Campaigns and Communications Officer
- Part time
- £29,200 – £31,347 pro-rata
- : Edinburgh
- Closing 17th May 2024
- Advertised from 23rd April 2024
- 30 hours per week. Mid May 2024 to Mid March 2025.
- Pension, Life Assurance, 26 days annual leave.
- APR20246833
Role
The Campaigns and Communications Officer role is a great opportunity to use your communications skills and knowledge of policy in Scotland to help tackle the nature and climate emergency.
RSPB Scotland is Scotland’s largest nature conservation charity. The campaigns team works across the organisation and with external coalitions and partners to build broad public support for our policy priorities. The successful candidate will work closely with parliamentary and communications colleagues.
Forthcoming policy priorities include legislation aimed at restoring biodiversity. The successful candidate will coordinate internal and external stakeholders and support the development and implementation of activity designed to mobilise people for nature and climate.
This is a fixed-term role which would make an excellent secondment opportunity. We see the role as a development opportunity for those with some experience looking to develop their campaigning and advocacy skills.
What we need from you
Essentials:
- Education at degree level or equivalent, or the ability to demonstrate work-related experience.
- Experience of working on nature conservation issues.
- Experience of working on a public-facing communications campaign.
- Public engagement and event management skills
- Ability to develop public messages from briefings or background information on a wide variety of topics.
- Strong social media campaigning skills.
- Experience of relationship-building with internal and external networks.
- Ability to plan, prioritise and project manage.
- Monitoring and evaluation of campaigns and communication activities to determine reach and impact, including on social media.
Desirable
- Good understanding of the policy and political landscapes in Scotland and the UK.
- Event management for virtual events, such as webinars.
- Previous experience in conservation issues of concern.
Application notes
Closing date: 23:59, Friday 17th May 2024
Please Note: We reserve the right to close this advert at any time.
We reserve the right to extend/make permanent at any time.
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click here. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.
We are committed to developing an inclusive and diverse RSPB, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To achieve our vision of creating a world richer in nature, we need more people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side. People of colour and disabled people are currently underrepresented across the environment, climate, sustainability, and conservation sector. If you identify as a person of colour and/or disabled, we are particularly interested in receiving your application.
The RSPB is an equal opportunities employer. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
The RSPB is a licenced sponsor. This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship - the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.
As part of this application, you will be asked to provide a copy of your CV and complete a short form. If you wish to provide a cover letter with your application, please include this at the end of your CV document upload. Contact us to discuss any additional support you may need to complete your application.
For further information, please contact jason.rose@rspb.org.uk.
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Low Carbon Communities Officer
- Part time
- £27,594 – £30,280 pro-rata
- Hybrid: Edinburgh or Inverness (hybrid of home and office working)
- Closing 20th January 2025
About The Role
The Low Carbon Communities Team is a small, dynamic team that has a new focus to its work, exploring how community engagement can support householders to become more energy efficient and actively supporting people to move towards action. The team delivers a number of projects with the support of partners and funders across Scotland and is currently testing different approaches to community engagement to understand where the greatest impacts can be achieved.
We’re looking for a new Low Carbon Communities Officer to join us, to help smoothly and successfully deliver our projects. The ideal candidate will be very organised and enjoy working in a team that encourages creativity and peer support. They will always know where they are against project plans and be thinking ahead to the next step. This is a role that is people-oriented so they will also be a strong communicator, a confident public speaker and enjoy working with project stakeholders and community groups.
While this vacancy is advertised at 0.8 FTE there is potential for the post to be extended to full-time and offered on a permanent basis in the future. This can be discussed in advance or at interview.
About Us
Changeworks is a great place to work. We hold Investors in People Platinum accreditation (something only a few organisations in Scotland have), and we were nominated for employer of the year by the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce this year. Our staff overwhelmingly would recommend us as an employer too.
The Climate Emergency has resulted in ambitious national targets to reduce carbon emissions from the built environment and reduce rates of fuel poverty. This has driven a significant increase in the number of pilot and large-scale interventions delivered by Changeworks and external organisations in this area. These include area-based domestic energy efficiency retrofit and decarbonisation projects and programmes.
We are a growing organisation, and this role is crucial to the delivery of our ambitious objectives. We want to decarbonise homes in Scotland on a massive scale, and that needs talented individuals like you to help us deliver on our objectives. You’ll receive full training plus coaching and mentoring.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits including flexible working, bike to work scheme, an excellent pension scheme and 26 days paid holiday plus 9 public holidays per year.
At Changeworks, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone.
Highland Energy Community Partnership Manager
- Part time
- £35,638 – £38,819 pro-rata
- Hybrid/Remote: Highland or Inverness Office (Must be able to travel throughout partnership area)
- Closing 27th January 2025
We’re looking for an experienced partnership manager who’s passionate about supporting Highland communities, improving energy efficiency and tackling fuel poverty to manage our Highland Community Energy Partnership.
A strong communicator with experience of delivering innovative community projects you will oversee the day-to-day management and co-ordination of the Highland Energy Community Partnership (HECP) an exciting new programme funded by The National Lottery Community Fund and coordinated by Changeworks, in partnership with six community partners across Highland.
The project will build collaboration across implementing partners and beyond, aiming to improve community knowledge of energy efficiency, provide advice to individual households and intensive support to those most in need while supporting the establishment of a local supply chain for domestic retrofit. Sharing learning across the partnership and beyond you will support the partnership board in delivering this transformative five-year project.
We are looking for an individual who can combine their knowledge of low carbon solutions and experience of community development to design, deliver and co-ordinate energy efficiency activities which meet the long-term needs of communities across the partnership.
About us
Changeworks is a great place to work. We hold Investors in People Platinum accreditation (something only a few organisations in Scotland have), and we were nominated for employer of the year by the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce this year. Our staff overwhelmingly would recommend us as an employer too.
The Climate Emergency has resulted in ambitious national targets to reduce carbon emissions from the built environment and reduce rates of fuel poverty. This has driven a significant increase in the number of pilot and large-scale interventions delivered by Changeworks and external organisations in this area. These include area-based domestic energy efficiency retrofit and decarbonisation projects and programmes.
We are a growing organisation, and this role is crucial to the delivery of our ambitious objectives. We want to decarbonise homes in Scotland on a massive scale, and that needs talented individuals like you to help us deliver on our objectives. You’ll receive full training plus coaching and mentoring.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits including flexible working, bike to work scheme, an excellent pension scheme and 26 days paid holiday plus 9 public holidays per year.
At Changeworks, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone.
Highland Energy Community Partnership Co-ordinator and Engagement Officer
- Full time
- £27,594 – £30,280
- Hybrid/Remote: Highland or Inverness Office (Must be able to travel throughout partnership area)
- Closing 27th January 2025
We’re looking for a pro-active, methodical and well organised co-ordinator with excellent communication skills. We need someone who is passionate about supporting Highland communities to improve energy efficiency and tackle fuel poverty to be our Highland Energy Community Partnership Co-ordinator and Engagement Officer.
The Highland Energy Community Partnership (HECP) an exciting new programme funding by The National Lottery Community Fund and coordinated by Changeworks, in partnership with six community partners across Highland. We’re looking for someone who can co-ordinate activities across all of our public sector and community partners while also ensuring activities meet the requirements of the National Lottery.
A key component of this role is engagement with the local installer network working to establish and communicate their needs through focused research and engagement activities. The partnership is ambitious in its aim to establish a local supply chain for retrofit activities and this role is key to identifying local solutions across the partnership.
The project will build collaboration across implementing partners and beyond, aiming to improve community knowledge of energy efficiency, provide advice to individual households and intensive support to those most in need while supporting the establishment of a local supply chain for domestic retrofit. Sharing learning across the partnership and beyond you will support the partnership board in delivering this transformative five-year project.
We are looking for an individual who can combine their project experience, collaborative working style and innovative thinking to deliver the ambitions of the Highland Energy Community Partnership.
About us
Changeworks is a great place to work. We hold Investors in People Platinum accreditation (something only a few organisations in Scotland have), and we were nominated for employer of the year by the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce this year. Our staff overwhelmingly would recommend us as an employer too.
The Climate Emergency has resulted in ambitious national targets to reduce carbon emissions from the built environment and reduce rates of fuel poverty. This has driven a significant increase in the number of pilot and large-scale interventions delivered by Changeworks and external organisations in this area. These include area-based domestic energy efficiency retrofit and decarbonisation projects and programmes.
We are a growing organisation, and this role is crucial to the delivery of our ambitious objectives. We want to decarbonise homes in Scotland on a massive scale, and that needs talented individuals like you to help us deliver on our objectives. You’ll receive full training plus coaching and mentoring.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits including flexible working, bike to work scheme, an excellent pension scheme and 26 days paid holiday plus 9 public holidays per year.
At Changeworks, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone.
Community Garden Development Officer
- Full time or Part time
- £28,000 – £32,677
- On site: City of Edinburgh
- Closing 20th January 2025
Edible Estates is a not-for-profit which establishes community gardens and the greenspace projects in Edinburgh’s council estates. In 2022, we were awarded a contract by Edinburgh Council to support existing gardens and establish new gardens in estates which do not have them.
The purpose of the role is to Engage with communities to encourage and support participation of residents in community gardens/ growing projects in council estates across Edinburgh. Build the capacity of new and existing community garden groups to manage their gardens through good organisational practice. Provide remedial support to groups where required where policies and relationships have deteriorated. Support the positive contribution community gardens can make to their wider communities through event and services.
To be clear, the role does not include teaching participants how to grow food, designing or building community gardens, these roles are delivered by other members of the team.
The role will be working on the Growing Together project growingtogether.scot
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