We are seeking two new directors to fill vacancies in our Board of Directors. We are particularly looking for applications from individuals with expertise or experience in finance, charity governance, public relations / communications and fundraising. Previous experience of working in the ecology or the wider biodiversity network, including as a service user of Local Environmental Records Centre (LERC) data, would be desirable.

The Wildlife Information Centre (TWIC) is an environmental charity with an established reputation for excellence in the provision of biodiversity data within south-east and part of central Scotland. With 3.6 FTE staff plus volunteers, TWIC currently holds 4.57 million species records as well as extensive habitats and designated sites information. Our programme of events supports new and existing recorders and stimulates interest in biological recording amongst the wider public.

As a Director and Charity Trustee you will be able to contribute to the success and future development of the organisation and help ensure TWIC meets its legal and charitable obligations.

Award-winning animal charity, Pet Blood Bank UK, is recruiting for the position of Assistant Marketing Manager. You will play a key role in supporting the Marketing Manager and team to deliver the charity’s marketing and fundraising strategies, ensuring we continue to grow, raise awareness, and build our community. A strong understanding of marketing with a creative and proactive approach is essential for this position.

Background

Launched in 2007, Pet Blood Bank UK is the only charity that provides a blood bank service for all vets across the UK. As part of our charitable remit, our aim is to advance animal health and welfare and to relieve suffering by providing quick and convenient access to blood. Every unit of blood helps save up to four other lives, saving thousands of lives every year.

Our Values

Caring. Pioneering. Real. These are the values Pet Blood Bank UK is built upon. Our values bind us together as a charity and guide everything we do. We expect every team member to know, understand and embody our values, helping to build our reputation as a pioneering, caring and practical charity. Read more about our values.

What you’ll do

• Work closely with the Marketing Manager to deliver the marketing strategy for the year in line with the overall strategy for the charity
• Take responsibility for defined projects within the marketing plan, delivering against agreed goals and objectives.
• As a custodian of our brand, you will ensure everything we do is in alignment with our brand identity and values
• Contribute to the creation and delivery of marketing campaigns to raise awareness and grow the charity
• Support the marketing team to thrive within their roles, ensuring they have the tools needed to deliver their work, as well as reviewing and approving any materials and communications they produce
• Support the marketing team and Senior Management Team in the absence of the Marketing Manager
• Work closely with the Marketing Manager and marketing team to deliver the fundraising strategy for the year
• Work with the team to deliver the events strategy for the year, including attending events across the year
• Support the delivery of our customer and volunteer strategies
• Oversee KPIs for the department and produce regular performance reports
• Take part in a rota to monitor social media channels across the weekend

What we need

We’re looking for someone creative who has a good all round understanding of marketing. This is a varied role with the opportunity to get involved in many different aspects of marketing. Good organisational skills, excellent copywriting, and a strong attention to detail are essential.

We’re looking for someone who has:

• A marketing or business qualification, or equivalent experience
• Minimum three years of experience in a marketing role
• A passionate, proactive, and creative approach
• A high level of personal motivation and passion for the cause
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including presentation or media skills
• The ability to work under pressure with competing priorities
• A passion for supporting and helping to grow a team

What’s in it for you

In return, we offer full training, competitive salary with pay progression, contributory pension scheme, lifestyle rewards, and 30 days annual holidays (pro rata, including bank holidays).

Further details

This is a permanent part-time role based in our Dunfermline office, working 24 hours per week, ideally 6 hours per day across 4 days. Hours can be discussed at interview.

This role involves taking part in a 1 in 3 rota to monitor our social media channels over the weekend, which we expect takes no more than one hour across the two days. If you are on duty, you will finish one hour earlier on your last working day of the week before.

Occasional travel will be involved to attend donation sessions, events, our Loughborough office, and other marketing related activities that could take place across the UK.

Would you like to become an enthusiastic Membership Recruiter for Scotland’s leading nature conservation charity?

This role is critical for wildlife. We rely upon the support of members to enable our work; from major species and landscape restoration projects, to managing our network of wildlife reserves across the country.

As a Membership Recruiter, you’ll attend a range of private-site and public events, representing the Scottish Wildlife Trust and connecting with a wide and varied audience. As the face of the Trust at large-scale shows, highland games, fairs, markets, garden centres and more, you will create meaningful conversations about wildlife and why protecting it matters.

Using your excellent communication skills and passion for nature, you’ll share the Trust’s work and inspire people to take action for wildlife by becoming members of the Scottish Wildlife Trust.

This is a varied and rewarding role that combines public engagement and target-driven performance. No two days are the same. Working independently, you will manage your own membership stand and represent the Trust with professionalism and confidence. You'll be adaptable, reliable and happy working outdoors, often as the sole representative at events.

If you are a resilient, self-motivated individual who enjoys meeting new people and thrives on making the most of an engagement opportunity to secure new members, we’d love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Meet or exceed membership recruitment sales targets.
• Travel independently, often in rental vehicles, to events and venues across your designated region. (All events are booked by our internal Venue Coordinator.)
• Be responsible for the safe storage, transportation, set up and dismantling of your own equipment, including promotional stands and marquees.
• Represent the Trust positively: engage and build rapport with a diverse range of members of the public in a warm, friendly, and professional manner.

Essential requirements:

• Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Hold Customer Service and/or public facing work experience.
• Confident engaging with members of the public in a variety of settings.
• Warm, friendly, enthusiastic and outgoing personality.
• Ability to work independently and manage time effectively.
• An interest in wildlife and conservation in Scotland.
• Comfortable working outdoors in a variety of weather conditionsResilient and self-motivated to reach targets.
• Flexibility to work weekends on a regular basis.
• Full UK Driving licence.

Practical requirements:

• Comfortable driving a hire car or small van.
• Physically capable of lifting and transporting equipment weighing up to 30kg.
• Able to store event equipment at home, including folded marquees and display materials.

Join us to help shape a nature-positive, carbon-negative and thriving future for people and nature in Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park. As the National Park Authority, we are focused on leading bold, collaborative action with a range of partners to tackle the twin crises of climate change and nature loss and create a thriving, welcoming place for all.

The Role:

Are you a strategic, creative digital communicator looking for a way to use your skills to deliver meaningful work? At Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park Authority, we’re seeking an experienced Digital Communications Manager to provide maternity cover on a 15-month fixed term contract. The successful candidate will lead the transformation of our digital presence, bringing the diverse work the organisation is involved in to life, inspiring diverse audiences with our mission to become a nature-positive, carbon-negative, thriving National Park.

This is a unique opportunity to shape and deliver high-impact digital content strategies, oversee major projects like the testing and launch of our new website and its ongoing development, and drive user-focused content that inspires action and engagement for people and planet. Working at the heart of a creative team within an ambitious organisation, you’ll collaborate with passionate colleagues and stakeholders, using your skills in applying digital-first thinking, user insight and accessibility best practice.

If you’ve got digital expertise, whether from client-side or digital agency roles, and are looking to use that expertise in a role with real purpose, this is your chance to lead change that matters.

Responsibilities:

· Oversee the delivery and ongoing development of a new, accessible National Park Authority website, managing external suppliers, leading an internal project team using Agile methodologies and ensuring a user-centred approach throughout.

· Overseeing the creation and delivery of content outputs for digital channels that are high quality, consistent in brand and tone of voice

and adhere to best practice guidelines on content design, accessibility and usability.

• Embedding and continually improving a content governance framework to enable content owners / writers in other internal teams to deliver accessible and engaging content for our new website.

· Ensure ongoing evaluation of the effectiveness of digital communications activity, ensuring goals and metrics are set for each owned channel and individual campaigns.

· Work with the Media and Campaigns Manager to develop and deliver integrated campaigns and ‘always on’ communications activity that supports National Park priorities and meets user needs.

· Collaborate with teams across the organisation and external partners and stakeholders to mine for ‘good stories’ and content opportunities that support the team and organisation’s wider strategic objectives.

· Co-develop internal communications outputs, reviewing existing tools to ensure that our staff and our Board Members are kept up to date with the broad spectrum of work that the National Park Authority is involved in.

· In tandem with the Media and Campaigns manager and wider team, contribute to the delivery of the National Park Partnership Plan, Corporate Plan and engagement on other strategic work, supporting as required with the engagement of audiences.

· Embed best practice in digital engagement and accessibility within the team and across the organisation, using insight on the latest industry developments and learning from evaluating our work.

· Provide advice and support where required to other Operational Managers and our Executive team on digital projects, development of policies and strategies which have a digital focus.

· Manage budgets for digital projects and content creation and when required, lead on targeted digital and social media campaigns, both organic and paid-for.

· This role involves some line management responsibility and active contribution to the ongoing development of the team and its work.

· Undertake any other duties appropriate to the grade as required.

Who we are looking for:

Your skills, abilities and experience should include:

· Experience of delivering digital projects including website design and delivery.

· Experience of planning and delivering strategic digital communications campaigns, ensuring integration and alignment with offline communications and engagement work.

· Experience of applying user insight to develop communications strategies and evaluating effectiveness using the appropriate tools.

· Experience of motivating and leading team members in a busy, fast-paced environment.

· Demonstrable experience successfully managing a variety of projects including those involving multiple digital suppliers/specialists.

· Understanding of content design principles

· Proficient in managing and updating Content Management Systems, alongside experience providing clear guidance and training to others on effective system use.

· Understanding of user-centred design principles.

· Articulate with excellent interpersonal and influencing skills.

· Proactive self-starter with initiative to use feedback and insight to continually improve work.

· Degree in digital, communications or a related discipline; or equivalent level of management experience within a digital communications role.

· Hands-on experience creating and optimising paid and organic digital campaigns, combined with proficient GA4 analytical skills and the ability to articulate digital metric/event tracking requirements to agency partners.

Ideally, but not essentially, you’ll also have:

• Experience of applying service design principles.

• Experience of applying and raising wider awareness of the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2/2.2AA.

• Experience in client-side digital role(s)

• Understanding of issues relating to Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park and its audiences