• Regional Family Support Coordinator – Edinburgh & Lothians (Families Outside)

    Salary: Starting salary £29,467 pro rata (0.8FTE)

    Location: Hybrid & flexible working, Based in Edinburgh, with some work in the Lothians

    Hours: 28 hours per week      

    Deadline: Tuesday 16 June, 12 noon

    At Families Outside, they are the only national charity in Scotland working solely to support families affected by imprisonment.

    Joining the East of Scotland regional team, within their national Family Support Team, the Regional Family Support Coordinator will support people living in the Edinburgh and Lothians area who have a family member in prison. They will:

    • Support families at home and in their community via 1:1, family, and/or peer support
    • Work closely with key professionals including prison staff and prison visitors centre staff to provide advice, information, and guidance on a range of issues
    • Raise awareness with key professionals within the local community about the impact of imprisonment and our work to improve outcomes for families
    • Work closely with HMP Edinburgh, contributing to meetings and events that support the rights of children and families affected by imprisonment 

    Find out more information via their website.

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  • Finance Officer (Youth Scotland)

    Salary: £34,270 – £38,080 pro-rata

    Location: Hybrid: Edinburgh

    Hours: 28 hours per week

    Deadline: Sunday 7 June 2026

    Youth Scotland, Scotland’s national charity for the support and delivery of community-based youth work, join their dynamic team.

    Are you brilliant with numbers and accounts?

    Do you want to help make a difference to young people across Scotland?

    Youth Scotland’s Finance Officer is a key position, from processing grants to youth groups to preparing management accounts, which help them to deliver services that support 2,400 youth groups across Scotland.

    For further information visit their website. 

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  • Futures Lead Development Worker (Pilton Youth & Children’s Project)

    Salary: £23,568, FTE £34,370

    Location: Pilton Youth & Children’s Project (PYCP)

    Hours: 24 per week (including regular evenings and weekends)

    Deadline: Tuesday 2 June 2026, 17:00

    North Edinburgh Futures is a new, innovative, three‑year programme designed to extend youth work provision at crucial times of the week. Building on PYCP’s existing strengths, the programme will introduce longer opening hours, creative workshops, targeted support and opportunities for skills, confidence and wellbeing development.

    As the Futures Lead Development Worker, you will plan, coordinate and deliver co‑designed activities using creative and inclusive methods such as digital technology, arts, outdoor learning, urban survival skills, trips and partnership-led sessions. You will also support a team of sessional youth workers, ensuring safe, trauma‑informed, consistent delivery.

    This post plays a vital role in strengthening community connections, reducing barriers to participation and creating welcoming, nurturing spaces where young people feel safe, valued and able to shape their own experiences.

    You will be accountable to the Project Manager and work collaboratively across the organisation to support wider PYCP activities and uphold a strong culture of safeguarding and inclusion.

    For further information view their Job Description.

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  • Head of Communications (the Yard)

    Salary: £52,000 – £57,000

    Location: Hybrid: Edinburgh

    Hours: 37 hours per week

    Deadline: Monday 15 June 2026

    They are seeking a Head of Communications to lead their communications, public affairs and profile work to make the organisation the unmistakable voice on place-based, whole-family support.

    You will be part of their executive team and responsible for making decisions that impact the whole organisation and shape how family support models are understood and adopted across Scotland.

    Some of your key responsibilities will include:

    • Developing a 12–18-month communications and public affairs strategy that positions The Yard as a sector leader
    • Leading with a media-first approach to secure high-value national and regional media coverage
    • Building relationships with policy teams, sector bodies and strategic partners
    • Overseeing content strategy for their website, socials and newsletters to ensure consistent, evidence-led messaging and audience growth

    For further information visit their website. 

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  • Project Officer – Child Maintenance (One Parent Families Scotland)

    Salary: £31,080 – £32,560

    Location: Hybrid: Glasgow & ER, Dundee & Angus, Falkirk, North Lanarkshire & Edinburgh

    Hours: Full time

    Deadline: Monday 8 June 2026

    All roles at OPFS contribute to their mission of working with and for single parent families, providing support that enables them to achieve their potential and help create lasting solutions to the poverty and barriers facing many single parents and their children. Their core values of Justice, Equity, Trust, Collaboration and Compassion are at the heart of everything they do and underpin all aspects of their work.

    One Parent Families Scotland (OPFS) is the national charity for single parent families and this programme is about changing what is possible.

    This role will be instrumental in the development, operational management and delivery of a national child maintenance support programme, ensuring effective coordination across partner organisations, delivery of specialist support to families, practitioner capacity-building, and development of national learning.

    The Project officers will deliver front line services and advice relating to the project, while working closely with the Senior Child Maintenance Officer based at Fife Gingerbread who leads practice development and practitioner training.

    For further information visit their website. 

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  • Chief Executive Officer (JustRight Scotland)

    Salary: £70,000

    Location: Hybrid: Glasgow - Expectation of presence in office at least 2 days a week

    Hours: Full time, 35 hours per week

    Deadline: Sunday 28 June 2026

    As JustRight Scotland continues to mature as a nationally significant human rights organisation, the CEO will lead the next phase of development—delivering their current Paving Routes to Justice strategy and preparing for their next beyond 2029, strengthening organisational sustainability, establishing a more visible and impactful policy presence, and scaling impact.

    The CEO of JustRight Scotland is the organisation’s strategic lead, with oversight of their four centres of legal excellence and their policy, communications and participation work. The CEO is responsible for leading implementation of the organisational strategy to deliver JustRight Scotland’s mission to use the law to defend and extend people’s rights in Scotland. Reporting to the Board of Trustees, the CEO is the accountable officer for the charity, responsible for strategic planning and financial sustainability. The CEO is the primary link between the organisation’s committed staff team and the Board.

    The CEO is an ambassador for JustRight Scotland. As a strategic leader in the Human Rights sector, the CEO will represent JustRight Scotland at senior levels across civil society and government. They will build and sustain strategic relationships to influence policy and systems change, and to build the profile and reputation of the organisation in Scotland, the UK and internationally.

    For further information visit their website. 

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  • Finance Assistant (Children First)

    Salary: £25,155 – £30,083

    Location: Hybrid: Edinburgh

    Hours: Full time, 

    Deadline: Monday 8 June 2026

    In this role, you’ll:

    • Process and maintain key finance operations across the purchase ledger and sales ledger, as well as banking, cash and ad‑hoc payroll processes
    • Administer and process cash and banking transactions and perform related reconciliations
    • Process journals and perform Control Account reconciliations
    • Assist non-finance staff with telephone, face-to-face and email queries and requests for information
    • Provide high-quality, flexible and responsive administrative support across a wide range of finance activities.

    For further information visit their website. 

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  • Head of Advice and Rights (Scotland) (CPAG Scotland)

    Salary: £51,458 – £56,875

    Location: Hybrid: Glasgow - may be able to agree a pattern of regular remote working

    Hours: Full time, 35 hours a week

    Deadline: Monday 8 June 2026

    This is an exciting opportunity for someone who has extensive track record of welfare rights advice and practice, experience of line management and the desire to ensure frontline services have access to the highest quality benefits advice, information and training.

    As Head of Advice and Rights (Scotland) you will take responsibility for leading the development and delivery of CPAG in Scotland’s highly regarded welfare rights services.

    This is a unique opportunity to lead a well-established and highly regarded team and to actively help shape the future of their work.

    For further information visit their website. 

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  • Director of Marketing, Communications and Information Services (Young Scot)

    Salary: JFC4 £56,870 - £60,805

    Location: Hybrid working remotely and in office (Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street, Edinburgh, EH3 8EG) 

    Hours: Full-time

    Deadline: Thursday 2 July 2026

    Young Scot is looking for an ambitious and experienced Director of Marketing and Information to lead their national information, content, digital marketing, communications and platform strategy at a pivotal moment of transformation.

    This is a unique opportunity to shape how Scotland’s national youth information and citizenship charity reaches, informs and engages young people aged 11–26 in an increasingly fast-moving digital world. Central to the role will be their charitable mission, and the values that underpin everything Young Scot does. Working alongside the CEO and Senior Leadership Team, you’ll lead the strategic development of Young Scot’s information services, marketing activity, communications and branding, digital platforms and audience engagement approach, ensuring they remain relevant, trusted and innovative in how they serve young people across Scotland.

    For further information visit their website. 

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    • Further information on how to apply 
    • Submit your CV (no more than three pages) and a cover letter supporting statement (no more than 2 sides of A4) outlining why you would like this role at Young Scot, how you meet the competencies and criteria and your transferable experience for this post: recruitment@young.scot