Stakeholder Engagement Specialist Full-time (35 hours per week) fixed term contract to end March 2029, based in Edinburgh with opportunity for hybrid working £37,265 plus civil service pension and other benefits The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is a world-leading botanic garden based on the quality, breadth and depth of our science, plant collections, public engagement, and education.
We now wish to recruit a Stakeholder Engagement professional to deliver RBGE's contribution to the ambitious and exciting EU Horizon-funded 'Biodiversity Meets Data' project.
This pan-European collaboration seeks to create a single user access point that harnesses traditional and new biodiversity data, and which will provide analytics for nature conservation managers (stakeholders) involved in the protection of biodiversity in terrestrial, aquatic and marine domains.
Core responsibilities will include stakeholder mapping and development of a stakeholder engagement plan, creating an understanding of stakeholder needs and capabilities and articulating these as narrative 'user-stories', ensuring stakeholder priorities are reflected in the work of technical teams, engaging stakeholders with the testing of new technologies (eDNA, audio and camera traps) and with trial versions of the single user access point.
It will also involve acting as a central point of liaison between stakeholders and technical teams, and working with the project's education, training and communications teams to engage and facilitate stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
Applicants should hold a degree in a relevant field and have demonstrable experience in stakeholder engagement for large and complex projects.
Some international travel and flexible working will be required, to accommodate attendance at international meetings and delivery across European time zones.
Applications are particularly welcome from racial and ethnic minority groups, and other protected characteristics who are underrepresented at RBGE.
To apply please email with:
• your CV
• a covering letter outlining the skills, knowledge and experience you'd bring to the post
• a completed equal opportunities questionnaire: EOQ form
Closing date: 12pm GMT on Monday 3 February 2025
Interview date: Friday 21 February 2025
Recruitment information: Job description and person specification
If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been shortlisted.
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