Are you ready to make a splash in your career?

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), is seeking a dynamic individual to take on the role of Water Safety Development Manager for Scotland. Based in Scotland as a key player in RoSPA’s Water Safety Scotland team, you will be part of an exciting initiative aimed at saving lives and preventing accidents in Scottish waters.

Your mission:

Dive into the role and collaborate with the Leisure Safety Manager to shape and execute RoSPA’s annual water safety work program. Your expertise will be crucial in managing and steering Water Safety Scotland’s (WSS) initiatives, ensuring they align with Scotland’s Drowning Prevention Strategy.

Day to day you will:

• Navigate the administrative waters by facilitating the secretariat function for WSS and managing key projects outlined in the annual work program,
• Develop, promote and deliver RoSPA’s annual water safety programme in Scotland, in particularly the work that is grant funded,
• Dive into project management, leading and coordinating WSS's subgroup and working groups,
• Make a splash in communications, working alongside internal and external communication teams to develop WSS's communications, including an engaging social media presence,
• Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders, representing RoSPA on external bodies and water safety groups,
• Manage day-to-day functions, from handling information inquiries to updating the WSS website and assisting with communications,
• Support the smooth operation of the department, and occasionally assisting with events, courses, and seminars.

So, do you have:

• Proven experience in project management and administration,
• Excellent communication skills, with a flair for social media,
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders,
• A responsible and proactive approach to health, safety, and environmental risks,
• Data protection savvy, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and policies,
• Experience in, or empathy with, safety agendas,
• Experience within health and safety and passion for making the world a safer place.

If so, we can offer you:

• Stable and long-term employment, with a leading name in the safety sector, enjoying an unrivalled reach and reputation,
• The opportunity to join a supportive, friendly and committed team, and to contribute to a life-changing charitable mission,
• A flexible hybrid working pattern, combining homeworking with office-based days,
• salary sacrifice benefits (including pension and holiday purchase), health cash plan, GP line and 25 days’ annual leave (plus bank holidays and increasing with service).

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has been at the heart of safety and health in the UK since 1916. Since our early days improving road safety during the blackouts of the First World War, we have existed for a simple reason – to stop the needless loss and devastation caused by accidents. A registered charity, we are committed to continuing this legacy of change through a whole-life approach to the prevention of accidental deaths and serious injuries at home, at work, on the road, at leisure and in schools and colleges.

RoSPA’s Community Safety Team in Scotland plays a vital function in helping to achieve this – delivering home and water safety programmes that address some of the most pressing accident prevention needs of our time.

We are now seeking a Home Safety Officer to join this Edinburgh-based team, facilitating projects, handling enquiries and carrying out activities to ensure the effective delivery of our community safety grant-funded work programmes.

The successful candidate with be skilled in project development and implementation, conducting research and administering events, and will be comfortable giving advice and representing RoSPA in professional and public arenas. Experience in, or empathy with, safety agendas is crucial. The role will also include regular report writing and preparing data in a user-friendly way to help make the case for further investment in home safety activities. This is especially crucial in the current climate due to increases in poverty resulting in difficult decisions being made by families around choosing home safety equipment. Additionally the pandemic has resulted in the need for the re-conditioning of older people who have been unable to benefit from regular movement to help them avoid falls and the post holder will seek opportunities to rectify this.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has been at the heart of safety and health in the UK since 1916. Since our early days improving road safety during the blackouts of the First World War, we have existed for a simple reason – to stop the needless loss and devastation caused by accidents. A registered charity, we are committed to continuing this legacy of change through a whole-life approach to the prevention of accidental deaths and serious injuries at home, at work, on the road, at leisure and in schools and colleges.

RoSPA’s Community Safety and Leisure Safety Team plays a vital function in helping to achieve this in Scotland– delivering home and water safety programmes that address some of the most pressing accident prevention needs of our time.

We are now seeking a Water Safety Projects Officer to join the Edinburgh-based team on a 12-month fixed term contract, to assist with the delivery of our annual water safety work programme. In particular this will include the facilitation of the secretariat function for Water Safety Scotland as well as assisting with specialist projects in line with Scotland’s Drowning Prevention Strategy and carrying our supportive duties.

The successful candidate with be skilled in project development and implementation, have an ability to take accurate minutes, conduct research and administer events, and will be comfortable giving advice and representing RoSPA and Water Safety Scotland in professional and public arenas.