Advertised from 8 May 2026

Role

About Aberlour

Aberlour is Scotland’s leading children’s charity and has been recognised as a Top 100 best places to work winner by the Sunday Times for the last two years.

Our strategy is to be bold and brave, to ensure that every child in Scotland has an equal chance. As an organisation we are ambitious to deliver real and lasting change for children, young people and families.  

Ensuring effective records management and digital information handling is critical for business operations, delivering services to those we currently support and maintaining the legacy information we store for those children, young people and families who will want to understand their life story with Aberlour.

What we are looking for

Using your extensive professional knowledge and experience of implementing records management strategies, policies and practices you will oversee a variety of activities. These include the management of Aberlour’s corporate digital records, work with services to manage legacy records, as well as designing training and guidance to enhance understanding of good recordkeeping principles. The focus will be to work collaboratively to embed practical, scalable information management frameworks, standards and procedures into the organisation.

You will ensure compliance, advise on day-to-day management of high-quality information assets, and support the handling of data subject access requests. You will champion best practice in data quality, data protection, records management’ and information lifecycle management. Translate legislation and regulatory requirements into workable solutions within our digital infrastructure.

You will hold a relevant professional qualification at SCQF level 9 or above and have knowledge of relevant legislation and digital records management including metadata schema.

At Aberlour we want to make sure every child and young person has the love, support and opportunity they need to reach their potential. If you share the same vision, we want you to join our team. To have a look at our values to understand more about what we are looking for from our employees click here.

What we offer

As well as a supportive team, we want all our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, an excellent employer pension scheme, life assurance worth 3x salary and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers.  Find out more about our Employee Benefits and our commitment to Equality and Diversity here.

We also follow Data Protection Guidelines - Here is our privacy policy.

Application notes

Visit our website to find out more and apply

If you have any queries, please e-mail: jobs@aberlour.org.uk Applications are welcome from diverse ethnic minority and cultural communities and under-represented faith and religious groups.

Aberlour is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our service users and uses a thorough and rigorous recruitment and selection process including PVG Scheme checks to ensure this commitment is not compromised.

Applications to be returned by midnight 28****th May 2026

Interviews expected to be held Monday 8****th June 2026 in Stirling