Advertised from 10 August 2026

Role

About Us:

Duncan Place Community Hub is a social enterprise and registered charity based at 4 Duncan Place, EH6 8HW, a 3-storey listed building next to Leith Links providing:

• By the hour hire rooms for events, training and meetings.
• Leased office space for local charities and social enterprises.
• A base for Duncan Place Community Hub’s own programme of community activities.

The hub is home to a diverse range of organisations and has a growing programme of activities and events. The organisation is managed by a dedicated team of staff and a volunteer board of trustees.

4 Duncan Place was built in 1920 as an annexe to Leith Academy and then became a council run community resource centre. Due to austerity budgets the council closed the building in Sept 2014 and proposed demolition. A group of locals established the Duncan Place charity and carried out significant fundraising. This led to a major refurbishment and a community asset transfer meaning that the charity now owns and manage the building. The hub re-opened in 2020 and has grown significantly with the charity generating income from leases and room hire.

Overview of Role:

Duncan Place Community Hub are now seeking a Community Host to join our small team of staff. This is a varied role where you will help to keep everything running smoothly in this busy hub. As part of the team, you will ensure our four by the hour rooms are set up and ready for our customers, welcome them upon arrival and ensure they reach the correct location within the building.

Between room bookings, you will support the building and facilities coordinator to keep our building running smoothly, safely and presented to a high standard; this includes room set up & take down, reception duties, contributing to our health and safety processes and procedures and responding to smaller maintenance tasks as needed, e.g. putting up shelves, updating signage, occasionally painting walls & woodwork.

We are looking for someone who takes pride in giving a warm welcome and great service, and who understands that this includes the standards of the building as well as the in-person aspects; someone who will work with the team and can use their initiative to plan ahead and be proactive in getting tasks completed to a high standard and with as little inconvenience to our customers as possible.

We have a wonderful and diverse community of building users and universal acceptance and respect is essential. You are expected to have a degree of flexibility and work with the rest of the team to ensure that all planned and reactive maintenance takes place with the minimum of disruption to tenants and room hirers. Shifts are rota’d in advance, and the weekly hours will include at least one evening per week, at least one weekend day per month and other weekday daytime hours.

As tasks are based in Duncan Place Community Hub, hybrid hours are not possible.

Application notes

Please see the Application Form for further details on how to apply.

Closing date: 8am Mon 31st August.

Interview date TBC, likely to be 9th / 10th September.

If a large number of quality applications are received, we reserve the right to close early, so please don’t delay in applying.

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