responding to humanitarian emergencies.

The role will be based in our Glasgow office, although you may be working from home initially.

Who we’re looking for

We’re seeking a strong and creative storyteller who can use their skills in writing, video production and design to produce powerful and engaging content that helps us to reach our ambitious goals – whether through fundraising, campaigning for political change or raising our brand profile. The role would suit someone with strong project management skills and experience managing content production processes from start to finish, working with a range of suppliers. As a small team, we are looking for a high-performing individual with initiative and enthusiasm, someone flexible and responsive, who can use creativity and strong problem-solving skills to help us reach our goals.

Safeguarding

The post-holder will travel overseas to less developed parts of the world as required and will therefore come into contact with children and vulnerable adults. SCIAF undertakes to ensure that all staff, volunteers and relevant others, whose work might involve contact with children, will have completed additional recruitment procedures and have obtained a satisfactory Enhanced PVG Check from Disclosure Scotland. We would also confirm that all staff are expected to adhere to a Code of Conduct, which specifies the attitudes and behaviour that all staff are expected to maintain.

Please read the full Job Description and Person Specification carefully from the SCIAF website, by selecting the apply function on Charity Job.

Interviews due to be held week beginning 8th February 2021.

Closing Date 29th January 2021

Stewardship Manager

External Relations

Reference number: 048645

Job Purpose

The successful candidate will develop and co-ordinate the implementation across teams of a donor stewardship framework and a programme of activity which ensures all donors (including international donors) across all levels of support are appropriately thanked and receive high quality communications about their giving and its impact. Though based in the Philanthropy & Partnerships team, the Stewardship Manager will be required to understand, monitor and co-ordinate work being delivered by a range of fundraising and gift management staff to ensure the framework operates effectively as part of donor journeys and offers a quality donor experience.

Dimensions

• Development & Alumni forms part of the University’s External Relations Directorate which also includes Student Recruitment, Access & Admissions, International Recruitment & Partnerships, Marketing and Short Courses.
• The University is currently in the private phase of an institutional Campaign with a working target of GBP110M. A significant element of the Campaign focusses on the ambitious campus development on the site of the former Western Infirmary adjacent to the University, which will be mostly complete by 2023. The Campaign is supported by a Campaign Leadership Board of leading alumni and friends
• The University currently secures between GBP7M and GBP14M in philanthropic support (New Funds Secured as per Ross CASE Survey methodology) and aims to raise this to a consistent level in excess of GBP 20M per annum in the course of the next 3-5 years.
• The University current has around 3,000 active donors per annum with 5-6 living donors of over £1M.

Terms and Conditions

Salary will be on the Management, Professional and Administrative Grade, level 7, £35,845 - £40,322 per annum.

This post is full time to provide maternity cover for up to 12 months or until the substantive postholder returns from maternity leave, or in the event of their resignation, whichever date is earlier.

This post will temporarily be home-based due to COVID-19 restrictions.

New entrants to the University will be required to serve a probationary period of 6 months.

The successful applicant will be eligible to join the Universities' Superannuation Scheme. Further information regarding the scheme is available from the Superannuation Officer, who is also prepared to advise on questions relating to the transfer of Superannuation benefits.

It is the University of Glasgow's mission to foster an inclusive climate, which ensures equality in our working, learning, research and teaching environment.

We strongly endorse the principles of Athena SWAN, including a supportive and flexible working environment, with commitment from all levels of the organisation in promoting gender equity.

The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401.

Cancer Awareness Nurse - Scotland

Location: Greater Glasgow and surrounding area (within 35 mile radius). Nurses will be based regionally but will be required to travel to other areas in the UK for short periods.

Salary: £27,000 - £30,000 per annum (full time equivalent) plus car allowance

Hours: Part-time, 28 hours per week

Contract: Permanent

Application deadline: We will be reviewing applications as they come in so early application is strongly encouraged to avoid disappointment. This role will close once the position is filled.

Interviews: Interviews will begin week commencing 25th January 2021 and will be held virtually.

Training dates: The successful post-holder will need to attend staff training on 8th-11th March, and campaign training at 15th-18th March. Training will be held virtually.

Apply your nursing experience to a new challenge for 2021 and help us beat cancer!  

Our Cancer Awareness Roadshow plays a vital role in achieving our vision of beating cancer. We travel to the heart of communities talking to over 60,000 people every year about cancer. Our nurses directly reach people most in need, helping people to take steps to reduce their risk of cancer through lifestyle changes and supporting them to maintain those changes lifelong. If you’ve got an interest in health promotion and you are an excellent and confident communicator then this could be the perfect opportunity for you!

About the role

We’re looking for a motivated Nurse to be part of our team in Scotland to work on our regular indoor Roadshows. In this influential role, you’ll…

• Work as a core part of our cancer awareness team to engage people face-to-face, providing information on cancer prevention, screening and early detection

• Organise and deliver cancer awareness presentations and training to community groups and support other public health initiatives

• Manage team Twitter account – posting regular updates on the team’s activity and growing the team’s social media contacts as appropriate.

• Collect and input data to evaluate local engagement activities

• Get involved with other cancer awareness outreach activity in the local community

• Manage a team of Health Awareness Volunteers and support them to be involved with cancer awareness activity where appropriate

To see a full job description please click here: https://adobe.ly/2Yd7bbV

You’ll be mainly based in Glasgow and surrounding areas within a 35 mile radius, visiting communities who are at higher risk of cancer.

About us

Our Cancer Awareness Roadshow was founded in 2006 in partnership with Ronan Keating and the Marie Keating Foundation. It plays a vital role in achieving our vision of beating cancer sooner by directly reaching people most in need with tailored health messages, encouraging them to make positive changes to their health and signposting to local health services. The Roadshow currently consists of three mobile units that visit some of the UK’s most deprived and diverse communities where cancer incidence and mortality rates are significantly above average. For more information on the Roadshow please see the Cancer Research UK Roadshow Website. Our regular Cancer Awareness Roadshow was developed off the back of the Roadshow in 2015, to enable us to have more in-depth ongoing conversations with people, to help them to sustain change in a supportive environment. The Glasgow activity is a regular indoor Roadshow only model, with a usual pattern of three days a week of Roadshow sites and one admin day.

About you

 To join us we’re looking for…

• A registered Nurse with an NMC registration

• Excellent verbal communication skills, including an ability to engage people in conversation and to use motivational interviewing techniques

• Strong writing skills

• Excellent organisational skills with a strong administrative background

• A good understanding of the challenges associated with targeting hard to reach groups and addressing health inequalities

Cancer Research UK will provide introductory training and orientation. As part of your application we’d like you to upload a CV and you will be asked to answer a few short application questions relating to your experience and skills.