Charity registered in Scotland SC050432
Rare opportunity to shape the future of rewilding in Scotland
SCOTLAND: The Big Picture is Scotland’s leading independent rewilding charity. We have an exciting opportunity for a highly driven, competent and innovative individual, ideally with a successful background as a strategic leader in the charity sector, to put their own mark on shaping our future.
You will be a natural collaborator, communicator and team builder, and to help our people succeed you’ll provide inclusive and ambitious leadership to the organisation. You will bring a strong people focus, communication skills, and be comfortable in change management. You will lead this dynamic and important organisation in helping to deliver positive outcomes for Scotland’s natural environment.
As the successful candidate, you’ll bring prior experience of working at chief executive or senior management level in a charity or organisation delivering projects or change. You will bring an understanding and appreciation of the complex and high-level stakeholder environment in which we operate and be comfortable working with and across Scotland’s national government and non-government agencies, key landowners and land managers, and those passionate about driving environmental change. Essential to this will be highly-developed communication, presentation and relationship management skills.
You will bring a natural ability to develop effective partnerships across public, private and third sector partners, have strong experience of developing and delivering a strategic vision, and leadership of a successful team. A passion and genuine enthusiasm for the work of SCOTLAND: The Big Picture is essential and you’ll bring a strong alignment with the mission and vision of this important charity.
We are committed to building a diverse organisation, so we welcome applications from all sectors of society, regardless of ethnicity, age, gender, disability and/or religious persuasion. In return, we offer you an employee friendly organisation with flexible policies and benefits that will help you deal with the complexities of everyday life.
The role is based in Scotland, and you will be expected to travel across our nation, being visible as our ambassador and the public face of the charity. In this regard, it is essential that you are resident in Scotland. This is your opportunity is to join us and help us succeed. Because when we succeed, Scotland succeeds. It’s the challenge of a lifetime.
For more information on SCOTLAND: The Big Picture, visit: scotlandbigpicture.com
Over recent years, SCOTLAND: The Big Picture (SBP) has grown from a fledgling charity to an established and impactful organisation with an annual budget of over £1m in restricted and unrestricted funds.
Following the recent departure of our long-term Head of Fundraising, this new Fundraising Manager role will have responsibility for fundraising through trusts and foundations, major donors and individual giving, working with our Fundraising Officer.
The role will be focused on growing and diversifying our core funding, ensuring our projects are fully funded, managing the information and relationships relating to our funding, and reporting back to funders on the outcomes and impact driven by their support.
See the job description, available for download below, for the responsibilities associated with the role, as well as the experience, skills and attributes we are seeking.
Organisation profile
SCOTLAND: The Big Picture (SBP) is a charity that works to make rewilding happen across Scotland, as a solution to the growing climate and biodiversity crises, by influencing opinion and delivering practical change. Our vision is of a vast network of rewilded land and water, where wildlife flourishes and people thrive.
We are a small, friendly, agile and progressive team that works in a spirit of collaboration with many different interest groups to:
Learn more about SBP and the way we work at scotlandbigpicture.com.