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We are Living Streets, the UK charity for everyday walking.

We want to create a nation where walking is the natural choice for every day, local journeys; free from congested roads and pollution, reducing the risk of preventable illnesses and social isolation. We want to achieve a better walking environment and to inspire people of all generations to enjoy the benefits the simple act of walking brings. Join us and together we will create a walking nation.

We are looking for an experienced project manager to join our team in Scotland. The post will oversee our core programmes focused on schools and behaviour change. The role will involve all aspects of project management from team development, planning, line management, monitoring, reporting and evaluating impact.

Maintaining strong partnerships with a range of funders is essential to maximise our impact. This will involve working with multiple local authorities, grant funders and large employers with regular travel across Scotland.

Living Streets is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk; and expects all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Applicants will be subject to background and criminal records checks as relevant to the job role.

The Landscape Institute (LI) is the royal chartered body for the landscape profession. The LI leads, regulates, and inspires the landscape sector for the benefit of people, place, and nature. We are seeking a Policy and Partnerships Manager to support our ambitions in Scotland and beyond.

The post will work with the Head of Policy and LI membership to develop policy positions, undertake research, prepare expert briefings, build our network, and ensure that the voice of landscape is heard by decision-makers. You will act as the LI’s country manager for Scotland, being the key point of contact for the sector, and working flexibly on national priorities and opportunities.

To be successful, you will need to have experience in a similar role, and be confident working relatively independently. You must have a solid understanding of political and policy processes in Scotland and excellent communication skills. Relevant knowledge of built or natural environment issues is desirable.

Further details are available in the job description

Are you passionate about the voluntary sector? Do you believe that by working collectively as a city we can tackle some of the issues contributing to poverty and inequality? Enthusiastic, tenacious, a great communicator, you must enjoy dealing with sector leaders and people with passion. Are you up for a challenge? If you like the sound of the above, then Edinburgh Voluntary Organisations’ Council (EVOC) is looking to recruit a skilled individual to a new and exciting post.

This is a dynamic new role that gives you the opportunity to co-ordinate and deliver the ambitions, messages and services of EVOC and the wider Edinburgh voluntary sector community. We anticipate appointing a highly disciplined, productive individual with excellent work management and planning skills. You will have a keen attention to detail and will flourish by engaging across all EVOC’s stakeholders in the community, voluntary and public sectors, making this job your own. Managing EVOC’s comms platforms, amplifying the voice of EVOC and the wider voluntary sector and delivering internal comms are key functions of this role.

We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic team member with the ability to establish, promote and develop community projects.

Specifically, the candidate will be responsible for Befriending Arran and Dementia Friendly Arran projects and will have previous project management/development experience.

Verbal and written communication skills are essential and applicants should also have experience of financial control and good IT skills.

Sustrans Scotland is looking for a dynamic and passionate communications manager to lead a team to make a big impact in Scotland. This is an exciting new role with a variety of responsibilities. You will lead a team to manage communications of our full portfolio of Transport Scotland funded projects.

You’ll also provide strategic communications and media support for all Sustrans Scotland’s policy and advocacy work.

You will have experience of mass and specialist communications, of developing and implementing communications plans and of the development and delivery of high-impact communications campaigns. You will demonstrate a thorough understanding of the communications environment through media, digital and marketing. With your passion for our values and the promotion of sustainable transport, you will thrive on using your experience of working with all forms of media, giving advice and support to Sustrans.

Sustrans is the charity making it easier for people to walk and cycle, by connecting people and places, creating liveable neighbourhoods, transforming the school run and delivering a happier, healthier commute. We are looking for a highly motivated, passionate individual to become a member of our team in Scotland.

This role is ideal for a passionate person who wants to tell the story of the active and sustainable travel initiatives being delivered by the Behaviour Change team using a variety of marketing channels, media outlets, social media and events, ensuring key influencing and consumer audiences hear the exciting news.

You will have demonstrable experience of working in a communications environment in either marketing, PR or similar and experience of writing / editing content for publications, press releases and website and using social media in a professional environment. With a good understanding of the communications environment including media, digital and marketing, you will lead on the commissioning of promotional photography and video content and be part of the team creating engaging and dynamic content promoting Sustrans behaviour change projects in Scotland. You will also be committed to the ideas of sustainable transport.

Sustrans is the charity making it easier for people to walk and cycle, by connecting people and places, creating liveable neighbourhoods, transforming the school run and delivering a happier, healthier commute. We are looking for a highly motivated, passionate individual to become a member of our team in Scotland.

This is an exciting role integral to the delivery of the policy and public affairs plan within Sustrans Scotland’s communications, policy and public affairs strategy the provision of specialist advice on policy areas relevant to our work in Scotland.

Using your experience of developing and implementing policy and public affairs strategies and delivery plans, you will support Sustrans public affairs work which will help influence decision makers, engaging with political parties, civic societies and other key national stakeholders. You will have experience of communicating through all forms of media and of providing specialist advice, briefings and support on relevant policy topics. You will have responded to policy consultations and have experience of developing policy positions. By monitoring contact with MSPs, you will be able to highlight gaps and opportunities and consolidate Sustrans presence at political conferences. You will have the ability to communicate complex policy positions and key research findings and develop productive working relations by effective networking. You will also have a good understanding of the policy and influencing context within which Sustrans works in Scotland and be passionate about sustainable transport.

The Board of Trustees is responsible for the overall governance and strategic direction of the Trust, developing the organisation’s goals in accordance with the Trust Deed. Because of the Trust’s wide remit, the role is a very interesting and rewarding one. As well as grant awards made throughout Scotland and close work with beneficiaries, the Trust also manages a beautiful housing estate in Perth of 277 homes with affordable rents, a woodland park and the wider agricultural estate of nearly 700 acres.

In establishing the Gannochy Trust in 1937, for charitable and public purposes, AK Bell brought benefits to Scotland which are maintained to this day. The Trust’s funds initially comprised shares in the Bell’s whisky company and were latterly spread prudently and wisely over a wide spectrum of investments, which have grown significantly over the years. In 1967, with increasing funds available, the geographic footprint of the Trust’s donations was widened, with the approval of the Court of Session, from Perth and its environs to encompass the whole of Scotland.

The Trustee role has a time commitment of around 15 days per annum due to the complexity of the Trust and the involvement of Trustees in grant applications.

In order to improve the Board’s diversity we are particularly keen to receive applications from women and under-represented age groups. We will also favourably consider those that have experience of working with beneficiaries of the charity sector. New Trustees will be enthusiastically supported with our induction process and mentoring.

A Chair and two Board Members are being sought by Scottish Ministers to join Environmental Standards Scotland. This is a new, independent public body being established to help Scotland uphold high environmental standards.

Environmental Standards Scotland will be responsible for making sure that public bodies in Scotland correctly apply environmental law, and that environmental law in Scotland is effective in protecting nature and our wellbeing.

It will be set up on a non-statutory basis from January 2021, transitioning to a statutory, fully-independent body, later in the year.

Chair - Daily rate £300

The Chair will be the first leader of Environmental Standards Scotland and will play the key role in establishing the organisation and setting the tone of its future relationship with the Scottish Parliament, public institutions and the people of Scotland.

The role requires strong strategic leadership and ability develop positive relationships and influence at very senior levels. It is likely that you will already have a reputation for leading the set-up of a new organisation or board, with a strong understanding of corporate governance needs and a track record of leading strategic investigations with objectivity.

Board Members – Daily rate £200

The two initial Board members will play a fundamental role in helping to shape the approach of Environmental Standards Scotland to its monitoring, investigation, research and enforcement roles. They will have a unique opportunity to influence the future direction of environmental governance in Scotland.

The successful candidates will bring their environmental legal knowledge and their abilities to evaluate complex sources of information and deliver sound judgments to the core work of Environmental Standards Scotland. It is likely that you will already have a reputation for your capacity to take a holistic view of strategic environmental issues, based on a strong evidence base, be adept at building positive relationships with a wide variety of stakeholder and be highly skilled at communicating complex information with impact.

For these role, whatever your background, you will bring integrity; objectivity; sound judgment and openness. You will also demonstrate the flexibility needed to support a new organisation, contributing to its development into a trusted and highly effective new governance body for Scotland.