Community Education Worker (Nature Towns and Cities)

Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing 01 December 2025 Closing Date: Sunday 23 November 2025 Contract Type: Temporary until June 2028 Salary Range: 33,732.26 to 41,972.91 Working Pattern: 36 hours per week Location: Blended home/ office working in Fife House, Glenrothes. Work covering Glenrothes, Kirkcaldy and Rosyth & Dunfermline. Supporting Statement As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked upload resum. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at www.fife.gov.uk/jobs/supportingstatement Job Details Fife Council is delighted to have been awarded significant funding by National Lottery Heritage Funds Nature Towns and Cities programme to improve the quality of, and access to, historic parks and urban green spaces in whole towns and cities while supporting new ways to engage local communities and generate greater investment. The climate and nature crises threaten human society. Urban parks and greenspaces foster vital connections with nature. Fife Council is transforming in response to this, and wider financial challenges through the Transforming Fifes Greenspace project. The #Transforming Fifes Greenspace vision is for Fife to be a leader in urban green/blue space management. Transforming our approach to improve peoples lives, improve health and enhance biodiversity through: Meaningful community engagement in Dunfermline, Rosyth, Kirkcaldy, and Glenrothes. Developing projects to improve the use of public greenspace on Fife Council and NHS land. Establishing sustainable financing mechanisms, through our Nature Finance Fife investment scheme. Creating a Green Transformation Plan, linked to Fife Council and NHS Fife Corporate Strategy. Embedding it within a new revised Fife Council Greenspace service, enabling a pro-active approach to greenspace transformation. The post holder will work to deliver Community Learning and Development (CLD) activity with a nature and greenspace focus with people of all ages in a community setting. This will achieve the national CLD outcomes of: Improved life chances for people of all ages through learning, personal development and active citizenship Stronger, more resilient, supportive, influential and inclusive communities. You will contribute to developing and supporting local community projects and initiatives to improve access to and quality of greenspace and use your understanding of people and places to inform development of business cases and future greenspace transformation. The post will have a focus on work in urban greenspaces and work with people of all ages to understand and tackle barriers people have accessing greenspace to improve peoples lives, improve health and wellbeing, and enhance biodiversity. The Community Education Worker (Nature Towns and Cities) will be central to the engagement with communities in the projects focus areas. The post holder will work with Project Manager (Nature Towns and Cities), CLD colleagues and Services across Fife Council, and with NHS Fife, Fife Coast and Countryside Trust and other organisations and community groups. Before confirming appointment, you will be required to obtain Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland and become a member of the relevant PVG scheme. The Person We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated team player with a positive attitude to CLD activities and partnership working. Applicants must be able to demonstrate a level of competence and knowledge of Community Learning and Development and strong partnership working. The successful post holder must be able to demonstrate: Experience of work with adults, young people and communities in a CLD context appropriate to the post Degree in Community Learning & Development (or equivalent recognised by the CLD Standards Council for full registration) at SCQF Level 9. Experience of developing and delivering learning programmes Ability to motivate staff and learners Competent in using email and the internet Ability to work on own initiative Experience of multi-agency working Ability to work in partnership in a range of settings Knowledge and understanding of learning outcomes An understanding of the issues which affect communities Organisational Skills Self-motivated, enthusiastic and offer a high degree of professional commitment Ability to work cooperatively as part of a team Able to provide a regular and effective service Ability to interact respectfully with other people and build strong alliances Ability to consult effectively with groups and to coordinate consultation processes with other services Further Information Role Profile - When preparing your supporting statement, review the role profile and think about how you meet the essential criteria Role Profile How We Work Matters - Our employees are expected to display and promote certain behaviours in the workplace. See our How We Work Matters behaviour framework for more information. Employee Benefits - Employees have access to a benefits package that offers discounts on a wide range of products and services Directorate Information - Council Department information Social Media - Search for more ''Fife Council Jobs'' on Facebook or follow us on X @FCJobsOfficial. Alternative Formats - Job information can be made available in alternative formats, to make a request please email: [email protected] As a progressive employer, we offer the opportunity to work in this role as a blended working arrangement with home-working opportunities and occasional office-working as required. While the significant part of the role can and will be carried out remotely, candidates should be able to travel to and attend office locations in Fife as required. For further information, please contact: Shona Cargill, Lead Officer (Sustainability) on [email protected]

Created: 2025-11-11