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Engagement Officer

Salary: £34,543 FTE (pro rata)

Hours: 28 (0.8)

Location: Hybrid working (blend of home working and office-based work in Edinburgh). 

Closes: 2 July 2026

Interviews: Wednesday, 5 August 2026

How to Apply

Apply at via our hiring website.

Please download our MS Word application form and complete it before starting your application on the system. When completed, follow the ‘Apply Now’ button and upload your completed MS Word document when prompted to upload a CV. This will attach your document to your candidate profile. Please note that we do not accept CVs as applications.

If you have any issues with downloads or uploads, or need general support with the process, please don’t hesitate to contact Carolyn Hughes at carolyn.hughes@recruitment-rewired.co.uk.

Rewired is our recruitment partner for this vacancy. 

About Us

Zero Tolerance is a Scottish charity working to end men’s violence against women by promoting gender equality and challenging attitudes which normalise violence and abuse. We are a values-led organisation and seek to improve the way we integrate feminism, equality, and diversity into our work. We ensure our HR policies and practices reflect our values (including enhanced parental leave, miscarriage and menopause policies and flexible working) and our salary framework is fair and competitive. We are committed to staff learning and development and have a paid reading week for all staff.

Zero Tolerance has a commitment to diversity and challenging all forms of inequality alongside gender inequality. We are open to as many different voices as there are experiences, and to all genders, and particularly welcome applications from Minority Ethnic, LGBT+, disabled, migrant, and other backgrounds currently underrepresented within the women’s sector. 

We achieve change in the following ways:

1. Raise public and political awareness of the root cause of VAWG (gender inequality) and call for action.
2. Challenge and support key institutions to embed primary prevention of VAWG in their work.
3. Advance and share the evidence base on preventing VAWG.

What you’ll do

This role leads Zero Tolerance’s engagement work to increase public understanding of men’s violence against women and girls, while building support for the social and cultural changes needed to prevent it.

You will develop and deliver engagement activity that connects with a wide range of audiences across Scotland, building strong relationships with stakeholders, partners and supporters to advance Zero Tolerance’s aims. This will include designing engagement strategies and resources, organising events, supporting behaviour change activity and helping to amplify prevention-focused messages through creative and accessible approaches.

Working collaboratively across the organisation, you will contribute to influencing work, communications activity and project development, helping ensure our engagement work reflects feminist, intersectional, and prevention-focused approaches.

What we need

The successful candidate will have experience in an engagement, influencing or partnership-based role, in a paid or voluntary capacity, alongside a strong understanding of violence against women and gender equality.

You’ll be a skilled communicator and relationship builder, confident engaging with a range of audiences from grassroots organisations and community groups through to senior stakeholders and decision makers.

You will also have:

• Experience developing, delivering and evaluating projects or engagement activity 
• Experience building and maintaining effective stakeholder relationships and networks 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and accessibly 
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and work flexibly 
• Creative thinking and an understanding of how engagement approaches can support social change 
• A self-motivated, collaborative and values-led approach, with willingness to adapt to the needs of a small charity 

What do we offer?

• Competitive salary with annual pay progression. We operate a grading structure based on five salary grades. New employees start at point 1 of each salary grade and receive annual increments until the top of the grade is reached. This role is Grade 3 (£34,543 – £38,129).
• Staff pension scheme (6% employers’ contribution). 
• 28 days annual leave plus 10 public holidays and a flexible working hours policy. 
• We actively encourage continuous professional development for all our employees and have implemented a paid reading week and continuous training opportunities for individual learning and whole team development. 

Further information

Hybrid working (blend of home working and office-based work in Edinburgh). Please note: This role requires regular in-person engagement across Central Scotland. Applicants should therefore be based within a reasonable travelling distance of Edinburgh and the Central Belt and able to meet the travel requirements of the role.

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