Community Development & Social Enterprise
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* Remote: Home-based & with regular time in and around East Lammermuir
* Closing: 11th February 2025
* Advertised from: 23rd January 2025
* 28 hours per week. Permanent.
Role
Could you help us to break new ground and genuinely usher in a just transition for East Lammermuir?
East Lammermuir is at the rural edge of East Lothian and could see up to 14 new electricity infrastructure projects built in the area as part of the transition to net zero. The local community is determined to work with developers to ensure East Lammermuir is left better than it is now, once any new infrastructure is built and functioning.
Foundation Scotland has been chosen to host an important new role to focus on balancing the needs of the environment, the residents of East Lammermuir, East Lothian Council, and the various energy developers and transmission companies coming to work in the area.
This pioneering opportunity needs someone with a strong skill set across a range of areas including interpersonal skills, group work, community development, and stakeholder management.
You will use your partnerships expertise and initiative to seek opportunities for more efficient joined-up working between stakeholders to ensure all planning applications are well-understood and judged on their own merits, and where developments are permitted, to minimize disruption and maximize local benefits.
Your key responsibilities will include:
* Keeping yourself and other stakeholders informed about all planned energy developments in the area, including their timelines, potential impacts, and interconnections.
* Encouraging knowledge sharing and collaboration through convening stakeholders and organizing events and initiatives that inspire confidence, connection, and engagement.
* Building strong relationships with developers, community members, East Lothian Council officers, elected representatives of local authority, and Scottish and UK Government.
* Promoting a focus on lasting and meaningful benefits for East Lammermuir.
* Establishing and implementing effective communication channels to ensure timely and transparent information sharing among all stakeholders. This includes maintaining a website, organizing workshops, and utilizing digital tools.
If you have a passion for place, and experience in the energy sector, stakeholder engagement, planning or community development, and have excellent interpersonal skills, then we’d love to hear from you. Please note, that while this role is home-based, travel is required, with many opportunities to work within and around East Lammermuir.
Closing date: 5pm on Tuesday 11th February
A specific job location has not been provided.
An exciting opportunity for someone with a real passion for community development. The brand of Hibernian FC has the power to attract members of the community that other charities and agencies may struggle to reach. With this, plus a newly refurbished 200 sq metre Community Hub and the support of a committed team of staff and volunteers, what difference could you make?
Hibernian Community Foundation exists to support our local community. We provide 1,000 community meals and organize social, wellbeing, and fitness activities for 400 people every month, and provide football sessions for over 700 people of all ages and abilities.
We are seeking to fill the position of Head of Community Development & Deputy CEO to strategically develop and lead our growing range of community programmes.
You will:
* Manage the Community Hub, a team of three, 40 volunteers, and relations with partner charities and groups.
* Articulate the needs of the community and the impact of the Foundation’s programmes to a range of stakeholders, including funders.
* Have three to five years’ experience in developing, managing and delivering projects with social and health outcomes, and a track record of attracting funding and partnership working.
Are you passionate about Learning for Sustainability? Do you want to inspire and enable Scotland to contribute to sustainability at local, national, and global levels? Are you committed to working with learners, educators, decision-makers, and communities to build a socially-just and sustainable world? If so, and you have the experience and skills, we want to hear from you.
Learning for Sustainability Scotland, Scotland’s UN University-recognised Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development, is seeking an enthusiastic and skilled Development Manager to join our team.
In this pivotal role, you’ll be at the heart of our work, harnessing the transformative power of Learning for Sustainability and collaborating with our members and partners to shape Scotland’s sustainable future.
Based within the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, the successful candidate will join a vibrant, ambitious, collegiate team to lead the development and coordination of Learning for Sustainability Scotland programmes and support the development of core Learning for Sustainability Scotland business; in collaboration with the Learning for Sustainability Scotland’s Director, Dr Beth Christie; an elected Steering Group and Chair; Secretariat; key internal and external partners; and its members. The Development Manager will also have direct line management responsibilities for the Learning for Sustainability Scotland’s Project Manager, and responsibility for the work of both the Project Manager and the Finance Officer.
About Learning for Sustainability Scotland
Learning for Sustainability Scotland is a pan-sectoral organisation; working across the length and breadth of Scotland and with frequent collaboration with partners across the UK, Europe, and the rest of the world. It has more than 1,000 individual and organisational members with a commitment to learning for sustainability. These include members from schools, colleges, universities, youth and community learning, local and central government and related agencies, and the ‘third sector’.
Learning for Sustainability Scotland brings in external income and works in partnership with its members and key partners to achieve its core objectives of:
* Weaving connections across sectors within Scotland and with international partners.
* Co-producing, pioneering and practising new knowledge and approaches; and curating materials and resources with and for educators, organisations, and communities; including consultancy activities.
* Advocating for and provision of strategic advice for effective policy on Learning for Sustainability and other related areas; including the creation of policy responses on behalf of its members.
* Leading, monitoring and evaluating projects and programmes locally and internationally; including the creation and delivery of professional learning.
This is a part-time role (0.6 FTE / 21 hours per week), with the opportunity to expand to full-time depending on project development and income growth. We are open to flexible and hybrid working patterns that combine remote and regular on-campus work.
Your skills and attributes for success:
* Proven track record and commitment to, pan-sectoral knowledge of, and passion for Learning for Sustainability.
* Ability to lead, facilitate and contribute to the development of the overall strategic direction of Learning for Sustainability Scotland.
* Ability to lead, manage and develop the content of forward work plans and budgets.
* Strong organisational, team collaboration, self- and line-management, and networking skills.
* Skill and experience to represent Learning for Sustainability Scotland; including high-level external advocacy and engagement with other UN RCEs, international organisations, Scottish Government and Agencies, Scotland’s universities and colleges, schools and educators, ‘third sector’ organisations and communities, private sector, and LfS Scotland members and other individuals and bodies as appropriate.
As a valued member of our team you can expect:
* An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
* To be part of a diverse and vibrant local, national and international community.
* Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives.
About Us
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
About the Team
Moray House School of Education and Sport (MHSES), University of Edinburgh, has been making a major contribution and impact to the fields of education and sport both in Scotland and worldwide for almost 200 years. In that time, our staff, students and alumni have influenced and transformed learning, teaching, and wider educational policy in the UK and beyond. We are the leading School of Education and Sport in Scotland – ranked first for research breadth and quality in Education and Sport, and third in the UK (REF 2021). We consistently rank in the top tiers of global education and sport-related studies.
Our alumni include Great Britain’s most successful Olympic athlete, cyclist Sir Chris Hoy MBE, and trailblazing teacher and race relations pioneer, Saroj Lal.
We are deeply committed to social justice, inclusivity, diversity, and accessibility. Our aim in all our work is to significantly impact the education, wellbeing and development of children, young people and adults, through problem-solving in the fields of education and sport.
Study
Across undergraduate, postgraduate taught, research, and initial teacher education; our 3000 students study across 29 different programmes. These include a wide array of subjects across the broad areas of teacher education, language education, sport policy, sport science, outdoor education and community education.
Research
With over 250 research staff and students, we have a vibrant and expanding research community with a broad portfolio of academic disciplines gathered within seven broad research themes with permeable boundaries. Our Thematic Hubs are:
* Advanced Quantitative Research in Education
* Digital Education
* Language, Interculturality and Literacies
* Social Justice and Inclusion
* Sport-related Research
* Teacher, Curriculum and Pedagogy
The REF 2021 results for both education and sport-related research place us as Scotland’s top-ranked institution for research breadth and quality (THE).
* Hybrid/ Remote: Highland or Inverness Office (Must be able to travel throughout partnership area)
* Closing: 27th January 2025
We’re looking for an experienced partnership manager who’s passionate about supporting Highland communities, improving energy efficiency and tackling fuel poverty to manage our Highland Community Energy Partnership.
A strong communicator with experience of delivering innovative community projects you will oversee the day-to-day management and coordination of the Highland Energy Community Partnership (HECP) an exciting new programme funded by The National Lottery Community Fund and coordinated by Changeworks, in partnership with six community partners across Highland.
The project will build collaboration across implementing partners and beyond, aiming to improve community knowledge of energy efficiency, provide advice to individual households and intensive support to those most in need while supporting the establishment of a local supply chain for domestic retrofit. Sharing learning across the partnership and beyond you will support the partnership board in delivering this transformative five-year project.
We are looking for an individual who can combine their knowledge of low carbon solutions and experience of community development to design, deliver and co-ordinate energy efficiency activities which meet the long-term needs of communities across the partnership.
About us
Changeworks is a great place to work. We hold Investors in People Platinum accreditation (something only a few organisations in Scotland have), and we were nominated for employer of the year by the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce this year. Our staff overwhelmingly would recommend us as an employer too.
The Climate Emergency has resulted in ambitious national targets to reduce carbon emissions from the built environment and reduce rates of fuel poverty. This has driven a significant increase in the number of pilot and large-scale interventions delivered by Changeworks and external organisations in this area. These include area-based domestic energy efficiency retrofit and decarbonisation projects and programmes.
We are a growing organisation, and this role is crucial to the delivery of our ambitious objectives. We want to decarbonise homes in Scotland on a massive scale, and that needs talented individuals like you to help us deliver on our objectives. You’ll receive full training plus coaching and mentoring.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits including flexible working, bike to work scheme, an excellent pension scheme and 26 days paid holiday plus 9 public holidays per year.
At Changeworks, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone.
* On site/ Hybrid / Remote: Scotland - Home-based, blended or fully office based (from our office in Edinburgh)
* Closing: 5th February 2025
As Programme Manager you will report to the Head of Programme Delivery – Home and Business Energy Scotland, and oversee and enhance the delivery of the Scottish Government-funded Home Energy Scotland programme.
Who we are
Energy Saving Trust is a leading and trusted organisation, dedicated to promoting energy efficiency, low carbon transport and sustainable energy use. We aim to address the climate emergency and deliver the wider benefits of clean energy as we transition to net zero.
At Energy Saving Trust we don’t just offer jobs – we offer careers. For our people, being part of the effort to address the climate emergency makes working for us truly meaningful and rewarding.
Here are some of the benefits we offer:
* We offer an outstanding pension scheme including employer contributions of up to 9%, 11% or 13% (age-linked).
* Enhanced parental leave.
* 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with service-linked increases as well as three goodwill days over the Christmas period.
* Staff wellbeing allowance of up to £25 per month / £300 per year.
Please see our careers page for the full list of benefits we have to offer and why Energy Saving Trust is a great place to work.
The role
The post holder will work closely with internal teams and contracted advice service partners to ensure ongoing high-quality advice for Scottish householders. The successful candidate will ensure the service continues to achieve world-class levels of customer satisfaction across both traditional advice channels and through digital support. Within the first six months the successful candidate will provide input to service improvement and design decisions, ensuring Home Energy Scotland aligns with the policy goals of the Scottish Government’s Heat in Buildings strategy, reduces carbon emissions from households across the country, and supports people experiencing fuel poverty.
The team
Home Energy Scotland is an award-winning advice service that supports hundreds of thousands of households across Scotland every year to make their homes warmer and more affordable and to reduce carbon emissions. The team delivers support at scale, responding to both the intensifying climate crisis and cost-of-living challenges.
What you’ll do
Your role includes driving the programme's development, financial performance, and meeting advice centre targets. You will manage the advice centre network's requirements, address challenges, and coordinate responses with the appropriate team members. Leading a team of managers across operations, fuel poverty support, partnerships, and service improvement, you will collaborate with staff across marketing, evaluation, and digital to ensure success.
What you’ll bring
* Programme and project management experience and skills with the ability to manage a wide-ranging team and portfolio.
* Excellent relationship-building, influencing, and negotiating skills with the ability to interact at all levels.
* Ability to manage a distributed team and work effectively with indirectly managed teams and contractors.
* Well-developed verbal and written communication skills.
* Results orientated with the ability to prioritise and to work to deadlines.
* Excellent analytical, organisation and time management skills.
* Strong customer focus and a willingness to prioritise quality and customer experience.
* Ability to understand complex IT systems and support their design and development.
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