- Advertised from 13th May 2025
- 35 hours per week.
Role
Operating alongside the HR Manager, you will be the key link between HR and the business, delivering people strategies that support organisational goals. You’ll partner with leaders at all levels to drive employee engagement, talent development and organisational effectiveness.
Responsibilities:
- Provide proactive advice to the Executive team and managers in all matters relating to HR such as performance management, recruitment and retention, change management, employee relations; ensuring all appropriate policies, procedures, audit and legal requirements are adhered to.
- Design, develop and implement new HR policies and procedures to ensure compliance with current and emerging employment legislation, and other national directives for good practice in line with the current consultation practices and implementation guidelines.
- Actively promote diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the employee lifecycle.
- Build effective relationships with managers at all levels in order to encourage the integration of Human Resources best practice into business planning. Undertaking coaching and advise all levels of managers on people management issues in line with National Park Authority policies and procedures.
- Deliver an end-to-end recruitment service including designing job adverts, developing sample questions, organising and participating in interviews/assessment centres, issuing contracts, ensuring all pre-employment checks are completed such as verification of right to work in UK, health checks, and references.
- Manage all personal records both computerised and hardcopy in accordance with the Data Protection Act. Drive forward the use of the HR system to ensure it is fully integrated into the business and utilised to maximum effect.
- Provide HR statistical information both internally and externally, in accordance with business requirements.
- Act as a primary contact for internal and external customers on all HR related matters through to resolution.
- Provide cover for the HR Manager and other members of the HR team in their absence.
- Undertake any other duties appropriate to the grade as required.
Who we are looking for:
Your skills, abilities and experience should include:
- Experience of providing a comprehensive HR Advisory service.
- Experience of building strong management relationships with the ability to challenge and influence across all business areas.
- Sound understanding of employment legislation.
- Experience of formulating HR policies and procedures.
- Experience in supporting and promoting good industrial relations with staff and unions.
- Degree in HR Management or equivalent experience.
- Chartered membership of CIPD
Ideally, but not essentially, you’ll also have:
- Experience of working within the Public Sector
Application notes
If you are interested in this role, please complete your application by 28th May 2025 @ 9am.
- Access our application form on our job portal
- Interviews will be virtual
- Interviews taking place on: 5th & 6th June 2025
Who we are and our values:
We offer flexible and remote working, with a generous pension scheme and annual leave allowance. Staff have access to wellbeing services and there is a strong focus on wellbeing throughout the organisation.
Being part of Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park Authority means being passionate about what you do, working hard to inspire and lead the way for others. We care about each other and are accessible and friendly treating each other with respect and understanding, we think about our planet with each decision we make. Together, we are the difference.
Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park Authority are proud to celebrate difference. Diversity of experience is vital in our success we want our business to be representative to the communities we work alongside. As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applicants from a wide range of individuals, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, gender identity and expression, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
The Green Action Trust is Scotland's leading environmental regeneration charity and a trusted delivery partner for the Scottish Government and a wide range of public, private and non-profit stakeholders.
We are supporting a partnership between Glasgow City Council, East Renfrewshire Council and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to develop and deliver the Glasgow Lost Rivers project which aims to recognise, develop and restore the urban river valleys in the Whitecart catchment on Glasgow’s south side. These rivers, mistreated by history and often neglected, have the potential breathe life into communities.
We’re recruiting a Project Coordinator to drive and develop this project as it moves from feasibility to concept design and prepares for technical design and delivery. As the Glasgow Lost Rivers Project Coordinator, you will work collaboratively with our partners and as a part of the part of the Green Action Trust’s Water Environment Fund (WEF) programme team, working alongside and sharing experiences with the Project Managers and Development Officers for other live WEF projects and supported by senior staff across Operations, Landscape and Programmes. You will be skilled in effective stakeholder engagement, report on project progress, identify opportunities and potential means of delivery, and develop an exciting and inclusive place-based narrative to deliver multiple benefits beyond river restoration
Travel to sites is an essential part of this role and a clean driving license and access a vehicle are required.
At the Green Action Trust we believe that staff should enjoy their work. We support a strong work life balance through flexible and hybrid working, training and support, a range of staff activities throughout the year and a strong employee support package.
This is a fixed term, full time position, based from our office in Stepps. For more information on the role and criteria, please download our Glasgow Lost Rivers Project Coordinator Recruitment Pack from our website.
Background
Edinburgh Communities Climate Action Network (ECCAN) is a network of over 160 group members and over 300 individual members. We aim to engage and empower individuals and community groups in taking meaningful action to address the climate and nature emergency, working towards a just, thriving and resilient Edinburgh. Our membership is open to any community group and individual in Edinburgh. You can become a member here.
ECCAN was launched by the Scottish Communities Climate Action Network (SCCAN) in 2022 and submitted a successful funding application to the Scottish Government in Autumn 2023 to establish the Edinburgh Communities Climate Action Hub. This is part of a strategic Scotland-wide network of regional Climate Action Hubs.
At ECCAN, we aim to cultivate an organisational culture that is diverse, equitable, and fosters belonging. The post holder will play a pivotal role in supporting us to achieve this vision.
The Role
This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who is passionate about climate action, good governance and charity management to take a key supporting role in building the community-led network and ensuring its ongoing success.
This person will be an excellent administrator with a keen eye for detail, tech-savvy and able to support the organisation in achieving its aims and objectives, through the management of everyday operations.
This will include ensuring compliance with all policy and related expectations of a publicly-funded organisation, managing HR strategies and day-to-day finances such as payroll and expenses.
As part of a fast-paced environment and collaborative team, there will be an opportunity for you to grow and develop in your role. While the role is focused on the finance and policies of the charity you will be able to contribute to the direction of our sub-networks or other activities you may have an interest in.
Trustee required to drive Strategic Marketing & Profile Raising for Amisfield Preservation Trust
Have you a track record in strategic marketing and a flair for elevating profiles? Amisfield Preservation Trust (Amisfield.org.uk), a registered charity which has restored and manages the UK’s largest volunteer-led walled garden as a community wellbeing resource for East Lothian, is looking for a trustee to join the Board and help raise our profile, increase our membership and visitor numbers, and underpin a sustainable funding model.
About Us- Based just outside Haddington in East Lothian, Amisfield Preservation Trust is dedicated to preserving and enhancing an eight-acre historic walled garden that offers a serene retreat and wellbeing resource to locals, volunteers and visitors alike.
The Role - As a Trustee with a strategic marketing focus, you will help:
• Shape Strategic Direction: Provide high-level insight into marketing, communications, and public engagement to elevate the Trust’s profile.
• Boost Stakeholder Engagement: Cultivate relationships with key partners, donors, and the local community to strengthen our brand and secure our future.
• Drive Visibility: Develop and implement strategies that spotlight our unique story and community impact.
• Champion Innovation: Bring creative, out-of-the-box thinking to guide our messaging and broaden our reach in unprecedented ways.
Who We Are Looking For - We seek someone who:
• Has proven experience in strategic marketing, communications, or a related discipline.
• Has a track record of crafting narratives that resonate and build strong brand recognition.
• Is happy to contribute time and expertise in a non-paid trustee capacity.
• Has excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work collaboratively with a board of passionate, like-minded individuals.
Why Join Us? - This is an opportunity to leave a lasting mark by helping ensure the long-term viability of the garden. Amisfield deserves to be more widely known and visited and to have long-term secure funding.
If you're ready to bring your strategic marketing prowess to a role that could make a deep, lasting impact, we would love to hear from you.
Project Officer (Urban Green Links)
- Full time or Part time
- £29,646 – £33,135
- Hybrid: Stirling with some travel required throughout Scotland
- Closing 27th June 2025
Interested in greenspace and what they offer to people, places and our planet? Enjoy working with other professionals and can deliver collaborative projects? Then you might be who we are looking for.
We have a new role to help us deliver a National Lottery Heritage Fund project Urban Green Links. Building on current work of greenspace scotland and our Park Managers Forum this project will innovate, develop, celebrate and advance peer-to-peer collaboration, knowledge and profile.
At greenspace scotland we believe greenspaces are at the heart of healthy, happy, thriving and sustainable communities and places. This project aims to ensure that people and organisations build the knowledge and capability to create, improve and maintain high quality, nature-rich, climate-friendly urban greenspaces in Scotland.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference for greenspace professionals and others across Scotland.
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