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Location
Edinburgh | United Kingdom
Job description
About Us
We’re Euan’s Guide, the award-winning disabled access review charity making it easier for disabled people to findplaces to go. At the heart of the charity is our disabled access review website - euansguide.com - wheredisabled people and their friends, families and carers can find and share disabled access information. We alsomake tens of thousands of accessible toilets safer and run the UK’s largest and longest running AccessSurvey.
We have ambitious plans to grow and have secured funding for an exciting new project for which we are looking for aProject Manager.
The Role
You’ll have the opportunity to deliver new technologies and content to help make the world a more accessibleplace.
You will be project managing new accessible tools so disabled people can travel in confidence including a new websiteand mobile app.
You will also work with the Community Manager and the rest of the Project Team as they collate and publish disabledaccess information at transport hubs, venues and businesses.
You’ll be ensuring the project remains on track and to budget, providing regular updates to the CEO and Board andexternal stakeholders.
We are an ambitious charity, passionate about making the world more accessible to all disabled people. We have astrong focus on technology so Euan’s Guide is often in a unique position of having the advantages and challengesof both a charity and tech business… there is no ‘typical day’!
If there is anything we can do to support your application please get in touch.
Closing Date for Applications – Monday 4th March 2024.
We’re Euan’s Guide, the award-winning disabled access review charity making it easier for disabled people to findplaces to go. At the heart of the charity is our disabled access review website - euansguide.com - wheredisabled people and their friends, families and carers can find and share disabled access information. We alsomake tens of thousands of accessible toilets safer and run the UK’s largest and longest running AccessSurvey.
We have ambitious plans to grow and have secured funding for an exciting new project for which we are looking for aCommunity Manager.
The Role
The Community Manager will lead the travel and transport related reviewing project.
You will be responsible for ‘Community Mapping’ - planning and prioritising locations, transport hubs and venues tobe visited. You will also lead on Community Outreach, Stakeholder Engagement and production of supportingresources.
You will have a passion for UK travel and should expect to spend a significant portion of your time exploring newlocations particularly around UK transport hubs.
You will report to the CEO and manage the Review Coordinators whose main focus will be submitting disabled accessinformation and Community Engagement. You will work closely with the Project Manager to ensure that keymilestones are met.
We are an ambitious charity, passionate about making the world more accessible to all disabled people. We have astrong focus on technology so Euan’s Guide is often in a unique position of having the advantages and challengesof both a charity and tech business… there is no ‘typical day’!
*The successful candidate’s salary will be determined in line with their skills and experience. New employees arenormally appointed at the lower end of the salary scale and potential candidates should not expect to beappointed above the midpoint of the salary scale.
The Citizens Advice network in Scotland is the largest independent advice service in the country. Citizens AdviceScotland is a charity within this network – we act as a national organisation supporting and representing theservice as a whole and the interests of citizens. At the heart of the network there are 59 individual citizensadvice bureau across Scotland, all operating as independent charities in their own right, which focus onproviding support and advice directly to clients. Each of these organisations is a member of Citizens AdviceScotland. We believe that every citizen should have access to free, impartial and confidential advice that helpsthem make informed decisions, whenever they need it and however, they choose to access it.
Our vision is for a Fairer Scotland where everyone has the advice and information they need to realise their rights,and that the barriers to accessing those rights are effectively challenged.
Lead a dynamic, agile team to deliver Citizens Advice Scotland’s digital advice content.
You will manage the delivery of high-quality digital advice and the production of content, making sure it isaccessible and driven by user needs. You will also contribute to website development in order to meet thecurrent and future advice needs of the public and for the Citizens Advice network in Scotland as a whole. Thisrole will require you to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including Citizens AdviceEngland and Wales, to facilitate the delivery of digital advice and lead on specific innovation projects. If youbelieve you have the experience to successfully deliver on the above, this could be the role for you.
This role offers you the opportunity to work at the heart of supporting Scotland's largest independent advicenetwork and to make an invaluable contribution to citizen’s lives.
Employee benefits
Citizens Advice Scotland offers excellent terms and conditions. We want our people to have a great work life balanceand we have designed our working practices and benefits to support this. Here are some of things our employeesbenefit from: a 35-hour full time working week, 40 days annual leave, genuine flexibility in working hours witha flexi-time system, and blended/hybrid working opportunities for every role.
Citizens Advice Scotland is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion. We offer a range of family friendly,inclusive employment policies and flexible working arrangements to support all our staff. We are also committedto equality of opportunity for all and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age,disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief andmarriage and civil partnerships.
CAS provides options for blended working to allow employees to balance their time attending the office with timeworking from home. The number of days you will be able to work from home each week will be dependent on your jobrole and can be discussed as part of the recruitment process.
Angus Voice (AV) currently have the following vacancies on our Board of Directors:
Angus Voice is for and led by people who have personal experience of accessing mental health services. The aim is tobuild the capacity and involvement of people who use mental health services. It enables us to contribute toimproving the services that affect us. The project does this by building partnerships and challenging stigma anddiscrimination.
Angus Voice invite applications from individuals who are willing to share their expertise, knowledge and skills intaking forward this important work and ensuring best practice in Board Governance. The individual must becommitted in our collective strategic vision for the organisation in creating a more inclusive community whereevery person’s voice matters.
We are looking for people who have an understanding and commitment to reducing inequality, isolation and stigma andhave the following skills and expertise:
This role is not accompanied by any financial remuneration, although expenses for travel may be claimed in line withAV’s expenses policy. We are currently holding Board meetings remotely, and envisage there will be a mix of inperson and remote meetings moving forward - so we would consider someone out with the local area taking on thisrole.
As The National Partnership Manager, you will report directly to the Head of Strategic Partnerships & BusinessDevelopment function for Scotland. You will manage a team of embedded Senior Project Officers working within thepartner national organisations and delivering in partnership with a broad range of local stakeholders to developand deliver local Active Travel Strategies, Visions and Plans.
You will work closely with colleagues to secure funding for our work, capturing and communicating the impacts ofbetter places for people. You will ensure our for everyone values – to strengthen diversity and inclusion acrossthe charity, whilst ensuring that a more systematic approach to the embedding of our ‘for everyone’ principlespermeates through our work.
You will advocate for sustainable transport across the region, and you will use that platform to influence localdecision makers, through engaging in policy and planning work, leading on communications, and contributing to acoordinated approach to business development opportunities in Scotland.
You will build and manage internal and external relationships with key people across governance tiers within nationalpartner organizations. You will work with internal and external partners to build the team’s knowledge andcapacity around inclusive programme design and delivery. In this respect, working to ensure that our partnershipprogrammes are for everyone and do not have unintended consequences for disadvantaged population groups.
This role will require travel and work at locations as necessary to undertake projects on behalf of Sustrans.
About you
You should be an experienced leader, expert at developing and maintaining relationships at senior levels in a varietyof sectors e.g. National organizations, Local Authority, business and industry bodies. You should have linemanagement experience and substantial experience of project management, including budget management.
You must have the ability to communicate authoritatively and persuasively to a range of audiences, with demonstrableexperience of remote and face-to-face partnership development techniques.
We aim to be a truly inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all parts of the community, inparticular from under-represented groups.
Sustrans is committed to reducing inequality, valuing diversity and enabling inclusion.
What we offer
In return we can offer true hybrid working to suit individual circumstances and a flexible, supportive and rewardingworking environment.
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