- Advertised from 23rd June 2023
- Permanent
Role
Crown Estate Scotland has an exciting opportunity for a Regional Engagement Manager to join our team on a full-time basis for a fixed term of up to 24 months.
The role holder will be responsible for managing operational and/or strategic relationships with stakeholders and communities that help Crown Estate Scotland achieve its purpose of ‘Investing in property, natural resources and people to generate lasting value for Scotland’. They will also set up and manage partnership activities and initiatives.
The role holder will also be expected to represent Crown Estate Scotland at a regional level with an emphasis on the Southern half of Scotland (for example central belt, Ayrshire, Borderlands and Clyde areas and including the Whitehill and Applegirth Estates), working with the Head of Partnerships and other colleagues across a broad range of priorities in a way that builds trust and the credibility of the organisation as a whole.
By joining the Crown Estate Scotland team, you’ll be surrounded by supportive, dedicated, and talented individuals who are passionate about what they do, giving you the opportunity to learn and develop. You’ll be working alongside colleagues who are working towards achieving the shared goal of making Scotland a better place.
About Us
We manage property – including buildings, land, coastline, and seabed – on behalf of people of Scotland. Our purpose is to invest in property, natural resources, and people to generate lasting value for Scotland. Our profits go to Scottish public spending.
We work in a way that:
• Generates prosperity and value for all of Scotland;
• Supports the growth of sustainable business and industry in Scottish seas and on the coast;
• Makes places better for those who live, work, and visit there;
• Promotes sustainable ways of producing energy, food, and other products; and
• Creates opportunities for people to use and benefit from the Scottish Crown Estate
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Our values of Integrity, Excellence, Collaboration and Commercialism help us to put our purpose into practice. They shape how we work, underpin our actions, and help to make Crown Estate Scotland a great place to work.
About the role
The successful candidate for this role within the organisation will assume responsibilities that include:
• Coordinating and where appropriate leading engagement with regional /local actors including local authorities, enterprise agencies, community bodies and business clusters
• Understanding regional and local development strategies, identifying, and communicating internally relevant strategic and local opportunities for Crown Estate Scotland to add value as an enabler or through specific investment projects
• Supporting local consultation for specific development projects, working closely with Crown Estate Scotland project managers and other partners
• Supporting the Head of Partnerships and wider teams in exploring and developing very early-stage investment project concepts to sufficient maturity for clear internal decision making and handover
• Working as part of the Partnerships team, and in collaboration with the wider Crown Estate Scotland and managing agent teams to share information and contacts and ensure a joined-up approach to all we do
• Taking opportunities to build Crown Estate Scotland’s reputation for delivery through productive partnerships, ensuring any stakeholder concerns are dealt with in a timely and professional way
• Advising and supporting the Executive Team and Board on regional visits and engagement with local projects
• Identifying and developing new partnership proposals, working with the Head of Partnerships, asset, or development managers, managing agents and other business leads, for the development of community and other partnership projects in line with the Corporate Plan and other plans as appropriate
• Delivering project management of key relevant partnerships, either existing or developed in future, that fall within the Partnerships function lead. This will include acting as nominated representative for CES on any local management pilot projects within the relevant region and delivering monitoring & evaluation activities where necessary
• Taking responsibility for advising and communicating with partners regarding practical and operational aspects of partnership initiatives as required
• Responding to incoming enquiries in an effective and timely manner, managing issues and reputational risks including any perceived / potential conflicts of interest
• Supporting the development of collaborative partnerships flagging any requirement for new approaches where needed and be an effective ambassador for Crown Estate Scotland
• Attending local and regional meetings relevant to the role as our eyes, ears, and voice, building Crown Estate Scotland’s profile and enhancing our relationships and trust in the organisation
• Working with the Head of Partnerships and relevant asset teams to plan and engage in periodic meetings with tenants, partners, and stakeholders to build positive relationships and understand stakeholder issues and perspectives within your target region and/ or sectors designed to achieve demonstrable outcomes contributing to delivery of relevant corporate targets
• Attending wider representational meetings and events as required, making contributions and presentations to a high standard as required
The contractual working location of this role is our Edinburgh office. However, we believe work is something you do, not a place you go to, and we are committed to supporting employees to work flexibly and in a way that suits their role and preferences.
The salary will be £41,321.18 with potential for future progression and annual cost of living rises. The maximum salary for this role is currently £49,440.67. The role also benefits from 25 days’ annual leave, plus 11.5 of public/ privilege days. Crown Estate Scotland encourage flexible working and operate a discretionary flexi-time scheme. This role offers participation in the Civil Service pension scheme. Contribution levels for the scheme are currently 5.45% employee contribution at the entry salary for this role whilst Crown Estate Scotland contribution levels are 27.1%.
At Crown Estate Scotland we believe that continuous learning and development helps us to do our best in work and build professional skills and expertise. We offer a range of training opportunities delivered by external training providers and in-house experts and provide all employees with access to LinkedIn Learning. We also support individuals to pay professional membership fees relevant to their roles and aim to support additional study and learning requests wherever possible.
As well as helping you to develop professionally, we also support your personal development through our ‘Wellbeing Matters’ programme with its focus on four important pillars of wellbeing – physical, emotional, social, and financial.
About You
You should:
• Be educated to undergraduate degree level or equivalent in a subject relevant to Crown Estate Scotland’s business areas and / or community development
• Have experience of working with communities on matters relevant to the Scottish Crown Estate in the southern Scotland region such as rural land use, energy, built development, river salmon fishing, coastal or maritime
• Ideally have some experience of preparing or reviewing business plans in relevant sectors such as built development or coastal communities
• Be articulate and have highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, with political acumen and awareness
• Hold some knowledge of good governance and risk management processes
• Have broad knowledge and awareness covering a range of Crown Estate Scotland’s areas of business, as well as its statutory obligations
• Be experienced and knowledgeable in commercial estate, property, or marine management, ideally with emphasis or expertise in one or more of Crown Estate Scotland’s business sectors
• Have project management skills, with appropriate knowledge and experience of delivering projects in accordance with project management principles
• Have experience of working in collaborative project environments including both internal team members and external partners to deliver mutually successful outcomes
• Have awareness of terrestrial and/ or offshore planning, development, policy, and legal contexts
• Have excellent writing skills and the ability to identify key points on any issue and translate these into clear, succinct messages
• Have an understanding of monitoring and evaluation
• Be numerate and a competent user of Microsoft Office suite
You will have the following qualities, which are key to success in this role:
• Ability to engage effectively with internal and external contacts and represent the organisation in a positive light
• Ability to build effective relationships to enable fulfilment of the job role
• The very highest levels of integrity, able to discern and deliver activities that demonstrate our corporate values
Ability to work well under pressure and to deliver to tight deadlines.
• Attention to detail
• Self-starter able to work under own initiative as well as part of a team
• Capable of thriving in complex management and interacting structures
• Self-aware and confident, capable of identifying opportunities or ideas and managing them through to their completion or handover to other staff
• To be service-oriented and demonstrate a strong customer service and delivery, internally and externally
• Be able to act in a confidential manner when dealing with all of Crown Estate Scotland activities
Application notes
Crown Estate Scotland is committed to diversity and inclusion, and we encourage applications from people from all backgrounds. We want to ensure every candidate has a positive experience and can most effectively demonstrate their suitability for the role they are applying for. Please tell us if there are any reasonable adjustments, we can make to help you in your application or with our recruitment and selection process.
We welcome requests to work on a job share basis and/or secondments.
Closing date: 9 July 2023. Interviews will be conducted shortly after this date.
Ask & Act Education Manager
- Full time
- £36,128 – £40,686
- Hybrid: Fife, West Lothian, Perth ,or Edinburgh and WfH, with occasional travel, across sites.
- Closing 7th January 2026
Who We Are
We are Scotland’s leading youth homelessness charity. We believe that no young person should ever face homelessness. That’s why we deliver bold, youth-specific solutions, built around young people’s experiences and what evidence tells us works.
We support young people to avoid and move on from homelessness, helping them build the confidence, skills and stability they need to thrive in adulthood. We also influence policy and practice to create a Scotland where no young person is left behind.
We don’t follow the system, we change it, continually championing the voices and experiences of all young people.
Context
Rock Trust delivers the Upstream prevention project in schools and the post holder will work with the Upstream Team, pilot schools and education departments to create a toolkit for the implementation of Upstream. This will involve working with current pilot schools to document the changes required in school systems, the challenges and how to overcome them and an assessment of the resources required to deliver Upstream. The Ask & Act Education Manager will use this learning to create a toolkit and implementation plan to be used for national implementation.
This role is responsible for:
- Coordinating work with multiple local authority Education departments, senior leaders and cross-sector partners (Housing, Social Work, Health, third sector)
- Designing and documenting processes, guidance and training materials that enable schools to embed early identification of housing risk
- Capturing learning, gathering data and producing a national implementation framework
- Ensuring all activity aligns with statutory duties, local contexts and Rock Trust’s prevention approach
The Ask & Act Education Manager will need to be methodical, have strong report writing skills and interpersonal skills to co-ordinate the information gathering and documenting. They will be responsible for delivering the toolkit to a high standard, making a lasting contribution to Scotland’s homelessness prevention system.
Net Zero Lead
- Part time
- £38,000 pro-rata
- Remote: Home working with irregular meetings in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
- Closing 31st January 2026
Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS) seeks to appoint a Net Zero Lead.
This new role within BEFS Team involves leading on BEFS co-ordinated and strategic approach to delivering Net Zero through its own work, and – crucially – connecting existing sector work and research; building Member and sector capacity and coordinating a robust, collaborative and data driven approach, ensuring that the historic environment is recognised as a valuable asset and key player in Scotland’s journey to Net Zero, and in tackling the Climate Emergency.
We envisage that this role will evolve and respond to a changing political climate as needed, engaging with the legislative process and working towards ensuring that the sector is equipped to respond to the Climate Emergency in the long term.
Key responsibilities include:
- Work with BEFS Team to map and coordinate all existing Net Zero work, across all business BEFS areas
- Undertake sector (and beyond) mapping of Net Zero activity
- Advocate for Net Zero solutions presented by the existing and historic built environment, through sector coordination, cross sector, and portfolio working
- Align with and support OPOF delivery priorities, working closely with BEFS Director and Team on developing a Route Map to Net Zero
- Connect and amplify existing research and data, identifying skills, research and data gaps
- Drive and coordinate the use of existing data and research as well as commissioning new where required; working collaboratively to present a coherent evidence base
- Undertake and enable research and strategy including looking at international good practice
- Stakeholder working and relationship building; enable innovative and collaborative approaches
- Undertake regular horizon-scanning through contact with Government and key stakeholders; support BEFS work to convey the current context, challenges and opportunities across sector back to Scottish Government
- Project development and fundraising: identify, develop and shape projects (from initial idea to project brief) which will inform/evidence advocacy and delivery activity
- Participate actively as part of a small and busy team, supporting and working with colleagues across all of BEFS work
Person specification
Essential
- Ability to demonstrate breadth of sector knowledge and the wider policy landscape relating to Net Zero and the historic and existing built environment
- Demonstrable technical knowledge relating to the Climate Emergency and Net Zero in relation to the historic and existing built environment
- Strong analytical skills, with an ability to distil information and stakeholder opinions, across a broad range of topics/disciplines in the built environment sphere
- Knowledge and experience of the historic and wider built environment sector, including key stakeholders and lead organisations
- Experience of working in a public facing role and the ability to connect with stakeholders and build consensus, seeking opportunities for collaboration and joined up working
- Experience of project management and delivery
- The ability to think and work strategically
- Highly self-motivated, able to work flexibly, balancing priorities as necessary
- High attention to detail, with strong written and verbal communication skills, including facilitation experience
- Advanced use of IT packages including Office 365 and Adobe etc.
Desirable
- Degree or post-graduate qualification (or equivalent experience) in built environment-related discipline (e.g. planning, conservation, surveying, archaeology, architecture) or public affairs.
- Experience of stakeholder engagement/facilitation skills.
- Confidence with online/remote working technologies and programmes such as Teams, Zoom. Knowledge/familiarity of other programmes such as Miro, Eventbrite, SurveyMonkey, WordPress and MailChimp are also an advantage.
BEFS expects all applicants to support the values, ethos and objectives of BEFS, demonstrating credibility and integrity, and proactively committed to championing equality, diversity and inclusion.
What we offer:
- Salary: £38,000 FTE
- 30hrs per week (4 days); permanent role, subject to organisational funding
- Home working with irregular meetings in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
- Benefits package including pension, flexible leave, and more.
Senior Transport Campaigner
- Full time
- £35,000
- Hybrid: with weekly attendance at one of our offices (Edinburgh and Aberdeen). You will also be expected to undertake regular travel within Scotland.
- Closing 12th January 2026
This role is key in building power in our movement to win a better transport system in Scotland – one that cuts climate emissions, connects communities and is run in the interests of passengers, not profit.
Transport is Scotland’s largest polluting sector, so tackling the transport system is vital for cutting fossil fuel use and climate emissions.
The focus of this role is our campaign for better buses. Our vision is of an accessible, extensive, publicly-owned bus network that’s free for everyone. A comprehensive, reliable bus network is essential for tackling climate change and reducing inequality – connecting communities and getting people out of private cars. However, the current network is run by private operators, often expensive and unreliable with routes cut and standards declining.
Friends of the Earth Scotland is committed to building a powerful movement for system change, and we believe that communities must take the lead in the transition away from our car-dominated system, so that what replaces it works for all of Scotland.
The successful candidate will have experience and skills in local organising or supporting volunteers. We are looking for someone who can bring new people into the movement, and support and motivate volunteers and local organisers in their communities.
We're looking for someone with excellent listening skills, who can build relationships with people and organisations and support them to campaign for change in their communities.
If you think you are a fit for this role, you can find more information about it in our recruitment pack.
Top job! National Policy Lead – Children and Young People
- Full time or Part time
- £34,877 – £40,023
- Hybrid: Edinburgh
- Closing 8th January 2026
The role
Scottish Women’s Aid has an opportunity to join their Policy team. This is an exciting position where the role holder will be responsible for working on policy relating to children and young people and domestic abuse, violence against women and girls, and gender related topics. They will work closely with the Membership, Training and Communications teams.
Background
Scottish Women’s Aid is Scotland’s leading voluntary sector organisation working to end domestic abuse and promoting effective policy and practice responses for women, children and young people who experience domestic abuse. We are the umbrella organisation for 32 autonomous Women’s Aid groups delivering direct services to women, children and young people across Scotland.
What you’ll do
Working across third sector organisations you will build and maintain relationships to input to policy and influencing, as SWA as well as jointly with others. You will maintain good working relationships with civil servants, challenging ideas and find solutions where necessary.
The role includes inputting to and submitting consultation responses, researching and writing briefings, preparing for SWA to providence evidence in parliament, keep our communications team up to date with policy inputs and changes, and input to good practice stemming from policy changes. All of these roles, requiring great working relationships across the organisation, but especially with Membership, Training and Communications.
What We Need
We’re looking for someone with experience in a similar role, with specific knowledge of the Scottish policy landscape and the potential that offers. We’re looking for someone who can work across domestic abuse as it relates to children and young people – examples include the Children’s Hearing system, child contact, the welfare system. We ask that you’re a self-starter, ready to apply these skills creatively to meet our strategic priorities. Excellent written and verbal communications skills go without saying: you’ll be skilled in the ability to engage confidently with a range of different audiences, and be adept at writing to suit them, working alongside colleagues across SWA and our members across the country.
We’re looking for someone who has:
- Knowledge of the Scottish policy landscape
- Awareness and understanding of the feminist analysis of domestic abuse and the impact on women, children and young people
- Demonstrable track record of developing and writing successfully in a policy context
- Highly organised approach to effective planning, delivery and the development of applicable tasks
- Drive to make a difference in a fast moving time of policy
Location
Blend of home working and office, based in Rose Street, Edinburgh or can be entirely home based anywhere in the UK. Please talk to us about your flexible working requirements!
What we offer
There are many reasons to work for Scottish Women’s Aid. We have a great working culture and our mission and vision attracts a brilliant staff team. Your hard work is rewarded with a package of support and benefits including:
- Flexible working - We offer flexible hybrid working options for the majority of our employees. Some posts are eligible for full-time homeworking. We also offer flexibility for staff and work/life balance through a number of flexible working options such as flexi time, condensed hours, job sharing.
- Pay - SWA are a Living wage employer, our pay and grading system offers a competitive starting salary and yearly progression.
- Annual Leave - We offer a full-time annual leave entitlement of 30 days (210 hours) per year plus 10 Public Holiday days (70 hours) per year. Leave is accrued at the rate of 3.33 days (23.3 hours) per month.
- Pension - SWA believes it's important that we help you save for your retirement so access to Nest pension scheme is given to all eligible employees. SWA contributes 10% of gross contractual earnings on the provision that the employee contributes a minimum of 3% towards their pension contributions.
- Learning and Development - SWA supports and develops staff to ensure they have the necessary skills, knowledge and abilities. There is an internal schedule of training on key skills and knowledge relevant to all staff. There is also scope to attend ad hoc training for employees who are working to develop specific skills.
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay - SWA offers staff who meet the criteria for Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) an enhanced maternity pay of 20 weeks on full pay and 20 weeks on half pay.
- Wellbeing - As part of SWA’s commitment to staff wellbeing, staff are offered access to a confidential 24/7 health and Wellbeing service with AIG which provides confidential advice, counselling and legal support to all staff, and where applicable, immediate family members.
- Bike 2 Work - An interest-free loan to purchase a bike, can be arranged up to the value of £1,000.
- Edinburgh Leisure Gym Subsidies - Edinburgh based staff are able to access Edinburgh Leisure facilities for the reduced price of £1 per session.
POSITIVE ACTION
Applications will be accepted from women only under Schedule 9, part 1 of the Equality Act 2010.
Scottish Women’s Aid is an equal opportunities employer, all women, including women with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, may apply for women-only roles.
SWA are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce that is representative of the people we serve.
We are taking positive action to address an under-representation of minoritised and marginalised women within our workforce. We offer Disabled and racially minoritised women the option of requesting that their application is considered under the terms of our Guaranteed Interview Schemes. You will be asked if you wish to be considered when you complete our application form.
If you would like to discuss the job or any adjustments, whether due to disability or any other reason, please contact us on recruitment@womensaid.scot or on the phone on 0131 226 6606.
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