Join our Board – Culture & Business Scotland is recruiting!

Could you help to bridge Scotland's business and culture sectors?

We’re seeking new Board members to join Culture & Business Scotland from February 2027.

As a one of our Board members, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Champion leadership, philanthropy and sponsorship in Scotland
• Use your lived or professional experience to make a real impact
• Play your part in a dynamic, inclusive and national charity

If you’re passionate about the power of culture and business working together, we’d love to hear from you.

This is your chance to contribute to our mission and help guide our strategic direction. You don’t need previous board experience – just a commitment to collaboration, creativity and impact.

The John Muir Way is one of Scotland's most iconic long-distance walking routes, spanning 134 miles from Helensburgh on the west coast to Dunbar on the east. The John Muir Way Green Skills programme, a three-year initiative funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, focuses on improving biodiversity along this route, creating opportunities for trainees aged 16 - 24 years old with barriers to employment, to learn new skills, build confidence, and contribute to Scotland's natural and cultural heritage.

The John Muir Way Green Skills programme is a 3-year employability initiative with 18 months remaining, through which a total of 72 trainees are engaging in practical biodiversity tasks and projects along the route. The Green Skills Traineeship helps build practical skills, knowledge and confidence for work, volunteering or further learning in the environmental and conservation sector.

The programme aims to bridge the skills gap and tackle workforce challenges, increase connectivity and break down the disconnect with nature, and create accessible opportunities that recognise and value different ways of thinking, learning and engaging.

As the Edinburgh Green Skills Leader you will lead a team of six Green Skills Trainees per year, including the existing cohort. The post holder will have overall responsibility for line managing the trainees, leading delivery of practical training and the delivery of practical biodiversity enhancement tasks on partner sites. In Edinburgh the Green Skills Leader will liaise with greenspace teams from City of Edinburgh Council and community groups to agree sites and projects. This role will also contribute to the project evaluation, local budget management, and programme promotion. Trainees are in attendance 3 days per week (Monday - Wednesday), the role is hybrid and you will be required to be on site on the same days that the trainees are present and for team meetings.

You will be part of a team of 4 Green Skills Leaders working with Scottish Canals and Local Authorities along the route.

You will work closely with the People Advisor and People Admin Coordinator managing the schedule of external training, trainee attendance, annual leave, onboarding, and programme exiting of trainees. These roles will report into the John Muir Way Green Skills Operations Leader.

• Experience of leading a small team.
• Previous management of a training programme/structured delivery model.
• Mentoring and/or coaching young people.
• A passion for supporting young people to achieve their goals.
• Knowledge and understanding of practical biodiversity projects and events.
• Experience in recruiting and managing trainees and/or other stakeholders.
• Experience in working in partnership with multiple organisations with potentially differing demands.
• Support trainees through regular one-to-one meetings to agree personal goals, review their progress and plan next steps.

A full, clean or near clean UK driving licence is required for this post, which has been held for a minimum of one year.

To fulfil the role, you must be resident in the UK and have the right to work in the UK.

About Us:

Crossroads Community Hub is a charity, seeking a Development Officer to support its charitable activities based at our purpose-built community facility, Ayrshire Community Hub. The Hub, at Crossroads in East Ayrshire, also houses a café, farm shop, event space, gardening and growing areas. Our charitable activities include working with supermarkets, community partners and volunteers to support our local community in any way we can. The post is funded by Funding Scotland through the Development Trust Association Recovery and Resilience Fund. We are passionate about our work, and our community.

Our Aims:

We aim to develop the full potential of the hub as a community asset by developing our community activities, building new partnerships with hub users and seeking opportunities for new streams of funding working with the Board Trustees on governance and financial stability.

Job Role:

You will be based at Ayrshire Food Hub working to deliver a range of activities and services for people in the towns and villages in the 6 rural parishes surrounding Crossroads. You will be responsible for coordinating funding streams and establishing operational and financial systems, linking them into a Management Accounting System. You will manage our established food poverty programme seeking grants to continue and develop the programme with the support of our Trustees.

The Person:

You will be a practical people person with excellent networking skills, driven to help support the vision of the organisation by bringing creative and innovative ideas on delivering our charitable community objectives. You will also have sound financial and administrative skills to set up systems and work towards financial sustainability for the Hub. You will be both competent and confident in involving the Trustees, the members and the public through all channels of communication.

A full job description can be downloaded below.

As Connected Communities Lead within Thrive Outdoors, you will help strengthen opportunities for children, young people, families and communities to connect through outdoor play and learning. Working closely with funded organisations, partners and the Scottish Government, you will coordinate programmes and funding, support community engagement and participation, share learning and impact, and help grow investment in outdoor community play across Scotland. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to Thrive Outdoors’ vision of embedding outdoor play and learning into the fabric of Scottish life so that all children can thrive.