Third Sector Vacancies

SNAP is looking for an experienced, compassionate and enthusiastic Service Manager to help lead our services and support our team through the next stage of SNAP’s development.

This is a senior role – but we’re not looking for someone who wants to lead from behind a desk.

We’re looking for someone who wants to understand our services, know our staff, meet our families and see first-hand the difference SNAP makes.

About the role

This is an important role at the heart of SNAP. Our Service Manager leads the day-to-day delivery of our services, supports and develops our operational team, and helps make sure that every service is safe, well organised, person-centred and responsive to the people and families who rely on us.

SNAP is registered with the Care Inspectorate as a support service (not care at home). The successful candidate will take on the responsibilities of Registered Manager for this service, working closely with the Care Inspectorate and meeting relevant SSSC requirements. You will be part of SNAP’s leadership team and will work directly with the Chief Officer to support service quality, workforce development and future growth.

What you’ll be doing

· Leading and supporting staff and volunteers across SNAP’s services.

· Overseeing safe, high-quality service delivery and ensuring individual needs, risk assessments and support plans are understood and followed.

· Maintaining strong safeguarding, regulatory, health and safety and quality assurance standards.

· Supporting recruitment, induction, supervision, appraisal, training and staff development.

· Building positive relationships with children, young people, adults, families, carers and professionals.

· Overseeing referrals, reviews, incidents, complaints and service improvement actions.

· Working with the Chief Officer and wider team to develop services, plan staffing and manage resources responsibly.

· Undertake the responsibilities of Registered Manager for our regulated services.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact dawn@snapinverness.org

Role Purpose

The Income & Enterprise Manager is a strategic and entrepreneurial business development role within Ewen’s Room. Reporting directly to the Chief Officer, you will drive the charity’s financial sustainability and diversification as we expand across Lochaber and the Western Highlands.

You will combine sharp bid-writing skills with a proactive, self-starting approach, leading on grant applications, building strong funder relationships, designing a high-impact corporate giving strategy, and energising local community fundraising events (such as Ewen's Run). Crucially, you will spearhead our social enterprise ambitions: identifying commercial opportunities to monetise our existing skills and service portfolio, writing robust business plans, and securing start-up funding to build long-term earned income streams.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

1. Grant Development & Funder Relations

• Grant Prospecting & Bidding: Identify, research, and apply for grant opportunities from trusts, foundations, and statutory sources to support existing services and new initiatives.
• Funder Engagement: Attend preliminary funder meetings prior to application, build warm relationships with grant officers, and ensure all funder promotion and recognition requirements are strictly met.
• Reporting & Delivery Tracking: Write engaging, high-quality impact reports for current grant makers. Monitor output targets in real time, flagging any delivery shortfalls early and collaborating with the Services & Delivery Manager to implement corrective actions.

2. Community Fundraising & Signature Events

• Event Management: Plan, organise, and deliver vibrant community fundraising events across Lochaber (e.g. Ewen's Run), managing event budgets, health & safety compliance, risk assessments, and logistical targets.
• Community & Group Liaison: Proactively engage with local community groups, schools, businesses, and individual fundraisers to boost participation, build brand awareness, and maximise fundraising totals.
• Media & Communications: Lead on fundraising-related press releases, public relations, and promotional campaigns, raising the profile of Ewen’s Room across local media, digital channels, and community networks.

3. Corporate & Philanthropic Giving

• Corporate Strategy: Develop and execute a targeted corporate giving strategy with clear financial milestones and outreach plans.
• Donor Acquisition & Stewardship: Proactively approach regional and national corporate partners and philanthropic donors with compelling funding proposals.
• Executive Partnership: Work closely alongside the Chief Officer to nurture high-value donor relationships and present joint funding proposals.

4. Social Enterprise & Income Diversification

• Commercialisation Strategy: Assess Ewen’s Room’s core competencies and service portfolio (e.g., workplace wellbeing, training, educational toolkits) to identify commercial income-generation opportunities.
• Business Planning & Start-up Bids: Write business plans for new enterprise concepts, pitching proposals to potential clients and securing seed/start-up funding where required.
• Financial Planning & Budgeting: Contribute operational insights and projected revenue streams to organisational budget setting in collaboration with the Chief Officer.

Required Skills, Qualifications, and Experience

Essential Criteria

• Proven Fundraising Track Record: Demonstrable success in researching, writing, and securing grant funding from charitable trusts, foundations, or statutory bodies.
• Entrepreneurial Mindset & Self-Starter: High level of personal drive, initiative, and resourcefulness, with a track record of turning ideas into structured, income-generating projects.
• Persuasive Communication & Pitching: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills; ability to write compelling proposals, grant bids, press releases, and commercial pitches.
• Relationship Management: Personable and professional, with experience nurturing relationships with funders, corporate sponsors, community leaders, and major donors.
• Financial Literacy: Experience contributing to budget development, monitoring income against targets, and producing financial updates for management.
• Compliance: Valid UK driving license, access to a vehicle for community travel/home visits, and eligibility for PVG Scheme membership (Protected Adults & Children) via Disclosure Scotland.

Desirable Criteria

• Local Business Network: Existing business or civic connections within Lochaber or the wider Scottish Highlands.
• Event Planning & Logistics: Practical experience organising public or community events, managing event budgets, and applying basic Health & Safety / risk assessment principles.
• Social Enterprise / Commercial Experience: Direct experience developing social enterprise models, selling services, or managing commercial revenue streams within a non-profit environment.
• Local Knowledge: Strong understanding of the geographical, cultural, and socio-economic dynamics of Lochaber communities.

Role Purpose

The Locality Education Practitioner is the face of Ewen’s Room in local schools, responsible for the direct delivery, growth, and embedding of our Wellbeing Education Pathway. This role bridges education and early intervention, ensuring mental health support is a normal, high-quality feature of growing up in Lochaber. Operating within a specific locality cluster, you will work closely with school leadership, teachers, and Support Assistants to deliver tailored wellbeing modules across both primary and secondary age groups, helping young people build practical resilience and self-management skills.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

1. Programme Delivery & Adaptation

• Deliver the Wellbeing Pathway: Lead the classroom and small-group delivery of our core evidence-based programmes across the locality: Wellbeing Heroes (P3–P5), Wellbeing Explorers (P6–S1), and Wellbeing Champions (S4–S5).
• Age-Appropriate Instruction: Adapt delivery styles seamlessly to engage diverse age groups, from introducing emotional vocabulary to primary children to facilitating mature conversations on stress, sleep, and neuroscience with secondary pupils.
• Peer Support: Mentor and support secondary students trained as Wellbeing Champions to set up and maintain peer-led lunchtime drop-ins or school support structures.
• Enrichment & Extracurriculars: Design and pilot high-quality afterschool wellbeing clubs or outdoor activities where local demand exists.
• Collaborative Programme Development: Actively participate in shaping the future of our curriculum by working closely with management, therapists, and peers to design, test, and pilot new modules, including expanding our pathway into nursery, early primary (P1–P3), and/or college age groups to close existing support gaps.

2. School Engagement & Collaboration

• Build Educational Partnerships: Act as the primary, trusted point of contact for Headteachers, Guidance staff, and Pupil Support Assistants (PSAs) within your locality cluster to align delivery with the Curriculum for Excellence.
• Insight Sharing: Work collaboratively with school staff to identify emerging mental health trends, anxieties, or specific needs within classrooms, feeding these insights back to the management team to help shape future modules.
• Safe Signposting: Work with the Ewen’s Room Management Team to ensure young people showing signs of mild-to-moderate distress are safely identified and referred to internal counsellors or external statutory paths.
• Safeguarding & Professional Boundaries: Uphold strict professional boundaries between school staff, parents, and third sector. Act as a vigilant safeguarder by identifying potential risks early and ensuring all safeguarding concerns are managed in compliance with both school protocols and Ewen’s Room policies.

3. Evaluation & Operations

• Impact Tracking: Collect timely feedback, baseline data, and evaluation metrics from pupils and teaching staff to track the impact of the programmes and meet grant-funding requirements.
• Resource Management: Coordinate, prepare, and transport classroom resources, risk assessments, and session materials across your locality's schools.
• Team Participation: Attend weekly online team meetings to share best practices, problem-solve geographic delivery challenges, and collaborate with the wider Ewen's Room team.

Required Skills, Qualifications, and Experience

Essential Criteria

• Experience in Education/Youth Settings: Proven track record of working directly with children and young people in a structured environment.
• Multi-Age Competency: Demonstrated ability to manage behaviour, hold attention, and communicate effectively with both primary-aged children and secondary adolescents.
• Safeguarding Knowledge & Experience: Strong working knowledge of school child protection and safeguarding processes, with the ability to navigate external and third-sector safeguarding frameworks effectively.
• Wellbeing Literacy: A solid understanding of emotional wellbeing, child development, and early intervention principles, or a willingness to undertake relevant training.
• Remote Autonomy & Collaboration: Proven ability to work independently and self-manage a busy schedule across multiple school sites, while maintaining strong communication and active engagement as a collaborative member of a mostly remote team.
• Digital & IT Literacy: Proficient in using digital tools for daily communication, resource sharing, and content creation, including experience with Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, Outlook, SharePoint).
• Compliance: Valid driving license, access to a vehicle for work travel, and eligibility for PVG Scheme membership (Children) via Disclosure Scotland.

Desirable Criteria

• Relevant professional qualification in Education, Youth Work, Child Psychology, or a related discipline.
• Experience designing or running afterschool activities, outdoor groups, or holiday clubs.
• Familiarity with the Lochaber school landscape and the specific challenges faced by remote and rural youth.
• Experience using Slack, Canva and familiarity with Social Media scheduling tools.

Role Purpose

The Services & Delivery Manager is a pivotal operational leadership role within Ewen’s Room. Moving into our next five-year strategic growth phase, you will assume responsibility for the day-to-day operations, scheduling, and execution of our core mental health services and educational programming. You will line-manage our Locality Education Practitioners and Community Wellbeing Practitioners, ensuring our Wellbeing Education Pathway maintains a high-quality, standardised presence across all target schools, and communities benefit from tailored, effective community wellbeing support. You will ensure that impact reporting is seamless and that our Tier 2/3 referral pathways are logistically robust, functional, and safe for vulnerable service users. You will feed back on-the-ground priorities and needs to strengthen our strategic decision making, funding applications and reporting.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

1. Operational Management & Scheduling

• Service Scheduling: Manage the day-to-day scheduling and resource allocation for all educational and community-focused delivery, optimising geographic coverage across Lochaber.
• Funder Alignment & Compliance: Coordinate overall service delivery to ensure all commitments, outcomes, and targets set out in funder agreements are consistently met. Collaborate closely with the funding team to draft robust impact reports for current funders and contribute technical delivery models to new funding applications.
• Hands-on Delivery Support: Directly assist with project delivery as and when required to support operational capacity, cover absences, or respond to urgent delivery needs.
• Relationship Continuity: Act as the strategic, high-level point of contact for school leadership clusters. Serve as the primary operational backup to ensure seamless delivery continuity if a practitioner is absent.

2. Team Leadership & Quality Assurance

• Line Management: Directly lead, mentor, and support a geographically dispersed team of Locality Education Practitioners and Community Wellbeing Practitioners and volunteers, fostering a high-performance, supportive, and values-driven culture.
• Training & Performance Reviews: Organise training, ongoing professional development opportunities, and regular performance reviews for all staff and volunteers within your team to encourage growth and maintain delivery standards.
• Quality Assurance: Establish and execute a robust quality assurance framework. Conduct regular observation visits to schools and community settings to ensure consistent, standardised, and safe delivery of all Ewen’s Room programmes.

3. Programme Development & Clinical Governance

• Curriculum & Content Evolution: Lead the collaborative development of new modules, toolkits, and educational resources alongside practitioners and therapeutic staff, keeping the core pathway cutting-edge and evidence based.
• Co-Design Referral Pathways: Collaborate closely with the Therapeutic Services Manager to co-design and implement robust, safe referral pathways for individuals identified as requiring higher-tier (Tier 2/3) support.
• Compliance: Oversee strict adherence to health and safety, data protection (GDPR), risk assessments, and safeguarding policies across all designated service lines.

Required Skills, Qualifications, and Experience

Essential Criteria

• Proven Management Experience: Significant operational management or service delivery experience within a third-sector, education, health, or social care setting.
• People Leadership: Strong track record of line-managing staff and volunteers, supporting professional development, conducting appraisals and motivating remote or multi-site teams.
• Educational Context: Deep familiarity with school environments, the Curriculum for Excellence, and managing operations alongside statutory educational structures.
• Project & Schedule Management: Exceptional organisational skills with proven experience handling complex logistics, rotas, and matching practitioner capacity against community demand.
• Funder Literacy & Data Analysis: Competence in gathering quantitative and qualitative impact data, translating it into engaging prose for grant reporting and contributing operational insights to funding bids.
• Advanced Safeguarding Frameworks: Thorough understanding of child protection and vulnerable adult legislation, with experience managing escalations and multi-agency referral paths.
• Compliance: Valid UK driving license, access to a vehicle for community travel/home visits, and eligibility for PVG Scheme membership (Protected Adults & Children) via Disclosure Scotland.

Desirable Criteria

• A degree or equivalent professional qualification in Social Sciences, Education Management, Voluntary Sector Leadership, or a related discipline.
• Direct experience working within remote, rural, or dispersed Scottish communities (ideally Lochaber/Western Highlands).
• Experience in social enterprise models or income-generation projects within a charity framework.

Moniack Mhor is looking for a dynamic individual to be our new Centre Host. You will be responsible for the practical aspects of residential course facilitation, including cooking and hosting.

You will work closely with our Centre Managers, other Centre Host and Centre Assistant to support the delivery of our residential creative writing courses. Some of your duties will include preparing nutritious lunches for groups of 16 or more people, acting as host to the tutors, guest readers and participants, and hosting some evening events.

Working pattern: 3 days per week, usually including 2 daytime cooking shifts (9am–5pm Tuesday and Thursday or Friday), 1 evening hosting shift and a share of occasional Saturday morning shifts

Term: Fixed term 3-year contract from start of post

Holidays: 7 weeks holiday per annum based on FTE

Pension: Company pension scheme with Now Pensions – 4% employer contribution

Application deadline: Monday 14 September 2026 at 12 noon. The interviews of shortlisted candidates will take place w/b 21 September.

For more info and to apply: see our Centre Host job pack on our website, and email jobs@moniackmhor.org.uk.

Change Mental Health is looking for a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to join our community-based Hub in Invergordon.

Our Hub provides a welcoming, non-clinical space where people can connect with others, build confidence and resilience, and improve their mental health and wellbeing through group activities, peer support and recovery-focused opportunities.

About the role

You’ll play an important part in the day-to-day running of the Hub, working directly with people experiencing poor mental health or mental illness.

Your work will include facilitating groups and wellbeing activities, providing person-centred 1:1 support, helping people develop achievable goals and personal plans, and connecting people with wider community support. You’ll also build relationships with local organisations and help make sure everyone accessing the Hub feels respected, included and heard.

We’re looking for someone who can build positive relationships, work confidently both independently and as part of a team, and bring an empathetic, strengths-based and recovery-focused approach to their work.

Essential

• Experience of facilitating groups or community-based mental health activities.
• Experience providing structured 1:1 support.
• Ability to build positive, professional relationships with people accessing support.
• Willingness to work towards an SVQ Level 2 in Social Services and Healthcare (Adults) and SSSC registration, if required.

Desirable

• Knowledge of local community resources, services and support networks.
• Experience supporting people affected by trauma, social isolation or complex life circumstances.

The role is typically worked Tuesday and Wednesday, 10am–4pm, and Thursday, 10am–3.30pm, with some flexibility occasionally required to meet service needs.

If you’re passionate about helping people strengthen their wellbeing, connections and confidence within their own community, we’d love to hear from you

Purpose of role

The Family Links Lead will lead and support a small team of Family Links Workers in Highland, simultaneously working as part of the wider Home-Start East Highland team and the Family Links partnership.

The Family Links Lead ensures that all Home-Start East Highland Family Links Workers are fully supported to undertake their duties, provide a high quality of service and have their needs met. As a senior member of the Home-Start East Highland team, this role plays an integral role in coordinating operational delivery, supporting with working practice guidance, policies and processes.

The Family Links Lead is also responsible for coordinating and facilitating the partnership with schools, statutory agencies and third sector in the area – including ensuring robust monitoring and evaluation of project outcomes and, where required, mentoring local partners in the delivery of holistic family support - in collaboration with the Highland Whole Family Wellbeing Programme’sFamily Links Project Manager.

In addition to this, the Family Links Lead – Skye will support a small caseload of families in the same way as our Family Links Workers (see Appendix A). These cases may be more complex in nature than the typical Family Links Worker caseload. In your Family Links Worker capacity, you will provide one-to-one holistic, information, advice and support to families in Skye who are experiencing school attendance and engagement issues, supporting and enabling them to improve their lives by building their confidence, empowering them to recognise their personal expertise and value, to implement practical support strategies, access services, know their rights, and to have their voices heard.

Main responsibilities and duties

The Family Links Lead Skye is responsible for:

· Line managing the Home-Start East Highland Family Links team, including providing one-to-one (and team-based) support and supervision for all Family Links Workers in the area.

· Delivering internal training to the Family Links team and coordinating external training and development opportunities for Family Links Workers and co-ordinating with the wider Home-Start East Highland team and the Family Links partnership.

· Working alongside the Family Links Project Manager to ensure the smooth and ongoing delivery of Family Links.

· Ensuring Family Links Workers are aware of, and working in line with, the policies, procedures and guidance of both Home-Start East Highland and the Family Links partnership.

· Involvement in recruitment and selection processes as necessary, including interview and induction processes.

· Quality assuring the service delivered by the Home-Start East Highland Family Links team and collaborating with Family Links Team Leads from other Family Links partner organisations to ensure equity and quality of Family Links delivery across all test sites in Highland.

· Provision of regular progress reports for the Home-Start East Highland and the Family Links Project Manager.

· Undertaking all aspects of the Family Links Worker role (most complex cases) as detailed in Appendix A below.

· Undertaking any other duties within the skillset of this role[3]required by the Thriving Families Chief Executive.

Please see Appendix A: Family Links Worker role description

Family Links currently operates in Inverness and is developing new teams in Skye, Lochaber, and Badenoch and Strathspey

Please refer to the Family Links Lead person specification

Change Mental Health is looking for a Senior Practitioner to join our team in Invergordon, supporting people through both our community Hub and Outreach services.

You’ll combine direct mental health support with day-to-day guidance and supervision for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners. You won’t hold overall management responsibility for the service, but you’ll be an experienced point of contact for colleagues and help maintain consistently high-quality, person-centred practice.

About the role

You’ll work directly with people experiencing mental illness, helping them build confidence, resilience and greater independence.

The role includes structured 1:1 support, group activities, personal and outcome-focused planning, community engagement and outreach support. You’ll also provide guidance and supervision to colleagues, support reflective practice and contribute to the continued development of our services.

Essential

• Experience providing community-based, recovery-focused or non-clinical mental health support.
• Experience delivering structured 1:1 support and developing or reviewing personal plans.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to build positive professional relationships.
• Understanding of risk assessment and safe decision-making.
• SVQ Level 3 Social Services and Healthcare (Adults) or willingness to work towards this if required.
• SSSC registration, or willingness to register within the required timescale.

Desirable

• Experience providing guidance, support or supervision to staff.
• Experience working within a registered service and meeting SSSC requirements.
• Experience facilitating groups or community-based mental health activities.
• Knowledge of local services, referral pathways and community supports.

The post is typically worked Tuesday to Thursday, 9am–5pm, with some flexibility occasionally required to meet service needs.

What we offer

• 37 days’ annual leave (pro rata)
• Two paid Mental Wellbeing Days
• Enhanced sick pay and leave entitlements
• Professional development, including funded opportunities
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, including legal, financial and medical support
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Blue Light Card eligibility
• A supportive approach to flexible working and work-life balance

If you’re an experienced practitioner who enjoys supporting both people accessing services and the colleagues around you, we’d love to hear from you.

About the Role

With funding from 2026-29 from the Scottish Government, we are excited to expand our gambling team, the Scottish Gambling Education Hub, to increase our capacity and strengthen the support we provide across Scotland.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Senior Project Officer to join Fast Forward’s Scottish Gambling Education Hub. The role will focus on working with children and young people, practitioners, families and partner organisations across the Highlands and Islands.

This work will be supported by colleagues from the Scottish Gambling Education Hub and is not the sole responsibility of the post holder.

We are looking for a senior practitioner with excellent communication, leadership and partnership-building skills, and a strong track record of developing and delivering community-based work with children and young people, practitioners and families.

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Organisation Profile

Fast Forward is Scotland’s national youth work organisation, supporting children and young people to make informed choices and take a harm reduction approach to risk-taking behaviours, helping to reduce negative impacts on their lives, their families and wider communities.

We promote health through programmes and resources developed by, with and for young people.

Integrity - Our work is dynamic and informed by expertise, lived experience and relevant research

Forward Thinking - We are brave and bold. We are creative in our approach to identifying and responding to risk taking behaviour.

Inclusive - We take a person-centred approach. We are non-judgemental and respectful.

Collaborative - We coproduce, partner and learn with young people and experts from across the field.

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Application notes

An application pack is available for download below.

If you would like to discuss this vacancy, contact Dina Subasciaki, Project Manager, dina@fastforward.org.uk

Please complete all sections of the application form and other documents and return to admin@fastforward.org.uk by Monday 21st September 12 Noon.

Candidates will be invited to meet members of the Fast Forward staff team digitally on Tuesday 29th September

Interviews will be held in person on Thursday 1st October in Inverness.

Do you want to make a difference to the communities in and around one of the most scenic parts of Scotland? Do you have the skills and energy to lead Torridon District Community Association (TDCA) and Loch Torridon Community Centre (LTCC) to the next level, supported by an engaged Board of Directors?

This is an exciting opportunity to develop the community centre, diversify its range of activities and increase income. The job is very varied involving both public facings aspects and long term strategic thinking to enhance the community centre and its role as a key hub for the community.

And of course, you will never be far from the sea or mountains and you will be working alongside people who share a passion for the landscape, environment and long-term sustainability of the community. If successful and you need to relocate, we would engage with the community to help you find accommodation.

Full information in the attached document