Full-time (35 hours per week), permanent position, based in Edinburgh 
Salary £25,424, plus civil service pension, generous holiday entitlement and other benefits

We are looking to recruit a full-time Horticulturist to join the Glasshouse team. You will be joining a team that together takes care of a hugely diverse collection of tender and tropical plants used for display, education, research, and conservation. This role comes at a time of exciting development at RBGE; the successful candidate should be flexible and adaptable and enjoy the possibilities that come with change.  
 
You will be responsible for the maintenance and cultivation of at least one of RBGE’s collections. This could be a planted/landscaped collection held in one of our iconic public display houses, or a research potted collection grown in one of our non-public glasshouses. Duties for your area will include watering, fertilising, weeding, propagating, pruning, monitoring for pests and diseases, and maintaining plant records, plus potentially some hard and soft landscaping. The role will normally include regularly working with students, interns and volunteers. 
 
The ideal candidate will have experience working with plants in a controlled environment (e.g. glasshouses), be a good communicator, and be able to work unsupervised as well as with others. You should have a passion for learning, show initiative, and be a positive ambassador for the Garden. 

To apply please email recruitment@rbge.org.uk with:

•    your CV
•    a covering letter outlining the skills, knowledge and experience you’d bring to the post
•    a completed equal opportunities questionnaire linked here: EOQ form

Closing date:                        Midday GMT on Friday 17 January 2025
Interview date:                     Video interviews will be held week beginning 27 January 2025
Recruitment Information:    Job description and person specification

If you haven’t heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume your application hasn’t been successful on this occasion. No recruitment agencies please.

Assistant Visitor Welcome Team Manager
Part-time (21 hrs per week), permanent post based in Edinburgh
Starting salary £31,080 per annum (pro-rata £18,648) plus civil service pension, generous holiday entitlement and other benefits

A rare and exciting opportunity to join our Visitor Welcome Team as an Assistant Manager, where you will lead the team to ensure that our visitors receive a world-class welcome.  You’ll have the opportunity to help shape our visitor operations for the future, as we build our visitor numbers, develop our visitor experience and continue with the largest capital investment in our history, Edinburgh Biomes.   

We’re looking for someone with energy and creativity to make a difference as part of a team dedicated to the needs of our visitors.  You should have previous experience in a staff management role, ideally within a similar fast paced visitor-focused role, where you will have demonstrated excellent leadership, teamwork, organisational and communication skills.  You should also be computer literate in the use of Microsoft Word and Outlook.  

As we are open to the public 7 days a week, you will be required to work on a roster, working 3 days over 7 days which will include working weekends and public holidays.  The working pattern is based on a 3 week rotation:
Week 1 – Sunday, Mon, Tues
Week 2 – Mon, Tues, Wed
Week 3 – Mon, Tues Saturday
There may be some flexibility on the working days during the week, the weekend schedule is fixed. 

To apply please email recruitment@rbge.org.uk with:
•    your CV
•    a covering letter outlining the skills, knowledge and experience you’d bring to the post
•    a completed equal opportunities questionnaire: EOQ form

Closing date:                      12pm (midday) on Monday 27 January 2025
Interview date:                    Thursday 13th February 2025    
Recruitment Information:  Job description and person specification

If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been shortlisted. No recruitment agencies please.

Visitor Welcome Team Member – two posts based in Edinburgh
Post 1 - Part time, permanent 2 days (14 hours): Friday and Saturday
Post 2 - Part time, fixed term until 31/08/25 4 days (28 hours): Week one – Mon, Tues, Wed, Sat, Week two – Sun, Tues, Wed, Fri

Salary £25,424 (pro-rata for Post 1 - £10169, Post 2 £20,339)  plus civil service pension, generous holiday entitlement and other benefits

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is one of the world’s top four botanic gardens based on quality, breadth and depth of our science, plant collections, public engagement and education and we have an exciting opportunity for a Visitor Welcome Team member to join our team.

The primary focus of this role is to ensure that visitors receive a first-class welcome and have all the information they need to create a memorable visit.  You will also have the responsibility of promoting and selling Garden Maps, Guidebooks and Daily Garden Walks and encouraging donations. The team remit also includes working with the events and exhibitions team to provide access and information to various public exhibitions and events. You will also be responsible for ensuring the protection of the Living Collection, opening, closing and security of various Garden buildings. You will be expected to carry out all duties in line with RBGE procedures and policies. 

Applicants should have previous experience working in a visitor or customer service environment. You will be proactive and take responsibility for your own workload, prioritising to meet conflicting demands of a busy attraction, have a can-do attitude, have excellent interpersonal skills, and have the ability to communicate with people at all levels.  You will need to be flexible and adaptable to meet the needs of an ever-changing environment. 

Please specify in cover letter which post you are interested in.

To apply please email recruitment@rbge.org.uk with:
•    your CV
•    a covering letter outlining the skills, knowledge and experience you’d bring to the post
•    a completed equal opportunities questionnaire: EOQ form

Closing date:                       12pm (midday) on Monday 27 January 2025
Interview date:                   week commencing 10 February 2025    
Recruitment Information: Job description and person specification

If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been shortlisted. No recruitment agencies please.

Conservation and restoration of threatened plant species in Scotland 

Full-time, fixed term contract (until 31 March 2026) based at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Salary £25,424, plus civil service pension, generous holiday entitlement and other benefits

Over the last 15 years RBGE has increased considerably its commitment to working with Scottish native plants, and this programme has become an exemplar of Science and Horticulture working together at RBGE to deliver benefits for Scotland and its people. Utilising these skills RBGE is working on protecting priority species in Scotland, for example by monitoring wild populations, growing plants in biosecure ex-situ collections, and then undertaking conservation translocations where appropriate. 

This role will work closely with a Conservation Horticulturist to help to strengthen our existing Scottish Native Plants Programme by building and maintaining resilient ex-situ populations of ten keystone plant species in Scotland: the Arran whitebeam complex, Wych elm, Crab apple, Whorled Solomon’s seal, Alpine blue sowthistle, Small cow-wheat, Oblong woodsia, and Marsh saxifrage. Multi-species and multi-site translocations for these ten species will be carried out within carefully defined landscape mosaics. This role will include maintenance of the existing collections, help with growth experiments, possibly also assisting with fieldwork to monitor previous translocations and / or finding new planting sites, and assist with translocation preparations in the nursery and the field. The role will help to keep collections safe by meticulous record keeping, following high biosecurity standards and maintaining the genetic diversity the collections represent. 

This post is supported by the Scottish Government’s Nature Restoration Fund, managed by NatureScot and will work together with a Conservation Horticulturist and Conservation Scientist to help deliver the project goals during its final phase.

The post is based at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh but due to potential field trips some remote working may be a component of the work. We may also be able to accommodate part-time working.

We are looking for candidates with a relevant background in (conservation) horticulture and possibly field work skills. An understanding of record keeping and maintaining biosecure ex-situ collections is essential. The ideal candidate will also have knowledge of plant collections, Scottish plant ID skills. Strong oral and written communication skills, and an HND, or equivalent experience in a relevant subject area are also essential. Previous experience working in Scotland, in the field and on plant conservation is highly desirable. Experience in public / community engagement would be an asset.

To apply please email recruitment@rbge.org.uk with:
•    your CV
•    a covering letter outlining the skills, knowledge and experience you’d bring to the post
•    a completed equal opportunities questionnaire: EOQ form

Closing date:                        12pm (midday) GMT on Thursday 16 January 2025
Interview date:                      Wednesday 22 January 2025
Recruitment Information:    Job description and person specification

Informal enquires can be made to Dr Aline Finger (afinger@rbge.org.uk)

If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been shortlisted. No recruitment agencies please.

Full-time (35 hours per week) fixed term contract to end March 2029, based in Edinburgh with opportunity for hybrid working

£37,265 plus civil service pension and other benefits

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is a world-leading botanic garden based on the quality, breadth and depth of our science, plant collections, public engagement, and education. We now wish to recruit a Stakeholder Engagement professional to deliver RBGE’s contribution to the ambitious and exciting EU Horizon-funded ‘Biodiversity Meets Data’ project. This pan-European collaboration seeks to create a single user access point that harnesses traditional and new biodiversity data, and which will provide analytics for nature conservation managers (stakeholders) involved in the protection of biodiversity in terrestrial, aquatic and marine domains.

Core responsibilities will include stakeholder mapping and development of a stakeholder engagement plan, creating an understanding of stakeholder needs and capabilities and articulating these as narrative ‘user-stories’, ensuring stakeholder priorities are reflected in the work of technical teams, engaging stakeholders with the testing of new technologies (eDNA, audio and camera traps) and with trial versions of the single user access point. It will also involve acting as a central point of liaison between stakeholders and technical teams, and working with the project’s education, training and communications teams to engage and facilitate stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.

Applicants should hold a degree in a relevant field and have demonstrable experience in stakeholder engagement for large and complex projects. Some international travel and flexible working will be required, to accommodate attendance at international meetings and delivery across European time zones.

Applications are particularly welcome from racial and ethnic minority groups, and other protected characteristics who are underrepresented at RBGE.

To apply please email recruitment@rbge.org.uk with:
•    your CV
•    a covering letter outlining the skills, knowledge and experience you’d bring to the post
• a completed equal opportunities questionnaire: EOQ form

Closing date:                             12pm GMT on Monday 3 February 2025
Interview date:                          Friday 21 February 2025
Recruitment information:        Job description and person specification

If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been shortlisted. No recruitment agencies please.