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 dynamic and highly-skilled digital media specialist, who will be at the heart of our creative communications activity and work to optimise the reach and influence of SBP’s work via multiple digital channels.

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
• Return missing species
• Develop rewilding business

Please see our website for more information on our work: scotlandbigpicture.com

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.

Do you want to front an amazing team and the delivery of services health and care services which make a difference to the lives of people across the North and North East of Scotland?

This could be the role for you. We have a fantastic opportunity for a people leader, ideally with regulated service experience, to join our Health and Care team as a Health Operations Manager.

What does a day in the life of Health Operations Manager look like?

• You will guide the local management team producing a range of health and care services.
• You will also be a key part of our national leadership team. Here you will drive growth and development of our services so we can meet reach more people with greater impact across Scotland. This should help us to increase our reach of care and support to vulnerable people. Thus, enhancing the reputation and influence of British Red Cross in this field.
• You will oversee and lead the day-to-day function of all aspects of the British Red Cross Health and Care Services. This will include leading, managing and developing a service delivery team of staff and volunteers. These services focus on supporting people to get home from hospital and on enabling them to live freely at home. Ultimately preventing admission or readmission and tackling social seclusion.
• You will be a key strategic point of engagement with local stakeholders (including commissioners). You will be responsible for meeting our contractual obligations, including quality, KPIs and financial performance. You will also work closely with our business development team to develop opportunities across Scotland.

To be a successful Health Operations Manager, you’ll need:

• Experience of successful operational management of health / social care-related services. Ensuring regulated activities meet the required standards.
• Experience of developing services with NHS or Local Government partners and achieving agreed outcomes.
• Public speaking and presentation skills. Influencing people and making an impact with your message.
• IT literate. Experience of using Microsoft email, word processing and spreadsheet packages.
• Demonstrable experience of managing staff, volunteers, and projects.
• An awareness of the needs of vulnerable people, with the ability to improve the services we provide for them.
• Budgeting and financial management experience.
• Organisational skills and the ability to manage a demanding workload.
• Able to work and travel extensively throughout the North East & East of Scotland on a regular basis as appropriate, and more widely in Scotland as required.

In return for your commitment and expertise, you’ll get:

• Holidays –You’ll get 36 days annual leave (including bank holidays) and the option to buy an additional 5 days leave.
• Pension scheme – We offer up to 6% contributory pension.
• Flexible working – We will do what we can to make sure you work in a way that suits you.
• Learning & Development Opportunities – We are one of the UK’s largest charities and have a wide range of career opportunities. We also provide comprehensive learning opportunities for staff to develop themselves.
• Discounts – You’ll have access to brilliant discounts through the Blue Light Discount Card and our own employee benefits platform.
• Wellbeing Support – Staff wellbeing is always priority. You’ll have access to mental health and wellbeing support.
• Team Working – You will be working as part of a team that is supporting our mission of helping people in crisis.
• Cycle2Work – The cycle to work scheme enables you to lease a bicycle.
• Season ticket loan – We offer an interest free loan to buy a season ticket for travel between home and work.

We are looking for someone with vision and enthusiasm who can work with us to enable, support, and grow our existing Christian ministry with young people in the church, local schools, and within the wider community; and to explore new potential for outreach, both in person and online.

JOB CONTEXT – ABOUT STRATHENDRICK BAPTIST CHURCH (SBC)

SBC is a small and informal church in the heart of rural Stirlingshire, meeting in Balfron village hall. We have around 50 regular attendees with around 20 of those being children and teenagers, from Balfron and many of the surrounding villages. It was founded around 35 years ago, has never had a formal ‘minister’, and is led by a team of volunteer men and women who jointly take responsibility for the life of the church.

SBC is a community of believers who value loving and serving each other in day-to-day life. Our vision is to be a Spirit-filled and empowered witnessing community, based on Acts 1:8. We believe that relationships are key to developing opportunities to share the Gospel and as adults seek opportunities in daily life to do so. However, we are acutely aware that our young people need discipleship and encouragement in their own faith in order to be confident to share it with others. We also have wide open opportunities within our local school (the High School for the whole rural area is located in Balfron) and community, yet at present do not have the capacity to do the many things that we feel God is calling us to do.

JOB DESCRIPTION – ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Role Description

The Youth and Outreach Worker will be required to:

• Lead, oversee and grow an effective youth ministry at SBC that reaches into the wider community and local schools. (SBC currently hosts regular ‘Prayer Spaces in Schools’ in the local High School. There is currently no regular Christian group in the school, but SBC has been invited to host one (e.g. Scripture Union) – what an exciting opportunity!
• Develop the youth ministry such that young people can both come to faith and flourish as enthusiastic disciples. He or she will be expected to model a lively and committed faith in Jesus Christ, that impacts all areas of life, and be an active member of the worshipping community at SBC.
• Increase church capacity for all age outreach by leading and co-ordinating events such as Alpha Courses and Holiday Clubs. The village currently has no regular youth group or toddler group, so opportunities abound!
• Lead, develop, encourage, and coordinate a committed and able team of volunteers to accomplish these goals – providing an overall vision and leading a strategy to achieve this.
• Engage in post-covid society online with regular uploading of content to website and social media, making connections to local web pages and raising the profile of SBC online locally.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead: To oversee an effective and growing youth ministry. The Youth and Outreach Worker will have overall responsibility for implementing a strategy to achieve this goal, working closely with volunteers and ministry leaders, as well as the Leadership Team of SBC.
• Care: To ensure excellent pastoral care for the young people and providing support and encouragement to the ministry volunteers.
• Plan: To work with the volunteer leaders to plan and organise successful programmes of groups and events, ensuring necessary administrative tasks; record-keeping; budget-management and communication are undertaken to the necessary high standard.
• Initiate: To create and deliver new events and initiatives as appropriate that cohere with the wider vision and strategy of the SBC.
• Motivate: To encourage the volunteers that enable the ministries to function effectively. This will include recruiting new volunteers, running relevant volunteer training and managing volunteers.
• Witness: To explore the potential for new ways of outreach in the community. To develop initiatives and cooperate with others in the local area as appropriate to reach out to unchurched youth and other age groups in Balfron and surrounding villages.
• Administrate: Ensure all youth ministry activities are well organised, properly administered, and relevant legislation and SBC polices are adhered to (such as Health & Safety, Safeguarding and GDPR) and relevant Risk Assessments completed.
• Communicate: To regularly update the youth and their parents making them aware of any relevant information. To ensure good lines of communication with the volunteers, ministry leaders and other staff. The Youth and Outreach Worker will update the Leadership Team on a monthly basis and will meet fortnightly with their line manager.
• Create: To create/upload online content that helps to engage with those who do not/cannot engage with us in person both on our website (under construction) and social media. To make connections to local web pages and seek ways to raise the profile of SBC online locally.
• Cooperate: To maintain and develop links with other Churches and the local High School. Liaising and where appropriate partnering with other youth leaders and supporting networks. To undertake other tasks, commensurate with the post as required by SBC Leadership Team.

Responsible to: SBC Leadership Team (volunteer only), of which one will act as line- manager.

Due to the nature of this role, this post is subject to an occupational requirement that the applicant be a practicing Christian under Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010.

SBC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The post holder will be required to take care to safeguard their own safety and that of others with whom they work and to co-operate with those designated with responsibility for health and safety.

The successful applicant will be subject to PVG checks with Disclosure Scotland.