Landscape Adviser

Overview

This post will provide an exciting opportunity to input to plans, policies, and guidance that will help Scotland’s landscapes change for the better. This is particularly important now given the need to understand how landscape skills can support nature recovery, nature-based solutions and a natural capital approach in practice. This is a one-year fixed term, full-time role with Nature Scot. We encourage applications from those seeking part-time employment or flexible working arrangements.

• Provide landscape advice to colleagues, planners and developers on strategic planning issues, significant casework (terrestrial and marine), and our spatial priorities and projects.
• Contribute to policy development, including Development Plans, National and Regional Marine Plans, and regional spatial plans.
• Contribute to the development and review of landscape guidance and other resources such as research, and the delivery of training on landscape issues to a range of audiences.

• A relevant, accredited degree in landscape architecture, landscape planning, or a closely-related discipline
• Chartered membership of the Landscape Institute or the RTPI, or willingness to work towards a relevant accreditation.
• Knowledge and/or understanding of Strategic Environmental Assessment Landscape Character Assessment, Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment, and the Environmental Impact Assessment process.
• Ability to provide informed, clear and solution-focused landscape advice for example on development proposals, place-making projects and other initiatives.

• Effective communication and engagement skills. These include: the ability to convey technical issues to general audiences both written and verbally, with the potential to act as an expert witness; the ability to summarise and distil key points for briefings and formal advice; and the ability to influence and forge good working relationships with a range of stakeholders.
• A team player with empathy and understanding of the views and positions of others, while also demonstrating commitment to overall team performance and the organisational outcomes we seek.
• Creativity and versatility in approach to work, able to be adaptive to changing situations, and embracing of new areas of work.
• Good organisational skills, and the ability to meet deadlines.
• The ability to undertake fieldwork that may entail long days. This could sometimes be in remote and/or upland areas that are not accessible by vehicles.
• The ability to use MS Office software, in particular for remote and hybrid working: MS Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

• Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK and resident in Scotland for the duration of the job contract
• To undertake a Disclosure Scotland application.
• Although Gaelic language is not a prerequisite it is a desirable skill in support of our Gaelic Language Plan