Join the team at ETF: Development Officer vacancy

The Edinburgh Tenants Federation (ETF) has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Development Officer to join our team to support tenants across the City to work in partnership with the City of Edinburgh Council. 

Edinburgh Tenants Federation is an award-winning, charitable, voluntary organisation that works to ensure that tenants and residents are able to fully participate to shape their housing and wider services.  As a membership organisation, we represent the views of our member groups to influence change across the city.  The aim of ETF is simple – we want to change social rented housing in Edinburgh for the better. 

• Job title: Development Officer 

• Salary: £35,012 (per annum) 

• Hours: 35 per week (The post holder must be able to participate in regular evening work and occasional weekend work as some of our tenant participation work takes place in the evening) 

• Location: Norton Park, 57 Albion Road, Edinburgh EH7 5QY.  ETF embraces a hybrid working model and as such, staff are expected to work from home and office when appropriate. 

• Contract term: Permanent 

• Closing date: 12 p.m. (Midday) Monday 11th August 2025 

ETF is seeking an experienced Development Officer to build on the success of ETF to ensure tenants are at the heart of consultation and have a meaningful role in shaping the City of Edinburgh Council’s housing services.  The post will be responsible for providing development support, information, and advice to tenants and communities throughout Edinburgh to ensure they have skills and knowledge to participate fully. 

The role of Development Officer includes: 

• Developing, delivering and monitoring a project work plan in partnership with tenants, communities, and The City of Edinburgh Council to meet the agree aims, objectives, and timescales of the organisation. 

• Providing information, training and development support to ETF member groups to provide them with the skills and knowledge to participate fully. 

• Empowering and supporting individual tenants, tenant and resident groups, and the wider community to develop digital confidence. 

• Supporting the Council, tenants, and communities to develop good tenant participation and scrutiny practices. 

The ideal candidate must have experience of working with groups, knowledge of housing issues, and a commitment to tenant participation, engagement, and scrutiny. 

How to apply 

To be considered for the role of Development Officer, please read through the ETF Development Officer Recruitment Pack and fully complete the list of recruitment forms below and return to ETF at info@edinburghtenants.org.uk by 12 midday on, Monday 11th August 2025. Please insert “RECRUITMENT” in the subject line of your email. 

• Development Officer Application Form 

• Criminal Convictions Form

• Equal Opportunities Form

 

Or alternatively, you can post the completed application, Criminal Convictions and equal opportunities forms to the following address marking the envelope “RECRUITMENT”: 

Edinburgh Tenants Federation 

Norton Park 

57 Albion Road 

Edinburgh 

EH7 5QY 

If you have any questions relating to the role, or would like further information, including a hardcopy of the application form please contact the office on info@edinburghtenants.org.uk or 0131 475 2509. 

 

Hope Award

Hi everyone, my name is Robyn Kane and I’m the current Chairperson of the Moredun Multis and Maisonettes Residents Association.  During the week of 20^th June 2022, I was awarded the Hope Award from the lovely Community Champions in Morrisons, Moredun.

As the Hope Award is a community-based vote, I am deeply grateful to have been recognised for my work!  Receiving any award is an honour but this particular one means a great deal to me as it was voted on by the local Moredun community.  I have lived and volunteered in the Moredun area for a large part of my life.  Therefore to be recognised by the local people for all my work is just heart-warming and I’m absolutely flattered to receive this award.

I do hope that I can keep up the momentum that has been building to ensure Moredun is a better place for the community to live in.  This is also very personal for me as growing up in the area I watched my grandma and other residents fight to improve the lives and facilities for local people.  I want to continue this in her memory and for the people of Moredun as well.  There is a lot of very exciting work taking place in Moredun and I’m really excited to be part of it.

Robyn receiving her award from Morrisons

ETF E-Newsletter June 2022

E-Newsletter June 2022

ETF E-Newsletter October 2021

ETF E-Newsletter October 2021

Self-Reflection

It has been a great pleasure working as a placement student at Tollcross Community Action Network (TCAN).  TCAN is a community organisation working in partnership with Tollcross Foodbank in Edinburgh.  TCAN provides a wide range of services mainly centred around signposting to other organisations but also including a clothes bank, books and toys.  I am very proud to have been part of TCAN.

During the pandemic, we have had to significantly change the way we run day to day.  In the last couple of weeks, we have been able to relax our rules slightly but prior to that only one service user could come inside at a time.  The hub used to be an area where service users could come and sit down, have a coffee and a chat and get advice in a less formal setting.  It has been difficult for us to adjust to the new normal as the original setup was what made the hub so special – it was a little community where anyone could pop in for something specific or for no reason at all!

Lockdown has been a huge struggle for a lot of people whether that is for financial hardship, mental health, loneliness etc reasons.  At TCAN we have really tried to help people address these issues and in the future hope to set up a telefriending service where our volunteers will be paired with service users and keep in touch regularly.  This is one of the many ways we have had to adapt during the pandemic.

I recently had a very productive discussion with Betty Stone, Convenor of ETF.  I think that ETF has been doing an amazing job challenging the Scottish Government and campaigning to improve rights for people living in social housing.  Collaborating with ETF has been great because we are both community-based organisations and although we provide different information and services, a lot of our work is relevant to the same audience.  We are excited to see where we will go in the future!

If you wish to find out more about the work of TCAN, you can either email TCAN@gmail.com or phone 07871 258655.

Noel Joseph, Postgraduate Diploma Student in Adult Education and Community Development context Student, University of Glasgow

City of Edinburgh Council South East Community Grant Fund

The 2020/21 South East Community Grants Fund is open for applications until Monday 15^th February 2021.  The Community Grants Fund (CGF) is a small grants scheme provided by the City of Edinburgh Council.  Small grants of up to £5,000 are available to constituted groups for local community activity.  If you have any questions, would like to discuss you application or require some support please contact the relevant Lifelong Learning and Development Officer:

Southside Newington: Scott Wilkins Scott.1.Wilkins@ea.edin.sch.uk or Lucy Reddish Lucy.Reddish@ea.edin.sch.uk

Morningside: David Hewitt David.Hewitt@ea.edin.sch.uk or Hannah Bradley Hannah.1.Bradley@ea.edin.sch.uk

City Centre: Morag Grant Morag.1.Grant@ea.edin.sch.uk or Jade Mooney jade.mooney@edinburgh.gov.uk

Liberton Gilmerton: Charise Barclay Charise.Barclay@ea.edin.sch.uk or Tom Scott Tom.1.Scott@ea.edin.sch.uk