Vacancies: Creative Canopies Community Gardner, Steamie Meanwhile Use Project Coordinator

Creative Canopies Community Gardener and Environmental Connector

Deadline: Wednesday 14 October 2026, 12 noon
Interviews: Wednesday 21 October 2026
Start Date: 2nd November 2026
End Date: 30th April 2027. Fixed term, with a review at six months. Extension subject to funding.
Salary: £10,491 (£26,227.50 FTE, pro rata for 30 hours per week over six months)
Contract: Employed, fixed term. Four days a week (30 hours)
Location: Govanhill Baths Community Trust, with work across local sites

Application: To apply, please send your CV and a supporting statement (no more than two sides of A4) explaining how you meet the person specification to Hannah at info@govanhillbaths.com by 12 noon on Wednesday 14 October 2026. Interviews will be held on Wednesday 21 October 2026.
If you would like to apply in another format, such as audio or video, or have any access requirements, please get in touch.

Purpose of the role
Creative Canopies is a dispersed community orchard growing across Govanhill and the wider Southside. It is a three-year planting programme held within a relationship of care intended to last for twenty-five years and beyond. The orchard is threaded through with learning, art and seasonal celebration and connects across the Trust to wellbeing, the People’s Pantry and Rags to Riches.
The Community Gardener provides the horticultural knowledge and practical leadership that makes the orchard possible on the ground. The postholder assesses sites, recommends suitable fruit and nut trees, leads planting and aftercare, and enables residents to develop the skills and confidence to care for their trees over the long term.
This is also a relational role. Creative Canopies depends on residents trusting the project, welcoming a tree into their space and becoming active custodians of a shared urban canopy. The Community Gardener builds that trust through warm, culturally sensitive engagement, dependable practical support and clear horticultural guidance.
The “Environmental Connector” part of the title reflects the other side of the job. The postholder links trees, residents and local groups, and connects the orchard with other parts of the Trust’s work, such as wellbeing, the People’s Pantry and Rags to Riches, as well as with ecological partners across neighbourhoods.
The role brings together four important qualities: skilled horticulture, community trust, creative contribution and reliable ways of working. It feeds directly into the project’s four evaluation aims: increasing tree cover in areas of deprivation; enabling residents to take active responsibility for canopy care; changing how people relate to urban trees; and building ecological partnerships across neighbourhoods.

Please download the Job Description for full detail, job purpose, responsibilities, and personal specifications.

Project Coordinator – Steamie Meanwhile Use

Deadline: 9am Tuesday 20th October
Interviews: Friday 30th October
Start date: 2nd November 2026
End date: 28th May 2027
Location: Hybrid- GBCT Main Office and Steamie, Govanhill Baths
Salary: 2 days a week (15 hours) £8,000 (FTE £40,000)

Application: Please submit a two page letter outlining how you meet the essential criteria, along with contact details for two referees, together with a CV. Email application to info@govanhillbaths.com with subject heading Confidential Steamie Project Coordinator.

Strategic Context and Scope of the Role
The Meanwhile Use Programme sits within GBCT’s wider strategic ambition to support community wellbeing, strengthen community ownership, preserve and animate Govanhill’s heritage, and contribute to the long-term regeneration of the Govanhill Baths site.

The immediate focus of the programme is the Steamie, recognising its potential to become an active heritage, cultural and community space while the wider capital development programme progresses. Bringing the Steamie back into meaningful use provides an opportunity to demonstrate how the building can operate as a live civic asset, generate activity and income, strengthen partnerships and community participation, and build momentum towards the long-term redevelopment of Govanhill Baths.

The focus on the Steamie also has wider implications for the management and stewardship of the Govanhill Baths building. Although the majority of activity and development under the Meanwhile Use Programme will initially take place within the Steamie, the programme may create opportunities to make appropriate use of other parts of the building, including the Ladies Pool and Big Pond, where this is feasible, safe and consistent with the developing capital programme.

The Project Coordinator will therefore need to consider the Steamie not in isolation, but as part of a wider and complex heritage asset. This will include understanding the implications of occupation for building management, access, security, insurance, health and safety, maintenance and future opportunities for use.

The proposed rental agreement with Govanhill Baths Building Preservation Trust (GBBPT) is anticipated to relate to the building as a whole. However, GBCT is not currently in a position to secure, manage or maintain all areas of the building. The precise responsibilities of GBCT and GBBPT, including arrangements for access, security, maintenance, insurance and occupation, will therefore need to be clearly established through the lease or licence to occupy and associated agreements.

The Project Coordinator will play an important role in helping GBCT understand and manage these implications, ensuring that meanwhile use is developed in a way that is safe, financially realistic, legally compliant and aligned with the long-term capital and regeneration strategy.

The role will operate within the agreed governance arrangements and will report to the Project Steering Group, providing regular updates on progress, operational matters, risks, opportunities and issues requiring strategic consideration. The Coordinator will be expected to identify where decisions relating to the wider building, rather than the Steamie alone, require consideration by GBCT, GBBPT or the Steering Group.

Please download the Job Description for full detail, job purpose, responsibilities, and personal specifications.