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.

This is a fantastic opportunity to become the Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive at Scotland’s leading nature conservation charity. The postholder will provide high-level administrative and general support to the Chief Executive, Chair and Council (Board of Trustees), as well as liaising with a wide variety of other stakeholders inside and outside the organisation. This is a rewarding, interesting and fulfilling role for someone who enjoys developing strong relationships, has excellent organisational skills and wants to make a difference to the protection and restoration of nature at a time when it has never been more important.

Main duties include:

• Diary management, including coordinating internal and external meetings, events and travel
• Acting as first point of contact; dealing with correspondence and phone calls and being a representative of the CEO in their absence
• Liaising with Senior Management Team, Management Team, Line Managers and other relevant colleagues as required
• Administrative duties such as processing expense claims and maintaining and managing digital filling systems
• Co-ordinating and providing secretarial support for Council meetings including agendas, action updates, attendance, meeting papers and minute taking
• Providing administrative support to the Trust’s Chair and Committees

The successful candidate will have great people skills, professionalism, initiative and resilience. You’ll have a keen eye for detail and will relish the opportunity to play a part in bringing about nature’s recovery in Scotland, working alongside colleagues who share a common vision.

About us

For nearly 60 years, the Scottish Wildlife Trust has worked with its members, partners and supporters in pursuit of its vision of healthy, resilient ecosystems across Scotland’s land and seas.

The Trust successfully champions the cause of wildlife through policy and campaigning work, demonstrates best practice through practical conservation and innovative partnerships, and inspires people to take positive action through its education and engagement activities. The Trust manages a network of around 120 wildlife reserves across Scotland and is a member of the UK-wide Wildlife Trusts movement.

The benefits

• Flexi time/Hybrid working
• Salary sacrifice Cycle to Work and pension schemes
• Weekly wellness hour
• Generous Sick pay allowance
• Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
• Training and Development focus