Earth & environmental Work, Jobs in Edinburgh, Sct (with Salaries)

Earth Fellow: The Ecological Impact of Veterinary Medicines
University of Edinburgh —Edinburgh
- Part-time
- Microsoft Excel
- University
- Communication skills
- Employee discount
14d
Earth Fellow: circular biomass options for Scottish farms
University of Edinburgh —Edinburgh
- Part-time
- Doctoral degree
- University
- Accounting
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
Maintenance Supervisor
Dynamic Earth —Edinburgh
- £27,500 - £33,000 a year
- Full-time
- Maintenance
- Hotel
- Administrative experience
- Free parking
- Store discount
Quick apply
Earth Fellow: Repowering in the Orkney Islands
University of Edinburgh —Edinburgh
- Part-time
- Master's degree
- University
- Communication skills
- Employee discount
14d
Research Associate in Smart Building Materials Policy
Heriot Watt University —Edinburgh
- £37,694 - £47,389 a year
- Full-time
- Doctoral degree
- IT
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Flexible schedule
10d
Earth Fellow: remote sensing sand urbanisation
University of Edinburgh —Edinburgh
- Part-time
- Doctoral degree
- University
- Python
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
14d
Earth Fellow: ecologies of data centres
University of Edinburgh —Edinburgh
- Part-time
- Doctoral degree
- University
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
14d
Project Geologist
SLR Consulting —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Engineering
- Data analysis skills
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
Senior Geo-Environmental Consultant
SLR Consulting —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Engineering
- Master's degree
- Supervising experience
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
Associate – Transport Planning (Development)
SLR Consulting —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Mentoring
- Leadership
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
Lecturer in Hydrology
University of Edinburgh —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Doctoral degree
- English
- University
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
9d
Geotechnical Engineer
Evan Craig —Edinburgh
- Hybrid work
- Master's degree
- Analysis skills
- Bachelor's degree
Engineering Geologist
AECOM —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Engineering
- Master's degree
- Supervising experience
Field Engineer - Europe
AST SpaceMobile —Edinburgh
- Remote
- Computer Science
- Engineering
- English
Quick apply
Principal Geotechnical Engineer
Evan Craig —Edinburgh
- Hybrid work
- Engineering
- Master's degree
- Bachelor's degree
Senior Civil Engineer - Renewables
SLR Consulting —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- AutoCAD
- Civil engineering
- Engineering
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme

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Earth Fellow: The Ecological Impact of Veterinary Medicines

University of Edinburgh -
Edinburgh

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Job details

Part-time
14 days ago

Benefits

Company pension
Employee discount

Qualifications

Report writing
Microsoft Excel
Communication skills
Python

Full job description

Grade UE05: £29,588 - £33,951 per annum, pro-rata as part-time

Edinburgh Earth Initiative / Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability

Part-time: 9 hours per week

Fixed-term: for 9 months from September 2026

Earth Fellowships are only open to current postgraduate and PhD students at the University of Edinburgh based in the UK. Please do not apply if you will not be an on-campus University of Edinburgh student in the ‘26/’27 academic year.

The Opportunity:

The School of Geosciences and Division of Global Agriculture and Food Systems are looking for a postgraduate student to support the creation of an online interactive database of options to mitigate the biodiversity and climate impacts of veterinary medicines, including how these interact with each animal welfare and food security. This 9-month Fellowship will focus on gathering evidence and building the database.

This post will be appointed at Grade UE05, step 1 which is £29,588 per annum, pro-rata (£16.21 per hour).

As an Earth Fellow, you will be joining a diverse, fun and dynamic team of researchers, students and staff all working together to address the global climate emergency. As part of the Earth Fellows programme, you will have access to co-working space, exciting networking and personal development opportunities and opportunities to contribute towards partnerships and solutions for climate change on a global scale.

Earth Fellows work on individual and team-based projects which contribute to the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Earth Initiative’s work on climate change research-led impact, innovation, engagement, and teaching.

Please refer to the project brief and the skills listed below when outlining your skills and experience in your application.

Click here to view the full project brief for the Earth Fellow: the ecological impact of veterinary medicines, including key tasks and deliverables (opens browser in new tab)

Your skills and attributes for success:
• Current University of Edinburgh postgraduate student in the ‘26/’27 academic year.
• An interest in food security, animal welfare and environmental sustainability.
• Familiar with basic Microsoft Excel or Rstudio (or potentially Python).
• Experience with academic research activities such as academic literature reviews, data collection from grey literature and report writing.
• Experience synthesising data from different sources.
• Problem solving skills to evaluate evidence and suggest appropriate solutions.
• Self-motivated and proactive.
• Confidence to initiate ideas as part of a team, including constructively challenging others' ideas, and comfortable having your ideas challenged in turn.
• Very good communication skills including the ability to communicate complex information clearly in writing, and to build rapport with stakeholders.

Click here to view the general Earth Fellow job description (opens browser in new tab).

As a valued member of our team, you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work alongside the Edinburgh Earth Initiative team and Earth Fellows community which includes postgraduate and PhD students as well as the wider student community, academics, professional services, and global partners working on climate and environmental change. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success.

You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Click to access our staff benefits page (opens new browser tab) for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab).

Key dates to note

The closing date for applications is 17 th August 2026.

Unless stated otherwise, the closing time for applications is 11:59 pm GMT (UK time). If you are applying from outside the UK, the closing time shown on our adverts will automatically adjust to your browser’s local time zone .

Interviews will be held in September.

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