We are seeking up to 4 new members for the Edinburgh and Lothians Greenspace Trust (ELGT) Board. Our Non-Executive Directors perform a vital role, overseeing the management of the Charity and acting as ambassadors for our work.

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 skilled, committed and engaged people who want to act as a catalyst for change and support ELGT through being part of our Board.

What we are looking for

• Ability to contribute to Board insight and scrutiny, helping to deliver ELGT’s vision and strategy
• Good knowledge of the issues facing local communities and confidence you can make a valuable contribution to our work.
• The ability to contribute professional and expert knowledge in the following areas: health benefits of greenspace and green active travel, biodiversity and climate change policy, fundraising and income generation and urban renewal.

About Us:

The Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust has been working since 1991 to improve the quality of life for communities in the Lothians and we have successfully delivered over £20M of practical environmental projects.

Our inspiring, far-reaching and imaginative programme of environmental improvement and community involvement projects are designed to benefit people and nature, landscape and heritage and to re-connect people with their natural environment.

We combine professional expertise in project development, management and fundraising, with community development, consultation and engagement skills, enabling us to take a practical approach to the delivery of all projects, large or small and from start to finish.

Are you excited by the thought of working for an organisation whose mission is to inspire changes in behaviour to improve our environment, the quality of people’s lives, their wellbeing and the places that they care for? If you answered yes, please read on……

Who we are

Keep Scotland Beautiful is your charity for Scotland’s environment.

Our vision is for a clean, green, sustainable Scotland. We are a practical organisation working with communities, schools, businesses, local and national government, public bodies and individuals to help combat climate change, tackle litter and waste, restore nature and biodiversity and improve the places we care for.

We support the ambitions of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

We offer a fantastic benefits package in return for your talent. These include but are not limited to a generous pension scheme; hybrid working; development opportunities; a 35-hour work week along with an annual free volunteer day to take your skills or interests to support others. We operate a hybrid working policy, which allows a balance between home/remote working and coming to our wonderful, new office Hub in Stirling.

What the role is

Reporting to the Campaigns and Social Innovation Manager, the Campaign Support Officer will support the development, administration, communications and delivery of a range of campaigns and projects with a specific focus on marine litter programmes and projects including our Upstream Battle Campaign.

Some travel may be required for this role.

What you’ll need to have

We are looking for enthusiastic and creative individuals with:

• Experience of campaign development and delivery;

• Excellent communication skills to create, maintain and enhance working partnerships;
• Excellent administration skills;
• Experience of data management;
• Understanding of current social media techniques and applications;
• Ability to manage complex workloads;
• Good, general IT general IT knowledge (including Microsoft Word, Excel etc.).

Desirable skills include:

• Experience of community engagement work;
• Working with volunteers;
• Experience of maintaining and development of website content;
• Having a general interest in environmental issues.

Does this sound like you?

If you feel you have the elements to be our Campaigns Support Officer, we would love to hear from you.

We have a brilliant opportunity for a dynamic and experienced head of programme delivery to join our team.

As the head of programme delivery, you will play a pivotal role in leading and overseeing the successful execution and development of a portfolio of Scottish Government funded and related programmes. We are looking for a strategic leader who can drive excellence in programme management, ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality outcomes.

Who we are

Energy Saving Trust is a leading and trusted organisation, dedicated to promoting energy efficiency, low carbon transport and sustainable energy use. We aim to address the climate emergency and deliver the wider benefits of clean energy as we transition to net zero.

At Energy Saving Trust we don’t just offer jobs – we offer careers. For our people, being part of the effort to address the climate emergency makes working for us truly meaningful and rewarding.

Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• We offer an outstanding pension scheme including employer contributions of up to 9%, 11% or 13% (age-linked).
• Enhanced parental leave.
• Private BUPA insurance.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with service-linked increases as well as three goodwill days over the Christmas period.
• Staff wellbeing allowance of up to £25 per month / £300 per year.

Please see our careers page for the full list of benefits we have to offer and why Energy Saving Trust is a great place to work.

The team

This role will lead delivery of all our work that is grant funded by the Scottish Government and other related work. Situated in the energy department, the Home and Business Energy Scotland team delivers a portfolio of programmes and projects.

Importantly, this includes our management of Home Energy Scotland (HES) and Business Energy Scotland (BES) as well as a range of other programmes including the Scottish Government’s Green Heat Installer Engagement Programme, management of the Scottish Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) register, provision of advice tools and reporting on low and zero emissions heating and other renewable energy, plus other projects.

Home Energy Scotland is an award-winning advice service that supports hundreds of thousands of households across Scotland every year to make their homes warmer and more affordable and to reduce carbon emissions. Business Energy Scotland provide free and impartial support to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) save energy, carbon and money. The Green Heat Installer Engagement Programme provides assistance and support for businesses in Scotland to help them to participate fully and effectively in the green heat supply chain encompassing low and zero-emissions heating, energy efficiency and microgeneration installations.

What you’ll do

You will provide strategic and operational leadership and manage and develop the work of the department to effectively contribute to Energy Saving Trust’s mission of addressing the climate emergency, including:

• Leading, overseeing and managing the successful delivery of multiple programmes, providing strategic direction, leadership and highly effective operational oversight to ensure the department executes programmes efficiently, on time and within budget to meet user and funder needs.
• Leading and managing the teams and individuals in the department, providing motivation, effective coaching and support to ensure efficient and effective successful programme and project delivery.
• Collaborating at a senior level with stakeholders and external partners as well as cross-functional teams, to identify and pursue new opportunities as well as to drive successful programme delivery and development.

What you’ll bring

You will be a strong leader and people manager, with the ability to inspire and support dispersed teams to achieve objectives. You will have a track record of successfully delivering a variety of complex programmes concurrently, which is underpinned by your proven strategic planning, budget and contract management skills and your strong customer and client orientation. You will have excellent communication, negotiation and stakeholder relationship management skills and an ability to work effectively with and present to senior stakeholders.

You will need to have ideas to solve problems and foresight to identify opportunities for us to have even more impact. You will be excellent at prioritising tasks and delivering effectively within a demanding environment, with the determination to ensure targets are met and high-quality services delivered.

The successful candidate will be good at analysing data and other information to mitigate risk and make informed decisions and must have excellent writing skills and fluency with Microsoft Office products. You will have an excellent understanding of Scottish heat in buildings, energy efficiency and fuel poverty policy and of the wider landscape across the UK or may have worked on other areas of important work across different Government contracts and have the ability to acquire this knowledge rapidly.

Are you looking for a more rewarding career? Then why not become a Home Energy Scotland Technical Administrative Advisor? We are looking for an organised and enthusiastic person to join our team providing administrative help and support in delivering an exceptional service to our customers. Home Energy Scotland’s Technical & Outreach Team provides detailed, specialist energy efficiency and renewable technology advice to households to a wide range of customers throughout the southeast of Scotland.

You will carry out a wide range of administrative tasks to ensure effective delivery of technical advice services, including coordinating home visits, managing outbound queues and providing advice to householders over the phone and email. You will also be responsible for supporting the KPI’s associated to the Green Homes Network and to ensuring MCS installers are invited to join the Renewable Installer Finder.

Home Energy Scotland delivers free, impartial advice on energy efficiency, water efficiency, renewable energy and sustainable transport to householders, communities and organisations through a range of programmes. Home Energy Scotland is funded by the Scottish Government and managed by the Energy Saving Trust. Changeworks has been involved in delivering the service for 14 years, and currently manages advice centres in South East Scotland and the Highlands and Islands.

About Us

Changeworks is a great place to work. We hold Investors in People Platinum accreditation (something only a few organisations in Scotland have), and we were nominated for employer of the year by the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce this year. Our staff overwhelmingly would recommend us as an employer too.

The Climate Emergency has resulted in ambitious national targets to reduce carbon emissions from the built environment and reduce rates of fuel poverty. This has driven a significant increase in the number of pilot and large-scale interventions delivered by Changeworks and external organisations in this area. These include area-based domestic energy efficiency retrofit and decarbonisation projects and programmes.

We are a growing organisation, and this role is crucial to the delivery of our ambitious objectives. We want to decarbonise homes in Scotland on a massive scale, and that needs talented individuals like you to help us deliver on our objectives. You’ll receive full training plus coaching and mentoring.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits including flexible working, bike to work scheme, an excellent pension scheme and 26 days paid holiday plus 9 public holidays per year.

At Changeworks, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone.