Advertised from 31 October 2025

Role

About Under the Trees

Under the Trees is now in its 15th year of providing positive experiences in the outdoors, delivering a wide range of outdoor learning and wellbeing experiences including topic-based wildlife and environmental education, Forest School and Forest Kindergarten, outdoor play sessions, guided wildlife walks, woodland wellbeing sessions, practical conservation sessions, accredited outdoor education training and more! Partner organisations include local schools, community groups and we delivery to families too. For us no two days look the same.

It is recommended that you visit our website and social media pages to gain an understanding of who we are!

Role Overview:

We are seeking a skilled fundraising officer to help ensure that all the services that we provide, and the ancillary costs are fully funded by developing positive relationships with funders of different types including government bodies, corporate foundations, grant-making trusts, and others, writing high quality funding applications and producing timely, accurate reports showing the positive impact of funder generosity. Some additional admin duties related to the direct sales and delivery of services may be required.

This is a part-time position working 16 hours weekly. We envisage this normally being spread across two working days.

Experience in making successful funding bids within the Scottish charity sector is essential. Experience in outdoor learning is not required for this role, but a genuine interest in outdoor experiences will help you to settle in with the team.

A driving licence is not required for this role.

Where You Will Be Working:

You will be based at our office in Grangemouth in Falkirk District. We have two units within Newhouse Business Park which has good public transport connections and is close to Falkirk’s Active Travel network including National Cycle Route 76. Bicycles (including UK legal ebikes) may be brought into the building for secure storage while working.

Home working may be possible after completion of your probationary period, dependent on the needs of the business.

Application notes

Please download the full job description below.

To apply, please send a CV and covering letter, explaining why you’re the perfect person for this role to [email protected]. Please use this email address to ask any questions that you have about this role.

While we are primarily seeking to bring a new candidate on to the staff team we are open to discussions with talented freelance funding officers.

As the successful candidate will require access to the personal data of children and vulnerable adults no formal job offer will be made until the completion of satisfactory PVG check and receipt of two suitable references. A provisional job offer will be made before this process begins.

We hope to interview for this position in week beginning 24th November. Interviews will be held either at our office in Grangemouth or at The Hub in central Falkirk.

We do not retain the personal data of unsuccessful candidates once the recruitment process has ended unless there is a statutory reason to do so.

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