Whether your job involves creating a new marketing campaign or working with major global events or writing code for our digital products and services, each role at VisitScotland is vital to our success. From finance and legal, to HR, communications, and marketing – all our staff are part of one team.
Life at VisitScotland means collaborating, building relationships, sharing knowledge, and working together to achieve the same goal – to grow the visitor economy.
Pride in your work and a sense of accomplishment is a factor we know is important to our staff. It’s also important for us to recognise and celebrate our employees’ achievements – from winning an industry award to scooping an accolade for being the best – we like to shout about it.
If you’re looking for a valued role that offers benefits to maximise a good work-life balance, then look no further and find out more.
82%
of staff feel that their work gives them a sense of personal accomplishment
91%
of staff agree that their manager is considerate of their life outside of work
88%
of staff feel that their manager is open to their ideas and feedback
84%
of staff feel proud to tell others they are part of VisitScotland
Source: VisitScotland staff survey
Wherever possible, we aim to allow our people to do their work where and when it suits them best. To help you maintain a healthy work-life balance, we offer hybrid working. Depending on the job, we also offer part-time working, and flexible or compressed hours.
Full-time employees can take 31.5 holiday days a year, rising to 36.5 days after five years’ continuous service. They also get five fixed public holidays; two days at New Year, one day for St Andrews Day and two days at Christmas. You can also buy or sell up to 35 hours (5 days) a year. Annual leave for part-time workers is given on a pro-rata basis.
All our employees are entitled to join our market-leading pension schemes. These are the British Tourist Board Pension Scheme, the Lothian Pension Fund (part of LGPS), or our enhanced National Employee Savings Trust scheme.
Staff, who have worked with us for more than one year, are able to claim back the cost of certain healthcare expenses not covered by the NHS up to certain limits. These include optical, dental, physiotherapy, and chiropody.
Staff can save money at well-known retailers and supermarkets through our staff benefits portal.
All staff up to the age of 75 are provided with life assurance of at least three times their annual salary, either directly or through their pension scheme membership.
We offer salary sacrifice schemes which allow staff to lease cars and bikes with valuable tax and National Insurance savings.
We’re committed to being a family friendly employer. We offer our staff generous family leave such as enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave. Parental leave and shared parental leave are available too.
Our in-house learning platform provides a wide range of learning like bite sized learning modules or podcasts and courses ranging from compliance to continuing professional development, equality, diversity and inclusion, continuing self-development, project management, and sustainability.
We also have internal and external coaches and mentors available to support you on your career journey and help you reach your potential.
We encourage a growth mindset that is employee focused and goals driven. We support staff to undertake work-related education programmes and qualifications.
We also fund professional memberships and registration with professional bodies. This way, you have recognition and networking opportunities with your professional community.
We have a volunteering programme designed to support individuals and teams to help develop your skills, while also giving back to communities and charities across Scotland.
We offer a number of mental wellbeing initiatives. These include staff support groups and access to a 24-hour employee assistance programme. We also offer free membership to the headspace-mediation app.
At VisitScotland, learning and growth is at the heart of everything we do. We strive to ensure that everyone's learning journey is personalised and aligned to individual requirements.
We promote the ambition of inclusion without exception. Our commitment goes beyond compliance and duty to show that equality and diversity are at the heart of what we do and to recognises the value of all our people as well as in the wider tourism industry.
Our aim is for our workforce to be representative of all sections of society and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.
Read our equality strategy