Advertised from 5 August 2025

Role

The ALLIANCE is excited to be recruiting a Gambling Harm Development Officer.

As a crucial member of the Scotland Reducing Gambling Harm programme, the Gambilng Harm Development Officer will support our work to tackle gambling harm in Scotland, by advocating for a public health approach and putting the voices of people with lived experience of gambling harm at the heart of action to reduce and prevent those harms.

We’re looking for a person who is passionate about promoting equality, inclusion, and working towards a Scotland where everyone can live free from gambling harm. An individual who recognises the power of bringing people together, and who can use their skills and experience to support our work to create spaces where people come together to share ideas, learn from one another and cocreate effective actions for change.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone to use their engagement, relationship building, communication and administrative skills to directly inform and influence action to prevent, reduce and tackle gambling harm in Scotland.

Terms and conditions

This is a full time and part time role of 35 hours and 17.5 hours a week, and 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 will be required. However, this will be reimbursed through the organisation’s Time off in Lieu scheme.

The successful candidate for this role should have:

• Experience of engaging with people in interactive and creative ways
• Excellent relationship building and interpersonal skills
• Understanding of the effect gambling harm, commercial determinants of health and social issues have on people’s lives
• Enthusiastic approach to involving, supporting and responding to stakeholders
• Excellent inclusive communication skills, particularly written skills 
• Demonstration of effective interpersonal skills including empathy, emotional intelligence and active listening
• Understanding and commitment to: equal opportunities; non-discrimination; and the principle of people being the experts in their own lives and being at the heart of policy, support and services
• Good understanding of the Scottish gambling harm policy landscape 
• Excellent IT skills
• Experience of using social media as an engagement tool
• Experience of carrying out social research and consultation
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team
• Ability to work autonomously
• Confidence in preparing and delivering presentations
• Understanding of the health and social care sector and third sector and where the ALLIANCE sits within it.

Desirable

• Educated to degree level or equivalent through experience
• Lived experience of gambling harm, including as an affected other 
• Good understanding of social policy and politics in Scotland 

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 pro rata) 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. 

We recognise everyone is different and provide an environment where differences are valued and everyone is encouraged to be the best version of themselves. We recognise 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.  

Any questions regarding the role may be directed to Georgina Charlton by emailing georgina.charlton@alliance-scotland.org.uk

Application notes

For an application pack please see our website at https://www.alliance-scotland.org.uk/blog/jobs/gambling-harm-development-officer/, 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 12 noon on Tuesday 19 August 2025.

Interviews will be held on Monday 1 September 2025 and Tuesday 2 September 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.

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