Salary: £27,880 pro rata to £29,000 pro rata
Part-time (21 hours per week), Permanent contract
36 days annual leave (pro rata), 4% pension contribution
Location: Home-based in either Edinburgh OR Angus and Fife
(at strategically located sites near an Armed Forces base)
Line Manager: Participation Manager
We support the Armed Forces community in Scotland, which includes 13,000 children and young people.
Our charity was founded in 1815, just four days before the Battle of Waterloo. Over 200 years on, His Majesty King Charles III serves as Patron of Forces Children Scotland.
As a strengths-based organisation, we are committed to working directly with babies, children, young people, and partners across Scotland to coproduce our projects, services and campaigns.
Forces Children Scotland supports babies, children and young people from Regular, Reservist and Veteran families to realise their potential and thrive. We work with children and young people to co-produce services and projects to overcome their unique challenges to mental health and wellbeing, education and learning and important transitions.
Forces Children Scotland is committed to taking a children’s rights-based approach to all aspects of our work, from planning to service delivery. This means we strive to ensure our work is grounded in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Engaging in co-production with children and young people can help ensure their right to participate in matters affecting them is meaningfully upheld and implemented.
Children and young people from armed forces families face unique experiences, and their voices are often unheard. In this role, you will provide an opportunity for them to share their experiences and inform policy and practices in our work while also influencing those in the Ministry of Defence, Local Authorities, and the Scottish Government. You will work directly with children and young people to facilitate a broad range of participatory and engagement opportunities.
Download full information here.
To apply, please complete an Application Form and submit it alongside a Child-Friendly application to: admin@forceschildrenscotland.org.uk
Deadline for applications: Thursday 23 October at 5pm
Interview: Week commencing 27 October in Edinburgh
Candidates are asked to create a child-friendly version of their application. It should set out the values, skills and the experience that you have that makes you suitable for this role. The format could be written, a graphic, a short film or picture, and should be suitable for review by a 14-17 year old.
We hope this candidate recruitment pack has piqued your interest in joining us, and we would actively encourage having a pre-application chat if you’d like to do so.
Please contact Nina Collins, Participation Manager: nina.collins@forceschildrenscotland.org.uk
