Our Heritage, Our Project Officer

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...

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, including a generous pension scheme, hybrid working, development opportunities, a 35‑hour work week (28 hours for 0.8

FTE), and an annual free volunteer day to take your skills or interests to support others. We operate a hybrid working policy, allowing a balance between home/remote working and coming to our office Hub in Stirling.

This is a Part‑Time (28 hrs/wk), Fixed‑Term post to 31

March
2029. Reporting to the Our Heritage, Our Future Coordinator, the Our Heritage, Our Future Project Officer will support the project team in delivering a programme of place‑based cultural heritage activity as part of the Our Heritage, Our Future:
Community, Climate and Heritage Action project.

The project will provide a multi‑faceted, community‑based approach within communities and across heritage sites throughout Scotland, with the core aims of:

• Taking action to conserve and enhance historic monuments
• Engaging with communities to bring heritage to life
• Raising awareness of the importance of conserving heritage, and the benefits heritage can provide for individuals
• Using heritage as a means to enhance a shared sense of place and purpose
• Creating a lasting legacy of ownership and ongoing heritage conservation

• Passion for Scotland’s historic environment and an understanding of the risks posed by the climate emergency
• Experience of working in a community setting, supporting learning and coordinating volunteer activity
• Ability to travel

The post is funded by Historic Environment Scotland and The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with thanks to National Lottery players.