Chief Executive Officer - SCOTLAND: The Big Picture

Role: Chief Executive Officer

Salary: £60k

Location: Scotland (Home-Based with residence in Scotland)

Contract: Full-Time, Permanent

Hours: 30 to 37.5 working hours per week

Rare opportunity to shape the future of rewilding in Scotland

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture is Scotland’s leading independent rewilding charity. We have an exciting opportunity for a highly driven, competent and innovative individual, ideally with a successful background as a strategic leader in the charity sector, to put their own mark on shaping our future.

You will be a natural collaborator, communicator and team builder, and to help our people succeed you’ll provide inclusive and ambitious leadership to the organisation. You will bring a strong people focus, communication skills, and be comfortable in change management. You will lead this dynamic and important organisation in helping to deliver positive outcomes for Scotland’s natural environment.

As the successful candidate, you’ll bring prior experience of working at chief executive or senior management level in a charity or organisation delivering projects or change. You will bring an understanding and appreciation of the complex and high-level stakeholder environment in which we operate and be comfortable working with and across Scotland’s national government and non-government agencies, key landowners and land managers, and those passionate about driving environmental change. Essential to this will be highly-developed communication, presentation and relationship management skills.

You will bring a natural ability to develop effective partnerships across public, private and third sector partners, have strong experience of developing and delivering a strategic vision, and leadership of a successful team. A passion and genuine enthusiasm for the work of SCOTLAND: The Big Picture is essential and you’ll bring a strong alignment with the mission and vision of this important charity.

We are committed to building a diverse organisation, so we welcome applications from all sectors of society, regardless of ethnicity, age, gender, disability and/or religious persuasion. In return, we offer you an employee friendly organisation with flexible policies and benefits that will help you deal with the complexities of everyday life.

The role is based in Scotland, and you will be expected to travel across our nation, being visible as our ambassador and the public face of the charity. In this regard, it is essential that you are resident in Scotland. This is your opportunity is to join us and help us succeed. Because when we succeed, Scotland succeeds. It’s the challenge of a lifetime.

For more information on SCOTLAND: The Big Picture, visit:

How To Apply

Please email to request an information pack.

Closing Date: Sunday 5th January

First round interviews: Week beginning 20th January

Second round interviews: Week beginning 27th January

You are advised to get in touch well in advance of the closing date to give us time to consider your application.

This search is being conducted for ‘SCOTLAND: The Big Picture by BTA. Our leadership team have all worked in the voluntary sector and we use this experience to match organisations and individuals to create great appointments.

We are committed to building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable working environment for all staff. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age; ethnicity; gender; gender identity and expression; nationality; parental status; physical, mental and developmental abilities; race; religion; sexual orientation; skin colour; socioeconomic status; and human styles.

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