Change your life, develop your transferable skills, work as part of a dedicated small team helping to build a better, greener, fairer and more outdoorsy world for all. This job offers a memorable, rewarding, broad and challenging way to start a career in the charity sector.
Applications are invited from hard-working, enthusiastic and interested individuals seeking a challenging, fast-paced and multi-faceted position with one of Scotland’s most dynamic small charities, the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (RSGS).
We have an opening for a Communications Officer, based at the RSGS HQ in Perth (though initially working from home), to help us to communicate effectively with different audiences, raise our public profile, develop our events and policy programmes, and increase support for our work. We need someone who can successfully publicise the breadth and depth of the work that we do, across traditional media and magazine publications, social media, digital, and video communications channels; an engaging personality who can bring our existing members, volunteers, supporters and other contacts closer to us; and a creative who can find appropriate new audiences for us to engage with.
You should possess a friendly manner, a high level of organisational aptitude, superb written and verbal communication skills, excellent computer literacy, an understanding of digital communication trends, and an ability to deal calmly with the unexpected. A team player, you should be good at developing networks and relationships, able to respond quickly and efficiently to new opportunities, and willing to get stuck in and work hard. Some experience of working with volunteers, or for a charity, would be helpful, as would a knowledge of contemporary geographical issues.
See rsgs.org/vacancies for further information, including a job description, application details and interview format.
The deadline for applications is 5pm on Wednesday 31st March.
Interviews will be held via Zoom on Thursday 15th April.