Senior Student Content Officer - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - With Kids

Description

Initial 23 month contract, on a rate of £178.Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Research Officerfor an initial 23 month contract, on a rate of £178.This role will be primarilyoffice-based, with a degree of flexibility of up to two days per week working from home.

Carry out analysis of information gathered by the wider Inquiry teams for research purposes, and be able tocommunicate findings to a variety of stakeholders in sensitive, compelling, and creative ways.

• Produce literature and rapid reviews of research to inform and guide the work of the Inquiry, ensuring high qualitydata is used across the organisation.
• Research and evaluate the implementation of public policies.
• Research, identify and obtain information relevant to the work of the Inquiry including, but not exclusively,historical, national and local government records, other institutional records, legislation, and publishedresearch.
• Be responsible for own projects' objectives and targets.
• Support with copyediting and proofreading reports, ensuring consistency and accuracy within and across outputs,both in terms of their content and format.
• Where required, support other tasks within the Policy and Research Team.
• Gathering, managing, manipulating and analysing complex and sensitive data for research purposes.
• Working on complex, largescale research projects and datasets.
• IT literacy, including advanced use of Microsoft Excel, Access, Word, and Outlook.
• Using research analysis software such as NVivo, SPSS, R, or Jamovi.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and command of English grammar and usage.
• A strong commitment to quality and meticulous attention to detail.
• Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Senior ResearchOfficer for an initial 23 month contract, on a rate of £220.This role will beprimarily officebased, with a degree of flexibility of up to two days per week working from home.

Undertake specialist, strategic, and impactful research, including the gathering, processing, and analysis ofhighly sensitive and confidential data, to inform and guide the work of the Inquiry, ensuring high quality datais used across the organisation.

• Provide regular specialist advice and guidance to the Chair, Senior Counsel to the Inquiry, and Chief Executive ofthe Inquiry, along with other senior Inquiry colleagues, such as the Solicitor team, on all aspects ofresearch.
• Provide strategic advice and specialist knowledge to the Chair and Senior Management Team, which will impact andinfluence the development of the organisation practice and policy.
• Through the application of specialist knowledge and professional expertise, provide achievable and judicioussolutions to complex research and policy issues.
• Be autonomous for setting own projects, objectives and targets.
• Be responsible for the design, creation, implementation, and daytoday management of research databases.
• Carry out analysis of information gathered by the wider Inquiry teams for research purposes and be able tocommunicate findings to a variety of stakeholders in sensitive, compelling, and creative ways.
• Be responsible and accountable for the production (research and compilation) of specialist reports, managing andcoordinating resources to ensure project targets are achieved within agreed timescales.
• Using specialist knowledge relevant to individual projects be responsible for copyediting and proofreadingreports, ensuring consistency and accuracy within and across outputs, both in terms of their content andformat.
• Be responsible for providing business research solutions through the development and/or adaption of existingprocedures.
• Research, identify and obtain information relevant to the work of the Inquiry including, but not exclusively,historical, national and local government records, other institutional records, legislation, and publishedresearch.
• Produce rapid reviews of research.
• Where required, support other tasks within the Policy and Research Team.
• Graduate or postgraduate qualification combined with significant experience.
• Proven experience of gathering, managing, manipulating and analysing complex and sensitive data for researchpurposes.
• Experience working on complex, largescale research projects and datasets.
• Excellent IT literacy, including advanced use of Microsoft Excel, Access, Word, and Outlook.
• Experience of using research analysis software such as NVivo, SPSS, R, or Jamovi.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, and command of English grammar and usage.
• A strong commitment to quality and meticulous attention to detail.
• The Association for Fostering, Kinship and Adoption Scotland (AFKA) is an independent charity that promotes andfacilitates evidenceinformed best practice in fostering, kinship care and adoption, through advising, training,and influencing practitioners and policymakers, and supporting them to improve outcomes for children andfamilies.

Our Vision is a future where every practitioner working with children, young people and their families isknowledgeable, skilled, confident, and empowered to support the safe, secure, and loving care to which everychild has a right.

Our services support agencies and professionals to implement child centred, evidenced informed practice that involveschildren and their families in decisions about their lives, protect their rights and promotes inclusion.

Throughour multi-disciplinary communities of practice, we enable social workers, lawyers, and health professionals towork effectively across professional boundaries to meet the needs of children, their families, and their Carers.

As a membership organisation, AFKA Scotland uses its links with professional bodies and agencies across thecountry to contribute to the development of policy and practice at a local and national level.

AFKA Scotland's multi-disciplinary team has a wealth of experience and up-to-date expertise in practice relating tokinship care, fostering and adoption and delivers a wide range of workshops, training and consultancy, postqualifying courses, and conferences to assist professionals to develop the knowledge and skills they requirewhen working in this specialist area.

We work closely with our research colleagues in AFKA Scotland, and our research underpins our evidence informedapproach.

Thisrole is key in supporting the Business Support and Finance Manager in the day-to-day operational activities ofthe organisation and to the smooth delivery of our Forums, training and workshop activities.

Support training and development events (Commissioned Training, Conferences and workshops) – in conjunction withTrainer/Consultants, provide administrative support for management of events including: finalising trainingmaterials for training booklets, creating and sending out booking forms; Information Technology – Support staff in their use of IT apps and platforms when they are producing materials ordelivering training.

Telephones - answer the phone and pass messages to staff asappropriate.
Photocopying – where required, photocopy training materials / meeting papers for allevents.
Banking/Post Office – posting office mail and banking cheques when required.
Library –maintain database and record when books taken out on loan.
A working knowledge of an office environment
Computer literate in a range of computer processes which must include Microsoft Access, Word, PowerPoint andExcel and have proficient keyboard skills
Familiarity with Microsoft 365 including MSTeams
Excellent oral and written communicationskills and telephone manner
Flexible working approach
Scottish Women's Aid has an opportunity to join their membership services team as a Participation Lead.

This role hasbeen established within SWA core work for a couple of years offering the opportunity to develop ourparticipation work as an organisation and managing the relationship with the Survivor Reference Group (SRG), agroup of women with lived experience who offer their invaluable knowledge and experience to our work.

Thisposition will work as a part of the Membership Services Team, but work very closely with other teams within theorganisation including Policy and Training.

Blend of home working and office, based in Rose Street, Edinburgh or can be entirely home-based anywhere inthe UK.

Please talk to us about your flexible working requirements.
Do you have excellent communication and presentation skills, and experience working with young people?
We are looking for an enthusiastic Project Officer to join Fast Forward's Going Forward Programme Team. This rolewill have a focus on formal and informal education settings, and youth participation.

Fast Forward is Scotland's national youth work agency, focusing on supporting children & young people to makeinformed choices regarding, and take a harm reduction approach to, risk-taking behaviours, towards reducing thenegative impacts of these on their lives and those of their families and wider community.

We promote health through programmes and resources developed by, with and for young people.
We are creative in our approach to identifying andresponding to risk taking behaviour.
Collaborative - We coproduce, partner and learn with youngpeople and experts
from across the field
Going Forward Project Background

Since May 2017, the Going Forward Project has worked with partner organisations to deliver workshop sessions tovulnerable and at-risk young people in formal and informal education settings.

Our sessions focus on core themes of health, wellbeing and risk-taking behaviours, particularly:
substance misuse (alcohol, drugs, tobacco, e-cigarettes/vaping)
online safety

In line with United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), Fast Foward is committed to developing ourchildren and young people's participation work.

We want children and young people's experiences,opinions and suggestions to shape all aspects of our work.

This role will play a key part in supporting this development, embedding a child rights approach to our work.

Thiswill include developing our children and young people's Shadow Board.
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