Programme Coordinator
Newark - Hybrid working with regular travel to other places of work
£30,900 (£18,540 for 0.6FTE)
Part time (21 hours per week)
Fixed Term contract until 30 June 2028
Closing date for applications: 13th August 2025
First interview: 27th August 2025
Second interview: 5th September 2025
About Us
The Wildlife Trusts are a grassroots movement of people from a wide range of backgrounds and all walks of life, who believe that we need nature and nature needs us. We have more than 944,000 members, over 38,000 volunteers, 3,600 staff and 600 trustees. There are 46 individual Wildlife Trusts, each of which is a place-based independent charity with its own legal identity, formed by groups of people getting together and working with others to make a positive difference to wildlife and future generations, starting where they live and work.
Every Wildlife Trust is part of The Wildlife Trusts federation and a corporate member of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, a registered charity in its own right founded in 1912 and one of the founding members of IUCN – the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Taken together this federation of 47 charities is known as The Wildlife Trusts.
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.
About You
If you are looking for an opportunity to be a part of a landmark programme bringing young people closer to nature in schools and their local communities, then this could be the role for you. The Wildlife Trusts are committed to increasing the diversity of provision for young people aged 11-16, and helping them to build a lasting connection with nature to benefit their long-term health and wellbeing. As part of this journey and with funding provided by The Prudence Trust, we will be delivering a three-year programme across the length and breadth of the UK, working directly with young people experiencing the greatest levels of underservice and underrepresentation.
This role offers the chance to directly shape and support the rollout of a brand-new strategic work stream for The Wildlife Trusts. Our focus to 2030 for education and youth work is to build a bridge between our established and hugely successful delivery to early years and primary aged children, and our emerging work with emerging adults aged 18-13. We are looking for someone with experience of supporting large-scale programmes of work with multiple partners, preferably with additional prior experience of working with secondary school settings to help us realise the full potential from this programme. Experience of the environmental sector is desirable but not essential.
About You
We are looking for a true team-player who is confident working with a wide range of stakeholders and has outstanding organisation and prioritisation skills. You will be pragmatic in your working style, with the ability to plan ahead and anticipate opportunities and challenges. You will be confident handling multiple priorities and deadlines in a calm and planned manner, with the ability to follow tightly controlled programme timelines.
You will be part of a tight and dedicated central team and will need to be self-motivated, willing to collaborate and enjoy doing this with others.
You will be a brilliant communicator, able to work across both formal and informal groups to draw conclusions and establish ways forward. In addition, you will need to enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, be resourceful, and an excellent networker.
The Wildlife Trusts value passion, respect, trust, integrity, pragmatic activism and strength in diversity. Whilst we are passionate in promoting our aims, we are not judgmental and are inclusive. 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.
RSWT take our Safeguarding responsibilities extremely seriously. Please click here to read our commitment statement. The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk. For applicable roles, applicants must be willing to undergo checks with past employers and Disclosure and Barring Service checks at the eligible level.
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.
RSWT are committed to increasing the diversity of its staff through its Levelling the Field recruitment pledge and will put any ethnic minority applicants that meet all the essential criteria for the post through to the next stage of recruitment.
Please be aware we may not accept applications if we have reason to believe they have been wholly produced using generative AI tools.
This role will require Enhanced DBS clearance without Bar