Top job! Law & Policy Manager - Scotland
- Part time
- £46,994 pro-rata
- Edinburgh - Hybrid
- Closing 16th October 2023
Amnesty International UK (AIUK) has a simple aim: an end to human rights abuses. Independent, international and influential, we campaign for justice, fairness, freedom and truth wherever they are denied. Do you want to use your skills, knowledge and experience to help change the world? You could be our new Law & Policy Manager - Scotland.
About the role
This role is central to our plans in Scotland for our next strategic period to 2030. This comes at an incredibly important time for human rights in Scotland and the UK and there will be opportunities to work with organisations and experts across Scotland to influence legislation and provide strategic legal advice within Amnesty and to external partners.
The Scotland team help us achieve our goal of ending human rights abuses in Scotland and across the world by achieving human rights compliant legislation and policy from the Scottish Parliament, Government and police, empowering activists in Scotland and shining a light on human rights abuses around the world.
The Law & Policy Manager is accountable for leading our policy development on the incorporation of international law into Scottish legislation. As part of the UK Section of Amnesty this role also ensures our UK-wide policy takes account of the strategic use of the Scottish legal system. The day to day of this role involves working with civil society organisations and legal academics to identify and deliver research and legal analysis of human rights legislation in Scotland. More details can be found by downloading the job description from our careers portal.
The role may be for you if:
- You’re skilled in translating legal knowledge into policy development.
- You can communicate technical legal detail to a variety of audiences.
- You will be qualified to degree level or above in Law with demonstrable knowledge or other qualification in Scots Law, human rights law and public law.
- You collaborate and positively contribute to an inclusive culture.
- You also have strong knowledge and interpersonal skills to allow you to develop strategic relationships with the legal profession.
Our Commitment to you
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) are at the core of our values. We want to be an organisation that tackles structural inequality and prejudice as well as be an actively anti-racist organisation. This means taking a meaningful and equitable approach to supporting and developing you and others during your time with us.
New colleagues receive 27 days leave annually (29 after five years), as well as bank holidays (pro rated for part time). 2-5% employee pension contributions are matched at 6-9% and we offer 6 months full pay for family leave. We offer flexible working such as compressed work patterns and job shares. See more details of our benefits here.
Top job! Planet Youth Strategic Delivery Manager
- Full time or Part time
- £35,000 – £45,000
- Edinburgh - Hybrid
- Closing 30th October 2023
What is planet youth?
Planet Youth is based on an approach first trialled in Iceland, where they saw spectacular results leading to Icelandic teens being labelled ‘The cleanest living teens in Europe’. It involves using surveys to take a snapshot of teenage life in a local area, and then working with the community to address the needs and issues raised in the surveys.
In 2021 we surveyed teens across 13 Scottish high schools and this year will be reaching 24 schools across 6 areas, with enhanced and strengthened local coalitions groups created to drive change.
Visit winningscotland.org/planetyouth and planetyouth.scot for more.
Overview
Following the award of significant funding by the Scottish Government, Planet Youth is being accelerated in Scotland, through a two-year pilot phase led by Winning Scotland. We are looking to take on a Strategic Delivery Manager to grow the model in Scotland by strengthening its reach in local areas and increasing its profile across the country.
Over the next 18 months, we want to support existing partners who work with the model to ensure that it is as effective as possible, and that learning about the model is spread widely.
This is an exciting role, joining at a pivotal time for the Planet Youth programme. You will be expected to manage a range of complex and sensitive relationships as well as contributing to the development and delivery of a programme of work spanning diverse local and national partners. You will bring clear leadership to this work, working closely with other Winning Scotland colleagues and reporting to the Youth Programme Director.
Supported by our Planet Youth Programme Director, you will take responsibility for the Planet Youth network management and development whilst leading programme monitoring to support reporting through the governance framework and evaluation work.
The Role
This is a unique and exciting opportunity for the right person to play a leading role in the implementation and success of Planet Youth in Scotland, an evidence-based model creating a positive change in the lives and decisions of our teenagers and young people.
We are looking for someone who is inspiring and proactive, with strong experience of working on projects and programmes delivering real change. This role calls for a self-starter and someone who can work under their own initiative to drive strong collaborative endeavour, making the most of all the skills, knowledge and experience that is available internally and externally to the programme.
To succeed, you will need to be highly collaborative, well organised and someone who can establish and build strong relationships, and team spirit, within both the immediate team in Winning Scotland and also the wider Planet Youth family. You will also be adept at problem solving, finding appropriate solutions to issues that might arise, swiftly and creatively.
You will have significant experience operating in a comparable role, with strong project management competencies and analytical aptitude. The role offers an opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of other people, providing stimulating professional interest and challenge.
You will be an ambassador for Planet Youth, and Winning Scotland, so strong influencing and negotiating skills will be essential as well as high levels of integrity. The role is not have currently anticipated to have direct line management responsibilities; however, people management competencies will be important given that the post-holder will need to develop and maintain close productive working relationships with the local leads.
Responsibilities
- Strategic responsibility for partner delivery coordination, ensuring effective operational planning and implementation of all activities required by the model, working closely with local partners across the pilot areas
- Ensure effective and efficient strategy development and implementation for local partner engagement, providing the support and challenge required to optimise the value derived from the grant funding, whilst capturing learning and driving improvement as appropriate
- Create and drive networks and knowledge exchange opportunities between all of the Planet Youth Scotland local areas, bringing in external expertise as required
- Represent the organisation at events, conferences and in the print and social media in respect of the programme.
- Plan and execute data gathering from partners on a regular basis, and driving the strategic usage of this data, processing and analysing it for progress monitoring and reporting purposes
- Provide proactive support for programme evaluation work and scoping forward developments, working with colleagues across the wider Winning Scotland team
Experience required
Essential criteria
- Excellent project planning and management competencies, adept at designing and implementing supporting processes and competent with standard business tools / software to enable efficient collaborative working and programme delivery
- Operational stakeholder engagement, building rapport and providing an effective support and challenge function
- Strategic thinking: horizon scanning and forward planning
- Analytical aptitude for data and information gathering followed by digestion into reporting outputs for a range of audiences, ensuring clarity and high attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Proactive and able to work at pace under own initiative with minimal steer, manage competing priorities in a complex landscape and deliver milestones to high standards
Desirable Criteria
- Knowledge of the Scottish delivery landscape supporting work for children and young people, and current national and local government policies that are relevant to Planet Youth (across, e.g., education, community, health, prevention)
- Understanding of relevant local and national government structures and approaches to decision making
- Data management and analytical skills
Location:Hybrid working includes 1-2 days in the Edinburgh office each week, including every Thursday
Top job! Planet Youth National Development Manager
- Full time or Part time
- £35,000 – £45,000
- Edinburgh - Hybrid
- Closing 30th October 2023
What is planet youth?
Planet Youth is based on an approach first trialled in Iceland, where they saw spectacular results leading to Icelandic teens being labelled ‘The cleanest living teens in Europe’. It involves using surveys to take a snapshot of teenage life in a local area, and then working with the community to address the needs and issues raised in the surveys.
In 2021 we surveyed teens across 13 Scottish high schools and this year will be reaching 24 schools across 6 areas, with enhanced and strengthened local coalitions groups created to drive change.
Visit winningscotland.org/planetyouth and planetyouth.scot for more.
Overview
Following the award of significant funding by the Scottish Government, Planet Youth is being accelerated in Scotland, through a two-year pilot phase led by Winning Scotland. We are looking to take on a National Development Manager to support the piloting and potential growth of the model in Scotland. In particular, the role will focus on assessing the strategic potential of Planet Youth as a model for improvement work for young people going forward. This will involve ensuring that learning about the model is spread widely, increasing the Planet Youth programme’s profile in Scotland, and stimulating dialogue across local and national stakeholders to shape future strategy around upstream prevention work.
This is an exciting role, joining at a pivotal time for the Planet Youth programme. You will be expected to develop and manage a range of complex and sensitive relationships, influencing dialogue and development work as the programme delivery work unfolds. You will bring clear leadership to this work, working closely with other Winning Scotland colleagues and reporting to the Youth Programme Director.
Supported by our Programme Director, you will focus on forwards development of strategy in relation to locally-driven upstream prevention work for children and young people, playing a significant role in shaping future Planet Youth strategy in light of learning from the programme to date.
The Role
This is a unique and exciting opportunity to play a leading role in the implementation and success of Planet Youth in Scotland, an evidence-based model creating a positive change in the lives and decisions of our teenagers and young people.
We are looking for someone who is inspiring and proactive, with strong experience of developing strategy to deliver real change, working within a broad and complex policy and delivery landscape. This role calls for a self-starter and someone who can work under their own initiative to drive strong collaborative endeavour, making the most of all the skills, knowledge and experience that is available internally and externally to the programme.
To succeed, you will need to be forward thinking and highly collaborative and someone who can establish and build strong relationships, and team spirit, within both the immediate team in Winning Scotland and also the wider Planet Youth family. You will be a strategic thinker, adept at horizon scanning and problem solving, identifying opportunities for positive change and developing strategic solutions to policy and delivery issues around young people’s health and
well-being. driving forward the outcomes sought by Winning Scotland around their resilience, confidence and empowerment.
You will have significant experience around policy and strategy development, with analytical aptitude to drive programme evaluation work and utilise findings effectively. The role offers an opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of other people, providing stimulating professional interest and challenge.
You will be an ambassador for Planet Youth, and Winning Scotland, so strong influencing and negotiating skills will be essential, along with high levels of integrity.
Responsibilities
- Responsibility for strategic stakeholder engagement around the forwards development of Planet Youth in Scotland in light of experience from the pilot programme.
- Lead on the development of wider communications activity and events to share learning and stimulate thinking around the programme, nurturing strategic-level relationships across interests including national and local government, delivery agencies, third sector organisations including those reaching young people and and parents.
- Manage analytical development work and the delivery of robust programme evaluation to inform wider thinking around next steps from the pilot.
- Develop forwards strategy in the wake of the Planet Youth pilot, including thinking around alternative options/innovations, working with existing and potential new local stakeholders to scope approaches to expanding the pilot as appropriate.
- Engage proactively with national level partners (e.g., Scottish Government, Public Health Scotland) to scope out opportunities for future developments and further innovation .
- Support fundraising activity by Winning Scotland to drive the delivery of further initiatives and projects to promote upstream prevention work for young people
Experience required
Essential criteria
- Strategic thinking: horizon scanning and forward planning
- Stakeholder engagement and political acuity
- Analytical aptitude, able to shape evaluation work and utilise findings effectively
- Project planning and management competencies, highly competent with standard business tools / software to enable efficient collaborative working
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Proactive and able to work at pace under own initiative with minimal steer, manage competing priorities in a complex landscape and deliver milestones to high standards
Desirable Criteria
- Knowledge of the Scottish delivery landscape supporting work for children and young people, and current national and local government policies that are relevant to planet Youth (across, e.g., education, community, health, prevention)
- Understanding of relevant local and national government structures and approaches to decision making
- Data management and analytical skills.
Location:Hybrid working includes 1-2 days in the Edinburgh office each week, including every Thursday
Top job! Independent Sector Lead - Dumfries & Galloway
- Full time
- £48,120
- Dumfries & Galloway - Home based
- Closing 13th October 2023
PARTNERS FOR INTEGRATION
Health and Social Care Integration
Do you have an interest in improving the quality of care, can you COLLABORATE, INNOVATE AND COMMUNICATE, and would you like to join a successful, committed and highly motivated team? This could be the opportunity you have been waiting for.
We are seeking to engage an Independent Sector Lead to support the Integration of Health and Social Care in Dumfries & Galloway. Hosted by Scottish Care and working closely with care providers and partners, the post involves supporting the integration portfolio and the associated delivery plans for Health & Social Care in Dumfries & Galloway and ensuring sector involvement in the delivery of the integrating of health and social care in Scotland’s HSCPs.
The post holder must be highly motivated, be able to use initiative, possess excellent communication and networking skills, demonstrate success and experience working at strategic level with policy makers, provider partners, regulators, people supported by services and carers. Qualifications and experience at a senior management level would be a significant advantage.
The post holder will be expected to create and support significant collaborations across the independent care sector while contributing to the development of new care pathways which will result in the delivery of improved outcomes for people who access care and support. The post holder will ensure the Independent Sector’s contribution is fundamental to integrated services and transformational change and be able to evidence their impact. The role requires considerable and skilful collaboration with our key partners in the NHS, Local Authority, Carers, third sector organisations and other forums.
Dumfries & Galloway is a progressive partnership and invests heavily in this post and the Independent Sector.
The successful candidate will be required to spend a significant amount of time in the Dumfries & Galloway area.
The post is home based with travel, where necessary, and is hosted by Scottish Care.
Join our board!
Are you interested in women’s economic equality? Can you help the Scottish Women’s Budget Group move to the next phase of its development?
SWBG is a membership organization using research, advocacy and training to build a more equal and caring economy in Scotland. We are recruiting new Board members to help set the strategic direction of SWBG and contribute to our work.
About us
SWBG brings together a wide range of women from across Scotland who have an interest in women’s equality and want to achieve better gender equality in our society. Our mission is to promote equality through gender budgeting to build a fairer and more equal Scotland.
SWBG is an inclusive organisation committed to feminist values and actions. We are committed to dismantling stereotyping and bias and to challenging personal discriminatory attitudes and structural discrimination and inequality. There is no place in a feminist organisation for racism, homophobia, transphobia, sectarianism or any other oppressive ideology.
We use campaigning, research and training to achieve our goals. We hope that by working with women, communities, statutory and voluntary agencies, trades unions and other partners – including government – we can make public spending more effective and responsive to the lives of women in Scotland.
We work in partnership with our sister organisations in the UK and devolved nations, the UK Women’s Budget Group, Northern Ireland Women’s Budget Group and Wales Women’s Budget Group.
About the Board
The SWBG Board plays a vital role – setting the strategic direction, monitoring progress, ensuring good governance, and supporting the Coordinator and staff in their work.
Since registering as a charity in 2020, we have expanded our staff team and funding, which has brought new governance challenges to our small Board. We are keen to bring in new trustees (2-3) who can strengthen our existing skillset and support us in the next stages of development. Previous experience on a Board would be an advantage, but is not essential. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, disabled, and working-class people. This is an unpaid role.
We are particularly keen to hear from people who have experience in one or more of the following areas:
• Financial management
• HR
• Data management
• Fundraising
• Charity Governance
Data Protection and Quality Officer
- Full time
- Circa £36,000
- Edinburgh – blended (home and office working)
- Closing 16th October 2023
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
The Compliance team are one of the key support services which serve as an anchor in our organisation. We lead on advice in data protection, financial conduct and maintain the organisation’s Integrated Management System (IMS); made up of the quality, environmental, energy, and information security standards.
As a team we believe in walking the walk for our organisation. We are therefore consistently reviewing and challenging ourselves to be the best we can be to support the organisation in fulfilling its ambitions to address the climate emergency. This has created a team full of engaged, passionate and super supportive team members.
If successful, you will not just be joining a team, but becoming part of our culture. With regular check in calls and weekly fun quizzes, we make sure we are there for each other in all we do and can pull together to deliver for our people.
The role
The Data Protection Officer role presents an exciting opportunity to advance your career in data protection, information security and privacy. You will provide day to day support and advice across the organisation for all matters relating to data protection, support the Compliance and Accreditation Manager and chair our Information Governance group. You will lead our Data Protection Team with one direct report and be an integral part of the IT and Compliance team.
You will play a vital role in ensuring our organisation is continuously improving its approach to data protection and providing staff with sufficient training on, and awareness of, key compliance issues.
What you’ll do
• Lead the development, review and continual improvement of policies and procedures, and monitor organisational compliance
• Lead the data protection team, managing our Data Protection Assistant
• Lead the delivery of in-house training and the development of training packages for the organisation
• Coordinate and support with responses to information requests such as Subject Access
• Use information to analyse and report on trends, identify risks, and assist business areas with risks assessment to guide their activities and target resources
• Log and investigate reports of noncompliance and support business areas to resolve them
• Play an active role in the internal audit function in conducting routine audits, and producing audit reports for senior management.
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What you’ll bring
• 2-3 years’ experience of working in a data protection role
• Data protection qualification (such as a practitioner certificate)
• An honest and trustworthy approach with strong interpersonal skills, comfortable liaising with varying levels of seniority
• Capable and comfortable with Office 365 applications
• Excellent attention to detail
• Proactive with good initiative
• Have a coaching approach to line-management
• Strong interpersonal skills, comfortable liaising with varying levels of seniority.
This is a permanent position. Our standard weekly hours are 37.5 hours, Monday to Friday. As standard we offer all contracts on blended (home and office-based) working.
We are seeking a voluntary member to join the Harbour Homes Board and Finance and Risk Committee.
We are a Registered Social Landlord providing thousands of affordable homes in and around Leith. We have award winning developments stretching from Granton to Portobello! You can find out more about Harbour online at Harbour.
If you have a background, skills or experience in Finance, Risk Management and/ or Treasury we want to hear from you!
In addition, ideally, you will also have skills, experience or an interest in one or more of the other areas below – no formal qualifications are required.
- Community Development
- Local Economic Development
- Public Health and Wellbeing
- Property / architecture
- Eco / sustainability
- Digital
- Human Resource
- Legal
In each year we have four formal Board meetings, three Finance and Risk Committee meetings plus two away days with board members of other parts of Harbour, including Harbour Lettings, Harbour Connections and Harbour multi-Trades.
As a voluntary board member you will have the opportunity to:
- play an important role in the development of a growing, ambitious and award-winning group
- put your experience, skills and knowledge to constructive use
- develop your own knowledge, experience and personal skills
- network with others with shared commitment and ideals
- contribute to the Group’s visions to make a positive impact on people’s lives in Leith and north Edinburgh by providing affordable homes and services, and creating brilliant communities.
Policy Manager (Strong Communities)
- Full time
- £33,075 – £40,426
- Edinburgh or Glasgow office with options for blended working
- Closing 4th October 2023
Scotland’s Citizens Advice Network is an essential community service that empowers people through our local bureaux and national services by providing free, confidential, and independent advice. We use people’s real-life experiences to influence policy and drive positive change. We are on the side of people in Scotland who need help, and we change lives for the better.
The Citizens Advice network is made up of 59 local Citizens Advice Bureaux, each its own independent charity, and Citizens Advice Scotland as the national charity and membership body, which includes the GB delivery of Extra Help Unit service, a group of specialist case workers supporting vulnerable energy and post consumers. We provide advice across over 200 locations and deliver 12 national advice projects for UK and Scottish Government including the Money Talks advice service and the Help to Claim Universal Support advice service.
Last year the network helped nearly 180,000 people and unlocked £147million for people through things like social security payments and employment entitlements. Our online advice received over 5.4 million page views and our awareness raising campaigns reached millions of people.
Our vision is for a Fairer Scotland where everyone has the advice and information they need to realise their rights, and that the barriers to accessing those rights are effectively challenged.
Making Change Happen at Citizens Advice Scotland
The Impact team has access to the incredible wealth of data generated through advice giving by our network of Citizens Advice Bureaux and through the Extra Help Unit at Citizens Advice Scotland, and our online advice which is accessed by over 2 million people every month.
We hold the largest dataset on social issues outside of the public sector and this allows us to understand what is happening on the ground in communities across Scotland and reflect our client’s experiences to government and to those who can make a difference. We campaign and influence to tackle the root cause of the problems people face, and to work to strengthen their rights. To achieve change we work with governments, regulators and business at a UK and Scottish level on improving areas of particular detriment, and undertake research and deliver awareness and education campaigns.
Our Network Mission
- We help people navigate systems and access their rights
- We build resilience in local communities
- We support the realisation of human rights
- We help change policies and practices to ensure they work for people
This Opportunity
As a Policy Manager (Strong Communities) you will lead and manage a team dedicated to improving the policy, processes, and practices in the areas of access to justice and telecommunications and advocate for change on behalf of citizens and consumers in order to prevent detriment.
You will be responsible for managing the work plan, developing policy positions, directing the policy outputs of team members, advocating for change, raising awareness, undertaking research, and empowering people to make informed choices.
We are looking for someone who is highly motivated, can lead with drive and enthusiasm, able to efficiently manage a work programme of activity, and play a key role in a team dedicated to making positive change to the lives of people in Scotland.
This is a great opportunity to play a critical role in helping to make society fairer, and in supporting our network of Citizens Advice Bureaux across Scotland.
You will be able to demonstrate experience of working in policy development, advocacy, public affairs, consumer policy, or regulation. While not an essential criteria understanding of the Scottish legal system or legal qualifications, and/or knowledge of current issues and developments related to access to justice in Scotland, such as reform processes and the impacts of the pandemic on the justice system in Scotland would be beneficial to this role. Likewise understanding of telecommunications policy, the free advice landscape in Scotland, or experience of working as part of a network would also be beneficial for this role.
Employee benefits
Citizens Advice Scotland offers excellent terms and conditions. We want our people to have a great work life balance and we have designed our working practices and benefits to support this. Here are some of things our employees benefit from: a 35-hour full time working week, 40 days annual leave, genuine flexibility in working hours with a flexi-time system, and blended/hybrid working opportunities for every role.
Citizens Advice Scotland is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies and flexible working arrangements to support all our staff. We are also committed to equality of opportunity for all and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
CAS provides options for blended working to allow employees to balance their time attending the office with time working from home. The number of days you will be able to work from home each week will be dependent on your job role and can be discussed as part of the recruitment process.
Development Officer - Projects
- Part time
- £26,170 – £32,517 pro-rata
- Glasgow
- Closing 18th October 2023
The ALLIANCE is excited to be recruiting for a new Development Officer to join our team.
The Development Officer - Projects role will sit within the strategic aims and outcomes of the ALLIANCE. This includes an emphasis on the voice of lived experience, person-centredness and human rights. The ALLIANCE will be working to increase the meaningful involvement and impact of people with lived experience, scale and embed successful development work and address health inequalities with a focus on those who face multiple barriers. The Development Officer role will be key to the delivery of the Scotland Reducing Gambling Harm and Living Well programmes contributing to and delivering these outcomes.
The successful candidate for this role would be expected to have:
• Excellent inclusive communication skills
• Demonstration of effective interpersonal skills including empathy, emotional intelligence and active listening
• IT skills in word processing, email, internet, databases and presentations
• Experience of carrying out social research and consultation
• Experience of engaging with people in interactive and creative ways including social media
• Understanding and commitment to: equal opportunities; non-discrimination; and the principle of people being the experts in their own lives and being at the heart of policy, support and services
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and on own initiative
• Experience of facilitation workshops and groups
As an ALLIANCE employee you will benefit from:
• 210 hours annual leave (equivalent of 30 days)
• 13 days public holiday that can be taken flexibly
• Additional leave between Christmas and New Year
• Contributory pension scheme
• Open to flexible working (formal and informal)
• Hybrid working – opportunity to work from home for part of the week
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Enhanced sick pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Learning and development opportunities
• Corporate rates for gym membership
• Time of in lieu
• Cycle Scheme
• Carer Positive Employer
The ALLIANCE is a healthy working lives employer and encourages a healthy work life balance and is happy to talk flexible working.
The ALLIANCE recognises that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. Even if you don’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our organisation feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.
Policy & Communications Officer
- Part time
- £27,825 – £30,822 pro-rata
- Hybrid working arrangements with office space in Edinburgh
- Closing 16th October 2023
Are you passionate about protecting the environment and committed to advancing environmental rights? The Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland (ERCS) is looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated person to join our advocacy team and secure concrete progress on environmental rights in Scotland.
We are facing a triple planetary crisis of climate breakdown, biodiversity loss and the increasing pollution of our air, land and water. ERCS’s vision is of a Scotland where every person’s right to live in a healthy environment is fully realised. As our Policy & Communications Officer, you will use your communications skills to help us challenge environmental injustice and change the system, through targeted advocacy for policy and law reform.
Our ideal candidate will have a proven track record in communications and advocacy or campaigning, and a good knowledge of environmental policy and law, preferably in the Scottish context. You will be an excellent communicator, with a naturally collaborative working style and will thrive in a small, creative team.
We really encourage applications from people who are Black or from minority ethnic communities, disabled people and people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. ERCS is a Disability Confident Committed employer to demonstrate our commitment to welcoming disabled applicants for all roles. We commit to making reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process so disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job. We also commit to supporting employees and making adjustments during employment.