- Advertised from 9th December 2022
- Permanent (37.5 hrs/week – normally Monday-Friday 09:00-17:30 – but some flexible work requirements including evening and weekend working for out-of-hours events and outreach activities)
Role
Dynamic Earth is Edinburgh’s science centre and the only centre of its kind in the UK dedicated to Earth and environmental sciences. We’re an educational charity, on a mission to empower people with understanding and empathy for the Earth; because we believe together we will be the generation that creates a positive future for us and our planet.
Our Learning and Engagement team are at the heart of delivering our charitable mission and deliver a packed programme of events and experiences with a broad spectrum of audiences each year. Our new ten-year organisational strategy places engaging with wide and diverse audiences and delivering outstanding quality science engagement at the very forefront of our department plan.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team in the position of Learning and Engagement Officer. In this role, you will work alongside colleagues in the wider Learning and Engagement team to co-ordinate, develop and deliver a range of different learning experiences – including but not limited to indoor and outdoor workshops, drop-in activities and online experiences – for a range of audiences including school pupils, teachers, children and young people and families. This is a science communication role with a key focus on delivering a range of experiences with audiences, particularly with school pupils. We are particularly keen to hear from you if you have knowledge, skills and experience in the delivery of outdoor and or digital learning and engagement experiences.
To find out more about the work of Dynamic Earth and the Learning and Engagement team, please click here.
Application notes
As an organisation, we are committed to creating a culture that respects and values equity, diversity and inclusion. We expect all team members to support and enact these values in their day-to-day practice and are committed to creating working environment where everyone can be themselves everyday. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds as part of this recruitment process.
To apply, please email a covering letter and CV (circa 2 pages each) to Conor Ellis – Learning and Engagement Manager – at conor.ellis@dynamicearth.co.uk – the deadline for applications is 23:59 on Monday January 9th 2023
We expect initial interviews for this position to take place on Tuesday 17th January 2023 and will last no longer than one hour.
Your data will be held securely and in line with our privacy policy – which is available here.
Dynamic Earth has policies and procedures in place to protect children, young people and vulnerable adults from harm. Appointments to the Learning and Engagement team are subject to successful enrolment in the Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme.
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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.
Background
The Edinburgh International Book Festival is a charity which exists to celebrate and share the power of writers, their ideas, and the words they craft to illuminate, challenge, and inspire.
Since 1983, we have welcomed millions of visitors into conversations with the world’s greatest and most exciting emerging writers, thinkers, artists, and performers. Iconic figures such as Margaret Atwood, Alain de Botton, Oliver Burkeman, Noam Chomsky, Seamus Heaney, Kazuo Ishiguro, Toni Morrison, Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, and Benjamin Zephaniah have appeared on our stages over the years, alongside a wide range of debut and early career authors.
Across the hundreds of events in our Adults, Young Adults, Schools, and Children’s programmes, the Book Festival offers audiences aged from 0 to 100 an active opportunity to engage with new and different perspectives on the world, create lasting memories through storytelling, fill their minds with fascinating knowledge, and discover the creative secrets of writers and artists.
We strive to be a safe and supported environment for people to have difficult discussions and lively debates in an atmosphere of curiosity and consideration, where different opinions can be respectfully shared. We are proud to platform voices and stories which are often overlooked, and are committed to breaking down barriers to access for those who may not initially consider themselves as a Book Festival audience.
Beyond August, the Book Festival is a year-round force for literary engagement. Working with partners in the local community – including schools, libraries, prisons, hospitals, and other community hubs – we foster a lifelong love of reading, embrace the life-changing potential of creativity, and develop engaged, informed audiences of all backgrounds and ages.
2025 was a bumper year for the Festival, with significant growth in site visits, ticket sales, and new audience members, all of which we aim to build upon in 2026, particularly through delivery of a new website and ticketing system, as well as grassroots audience development initiatives, and data-informed marketing campaigns.
The team
The Book Festival has a permanent staff of 25 throughout the year, expanding over the spring and summer to a peak of around 150 staff during the Festival. All staff members play a role in the ongoing development of the organisation through several full team planning and debrief meetings during the year.
The Development team is made up of 7 roles: Development Director, Sponsorships & Partnerships Manager, Sponsorship & Partnerships Officer, Development Manager (Trusts & Foundations), Development Manager (Individual Giving), Events & Digital Marketing Officer, and Development Assistant.
The role
Purpose of Role
To provide essential administrative and supporter care support across the Development Team, ensuring efficient use of the CRM system, excellent service for donors, members and supporters. This role is central to maintaining accurate data, delivering outstanding supporter care, and supporting income generation across the whole Development Team.
Digital Marketing Officer
- Part time
- £27,200 – £31,900 pro-rata
- On site: Edinburgh
- Closing 13th January 2026
Background
The Edinburgh International Book Festival is a charity which exists to celebrate and share the power of writers, their ideas, and the words they craft to illuminate, challenge, and inspire.
Since 1983, we have welcomed millions of visitors into conversations with the world’s greatest and most exciting emerging writers, thinkers, artists, and performers. Iconic figures such as Margaret Atwood, Alain de Botton, Oliver Burkeman, Noam Chomsky, Seamus Heaney, Kazuo Ishiguro, Toni Morrison, Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, and Benjamin Zephaniah have appeared on our stages over the years, alongside a wide range of debut and early career authors.
Across the hundreds of events in our Adults, Young Adults, Schools, and Children’s programmes, the Book Festival offers audiences aged from 0 to 100 an active opportunity to engage with new and different perspectives on the world, create lasting memories through storytelling, fill their minds with fascinating knowledge, and discover the creative secrets of writers and artists.
We strive to be a safe and supported environment for people to have difficult discussions and lively debates in an atmosphere of curiosity and consideration, where different opinions can be respectfully shared. We are proud to platform voices and stories which are often overlooked, and are committed to breaking down barriers to access for those who may not initially consider themselves as a Book Festival audience.
Beyond August, the Book Festival is a year-round force for literary engagement. Working with partners in the local community – including schools, libraries, prisons, hospitals, and other community hubs – we foster a lifelong love of reading, embrace the life-changing potential of creativity, and develop engaged, informed audiences of all backgrounds and ages.
2025 was a bumper year for the Festival, with significant growth in site visits, ticket sales, and new audience members, all of which we aim to build upon in 2026, particularly through delivery of a new website and ticketing system, as well as grassroots audience development initiatives, and data-informed marketing campaigns.
The team
The Book Festival has a permanent staff of 25 throughout the year, expanding over the spring and summer to a peak of around 150 staff during the Festival. All staff members play a role in the ongoing development of the organisation through several full team planning and debrief meetings during the year.
The Development team is made up of 7 roles: Development Director, Sponsorships & Partnerships Manager, Sponsorship & Partnerships Officer, Development Manager (Trusts & Foundations), Development Manager (Individual Giving), Events & Digital Marketing Officer, and Development Assistant.
The role
Purpose of Role
To support income generation and stakeholder engagement by delivering high-quality stewardship and engagements events, and by supporting digital marketing activity for the Development Team. The role combines hands-on event coordination with creative digital communications to strengthen relationships with supporters, members, sponsors and stakeholders, and to grow the Festival’s supporter base.
Every day people with chest, heart and stroke conditions are leaving hospital scared and alone. You can be part of our mission to make sure that there is no life half lived in Scotland.
By joining Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS) as eLearning Officer you can help to be the difference between people just surviving and really living.
You will be part of Scotland’s leading health charity providing support to people with chest, heart and stroke conditions and Long Covid to live life to the full again. Working as part of the Professional Engagement team, the CHSS eLearning service exists to ensure that people affected by, and those caring for, people with these conditions are supported with information they want, when they need it, and in a way that is appropriate for them.
As the CHSS eLearning Officer, within the professional engagement team, you will be responsible for supporting the processes involved in reviewing, developing and maintaining CHSS’s portfolio of eLearning resources.
The post holder will collaborate with the appropriate internal and external professionals, service users and advisory groups to ensure the content of all preexisting and new eLearning resources remain current, and evidence based.
For further information about the role, please contact Mairi Whiston, Health Information and eLearning Clinical Lead, Email: mairi.whiston@chss.org.uk.
CHSS employees enjoy a variety of organisational benefits including: company pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, company sick pay, employee welfare support and life assurance.
CHSS also supports flexible recruitment through Working Families and we are “Happy to Talk Flexible Working”.
In line with our commitment to safeguarding, this role is subject to a Basic Disclosure check. CHSS is committed to equality of opportunity and to providing a service which is free from unfair and unlawful discrimination.
We therefore aim to ensure that no applicant, volunteer or member of staff is unfairly treated on the grounds of offending background.
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