Campaigns Officer (Marine Litter)

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……

Who we are

Keep Scotland Beautiful is your charity for Scotland’s 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 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 wonderful, new office Hub in Stirling.

What the role is

The Campaigns Officer (Marine Litter) will lead and facilitate the development
and delivery of our work on marine litter, including our activities for the Marine Litter
Strategy, our Upstream Battle Campaign, and associated activities.

This will include developing and delivering relevant activities, managing relationships with
key stakeholders designing and implementing interventions, promotional activity, and
undertaking monitoring and evaluation.

A valid, full UK driving licence is required for this role.

This role is Full Time (35 hours per week) and fixed term to 31 March 2024.

What you’ll need to have

We are looking for enthusiastic and creative individuals with:

• An understanding of environmental issues and policy relating to litter, plastics pollution,
  circular economy and/or climate change;
• Good working knowledge of developing, organising, and delivering large-scale campaigns and
  initiatives;
• Excellent communication skills to create, maintain and enhance working partnerships;
• Experience of coordinating and supporting campaign supporters and volunteers;
• Ability to manage complex workloads;
• Experience of press/media/PR activity to support campaign delivery.

Desirable skills include:

• Experience of community engagement;
• Awareness and understanding of current social media techniques and applications;
• Experience of budget and financial management;
• Experience of maintaining website content and databases.

Does this sound like you?

If you feel you have the elements to be our Campaigns Officer (Marine Litter), we would love to
hear from you.

A full Job Description and Person Specification can be downloaded along with the application
pack from our website.

Please email your completed application to us at [email protected] before our
submission deadline of midnight on Sunday 17 September 2023. If you are shortlisted for interview, we shall be
holding interviews week commencing 25 September 2023.

If you’d like a little bit more of an insight into our exciting opportunity or have a question
about it, please call our Campaigns and Social Innovation Manager on 07711
424678.

We are sorry but we don’t accept CVs.

Keep Scotland Beautiful is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all
members of the community.

Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation: Number SC030332
VAT Registration Number: 284 0654 93