Advertised from 13 June 2025

Role

The ALLIANCE is excited to be recruiting a Senior Development Officer. 

The Senior Development Officer role will identify and develop opportunities for innovation and improvement within health and social care integration. You will build capacity and facilitate stronger connections between the statutory sector, third sector and people with lived and living experience by meaningfully engaging and enabling more collaborative working and shared learning. You will promote health and social care policy, peer learning, knowledge sharing, idea generation and networking with a focus on outcomes-based activity, ensuring that people with lived and living experience are central to shaping the future of integrated health and social care in Scotland.

The successful candidate for this role should have:

• Experience of partnership working and co-production
• Excellent communication skills including report writing and delivering presentations
• Strong leadership and organisational skills 
• Ability to horizon scan to identify opportunities and risks 
• IT skills in word processing, email, internet, databases and presentations
• Experience of carrying out social research and consultation
• Experience of engaging with people in interactive and creative ways
• Experience of organising and facilitating workshops, groups and events
• Excellent networking, relationship building and information management skills
• Good time management and ability to produce to deadline
• Good understanding of data protection
• Educated to degree level or equivalent through experience

Reporting to: Programme Manager – Integration, Engagement and Lived Experience

Terms and conditions

This post is a fixed-term contract. This is a full-time role, 35 hours per week, based in Glasgow. The post holder will be required to adopt a flexible approach to working hours as travel throughout Scotland and occasional additional hours may be required. However, this will be reimbursed through the organisation’s Time off in Lieu scheme.

As an ALLIANCE employee you will benefit from:

• 210 hours annual leave (equivalent of 30 days) 
• 91 hours of public holidays (equivalent of 13 days) that can be taken flexibly 
• Additional leave between Christmas and New Year
• Contributory pension scheme
• Open to flexible working (formal and informal)
• Hybrid working – opportunity to work from home for part of the week
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Enhanced sick pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Learning and development opportunities
• Time off in lieu
• Cycle Scheme
• Carer Positive Employer

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

The ALLIANCE recognises that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. Even if you don’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our organisation feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.

Application notes

For an application pack please see our website, or contact HR at hr@alliance-scotland.org.uk.

Please submit to HR@alliance-scotland.org.uk a copy of your application form, equal opportunities monitoring form and rehabilitation of offenders form.

Closing date for applications is 9am on Friday 27 June 2025.

Interviews will be held on Wednesday 9 July 2025.

Our vision 

A Scotland where everyone has a strong voice and enjoys their right to live well with dignity and respect.

Our purpose 

The ALLIANCE works to improve the wellbeing of people and communities across Scotland. We bring together the expertise of people with lived experience, the third sector, and organisations across health and social care to inform policy, practice and service delivery. Together our voice is stronger and we use it to make meaningful change at the local and national level. 

We aim to:

• Ensure disabled people, people with long term conditions and unpaid carers voices, expertise and rights drive policy and sit at the heart of design, delivery and improvement of support and services.
• Support transformational change that works with individual and community assets, helping people to live well, supporting human rights, self management, co-production and independent living.
• Champion and support the third sector as a vital strategic and delivery partner, and foster cross-sector understanding and partnership.

For details on how your applications will be dealt with in line with GDPR please see our privacy notice.

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