Are you passionate about nature, community engagement, and sustainable land use? This unique role offers the chance to work with two leading organisations—the Scottish Land Commission and the Cairngorms National Park Authority—on an exciting project that’s shaping the future of land and nature restoration in Scotland.

As part of the Cairngorms 2030 programme, you’ll play a key role in helping communities benefit from land use changes and nature finance. This is your chance to drive real, positive change while contributing to Scotland’s transition to net zero.

About the Role

In this role, you will:

• Foster collaboration between communities, landowners, developers, and nature finance partners to ensure equitable land use changes and nature restoration.
• Develop and lead pilot projects that explore new ways to create community benefits and build community wealth.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, ensuring that communities have a voice and role in decision-making around land and nature investments.
• Capture and share insights from case studies to shape good practice in Scotland.

This role is people-focused, requiring face-to-face meetings and relationship-building, so you’ll need to be based in or near the Cairngorms.

About You

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has experience in community engagement and land management or a related field.
• Is skilled in building relationships, negotiating, and facilitating collaboration.
• Has a passion for nature and sustainable land use, with an interest or understanding of nature finance.
• Is innovative, adaptable, and eager to try new approaches to drive change.
• Has strong project management skills and can evaluate and monitor progress effectively.

This role requires a Full UK driving licence, however, we are willing to consider any proposals that would allow you to do the job by other means.

Why Apply?

This is a rare and exciting opportunity to make a real difference in the way Scotland’s land and natural resources are managed. You’ll be working on cutting-edge projects that are not only important for the Cairngorms, but that will also have a wider impact across Scotland. If you’re ready to take on a challenge and contribute to meaningful, sustainable change, we’d love to hear from you.

Additional Information

The standard working week is a 5-day week, Monday to Friday, of 35 hours. Flexible working is available.

SBP has a compelling story to tell about the transformational recovery of Scotland’s nature. It’s called rewilding.

As an organisation with an exciting portfolio of projects to deliver across Scotland, we are looking for a highly skilled and passionate individual, who will develop and manage our varied campaigns to drive support for rewilding, while also amplifying SBP’s voice and visibility across all media.

See the job description, available for download below, for the duties and responsibilities associated with the role, as well as the experience, skills and attributes we are seeking.

Organisation profile

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture (SBP) is a charity that works to drive the recovery of nature across Scotland through rewilding, in response to the growing climate and biodiversity crises. Our vision is of a vast network of rewilded land and water, where wildlife flourishes and people thrive.

We are a small, friendly, agile and progressive team that works in collaboration with many different interest groups to:

• Drive support for rewilding
• Commit more land and water to rewilding

Please see our website for more information on our work: scotland big picture.com.

Foundation Scotland puts people at the heart of its work. We rely on the expertise, trust and experience we’ve gained in the last 25 years working with communities, philanthropists and companies all over Scotland.

Our people are passionate experts in bringing lasting, positive change to Scotland’s communities. We take great pride in supporting local projects by taking a personal approach to every meeting and decision. We’re in a unique position to fully understand communities’ needs and fund solutions that will make a difference.

Our work is nationwide. We’re working with different industries, funding various projects from renewables to digital, through to arts and heritage. Our people are always challenged and have an opportunity to learn and grow. In short - no two days are the same. Ultimately, our work is highly rewarding, and the best part is seeing the real impact we can make within Scottish communities. If you share our passion for shaping Scotland’s communities' future, think about joining our team.

Background

Throughout 2023 a wide network of grassroots community organisations, local campaigners, funders, local authority leaders and facilitators came together around a vision for a new long-term community fund for Edinburgh. After a period of co-design, learning and fundraising the Regenerative Futures Fund is now entering its operational phase.

Role Overview

Foundation Scotland is excited to invite applications for the role of Participation Lead of the Regenerative Futures Fund. This innovative, ten-year fund aims to tackle the root causes of poverty and racism while contributing to a just green transition in Edinburgh. We are committed to equity, inclusion, and supporting leaders from diverse and marginalised communities.

The Participation Lead will complete the employed project team of three and will work closely with the two Co-Heads, leading participation of local people in both decision-making and in holding those involved accountable.

What We Are Looking For

We’re looking for an inclusive, collaborative and supportive person to work with the two Co-Heads to lead and support participation of local people in decision-making panels for the Regenerative Futures Fund (RFF). This role will be responsible for overseeing participation by local people to make funding decisions and have ongoing involvement in a 10-year programme to address the root causes of poverty and racism while restoring the natural world in Edinburgh.