Are you a confident individual, looking for a role which combines a love for wildlife with your engagement and communication skills? If so, then now is the time to join the Scottish Wildlife Trust as one of our Face-to-Face Membership Recruiters!

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Membership Recruiter to help grow our membership base.

No day is the same for our Membership Recruiters – you will travel around varied, exciting and unique venues throughout Scotland, within a 1 hour radius of your home base, unless otherwise arranged with your line manager. Your days will be spent managing your own membership stall, actively engaging with the public, encouraging and inspiring them to become members of the Trust.

Our membership recruiters are often the first point of contact for people who are yet to learn about our work. And so, whilst the main part of this role is to recruit new members, our recruitment team also work hard to inspire the public to become as passionate as we are about protecting Scotland’s wildlife.

Whilst experience is desirable, we are open to meeting the right fit for our team, and so this position comes with direct training, with your fuel and parking costs paid for on top of your salary and commission.

As a member of our recruitment team, you will:

• Attend venues and events as a Membership Recruiter
• Use appropriate communication and sales techniques (with no ‘hard sell’) to encourage members of the public to join the Scottish Wildlife Trust.

The successful candidate will:

• Be an engaging communicator, able to comfortably create rapport with members of the public and colleagues.
• Be well-organised with good administrative skills.
• Have some knowledge of conservation and wildlife in Scotland. Although a passion for protecting Scotland’s wildlife and nature is most important as knowledge can be increased through training and ongoing support from the trust.
• Preferably have worked in a customer-facing role such as Direct or Field Sales or Customer Service with experience of working to targets.
• Have the flexibility to work weekends.
• Be comfortable with working outdoors and independently.
• Have a full driving licence.

About us

For more than 60 years, the Scottish Wildlife Trust has worked with its members, partners and supporters in pursuit of its vision of healthy, resilient ecosystems across Scotland’s land and seas.

The Trust successfully champions the cause of wildlife through policy and campaigning work, demonstrates best practice through practical conservation and innovative partnerships, and inspires people to take positive action through its education and engagement activities. The Trust manages a network of over 100 wildlife reserves across Scotland and is a member of the UK-wide Wildlife Trusts movement.

Scotland’s leading nature conservation charity is looking to co-opt a Trustee for the position of Vice- Chair (Finance). This role includes being a Vice Chair of the Trust and Chair of our Finance & Audit Committee, a sub-committee which reports into our main Board of Trustees (“Council”) and provides vital governance oversight of financial & risk management, as well as other support functions at the Trust. The candidate is required to have extensive experience in financial management and leadership (albeit it not necessarily in the third sector) in order to reinforce its governing body’s knowledge and expertise in this vital area.

For over 60 years, the Scottish Wildlife Trust has worked with its members, partners and supporters in pursuit of its vision of healthy, resilient ecosystems across Scotland’s land and seas. The Trust successfully champions the cause of wildlife through policy and campaigning work, demonstrates best practice through practical conservation and innovative partnerships, and inspires people to take positive action through its education and engagement activities. The Trust manages a network of over 100 wildlife reserves across Scotland and is a member of the UK-wide Wildlife Trusts movement.

Nature conservation has never been more important, and this is an exceptional opportunity to join a vibrant and committed Board of Trustees, which provides the governance function for the charity.

Most members of Council are directly elected by the membership, but this will be a co-opted position.

The successful candidate will have:

• Extensive experience in financial management and leadership; additionally, experience focused on the third/charitable sector would be desirable
• Experience with investment management, so as to be able to provide oversight of our investment portfolio performance, strategy and the appointed investment managers
• Ability to think strategically and differentiate between strategy and operations
• Ability to constructively challenge fellow Trustees and senior management
• A strong personal commitment to environmental issues and the Trust’s mission and values

The post is without remuneration, but reasonable out-of-pocket expenses may be reclaimed.

If you would like to play a role in achieving the Trust’s vision of a network of healthy, resilient ecosystems across Scotland’s land and seas, we would love to hear from you.