Project Officer - Digital Communications

Project Officer – Digital Communications

Cumbernauld, Glasgow

£25,750 – £27,295

Full time (35 hours)

Fixed term contract until 28th June 2030

Closing date: 5pm, Friday 22nd August 2025

Interview Date: Wednesday 11th September 2025

The Role

We are looking for a passionate and driven person to deliver a range of digital communications and GIS mapping outputs that will support the delivery of Nurturing Natural Connections Project. Building on the success of previous projects, this project continues to realise the Cumbernauld Living Landscape long-term vision to improve Cumbernauld’s green spaces for both people and wildlife, helping everyone in the community connect with the nature on their doorstep.

The candidate:

The successful candidate will have a relevant degree or equivalent experience with at least 2 years’ experience in a communications related role. They will be skilled in creating high quality digital communicational outputs and have knowledge of monitoring these outputs for the purposes of report writing. This candidate will also support the Project Manager throughout the project and assist with the final report for the funder at the end of the project.

Main Objectives

The main objectives of the role are:

Nurturing Nature

• To support the Natural Heritage Officer in digitising work areas and volunteer recruitment.

Natural Benefits

• To oversee delivery of project communications, including events and activities from across the workstreams, providing content creation, maintenance, support and enhancement for the digital assets, including website(s), social media channels and blogs.

Nature Counts

• To create targeted Community Science surveys on the project’s Nature Counts Platform pages.
• To download, summarise and share ecological date collected as part of the project, as appropriate, and feedback to relevant volunteers.

Nature Network

• To create an interactive digital platform which enables and empowers individuals, volunteer groups, organisations and land managers to take action for nature. Includes iterative design approach with community testing.
• To launch the Nature Network, Engagement and communications built into Project plans.
• Collate and share collections of community historic images and map archives to illustrate change in Cumbernauld’s greenspaces over time as ‘Natures Archive’.
• Assist with the creation of two virtual (VR), and one augmented reality (AR), videos to inspire public connection with their natural environment. Including VR tree trail, 360-degree interactive nature trails and AR video to show impact of habitat interventions across multiple phases of Cumbernauld Living Landscape

Wider project work

• To raise awareness of the projects progress and inspire the local community and stakeholders to take action for nature.
• Work with other teams within the trust, including fundraising department to develop appropriate digital campaigns
• Support project team with in-person and online events and other communications opportunities
• Support the team’s wider communications plan
• Contribute to project reporting, including Monitoring & Evaluation findings across the life of the project, including summarising data, creating infographics and reflecting on highlights and challenges.

The successful candidate will ideally have:

• Excellent written and spoken communications skills with people from varied technical and non-technical backgrounds.
• Ability to deal effectively with potentially controversial or sensitive issues.
• Sound judgement over data and information sharing topics.
• Good understanding of wildlife conservation in an urban setting.
• Be highly organised and methodical with excellent time management skills.
• The ability to think creatively and be adaptable.

What we offer:

• Salary sacrifice schemes including Cycle to Work & Pension schemes.
• We have always been hugely flexible in our approach to how you wish to work and continue to offer a flexible approach.
• One Wellness Hour per week
• Enhanced Pension rate upon completion of probation
• Sick Pay Allowance
• Enhanced Maternity/ Paternity Leave
• Training and Development

The Scottish Wildlife Trust is a proud equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all candidates irrespective of their background. We are committed to helping to make the world of nature conservation as inclusive as possible, as we believe there should be no barriers to being involved, and that champions and role models from every part of society will be vital in helping to reverse the loss of biodiversity.

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