Member Job Vacancies

Area Manager (Scottish Childminding Association (SCMA))
Salary: £43,836

Location: Hybrid: Stirling

Hours: Full time. 36 hrs per week.

Deadline: Monday 2nd March 2026

Are you passionate about nurture, high quality childcare and making a real difference to children and families in Scotland? Do you want to be part of SCMA – a thriving membership organisation, advocating on behalf of childminders and delivering services across Scotland?

They are recruiting an Area Manager to help them deliver their childminding services across Scotland.

The successful applicant will manage the effective delivery of their current Early Learning and Childcare, Community Childminding and National services Scotland wide, in addition to identifying opportunities for further growth in line with their strategy. You will be adept at developing relationships, negotiating and working with partners to achieve better outcomes for children and families. Working alongside an existing team , allocation of services will be agreed dependent on the successful candidate.

For further information visit their website.

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Senior Fearless Youth Coordinator - Scotland (Crimestoppers)
Salary: £30,300

Location: Glasgow/home based with travel

Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week

Deadline: Friday 27 February 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Crimestoppers as a Senior Fearless Youth Coordinator in Scotland, delivering creative, youth-led programmes that empower young people who are, or who have been, in conflict with the law to explore issues around crime, safety, rights and reporting, and to use their voices to make Scotland safer.

The role combines creative facilitation, youth justice expertise, relationship-based practice, and high-quality partnership working. You will support young people to reflect on experiences, build confidence and leadership skills, and influence real-world change through their project. This role is central to promoting a safer Scotland by elevating youth voice and supporting meaningful participation.

This role would suit someone with significant experience with young people in delivering youth-led programmes in a paid or voluntary capacity.

For further information visit their website.

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- Job Pack here
Finance Manager (One Parent Families Scotland)
Salary: Scale Points 25-29 (£38,826 – £47,454) (subject to salary review)

Location: Edinburgh HQ / Hybrid. You may also be asked to travel, with notice, to other OPFS offices and events external to office base

Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week

Deadline: Sunday 8 March 2026

This role is ideally suited to a finance professional who wants to make a tangible impact in creating lasting solutions to the poverty and barriers facing many single parents and their children. You will contribute to the organisation’s vision of a Scotland in which single parents and their children are valued and treated equally and fairly by effective management of the finance department, creation of sound financial systems and governance and work to administer OPFS many and varied funding streams.

You will lead the OPFS finance department to support and work with, all other OPFS staff and services to provide accurate, timely and comprehensive financial information and functions.

For further information visit their website.

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- Recruitment Pack PDF here.
Project Manager (One Parent Families Scotland)
Salary: £31,060 – £34,521 pro-rata

Location: Hybrid: Glasgow, with travel across Scotland (pilots & partners). You may also be asked to travel, with notice, to other OPFS offices and events external to office base.

Hours: Part time, 28 hours per week

Deadline: Sunday 8 March 2026

Over three years (April 2026 – 30 June 2029), OPFS will lead a long-term, systems change initiative to transform how single parents access, experience and succeed in Higher Education in Scotland. Researching this issue with The Robertson Trust evidences structural barriers rooted in poverty, childcare gaps and inflexible institutional systems.

This initiative will drive change through policy advocacy; coalition-building and participatory redesign of Higher Education pathways, ensuring they reflect the realities of single parents’ lives. By tackling entrenched inequalities, the project seeks to open new opportunities for single parents, enabling them to move beyond immediate survival, aspire to new futures and fulfil their goals through meaningful access to education.

For further information visit their website.

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Policy and Public Affairs Officer - Scotland (The Fostering Network)
Salary: £27,953 - £33,130

Location: This is a hybrid role, with travel to our Glasgow office at least once a week.

Hours: Full time – 35 hours

Deadline: Sunday 15 March 2026

They are looking for a Policy and Public Affairs Officer in Scotland to join their highly effective UK wide policy and campaigns team. With fostering high on the political agenda in Scotland and elections taking place this year, this is an exciting time to join the team.

You will be passionate about improving children’s social care and foster care for children. You will have knowledge of the policy and legislative landscape in Scotland and issues surrounding children’s social care. You will have experience of delivering engaging campaigns and developing mechanisms to support people with lived experience to campaign, particularly young people, as this role works closely with our young people’s advisory board.

You will be adept at influencing policy makers in the Scottish Government and Parliament, as well as developing creative policy solutions to bring about change. As the lead for the largest survey of foster carers in the UK – their State of the Nations’ Survey 2027, you will have significant experience of developing, analysing and conducting research and producing high quality, evidence-based written materials.

You will be a great communicator and able to build relationships with stakeholders of all levels, including parliamentarians, senior figures in government and people with lived experience.

For further information visit their website.

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