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
Our client is 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/GIS 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.
Liaise with land managers and provide GIS support for the Nature Network workstream cataloguing landownership parcels around targeted greenspace sites in Cumbernauld.
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 they offer:
Salary sacrifice schemes including Cycle to Work & Pension schemes.
They have always been hugely flexible in their 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
Our client is a proud equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all candidates irrespective of their background. They are committed to helping to make the world of nature conservation as inclusive as possible, as they 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.