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Job Description - **Sustainable Tourism Project Worker**

**Salary**: £22,568 Pro Rata + pension contributions

**Hours**: 14 hours per week

**Reports to**: Project Manager

**Location**: Based at Linlithgow Community Development Trust Office, Linlithgow.

**Interviews to be held 7th May 2024**

**Organisational Overview**:
Linlithgow Community Development Trust is a community organisation who aim to make Linlithgow a better place to live and work. We currently run several 'Share and Repair’ activities, including a tool sharing library and a Repair Shop - encouraging our community to reuse, repair and recycle to reduce waste (known as the circular economy). These are run by local volunteers and overseen by a project worker. By providing our community with more environmentally sustainable options for accessing and mending items, we offer them the opportunity to reduce waste and save money.

The Trust also runs several other projects in areas including active travel, renewable energy and grow your own. There are a total of seven members of staff and approximately 50 volunteers. Based in the EH49 Hub in the historic town of Linlithgow, the Trust enjoys strong working links with other local community organisations.

**Job Purpose**:
Embedded within Linlithgow Community Development Trust (LCDT), you will explore ways in which the Trust’s existing Share and Repair projects can be extended to appeal to and serve local tourism businesses, helping them to engage in Scotland’s developing Circular Economy. The project will include a trial involving a limited number of participating businesses as well as a wider consultation to establish the feasibility of extending the project beyond the funded trial period.

You will work with the Circular Economy Projects Manager to ensure successful delivery of the year-long project. You will thrive on being organised and have a high level of attention to detail. You will need to be able to build relationship with local businesses and work alongside key stakeholders as well as being the first point of contact for external project enquiries and ensure actions are taken to respond in a timely and professional manner. There may be some evening and weekend work.

**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Circular Tourism project delivery**
- Work with the Project Manager, partners, sessional staff, and volunteers to deliver a Circular Tourism project trial to encourage and motivate the local tourism sector to share and repair.
- Support and enable trial businesses to benefit from the project and to enhance and encourage behavioural change as part of the sector’s business model.
- Create and upkeep a local Repair Register, allowing the sector and wider community to access repair services.
- Deliver consultation events to include the local tourism sector to establish uptake and success of an extended project.

**Sector Engagement and Promotion**
- Promote and administer the extended share and repair service.
- Work with and develop good working relationships with a range of local tourism sector businesses and stakeholders across the local community.
- Monitor our marketing channels, creating content and responding to messages.
- Liaising with trial participants to monitor success of trial and requesting feedback for evaluation purposes and case studies.

**Enquiries and Office Support**
- Act as initial point of contact for all circular tourism enquiries. This will include dealing with individual customers, volunteers, organisations, sessional staff, and key external stakeholders in a competent and professional manner and within timescales set by the organisation.
- Support the Project Manager with all required scheduling, logistics and related procurement.
- Maintain accurate monthly budget records, process all invoices and purchase orders in the line with the organisation's procedures.
- Ensuring administrative systems, processes and databases are efficient and well managed.
- Maintain up to date records and documentation for sessional workers, volunteers, partners and funders.
- Support the Project Manager in monitoring/evaluation and in creating operational update reports for Trust board and funding providers.

**Other duties**
- Work closely with all LCDT staff and volunteer team.
- Contribute to the development and upkeep of LCDT’s physical spaces, websites, events diaries, blogs and monthly mail outs.
- Carry out other duties which may reasonably be required in light of the main purpose of the job.

**PERSON SPECIFICATION**

The successful applicant will meet these criteria:
**Experience**

Essential
- Relevant work experience in a fast-paced project environment servicing the needs of multiple internal/external stakeholders.
- Experience working with and motivating volunteers.

Desirable
- Experience in circular economy / sustainability projects.

**Skills and knowledge**

Essential
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to demonstrate attention to deta