Campaigns Officer (Environmental Charity Campaigning)
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The vacancy
Full Time: 35 Hours per week
Permanent Contract
Closing date for applications: 4 October 2022
First Interview: 13 October 2022
Wildlife Trusts campaign across the UK and beyond for a Wilder Future: our collective vision is for everyone, everywhere, to be closer to nature. With a growing team of campaign leads across our movement and hundreds of thousands of campaigners standing with us, we’re making a big difference on behalf of wildlife and wild spaces. Come and be a part of it!
Who we are
The Wildlife Trusts are a grassroots movement with over 850,000 members, 38,000 volunteers and 2,800 staff. In the face of the interlinked climate and nature crises, we believe nature’s recovery is critical to allow the natural world to thrive once more. It’s imperative that precious wildlife and wild spaces are properly valued and protected, and that nature across at least 30% of land and seas is given the chance to recover.
Working across the 46 independent Wildlife Trust charities which form our federated movement, this role is based in the central Campaigning and Communities team. Our purpose is to empower Wildlife Trusts to build campaigning skills and experience so they can celebrate and defend nature locally, and to resource and unite the movement behind major national campaigns. We’re also at an exciting stage of developing a diverse community of activists who are empowered to lead the change themselves.
About you
You will be campaigning to achieve that wilder future! Your focus will be on delivering simple but effective campaign actions which shape government plans for nature’s recovery, celebrate nature’s role in our lives, and which fight against issues such as bad development and poor conservation practices. At the same time you will also work closely with individual Wildlife Trusts giving guidance around campaign messaging, tools and tactics. You will also create inspiring campaign e-actions and produce resources with Trusts that resonate locally as well as with the wider public.
You’ll be familiar with influencing policy and decision-makers either in your career so far or as a volunteer and a strong believer in the power of teamwork. You will be great at managing your time and energy within a fast-paced environment, organised and resourceful and you’ll have a good eye for written detail. You will also be a skilled active listener, adept at drawing consensus from a range of views.
We value courage, respect, integrity, trust and responsibility. Whilst we are passionate in promoting our aims we are not judgemental and we are inclusive. We want our people to be as diverse as nature itself and so we particularly encourage applications from those currently 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 be subject to a DBS check.
Who we are
We need nature and it needs us. We’re here to make the world wilder and make nature part of life, for everyone. We’re helping to make life better – for wildlife, for people, and for future generations.
The Wildlife Trusts are a grassroots movement of 870,000 members, 38,000 volunteers, and 2,800 staff across the UK. We are at an exciting moment in our 110-year history, with an ambitious new strategy in development setting out a vision of nature in recovery, with abundant, diverse wildlife and natural processes creating wilder landscapes where people and nature thrive.
Each Wildlife Trust is an independent charity formed by people getting together to make a positive difference to wildlife and future generations, starting where they live.
The next 10 years will be critical in determining what kind of world we will all live in. We need to reverse the loss of wildlife and put nature into recovery at scale as a matter of urgency if we are to prevent climate and ecological disaster. This will require big, bold changes in the way we think and operate, and the development of a strong, collaborative culture. It will require key stakeholders and the public to take action for nature’s recovery.
We want our people to be as diverse as society, so we particularly encourage applications from people who are underrepresented within our sector, including people from minority 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.
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