Scottish Higher Education Employability Network Meeting

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Scottish Higher Education Employability Network
Meeting

• Janice Ralston
• Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations
• Telephone [phone]
• Email janice.ralston_at_scvo.org.uk

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What is the Scottish Council for Voluntary
Organisations (SCVO)?

• SCVO is a membership and representative body
  working with and for charities and voluntary
  organisations in Scotland
• Through our policy, development and communication
  networks we provide support and services to the
  sector
• Our work is structured around five main themes
• Promoting Equality
• Developing Active Communities
• Growing the social economy
• Highlighting the rural dimension
• Building sustainability

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Information about the Third Sector

• Also known as voluntary sector, charity sector,
  social economy, not-for-profit sector
• 45,000 organisations in Scotland
• Employ around 129,000 people
• Work with 1.2 million volunteers
• Annual Income of 3.2 billion
• Manages over 8.6 billion of assets
• A diverse sector

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Employability Activities

• Employment Initiatives Team
• Delivers a range of Employment Programmes
• New Deal Programme
• Progress to Work
• Link-Up
• Moray New Futures
• Provision includes training and work experience
  placements within voluntary and private sector
  accessing specialist support
• Relationships developed with Colleges

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Relationships with Universities

• Glasgow Caledonian University
• Certificate in Management for the Voluntary
  Sector
• AGCAS awareness raising event for AGCAS members
• University Careers Services presentations at
  Careers Events
• Preliminary soundings with Universities ICT
  Graduate Placements in the Voluntary Sector

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Initiatives to Promote Voluntary Sector as a
Career Choice

• Shaping Careers and Leaders Project
• Involved matching graduates to voluntary
  organisations to undertake a specific piece of
  work
• Good Moves into the Social Economy
• Online recruitment site www.goodmoves.org.uk

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Next Steps .

• Explore with yourselves opportunities for the
  development of joint areas of activity
• First Step Establish a Joint Activity
  Development Group
• Remit identify potential areas of joint
  activity and present these, within an agreed
  timescale, for consideration by the SHEEN group