Staff and Associates

Chief Executive Officer

Jackie joined Learning Link Scotland in April 2014. Jackie leads on policy, advocacy and the promotion of Learning Link Scotland with representation on national committees. Not only is she responsible for the organisation’s core activities, she has also been successful in securing and overseeing successful projects and services.
She has many years of experience working in adult education in Scotland and is a member of the CLD Standards Council. She has worked at the University of Glasgow on the Postgraduate Teaching Adult Programme and at Education Scotland as a development worker focussing on literacy, numeracy and ESOL.
She ran her own educational consultancy for ten years and worked on a wide range of projects including national initiatives, for example, she worked on the development of the Tutoring Numeracy in Adult Literacies Unit for Education Scotland and the SQA, and the Adult Literacies Professional Development Framework and the Embedding the Curriculum Framework Wheel projects for Scottish Government. 

Contact Jackie to discuss projects, national and regional events, consultancy support, and working with our learning community or membership.

Learning Link Scotland Associates
We have a group of well established Learning Link Scotland Associates who carry out a range of project work. If you are interested in becoming an Associate, please contact Jackie Howie.

Fair Work First

Learning Link Scotland are currently updating our policies to evidence the provision of appropriate channels for effective workers’ voice in line with the Scottish Government Fair Work First guidance.  

Our practice currently demonstrates that the LLS Board of Trustees and management: 
 

• Pays at least the real Living Wage to all directly employed staff, including those aged 16–17 and apprentices
• Create & maintain processes that give scope to employee voice – for example, we have staff attendance at board meetings and staff meetings with the chair 
• Have formal and informal arrangements to allow dialogue, including one-to-ones between workers and management, appraisal/feedback processes, team/organisation meetings – for example, we have staff attendance at board meetings, staff meetings with the chair, informal weekly meeting between CEO and our one member of staff, formal performance review system in place 
• Have a clear route for resolving issues at both individual and collective levels, such as through a grievance or collective disputes procedure – for example, we have a grievance procedure outlined in the staff handbook 
• The organisation promotes a strong culture of openness and transparency and encourages acceptance of different viewpoints – for example, staff attendance at board meetings, staff meetings with the chair, informal weekly meeting between CEO and member of staff 
• Workers’ experiences are used to influence organisational policy and practice – for example, staff attendance at board meetings, staff meetings with the chair, informal weekly meeting between CEO and member of staff 
• Worker representation on boards is sought and welcomed – for example, staff attendance at board meetings, staff meetings with the chair

Once updated, our policies reflecting Fair Work First criteria, including the real Living Wage and effective voice conditions, will be uploaded.

The membership form is available as a Word document. The form is very brief and won't take much time at all.