Wessex Rivers Trust (Wessex RT) is a dynamic and growing environmental charity, dedicated to the protection and conservation of rivers and chalk streams in the Wessex area (Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight). Wessex RT is part of the national Rivers Trust movement which helps to protect and enhance the UK’s rivers. The Trust recognises that communication with a wide and diverse audience is essential to sustaining long-term interest in our local chalk streams and empowering local communities to take ownership of our precious rivers. To deliver on its ambition, the Trust aims to communicate and engage with the public through digital and printed media, as well as face to face.
Wessex RT is seeking to recruit a Communications Officer to work 3 days a week in support of our mission.
Job Summary and Purpose
The main purpose of the role is to build the Trust’s profile by promoting its work of protecting and restoring rivers, increasing the public understanding of the importance of chalk stream and river conservation, and broadening people’s knowledge and empowering them to act.
Reporting to the CEO but working closely with all teams within the Trust, the role will deploy a range of approaches to inform and inspire current and new audiences across the communities we want to reach. This includes celebrating project successes, changing attitudes and behaviours, demonstrating our impact, and bringing our work to life using vibrant images, headline data, and meaningful stories. Keeping tabs on the effectiveness of our communications will be part of the role, as well as planning and innovating. External partnerships are of fundamental importance to the Trust, and the role will involve working with a range of external contacts on joint initiatives and, from time to time, the media.
For full job description and recruitment pack, please head to our website: www.wessexrt.org.uk/vacancies
To apply, email your CV (not more than 3 pages) and a cover letter (1000 words maximum) describing your suitability for the role with explicit reference to the Person Specification to: recruitment@wessexrt.org.uk by midday on the 10th June 2026. Interviews will take place on the 16th June and 18th June 2026.
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