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• Salary: £58,225 - £69,488 per annum

• Contractual hours: 35

• Basis: Full Time

• Package: Excellent Benefits Package

Associate Director of Stakeholder Engagement

We are now seeking an Associate Director of Stakeholder Engagement to provide strategic leadership across stakeholder engagement, marketing, communications, events and operations.

The successful candidate will bring a clear passion for the BE‑ST mission and values, acting as an ambassador for the organisation and inspiring others through their commitment to innovation, collaboration and positive change within the built environment.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced leader to shape how BE-ST engages with its stakeholders, tells its story, and delivers high‑impact programmes that support Scotland’s economic and innovation ambitions.

As part of the leadership team, you'll play an integral role in influencing BE-ST's strategic development and management decisions, setting the tone for performance, change, and improvement. In addition to steering your team of talented professionals, you'll be instrumental in developing their skills, advocating for our organizational values, and fostering a vibrant, collaborative team culture. 

What we will need from you:

You will be an experienced and confident leader with a strong background in stakeholder engagement, marketing and communications, and a proven ability to operate in complex, multi‑stakeholder environments. You will be motivated by purpose‑led work and able to energise and inspire teams around a clear organisational mission.

You’ll bring:

• Significant experience developing and delivering marketing and stakeholder engagement strategies.

• Strong leadership and people management experience, with a coaching and mentoring approach that brings out the best in others.

• Experience managing budgets, campaigns, PR, digital content and events.

• Excellent communication, influencing and relationship‑building skills, with the ability to engage senior external stakeholders.

• The ability to balance strategic thinking with operational oversight.

• An understanding of, or strong interest in, innovation, economic development, construction, or related sectors.

Experience of working in higher education, innovation, or similarly complex environments, and knowledge of Scotland’s construction or innovation landscape would be an advantage.

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• Salary: £46,049 - £58,225 per annum (depending on experience)

• Contractual hours: 35

• Basis: Full Time

• Package: Excellent Benefits Package

At BE‑ST, collaboration is everything. You’ll play a key role in creating new communities and partnerships that unite the right people, skills and ideas to achieve meaningful change across the sector.

You’ll:

• Proactively identify, shape and develop new opportunities across existing and emerging sectors within the built environment

• Support the delivery of complex, multi‑partner innovation projects, ensuring strong collaboration, compliance and high‑quality outcomes

• Contribute to BE‑ST’s business and bid development strategy, including preparing funding and commercial bids

• Act as a trusted point of contact for businesses, helping them collaborate, innovate and access funding to improve competitiveness and drive impact

• Build and grow networks that bring together industry, academia, government and skills providers

• Keep a close eye on future trends, technologies and funding opportunities to position BE‑ST ahead of the curve

You’ll be a crucial part of our next phase at BE-ST, proactively identifying, shaping and developing new opportunities. You’ll identify new sectors for opportunities for growth, exploring how we tap into these to stand out from the crowd.

At BE-ST, we collaborate across the entire built environment ecosystem, bringing together world-class academia, government bodies and industry at all levels to accelerate the transition to zero carbon. You’ll play a key role in seizing new opportunities, creating new networks and groups to unite the best knowledge, skills, tools, and people who want to achieve a more sustainable sector.

You’ll join a culture of transformation, growing our connected ecosystem to work on collaboration innovation projects which make an impact.

To help us continue to help the sector unlock its potential to find a way forward, you’ll always be keeping an eye on what’s coming through future scanning.

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for a confident, proactive professional with:

• A business development or innovation support background, and a strong track record of building collaborations

• Knowledge and experience of energy, clean heat and retrofit initiatives

• Experience working closely with businesses in or around the built environment

• Strong project management skills, ideally delivering complex, multi‑stakeholder programmes

• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage senior stakeholders

• A good understanding of the construction and built environment sector, both strategically and operationally

• Experience of bid writing or funding applications (desirable)

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