Earth Fellow: Communications

1 month ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE03 £21,254 pro rata (£11.65 per hour) or UE05 £25,742 pro rata (£14.11 per hour) depending on level of study**

**Edinburgh Earth Initiative, Edinburgh Global**

**Part-time and fixed-term: 9 hours per week, starting October 2023 for 3 months**

**1 post**

Are you passionate about the role of communications to engage diverse audiences in addressing the climate emergency?

Join the prestigious Edinburgh Earth Initiative’s Earth Fellows programme to support our communications and events strategy to engage staff, researchers, students, and partners in our work on climate change research impact, innovation, engagement and teaching.

**The Opportunity**:
As an Earth Fellow, you will be joining a diverse, fun and dynamic team of researchers, students and staff all working together to address the global climate emergency. As part of the Earth Fellows programme, you will have access to co-working space, exciting networking and personal development opportunities and opportunities to contribute towards partnerships and solutions for climate change on a global scale.

Earth Fellows work on individual and team-based projects which contribute to the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Earth Initiative’s work on climate change research-led impact, innovation, engagement, and teaching.

There will be a strong focus on coordinating and delivery of engagement activities and communication and dialogue with our growing community of students, academics and researchers across the institution, as well as global partner institutions and organisations working to address climate change.

**_The Earth Fellows programme is for current University of Edinburgh students. This post is advertised as two different grade options/salary ranges depending on the current level of study of the applicant. Undergraduate students will be appointed at Grade 3 and Postgraduate students will be appointed at Grade 5 of the University’s salary scale. _**

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Evidence of interest in climate and environmental change
- Ability to work proactively with colleagues in other work areas/institutions, contributing specialist knowledge to achieve group outcomes
- Experience working with a wide range of stakeholders, and ensuring a focus on real-world impact of research carried out.
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to communicate complex information clearly

To find out more specifics about the communications and events responsibilities, click the link here to read the project brief (opens in new tab).

**Click **here **to view a full copy of the Undergraduate Earth Fellow job description**

**Click **here **to view a full copy of the Postgraduate Earth Fellow job description**

**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work alongside the Edinburgh Earth Initiative team and Earth Fellows community which includes undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students as well as the wider student community, academics, professional services, and global partners working on climate and environmental change. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success.

You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme **, **staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Click to access our **staff benefits page **(opens new browser tab) for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work webpages **(opens new browser tab)

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

**Application process**

**Key dates to note**

Interviews will be held the first two weeks of September.

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