We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Sustainability Officer to join our team. We are looking for a confident, personable, and adaptable professional with a passion for sustainability. We are particularly keen to hear from you if you’ve work experience in sustainability and environment sector.

You will be responsible for managing and co-ordinating the delivery of the National Galleries of Scotland Environmental Response Plan. This involves delivering the strategy for NGS, co-ordinating colleague engagement to support behaviour change and managing projects to reduce environmental impact and carbon emissions. You will also ensure compliance to Scottish Government legislation for public bodies climate change duties and biodiversity duties for annual reporting and target setting.

The National Galleries Scotland is dedicated to promoting the appreciation and understanding of art in Scotland and beyond. Its collections encompass masterpieces by renowned artists such as Rembrandt, Turner, Van Gogh, Monet, Titian, and many others.

Additionally, it hosts special exhibitions, educational programs, and community engagement initiatives to make art accessible to a wide audience.

As well as displaying art at their three Edinburgh sites, it is also shared through an active programme of partnership across Scotland, the rest of the UK and abroad, as well as online.

As the Development Manager for Patrons and Individual Giving, you'll play a pivotal role in the organisation's mission by building and nurturing relationships with dedicated individual donors and patrons. Your efforts will be instrumental in securing major gifts, corporate sponsorship, to continue supporting exhibitions, campaigns, conservation, and acquisitions. We're seeking a passionate and results-driven professional to lead our individual giving programs, craft effective presentations, strengthening relationships, and ensure that valued members feel connected and appreciated.

If you're an enthusiastic and creative individual with a background in fundraising, donor relations, or a related field, and if you're excited about the prospect of contributing to our organisation's growth while engaging with a passionate community of supporters, we encourage you to apply for this position. Join us in our mission and be a driving force behind our continued success.

Working in close collaboration with the fundraising team, your primary responsibilities will encompass achieving fundraising goals, securing major contributions from Patrons, Individual Giving sources, and corporate sponsorships. These funds will provide critical support for various aspects of the organisation, including exhibitions, educational programs, engagement initiatives, capital campaigns, conservation efforts, and art acquisitions.

If you are a dedicated professional with a passion for preserving and promoting artistic treasures, we invite you to apply and be part of our journey in safeguarding Scotland's cultural heritage.

Do you want to help us make art work for everyone? That’s our goal at the National Galleries of Scotland, and this position plays a pivotal role in that. The role holder devises and delivers a wide range of activities to inform and engage colleagues across the whole organisation. Art experience isn’t essential but great interpersonal, organisational and content creation skills are.

If you have internal communications experience and would like to work in a creative and ambitious team, we want to hear from you. You will be working across all four of our amazing Galleries based in the heart of Edinburgh.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Development Manager. By generating income through the development and delivery of Patrons and Individual Giving strategy you will help us look after Scotland’s amazing world-class art collection. Working closely with the team to deliver our fundraising objectives you will also raise major gifts from Patrons and Individual Giving sources and corporate sponsorship to support exhibitions, learning and engagement, capital campaigns, conservation, and acquisitions. You’ll already have a successful track record of securing major support in a culture or heritage organisation. You will have experience of working closely with colleagues at leadership and Trustee level to develop, embed and deliver the organisation’s fundraising strategy. You will also have a strong understanding of the fundraising sector and trends, particularly in arts, culture, and heritage.

The National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) is home to one the world’s finest collections off art, which ranges from the Middle Ages to the present day. Our spectacular buildings house the world’s greatest collection of Scottish art, and a world-renowned collection of Scottish and international photography, welcoming many visitors to our three principal sites in Edinburgh: the Scottish National Gallery, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. The National Galleries of Scotland aims to preserve, display and augment the collections for the enjoyment and education of the widest possible public and to maintain NGS as a centre of excellence.

This is an exciting period of renewal for NGS, as we move forward with our engaging strategic vision that puts our audience at the heart of what we do. We’re making it our mission to broaden our impact, matching our rich collections, expertise and creativity to the needs and wants of our visitors. We’re finding new ways to connect with more people, and creating an innovative, inclusive organisation that can meet the challenges of our ever-evolving world.

‘Art for Scotland: Inspiration for the world’ is Our Vision. Inclusive, original and ambitious – we will make the national collection accessible to all and inspire curiosity across the world.

At NGS we are committed to looking at how we operate as well as how we engage with our visitors and communities. We want to play our part in tackling the Climate Emergency. We will ensure Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is embedded across our organisation, ensuring everyone feels a sense of belonging and can be themselves.

The Art Works

The Art Works is our project to deliver a sustainable new facility for the National Galleries of Scotland to care for, research and share Scotland’s world-renowned collection of art. We will build a dynamic new facility in Granton, right at the heart of the local community, with spaces for local people and groups to meet and connect. It will be the largest building in Scotland designed to the Passivhaus environmental standard and, once open, it will operate at carbon net zero.

The Purpose and Scope of the Post

This role will ensure that NGS is responding to and working with the local community to embed The Art Works in North Edinburgh to enable it to make a positive contribution. The post holder will maintain and developing relationships with local groups and organisations. The role will enable the community voice to contribute and influence the Art Works in terms of its design and its contribution to the community. The role will be a conduit for clear and open communication between the local community, NGS colleagues and project partners. The research and insights gained through working with the community will support the wider NGS audience development planning and as such this post will have an awareness and understanding of the audience plans for NGS. The post will contribute to a community engagement plan for NGS and The Art Works.

The National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) is home to one the world’s finest collections of art, which ranges from the Middle Ages to the present day. Our spectacular buildings house the world’s greatest collection of Scottish art, and a world-renowned collection of Scottish and international photography, welcoming many visitors to our three principal sites in Edinburgh: the Scottish National Gallery, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. The National Galleries of Scotland aims to preserve, display, and augment the collections for the enjoyment and education of the widest possible public and to maintain NGS as a centre of excellence.

This is an exciting period of renewal for NGS, as we move forward with our engaging strategic vision that puts our audience at the heart of what we do. We are making it our mission to broaden our impact, matching our rich collections, expertise and creativity to the needs and wants of our visitors. We are finding new ways to connect with more people, and creating an innovative, inclusive organisation that can meet the challenges of our ever-evolving world.

‘Art for Scotland: Inspiration for the world’ is Our Vision. Inclusive, original, and ambitious – we will make the national collection accessible to all and inspire curiosity across the world.

At NGS we are committed to looking at how we operate as well as how we engage with our visitors and communities. We want to play our part in tackling the Climate Emergency. We will ensure Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) is embedded across our organisation, ensuring everyone feels a sense of belonging and can be themselves.

The Learning & Engagement Department

The NGS has a strong commitment to engaging audiences and supporting learning. We believe that art has the power to connect us to each other and to ourselves. The Learning and Engagement Department plays a key role in the NGS, supporting the delivery of our aims of increased participation, greater impact and investment in our future. By means of innovative, relevant and inspiring learning programmes and special projects, we engage with a wide range of audiences to connect with the national art collection and make art work for everyone.

The Learning and Engagement Department sits within the directorate of Public Engagement and works collaboratively across all departments.

Job Summary

This post will oversee the community engagement work of the department across programmes ensuring best practice in the approach, delivery and legacy. The post will work with colleagues to identify areas of community engagement work that have the potential for further development and growth, and will effectively articulate, plan and champion this. The post will also support, and at times lead on, specific community engagement partnerships and projects within NGS with an initial focus being the overview of The Art Works community engagement strand. This will include the line management of the programme officer and advising on strategic alignment and sustainability of the programme.

The post will be a key part of the management team within the department and will support and progress the strategic direction of the Learning & Engagement department where Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Health and Wellbeing are two key priorities. The post line-manages part of the team and will undertake management duties as required to ensure the smooth running of the department. The post reports to the Head of Learning and Engagement and will work alongside the Deputy Head of Learning and Engagement: Exhibitions & Collection.

We have an exciting opportunity within our Development Department for a highly organised and motivated individual to join the team. The function of the Development Manager (Patrons & Individual Giving) is to Manage and develop the NGS portfolio of trust and foundation prospects, identifying, cultivating and leading on approaches to solicit major support for capital campaigns, public programme and NGS projects.

It is essential to be able to demonstrate a track record of securing major support from trusts, foundations and legacy pledges and sustaining a portfolio of prospects.

The National Galleries of Scotland have an exciting programme of major capital projects in progress and the successful applicant will be heavily involved in the fundraising to support these campaigns.

NGS have a lively and diverse programme of exhibitions and activities across all our sites in Edinburgh as well as a range of national and international partnerships. The Development Manager will help drive the funding for these programmes, particularly looking for new areas of support.

Experience in IT and in particular use of databases and an informed interest in culture and visual arts would also be desirable.