- 24 hours per week Wednesday to Friday. Salary: £28,204
Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and experienced management team in a creative and caring,sector-leading organisation. We are seeking someone with substantial management experience, a suitableprofessional qualification, and knowledge of the voluntary sector to share in the management of our Day Servicebased at Orwell Arts in Edinburgh.
Closing date is at 12.00 noon on Friday 7th August.
Visits will be arranged for shortlisted candidates and interviews are expected to take place on Tuesday 18thAugust.
The successful candidate will be required to join the PVG scheme (or to already be a member) prior to formal offer ofappointment.
Garvald Edinburgh is committed to Equal Opportunities
- On site:Edinburgh with some travel within the UK
- Closing14th July 2026
Are you a strategic leader with a passion for delivering meaningful impact? We’re looking for an exceptional ChiefOperating Officer to help lead Deaf Action through its next stage of growth, ensuring our services, people, andoperations are positioned to deliver lasting change for Deaf communities. Could that be you?
Deaf Action is a Deaf-led charity, supporting and celebrating Deaf people since 1835. We work with Deaf people acrossScotland and the South of England, empowering individuals to achieve their potential and fully participate insociety with equality of rights, access and opportunity.
Through a range of charitable and commercial services, Deaf Action provides support, access, education, communicationservices and opportunities that improve the lives of Deaf people. We are committed to innovation,sustainability, and delivering high-quality services that create lasting impact.
The Chief Operating Officer (COO) provides strategic and operational leadership across Deaf Action, ensuring theorganisation delivers high-quality, integrated services in line with its mission, values, and businessplan.
Working closely with the CEO and Senior Leadership Team, the COO will be responsible for translating strategy intoeffective operational delivery, driving organisational performance, commercial growth, and long-termsustainability. The COO provides leadership across service delivery, operational systems, performancemanagement, and organisational development, ensuring Deaf Action operates efficiently, effectively, and inalignment with its strategic objectives.
Key responsibilities
- Provide strategic and operational leadership across Deaf Action, ensuring high-quality, efficient, andsustainable service delivery.
- Contribute to the growth and development of Deaf Action’s commercialservices, helping to maximise income and long-term sustainability.
- Work closely with the CEO and SeniorLeadership Team to translate organisational strategy into effective operational plans and outcomes.
- Leadand develop high-performing teams, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuousimprovement.
- Ensure services and operations align with Deaf Action’s mission, values, and commitment toDeaf-led practice and accessibility.
- Lead major organisational projects and cross-functionalinitiatives, ensuring successful delivery and integration across services.
- Support financialsustainability through effective budgeting, resource management, and oversight of commercialactivities.
- Establish robust reporting and accountability frameworks, ensuring clear performanceinformation is available to the CEO and Board.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with partners,funders, stakeholders, and external agencies, representing Deaf Action where required.
- Drive innovationand continuous improvement across the organisation, ensuring that services remain responsive to the needs ofDeaf communities.
Person specification
- Proven experience in a senior operational leadership role, leading complex, multi-service or multi-departmentorganisations.
- Demonstrable success in commercial income generation, organisational growth or changemanagement.
- Strong strategic planning, operational management, and decision-makingcapability.
- Experience developing and managing high-performing teams.
- Experience implementingperformance management systems and reporting frameworks.
- Strong understanding of core organisationalfunctions, including operations, finance, HR, and service delivery.
- Excellent communication, leadership,and stakeholder management skills.
- Commitment to Deaf Action’s mission, values, accessibility, andinclusion.
- Experience working within the third sector, public service, or mission-led organisations,
- Understandingof Deaf communities and Deaf-led organisations.
- Experience working within the care or support servicesector.
- Knowledge of accessible service delivery and inclusive practice.
- British Sign Language(BSL) skills or willingness to develop skills.
What’s on offer?
- Occupational pension scheme with employer contributions of 6%
- 32 days leave pro rata (inc bank holidays)
- 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme provided by Health Assured
- In-house Mental Health First Aiders
- Access to the Cycle to Work Scheme and IT Voucher Scheme
- Ongoing support for learning and development through our PDR process
Our Communities are places where people with and without learning disabilities live, share and grow together. OurEdinburgh Community is made up of over 80 members - including people we support, employees, volunteers,long-term friends and members.
We are looking for someone with the leadership gifts, values and ambition to enable us to achieve our
2030 Strategy aims of:
- brilliant, person-centred support and housing for adults with learning disabilities, and
- beautifulcommunity where people with and without learning disabilities share lives, homes, friendships and spiritualjourneys together.
- effective organisation
This is a very varied role which includes both operational management and visible leadership. The Community Leaderbrings people together, leading Celebrations, spiritual spaces, role modelling the values of L’Arche andbuilding a culture which empowers teams to flourish, as well as co-producing plans to develop the Community andthe services which we provide. The Community Leader is also responsible for managing compliance, budgets,embedding systems, organisational processes and policies in the Edinburgh Community.
Alongside other Community Leaders across the UK and members of the National Team, you will also contribute to thedevelopment and delivery of projects focusing on: Finances, People, Care and Housing, to meet our ambitious 2030Strategy.
But being Community Leader is more than just a job and we are looking for someone who wants to be part of a movementof hope and joy. In L'Arche, you will be part of changing the world, and you could be profoundly changedtoo.
- Hybrid:Predominantly home-based, with potential to work from the Edinburgh office. Travel to Edinburgh is required for meetings and events.
- Closing20th July 2026
This is an exciting opportunity to help shape and grow Mindroom's communications function at a pivotal point inthe organisation's development. Following a transformational year, including major multi-year investment andthe expansion of our national services, Mindroom needs compelling, strategic communications to match our growth,and you will be central to building that.
You will lead the day-to-day delivery of our external and internal communications, managing our social mediapresence, website and email communications, and developing content and resources for individuals, families,professionals and funders. You will also help establish stronger communication and brand guidelines, bringinggreater consistency and impact to the way we tell our story.
Beyond the day-to-day, you will have real scope to shape how this function works: developing our approach to digitalchannels, strengthening our use of data to inform content, and building the systems and ways of working thatwill support Mindroom's communications as we scale. This is a role for someone who enjoys creating structureas much as creating content, and who wants to leave their mark on a growing organisation's voice.
You will work closely with colleagues across Mindroom, including our Business Development and Direct Support teams,to ensure communications reflect the breadth and impact of our work, and connect us with the communities,funders and partners we serve.
Organisation profile
As an organisation founded upon lived experience, Mindroom champions all forms of neurodiversity and supports allkinds of minds. Our mission is to improve the quality of life for neurodivergent people by removing barriers,increasing opportunities and shaping a more accessible world.
- Hybrid:Predominantly home-based, with potential to work from the Edinburgh office. Travel to Edinburgh is required for meetings and events.
- Closing20th July 2026
The HR Officer role is a new role within Mindroom’s Operational Services team. With ongoing support from the Directorof Finance and Operations, together with Mindroom’s external HR consultants Work Nest, the post holder will bethe first point of contact for managers and staff members requiring support, advice and guidance on a wide range of HR and employee related matters.
Day to day, you will be responsible for providing a collaborative and forward-thinking human resources service,ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and organisational policies and procedures.
The role would suit someone with extensive HR experience who understands what a positive and inclusive workplaceculture looks and feels like. With excellent communication skills, you will be an approachable and supportive HRgeneralist who is able to establish trust and credibility with colleagues and who is able to workcollaboratively in finding solutions to a range of both challenging and opportunistic situations.
Organisation profile
As an organisation founded upon lived experience, Mindroom champions all forms of neurodiversity and supports allkinds of minds. Our mission is to improve the quality of life for neurodivergent people by removing barriers,increasing opportunities and shaping a more accessible world.
