About us

Our vision is to save every one. It may take us a long time to get there, but drowning is preventable, and we believe that even one drowning is one too many. We are all lifesavers. We are all fundraisers. This is our watch.

We’re looking for the best of the best to be part of our RNLI engagement crew. This is an exciting new role for a strategic thinker and creative doer who will support volunteers, create memorable experiences and deliver campaigns that can really make a difference.

Your role

As Marketing and Visitor Experience Lead you will be audience focussed, ensuring our supporters, donors, volunteers and the general public have a great experience and join us, stay with us, advocate for us and feel part of the RNLI family.

What you’ll be doing in the role:

• Although based in Scotland, the role is expected to spend around 50% of its time delivering Scotland-specific activities, with the remaining 50% supporting wider Marketing & Visitor Experience Lead activities across the UK and Ireland, responding to business needs and priorities.

• Getting to know our audiences and ensuring that RNLI campaigns and experiences are relevant and supporter-centric

• Working with staff and volunteers to develop and deliver national, regional and local campaigns and experiences against income, engagement and behaviour change KPIs

• Working with staff and volunteers to design and develop inspiring and engaging visitor journeys and experiences within our lifeboat stations, museums and visitor centres

• Supporting and feeding into the development of the regional engagement plan. Being an active member of the regional engagement team in the Scotland, demonstrating the highest levels of collaborative working and collective responsibility

• Coaching, training and developing our team of Community Managers to deliver against marketing and visitor experience objectives, using your experience to improve their knowledge and skills

• Supporting volunteer recruitment, management and training of Lifeboat Visits Teams, Community Presenters and Campaign Ambassadors

About you

You’ll have a strong background in either a marketing or visitor experience development role; you’ll get to know your audiences, whether they are supporters, volunteers or supporters of the future and keep them front of mind when developing content across both physical experiences and campaigns.

Your energy and creative approach will motivate you to achieve targets and overcome barriers. You’ll be flexible and willing to travel to achieve results and work across the wider engagement team.

To be considered as the Marketing and Visitor Experience Lead, you will need:

• Significant achievements in engaging supporters, volunteers or the public in order to generate funds, increase engagement or change behaviour

• A proven track record in the areas of marketing campaign and/or visitor experience

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including experience of audience insights, brand relevancy and targeted content creation

• People leadership skills, including high levels of emotional intelligence and problem-solving skills

• Experience of influencing at all levels and working collaboratively with others to lead and embed change and improvements

This role combines home-based working with a significant level of travel across Scotland and to other RNLI locations throughout the UK and Ireland, and occasional travel to our RNLI Support Centre in Poole.

This post requires a valid driving licence.

The Minister for Public Finance is seeking to appoint one new Member to the Board of Revenue Scotland.

Appointment of Member to the Board of Revenue Scotland

OVERVIEW

Since 2015, Revenue Scotland has been responsible for collecting almost £9 billion from two devolved taxes, Land and Buildings Transaction Tax and Scottish Landfill Tax. Scottish Aggregates Tax came into effect on 1 April 2026 and we will add two additional taxes to this portfolio in the near future: Air Departure Tax (ADT) and the Scottish Building Safety Levy (SBSL). Revenue Scotland currently has just over 100 staff and a senior leadership team of five led by the Chief Executive.

The Board of Revenue Scotland is currently made up of one Chairperson and six Board Members. The Chair and all other Board members are non-executives. The Board is collectively responsible for the leadership and direction of Revenue Scotland, for ensuring that the organisation carries out its statutory functions effectively and efficiently, and for ensuring that it achieves the aims and objectives agreed between Revenue Scotland and the Scottish Ministers, as recorded in the Revenue Scotland Corporate Plan.

To enable the Board to deal with more subject-specific matters it has formed two subcommittees, the Audit and Risk Committee (ARC) and the Staffing and Equalities Committee (SEC). The terms of reference for these committees can be found within the Board Standing Orders on our website.

All Board Members must adhere to the Revenue Scotland Code of Conduct.

THE ROLE OF A BOARD MEMBER

As a Board Members at Revenue Scotland you will play a key role in the running of the organisation. The role of a Board Member is to work with the other Board Members to fulfil the responsibilities for the Board, which are:

· Have collective responsibility for the actions and decisions of Revenue Scotland;

· Set strategic direction to deliver the functions of Revenue Scotland;

· Ensure effective governance of the organisation;

· Ensure that Revenue Scotland meets staff management responsibilities;

Provide leadership and promote effectiveness, efficiency, economy and equality throughout Revenue Scotland; and

Protect and enhance public confidence in Revenue Scotland and in the services that it provides to key stakeholders, taxpayers and their agents.

To find out more about the role, please register on any of the following webinars where you will have an opportunity to ask questions:

· Tuesday 22 September 2026: 5.30 pm – 6.30 pm hosted by Changing the Chemistry (CtC) where you will hear from our Chief Executive and Chair of the Board. This is a public event open to all. You do not need to be a CtC member to attend. Please click here to register;

· Monday 28 September 2026: 5.30 pm – 6.30 pm where you will have an opportunity to hear from our Board Members and the Senior Leadership team. Please click here to register.

Further information

You can join a webinar to hear directly from Revenue Scotland officials or you can contact Johanna Boyd, Chief Executive of Revenue Scotland to discuss the role: ChiefExecutive@Revenue.Scot

REMUNERATION AND TIME COMMITMENT

Remuneration for this post will be £333.52 per day (reviewed annually) for every 7.5 hours. This includes meeting preparation and time devoted to performing your functions on a pro rata basis. Remuneration is non-pensionable and reasonable expenses will be reimbursed.

The time commitment is 36 days per year to performing your functions as and when required. This time will be a mix of daytime Board and Committee meeting, fortnightly Board conference call and reading documents to prepare for meetings. You may need to attend additional meetings exceptionally subject to the Board’s ongoing business need.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Applicants must meet all the Priority and Essential Criteria.

Priority Criterion

1. Organisational Development and Change

Essential Criteria

1. Strategic Thinking

2. Analytical and Decision-making skills

3. Governance and Risk Management

4. Engagement, collaboration and constructive challenge

The following criterion is desirable.

Desirable Criteria

1. Strategic HR background

2. Data and Digital Technology

Since 1996, Foundation Scotland has distributed significant funding to charities and community groups across the country, creating happier, fairer and more sustainable communities. We support philanthropists to help their personal giving make the most difference, work with donors to invest in community action, and work alongside communities to ensure that local funds are distributed by communities themselves. We also offer social investment opportunities to enable social enterprises, community organisations and charities to grow and deliver positive social impact. For a quick introduction to how we make a difference, watch our animation.

Foundation Scotland is looking for an interim Grants Assessor to join us on a six month fixed term contract. In this role, you’ll review grant applications from charities and community organisations, explore the evidence behind each proposal and assess whether projects are well planned, financially sound and capable of creating meaningful impact.

You’ll balance careful analysis with clear communication, spend time examining budgets, governance and safeguarding information, speaking with applicants where further detail is needed, and producing concise assessment reports. Your evidence based recommendations will help ensure funding decisions are fair, consistent and focused on the needs of communities.

About the role

• Assessing grant applications consistently and proportionately, considering organisational strength, community need, project design and potential impact.
• Review budgets, governance, safeguarding and other due diligence information.
• Write clear assessment reports and make well-reasoned funding recommendations.
• Communicate professionally with applicants to clarify information and manage assessments to agreed timescales.

What you’ll bring

• Experience assessing funding applications, grants or similar decision-making processes.
• Strong analytical skills and confidence reviewing budgets and financial information.
• Excellent written communication, sound judgement and close attention to detail.
• An understanding of Scotland’s voluntary and community sector and the ability to build positive stakeholder relationships.

More information about the role can be found in the Grants Assessor Role.pdf profile.

If you are motivated by purposeful work and enjoy turning complex information into balanced decisions, we’d love to hear from you.

Please note, this is a six-month fixed-term contract position.

We can be flexible on hours and working pattern so please speak to us about what might suit you best.

Bumblebees are in crisis — and we need expert voices to help secure their future. The Bumblebee Conservation Trust is looking for a Conservation & Science Trustee to join our Board and help guide the science-led action needed to halt and reverse bumblebee decline. If you have knowledge and experience of UK landscape-scale, evidence-based conservation and/or UK environmental policy advocacy, your expertise could make a lasting difference for bumblebees, pollinators, people and nature.

As a science-led conservation charity, the Trust works to protect bumblebees by turning evidence into practical action. This is a rewarding opportunity to bring strategic insight, challenge and support to a mission that matters. We are proud of our inclusive culture and warmly welcome applications from people who are new to trusteeship, as well as those with previous Board experience.

If you can bring expertise in any of the following: entomology, ecology, the practical application of evidence for conservation, policy advocacy, data management and/or conservation-related education and training for citizen science projects — and can commit around one day a month — we would love to hear from you.

Prison Fellowship Scotland is a Christian charity working with the men and women in Scotland's prisons. Through our partnership with the Scottish Prison Service, we support chaplains by running programmes that allow people in prison to explore and respond to the Christian faith and to take responsibility for the harm they have caused. We also support the families of those in prison.

Purpose of the role

To lead the delivery and development of the Sycamore Tree Programme across Scotland and contribute to the growth of restorative justice practice within the criminal justice system, working in partnership with prisons, volunteers, and external organisations. Additionally, role will also promote the work of Prison Fellowship Scotland within churches and contribute to wider awareness and understanding of justice issues. Beyond this part of the role will be to work well as part of the wider PFS team as we actively look at new ways of growing the work of the organisation.

The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB) is seeking to appoint an independent member to its Advisory Audit Board (AAB) which provides advice to the Parliament’s Clerk/Chief Executive and, where appropriate, the SPCB on financial management and reporting, audit, risk and governance matters. The independent members of the AAB also provide advice to the independent officeholders supported by the SPCB.

The successful candidate will hold or will have held senior positions the private, public, or voluntary sectors with a high degree of expertise and experience in governance and accountability. Excellent communication, influencing and relationship building skills are essential.

The time commitment is expected to be around 15 days per annum and is remunerated at £390.31 per day.