Volunteering Development Lead

Borders Community Action; Scotland; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 23,000

Job description

Community Development & Social Enterprise

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Housing & Homelessness

International Development

Learning

Local

Local Infrastructure Organisation

Older People

Other

Social Care

Youth

• £22,277 per annum for 28 hours per week.

Role

A key part of our strategy focuses on recruiting volunteers of all ages and backgrounds and matching them to appropriate organisations and opportunities.

This exciting and pivotal role raises awareness of the volunteering opportunities in the Scottish Borders, drives the development of individual volunteer capacity, skills and capabilities, and engages with volunteer-involving organisations to ensure that there are opportunities for volunteers. The role also involves encouraging third-party organisations, schools, local businesses and employers to promote the benefits of volunteering and encourage corporate volunteering.

Strong communication, networking, project management skills and good understanding of volunteers and volunteering are essential for success in this role.

Closing date - 9am on Monday, 28 April 2025

Interview dates - Interviews are currently scheduled for the afternoon on Wednesday, 07 and Thursday, 08 May 2025. Interviews will be in person at the main office at Drygrange, Melrose.

Position: Volunteering Development Lead
Postcode: TD6 9DJ

Borders Community Action is seeking a dynamic and highly motivated individual to join our team. This is an exciting role in a fresh dynamic organisation that is looking to maximise the capability of the vital third sector across the Scottish Borders.

The Community Development Lead role includes direct support to local charities, voluntary organisations, and social enterprises by providing guidance on governance, capacity building, and partnership development. A key aspect of the role involves assisting groups with funding applications and pre-assessment of funds distributed by Borders Community Action. The Community Development Lead will also be responsible for promoting volunteering and working with partners to foster collaboration and help drive sustainable social impact.

Strong communication, networking, project management skills and good understanding of grant processes are essential for success in this role. It is expected that a significant proportion of this work will be dedicated to Eastern Borders.

• Hybrid: Stirling: based in GP surgeries, city centre office, and from home with some local travel.
• Closing: 7th April 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen to lead our Community Links Worker (CLW) team in Stirling. We are seeking a motivated and compassionate individual to fill this post. Experience of working with people living with poor mental health is essential. As is an understanding of personal outcomes, person-centred support and trauma-informed practice.

Established in 2022, the CLW team is supported by the Clackmannanshire and Stirling Health and Social Care Partnership, and hosted by SVE (with the Clackmannanshire team members hosted by CTSI). The post holder will have line management responsibilities for the Stirling-based CLW team. The Lead CLW will manage the Stirling urban partnership area and be based across GP surgeries in the Eastern Villages of Stirling. They will provide leadership and day-to-day management and supervision to existing CLWs and manage a caseload of clients within their GP practice. They will also be responsible for ensuring that data collection and information/recording systems are kept up to date and held in line with GDPR, as well as raising awareness of local trends.

Stirlingshire Voluntary Enterprise (SVE) is Stirling's local third sector interface (TSI). TSIs exist to build empowered communities with a thriving third sector, which consists of community groups, voluntary organisations, charities and social enterprises. SVE provides services aimed to build third sector capacity, structured around the themes of third sector excellence and resilience, social innovation, volunteering, community development and third sector involvement in community planning and decision making.

• On site: Based at Engage Renfrewshire offices (Ferguslie Park) 4.5 days a week, .5 day a week at Renfrewshire HSCP Health Improvement Team (Linwood) with travel across Renfrewshire required.
• Closing: 11th April 2025

The Community Officer post will drive forward work in relation to preventing harm from tobacco, second-hand smoke and vaping, across Renfrewshire.

The post will have a targeted focus on early years, children and families, therefore focusing on groups identified as most at risk of harm.

The Community Officer will work with local community and third sector organisations to increase knowledge around the harms of tobacco, second-hand smoke and vaping, as well as providing support to access to local Quit Your Way Services which offer free stop-smoking support across Renfrewshire. The Quit Your Way team provides a friendly, knowledgeable and dedicated face-to-face, telephone or online support to individuals throughout their quit journey.

The Officer will share resources and services from within the Renfrewshire HSCP and NHS GGC to a range of network partners.

They will deliver awareness campaigns around the prevention of harm from tobacco, second-hand smoke and vaping, engage with community groups and collaborate with local organisations to promote healthier choices.

The Community Officer will increase capacity by working in partnership with community organisations to upskill staff on how to effectively share knowledge around the harms associated with tobacco, second-hand smoke and vaping, increase staff confidence in signposting on to relevant Quit Your Way Services and ensure that work feeds into relevant Tobacco and Vaping strategy via the Health Improvement Team.

The Officer will be a part of Engage’s Community and Voluntary Action (CAVA) Team and will be encouraged to link with other team members throughout the project to promote across existing networks and agendas.

The Officer will work closely with Renfrewshire HSCP Health Improvement Team and will be based 0.5 days a week within their office space at Linwood Health Centre to ensure collaborative working. Renfrewshire HSCP Health Improvement Team will provide professional support for the post holder throughout.

• Hybrid: Hybrid – with a base at our Dumfries or Stranraer office.
• Closing: 27th April 2025

Where the role fits in our organisation

Our Communications and Impact Group are responsible for communications, media, training and event planning plus engagement with the third sector and partners across Dumfries and Galloway. The group also leads on systems, data and insights, evaluation and impact, storytelling, regional and national sector promotion and internal communications. The team includes Development Officers, Support Officers, Coordinators and external partners and advisors.

What You'll Do

We are looking for a colleague who is talented in creating effective and impactful communications, who can use data and insights to tell compelling stories about our third sector and communities, who has creative interests and who enjoys being part of a successful and developing team. With a good understanding of digital tools, social media and creative platforms for design, the successful candidate will be keen to learn about our sector and be motivated by the opportunity to share impactful stories to a range of audiences, including our sector, partners, funders and the wider community.

What You’ll Do

• Design and deliver a range of communications for various audiences, including bulletins, newsletters, case studies, reports and presentations.
• Build on our online presence and levels of engagement with our audiences across various channels.
• Introduce creative and engaging ways to communicate key information, messages and use of our brand assets to increase reach and connections.
• Maintain and update our website and online channels.
• Identify and implement ways to better understand our communications reach and engagement.
• With colleagues, translate data, insights and external information to share stories of influence and impact.
• Lead the re-design of our key organisation publications and annual reports to maximise engagement.
• Participate in the design and delivery of regional events and workshops.

More about you

• You will be able to evidence experience and knowledge of building effective communications.
• You will be able to show how you have evaluated the use of online channels and available tools or similar engagement measurements.
• You will bring excellent organisation, planning and prioritising skills.
• You will be able to show how you’ve effectively used your positive relationship building skills and experience.
• You will be able to demonstrate your experience and approach to effective design and presentations.
• You will be able to show you have used a range of standard Microsoft and other tools, such as Office, collaborative and design tools.
• You may bring experience of brand design and development, website build and design or other related creative design and communication skills.

If you’d like to talk to us about this opportunity to join us, get in touch…… .