Wider Achievement & Lifelong Learning Development Officer (Technical & Training) - Edinburgh
Bangholm Outdoor Centre
Location: Edinburgh
Salary: £39,129 - £46,023
Closes: 11/6/26
Wider Achievement Development Officer (Technical & Training) at Bangholm Outdoor Centre
One position. 1FTE. Salary: £39,129 - £46,023
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks
Location - Bangholm Outdoor Centre
The City of Edinburgh Council is committed to safe, impactful outdoor learning and adventure education (OL&AE). The OL&AE Team operates 3 outdoor centres and has wide ranging responsibilities across safety and quality from onsite activity to residential provision.
We are delighted to announce an opportunity to work within a successful team and build on recent achievements and practice.
The successful applicant (1FTE) will fulfil the technical and training role alongside another staff member (0.4 FTE). The combined solution will provide the necessary breadth and depth of competency to support and develop safe, impactful OL&AE. The two staff will bring energy, creativity, and a passion for OL&AE; using these to grow the role aligned to OL&AE strategic priorities. We are committed to developing staff potential and aspirations aligned to our strategic priorities via career-long professional learning and new opportunities.
The successful applicant’s responsibilities and working will be allocated across 3 core areas and aligned to postholder competency.
Core Area 1: Adventurous activity via Bangholm Outdoor Centre (OC) – supervise, develop and contribute to delivery of Bangholm OC’s adventurous activity provision, including review, development and application of processes and procedures.
- Approximately 40% of allocated time / generally indoors with some outdoor delivery – adventurous activity and training.
Core Area 2: Council’s Excursions Policy – support, apply and contribute to the delivery of CEC’s Excursions Policy, including development of resources, reviewing and responding to requests and submissions and providing training and advice.
- Approximately 40% of allocated time / generally indoors with some outdoors – monitoring visits.
Core Area 3: Adventurous activity across the OL&AE Team - support adventurous activity delivery across the OL&AE Team through delivery of training, including NGB awards, representing OL&AE team with partners & relevant groups, and contributing to strategy development.
- Approximately 20% of allocated time / indoors – admin and theory plus some delivery outdoors.
We are seeking a proven competency in a range of land and water based qualifications, including paddlesports, biking and walking. Further details are via the Person Specification, including higher level technical qualifications to support technical adviser and training responsibilities. Please note: the attached Job Description is a generic Wider Achievement and Lifelong Learning Development Officer resource.
The postholder will be required to regularly visit locations across the City and beyond, including the Council's Benmore and Lagganlia Outdoor Centres. The role is predominantly indoor based. There is some working outdoors throughout the year in different environmental conditions, sometimes in remote and potentially hazardous locations. Suitable and sufficient PPE, induction and support are provided. The allocated work office is Bangholm Outdoor Centre, Edinburgh. The postholder will be required to work occasional weekends and evenings.
We hope you are excited by the opportunity to make a significant contribution to OL&AE in Edinburgh and beyond. Please ensure any application, including a personal statement, is relevant and specific to this advert and attached information. Generic applications will be rejected. Interviews are expected to take place in June. For further information which may support your application and any questions, please contact [email protected] (Bangholm Outdoor Centre).
This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.
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As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.
To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.
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