Project Officer — Our Heritage, Our Future

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 Project Coordinator, the Our Heritage, Our Future Project Officer will develop and deliver a programme of place-based cultural heritage activity as part of the Our Heritage, Our Future: Community, Climate and Heritage Action project.

This 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, and
▪ creating a lasting legacy of ownership and ongoing heritage conservation.

1. Work with communities to identify, research and learn about their heritage.
2. Establish links and foster relationships with new volunteers, and work with volunteers to undertake a range of heritage activities.
3. Liaise with key referral agencies, local authority partners and external organisations to organise and deliver meaningful activities in line with qualification and certification requirements.
4. Support the delivery and ongoing assessment of heritage skills training.
5. Support the development and delivery of heritage and climate action planning within communities.
6. Ensure activities adhere to funders’ outcomes and support monitoring and evaluation processes.
7. Undertake and adhere to risk assessments and Safe Systems of Work for all activities.
8. Keep records of attendance at events and carry out feedback questionnaires where appropriate.
9. Resolve day-to-day problems associated with the delivery of project activities.
10. Adhere to KSB’s financial recording processes and project budget.
11. Contribute to communication plans and campaigns to effectively promote and publicise the heritage activities, as required.
12. Become familiar with, develop and adhere to all internal policies and procedures.
13. Ensure compliance with the company’s Health and Safety policy.
14. Observe the company’s Equal Opportunities Policy.
15. 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:

• Education / Training
  • Understanding of the historic environment policy context in Scotland
  • Understanding of the Climate Emergency
  • Knowledge of relevant accredited or non-accredited learning programmes such as John Muir Award, Heritage Hero Award or SQA/SCQF vocational qualifications
• Experience / Skills
  • Experience of working in a community setting
  • Experience of coordinating volunteering activity
• Values and Attitudes
  • Commitment to the aims and objectives of Keep Scotland Beautiful;
    • combat climate change
    • tackle litter and waste
    • 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
• Other
  • Ability to travel
  • Willingness to participate in training (where relevant)

Desirable:

• Education / Training
  • Health and Safety training
  • SQA/Qualifications Scotland Assessor or Verifier training or similar
  • Knowledge of the Place Principle in Scotland
• Experience / Skills
  • Experience in risk assessment for community activities
  • Experience of delivering structured training programmes
  • Experience of developing or delivering learning programmes
  • Experience of delivering outdoor learning activities
  • Experience of developing or delivering community engagement activities