Advertised from 15 July 2025

Role

About The Yard:

The Yard is an award-winning charity that runs adventure play services for disabled children, young people and their families with ambitions to support over 3000 children and young people.

We offer play, respite and family support from our adventure play centres in Edinburgh, Dundee, Fife and Glasgow. 

About the role:

We are seeking an experienced leader to head our Fundraising Team, deliver on our income generation plan and play a big part in bringing The Yard and all we can offer to more children and young people with disabilities across Scotland.

As part of the Executive Team, the Head of Fundraising will play a pivotal role in the overall strategic development and growth of The Yard, making decisions that impact the whole organisation.

Some of your key responsibilities will include:

• Initiating, developing and maintaining productive relationships with funders, donors and corporate partners along with the Fundraising Team
• Reporting to the CEO and Deputy CEO on ways to accelerate the growth of fundraising to deliver a sustainable income stream
• Ensuring Fundraising and Communications work effectively in partnership with other teams in the organisation at a time of significant growth

About you:

Our culture is central to our success and the successful applicant will need to lead and manage in line with our values. 

This job is for you if you:

• Can provide proactive leadership of a team and achieve results through others
• Have skills in budgeting, financial forecasting and managing ambitious targets 
• Enjoy working with people with a wide range of abilities and forging relationships with funders and partners
• Understand what it takes to deliver a good communications plan aligned to a organisations strategic plan
• Can manage a diverse workload while managing your own time effectively

If you are inspired by our ethos and excited to bring your knowledge and experience to a team that is highly committed to our purpose, we would love to have you on board.

Application notes

If you would like to understand more about the role and The Yard, Jenny MacDonald our Deputy CEO would be happy to have a conversation with you. Please email jenny@theyardscotland.org.uk to set up a time for a call.

You can also go to our website where you can learn more about The Yard, access the job description and download our application and equal opportunity forms.

Please send a completed application form to jobs@theyardscotland.org.uk by our closing date of Wednesday 20th August at 09:00am.

We plan to hold interviews on Tuesday 26th & Wednesday 27th August

The second stage interviews will follow on Wednesday 3rd September

The Yard aims to be an equal opportunity employer and is determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on any grounds.