Director of Transformation Flexible Hybrid NEW

Director of Transformation

Job information

Reports to: Board of Trustees

Team: Senior Leadership Team (SLT)

Responsible for: Head of Campaigns, Head of Movement Building, Head of Operations & Finance

Location: Hybrid, with an expectation to work from the office (currently in Edinburgh) 1 – 2 days per week

Contract: Fixed term, 2 years

Hours: Job share (or two roles) up to a total of 1.2 FTE

Salary & Benefits £60,000 pro-rata

About the role

Friends of the Earth Scotland campaigns for environmental justice, building collective power with communities and movements to create a fairer, greener Scotland. We are a part of the Friends of the Earth International network.

As an organisation, we have been responding to how we can meet this moment to achieve climate justice in Scotland and beyond. Our current strategy returns us to our roots in community-based movement building, and we want how we work to match what we are trying to achieve. As part of this shift, the Board of Trustees has started a governance reset to support the aims and ambitions of the strategy, and the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) has been piloting a co-leadership model over the last year. Next year, the organisation will undertake a strategy refresh, and we are open to reflecting how we operate to achieve our strategic aims.

We are recruiting two people for the role of Director of Transformation to work as co-leads to develop the systems, skills, internal capacities and accountability frameworks that our new strategy requires.

We’re looking for a pair who bring complementary skills, experience and knowledge in areas such as organisational change, HR and accountability frameworks, co-leadership, community and/or labour organising and financial oversight.

For more information, including job and person specification, role context, salary and benefits and recruitment process, please see the recruitment pack below.

To apply, please send a CV and covering letter (read recruitment pack for what to include) to recruitment@foe.scot. Closing date Sunday 22 November (end of the day).

Director of Transformation – Recruitment Pack

Recruitment Timeline

• Applications closing date: 23:59 on Sunday 22 November 2026
• Shortlisting stage : w/c 23 November 2026
• Invitation to live session: w/c 30 November 2026
• Live Sessions: 7 or 8 of December 2026th
• Interviews: 15 December 2026