Make Your Mark conference at the Engine Shed in Stirling (Image credit: Historic Environment Scotland)

The Society is looking for a new member of staff to develop, manage and coordinate the Make Your Mark in Volunteering Campaign, which is hosted by the Society and supported by the Make Your Mark Working Group.

The Campaign Coordinator will provide project management and delivery of campaign events, training, communications, audience development, partner engagement and evaluation. They will liaise with and support the Make Your Mark Working Group, the wider Make Your Mark membership, community groups and external partners to ensure the implementation of inclusive volunteer programmes.

Role: Make Your Mark Campaign Coordinator – 37 hours per week, fixed term to 31 March 2029, with extension pending further funding

Salary: £35,400 per annum

Pension: 10% pension contribution by the employer

Hours: 37 hours (five days) per week with flexible daytime working hours Monday to Friday, occasional evening and weekend work required with time off in lieu (TOIL) provided

Location: Hybrid at-home and in-person working based at the Society’s office at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, with some time in partner organisation offices, particularly Volunteer Scotland in Stirling. However, as there are several flights of stairs up to the Society offices, we are happy to explore different ways of working.

Reports to: Make Your Mark Working Group; project managed by Sarah Pearce, Heritage Network; line managed by Jeff Sanders, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; oversight group comprising Sarah, Jeff and Joanna Todd, Historic Environment Scotland

Probation: Nine-month probationary period during which time your skills and suitability for the post will be assessed

Main Responsibilities

Capacity building and audience diversification

1. To carry out desk-based and stakeholder-engagement-based research to gather, analyse and interpret information to inform the development of inclusive volunteer programmes.
2. To provide volunteer management expertise and feedback to member organisations, supporting the development of inclusive volunteer programmes.
3. To network with community groups across Scotland, identifying and developing partnership opportunities, sharing Make Your Mark volunteer opportunities and integrating inclusive practice.
4. To co-design a volunteer taster sessions programme in partnership with community groups and heritage organisations, engaging people previously excluded from heritage volunteering.
5. To work in partnership with training and employability partners to oversee a heritage skills development programme and match participants with member organisations for volunteer experiences.
6. To develop employer-supported volunteering opportunities in partnership with businesses and heritage organisations, enabling cross-sector collaboration.
7. To plan and promote events for volunteer organisers and volunteers, with assistance from Make Your Mark Working Group Partners and the Volunteer Organisers Network.
8. To administer Scotland’s heritage volunteering portal on the Make Your Mark website, ensuring that opportunities are inclusive and matching volunteers with desired opportunities.

Liaison, stakeholder coordination and promotion

9. To be the main point of contact for campaign members and partners, providing information about the campaign’s resources, answering queries and surveying their needs.
10. To coordinate campaign members and community groups to develop and update inclusive volunteering resources, including blog posts, case studies and toolkits.
11. To develop and deliver a communications plan for the Make Your Mark Campaign, including social media policies and content, dealing with press, creating and issuing regular newsletters, managing a website and coordinating partner content.
12. To represent the Make Your Mark campaign both digitally and in person, including the creation and delivery of inclusive volunteering workshops and campaign promotional presentations.

Monitoring, evaluation and sustainability

13. To coordinate heritage volunteering research with member organisations, volunteers and stakeholders, analysing findings and producing reports to inform future campaign development.
14. To analyse campaign effectiveness and provide update reports to Line Manager, Oversight Group, Make Your Mark Working Group, funders and other stakeholders.
15. To administer campaign activities, including budgetary, digital systems and archival responsibilities.
16. To contribute to fundraising efforts by researching and writing coherent, organised and compelling grant proposals, with the support of the campaign Working Group.

Person Specification

Essential

• Experience of coordinating projects or programmes involving multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
• Experience of planning and delivering inclusive events, workshops, training and/or community engagement activities
• Experience of monitoring and evaluation, including collecting and analysing quantitative and qualitative data
• Knowledge of good practice in volunteer involvement and inclusive volunteering
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including experience of developing and enacting communication strategies
• Excellent organisational and time-management skills with ability to prioritise workload to meet deadlines and to work on own initiative
• Demonstrable commitment to EDI and experience delivering inclusive activities and communications
• IT literate (for example, experience of using Office 365, Zoom, Eventbrite, WordPress and Mailchimp) and open to learning new digital skills
• Demonstrable experience of partnership-working and development

Desirable

• Experience of contributing to and/or writing funding applications
• Experience of conducting research, analysing findings and producing reports
• Experience of, or interest in, the heritage sector

How to Apply

Please submit a CV and a covering letter outlining how your experience, skills and knowledge meet the requirements (covering letter to be no more than two sides of A4) by the closing date to the Outreach Manager, Dr Jeff Sanders FSAScot, at jeff@socantscot.org.

Closing date: 11:59 PM (UK time) on 12 July 2026 

Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed in person in Edinburgh or online via Zoom during the week commencing 27 July 2026. Reasonable travel expenses can be claimed.

Applicants who are not shortlisted will be informed but unfortunately, no detailed feedback will be possible.

The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is dedicated to meeting the aims and commitments set out in its equality policy. This includes not discriminating under the Equality Act 2010 and building an accurate picture of the make-up of the workforce in encouraging equality and diversity. Please help us by filling in the Equalities Monitoring Form – a link will be emailed to you with receipt of your application. Filling in this form is voluntary and the results are anonymous and are not used in the recruitment process.

Further Information

For further information on the post, please read the Make Your Mark Campaign Coordinator – Full Job Description or contact the Outreach Manager, Dr Jeff Sanders FSAScot, at jeff@socantscot.org.