Job Description

Who we're looking for...

Role:

LENs Scotland Senior Programme Manager

Location:

Remote (Scotland)

Business unit:

LENs



C

ontract:

Permanent, full time

Salary range:

45,000-50,000 pa

What you'll be doing...

You will be joining a company at an exciting transitional stage as it shifts from start-up to scale-up, delivering landscape resilience in the UK and EU and EUR24m to farmers since 2021. The Scotland Senior Programme Manager is a critical role, essential to ensure that we continue to deliver the high quality LENs in Scotland, supporting the diverse stakeholders that are part of the successful trading networks and expanding to new partners.



The Scotland Senior Programme Manager role will:


Lead and manage the delivery of LENs in Scotland across our existing and new regions, building momentum and impact on the ground. Build the national and regional networks that are crucial to LENs' success, ensuring the engagement of key stakeholders including farmers, supply chain actors and supporting agencies. Be the key contact for country level funding partners, supporting them and ensuring LENs delivers against their objectives. Support the LENs Operators on all aspects of implementation of the LENs process, ensuring high quality delivery of trades, adapted to local conditions. Drive the successful expansion of LENs in Scotland, ensuring new regions are brought to investment-readiness and aligned with national policy developments.

Responsibilities of the role...

Operational Delivery

Lead and manage delivery of LENs in Scotland in line with the regional growth plans. With the Operations Director, develop strategic growth plans for Scotland, expanding the networks to include more demand and supply partners Be the key contact for LENs Operators and sub-contractors linked to delivery (technical advisors and supply aggregators as appropriate) supporting them to deliver to a high standard, in line with agreed budgets Collaborate with LENs Co and wider LENs networks to share knowledge and experiences of measures and outcomes, including integrating LENs with Scotland's evolving natural capital market policy landscape. Work with buyers of ecosystem services to understand their needs, support them through the LENs process, and develop investment opportunities that align with their objectives. Working with the LENs team to manage the delivery of the MRV programme in the Scottish LENs, ensuring alignment with national policy developments such as the BSI Carbon and Community Inclusion Standards.

Stakeholder management

Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders in Scotland, including supply chain actors and farmers. Work with national partners to identify new partners, supporting them to get involved in LENs, with a particular focus on expanding business engagement in the Leven, Spey, Borders, and other priority Scottish regions. Build and maintain excellent relationships with LENs Operators, ensuring they are up-to-date with developments in LENs processes. Be the key contact for demand partners in Scottish regions, supporting them and ensuring LENs delivers against their objectives. Identify potential new partners and support their onboarding to LENS, working with them to engage in their first LENs trade. Represent LENs at trade-related public meetings and forums, to advance collaboration and support.

Operational context

Stay up-to-date on Scottish policy changes that could impact the policy environment and delivery of LENs (for example, public support offered to farmers). Help document and disseminate LENs case studies demonstrating impact and best practice.

The important stuff (essential requirements)...

Experience in managing multi-stakeholder environmental or nature-based investment projects, ideally within Scotland. Strong commercial and financial acumen, with the ability to structure investment transactions for ecosystem services. Experience in working with businesses, landowners, and government agencies to broker nature-based solutions. An understanding of landscape-scale environmental challenges and the role of private investment in nature recovery. Experience of working in the natural capital, ecosystem services and/or environmental sector, with an understanding of private investment in nature-based solutions and emerging nature finance models. Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills, with the ability to bridge commercial, regulatory, and environmental interests. A practical understanding of agricultural, forestry, or water sector management practices is desirable.

Above all else, we are looking for a great new member for our team. We are aware that some individuals feel they can only apply for roles if they meet almost 100% of the criteria, where the threshold might feel lower to others, so if you are considering applying for the role, but you are doubting your suitability and don't feel you tick absolutely all the boxes, we encourage you to please apply anyway.



We are committed to offering equal opportunities and to creating a workplace where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay and deliver their best work. We encourage applications from applicants of all backgrounds, and from those who represent any diversity of gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability and all other characteristics. We want to play our part in increasing diversity within the sustainability sector, recognising that there is some way to go. We take our role in contributing to change in this area very seriously. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.

About 3Keel...

3Keel is a market-leading, specialist sustainability consultancy. We have grown organically since our founding in 2013, becoming a high impact team. The business is structured to address key sustainability issues, and we focus on innovations and coalition-building to develop approaches that challenge the status quo. We work with many of the global leading businesses on sustainability, and 3Keel is recognised by the FT as one of the UK's leading Managing Consultancies for Sustainability. 3Keel has been a B-Corp since 2020.

More about LENs...

https://landscapeenterprisenetworks.com/

3Keel also offers...

A friendly team of individuals from many walks of life, all constantly striving for excellence and committed to making a difference in sustainability - and having fun along the way! Genuine work-life flexibility for people at different life stages, with a well-established hybrid working culture Competitive salary depending on experience (based on 37.5 hours working week) 30 days paid annual leave per annum (pro rata for part time staff) increasing with the number of years at business. Pension scheme with 5% company contribution, salary sacrifice option and personal investment/savings platform Unpaid sabbatical leave, subject to qualifying criteria Employee NHS Cash Top Up health insurance scheme Employee assistance and mental health support programmes Death in service cover Access to office space in various different locations in Oxford, Bristol and London Three days of paid volunteering time per year for each staff member Generous maternity, paternity and sick pay/leave Annual training budget per employee 5 days for study per year Portion of annual profits donated to charity annually Salary sacrifice schemes for bikes (cycle to work scheme) electric vehicles and other tech

How to apply...

Please apply with a CV and covering letter (not more than one side) outlining what makes you a good fit for the role.

Application deadline: 30th May 2025

Data privacy...

Please note that any personal data submitted to 3Keel Group Ltd as part of the job application process will be processed in accordance with the GDPR and related UK data protection legislation, for more information regarding our privacy statement please see here https://www.3keel.com/privacy-statement/