Job Description
This role is an excellent opportunity for an experienced communications professional confident working across the full spectrum of communication disciplines and with a passion for driving change. You will have experience of working at a senior level and using a range of tools and tactics to speak to a wide range of audiences from organisations and government to the public. You will have a strong understanding of and demonstrable experience of developing communication strategies designed to persuade, change minds and provoke action. This role is occupies a pivotal position within Community Justice Scotland and afford the candidate the opportunity to help shape the future direction of the organisation.
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Closing date for applications is Tuesday 6th July at 6pm
Interviews will take place via Zoom on between Tues 13th – Thurs 15th
Are you looking for a rewarding role in which you can make a real difference to people’s lives?
Scottish Ministers are now looking to appoint at least 12 Panel Members for Redress Scotland who will be responsible for making evidence-based decisions in relation to financial redress, awarded to survivors of historical child abuse in care. Decision making meetings are expected to take place virtually and in person. At this stage, we expect a good proportion of meetings to be virtual, to ensure inclusivity.
This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a national collective endeavour, aiming to acknowledge and provide tangible recognition of harm to survivors.
Background
For decades, some children in residential care in Scotland were failed by those entrusted to look after them. Scotland is taking steps to face up to these failings of the past by establishing a financial redress scheme for survivors of historical child abuse in care.
While nothing can ever make up for the suffering survivors have endured, the national redress scheme will offer a non-adversarial alternative route to justice, as well as access to support and apology.
To deliver this, the Scottish Government is supporting the creation of a new independent ‘non-departmental public body’ (NDPB) called Redress Scotland.
Organisation
Redress Scotland is primarily a decision-making body. The NDPB will not, itself, offer application support to survivors, receive applications directly or arrange financial payments. Instead, to make best use of public resources, all administrative aspects of the scheme and support arrangements will be carried out by the Scottish Government which will then transmit completed applications to Redress Scotland for determination.
The Role of Panel Member
Panel Members will make day-to-day decisions in relation to applications for redress payments. Their responsibilities will include determining eligibility and the level of financial redress awarded to survivors, as well as conducting reviews, where appropriate. Members will be expected to uphold the highest standard of impartiality and objectivity in making determinations.
Panel Members will need to develop a good understanding of, and be closely guided by, statutory guidance and decision-making frameworks in order to ensure assessments of survivors’ experiences are made in a fair, transparent and consistent way. They will be expected to examine applications in a holistic way, taking into consideration individual circumstances and forming a balanced judgement. Panel Members will work constructively with one another and be able to clearly articulate, verbally and in writing, the reasoning behind their decisions.
Redress Scotland will carry out sensitive, challenging and often emotionally-charged work that will involve detailed consideration of supporting information and survivors’ own accounts of the abuse they suffered while in care. Panel Members should therefore have an understanding and personal commitment to embodying trauma informed principles. They should also be committed to acknowledging and being informed by the human rights approach.
The successful candidates will bring empathy and professional expertise from a range of areas, for example, in the fields of emotional and psychological trauma, law, social work, human rights and health. Individuals with an understanding of the Scottish care system and child development, or specialist knowledge of complex trauma, are particularly encouraged to apply.
Key responsibilities include:
• Have a good understanding of the assessment framework and use it to guide your decision making, in order to ensure consistency and fairness across determinations.
• Work collaboratively with the rest of the Panel to access applications in a balanced and objective way, in order to reach evidence-based decisions in relation to redress.
• Call on relevant experience and professional knowledge in examining the available evidence and providing constructive challenge, in order to help the Panel reach a reasoned conclusion.
• Ensure applicants are treated with respect, dignity and compassion, showing consideration for their needs. Always take care to minimise potential risk of causing further harm or distress to survivors.
• Support the Chair in ensuring proceedings are transparent and effectively managed. Contribute to drafting the written determinations, clearly summarising the reasons for decisions taken.
• Uphold the principles of public life as set out by the Ethical Standards Commissioner at all times.
- Working from home until the reopening of our office at Scottish Gymnastics HQ, Caledonia House, South Gyle, Edinburgh
- Closing 16th July 2021
Exciting new role as part of the senior leadership team.
Scottish Gymnastics is the governing body responsible for all levels of gymnastics activity throughout Scotland. We are a close-knit team on a journey to becoming a world-class governing body for our members and partners and we are looking for like-minded people who will help us on the way.
We believe safeguarding is everyone's responsibility with Scottish Gymnastics taking the lead in ensuring the wellbeing of all our members. We are committed to making sure everyone can learn and enjoy gymnastics in a positive, safe and healthy environment.
This new role has overall responsibility for driving and delivering Scottish Gymnastics’ child protection and safeguarding activities, working with all areas of the organisation to ensure the wellbeing and the safety of the children and young people in our clubs is at the centre of all that we do and to ensure compliance is built in throughout our sport.
The successful candidate will be highly motivated, and come with experience working in a statutory body, bringing operational and management experience within a safeguarding environment, dealing with child protection issues and be able to use this to create and deliver the safeguarding strategic plan.
The role requires candidates to work with all areas of the organisation, whilst leading and supporting the safeguarding team. The role requires candidates to be able to influence and develop strong, effective working relationships with Scottish Gymnastics clubs, members, and key partners.
Candidates will require strong interpersonal skills, positive attitude, and the ability to work on their own initiative. Candidates will need sound knowledge of safeguarding legislation, policy, procedure, and best practice guidance.
Do you want to make a difference to people experiencing poverty and trauma?
The Robertson Trust is the largest independent grant making trust in Scotland, providing financial and other types of support to charities, communities, and individuals. Marking its 60th anniversary this year, it was established in 1961 when sisters Elspeth, Agnes and Ethel Robertson gave shares in their family whisky businesses to the Trust to use income from those businesses for charitable purposes.
The Trust has a clear vision: a fair and compassionate Scotland where everyone is valued and able to flourish. Through funding and supporting organisations, The Robertson Trust works to reduce the impacts of poverty and trauma in Scotland through thematic projects and programmes. They also use their research, knowledge and networks to support, champion and inform effective practice across the country with the aim of achieving long-term change.
The dedicated team is led by a new CEO, Jim McCormick, focused on a recently launched ten-year strategy. It is an exciting time to be involved with an ambitious organisation which is not afraid to take on difficult issues and take risks in pursuit of positive change.
The Robertson Trust are now looking to appoint a Head of Programmes and Practice. This new role, reporting to the CEO and joining the Leadership Team, will lead the Trust’s existing programmes and develop new long-term thematic programme approaches informed by real world opportunities and dilemmas. Leading a highly motivated and effective group of colleagues, the successful candidate will ensure programmes are coordinated across the Trust driving cross-team collaboration.
The successful candidate will bring proven leadership and management skills to work with a diverse group of partners to influence change and a senior-level track record of designing, managing, and delivering programmes with impact. Candidates will bring exceptional programme management skills and the ability to build effective partnerships with a range of stakeholders, demonstrating a commitment to the Trust’s vision, mission, and values.
The Trust wants to encourage applicants with diverse backgrounds. It believes that greater diversity of experience, skills and ways of thinking will challenge our approaches and broaden our collective knowledge and networks. It encourages applications from suitably qualified candidates from all parts of the community, regardless of age, disability, race, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief or socio-economic background. It also encourages applications from those with experience or knowledge of how poverty or trauma impact on people’s lives.
Do you want to make a difference to people experiencing poverty and trauma?
The Robertson Trust is the largest independent grant making trust in Scotland, providing financial and other types of support to charities, communities, and individuals. Marking its 60th anniversary this year, it was established in 1961 when sisters Elspeth, Agnes and Ethel Robertson gave shares in their family whisky businesses to the Trust to use income from those businesses for charitable purposes.
The Trust has a clear vision: a fair and compassionate Scotland where everyone is valued and able to flourish. Through funding and supporting organisations, The Robertson Trust works to reduce the impacts of poverty and trauma in Scotland through thematic projects and programmes. They also use their research, knowledge and networks to support, champion and inform effective practice across the country with the aim of achieving long-term change.
The dedicated team is led by a new CEO, Jim McCormick, focused on a recently launched ten-year strategy. It is an exciting time to be involved with an ambitious organisation which is not afraid to take on difficult issues and take risks in pursuit of positive change.
The Robertson Trust are now looking to appoint a Head of Insight and Impact. As part of the Leadership team, reporting to the CEO, the successful candidate in this new role will lead in developing a strategic approach to insight and impact around the priorities set out in its strategy. This will involve generating, applying and sharing valuable knowledge from across its funding and programme activities in order to build a picture of the difference that the Trust is helping to make. Leading the Learning and Communications team, the successful candidate will ensure work is driven by cross-team collaboration and ensure that the Trust draws upon all its assets to realise the promise of its new strategy.
The successful candidate will bring proven leadership and management skills and a senior-level track record of generating valuable insights and gauging impact using different methods. They will be a strategic and creative thinker with proven experience of building effective relationships with colleagues and senior-level stakeholders and ability to demonstrate a commitment to the Trust’s vision, mission and values.
The Trust wants to encourage applicants with diverse backgrounds. It believes that greater diversity of experience, skills and ways of thinking will challenge our approaches and broaden our collective knowledge and networks. It encourages applications from suitably qualified candidates from all parts of the community, regardless of age, disability, race, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief or socio-economic background. It also encourages applications from those with experience or knowledge of how poverty or trauma impact on people’s lives.