Role Overview
Scotland - Remote
Curious about what it actually takes to run conservation at scale? Excited by the idea of learning from experienced operators, rolling your sleeves up across real working estates, and helping build the systems that keep everything running safely and well? This is your chance to start your career at the operational heart of one of the UK’s most ambitious conservation organisations.
You’ll travel to our estates across Scotland, see how conservation actually works on the ground, and help build and maintain the systems that keep everything running safely and well. Some days you’ll be at a desk. Some days you’ll be on a hillside. Most days you’ll be doing something you didn’t expect.
You’ll work directly alongside our Head of Operations and estate teams — the people who make things happen day to day. You’ll learn by doing, ask questions freely, and leave knowing how a fast-scaling conservation organisation actually operates from the inside.
If you’re early in your career, driven by impact, and genuinely excited to learn what great operations look like in a fast-scaling conservation business, we’d love to meet you.
Closing date: 18/05/2026
Apply nowYou’re curious, organised, and keen to learn. You bring care and attention to detail to everything you do, and you’re not afraid to ask questions or get stuck in. You like systems, you spot patterns, and you’re genuinely excited by the idea of helping protect and restore landscapes at scale.
Like everyone at Oxygen Conservation, you’re purpose-driven, collaborative, and talented. The kind of person who brings positive energy to long site days, team challenges, and the unglamorous operational details alike.
Here’s a snapshot of the strengths you’ll bring:
ENVIRONMENT
- A genuine belief in environmental impact and real excitement about the role operations plays in enabling world-class conservation work. Our mission underpins every decision; you feel the same.
IMPACT
- Early-career professional, graduate, apprentice, or career-changer with an interest in operations, estates, sustainability, or conservation.
- Organised and methodical, with a natural comfort around documentation, spreadsheets, and structured information.
- A clear communicator — written and verbal — who can turn observations into tidy notes, reports, and updates.
- Comfortable picking up new systems and tools quickly (we use Claude, Asana, Excel, Power BI, and a range of estate management platforms).
- You take doing things properly seriously — not because you have to, but because cutting corners bothers you.
ADVENTURE
- You enjoy variety — time at a desk building systems and reports, days on estates learning how things really work, and the occasional muddy boot.
- You welcome the unexpected and are happy to get stuck in wherever needed.
TOGETHER
- A natural collaborator and relationship-builder who is comfortable working with people at all levels — from senior leadership through to estate teams and contractors.
- And yes — you must be a cool person. Sharing snacks on long journeys is practically part of the job description.
Operational Support: Help maintain RAMS, SOPs, and wider operational documentation. Support the team in drafting process maps and keeping our document library accurate and up to date.
Health, Safety and Wellbeing: Support HSW audits and assessments across sites — helping gather evidence, capture observations, and contribute to reports, KPIs, and trend analysis.
Estate Assurance: Shadow and support onsite audits, spot checks, and inspections. Help track findings through to closure, and flag patterns worth a closer look.
Contractor Coordination: Support contractor onboarding, compliance tracking, and documentation. Help monitor performance and keep records clean.
Team Support: Act as a reliable extra pair of hands for the Operations team and Estate Managers — coordinating tasks, chasing actions, and supporting operational queries.
Data and Reporting: Work alongside our GIS and Data Visualisation Expert to support dashboards, audit tools, and reporting — helping turn raw data into useful insight.
Learning and Development: Take full advantage of the learning opportunities on offer — site visits, mentoring, cross-functional exposure, and structured time to reflect on what you’re picking up.
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Your Working Environment
Most of our roles, unless site specific allow you the freedom to work from anywhere in the country, should you need help with this we too will be there to support.
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Best Teammates
We always want to ensure every member of the team has the right support needed. We are a tight knit team, always sharing, meeting and working together. Although we work remotely from one another the culture we have shaped allows you to never feel alone.
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Do What You Love
If you bring a passion for conservation and a care for the environment, we’ll support you to create your dream role.
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Tools to perform
We will ensure you are provided with the equipment you need to be incredible in your role.
1Apply
This is the first step to becoming part of the team. Simply click the ‘Apply Now’ button to complete our application form, and show us how awesome you are!
CV’s are needed, but on their own we don’t feel they tell us enough about who you really are. So, we have listed just a couple of questions to allow us to learn more about you.
2Opportunity to Shine
If your application is successful a member (or two) of the team will have an introductory call with you, to answer any initial questions you may have. After which, if successful, we will set an exciting role specific challenge for you to complete in advance of your interview. An opportunity for us to see you shine.
3Interview
We hate for this part to be too corporate and regimented. Instead, we will have a relaxed conversation to get to know one another, an opportunity to ask questions and learn more.
We recognise that this process is two way and that you will be interviewing us perhaps even more than we will be interviewing you – we promise that it won’t be a dull process.
4Decision
If our passion for what we do aligns with yours and we think you’ll be a great addition, we will invite you to join our growing team. If you love what you’ve learnt we hope you will accept, to be a part of our mission to Scale Conservation.
