Community engagement projects coordinator volunteer roles in Edinburgh
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Join Wild Magic! Help secure grants and funds to ensure our conservation work continues and develops. Collaborate with us to make an impact on our local community.
As a Grants and Funding Volunteer, you will play a vital role in supporting our work. You will:
- Identify and apply for funding opportunities through compelling proposals
- Craft engaging campaigns to attract donors and increase awareness
- Develop clear and impactful communication strategies to share our mission and successes with stakeholders, partners, and the public
You'll collaborate closely with the admin team, a small group of volunteers who work behind the scenes to enable our success with our project goals. You'll also liaise with our Project Director to align your work with the trust's aims and objectives.
This role is adaptable to your skills and interests. Whether your expertise lies in campaign writing, digital communications, or event-based fundraising, we’ll work with you to tailor the responsibilities and focus areas to make the most of your time and talents.
To thrive in this volunteer role, we’re looking for someone who has a mix of the following skills, experiences, and qualities. While we don’t expect you to have all of these, the more you can bring, the bigger your impact will be:
Skills and Experience (any of these):
- Grant Writing: Proven ability to identify funding opportunities and write compelling grant applications that secure essential resources.
- Fundraising Expertise: Experience in planning, managing, or supporting successful fundraising campaigns. This could include individual giving, events, or digital campaigns.
- Communication Skills: Strong written and verbal communication skills to create impactful messaging across multiple platforms, such as social media, press releases, or donor communications.
- Digital Marketing and Social Media: Familiarity with digital marketing strategies, including using social media for engagement and online fundraising.
- Relationship Building: Experience in building and maintaining relationships with donors, corporate sponsors, or community groups.
- Project Management: The ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, meet deadlines, and deliver high-quality results.
Qualities:
- Self-Motivated: Proactive and able to work independently while staying aligned with organisational goals.
- Creative Thinker: A flair for developing innovative ideas for campaigns, proposals, and storytelling.
- Collaborative Team Player: Willing to work closely with others, share ideas, and contribute to a supportive team environment.
- Attention to Detail: Meticulous and thorough, ensuring that all communications and grant applications are polished and professional.
This role is open to individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences. Whether you’re a seasoned fundraiser, a skilled communicator, or someone with a passion for helping others and a willingness to learn, we’d love to hear from you.
Registered Charity
Connecting people with nature via education, gardening, and outdoor activities
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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About Us
Tell My Truth and Shame the Devil C.I.C. is a survivor-led community interest company dedicated to exposing the impact of childhood trauma, abuse, neglect, addiction, mental health struggles, and family dysfunction within Black communities and beyond.
Through podcasts, survivor stories, education, events, research, coaching, advocacy, and community support, we help individuals heal, break destructive cycles, and build stronger families and communities.
As we continue to grow nationally and internationally, we are seeking a Volunteer Central Operations Director to create structure, accountability, and operational excellence across all volunteer departments.
Job Purpose
The Volunteer Central Operations Director serves as the operational backbone of the organisation, ensuring departments, projects, and volunteer teams work efficiently, meet deadlines, and deliver measurable outcomes.
The role oversees project delivery, performance monitoring, reporting systems, KPI tracking, volunteer accountability, and cross-department coordination, helping turn organisational vision into effective execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate organisational operations across all volunteer departments.
- Manage the Central Operations Team, including Analysts, Coordinators, and Assistants.
- Oversee project delivery, ensuring milestones, deadlines, and objectives are achieved.
- Monitor organisational performance, identify risks and bottlenecks, and implement solutions.
- Establish accountability systems, workflows, reporting processes, and operational procedures.
- Develop and maintain KPI dashboards, departmental scorecards, and performance reports.
- Track volunteer engagement, project progress, fundraising outcomes, and organisational impact.
- Facilitate communication and collaboration between departments.
- Lead operational meetings and support monthly performance reviews.
- Produce reports, risk assessments, and recommendations for senior leadership.
- Support implementation of organisational priorities and strategic initiatives.
- Mentor department leaders and promote volunteer engagement, wellbeing, and retention.
- Foster a culture of accountability, professionalism, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Skills & Experience
- Experience leading teams, projects, programmes, or organisational operations.
- Strong project management, organisational, and planning skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and coordinate cross-functional teams.
- Experience developing systems, processes, KPIs, dashboards, and reporting frameworks.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience building stakeholder relationships and facilitating collaboration.
- Ability to motivate, support, and manage volunteers and team leaders.
- High levels of professionalism, integrity, accountability, and attention to detail.
- Comfortable working independently within a remote environment.
- Proficiency with tools such as Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, Trello, Asana, ClickUp, Airtable, Notion, Slack, and Teams.
- Experience in charities, CICs, volunteer-led organisations, operations management, programme management, or community development is desirable.
- Understanding of trauma-informed, survivor-led, or social impact organisations is beneficial.
- Passion for social impact and commitment to our mission.
Volunteer Benefits
- Opportunity to help build a national survivor-led movement.
- Executive leadership experience.
- Leadership training and mentoring.
- Professional references upon successful service.
- Opportunity to influence organisational strategy.
- Meaningful social impact and legacy-building work.
- Potential future paid leadership opportunities as the organisation grows.
Additional Notes
This role may not be suitable if you:
- Prefer low-responsibility volunteer work.
- Dislike reporting, accountability, or performance tracking.
- Are seeking immediate paid employment.
- Are uncomfortable using data and analysis to support decision-making.
To Apply
Please send:
- Your CV, portfolio, or LinkedIn profile (if available).
- A short introduction about yourself.
- Why this mission resonates with you.
- Relevant experience, skills, ideas, or vision you would bring to the role.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.