Make Your Mark Skills Development Officer

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.

Reporting to the Communities Manager and working alongside the Communities team, the Make Your Mark Skills Development Officer will deliver a programme of accredited skills training focused on built heritage, cultural and natural heritage to people facing complex barriers to employment.

The post-holder will work closely with our partners Make Your Mark and Access to Industry. This post will form part of the wider Make Your Mark programme, supporting people facing barriers to employment through training and pathways into volunteering and employment opportunities, supporting heritage volunteer organisers, and supporting sectoral research, knowledge and practice.

Delivery will focus on providing a structured programme of accredited skills training to raise awareness of the importance of heritage, support participants with the knowledge and tools to celebrate, record and preserve local heritage, and equip them with skills to take on heritage volunteering opportunities.

1. Deliver a structured programme of cultural heritage training for cohorts of individuals to facilitate volunteering opportunities, further training or entry to the workplace.
2. Build and maintain professional relationships based on empathy, understanding and respect with project participants and partners, collaborating to ensure training is engaging, relevant, suitable and accessible for the audience.
3. Carry out planning, record keeping, administration and assessment processes as required.
4. Support the ongoing development of training units and participate in quality assurance processes.
5. Organise and attend meetings, events and celebrations in relation to the project.
6. Ensure activities adhere to funders’ outcomes and support monitoring and evaluation processes.
7. Work with partners to resolve day-to-day issues associated with the delivery of project activities.
8. To contribute to communication plans and campaigns to effectively promote and publicise the project as required.
9. To develop and maintain close communications with fellow employees to ensure the maximum flow of information, understanding and ideas.
10. To become familiar with and adhere to all internal policies and procedures.
11. To ensure compliance with the company’s Health and Safety Policy.
12. To observe the company’s Equal Opportunities Policy.
13. To undertake such work as may be determined from time to time up to or on a level commensurate with the main responsibilities of the post.

Essential:

• Experience of working in a community setting
• Experience of delivering training / skills development / teaching
• Knowledge of, or experience in built, natural and/or cultural
  heritage
• Ability to travel
• Willingness to participate in training (where relevant)
• PVG check will be required
• Commitment to the aims and objectives of Keep Scotland Beautiful; combat climate change, tackle litter and waste and protect and enhance the places we love.
• Values: Collaboration, Positivity, Ambition, Innovation
• Commitment to fair, inclusive, equal opportunities and healthy and safe working practices.
• Able to exercise discretion in handling confidential and sensitive information

Desirable:

• Health and Safety training.
• Teaching/training qualification or equivalent experience.
• SQA/Qualifications Scotland Assessor or Verifier training.
• Carbon Literate.
• Experience of supporting individuals with complex needs.
• Experience in risk assessment for community activities.
• Experience of administering learning programmes eg SQA/SCQF vocational qualifications.
• Ability to create, maintain and enhance working partnerships.
• Experience of delivering outdoor learning activities.
• Understanding of the climate emergency
• Experience / interest in arts / crafts / culture