Community Engagement Officer (Giving Nature a Home) - Glasgow- (Fixed Term Maternity Cover)

Community Engagement Officer (Giving Nature a Home) - Glasgow - (Fixed Term Maternity Cover)

We are looking for someone with a love of wildlife and a passion for helping others to enjoy it. This post will be part of our Giving Nature a Home Glasgow team who have been working across the city since 2013, supporting people to develop a love of nature and desire to protect it. Nature is under threat more than ever before; this role will help us connect with people of all ages and backgrounds across Glasgow to engage with urban wildlife and inspire action through practical conservation, biological recording and community events.

RSPB have had a partnership with Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum since 2007 to connect people with nature using the natural history collection to highlight conservation issues internationally, on our reserves, across Glasgow and in Kelvingrove Park right outside the door. This role will help the team maintain this successful partnership and fulfil our commitment to delivering school’s workshops, monthly family events, wildlife ID workshops for targeted groups and larger scale events and Bioblitz’s.

Recently, we have started working with a wider range of groups and organisations to create new opportunities for more people to enjoy nature, especially those who face cultural, financial and accessibility barriers to doing so. This role will build on our existing work, as well as provide an exciting opportunity to develop new ideas and ways to bring people and nature closer together.

This role will help with the visibility of our project by engaging with other organisations, partners and the public locally through in-person events and social media.

• Managing volunteers
• Maintaining our successful partnership with Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and designing and delivering workshops and events there.
• Engaging with communities across the city to co-design and implement improvements for Biodiversity.
• Leading on practical conservation activities, often with volunteer and community groups.
• Upskilling communities in species ID and biological recording.
• Keeping records and assisting with reporting to funding bodies.
• Engaging with people who find accessing nature more challenging.

The role will be supported by the GNAHG Project Manager, the GNAH team in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

• Community engagement – connecting with communities and delivering events to the public.
• An ability to build and maintain partnerships.
• An excellent verbal communicator with experience of working with a diverse range of groups and communities including those with disabilities, additional support needs and from a range of cultural backgrounds.
• Good basic knowledge of UK wildlife, habitats, and species.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Recruiting and managing volunteers.
• Proven time management & organizational skills.
• Working with project teams & stakeholders.
• Competent IT user (e.g., MS packages, Outlook etc).
• Experience/interest in biological recording and practical conservation.

• Good local knowledge of Glasgow.
• An understanding of how to use social media to deliver objectives.
• Experience of delivering funded projects and recording and reporting to funding bodies.
• An understanding of how to manage and improve land for wildlife and practical experience of doing so.

The post will be based both at home and RSPB's Glasgow office. You will be required to travel independently to different groups and venues across Glasgow, not always easily accessed by public transport and sometimes with equipment. A driver’s license is strongly recommended, or a suitable alternative.

This is a Fixed-Term Maternity Cover, Full-time role ending in December 2025.

For further information please contact: colleen.turner@rspb.org.uk

Interviews to be held w/c 17th March 2025.

As part of this application process, you will be asked to complete an application form including evidence on how you meet the skills, knowledge, and experience listed above.

This role will require completion of a PVG in addition to the standard pre-employment checks.

We are committed to developing an inclusive and diverse RSPB, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To achieve our vision of creating a world richer in nature, we need more people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side. People of colour and disabled people are currently underrepresented across the environment, climate, sustainability, and conservation sector. If you identify as a person of colour and/or disabled, we are particularly interested in receiving your application. Contact us to discuss any additional support you may need to complete your application.

The RSPB is an equal opportunities employer. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The RSPB is a licensed sponsor. This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship - the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.

Before applying for this role, we recommend reading through the candidate guidance notes attached to the top of this advert.