Project Officer, Literacy Champions West Scotland

Twiford Funeral Homes, LLC & Albemarle Crematorium, Inc.; Remote; GBP 26,000; Part time

Job summary

A charitable organisation focused on literacy in the UK, is seeking a Project Officer in West Scotland to engage communities in reading. This part-time role involves recruiting and training volunteers, coordinating projects, and promoting literacy. With a flexible working culture and competitive salary, the role demands skills in community mobilization and understanding of local needs. Ideal candidates will have experience in educational or charity contexts and a commitment to enhancing reading and writing opportunities.

Benefits

Generous leave allowance totalling 39 days

Pension contributions of 8%

Cycle to work scheme

Employee assistance programme

Health and wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in recruiting, training and supporting volunteers.
• Experience in charity or educational contexts.
• Knowledge of early years settings, schools or community organisations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate a campaign to engage new audiences in reading.
• Mobilise and train volunteers across the UK.
• Identify and engage groups of volunteers and organisations.

Skills

Recruiting volunteers

Training and supporting volunteers

Community mobilisation

Safeguarding practices

Knowledge of reading and writing issues

Job description

Project Officer West Scotland

£26,000 per year pro rata (0.6 FTE)

Part-time, 21 hours per week

Fixed‑term contract to end of February 2027

Based in Glasgow or Ayr as a home‑working role

Our client empowers people with the skills they need to succeed in life. Together, they're helping people change their stories.

What Youll Be Doing

Our client will lead, develop and coordinate a campaign to engage new audiences in reading and change the national reading culture for good, ensuring it is powerful and engaging and redefines reading for a new generation.

A core part of their plans is to mobilise volunteers across the UK, including through their own project, which identifies, trains and supports volunteers to promote reading and writing in their local area. This may be in person or online. Some of those volunteers take on a planning and coordination role, working with others.

Our client wants to expand the number of volunteers who, in turn, will engage other volunteers through their networks and connections. You will coordinate this work in West Scotland, with a focus on Glasgow and Ayr. You will identify and engage existing groups of volunteers and suitable organisations, providing training.

This is an opportunity to build a new network of volunteers promoting reading and enhancing the many offers and opportunities in Scotland.

This is a home‑working role based in or around Glasgow or Ayr and will involve regular travel around the area. There will also be some national travel for our clients organisational away days, which take place in London three times per year, as well as approximately three team days per year. All travel expenses will be covered.

What Our Client Is Looking For

You will be experienced in recruiting, training and supporting volunteers, and providing project support in a charity or educational context. You will also have experience of working with early years settings, schools or community organisations, and good knowledge of safeguarding practice in this context.

Experience of community mobilisation, and developing resources and training materials, would be an advantage, as would excellent knowledge of reading and writing issues.

You will need to live in or around Glasgow or Ayr and have an excellent understanding of the communities and families in the area. Due to the nature of delivery, you will need a full clean driving licence and access to your own vehicle. This role will involve managing book stocks and other resources.

Why our clients work is so vital

Reading and writing change everything. They give you the tools to get the most out of life, and the power to shape your future. They’re the key to knowledge, confidence and inspiration. They’re better results at school, and better jobs. If children grow up without the tools to communicate, without books to read or opportunities to write, it’s harder to get where you want to go.

Our client helps people overcome these challenges and change their life chances through the power of words reading, writing, speaking and listening. From first words, through school days to training, jobs and beyond.

• They work collaboratively in local communities, focusing their work in areas of the UK that are facing the biggest challenges.
• They support schools, developing the most effective tools and techniques and providing resources and programmes to engage and inspire children.
• They campaign to make reading and writing a priority for politicians and decision‑makers.
• They support vulnerable adults, people in the criminal justice system and young offenders institutions to build their skills.

What Our Client Offers You

Our clients team are passionate about their mission and have a strong and positive working culture, based on shared values and respect. They offer a range of flexible working options and promote a workplace where you can be yourself and contribute to their success, whoever you are.

As well as a competitive salary, they offer benefits, including a generous leave allowance totalling 39 days (including bank holidays and office closure between Christmas and New Year), pension contributions of 8% of annual salary, a cycle to work scheme, employee assistance programme and other health and wellbeing benefits.

Application details

Our clients people are their most important asset, and they value and respect diversity in all its forms (seen and unseen). They particularly welcome applications from those from Black and Asian backgrounds, as well as candidates with disabilities and from the communities in which they work. They would like to increase representation of these groups among their staff as they know greater diversity will lead to an even greater impact for their work.

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Closing date: 10am, Thursday 15 January 2026

Please note, our client does not accept CVs. No agencies or recruitment sites.