Science Manager: Grants, Contracts, Operations
- Full time
- £33,800 – £36,700
- Edinburgh with the option of hybrid working
- Closing 23rd June 2023
- Advertised from 2nd June 2023
- Salary depending on experience (pay award pending), plus civil service pension, generous holiday entitlement, and other benefits. 37 hours per week. Permanent post.
Role
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is a world leading botanical institute and international visitor attraction taking positive action for plants and people; from local communities across Scotland, to more than 40 countries around the world. Our priority is to tackle the biodiversity crisis and the climate emergency and support the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. Our work builds on over 350 years of history as a scientific botanic garden, a centre of education, the internationally important botanical collections in our care, and our extensive international partnerships.
Our four Scottish gardens – Benmore, Dawyck, Logan and ‘The Botanics’ in Edinburgh – attract over a million visitors every year. Together, these gardens comprise one of the richest plant collections on earth. As a registered Scottish charity, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is funded principally by the Scottish Government – but as an organisation, we are very much global with a mission to explore, conserve and explain the world of plants for a better future. Our current work involves collaborative science and conservation projects in more than 35 countries around the world.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Science Manager to join our team to deliver management support for research grants, consultancy contracts and partnerships, and to facilitate the development and implementation of efficient operational working practices. We’re looking for someone who can help us deliver effective and efficient operations, maximise our research quality and bid success, and ensure we have financially astute contractual arrangements in place at all times as we look to expand out externally funded work.
This is a wide-ranging job, acting as the key liaison for funding initiatives, operating across our Science and commercial divisions. This will involve tracking funding opportunities and co-ordinating responses, working with potential grant submitters on their timelines and supporting their needs for applications to funding calls, and managing the preparation, coordination and completion of research and consultancy contracts. Another key aspect of the role is to support key operations to underpin the smooth running of the science team at RBGE. This will involve facilitating improved working practices across the remit of science, including optimising logistics to support data production and data management, quality control, and the practical ways in which teams work and interact together.
The post is suited to individuals who are highly organised effective communicators. You will have excellent attention to detail, clarity of thought and an aptitude for problem solving. You should be comfortable and effective in facilitating and managing different aspects of research and consultancy funding, and the enthusiasm and ability to support the implementation of wider logistical and operational processes in our science team. Experience and understanding of funding and consultancy opportunities is desirable, as is experience of contracts and partnership agreements, and an understanding of the general process which underpin the function and operations of science research programmes.
While the post is well suited to applicants with established experience of grants/contract management, science logistics and project management, we also welcome applicants from a biodiversity science background, who wish to make the transition into science operations management.
Although we see this as a full-time role, applications will also be considered from exceptional candidates looking to work on a part-time basis.
Application notes
To apply please email recruitment@rbge.org.uk with:
- your CV
- a covering letter outlining the skills, knowledge and experience you’d bring to the post
- a completed equal opportunities questionnaire available on our website
Closing date: Midnight (BST) on Friday 23 June 2023
Other information: Job description and person specification are available at rbge.org.uk/about-us/working-with-us/vacancies
For informal enquiries about the post please contact Rachael Brewer on rbrewer@rbge.org.uk
If you haven’t heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume your application hasn’t been successful on this occasion. No recruitment agencies please.
Operations & Development Manager
- Full time or Part time
- £36,041
- Hybrid working arrangements with office space in Edinburgh
- Closing 20th October 2023
The Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland (ERCS) is looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated person to support us through our next exciting stage of organisational development.
If you have experience of working in service delivery or people focussed organisations and the skills to develop and maintain our operating systems apply today! You will support the Chief Officer with all aspects of business development and delivery such as finance, office systems, people management and facilities.
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.
Community Larder Service Manager
- Full time
- £30,030
- Renfrewshire with hybrid working
- Closing 9th October 2023
THE ORGANISATION:
Local Energy Action Plan is a registered charity operating in Renfrewshire. This role sits within LEAP Together, an area of the organisation with the following aims:
- Building resilience locally by improving community services and facilities, through environmentally sustainable means
- Tackling social isolation and food insecurity locally
- Improving wellbeing within the community
- Creating meaningful volunteering opportunities
THE PROJECT:
Our Community Larder is currently based out of premises at Lochhead Gardens with over 500 member households / c1300 individuals. The objective is to redistribute food and other basic household items which would otherwise be going into landfill, reducing unnecessary waste and production. We are also reducing food insecurity within our community. We are moving through a time of significant development and our vision is that the site will become a social space, where community members will meet and events and activities will take place. We operate the project along the guidelines for Dignified Food Provision.
THE ROLE:
Reporting to the Project Manager, the role can be split between home and on-site working, at the Community Larder or out of our shared workspace on Lochwinnoch High Street. The role will involve management of two members of staff, to ensure smooth operation of the service, and coordinating a large Volunteering Team.
Offering volunteering opportunities is as important as any other part of our work, and a focus of this role will be managing and developing those individuals to ensure the work is meaningful and their development is prioritised. It will also involve building partnerships with local people and organisations.
SALARY & HOURS:
This role is offered at £30030 pa. It will be hybrid working with some hours being on a set schedule and others being made up flexibly. It will require occasional
This role is part funded by the National Lottery Community Led Fund.
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.
We’re looking for a new Chair - Non-Executive Director
We are seeking a Chair for Edinburgh and Lothians Greenspace Trust (ELGT) Board. The Chair performs a vital role leading and supporting the Board to ensure effective governance of the Trust in order to achieve its mission.
For over 30 years ELGT has been delivering inspiring, groundbreaking and imaginative programmes of environmental and community projects that benefit local people, wildlife, landscape, and heritage. Our Board is vital in supporting ELGT to realise its vision of providing quality greenspaces to people in Edinburgh and the Lothians to improve their health and wellbeing. We are seeking a skilled, committed and engaged person who wants to act as a catalyst for change and support ELGT through being Chair of our Board.
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