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Company Description

The Southern Uplands Partnership is a rural sustainable development charity, dedicated to connecting, protecting and creating opportunities for thriving nature and community in the south of Scotland.We deliver diverse projects and programmes around three strategic themes:

  • Community Empowerment - strengthening rural communities
  • Land Access - increasing sustainable access to the Southern Uplands for people and nature
  • Land Use - facilitating sustainable land use and land-based opportunities for people and nature


Role Description

Salary: £34,378 (FTE). This is a new hybrid role, based from home or one of our offices in south Scotland . This is an exciting time to join as we undertake a re-brand, develop a new website and a refreshed and integrated approach to communicating our work and impact. Currently our major programmes (The South West Scotland Environmental Information Centre, the Scottish Borders Climate Action Network and Connecting Threads) lead on communications for their own work, and there is no dedicated central communications focus across all our work. This post is being established to address this. There is significant opportunity for the post-holder to influence our approach to communicating our work and impact going forward, as well as to lead on co-development of a new organisation-wide Communications & Impact Plan. Additionally, we wish to develop similar dedicated Communication Plans for Dumfriesshire East Community Benefit Group and Crossdykes Community Benefit Fund.


Qualifications

  • Proven experience in a communications or similar role.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication and copy writing skills.
  • Strong planning, prioritisation and organisation skills.
  • Great interpersonal communication, relationship building, engagement, and collaborative working skills with diverse partners, stakeholders, and colleagues.
  • Confident and competent IT user with good working knowledge of Microsoft Office 365.
  • Understanding of accessibility requirements for communications.
  • Experience with communications and design software and platforms (e.g., Canva, Mailchimp, WordPress, Adobe InDesign or similar).
  • Experience managing social media platforms, content management systems, and analytics tools.
  • Content creation, event promotion experience, arts or environmental sector experience.
  • Flexible approach to work duties, comfortable working with uncertainty and change; self-motivated self-starter, who works well independently and as part of a team.
  • Commitment to the aims and objectives of SUP, including diversity, equity and inclusion.
  • Right to work in the UK.