Youngwilders Engagement Officer

Youngwilders Engagement Officer

Salary: £11,200 per year + expenses (£28,000 FTE) 

Working hours: 2 days (15 hours) per week, friday preferred with 2nd day flexible

Contract type: Permanent Part-Time

Location: Minimum one day a week in London, otherwise remote, occasional travel required to
sites in and around the UK

Application Closing Date: Jan 22nd 2024, midday

Youngwilders are looking for an Engagement Officer to help us increase the quality, quantity
and diversity of our engagement work. We need someone who can help us cultivate a fun and
welcoming environment both as an organisation and in the nature recovery movement more
broadly. 

The role can be partly fitted to the interests and skills of the successful candidate, but
starter parameters are below: 

• Help us with building a diverse and energised community of young nature nerds, with online
  and in-person activities;
• Help design outreach programmes created to involve underrepresented groups with
  Youngwilders’ projects and the nature sector more broadly;
• Increasing the overall numbers of young people engaged with Youngwilders;
• Help us form new community partnerships and initiate and work on collaborative projects
  with community groups;
• Help develop and implement a new volunteer management system;
• Help us track our engagement success;
• Work with our partners to help deliver the third edition of Resurgence, our annual youth
  rewilding summit at Knepp;
• Carry out in-person ecological work on Youngwilders’ sites (no technical skill or prior
  experience required); 
• Help with our social media presence, TikTok help especially needed;
• Help us create an inviting atmosphere in all things we do.

Experience/skills 

None of the below criteria are necessary, but helpful experience includes: 

• A strong interest in nature and working with young people;
• Working understanding of equality & diversity in nature sector;
• Understanding of safeguarding and signposting procedures;
• Some experience working with volunteers; 
• Some experience or involvement in an outreach role;
• Comfortable working independently on tasks remotely as well as part of a team;
• Comfortable with the idea of initiative in developing and implementing engagement
  programmes;
• Enthusiastic and motivated, sociability also great;
• Ability to effectively plan and organise own workload;
• Willingness to work occasional weekends when required, including attendance at events (e.g
  volunteer days, fieldwork classes, etc.);
• Strong communication skills – both verbal and written, including the ability to give
  presentations and facilitate small group workshops; 
• A clean and current UK driving license (not a requirement).

The role will require access to a personal computer and reliable internet, please get in touch
if you have any problems in this regard and we will try to accommodate!

Working with Youngwilders 

Youngwilders was formally established in early 2022 as a non-profit organisation focused on
accelerating the nature recovery of the UK and involving young people in the process and
movement. We do this through facilitating youth-led ecological restoration projects across the
UK, as well as a mix of experimental youth-engagement programmes oriented around upskilling,
energising and inspiring the next generation of environmental stewards. Further, we want our
youth engagement work to play a role in making nature and the nature sector as accessible as
possible. We currently have 10 active small-scale youth-led nature recovery projects across
England and an annual youth rewilding summit held at the Knepp Estate. A relaxed and fun
working environment are a core part of our philosophy and part of what we aim to bring to the
nature recovery movement.

We’re a very small team of two (soon to be three) full-time employees, a part-time lead
ecologist, and a handful of other lovely people who help out when they can. We are currently
sourcing office space, but for now we work a mix of remote and in-person, with in-person
involving group site visits or at cafes/libraries in London. By the time the successful
candidate starts we should have office space all sorted!

How to Apply

To make an application, please send a copy of your CV with a short covering letter explaining
why you are interested in the role and why you feel you could be suitable for it (1 page max)
to [email protected], deadline midday January 22nd
2024. You will hear from us Jan 29th – Feb 2nd. Thank you for your interest, we look forward to
hearing from you!