Overview

UK Youth for Nature is recruiting for a Head of Campaigning and a Head of Communications. These are separate roles so please apply for each one individually.

Head of Campaigning

Time commitment: October 2022 onwards, for a minimum of 12 months; 1 days (8 hours) per week

Remuneration: £200 per day

Responsibilities

  • Work with the Co-Directors to coordinate all campaigns
  • Help to design a campaign strategy that will ensure UK Youth for Nature has political impact for nature and wildlife through creative campaigning
  • Develop and deliver the campaigns that UK Youth for Nature plans
  • Develop a plan for each campaign, including objectives, targets, tactics, and communications resources
  • Manage the recruitment and work of graphic designers, local campaigners,and campaign consultants.
  • Support and work with any volunteers involved in UK Youth for Nature’s campaigns
  • Keep up to date with our policy and campaigning areas, highlighting and communicating campaigning opportunities to the wider organising team and volunteers

Experience:

  • Public affairs and targeted campaigning towards politicians
  • Mapping out political campaigns

We’re particularly keen to hear from candidates from minority backgrounds.

Application Process

To Apply: Please send a CV and cover letter, explaining in no more than 500 words, why you would like the role and why you think you could carry out the responsibilities listed and meet the skills and qualifications.

Please also send a 250-word summary of how you would take a local nature/wildlife issue in part of the UK, and use youth voice and action to turn it into a campaign for national policy change.

Please send to applications.ukyouthfornature@gmail.com

Deadline – 22nd October 2022 at 5pm

 

Head of Communications

October 2022 onwards, for a minimum of 12 months; 1 days (8 hours) per week

Remuneration: £200 per day

Responsibilities

  • Manage members of the Communications Team
  • Lead on social media planning and strategy
  • Ensure the website content is up to date
  • Work with the volunteer partnerships coordinator to map inbound lead
  • Work with Directors and network coordinator to develop and maintain relationships with the network and organising team
  • Work with Directors and relevant team members to produce 2-3 monthly newsletters
  • Recruit and manage communications consultants and graphic designers
  • Coordinate regular blog posts

Internal communication

  • Work with Directors and Head of Campaigns to keep Slack functioning efficiently
  • Work with the wider Organising Team and ensure that the UKY4N network is aware of and can use campaigning assets

External communication

  • Lead on all external communication. This includes:
  • Leading on social media planning and strategy
  • Ensure the website content is up to date

Application Process

To Apply: Please send a CV and cover letter, explaining in no more than 500 words, why you would like the role and why you think you could carry out the responsibilities listed and meet the skills and qualifications.

Please also send a 250-word summary of how you would take a local nature/wildlife issue in part of the UK, and use youth voice and action to turn it into a campaign for national policy change.

Please send to applications.ukyouthfornature@gmail.com

Deadline: 22nd October 2022 at 5pm

About UK Youth for Nature

About UK Youth for Nature

UK Youth for Nature is the UK’s leading youth-led network calling on UK governments for urgent action to tackle the nature crisis. We are made up of a movement of young people aged from 16-35.

The organisation was established in 2019, as the UK chapter of a global movement for nature, the ocean, and the climate, Youth for Our Planet.

Since 2019 UK Youth for Nature has grown significantly in size and ambition, delivering a range of successful campaigns that have helped to create the political pressure for change (e.g. a partial ban on peat burning) and secured national media coverage (BBC News, Channel 4 News, Yorkshire Post, The Times).

This year (2022-2023), we have received our first ever significant grant funding to support our work, from the European Climate Foundation. This will allow us to give our projects and campaigns a boost. It also brings with it significant new legal and financial responsibilities.

How we work:

UK Youth for Nature is made up of a combination of freelance roles and volunteers contributing in their spare time. We are an organisation established as a company, but we are also a movement and network. We are fast-paced, and act quickly when needed to campaign on key issues. Where we have time we consult with team members for input, but where time is short we are decisive.

We elevate young people into positions of responsibility, offering them the chance to lead key projects or campaigns based on their passion and interest more than their skills and experience.

We mobilise our network of young people as “infantry” who can support and amplify our campaigns through their personal social media accounts.

We rely heavily on social media and digital communication platforms such as Slack. You’ll need to be comfortable using tools like these.

We are increasing our focus on local activism, including by centring more of our campaigns and projects in local places with a view to recruiting short-term local campaigners for key campaigns.

Our mission, objectives, and values, can be found here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uD_eNoJaeu9NB5jAY1tco6gWAGSKXQd-2-xGlbG8Ufo/edit?usp=sharing

Our draft 2022 strategy can be found here https://drive.google.com/file/d/12XjyYVLZAYkcvAjGTpl0Jj867RxK8FJe/view?usp=sharing