Glasgow Disability Alliance is a vibrant disabled people led organisation with over 5500 Members – the biggest groundswell of disabled people in Europe. A model of grassroots community activism, our mission is to build confidence, connections and enable the contributions of diverse disabled people.

GDA is seeking an experienced self-motivated, flexible and multi-skilled individual to join our admin team, working collaboratively with other GDA staff and partners. The Admin & Access Officer will support the Office Manager to ensure the smooth running of GDA’s Administration function ensuring effectiveness and efficiency. The post-holder will require a strong aptitude for multi-tasking and attention to detail with a flexible approach.

Supported through an ongoing programme of coaching, updates and personal development, along with professional input from your line manager, you will deliver the highest quality service, ensuring that we are responsive to disabled people’s needs and striving to ensure that everyone who contacts us feels that they have had a positive experience and are treated with kindness and understanding.

This is a fixed term post initially funded for 6 months and dependent on current context and related funding.

We are recruiting a Community Development Coordinator to work alongside and at the direction of our Policy & Participation Manager. The Coordinator will enable active participation in dialogue and deliberation opportunities to establish priorities and influence policy, service design and decisions which affect disabled people.

The role involves coordinating and delivering fully accessible capacity building programmes that support disabled people to build their voice as individuals and as a community of identity.

The successful candidate will have a track record of engaging people who experience inequality and disadvantage and supporting them to build voices and participate in activities to promote equality, rights and co-design better policies and services.

Essentials for the role:

• Track record using community development approaches to support marginalised people, preferably in an equalities context.
• Awareness and understanding of the structural inequalities faced by disabled people and a passion for tackling them.
• Ability to connect lived experience to public policy areas and to support disabled people to influence policies, strategies and political priorities.
• Ability to network and build relationships with key partner organisations to help them better understand and meet the needs of disabled people.
• Excellent communication skills, ability to listen and respond sensitively to others, with respect, kindness and empathy, upholding confidentiality and safeguarding as appropriate.
• Ability to organise, to identify and remove barriers to enable participation of diverse individuals.
• Commitment to the values of equality, inclusion and empowering those facing inequalities to take a leading role in tackling them.

GDA positively welcomes applications from those with protected characteristics. Applications warmly welcomed from disabled candidates. Prospective applicants with lived experience of ableism, or who require additional support or reasonable adjustments, may contact our Office Manager to discuss how we can remove any barriers you may face within our application process.

Glasgow Disability Alliance is a vibrant disabled people led organisation with over 5500 Members – the biggest groundswell of disabled people in Europe. A model of grassroots community activism, our mission is to build confidence, connections and enable the contributions of diverse disabled people.

GDA’s learning programme is the cornerstone and key to achieving our mission. Our free, fun, fully accessible learning programmes engage diverse disabled people, and enables them to meet others, have fun and build confidence, without fear of failure. Meeting access needs removes barriers to learning, allowing disabled people to participate like anyone else.

We are now recruiting a Learning Coordinator to work alongside and at the direction of our Learning Manager to develop and deliver both online and face to face learning programmes, develop new connections with disabled people in communities across Glasgow, and build relationships with community learning providers and freelance tutors to expand our learning offer.

We are seeking to appoint someone who understands the complex barriers that impact on people facing poverty and inequality. They will be passionate about supporting disadvantaged people to achieve positive outcomes.

The successful candidate will have excellent organisational skills and will be a confident and creative communicator. They will be compassionate, respectful and affirming of disabled people’s skills and talents, and committed to understanding and removing barriers to their equal participation.

The post is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund until March 2024.

GDA is seeking an experienced policy practitioner with knowledge of the Social Care landscape in Scotland and experience of using community development approaches.

The successful candidate will be a natural communicator, passionate about empowering those with lived experience of inequality to build their voices and influence policies and decisions that affect them. The Policy and Participation Coordinator will support GDA’s Social Care Expert Group to take a leading role in Social Care Policy Reform locally and nationally, and in particular within the co-design of the National Care Service (NCS).

Particular expertise in Social Care Policy, or a related area, would be beneficial, and a willingness and ability to quickly learn is essential.

The post will be directed by GDA’s CEO and will work closely with the depute CEO, as well as the Future Visions Community Navigator and Researcher to develop and coordinate the engagement, participation, policy work and communications that will achieve the project’s outcomes.

GDA is seeking an experienced, self-motivated, flexible and multi-skilled individual with a track record of supporting people using casework and advocacy/informal advocacy to contribute to delivery of ‘Future Visions for Social Care’. The successful applicant will be an excellent communicator and listener, creative problem solver and a good organiser, carrying a caseload of individuals who have social care support needs. The role involves supporting disabled people to identify and challenge the barriers they face to choice and control and providing dedicated support to connect people to services which meet their needs.

The successful candidate will deliver a flexible, holistic and person-led model of casework support. Designed by disabled people, the model recognises that removing external, disabling barriers is key to enabling disabled people to live the lives they choose, achieve their goals, fulfil their potential, and realise their rights.

The post will be directed by GDA’s CEO and will work closely with the depute CEO, as well as the wider GDA colleagues to enable flexible and holistic support that better meets disabled people’s needs – including wider GDA supports and services, e.g. GDA Wellbeing, GDA Connects, GDA Rights Now (welfare rights), GDA Learning and GDA Voices.

Location: Initially home-based; partial return to office at Templeton Business Centre envisaged; potential for in-person engagement at community venues, subject to COVID-safety protocols. Potential home visits where required to support member engagement – subject to enhanced Disclosure and GDA’s lone working policy.

Outline of the Role

GDA is seeking a self-motivated, flexible and multi-skilled individual to develop and lead GDA’s online Digital Employability coaching and support Programmes.

The main role of the Digital Employability Coordinator is to work alongside GDA staff to engage disabled people, develop digital supports and deliver accessible support to disabled people who are currently not in work and facing employment challenges. Specifically, the postholder will support disabled people to identify digital learning and support needs, develop personal action plans around digital connections including employability support and build skills for independent living and employability. The postholder will also build collaborative relationships with key external stakeholders which disabled people rely on for support to participate such as social work, learning/training providers, employability services and DWP. It will be essential to raise awareness of the needs of disabled people and share project learning to improve accessibility of services.

The successful candidate will be an experienced Employability Practitioner with a track record of supporting disadvantaged people looking for work. They will be digitally confident and skilled with the ability to deliver Digital Supports to disabled people with little or no digital skills, alongside other Project staff.

Location: Initially home-based; partial return to office at Templeton Business Centre envisaged; potential for in-person engagement at community venues, subject to COVID-safety protocols. Potential home visits where required to support member engagement – subject to enhanced Disclosure and GDA’s lone working policy.

Outline of the Role

We are looking for a confident, flexible and multi skilled individual who is proactive, collaborative and an excellent communicator. The successful candidate will join GDA at an exciting and dynamic time and alongside an experienced Senior Welfare Rights Officer to co-ordinate and deliver the welfare rights advice service to maximise income of disabled people across Glasgow.

The main role of the WRO is to work alongside GDA staff to engage disabled people, and to provide independent and accessible welfare benefits information, advice and representation over the phone, online using video platforms during COVID where beneficial to the person; and when it is safe, via face-to-face, during home visits and through outreach in the community.

The post holder will be dedicated, skilled and enthusiastic, committed to human rights, with experience of welfare benefits and advice services as well an understanding of community led approaches and issues affecting disabled people.

The successful candidate will be digitally confident and skilled with the ability to deliver Digital Supports to disabled people with little or no digital skills, alongside other Project staff.

Glasgow Disability Alliance is a disabled people led organisation with over 5000 members in the Greater Glasgow area. Our mission is to build the confidence, connections and contributions of disabled people; our vision is that disabled people can participate fully in their own lives, communities and wider society, with the support they need and choices equal to other people. Through accessible learning, coaching, events and activities, GDA connects disabled people with each other, with opportunities and with decision makers. We recognise talents and strengths and support disabled people to build on these, participate, and be leaders in their own lives. GDA has developed emergency responses during COVID and has supported disabled people to amplify their voices and priorities within recovery and renewal planning.

We are seeking an experienced policy practitioner with knowledge and understanding of the Social Care landscape in Scotland and experience of utilising community development approaches.

The Policy and Participation Coordinator will be responsible for supporting GDA’s Social Care Expert Group to take a leading role in Social Care Policy Reform locally and nationally.

This will involve coordinating accessible programmes of capacity building, producing accessible policy briefings and resources to build participants’ knowledge base; building collaborative relationships with key external stakeholders to maximise opportunities for disabled people’s lived experience to be heard.

The successful candidate will be a natural communicator, passionate about enabling those with lived experience of inequality to build their voices and influence the policies and decisions that affect them.

We are looking to appoint a confident and creative facilitator, with an understanding of the complex barriers that impact on disabled people’s lives. They will be compassionate, respectful and affirming of disabled people’s skills and talents, and committed to understanding and removing barriers to their equal participation.

Particular expertise in Social Care Policy, or a related area, would be beneficial, and a willingness and ability to quickly learn is essential. The post will be directed by GDA’s CEO and will also work closely with the Depute CEO, as well as our Community Navigator (Future Visions for Social Care) to develop and coordinate the engagement, participation, policy work and communications that will achieve the project’s outcomes.