Vacancies
Volunteer Coordinator
21 hours per week
About FOSS: Friends of Scottish Settlers (FOSS – SC050254) envisions a Falkirk District that is multicultural, multilingual, and welcoming, where local people, organisations, and services are equipped, supported, and willing to cultivate wellbeing, solidarity, community, curiosity, and respect among newcomers and longtime residents. Through befriending and other voluntary activities, FOSS enables newcomers to Falkirk District to build links and bridges with other locals, shaping and making use of the knowledge, networks and services we all need to live full, self-determined lives.
FOSS builds fruitful relationships through a culture of integrity, respect, solidarity, empowerment, and welcome. We began as an informal befriending project for resettled Syrian families in 2016, and, primarily through a befriending model, now engage a range of newcomers to Falkirk District including refugees and people in the asylum system. With partnership working, targeted activities and programmes, fundraising, advocacy, and good information, FOSS enables local volunteers and newcomers to strengthen and proliferate support networks within our communities. This also helps us to act constructively together in response to rapidly changing world events and policy that impact our lives.
About the role:
Purpose of the post: Experienced Volunteer Coordinator to train, support and grow FOSS’s Volunteer base, as well as coordinate and help produce procedures and resources necessary
for Volunteer and Client safety and care. The Volunteer Coordinator will work closely with other FOSS Staff to establish and monitor Befriending relationships; manage crisis situations and mitigate risk; oversee non-Befriending Volunteer roles like Material Needs delivery; as well as coordinate and maintain oversight of Volunteer-led activities and Volunteer support of asylum-seeking Clients accommodated in Falkirk’s asylum contingency accommodation. Please see Main Responsibilities and Person Specification for further details.
Application Notes: An application pack is available for download below.
The deadline for applying for this post is 5pm 16 March 2026. Any applications received after
this time will not be considered. Please note, CVs are not accepted.
Interviews will take place in Falkirk the week commencing 30 March 2026.
This role is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund
Trustee
We are seeking to appoint up to three additional Trustees. This is an exciting opportunity for people, with or without experience as Trustees, who are interested in a challenge and would like to help us to drive forward the many initiatives in our important work, making Falkirk a welcoming haven for newcomers. We are intent on building real diversity of background, interests and experience in the makeup of our Board of Trustees.
FOSS is a volunteer organisation, focussing on holistic support through providing material needs, befriending and other volunteer activities to a diverse community of newcomers of many nationalities and with wide ranging needs. The majority of our present work is in befriending refugees from Syria, Ukraine, Afghanistan and Hong Kong and in supporting people seeking asylum who are accommodated in Falkirk by the Home Office.
FOSS has grown rapidly and is a dynamic organisation. Those who depend on our support are often in very difficult circumstances. People who have been placed in Falkirk face additional challenges because our town does not have an established infrastructure of refugee charities. FOSS is the only local charity solely dedicated to refugee support.
The delivery of our services is provided by an excellent team of three part time staff and some thirty dedicated, registered volunteers
Our Trustees are volunteers and are expected to serve three years. They need to be committed people who, as Board Members, will be responsible for the governance of the charity, ensuring that we achieve our objectives by the proper use of the grants and donations on which we depend and who will help to drive forward our various initiatives.
Meetings are held (usually in person) every two months on a Monday evening in Falkirk. Where appropriate, Trustees can join online. Reasonable travel expenses are reimbursable.
More information is available on our website at https://fossfalkirk.org.uk/. This includes our founding documents; our Chair’s annual report and our accounts.
Application notes
If you would like to join our Board of Trustees or if you would simply like to have a chat about it, please contact treasurer@fossfalkirk.org.uk
Applications should be submitted to treasurer@fossfalkirk.org.uk