Natural Heritage Officer

Job Description

Place

Natural Heritage Officer - fixed term until 30/06/2025
Hermitage House

Salary: £30,751 - £36,312
Hours: 36 per week

Are you an ambitious Natural Heritage professional looking for a fresh career challenge?

The Pentland Hills Regional Park team is looking for someone just like you to join for a fixed-term contract opportunity. As a Natural Heritage officer, you’ll play a vital part in shaping a brighter and more sustainable future for one of Scotland’s Regional Park - with opportunities to assist in the delivery of exciting plans working closely with key stakeholders/partners and organising public engagement events, ensuring the protection of this stunning natural environment as well as planning for the long term future of the Pentland Hills.

The main focus of the post is to deliver the Pentland Hills Regional Park Strategy and Visitor Management plan by working as a team to support the operations of our Park Ranger Service.

There will also be opportunities to get involved in other aspects of countryside and land management such as overseeing the maintenance of the existing path network, developing sustainable access to the hills and enhance nature conservation and biodiversity - including surveying and recording. We’re looking for someone who’s motivated, enthusiastic and highly organised, with excellent written, numeracy and verbal communication skills.

You will have relevant working experience or be educated to degree level in a relevant qualification such as, but not limited to Biodiversity Management, Conservation Biology, Environmental Management, be able to analyse and interpret data, prepare reports and briefings, take part and lead on topic groups, raise funds and manage projects.

Relevant experience of working within Local Authorities, statutory agencies of non-governmental organisations would be a desirable in this role.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

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Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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