Edinburgh Food Project runs seven foodbanks and an FCA accredited Money Advice Service.
We have joined with other foodbanks in the North East and South East of the city to expand the advice team and reach yet more people in crisis.
As part of this exciting and ambitious development, we are seeking a Support Officer to work at the front line in the fight against poverty.
This is a 2-year fixed-term contract at the heart of a forward-thinking organisation dedicated to ending the need for foodbanks. The successful candidate will have excellent communication and administrative skills, and will thrive in a fast-paced environment.
Application notes
A recruitment pack can be downloaded below.
More about us:
Held in our Hearts is a small but mighty and growing Scottish charity providing baby loss counselling and peer support to families. We have over 40 years’ experience of offering compassionate bereavement care to individuals and families and working closely with a range of partners including the NHS, Scottish Government and the third sector.
Our values of empathy, connection and love underpin all that we do and guide us as we continue to grow and expand our services and reach. Our support services include counselling, one to one peer support, our innovative early intervention Hospital to Home service, group support and events.
In recent years, we have expanded our team and extended our geographical reach to bereaved families from Edinburgh and the Lothians to Fife, Forth Valley and the Highlands.
* Hybrid: Home and office in Edinburgh (2-3 days/week from the office)
* Closing 23rd October 2024
Join Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS) as Operations Support Officer – Office and Events and become part of Scotland’s leading charity that provides support to people with chest, heart and stroke conditions to live life to the full again.
You will support the delivery of our No Life Half Lived 2 Strategy by ensuring efficient and inclusive customer service to internal stakeholders.
This will include line management of our Operations Support Administrators, ensuring their continued professional development and providing training on event support and H&S.
You will oversee and develop team processes and procedures, and continuously review the current arrangements for improvement opportunities.
This role will play a key role in delivering the Operational Support Team’s operational plan.
As the Officer for Office and Events, you will focus on ensuring HSE compliance within the office space as well as overseeing logistics support to various events and admin support to training opportunities in the charity.
CHSS employees enjoy a variety of organisational benefits including learning and development support, company pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, company sick pay, employee welfare support and life assurance.
CHSS also supports flexible recruitment through Working Families and we are “Happy to Talk Flexible Working”.
The Role
The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (“the College”) seeks to appoint a Membership Governance Officer to coordinate matters in relation to the governance of Fellowship and Membership, working with the Membership Manager to ensure that changes can be managed and implemented.
The post holder will implement College decisions relating to Council elections and Fellowship and Membership issues and determine how they can be applied within the College calendar and Laws.
Key responsibilities include:
* Organising the election of multiple Office Bearer roles within the College including the co-ordination of all relevant processes, correspondence and advertising to the wider Fellowship.
* Designing processes, interpreting changes to policies and the Laws, navigating changes to the College calendar in order to facilitate elections in a timely manner.
* Assisting with drafting policy papers for Council on behalf of the Honorary Secretary as required.
* Collating paperwork on Regional Advisers appointments/elections to seek Council approval and tracking appointments by Regional Advisers of their Link Fellows.
* Maintaining the ‘master’ set of the Laws of the College and Royal Charter.
* Helping to support wider team activities such as events, New Fellows Day, administration and meetings on an ad hoc basis during busy periods.
Person Specification
* Experience of supporting committees/project teams to deliver operational goals.
* Demonstrable experience of working with the governance or legal documents of an organisation, such as charters, laws, terms of reference, memoranda of understanding, articles and deeds.
* Ability to deal with highly sensitive matters and enquiries with tact.
* Experience of maintaining contact with a wide variety of stakeholders through regular communication.
* Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships.
* Strong numeric, administrative and communication skills.
* Exceptional levels of attention to detail, and an ability to respond immediately to changing demands.
* Competent computer skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, and member databases.
* Experience of organising significant governance-related activities, such as elections and office bearer appointments.
* A general understanding of the structure, role and importance of Royal Colleges.
Remuneration Package
The salary for this role will be £25,962 per annum plus benefits. Additional benefits include:
* Pension: with employer contributions of 9%.
* Holidays: 23 days’ annual leave (with incremental increase over five years to 28 days) and 11 days’ public holiday/College close downs.
* Long-term income protection scheme for those unable to work due to illness.
* Cycle to Work scheme.
* Discounted rates for use of the venue for personal events.
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