Communications Officer

Scottish Community Safety Network; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job description

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• Hybrid: Home based with access to Glasgow office
• Closing 27th April 2025
• Advertised from 7th April 2025
• 4-Day Week Employment, Monday – Thursday

Role

The Scottish Community Safety Network (SCSN) is a registered charity. We are the strategic voice for community safety in Scotland. We create spaces for collaboration, co-production, dialogue, sharing and learning. We help local and national partners stay informed. We work with a diverse, broad spectrum of stakeholders, including Police Scotland, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, COSLA, Local Authorities, Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs), Scottish Government and many others.

We are seeking a motivated Communications Officer to join our small, agile team. You will be welcomed as an essential colleague and co-worker, into a small team who are looking forward to working with you. SCSN is a progressive organisation, among the first to trial and permanently adopt 4-day working. SCSN offers staff generous annual leave and wellbeing days too, to help support mental health.

We encourage you to visit our website to see what we do and who we are. If you think you are the right fit for us, we would love to hear from you.

SCSN is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and every community.

Application notes

Application deadline is midnight Sunday 27 April 2025. Please download and complete the application form, detailing relevant qualifications and experience, and email to [e-mail] with subject heading ‘Communications Officer – Completed Application’.

Interviews will be held online, on 5th or 6th May 2025, with a possible in-person second interview afterwards.

For informal enquiries about the position, please contact [e-mail] and a member of the team will come back to you.

Introduction

Community Land Scotland is a membership organisation which represents the interests of community landowners throughout Scotland and which currently has over 130 Members. It is the national voice for community ownership and land reform in Scotland, the aim of which is to diversify the pattern of land ownership to ensure many more people can benefit from Scotland’s land. Land ownership matters because it significantly influences how land is used and crucially who benefits.

Community Land Scotland operates by taking the real lived experiences of communities and using it to influence positive change.

About the role

Community Land Scotland has a UK wide reputation for promoting community empowerment through the democratic ownership of key assets in local economies, building community wealth and resilience. We are regularly asked to speak nationally within Scotland, within the UK and internationally, on land reform and community empowerment. We are the only civil society organisation that exists to fulfill this advocacy function.

This role would suit a recent graduate or someone with similar experience. The role is envisaged as relatively entry-level in which training and development will take place alongside gaining a wide range of experiences, all of which will support career development.

As Policy Support you will have a specific role within the policy and communications team to help research and shape policy development whilst sharing our message with a wider audience.

We are looking for a Policy Support Officer who is a strong oral and written communicator with strong organisational and administrative skills, who can digest and synthesise complex information and then present it in an engaging format and who has a passion for community-led approaches and land reform.

The main objectives of this post, and outcomes to be delivered are to:

• Help support the organisation’s busy policy agenda with a focus on developing policy to deliver more community ownership, further land reform in Scotland and to help communities deliver their sustainable development objectives
• Promoting awareness and benefits of community land ownership across all communities in Scotland and particularly spreading our message to new demographics
• Demonstrate how more community ownership creates more communities in control of their own sustainable development
• Develop, facilitate and promote networking among a range of partner organisations that promote community ownership and land reform in Scotland
• Work with the Director of Policy to represent Community Land Scotland’s members from Holyrood to local political discussions and in wider forums

See full details and person specification in Policy Support Job Description linked below.

Poverty and inequality are the greatest challenges Scotland faces. The Poverty Alliance is working to create a wide coalition that can bring about real change. An opportunity has arisen to join our research team and help us achieve our vision of a Scotland without poverty:

A vacancy has arisen for an Engagement and Learning Officer to join the Poverty Alliance’s Living Wage Scotland team. The post holder will work on a new project called “Pathways to Progress”, which aims to enhance job quality in Social Care.

The right person for this job will have significant experience and knowledge of managing a variety of stakeholder relationships, will be a confident communicator with strong facilitation skills and will have a sound understanding of the Social Care employment landscape in Scotland.

Above all, we are looking for a dynamic, passionate individual with a clear commitment to social justice and engaging employers in actions that can help address poverty.

A vacancy has arisen for an experienced social researcher to join the Poverty Alliance’s busy and impactful research team. We are looking for a new Research Officer, who will work on a new project called “Pathways to Progress”, which aims to enhance job quality in Social Care.

The right person for this job will have significant experience and knowledge of conducting and managing qualitative research, preferably in an applied research context. You will have excellent knowledge of a range of qualitative and participatory research methodologies and methods. Alongside a sound knowledge of current issues and trends in relation to poverty and inequality, you will have experience of research focused on delivering real social change.

Above all, we are looking for a dynamic, passionate and committed individual, who not only wants to understand the nature of the social challenges we face but wants to change them too.

We are looking for an experienced communication professional to join Inspiring Scotland’s small, but effective and ambitious communication team. Alongside the Communications Manager and Communications Assistant, you will plan and deliver activity to engage and influence a range of stakeholders including Scottish Charities, The Scottish Government, Trusts and Foundations, and private individuals.

What’s in it for you?

• Full time: 35h per week
• Employer pension contribution 9.25%
• Private Medical Insurance

We are a flexible employer and offer an excellent benefits package. We have won or been nominated for Family Friendly Awards three times. We also have been nominated for Best Flexible Working Initiative – sponsored by FlexibilityWorks. Inspiring Scotland is committed Living Wage and Disability Confident Employer.