Community Outreach Officer; Maternity Cover

Job Title

Community Outreach Officer (Scotland)

Ramblers Scotland

Fixed-term 9 months (with potential to extend)

Scotland (Home-based or hybrid with access to Edinburgh co-working office and team meetings/connect days in Edinburgh and London)

Pay range: £32,395 to £48,593. Salary on appointment will be set at the lower end of the pay range, to a maximum of £35,635 depending on the candidate's skills and experience.

It’s an exciting time to join the Ramblers as we have recently refreshed our strategy to support the delivery of our long-term ambitions.

We need your drive, knowledge, skills, and creativity to help us raise awareness of the Ramblers and what we stand for, enabling the charity to grow its supporter base and open up the joys and wellbeing benefits of walking to many more people.

The Community Outreach Project (Scotland) is an initiative to bring the Ramblers strategy to life, and open the outdoors to some of the groups that have the most barriers to getting out walking. The project works with community-based contacts in urban areas with a focus on refugees, asylum seekers and people from global majority communities.

• Lead on the design, development and implementation of the Community Outreach Project Scotland.
• Identify and develop new partnerships and opportunities to help grow and expand the project and impact.
• Assess and monitor risks, resolve issues, and ensure compliance with relevant policies and regulations.
• Contribute to the organisation’s approach to risk management.
• Lead on and manage the project budget, programme evaluation and reporting.
• Overall responsibility for groups of inexperienced participants in outdoor settings using industry best practice in risk management.
• Capture success stories, case studies and good practice in how our work makes a difference.
• Work with the Scotland’s director and fundraising team to secure the funding and support required to sustain and expand the project.
• Develop effective ways to build bridges between excluded communities and existing Ramblers walking groups by building strong and proactive relationships with volunteers.
• Engage and work collaboratively with a range of stakeholders to provide accessible and sustainable walking experiences.
• Contribute to GB-wide strategic approach to community engagement with those who face the greatest barriers to benefit from being outdoors.
• Engage and proactively develop excellent working relationships across the organisation.
• Design and develop Community Outreach Traineeship.
• Line‑manage Community Outreach Trainees.

• Hill and Moorland or Mountain leader qualified (or trained with assessment pending) and a valid 16 hour Outdoor First Aid Certificate.

• Experience of managing volunteers and staff including training and mentoring outdoor leaders.
• Experience of initiating strong external partnerships and collaborative internal relationships to deliver mutually beneficial activities and outcomes.
• Experience of successfully engaging communities in sport and physical activity programmes, in particular, outdoor activity provision.
• Experience of implementing change and working with others to adopt new ways of working.
• Experience of assessing and managing risk in relation to outdoor physical activity.

• Ability to plan, lead and develop a project with the related coordination, planning, organisational skills.
• Ability to spot and exploit opportunities for growth in scale and impact, including by developing existing and new funder relationships.
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills.
• The ability to deliver training whilst leading safe and inspiring group walks in lowland and/or hill & moorland environments.
• Ability to analyse and identify solutions to moderately complex problems, working with multiple stakeholders with different backgrounds and expectations, while operating at the edge of existing organisational systems or ways of working.
• Able to play a leading role in developing organisation-wide thinking on engaging excluded communities.

• Interest in walking and a commitment to the principles…