Greening Officer

**Job Title**: Greening Officer

**Hours/Week**: 10

**Location**: RIG Arts, Unit 7, 11 Clarence Street, Greenock, PA15 1LP

The Drying Green, Inverkip Road, Greenock, PA16 9HG

**Hourly Rate**:£14/ hr **(£7,280 per annum)**

**Project Dates**:3rd April ‘23 to 28th March’ 26 (length of post can be negotiated)

**Responsible to**: Karen Orr, Ceo

**Post Advertised**:8th March 2023

**Closing Date: 22nd March 2023 | 5pm**

**Shortlist Notified**:24th March 2023

**Interviews**:w/c 27th March 2023

**In post**:3rd April 2023

**Overview**:
RIG Arts are hiring a **part time Greening Officer** for our **RIG Communities **project funded by **Investing in Communities, **Scottish Government (Appendix 1) which aims to enable community empowerment through targeted outreach, participant development, and managing varied and accessible infrastructure for local people to become involved in the shaping of the project.

**Responsibilities**:

- Delivering regular weekly activities harnessing horticulture as a tool for engagement and wellbeing support
- Actively working towards the regeneration of community greenspaces as assets for mental health, wellbeing, and food access
- Support volunteer development through regular gardening days and skillbuilding to leave legacy skills and infrastructure within the community to maintain greenspaces, and lead activities and events.
- Transferring power to communities so that they can thrive independently beyond the project
- Sharing knowledge and tools to grow fresh food locally, support local ecosystems and habitats.
- Facilitating cross-working between creative engagement and local greenspaces, connecting with the wider greening network to build capacity and crossworking
- Build upon established relationships with others to share resources, create a connected approach and to deepen benefits
- Explore new opportunities i.e. sharing harvests to ensure food grown is reaching those most in need
- Develop social infrastructure including peer support, lead volunteers, and community action groups
- Attracting, retaining, developing and coordinating a strong bank of regular volunteers

**Requirements**:The role is **flexible** and involves **hybrid working** **on site and in office** for **10 hours/week**. Employees can be hired as Payroll or Freelance staff, freelance staff will be responsible for their own tax and national insurance. The contract type can be discussed at the interview stage.
- Experience in food growing/gardening
- An interest in climate, ecology, environment, and transition to net zero
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise workload, multi-task, work to agreed deadlines
- Strong interpersonal skills with the proven ability to build good working relationships within the community and with key stakeholders
- A willingness to work collaboratively with a small and dedicated team
- Enthusiasm to make the role their own, take initiative, and set ambitious goals.
- Experience or strong interest in arts driven community engagement and the third sector.

**Application Process**

The EOI can be submitted via video or audio recording, or written word. Please keep written expressions to no more than approximately 500 words and audio or video recordings to no more than approximately 4 minutes.

After submitting your EOI, we will acknowledge receipt and inform you on the 24th March 2023 whether you have been shortlisted for interview. We will arrange a suitable interview date for the week commencing the 27th March 2023 and we will send over the interview questions in advance.

The successful applicant will be notified by 31st March 2023 to be in post for the 3rd April’23. We appreciate this is a short turnaround so we can be flexible on the physical start date.

**Appendix 1: An Overview of the RIG Communities Project**

The **RIG Communities **project is a three year project and will deliver a regular programme of creative interventions providing respite, emotional nourishment, and enjoyment for a wide range of the community with no barriers to access. An integrated arts approach to community regeneration will harness culture to reduce inequalities and improve life chances. Expand upon a valued, tried and tested approach, enhanced by additional green focus.

The project will deliver 5 workshops per week under the themes of Youth, Older Adult, Mental Health, Climate Mitigation/Adaptation, and Green/Growing. All workshops will be underpinned by a commitment to wellbeing, skillbuilding, and community empowerment. Workshops will be delivered in rolling blocks codesigned and co produced with the community. RIG has experience offering workshops across multiple and diverse art forms ranging from film, music to visual arts. We will expand our community focused art practice to widen participation and increase engagement with green spaces to meaningfully support our own and Investing in Communities Fund objectives.

RIG Arts have experience as lead partners in