Influencing Officer (Fixed Term - 1 year)

The Robertson Trust; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 41,104 - 48,715; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

35 days holiday per year

Pension with employer contribution

Employee benefits package

Job summary

A community-focused charity in Glasgow seeks an Influencing Officer for a fixed-term role to strengthen efforts in reducing poverty and trauma. In this position, you will develop and implement direct influencing activities, engage with stakeholders, and enhance policy insights. A strong understanding of Scotland's socio-political landscape, along with experience in advocacy, is crucial. The role offers a salary range of £41,104 to £48,715, hybrid working options, and a commitment to equality and diversity.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting influencing, policy, advocacy or strategic engagement work.
• Strong understanding of the voluntary sector in Scotland.
• High emotional intelligence and ability to build relationships.

Responsibilities

• Support the development and delivery of direct influencing activity.
• Work collaboratively to ensure activity connects with communications.
• Build and strengthen networks with stakeholders and peer organisations.

Skills

Analytical skills

Relationship building

Understanding of poverty and trauma

Policy insight

Stakeholder engagement

Education

HNC/D or equivalent relevant experience

Job description

Vacancy: Influencing Officer (Fixed Term - 1 year)

The Robertson Trust is looking for an Influencing Officer (Fixed Term - 1 year) to join our new Programmes team.

This role supports the Programmes Manager (Social Change Movements) and the wider organisation to strengthen the Trust’s influencing work in preventing and reducing poverty and trauma in Scotland.

Based primarily at Robertson House, Glasgow, with hybrid working available, this role supports the Trust to secure big change that lasts in preventing and reducing poverty and trauma in Scotland.

Over the next decade, we are committed to using all our tools and resources to reduce poverty and trauma across four themes:

• Education Pathways
• Nurturing Relationships
• Work Pathways

As part of our cross‑cutting Influencing objective, this role will support the development and delivery of the Trust’s direct influencing activity, working with partners and stakeholders to influence decision making and systems change.

The Role

You will help to develop and test effective approaches to direct influencing and support the Trust to build relationships with those who have the power to deliver change. You will work closely with colleagues across the organisation to ensure influencing activity connects with our wider work, including communications, convening, the influencing work we fund and the learning from our funding.

You will also support stakeholder engagement, network development and policy insight, helping the Trust identify opportunities to influence policy, practice and decision making.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the development and delivery of direct influencing activity aligned to the Trust’s influencing objective.
• Work collaboratively across the Trust to ensure direct influencing activity connects with communications, convening and the indirect influencing work we fund.
• Support the development of influencing plans and help test effective approaches to influencing.
• Build and strengthen networks with grantholders, stakeholders and peer organisations undertaking influencing work.
• Monitor and analyse policy, political and practice developments relevant to poverty and trauma in Scotland.
• Support stakeholder mapping and engagement with decision makers and influential actors.
• Contribute to gathering and applying insight from across the Trust’s work to strengthen influencing activity.
• Represent the Trust externally as required and contribute to cross‑cutting organisational priorities.

About You

We are looking for someone with a strong understanding of poverty and trauma and the policy, political and practice landscape in Scotland.

You will bring:

• HNC/D, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Relevant experience in a field related to poverty and/or trauma.
• Experience supporting influencing, policy, advocacy or strategic engagement work.
• A strong understanding of the voluntary sector in Scotland.
• Experience building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders and networks.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to communicate complex issues clearly.
• The ability to manage competing priorities and work using your own initiative.
• Experience supporting the development of influencing plans or campaigns.
• High emotional intelligence and the ability to build relationships with diverse stakeholders.
• An interest in policy, politics and practice in Scotland and how social change happens.
• A commitment to addressing inequality and placing lived experience at the centre of work.

We encourage applications from suitably qualified candidates from all parts of the community, regardless of age, disability, race, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief or socio‑economic background. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience or knowledge of how poverty or trauma impact lives.

Benefits

• Salary £41,104 to £48,715 FTE.
• 35 days holiday per calendar year, inclusive of public holidays.
• Pension – 10% employer contribution or 14% if employee contribution is 7%.
• Additional employee benefits package (currently under review).
• This role is advertised as full‑time, but we are open to applicants who wish to work part‑time.

How to apply

To apply, please email [e-mail] with your CV and a covering letter, of no more than two pages, outlining your interest in the role and how you meet the criteria. Please clearly state which role you are applying for in your email subject line.

The closing date for applications is 27th April 2026. Interviews will be held shortly after the closing date.

We may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications, so we encourage early applications.

• Location: Hybrid – primary location: Glasgow (Robertson House)
• Department: Programmes and Practice
• Contract type: Fixed Term (1 year). This role is advertised as full‑time (35 hours), but we are open to applicants who wish to work part‑time.