Public Engagement Officer (Living Seas Marine Conservation)

Salary: £23,154

Edinburgh with home working flexibility

Full Time, Fixed Term for 2 years

Closing date: 23rd June

For over 50 years, our client has worked with its members, partners and supporters in pursuit of its vision of healthy, resilient ecosystems across Scotland’s land and seas. The Trust successfully champions the cause of wildlife through policy and campaigning work, demonstrates best practice through practical conservation and innovative partnerships, and inspires people to take positive action through its education and engagement activities. It also manages a network of around 120 wildlife reserves across Scotland and is a member of the UK-wide Trusts movement.

The purpose of the Living Seas Engagement Officer role is to foster engagement in the marine environment, increase public awareness of marine conservation, convey key Living Seas policy messages to a diverse range of communities, and support marine policy development.

The key success areas are raising public awareness and engagement in the Trust’s marine conservation work, identifying and creating new partnerships with community and coastal groups, further development of the Trust’s snorkel trail network, increasing connectivity between the Trust’s land-based and marine projects, and improved marine policy development.

Holding a degree in the marine/environmental field, you’ll have a strong personal commitment to marine nature conservation and a good knowledge of Scotland, its marine environment and the current conservation policy issues. Having experience of managing a diverse portfolio of projects and of developing outreach materials, you’ll have experience of working in a public facing role and the ability to work with a highly diverse range of people throughout the project area.

Children 1st work to give every child in Scotland a safe and secure childhood.  We achieve this by providing direct services to vulnerable children and their families across Scotland.

“A child without a childhood is like a rainbow without colour”

John McGurk, Children 1st Supporter

Join our team and put the colour back into the childhood of children in Scotland.

To do this, we need to raise as much funds as possible.  It’s an exciting time for fundraising at Children 1st and full of opportunities for the right person.In 2019 we launched our new fundraising strategy which is designed to inspire people in Scotland to put children first. Since then, despite the pandemic, we’ve successfully grown our income. 

This post will play a key part within the Public Fundraising Team. Inspiring new and existing donors will be at the heart of what this role will do and allow the team to do.  By supporting the Community, Individual Giving and Legacy fundraisers, you will be central to the success we can achieve.  You will also have the opportunity to lead on your own fundraising activity.

Being able to develop excellent working relationships with supporters and colleagues across the organisation to assist with meeting fundraising objectives.

In return you will be offered a competitive salary, 40 days annual leave inclusive of 9 days public holidays, a contributory pension scheme and generous maternity/adoption and paternity leave benefits.

This is a permanent, full-time role of 35 hours per week. Based flexibly throughout Scotland, preferably in the central belt and will mainly work from home.  The role will require frequent travel across Scotland.

The job of a Save the Children's UK Data Import and Integrity Executive is varied and fulfilling.

• Are you confident in using SQL and MS Access?
• Do you have a good understanding of and experience in relational databases?
• Do you have thorough attention to detail, ensuring complete accuracy, even when under pressure?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn't just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!

About Us
Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

Job Purpose
As Data Import and Integrity Executive, you will play a key role in ensuring supporter's donation & personal data are processed with speed, accuracy & compliantly. You will be part of a dedicated team that ensures all the data that drives our Fundraising and Advocacy income streams is imported to schedule and with total accuracy. You will support the drive to improve data integrity within the CARENG database, helping to identify root causes of issues and supporting the development of robust solutions to improve this area.

This role will give you the opportunity to directly impact the fund services delivered to our children and with a personalised development plan, you will be supported to evolve in the career you want. 

Key accountabilities:

• Managing the process of uploading data onto the CARENG database so that all supporter transactions, contact details, preferences and other data are continually updated and always accurate, meeting set targets to ensure visibility to the teams within Fundraising & Marketing of the performance/status of imports
• Supporting the development of robust processes that drive improvements in data integrity ensuring improved reliability of the data held on CARENG
• Ensuring compliance with all relevant laws, e.g. true and proper capture of Data Protection preferences, correct capture of Gift Aid Declarations
• Working with key suppliers and internal account managers to ensure they deliver the services promised, with the efficient and timely transfer of data to agreed protocols
• Supporting the development of the CARENG database to meet the continually evolving needs of the user, including the testing of any database upgrades
• Supporting the development of processes for new products including: sense-checking Import briefs, scoping out requirements and devising processes for the accurate and timely import of data to meet both fundraiser and supporter expectations
• Ensuring all business rules and processes, including user guides, are thoroughly documented and signed off by the business
• Supporting the work to identify improvements to processes that exploit opportunities for increased efficiencies and automation using Talend, our ETL automation software, helping to reduce the need for manual intervention as much as possible
• Working closely with colleagues in the wider Supporter Data and Operations Department to provide coherent, practical and valuable support to internal clients
• Running, as required, selections & extracts from the CARENG database following predefined processes
• Provide front end CARENG training for Fundraisers.

Essential Technical Skills:

• Good understanding of and experience in using relational databases
• Thorough attention to detail, ensuring complete accuracy, even when under pressure
• Experience and skill at managing, developing and communicating data protocols, file transfer arrangements and data integrity
• Excellent and proven communicator with the confidence to explain technical issues in a simple and engaging manner to a wide range of audiences, through a variety of means
• Strong problem solver, able to deliver innovative and effective solutions
• Resourceful at managing own time, especially balancing routine work with more complex projects to ensure everything is completed to schedule with total accuracy
• Strong numeric and verbal reasoning skills
• Experience using the CARENG database and Talend software (desirable)
• Expertise in managing large scale imports
• Confident in using SQL
• Confident in using MS Access.

Personal Skills:

• Strong and collaborative team player
• Proactive, resourceful and flexible with the ability to prioritise heavy workloads to meet tight deadlines.

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.

Principal Policy Adviser, Domestic Regulatory Strategy Directorate 

£49,549 pa plus civil service pension scheme and excellent benefits 

LOCATION: Flexible

The ICO is looking for a Principal Policy Adviser (PPA) to join its Domestic Regulatory Strategy Directorate (DRSD). The focus of the role is developing the ICO’s policy positions and strategic response to new and emerging issues. This will involve engaging with important and senior level stakeholders and developing associated products and reports to communicate our approach. You will need to get to the heart of some of the most complex issues we deal with at pace developing practical outcomes. This can involve taking significant decisions with far reaching effects. The post holder will be expected to work collaboratively and draw on the expertise of others across the ICO. This is an exciting opportunity to help us shape how the future of digital regulation will impact and benefit the lives of the UK public.

About the ICO 

The ICO is the UK’s independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals. 

The ICO’s work is interesting and immensely rewarding – it is of national importance and increasingly in the public eye. We are at the forefront of information rights policy development, providing direct advice to the public, and enforcing the UK’s data protection and freedom of information laws. We hold a unique position as a regulator across the whole of the private, public and third sectors. 

About you 

Your excellent analytical ability and clear and confident communication skills will be key. As a PPA you will prioritise competing issues and tasks in a varied workload. Your experience of leading projects to achieve change will stand you in good stead. Degree educated or equivalent, you will be self-motivated with a strong interest in strategic policy development. Knowledge of information rights laws is desirable but we also welcome applications from those who can demonstrate experience of applying similarly complex concepts with the ability to learn quickly. 

The ICO’s headquarters are based in Wilmslow, Cheshire, we have offices in Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh and London and may be able to offer some flexibility of location.

All postholders may be required to travel to engagements throughout the UK, and sometimes further afield. Therefore, your ability to travel and willingness to work outside of normal office hours on occasion is essential. 

How to apply 

Please visit ico.jobs to complete an online application form. 

Closing date: 23:59, 9 May 2021