Are you excited by the thought of working for an organisation whose mission is to change behaviour to improve our environment, the quality of people’s lives, their wellbeing, and the places that they care for? If you answered yes, please read on……

Who we are

Keep Scotland Beautiful is your charity for Scotland’s environment.

Our vision is for a clean, green, sustainable Scotland. We work with you to help combat climate change, reduce litter and waste, and protect and enhance the places we care for. We aim to change behaviour to improve our environment, the quality of people’s lives, their wellbeing, and the places that they care for.

We support the ambitions of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

What the role is

We have an ambition to create a Scotland that is litter free and has a circular economy, to build a carbon literate Scotland and help in the just transition to a Net Zero Nation.

This is an exciting new, pilot initiative; Cup Movement ® in the Highlands, that will implement a reusable cup scheme in the large-scale, remote, rural setting of the Highlands, focused on the iconic North Coast 500.

Piloting an effective, high-profile scheme across the Highlands will not only support efficiency and scalability but also help normalise and mainstream reuse on a large scale, building a critical mass to help drive uptake among both businesses and consumers.

By collaborating with North Coast 500 (NC500), we can ensure that our model is co-designed with local businesses, to serve not only local communities, but also the significant tourist population in the Highlands, thus providing a complete solution for the region.

This project is funded by Hubbub and Starbuck’s Bring it Back Fund.

What you’ll need to have

We are looking for someone with passion, knowledge, and experience to help people and organisations across Scotland take positive action to reduce their impact on the environment and to move away from reliance on single use products and items. You will have experience of developing and implementing complex environmental campaigns as well as a good understanding of climate change, circular economy and pollution issues. You will be an experienced collaborator and have experience of working with regional and national networks and partners. You will be comfortable managing a range of projects and budgets.

Ideally, you will have some experience or knowledge of the Highlands area of Scotland as well as working in and with communities. Other desirable aspects include communications and PR experience, understanding of evaluation and monitoring techniques as well experience of working with volunteers and supporters.

Does this sound like you?

If you feel you have the elements to be our next Campaigns Officer, we would love to hear from you. We have options for flexible and hybrid working, which allows you to have a mix and balance of home/remote working and coming to our wonderful, new office Hub in Stirling. We offer a fantastic benefits package in return for your talent. These include but are not limited to a generous pension scheme; hybrid working; development opportunities; a 35-hour work week along with an annual free volunteer day to take your skills or interests to support others.

To supervise and provide day to day line management, and monitor service delivery of our Money Advice Service in accordance with Edinburgh Food Project’s (EFP) vision and values. In line with EFP’s commitment to Equality and Diversity, the Manager will mentor, support and supervise team colleagues to build individual and collective skills, capacities and confidence. The outcome of this will be demonstrated by highly effective teamwork, excellent service delivery and maximised customer and client satisfaction levels. The MAS manager will both act as a role model for setting advice delivery and customer service standards and regularly, within the context of forming an efficient team, review information and service processes to identify, implement and test improvements.

Textile Conservation Foundation is a charity providing support for the Kelvin Centre for Conservation & Cultural Heritage Research based at the University of Glasgow. Principal activities include providing bursaries to students completing the two-year MPhil Textile Conservation - a prestigious and internationally recognised course attracting students from across the world. In addition, the charity provides grants to the Centre to support the development of new courses and other research projects.

The Charity Trustee and Hon Treasurer will be responsible for:

• authorising bank payments initiated by the Secretary (approx. 30 payments per annum)
• reviewing budget summary prepared by the Secretary and then discussing this at Trustee meetings.
• Oversight of investment reports prepared by Investment Managers
• scrutiny of annual financial accounts which are subject to Independent Examination by a CA Firm.
• Advising on maintenance of unrestricted reserves to ensure charity is a going concern.

Travel and subsistence expenses reimbursed.

Time Commitment – Attendance at 3 Trustee meetings per annum each lasting 2-3 hours. Other duties around 1 hour per month.

Energy Saving Trust is an independent organisation working to address the climate emergency.

Energy Saving Trust is a leading and trusted organisation, dedicated to promoting energy efficiency, low carbon transport and sustainable energy use. We aim to address the climate emergency and deliver the wider benefits of clean energy as we transition to net zero.

At Energy Saving Trust we don’t just offer jobs – we offer careers. For our people, being part of the effort to address the climate emergency makes working for us truly meaningful and rewarding.

As well as investing in our mission, we invest in our people and culture. We’re committed to creating an engaging, supportive and inclusive workplace for all and providing opportunities for development, training and growth. We also provide a range of benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme and a wellbeing allowance. Please see our careers page for more information on why Energy Saving Trust is a great place to work.

The team

• An exciting opportunity to become part of Energy Saving Trust’s customer experience team. With the customer at the heart of everything we do, we are dedicated to understanding and continuously improving all things customer experience. Leaning on the expertise of project experts and teams, we consult and support on any potential customer touchpoint improvements helping advice teams to succeed
• We collaborate closely with our internal advice teams and Home Energy Scotland (HES) subcontractors to support them to provide a world class service and meet or exceed contracted standards.

We achieve this through:

• Continuous evaluation and customer feedback analysis.
• Identifying and implementing continuous improvement areas.
• Influential coaching and feedback support.
• Ensuring quality advisor resources and training are in place to aid continuous success.
• Exploring and implementing digital engagement channels to enhance customer experience options.

The role

• Our Home Energy Scotland advisor induction programme is certified by the Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA) and provides successful advisors with a credit rated qualification. We are looking for someone who can:
• Collaboratively and continuously maintain, develop and improve the quality of this course and keep it up to date in a fast-paced environment.
• Support our inhouse team with delivery of this training.
• Complete candidate assessments, with supportive feedback.
• Lead the organisation and fulfilment of our annual audits with the Scottish Qualification Authority always ensuring successful outcomes and compliance with SQA requirements.
• Collaboratively maintain, develop and improve the quality of induction courses for various other Energy Saving Trust advice services and explore/propose similar qualification or certification opportunities.

What you’ll do

• Coordinate and own all aspects of the Home Energy Scotland induction programme ensuring all candidates and teams are supported throughout their journey and that assessment cycles and processes are compliant and meet the programme requirements.
• Provide support both virtually and, on occasions where there is a business benefit, in person, at Home Energy Scotland advice centres to develop and improve SQA induction material, training, and candidate performance.
• Work collaboratively with project teams to ensure content is accurate, useful and up to date in time for each required use.
• Work closely with Home Energy Scotland advice centre teams to support candidates to meet their qualifications within the agreed timescale.
• Assess all candidates who complete the induction programme and provide certification for successful passes.
• Provide coaching and feedback within the assessment cycle.

What you’ll bring

• Excellent communication (verbal and written) with the ability to engage and influence wider audiences.
• A passion for people development to succeed in delivering customer excellence
• A track record of developing people and processes through trend analysis, coaching style feedback, and the ability to build and maintain relationships.
• Experience in the design, delivery, and development of training materials.

This is a permanent position. Our standard weekly hours are 37.5 hours, Monday to Friday.

This will need to be a full-time role

We are open to flexible working locations (within the UK) and as standard we offer all contracts on blended (home and office-based) working.

FDT has grown out of the original aspirations of Fintry Renewable Energy Enterprise (FREE). FREE was set up in 2003 with the aim of making Fintry a carbon neutral, sustainable community. With this in mind FREE looked to engage with a local windfarm that was being planned nearby. The result was the Trust has the right to the output of a 2.5 MW turbine that is part of the Earlsburn windfarm. The electricity this turbine produces is sold to the grid and the income this produces is received by the Trust and used for energy saving projects in the village. The Trust has been running since 2007 and has had significant impact on carbon reduction within Fintry. It continues to create projects and develop opportunities to meet its aims and objectives. For further information on the work of the Trust visit fintrydt.org.uk

The Trust is currently looking to recruit an Administration Officer

• To work with the Board and staff in the delivery of key administration tasks in line with aims and objectives of the Trust
• To manage Fintry grant applications in accordance with set criteria and present successful applications to the Board
• To keep all necessary records required for the Fintry Grant Schemes
• To manage FDT fuel discount scheme

An exciting opportunity to work with us as a Senior Project Officer working alongside Dumfries & Galloway Council. Line Managed by Sustrans Partnerships Manager and task managed by Dumfries & Galloway Council. Having completed the first phase of supporting Dumfries and Galloway’s Active Travel Strategy, the role will move into a second phase which will have a stronger focus on project delivery. You will work in partnership and across departments with external organisations which is a key role to detect and progress opportunities for investment in active travel.

You will be facilitating key support in progressing and delivering of active travel policies and proposals. In doing this you will build and manage internal and external relationships with key people within the Council.

This role will require travel and work at locations as necessary to undertake projects on behalf of Sustrans. Candidates should be based within the Scotland area with regular travel expected to Dumfries & Galloway offices at Dumfries and Galloway Council, Cargen Tower, Garroch Business Park, Dumfries, DG2 8PN (at least 4 days per week) with possible flexibility to work from home a proportion of the time.

About you

You will be skilled in being able to develop concept designs for active travel infrastructure projects, working on your own and within a team. With the need to prioritise complex and varied workloads. In addition a confidence in your ability to build relationships with a wide range of people within local authority as well as through community engagement and project delivery.

You should have experience in one of the following or with similar transferable skills: transport and land use planning, urban design, sustainable transport project delivery and traffic engineering.

Within the role you will demonstrate your knowledge of active sustainable travel and use experience to develop concept designs for active travel infrastructure projects either individually or as part of a design team. Also, competent in using GIS (geographic information system) mapping.

Sustrans has a long-term commitment to being a charity for everyone - reducing inequality, valuing diversity, enabling inclusion and ensuring all people are treated with dignity and respect. We aim to be a truly inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all parts of the community, in particular from under-represented groups.

What we offer

In return we can offer true hybrid working to suit individual circumstances and a flexible, supportive and rewarding working environment.

Wellbeing

• 26 days’ leave per annum plus bank holidays for full-time working
• Ability to buy an extra week of annual leave (pro-rata for part-time staff)
• Staff volunteer days
• 24/7 free, impartial and confidential support service
• We are members of the Green Commute Initiative and Cycle Scheme who both offer cycle to work schemes

Financial

• Group Personal Pension scheme with a 4% or 5% of basic salary contribution being matched by Sustrans
• Bike, computer and season ticket loans
• Discount benefits

Family Friendly

• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Flexible Working practices (full time hours are 37.5 per week, Monday - Friday)

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture has a compelling story to tell about the transformational recovery of Scotland’s nature. It’s called rewilding.

We are a growing organisation with an exciting portfolio of nature recovery projects to deliver across Scotland, and we believe passionately in the power of storytelling to help turn the tide for nature recovery.

As Digital Communications Officer you will be at the heart of that storytelling.

We seek a rare animal: a digital communications specialist whose natural habitat is the story of rewilding. We need a social media virtuoso who can build on the growth of our online community, maximizing the reach and influence of our work. We also need you to contribute content for use across all our digital channels, and to help us optimise the impact of that content.

Please download our full job description below, or visit scotlandbigpicture.com/vacancies for more information.