Community Organising Coordinator

Full Time 35 Hours Per Week

Fixed Term April 2022 to September 2024

Closing Date: 20 March 2022

First Interview: 28 March 2022

Second Interview: 4 April 2022

We are looking for an enthusiastic and innovative co-ordinator to support The Wildlife Trusts’ strategic move to a Community Organising approach.

The Community Organising Co-ordinator will coordinate the delivery of Nextdoor Nature, a UK wide transformational project designed to engage communities and help nature to thrive. Facilitating across the 46 independent Wildlife Trusts which constitute our federated movement of grass roots charities, the post holder will sit within the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, our central charity, as part of the Campaigning and Communities team.

We hope to empower the UK’s most economically and nature deprived communities through Nextdoor Nature, helping people to identify places for nature which are important to them. We will also support communities to reclaim and create new green spaces for nature, wherever they live, work or play.

Who we are

The Wildlife Trusts are a federated movement of 46 charities, supported by a central charity, the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts. Together we have 870,000 members, 38,000 volunteers and 3,400 staff across the UK. We are at an exciting moment in our 110-year history, with the development of an ambitious new strategy, setting out a vision of nature in recovery, with abundant, diverse wildlife and natural processes creating wilder landscapes where people and nature thrive.

Wildlife Trusts have restored and care for some of the most special places for wildlife in the UK. Collectively we manage more than 2,300 nature reserves, operate 123 visitor and education centres and own 29 working farms. We undertake research, we stand up for wildlife and wild places under threat, and we help people access nature.

The next few years will be critical in determining what kind of world we all live in. We need to urgently reverse the loss of wildlife and put nature into recovery at scale if we are to prevent climate and ecological disaster. We recognise that this will require big, bold changes in the way The Wildlife Trusts work, not least in how we mobilise others and support them to organise within their own communities.

We’re Wild About Inclusion! To us, this means inspiring, empowering and engaging people from all backgrounds, cultures, identities and abilities, to change the natural world for the better. It means creating workspaces where difference is celebrated, everyone can be themselves and flourish, just like nature.

About you

The successful candidate will have experience in co-ordinating multi-partner projects, an eye for detail and excellent organisation and administration skills. You will be self-motivated and able to plan ahead. Ideally you will have a background in community outreach and/or environmental community action. In addition, you need to enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, be resourceful, an excellent networker and a good support to fellow colleagues.

This role will give you the opportunity to make a difference to nature’s recovery and to people’s happiness, health and wellbeing. It will also enable you to be part of our vision to secure 30% of the UK’s land and sea for wildlife by 2030. We value courage, respect, integrity, trust and responsibility. Whilst we are passionate in promoting our aims, we are not judgemental, and we are inclusive.

In this role you will support our community outreach specialists as they establish Team Wilder groups within their own Trusts. You will coordinate how we measure and evaluate each different community’s impact in achieving nature’s recovery through a people powered approach. You will also help to identify best practice and ways of working from across The Wildlife Trusts, create shared resources and help to build a knowledge sharing digital space for all our communities – internal and external.

This role will put you at the heart of The Wildlife Trusts’ work as we take a significant step forward in the development of our community organising approach.

We want our people to be as diverse as nature, so we particularly encourage applications from people who are underrepresented within our sector, including people from minority ethnic backgrounds and people with disabilities. We are committed to creating a movement that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities.

As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to offering an interview to anyone with a disability that meets all the essential criteria for the post. Please let us know if you require any adjustments to make our recruitment process more accessible.

This role may require a DBS check.

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