Youth Volunteering Officer

Project is Scotland wide with office base being Glasgow (Hybrid)
~ Fixed Term to 31st March 2026.

CEMVO Scotland is a national race equality intermediary organization with the aim of building the capacity of theethnic minority voluntary sector and its communities.
We are seeking a person with experience in undertaking ethnic minority community engagement and outreach work torecruit EM volunteers onto a programme of activities which in this case will be volunteer energy advisers whowill be trained by Changeworks to help deliver energy related events to EM groups.
Your role will be to promote the partnership programmme through all mediums, to recruit and support volunteers and toorganize energy efficiency events with EM groups / organisations across Scotland.
Experience in EM community engagement and outreach work.
Experience in organising and delivering events both online and in person, and so knowledge of delivering events on Zoom / Microsoft Teams will also be highly useful.
Experience in delivering promotional activities, including skills and experience in digital marketing through social media, etc.
We are seeking a person with extensive experience and understanding of equality and diversity, especially around raceequality to provide support to environmental sector organisations to help improve their capacity to tackleracial inequality and meet the needs of EM communities.
Thus, you will require experiencein the development of race equality policies and practices that address racial and intersectionalinequalities.
You will also be designing and delivering race equality training to wide audiences so good training skills arerequired, along with the ability to organize and deliver events that share good race equality polies andpractices.
Although you will be part of the environmental team, this project will complement our Race for Human Rights (R4HR)Programme and so you will also be working closely with the R4HR team as there will be areas of work wheresupport or events can be co-delivered, including EM community engagement.
If you are committed and enthusiastic about equalities, particularly around race, then this post will provide a greatopportunity to help influence and progress race equality within the environmental sector.
Home based covering West Dunbartonshire and Helensburgh & Lomond areas. (Remote)
Want to help children and young people from armed forces communities to realise their potential and thrive?
Deliver life-changing experiences to develop new skills, build confidence, and forge friendships through a sense ofbelonging, shared experiences, and collective purpose.
Co-produce impactful projects, services, and campaigns that amplify lived experience, transform attitudes, and leadtoward meaningful change in local communities in the West of Scotland and for over 12,500 peers acrossScotland.
Establish and maintain a network of youth forums in Helensburgh, West Dunbartonshire, and Lomond. A relevant qualification, to a minimum standard of HNC/SVQ 3 (SCQF level 7) in a discipline related to working withchildren and young people, or equivalent work experience.
Ideally, you will have experience working with children in Early Years settings.
You will also need a minimum of two years’ experience working in youth work, community, or education settings, aswell as demonstrate knowledge of co-production, child protection, participatory decision-making, and muchmore.
Would you like to make a difference to a person’s quality of life? Would you like to learn BSL while being paid? Weare looking for caring and motivated Support Workers to support deaf BSL users to join our team. Deaf Action is a deaf-led charity, supporting and celebrating deaf people. As well as our outreach service in Edinburgh, we are expanding our service provision in Glasgow and are looking forpeople who can make a major contribution to our plans for innovation and growth and who have the commitment andenthusiasm to contribute to the work of our support services to Deaf people throughout Edinburgh andGlasgow.
We will provide on the job training with the opportunity to complete formal qualifications in social care. If youhave knowledge of BSL, or are a BSL user that is a bonus, however we will provide training if not.
The ideal candidates will be fully committed to our values, which can be found on our website .
You will be leading a team to support *deaf people living in the community. As well as leading a team you will belone working in the community, delivering a person-centred service supporting deaf people within their ownliving environment, to enable them to fully participate in the decisions affecting their lives, ensuring thatwherever possible, service users benefit from informed choice, control, and independence. This will include bothactivities at home and within the community which will promote independence and social inclusion.
By working together, you will ensure that a consistent,high quality support service is provided to deaf service users in their own homes, and that staff are supportedto develop and maintain such a service.
Due to the nature of this role, its essential that you can drive and have access to a car.
*deaf: this to includes Deaf Sign Language users, deafened, deafblind and hard of hearing people.
To actively monitor and develop individual and team performance by ensuring effective supervision and PerformanceDevelopment Reviews/Reports (PDRs).
• Be responsible for any risk assessments at the service users home as part of your Health and Safetyresponsibilities.
• Occupational pension scheme with employer contributions of 6%.
• 32 days leave pro rata (including bank holidays) pro rata for part time.
• 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme provided by Health Assured.
• Access to the Cycle to Work Scheme and IT Voucher Scheme.
• The post holder will be responsible for developing and delivering our Energy and Efficiency outreach project toGlasgow and West Dunbartonshire and will provide a specialist service to people who often experience complexsocial circumstances, using agreed, person-centred principles for monitoring, auditing and evaluating programmedelivery
Knowledge and understanding ofthe environmental, social and economic problems of deprived areas and the roles of the public, private andvoluntary sectors in tackling them.
Demonstrable experience and knowledge of the provision of advice tolow-income households in energy efficiency or related fields.
Excellent networking, recording and information managementskills.
An ability andwillingness to travel extensively within the local community and wider area.
Experience of project-based work in the fields of energy efficiency, community development and regeneration,housing, health, social policy or consumer issues.
210 hours annual leave (equivalent of 30 days)
~91 days public holiday (equivalent of 13 days) that canbe taken flexibly
~ Additional leave between Christmas and New Year
~ Open to flexible working (formal and informal)
~ Hybrid working – opportunity to work fromhome for part of the week
~ Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
~ Employee Assistance Programme
~ Learning and development opportunities
~ Corporate ratesfor gym membership
~ Cycle Scheme

The ALLIANCE is a healthy working lives employer and encourages a healthy work life balance and is happy to talkflexible working.