Environment Jobs
Rainforest Foundation UK strives for a fairer and more sustainable world by working with Indigenous Peoples and other communities of the world’s rainforests. We’re seeking a Project Finance and Administrator to join our growing team working at the forefront of the fight against tropical deforestation, climate change and social injustice. Hardworking and with an attention to detail, you will work closely with project coordinators and local partner organisations in the Democratic Republic of Congo to deliver exciting new projects expanding community land rights, sustainable livelihoods and forest protection initiatives.
About you
The ideal candidate should have demonstrable experience of providing financial and administrative support to projects within charity or international development settings. Proficiency in both English and French is essential, alongside experience a personal commitment to defending human rights. Additionally, you should have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, cultural sensitivity, and the ability to work under pressure in complex environments, including up to 12 weeks of travel per year to remote forest areas.
For further details regarding the role and specific qualifications required, please consult the Job Description.
We welcome all applicants and encourage those who believe they may not strictly meet all requirements to apply, demonstrating in their cover letter why they are the right fit for the role.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Visitor Experience and Engagement Officer
Reference: NOV20246789
Location: RSPB Minsmere, Westleton IP17
Salary: £24,890.00 - £26,720.00 Per Annum
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-Time, 37.5 Hours per week
Benefits: Pension Scheme, Life Assurance Scheme, 26 days' Annual Leave
We're looking for a creative Visitor Experience and Engagement Officer who can connect people with nature. Working at Minsmere, you'll provide fascinating visitor experiences, drawing people in through new, quality events.
Minsmere is the RSPB’s flagship reserve on the Suffolk coast, giving visitors incredible wildlife spectacles.
You will develop our visitor offer, ensuring high quality experiences. You will be a good communicator, experienced at delivering events and engaging with new audiences.
Key responsibilities:
- Introduce new visitors to the RSPB by working with the Visitor Experience Manager to create a range of new and exciting events. These new events will sit alongside our current programme of events and will enhance our visitor offer and drive footfall.
- Ensure relevant data is captured for all events to enable reporting and evaluation.
- Engage and communicate with diverse audiences, face to face, digitally and via social media.
- Ensure the reserve delivers events to the highest standards resulting in a high-quality visitor experience.
- Support the continued development of a team of volunteers to assist with event delivery.
- Ensure the reserve delivers a high quality, on brand visitor experience.
Essential skills, knowledge and experience:
- Computer Literate to include professional use of social media adhering to brand.
- Sound understanding of systems and procedures relevant to a commercial visitor operation.
- Working knowledge of visitor engagement techniques
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
- Proven ability to plan and prioritise workloads.
- A team player who can motivate and inspire people.
- Problem-solving skills and ability to work on own initiative.
- Ability to manage and respond to customer needs and feedback.
- Ability to maximise opportunities for visitor engagement and income generation.
- Able to build and maintain strong working relationships.
- Experience of delivering a high-quality visitor offer.
- Experience of managing and delivering against targets and KPI’s.
- Experience of analysing and interpreting data.
Desirable skills, knowledge and experience:
- Contribution to a successful visitor project or visitor attraction.
- Tourism/leisure related qualification, ideally at HND level or equivalent.
- Working knowledge of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion.
- Health and Safety in the workplace.
Additional Information:
- This is a permanent, full-time role for 37.5 hours per week.
- This role will require regular weekend and bank holiday working.
Closing date: 23:59, Sunday 24th November 2024
We are looking to conduct interviews for this position from W/C 2nd December 2024.
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.
We are committed to developing an inclusive and diverse RSPB, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To achieve our vision of creating a world richer in nature, we need more people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side. People of colour and disabled people are currently underrepresented across the environment, climate, sustainability, and conservation sector. If you identify as a person of colour and/or disabled, we are particularly interested in receiving your application.
The RSPB is an equal opportunities employer. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
The RSPB is a licenced sponsor. This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship - the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.
As part of this application process you will be asked to provide a copy of your CV and complete an application form including evidence on how you meet the skills, knowledge, and experience listed above. Contact us to discuss any additional support you may need to complete your application.
No agencies please.
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Project Manager, Digital Products
(UK wide)
£36,629 per annum (pro rata for part time hours)
(Ref: SUS4334)
Part Time 30 hours per week – happy to talk flexible working
Base: Home-based (remote) anywhere in the UK, or based in one of our hubs.
Fixed-term until 31 July 2025 (possible extension if funding is extended).
About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to join Sustrans as part of the Strategic Communications team. Sustrans has been working on a digital product to make the National Cycle Network (NCN) more accessible for disabled people across the UK.
As the Project Manager, you will oversee the second phase of developing this innovative digital product, working closely with out external digital agency, managing the development and test of the online tool to take it from beta to minimum viable product and the soft launch scheduled for the summer of 2025.
You will build and manage internal and external relationships with key people such as internal colleagues and external digital partners to ensure all parties involved are regularly updated on the progress of the product, and work closely with the strategic communications team to plan for the soft launch of the product
This role may require travel and work at locations as necessary to undertake projects on behalf of Sustrans.
About you
You should have ideally have experience of managing the development and roll out of digital products, as well as basic understanding of accessibility, UX and user testing.
You will also be experienced in effectively managing a project and budget ideally for a digital product, online application or website and the ability to build relationships with ease across a wide range of people.
We ask you to demonstrate your excellent IT and digital literacy, proven verbal and written communication skill, and your ability to plan and prioritise your own workload
Sustrans has a long-term commitment to being a charity for everyone - reducing inequality, valuing diversity, enabling inclusion and ensuring all people are treated with dignity and respect. We aim to be a truly inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all parts of the community, in particular from under-represented groups.
What we offer
In return we can offer true hybrid working to suit individual circumstances and a flexible, supportive and rewarding working environment.
Wellbeing
28 days’ leave per annum plus bank holidays for full-time working
Ability to buy an extra week of annual leave (pro-rata for part-time staff)
Staff volunteer days
24/7 free, impartial and confidential support service
We are members of the Green Commute Initiative and Cycle Scheme who both offer cycle to work schemes
Financial
Group Personal Pension scheme with a 6% or 7% of basic salary contribution being matched by Sustrans
Bike, computer and season ticket loans
Discount benefits
London Weighting Allowance of £4,530 for all those living within a London Borough (32 local authority districts plus the City of London)
Death in Service benefit – 3 x annual Salary
Family Friendly
Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
Flexible Working practices (full time hours are 37.5 per week, Monday - Friday)
Additional information
Closing date for the receipt of completed applications is 23:59, 24 November 2024.
Interviews will take place in via MS Teams during the week commencing 02 December 2024
About Sustrans
At Sustrans you'll be part of a movement to make it easier for people to walk and cycle.
We're all here to change things! You’ll be part of an incredible community of talented, passionate, creative, problem solvers all working together to change things for the better. We act locally and think big - we have a vision of a society where the way we travel creates healthier places and happier lives for everyone.
You'll be questioning the status quo and daring to imagine a different world. You'll work on exciting, impactful projects that will stretch and empower you and you'll be rewarded by seeing the difference you make to people, communities and the planet.
We believe including everyone is central to who we are and what we want to achieve, we welcome difference and pride ourselves on creating a culture where you can be yourself and where your wellness is supported.
You'll be guaranteed to make friends for life and work with a team that is incredibly flexible, supportive, ethical and fun.
Thank you!
Are you passionate about nature and looking to make a real difference? Lead this dedicated charity, protecting and restoring the beauty of our environment and wildlife.
Applications close at 9 a.m. Wednesday 27th November
Who we are.
We care for 30 nature reserves, ranging from ancient bluebell woods and Iron Age forts to nationally important wetlands that serve as havens for rare wading birds and wildflower meadows.
Our educational and community programmes help people of all ages connect with and benefit from the natural world around them while empowering them to contribute to nature’s recovery.
We collaborate with landowners across the region to reverse wildlife decline by creating connected living landscapes.
About the role.
We are looking for a CEO who can provide dynamic, inclusive leadership to a team of over 50 staff and 1,500 volunteers, working together to deliver our ambitious 2030 strategy.
As CEO, you will make a significant ecological impact by managing over 1,000 hectares of nature reserves, engaging with key stakeholders, and driving innovative nature-based solutions to tackle climate change, support wildlife and restore biodiversity.
We have several exciting opportunities on the horizon. To realise their full potential, we need a leader who can deliver on our strategic ambitions for 2030 and is comfortable operating in a complex charity with commercial, environmental, and educational priorities. You will serve as an influential ambassador for us locally, regionally, and nationally, including with donors, the local community, landowners, MPs, councillors, fellow Wildlife Trusts, and other charities.
We seek a leader with successful senior management experience, ideally within conservation or the charity sector. Strong strategic planning, communication, and financial management skills are essential. You should also have a proven track record of working with diverse stakeholders and generating sustainable income streams.
Above all, you must have a passion for nature conservation and the ability to inspire and unite teams.
Join us in leading Avon Wildlife Trust to create a wilder future for the West of England, where both people and nature can thrive.
Apply now to be part of something truly transformative for nature and people!
Please click 'Apply via website’ to be redirected to the Peridot Partners website, where you can find full details of the job description and register your interest to apply.
Applications for this role close at 9 a.m. Wednesday 27th November.
Registered Charity
51 - 100
We want to see nature restored on a grand scale across the Avon region. We have big plans between now and 2030 to see this happen.
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Head of Programmes
The charity strives for a fairer and more sustainable world by working with Indigenous Peoples and other communities of the world’s rainforests. We are looking for a committed and dynamic Head of Programmes to join this growing team working at the forefront of the fight against climate change and social injustice.
Position: Head of Programmes
Location: London/hybrid
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours
Salary: £58,500 per annum
Duration: Permanent
Closing Date: Monday 25 November 2024
Interview Date: 4 December 2024
The Role
As Head of Programmes, you will shape an exciting new phase of programming for the organisation, capitalising on new opportunities to scale impact.
Key duties include:
- Overall responsibility for the programme portfolio, ensuring sound management and administration of projects in accordance with our procedures and those of funders.
- Leadership in the development and execution of the programme strategy, providing guidance and direction to the team, ensuring that all the work aligns with the values of the charity and contributes to organisational goals.
- Leading the approach to local partner organisations and ensuring that they are equipped to comply with current policies and procedures.
- Build and cultivate trusted relationships and networks with partners and other stakeholders.
- As a key member of the Senior Management Team, play a key role in the design and implementation of organisational strategies and policies.
About You
The Head of Programmes will have proven track-record in programme management, extensive experience working in international development and excellent knowledge of environmental issues and human rights. Proven leadership and line management experience, as well as strategy design and implementation, stakeholder management and external representation are key elements of the role. Fluency in English and French is required, and knowledge of Spanish highly desirable.
Employee Benefits
- 30 days paid holiday, in addition to Bank Holidays
- Hybrid working
- 4 weeks of work from anywhere in the world
- IT home office budget
- Learning and development allowance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- 4% employer contribution to workplace pension regardless of employee contribution
We encourage all interested candidates to apply, even if they believe they may not fully meet all the requirements. Applicants should specifically explain their suitability for the role in their application.
Other areas of experience may include Programmes, Head of Programmes, Director of Programmes, International Head of Programmes, International Director of Programmes, Environmental Head of Programmes, Environmental Programmes, Programme Manager.
Please note this role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of our client.
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Rainforest Foundation UK strives for a fairer and more sustainable world by working with Indigenous Peoples and other communities of the world’s rainforests. We’re seeking two Project Coordinators to join our growing team working at the forefront of the fight against tropical deforestation, climate change and social injustice. Hardworking and committed, you will work closely with local partner organisations in the Democratic Republic of Congo to expand community land rights, sustainable livelihoods and forest protection initiatives.
Person specifications
The ideal candidate should possess a minimum of 3 years’ experience in project management within charity or international development settings. You should demonstrate a strong understanding of forest governance and human rights, particularly in Central Africa, and exhibit leadership in project management. Proficiency in both English and French is essential, alongside experience in financial management and a personal commitment to defending human rights. Additionally, you should have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, cultural sensitivity, and the ability to work under pressure in complex environments, including up to 12 weeks of travel per year to remote forest areas.
For further details regarding the role and specific qualifications required, please consult the Job Description
We welcome all applicants, and encourage those who believe they may not strictly meet all requirements to apply, demonstrating in their cover letter why they are the right fit for the role.
Application process
To submit your application, kindly complete the online application form by Monday 25 November 2024, 9AM. Please be aware that the form will be anonymised for review by the panel.
Please note that CVs will not be considered.
Interviews with shortlisted candidates will be held on 29 November 2024. Please let us know in your application if you are available to attend an online interview.
Download the Job Description
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
Full time permanent contract (35 hours per week)
£27,021 to £30,060 per annum dependant on experience
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is one of the UK’s fastest growing nature conservation organisations and seeks to appoint a Digital Fundraising Officer to drive an increase in our fundraised income through engagement with our digital audiences.
In this new role you’ll work right across our digital ecosystem - from our website to our social media platforms, email marketing software and beyond - to develop and deliver highly targeted online interactions and campaigns that convert engagement into long-term financial support, especially through membership.
To succeed in this role, you will need to be an outstanding communicator with experience in planning and implementing highly compelling, audience targeted and brand-reflective digital content and campaigns to meet income, membership and engagement targets. Highly organised, skilled in collating and analysing performance data and using it to demonstrate impact and inform our plans, our ideal candidate will also be an innovator who can help us to adopt new digital tools and technologies to create more effective fundraising solutions, run more profitable campaigns and futureproof the Trust. Experience of the charity/third sector environment and expertise in driving membership acquisition is preferred.
How to apply:
Please submit an up-to-date CV and a supporting statement. When writing your supporting statement, please refer to the person specification within the job description, and ensure you describe your relevant knowledge, skills and experience relevant to the role. Ideally, your CV and supporting statement should be in an editable format, such as Word, so we can anonymise your documents prior to the short-listing process. Please DO NOT include any personal details (name, address etc) on your supporting statement.
Closing date: Monday 25th November at 9am
Interview date: Monday 9th December at our Head Office at St. Georges Place, York
Please note that applications received after the closing deadline may not be considered. The Trust regrets that it is unable to give feedback on unsuccessful applications.
We are committed to creating a Movement that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential. We want our people to flourish, just like nature.
REF-217 727
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The Great Crested Newt District Level Licensing (GCN DLL) scheme, where we act as a Habitat Delivery Body for Natural England
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The "Wild Highways" scheme, working in partnership with farmer cluster groups in the Clee Hills and private businesses to deliver habitat connectivity at landscape scale for Hazel Dormouse. Sites for improvement will be identified and other sources of funding sought, such as EWCO (England Woodland Creation Offer) ; ELMS (Environmental Land Management Scheme) & SFI (Sustainable Farm incentive); to complement the existing capital budget. All projects require pre and post works monitoring, close liaison with the participating landowners and contract supervision for the selected contractor.
