Community Education Worker (Nature Towns and Cities)

Job Details

Fife Council is delighted to have been awarded significant funding by National Lottery Heritage Fund’s 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 Fife’s Greenspace project. The #Transforming Fife’s Greenspace vision is for Fife to be a leader in urban green/blue space management. Transforming our approach to improve people’s 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 people’s 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