Operations

Full-time and Fixed Term (9 months)
Salary £46,218 – £51,725 per annum
Plus generous benefits package
Hybrid / flexible working

About the role

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Sustainability Officer to join our team. We’re looking for an experienced sustainability professional who can combine strategic thinking with practical delivery. You’ll be confident working across an organisation, building strong relationships with colleagues and external partners, and communicating complex environmental issues in a clear and engaging way to a wide range of audiences. We’re particularly keen to hear from candidates with experience working in the sustainability and environment sector.

This role will suit someone who is knowledgeable, proactive and adaptable, with the confidence to take ownership of projects while bringing others with them. You’ll be comfortable working with data, legislation and reporting requirements, while also being passionate about encouraging positive environmental behaviours and finding opportunities to improve how we work.

You will be responsible for managing and co-ordinating the delivery of the National Galleries of Scotland Environmental Response Plan. This involves delivering the strategy for the organisation, co-ordinating colleague engagement to support behaviour change and managing projects to reduce environmental impact and carbon emissions. You will also ensure compliance to Scottish Government legislation for public bodies climate change duties and biodiversity duties for annual reporting and target setting.

Ideally, you’ll be available to start at the end of September or beginning of October. The initial contract is for 9 months, with the possibility of an extension of up to 3 months.

The difference you’ll make
You will work with colleagues internally and externally to promote the sustainability work of the National Galleries of Scotland and gather knowledge on sector improvements, innovation, and best practise. Reporting to the Head of Function you will:
-Maintain our Sustainability Strategy, Environmental Policy, Climate Change Action Plan and other relevant plans, including monitoring, and annually updating them.
-Oversee projects across departments, providing support with project management, research, knowledge sharing and procurement and contract management.
-Administer the monthly carbon reporting on utilities, waste, and business travel, including reviewing utilities invoices, checking any abnormal consumption, counter charging third parties and seeking energy savings.
-Produce accurate reports including:
-Annual internal Environmental Sustainability Report for our audit committee.
-Mandatory external public sector Climate Change Duties Reporting and Biodiversity Duty reporting.
-Deliver colleague engagement sessions on targeted topics for example waste, low carbon travel, energy efficiency.
-Manage our internal environmental groups, including all communications, facilitation of engagement projects and support for personal projects.
-Keep project teams updated on new legislation in relation to buildings, guiding on sector advances and maintaining links between our current sustainability work and the planning for buildings.
-Create and maintain meaningful partnerships and managing joint projects with external organisations.
-Keep up to date on relevant legislation to ensure compliance and respond to sector developments. Communicate updates to relevant contacts internally.
-Responding to consultations at national and local level on behalf on the organisation. Keep abreast of relevant grants and funding opportunities.

Who we are looking for
To succeed in this role, you’ll need the following range of knowledge, skills, and experience:
-Degree educated in a relevant discipline.
-Previous experience working in a similar sustainability and environment role, ideally in the public sector.
-Excellent knowledge of environment management and current sustainability legislation, best practice, and initiatives– including but not limited to energy, water, waste, travel, waste, biodiversity, procurement, construction, adaptation.
-Knowledge of the measures needed to reduce an organisation’s carbon footprint.
-Knowledge of public sector carbon and sustainability reporting as well as reports for wider environmental legislation.
-Skilled at analysing data to produce articulate and accurate reports for internal and external stakeholders.
Exceptional communication, training and presentation skills, with strong attention to detail.
-Experience of successfully co-ordinating multiple projects, meeting deadlines.
-Excellent IT skills including MS Office.
-Proven ability to define, communicate and motivate colleagues to deliver sustainability goals and objectives.

It would also be great if you have:
-Experience in promoting environmental initiatives
-Ability to speak knowledgeably and accurately on current sustainability matters to expert/non-expert audiences.
-Gaelic language skills.

Please apply directly via our careers portal. Applications via email will not be accepted.

The closing date for applications is 12 noon on Wednesday, 26 August 2026.

JOB PURPOSE

To undertake proactive and reactive maintenance matters throughout a number of sites across the Edinburgh cluster. Ensuring the continued conservation and development of the buildings and infrastructure to a high standard; allowing the smooth running of the visitor attractions, adjoining properties and surrounding environment.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Based primarily at Newhailes but on occasion required at Gladstone’s Land, Georgian House, Malleny and Inveresk
• Painting (external and internal)
• Minor joinery repairs joinery work (external and internal)
• Car park maintenance
• Basic plumbing repairs
• Fence and building repairs
• Minor repairs to residential properties
• General DIY including outdoor infrastructure maintenance
• General site work – including playpark maintenance, litter picking and accepting deliveries

1. Ensure all activities undertaken are compliant with the property’s Health and safety and Emergency Procedures.

2. Demonstrating self-motivation, organising, planning and prioritising, along with good time management.

3. Support with event set up and break down

4. Key holder for multiple sites.

5. Undertaking such other reasonable duties as may be required from time to time to ensure the smooth running of the sites, as required by the Operations Manager.

This role is not one for which the duties, responsibilities or accountabilities of the role require you to undertake a criminal records check.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE

Qualifications
Essential
 Full driving license valid for driving in the UK.

Desirable
 Current first aid certificate.
 Domestic Legionella Risk Assessment Training.
 Portable Appliance Testing Certificate.

Experience
Essential
 Solid demonstrable experience in executing a wide range of maintenance trades to a high standard.
 An eye for detail and finish.
 Competence in lone working.
 Practical knowledge of Health and Safety processes and procedures and the ability to work effectively within these processes.
 Experience in producing estimates for set pieces of work.
 Experience of working within a budget and timescales.
 Ability to be proactive and use initiative.
 Competence at working from heights on ladders or scaffolding as necessary.

Desirable
 Experience of working in a multi-site role.
 Experience working on listed buildings.
 Understanding of traditional building skills.

The National Centre for Music is seeking a Creative Producer to help bring our vision to life, build the innovation, reputation and infrastructure needed to deliver success establishing NCM.

This is a hands-on production role at the heart of a bold new arts organisation working across Scotland’s music scene. You will lead end-to-end delivery across a varied programme, from performances with leading artists, to workshops with community groups, hackathons with tech start-ups, to wellbeing experiences in nature. This diverse programme across genres will stand as a vibrant celebration of Scotland’s globally renowned music making and create innovative ways for audiences and communities to discover and engage with it. Initially working in to deliver events and activities across Scotland, the role will evolve to focus on the development and execution of a complex multi-genre performance and participation programme, as we prepare to take up residence in the reimagined Royal High School on Calton Hill in Edinburgh.

Alongside day-to-day delivery, you will contribute to shaping what the organisation and its future venue become: building supplier and partner networks, informing technical and operational planning, and helping to deliver a programme identity that is genuinely multi-genre in ambition and execution.

Taking on this role at this moment will see you become part of the founding story of a new major player in the Scottish music scene.

Thank you for your interest in the post of Stonemason with Historic Environment Scotland that will be based at our Stirling Depot. This is a permanent, full-time position.

The Monument Conservation Unit (MCU) based in Stirling is tasked with the responsibility for conservation, maintenance and presentation works within the Stirling depots remit. You will assist with conservation, and routine maintenance works to HES monuments in the Stirling Depot area including one of our flagship sites, Stirling Castle.

The Monument Conservation Units (MCU) are based throughout Central Scotland and consist of stonemasons, joiners, painters, gardeners, labourers and apprentices of varying trades. The teams are headed by Lead Masons who have direct line management responsibilities for this team. As a Stonemason in our Stirling Depot, you will have responsibility for the on-going conservation and maintenance and preservation of masonry at Historic Environment Scotland monuments within your area which include Stirling Castle, Mars Wark, Stirling Old Bridge and Argyll’s Lodging. You will help train and instruct apprentices in all aspects of the trade and provide information and instruction to support staff as required. You may also be asked to be involved in showing masonry skills at open days.

You will be expected to work at any location as directed by the Lead Mason within the depot area. Official transport is provided to and from the various sites within the Depot areas. Individuals are however expected to make their own way to the MCU Depot.

You will also be asked to travel using HES transport to other remote sites out with your depot area which may include overnight stays.

Surgeons’ Hall Museum holds a complex medical human remains collection, one of the largest and most significant of its kind in the world. Much of the collection was acquired before modern standards of consent and documentation, and the records that survive were shaped around pathology, diagnosis and the interests of those who assembled the collection rather than the individuals represented within it.

This two year project will improve what the Museum knows about this collection, including the people in it. Working through historic catalogues, medical case notes, College and Museum minutes and archival records, you will investigate origins, acquisition contexts and life histories of these people, and integrate your findings into the Museum’s Collections Management System. Your research will inform catalogue records, future interpretation and displays, published listings, and the Museum’s preparedness for any future return of collections.

In March 2026, the College’s Trustees approved a new Human Remains in Collections Policy, developed with an expert panel drawn from across the UK and Ireland, committing the Museum to provenance research, transparency, community engagement and readiness for return. This post directly supports the work to put this policy into practice.

You will report to the Curator and be supported by the Museum’s Provenance Research Working Group, which brings together colleagues from collections, conservation, archives, learning and senior leadership, including a specialist Human Remains Conservator. This work involves sustained engagement with sensitive and sometimes distressing material, and supervision, peer support and training are built into the post.

In the final six months you will work on site with three Scottish university medical collections in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, reviewing and enhancing their documentation, and will offer short consultancy visits to smaller Scottish museums holding human remains. The project concludes with a publication and a national conference at Surgeons’ Hall, sharing the methods and findings across the sector.

The role is based in Edinburgh, with travel to partner institutions in the final phase. Reasonable travel and accommodation costs are met by the project.

Heritage Researcher, Paisley, 35 hours, Permanent, Grade 5: £31,243.97 – £32,557.96 p.a (£17.12 – £17.84 per hour)

We are looking for a skilled and curious Heritage Researcher to support the development of Renfrewshire’s archive service at an exciting moment of transformation. With the archive service preparing to relocate into the transformed Paisley Museum, this is a unique opportunity to help shape how people experience, explore and connect with Renfrewshire’s collections.

Working closely with the Archivist and colleagues across the museum service, you will play an important role in delivering a people-centred archive service that places access, participation and interpretation at its core. Through research, engagement and collections-based activity, you will help uncover and share stories that deepen understanding of Renfrewshire’s rich heritage and strengthen connections between collections and communities.

We ask all candidates to complete assessments and application materials independently, without the use of AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT or similar), unless otherwise stated.

This ensures a fair and consistent assessment of individual skills, experience, and capabilities.

Closing date: 16 August 2026

Interview date: Week commencing 31 August 2026

The successful candidate will be required to undertake a Level 1 Disclosure Scotland check.

If you would like further information in relation to the Disclosure Scotland checks, please visit their website.

Applications are welcome from candidates from all backgrounds including those with disabilities and candidates who have ‘care experience’.

This is an exciting and dynamic leadership role that offers the opportunity to shape the future of some of Scotland’s most treasured landscapes and heritage sites. As Head Ranger, you will be at the heart of conserving and enhancing six breathtaking locations, ensuring they remain accessible, engaging, and inspiring for visitors now and in the future.

Your work will blend conservation with creativity—enhancing biodiversity, managing woodland, welcoming thousands of visitors, and fostering a deep connection between people and place. You will champion nature, culture, and community engagement at the region’s most heavily visited sites.

Beyond stewardship, you will bring energy and vision to visitor experiences, developing innovative ways to inspire and grow audiences while safeguarding Scotland’s natural heritage. You’ll also manage visitor operations, including visitor facilities, events, and key partnerships, ensuring these sites thrive sustainably. This is more than a management role—it’s an opportunity to leave a lasting legacy for Scotland’s landscapes, wildlife, and communities.

If you are a bold leader with a passion for conservation, people, and place, this role offers the perfect platform to make a real difference.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

Audience Engagement

Develop and implement strategies to enhance public engagement and access to the natural heritage across the sites.

Increase audience reach through events, interpretation, and community engagement initiatives.

Nature Conservation

Provide technical leadership on all aspects of nature conservation across the six sites.

Lead the development and implementation of appropriate management frameworks – for example the woodland management plans.

Use expertise and experience to influence and develop internal and external policy statements and positions and implement initiatives to protect wildlife.

Survey wildlife and habitats and feed this knowledge into management decisions, marketing of natural heritage, and further development of our voice.

Organising and implementing all ecological monitoring across six sites. All work feeding into national and international monitoring schemes.

Maintain and manage habitats and wildlife with the aim of protecting species and increasing biodiversity.

Contribute to the planning and lead the delivery of practical conservation to deliver the outputs agreed in the annual budget process.

Provide information to visitors to encourage more visitors and help people get more out of their engagement with natural heritage and give more back to it including “upselling” membership and events using face to face and by other means of interaction such as social media.

Maintain countryside estate infrastructure at small, day to day scale (e.g. paths, gates, signs, vegetation management) to achieve ecological, visitor services and safety outcomes.

Support Operations Manager and Regional Director by representing the Trust at external meetings as appropriate for example, Woodland management meetings, national media and local committees.