Jobs at SRUC - Scotland's Rural College

SRUC (Scotland’s Rural College) is a specialist higher education institution delivering tertiary education, research and consultancy.

We currently operate our main Higher and Further education activities from five campuses across Scotland - Aberdeen, Barony, Edinburgh, Elmwood, and Oatridge. We also deliver teaching in Glasgow. SRUC employs approximately 1,300 staff operating from five campuses, eight farms, 25 consulting offices, six research centres and eight veterinary surveillance centres located primarily across Scotland. The organisation’s annual turnover is around £85 million.

SRUC’s principal purpose is to advance education, science, research, and environmental protection and improvement in rural and land-based industries, both domestically and internationally. The commercial consultancy, skills training and knowledge exchange and some commercial research activities are undertaken through SAC Consulting – part of SRUC.

It is SRUC’s intention to become a fully-fledged university – a new and unique establishment for the 21st century that is regional, accessible, and responsive to a diverse range of challenges in a transforming world. We will be a strong and unique anchor institution where research, skills and business converge. Such convergence will create new insights that deliver big strategic leaps and completely new propositions for business, society and government.