Business Development Manager

• Glasgow with some travel required (Hybrid)
• Closing17th May 2024
• Advertised from 2nd May 2024
• Fixed term 2 years (potential to lead to permanent position). 35 hours per week (9 - 4.30pm working hours).

Role

Early Years Scotland (EYS) has an exciting opportunity for someone with a proven record of accomplishment in businessdevelopment to join Scotland’s leading national early years charity to promote, drive and lead the work of EYSas Business Development Manager (BDM).

Would you like to join our fantastic staff team at the Glasgow office and are you that special person we are lookingfor?

The EYS BDM’s core purpose is to work with the EYS Management Team to identify and develop new business and incomeopportunities, to enable EYS to meet its charitable objectives, specifically regarding the four main strands ofour work:

• Working Directly with Young Children and their Families
• Membership and Support for ELC (Early Learning& Childcare) Settings, Groups, Professionals and Students
• Professional Learning
• Policy,Practice and Legislation: Advice and Advocacy

You would provide support to the senior management team in the identification of opportunities, services development,and potential partners to progress our social enterprise aspirations.

We are looking for a creative, confident, and experienced individual to join our EYS Team to progress the aims andobjectives of our current Strategic Plan and beyond.

The EYS BDM will support the sustainability, viability, effectiveness, and impact of the organisation. Will be aprofessional with excellent communication skills who can set priorities for their own work and support the workof our Communications Co-ordinator, our Fundraising Manager and wider management team.

With experience in business development, income diversification and generation, and a proven experience ofrelationship building, the BDM will be able to identify, research and develop potential new areas of socialenterprise growth for the charity.

This will help us to drive forward our ambitions to give every child the best start in life through the developmentand growth of our high-quality services to support members, children, and families, nationally.

If you are this person, then we want to hear from you!

Key requirements:

• Proven record of accomplishment of business development and growth and able to draw on data and analysis toinform new service possibilities.
• Developing national corporate partnerships and experienced inpartnership formation and negotiating business/management arrangements for bids with partnerorganisations.
• Meeting income generation targets as determined by the Membership and Business SupportManager and the Senior Management Team.
• To progress market analysis identifying opportunities forgrowth, and to lead on the
• development of appropriate business products and services asagreed.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills for a range of audiences andstakeholders.
• Represent and work to our values as, fostering a culture of positivity, support, respect,and inclusivity, while taking personal responsibility for their attitude, performance, anddevelopment.
• Excellent IT skills, be highly numerate and be able to analyse and work with complex dataand financial information.
• An understanding of policies and challenges for children and families and theearly years sector, and/or previous membership organisation experience is desirable but notessential.
• Other duties as required, as identified.
• Early Years Scotland will invest in youby:
• Being responsive to your ideas and creativity indeveloping our processes and your role
• Supporting and nurturing the development of your skills,training, and experience in a third sector organisation.

REPORTS TO: Membership and Business Support Manager

DIRECT REPORTS: No direct reports (although this may change in future)

What we offer:

• Hybrid working opportunities.
• Free parking at Glasgow office (Car Park Club)
• Generous annual leave entitlement - 25 days annual leave in the first year rising to 30 days thereafter.
• 12 public holidays per annum
• Family friendly policies
• Supported training and development.
• 5% employer pension contribution from 3 months’ service
• BUPA Employee Assistance Programme.
• Paid sick leave entitlement on a service-related increasing scale.
• Support for professional learning qualifications.
• Staff Consultation Committee/Social events committee
• Winter wellbeing day allocated in addition to annual leave entitlement.

Application notes

Closing date for applications: Friday 17 May 2024

Interviews: Friday 31st May 2024.

For more details of who we are and the value and impact of our rewarding work, please see our Impact Report

Early Years Scotland is an equal opportunity employer.

Early Years Scotland is looking to recruit an organised, enthusiastic, and detailed oriented person with greatadministrative skills and sound HR experience who can join our friendly team and make a positive impact insupporting all aspects of our HR related work.

We would love to hear from you if you are:

• Enthusiastic, adaptable, self-motivating and solution focused.
• Excellent working knowledge of MS Word,Excel, electronic filing, and e-mail
• Experience of implementing and operating HR solutions and systemsincluding (preferably) Breathe HR system.
• Experience of recruitment processes and inducting newstaff
• Experience of minute taking
• Committed to confidentiality and have awareness of the needfor sensitivity in a people facing HR role.
• Experienced In, or willing to learn to support payrollprocesses.
• Keen to tackle new challenges and grasp new opportunities.
• Willing to learn, developand improve your expertise, skills and knowledge.
• Adept at multi-tasking with high standards and an eyefor detail.

An absolute necessity for this post is an excellent level of competence, confidence and accuracy in written andverbal communication including a knowledge of sound HR processes and legislation and a willingness to keepabreast of employment law legislative changes and good practice.

Early Years Scotland will invest in you by:

• valuing your innovative, can-do solutions focused approach.
• being responsive to your ideas andcreativity in developing our processes and your role
• supporting and nurturing the development of yourconfidence, skills, training, and experience
• Hybrid working opportunities.
• Free parking at Glasgow office (Car Park Club)
• Generous annual leave entitlement - 25 days annual leave in the first year rising to 30 days thereafter.
• 12 public holidays per annum
• Family friendly policies
• Supported training and development.
• 5% employer pension contribution from 3 months’ service
• BUPA Employee Assistance Programme.
• Paid sick leave entitlement on a service-related increasing scale.
• Support for professional learning qualifications.
• Staff Consultation Committee/Social events committee
• Winter wellbeing day allocated in addition to annual leave entitlement.
• Office based at 51, Cadogan Street, Glasgow G2 7F or working in the community (On site)
• Closing24th May 2024

We are a vibrant social enterprise working to reduce loneliness and isolation. Our aim is for older people to thrivein later life. Working with our dedicated volunteers we provide the befriending support that older people desireto help live happy, healthy lives. We work to empower older people to stay connected with their communities,alleviating loneliness, improving health and wellbeing and making communities stronger through volunteering. Doview our 90 second film, vimeo.com/648991073 , filmed to celebrate our Social Enterprise Scotland ‘ProveIt’ award for social impact reporting, to hear what our service users say about our organisation.

As our Operations Manager, you will perform a vital function in developing, directing and supporting a team todeliver our 1-2-1 and group befriending services across Glasgow. Your focus on developing and enhancing ourcurrent work will play a key role in transforming the lives of individuals and leaving lasting legacies. Youwill have a key role in supporting the long-term sustainability of the organisation through success in fundingapplications combined with fundraising activities and events.

With an impressive track record your strong people and project management skills combined with a ‘let’s make ithappen’ mindset are key to success in this role. Flexibility is essential and occasional evening and weekendworking could be necessary.

Our job description and person specification will give you much more information on the role and the fantasticindividual we are seeking. If you are looking for further information or an informal chat about the role pleasecontact audrey@befriend.org.uk

• Candidate must be based within Scotland (Remote)
• Closing5th May 2024

The National Autistic Society is the UK’s leading charity for autistic people. Since 1962, we’ve been transforminglives, changing attitudes and helping to create a society that works for autistic adults and children.

We transform lives by providing support, guidance and practical advice for the 700,000 autistic adults and childrenin the UK, as well as their three million family members and carers. Autistic people turn to us at key momentsor challenging times in their lives, be it getting a diagnosis, going to school or finding work.

We change attitudes by improving public understanding of autism and the difficulties many autistic people face. Wealso work closely with businesses, local authorities and government to help them provide more autism-friendlyspaces, deliver better services and improve laws.

We have come a long way but it is not good enough. There is still so much to do to increase opportunities, reducesocial isolation and build a brighter future for people on the spectrum. With your help, we can make ithappen.

Who we are looking for:

We are looking for a highly motivated and results driven individual with extensive experience of volunteermanagement, to join our team as a Senior Branch Engagement Officer – Scotland.

Our network of Branches are entirely volunteer run by parents, carers and autistic individuals who want to make adifference to autistic people. They are local, community led and entirely responsive to the needs of autisticpeople in their area.

In this role, you will be responsible for supporting these branches to implement policies and procedures to keepactivities safe and legal and become more sustainable.

To be successful, you will have good communication skills and have strong leadership qualities. You will need to havea good knowledge and understanding of volunteer management and be educated to at least university degree levelin an appropriate discipline or proven track record in the field.

Where you will be working:

This role will be home based, so you must be able to work remotely (IT equipment will be provided). Candidates mustbe based in Scotland.

This is a permanent contract working 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

• Excellent induction, training and development programme including training about autism and opportunities to attend our conferences
• Online staff discount scheme for a range of benefits (cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan)
• Access to a 24-hour employee assistance programme
• Home working, with regular travel for events throughout Scotland & UK (Remote)
• Closing27th May 2024

Are you a skilled Project Manager who would like to make a real difference?

Would you love a coordination and training role that allows you to support people and faith communities to flourishas they navigate change, conflict, and differences well?

Then this exciting new role might be for you…

Job Summary

The role of Programme Lead (Training and Reconciliation) is a key new position in supporting Place for Hope’sstrategic goal of growing our partnerships with faith communities to support and equip more people to reachtheir potential as peacemakers.

The Programme Lead will co-ordinate all work related to our new 5-year partnership with the United Reformed Church(URC). The partnership will involve two key areas (i) the development and staged roll-out of a mediation teamwithin the URC who will work ecumenically with the wider Place for Hope Practitioner team; and (ii) embeddingthe understanding, skills, and confidence in how to deal well with conflict, change and difference through a setprogramme of trainings.

The Programme Lead will draw on the entire Place for Hope team (staff and volunteers) to develop and deliver anagreed 5-year programme plan. The role will also involve supporting the wider work of Place for Hope,particularly working with our training team to deliver our training programme (online and in-person) with a widerange of partners.

Previous experience of project management, training, as well as excellent organisational and communication skills areessential to the role. The ideal candidate would also have an interest in supporting faith communities totransform conflict and a willingness to undertake CPD provided by Place for Hope to build their knowledge andskills in this area. This is an exciting time to join Place for Hope and play a pivotal role in equippingindividuals and faith communities to choose peace in times of fear and division.

Organisation Profile

Place for Hope is a Scottish Charity working across the UK, passionate about developing peacemakers in faithcommunities. We accompany people experiencing conflict and support, equip and train them to navigate change andconflict well and build strong, healthy relationships and communities. To deliver this purpose, we areprivileged to have a highly trained, diverse and multi-denominational team of volunteer Practitioners who haveexpertise in mediation, training, coaching and facilitation. The Practitioners are supported by our small,dedicated staff team.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Place for Hope has a genuine commitment to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. Place for Hope, as an independentScottish Charity (SCO45224), is an equal opportunity organisation and does not discriminate on the grounds ofrace, religion or belief, gender, disability, sexual orientation or age.