Position: Head of Community & Connections
Hours: 22 hours/3 days per week (hours can be spread across 4/5 days)
Salary: £47,962 pro-rata
Pension: 5% employer’s contribution
Annual Leave: 32 days annual leave, increasing to 37 days in year two of employment (pro- rata); includes some set public holidays and closure over Christmas and New Year
Benefits: Access to award-winning Employee Assistance Programme from day one of employment
Location: The Broomhouse Hub (EH11 3RH)
PVG: This post requires membership of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme; Space will pay for and process the application as part of onboarding
Term: Permanent
Closing date: Monday, 8 June 2026
The Role
The Head of Community and Connections is a key leadership role, taking ownership of our frontline services, which includes our varied and diverse work with Children & Young People, Adults & Older People, and Community Learning & Development.
More information about our services can be found on our website www.spacescot.org.
You’ll be line managing a team of experienced, skilled, and passionate individuals, enhancing their strengths and supporting them to further develop.
Working closely with our board, CEO, and management team, you’ll help to shape strategy, strengthen partnerships, and ensure the standard of our services remain high quality, sustainable, and rooted in community need.
This is a rare opportunity to step into a pivotal leadership role at a defining moment for Space.
You’ll play a central role in shaping our next strategy, influencing what our services look like over the next three to five years, and helping translate ambition into meaningful impact.
You’ll also support the development of an emerging Community Health Service, building on strong foundations to create something ambitious, responsive, and genuinely impactful for local communities.
If you’re someone who enjoys shaping direction, developing people, and turning ideas into reality, this is a role with real scope and influence.
Key tasks:
- Help develop and deliver Space’s organisational strategy
- Shape services to be impactful and responsive, spotting opportunities to grow, improve, or reimagine what we do—always guided by community voice
- Represent Space confidently across networks, partnerships, and collaborations
- Support and develop project managers to flourish in their role, coaching and creating space for reflection and learning, sharing learning, and championing continuous improvement
- Ensure safeguarding, compliance, and HR responsibilities are understood and embedded
- Lead change thoughtfully, bringing people with you
- Oversee service budgets and support managers to feel confident with finances
- Work alongside fundraising team to identify, secure, sustain funding
- Build strong, transparent relationships with funders and partners
- Be key leader in Space team, building positive working relationships across organisation
Qualification/Skills:
- Experience leading or overseeing frontline health and social care or community-based services at senior level
- People-first mindset and strong, values-led people management experience
- Good judgement: Know when to stick to policy and when to exercise common sense to make balanced decisions
- Positive, can-do attitude, ready to roll sleeves up and take on challenges
- Clear communitycation, able to naturally connect with people on all levels across organisation and stakeholders; easily build reputation for being approachable and trustworthy
- Confident working with budgets and financial information; able to understand and translate to others; knowledge of charity finances an advantage
- Experience working with Board of Trustees and reporting to funders
- Ability to plan well, write business cases, manage multiple complext projects at same time
- Strong digital skills, confident using Microsoft Office (Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and digital collaboration tools
- Solid understanding of health and safety practices and safeguarding
- Flexibility with working hours to provide occasional on-call telephone support to services running outwith typical office hours
You can download the full job description and person specification HERE.
To Apply
Please submit your CV along with a cover letter (minimum 500 words) telling us why you think your skills, experience, and personal attributes make you the right person for this role.
We embrace artificial intelligence (AI) and know the positive efficiencies it can bring. However, if we feel that an application has been solely generated by AI and we can not get a real feel for who you are, your application may be bypassed.
Applications should be emailed to careers@spacescot.org by Monday, 8 June 2026.
Shorlisted candidates will be contacted no later than Friday, 12 June to be invited to interview.
Initial interviews will be held in person at The Broomhouse Hub on Wednesday, 17 June 2026.
Advanced interviews will be held on 22 and 29 June 2026.
About Space
Do you want to work for an organisation that truly cares about its staff?
Would you like to use your skills to make a difference in people’s lives?
If the answer is ‘yes’, Space is the place for you!
Space is a community anchor organisation supporting people and their families in South West Edinburgh, with some of our services stretching citywide.
We believe that connections build communities.
Space delivers 22 projects, with around 110 staff and volunteers. We deliver diverse services supporting young people, families, older people and carers amongst others.
As a dynamic organisation no two days are the same, with a wealth of learning and development opportunities for our staff and volunteers.
We are an accredited Living Wage employer and proud to share our Carer Positive accreditation, as part of our commitment to the growing number of people in the workforce who need flexibility due to their caring role.
Space is wholly committed to inclusion and diversity and to building a culture and environment where everyone is appreciated for the unique person they are.
For more information about Space and all our projects can be found on our website – www.spacescot.org
Space and all our projects can be found on our website.
Working at Space
- We care deeply about what we do and how we work; we work hard and get stuck in because we truly care about our community and each other
- We live our values—they’re not just words printed on letterheads
- We’re a team and work collaboratively, supporting each other to succeed and valuing relationships as much as results; egos are best left at the door
- We’re not a finished article; we are still evolving, still learning, and not everything is perfectly optimised (yet)
- We find a way: We focus on solutions; challenges are puzzles to be worked out, not excuses to give up
- We’re curious and innovative, we challenge the norm, and aren’t scared to voice ideas if we think we have a better way
- Third sector is demanding and unpredictable at times and priorities shift, but if difficult decisions have to be made, we do it with integrity and maintain a people-first ethos
- We have a pretty flexible approach to work; we know that everyone’s body clocks, responsibilities, and preferred working environments differ; at the same time, we really value staying connected and collaborating with each other; our work is at its strongest when we come together, so we encourage a healthy balance with a regular presence in the office
Space @ The Broomhouse Hub is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.