Campaigns and Interventions Officer

Keep Scotland Beautiful; Stirling; Hybrid; GBP 17,000 - 26,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

35-hour week (28 hours for 0.8FTE)

Job summary

Keep Scotland Beautiful is seeking a Campaigns and Interventions Officer to lead our marine and riverine litter campaigns. This is a part-time, fixed-term role 28 hrs/week until 31 March 2027, with hybrid working between home and Stirling office. Travel across Scotland and driving licence required.

You will develop and deliver interventions, coordinate supporters and volunteers, and monitor and evaluate campaigns in collaboration with the Senior Officer, Campaigns and Interventions.

Qualifications

• Understanding of environmental issues and policy relating to litter, plastics pollution, circular economy and/or climate change.
• Experience in environmental campaigns, education, and awareness raising.
• Ability to create, maintain and enhance working partnerships.
• Experience of community engagement.
• Experience of coordinating and supporting campaign supporters and volunteers.
• Experience of working on a range of communications platforms and channels to support campaign delivery.
• Undertaking evaluation, developing case studies and writing reports.
• Travel across Scotland and a valid, full UK driving licence is required for this role.

Responsibilities

• Lead and facilitate the development and delivery of marine and riverine litter campaigns.
• Manage relationships with national and local stakeholders and undertake monitoring and evaluation.

Skills

Environmental campaigns

Community engagement

Stakeholder management

Report writing

Job description

Are you excited by the thought of working for an organisation whose mission is to inspire changes in behaviour to improve our environment, the quality of people’s lives, their wellbeing, and the places that they care for? If you answered yes, please read on...

Who we are

Keep Scotland Beautiful is your charity inspiring action for our environment. Our vision is for a clean, green, sustainable Scotland. We are a practical organisation working with communities, schools, businesses, local and national government, public bodies and individuals to help combat climate change, tackle litter and waste, restore nature and biodiversity and improve the places we care for. We support the ambitions of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. We offer a fantastic benefits package in return for your talent. These include but are not limited to a generous pension scheme; hybrid working; development opportunities; a 35-hour work week (28 hours for 0.8FTE), along with an annual free volunteer day to take your skills or interests to support others. We operate a hybrid working policy, which allows a balance between home/remote working and coming to our office Hub in Stirling.

What the role is

This is a Part-Time (28 hrs/wk), Fixed Term post to 31 March 2027. Reporting to the Senior Officer, Campaigns and Interventions (SOCI), the Campaigns and Interventions Officer (CIO) will lead and facilitate the development and delivery of our work on marine and riverine litter, including our activities for the Marine Litter Strategy, our Upstream Battle Campaign, and associated activities. This will include the delivery of projects, interventions and activities, managing relationships with national and local stakeholders, and undertaking monitoring and evaluation.

What you’ll need to have

We are looking for outgoing, enthusiastic and creative individuals with:

• Understanding of environmental issues and policy relating to litter, plastics pollution, circular economy and/or climate change
• Experience in environmental campaigns, education, and awareness raising
• Ability to create, maintain and enhance working partnerships
• Experience of community engagement
• Experience of coordinating and supporting campaign supporters and volunteers
• Experience of working on a range of communications platforms and channels to support campaign delivery
• Undertaking evaluation, developing case studies and writing reports
• Travel across Scotland and a valid, full UK driving licence is required for this role