Water Safety Delivery Support - South East
Salary: £29,079 - £34,210 (dependent on experience)
Vehicle: A vehicle will be made available to carry out your duties
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Location Description: Homebased role, with travel across the South East region, primarily Kent and Sussex areas required
Interview Date: To be confirmed
Closing Date: 15-02-2026
Reference: 21181
About us
Our purpose is simple: to save lives at sea. 24 hours a day, every day, RNLI lifesavers are ready to launch to the rescue.
Water Safety contributes to the RNLI’s vision of saving everyone by developing our Water Safety and Lifesaving Plan and working with Partners to help influence improved safety, to reduce the number of preventable deaths and incidents that occur within local coastal and inland waterway environments.
We’re looking for a Water Safety Delivery Support to join our Water Safety Team in the South East. As part of the South East Regional Water Safety Team, you will help support the effective delivery of drowning reduction activities by supporting water safety volunteers and other internal and external stakeholders in sharing the RNLI's water safety messaging and interventions.
Benefits include:
- Salary £29,079 - £34,210 (dependent on experience)
- Vehicle to carry out your duties
- Flexible working
- 26 days’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays
- Outstanding pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Health and dental cash plan
Your role
As Water Safety Delivery Support, your responsibilities in this role will include:
- Be the first point of contact for water safety volunteers and RNLI regional teams for practical water safety subject matter expertise (SME) support around events, training, working with partners and delivery of interventions
- Support in the community and with partners, to develop and deliver regional and local drowning reduction plans
- Support the activities of volunteers who are attending/delivering water safety events where required
- Ensure water safety teams have access to the resources, knowledge, and skills to identify risk, create behaviour change and make their communities safer and are able to report back on their actions
- Assist staff colleagues and volunteers in the development, delivery, and monitoring of drowning reduction plans
- Establish and manage lifesaving partnerships and support water safety volunteers to do the same
- Contribute to the development and delivery of training for water safety volunteers
- Offer practical support to regional colleagues on matters of water safety
- Provide resilience to water safety teams in other regions as required
About you
As a key member of the regional water safety team, you will be working with volunteers, staff, and partners in the region to help reduce drowning. You will support water safety volunteers and partners in accessing the knowledge, skills, and resources to deliver water safety interventions in their communities.
To be considered as a Water Safety Delivery Support, you will need:
- Driving Licence (essential for this role) and a willingness to travel
- Able to work independently and as part of a team
- Good IT skills – PC literate, happy using Microsoft tools, systems and applications
- A good knowledge of all aspects of coastal and afloat leisure and/or commercial boating
- Demonstrable understanding of risk associated with the water environment and effective interventions
- Experience of water-related leisure activities
- Demonstrable experience of working with and talking to all demographics of the public
- Previous supervisory experience, preferably with volunteers
- Understanding of the education sector and education delivery
- Strong skills in administration, communication, and prioritising workload
- Willingness to work flexibly, including some evenings and weekends, where required
- Live within the RNLI South East region
- Previous lifesaving experience in a coastal environment (desirable)
- Teaching or coaching experience (desirable)
- Previous experience in education delivery (desirable)
Please note, this role requires a significant level of travel across the South East region. Due to this, the successful candidate will be expected to live in this area. There may also be some travel to Poole.
If you have a passion for helping people enjoy the coast safely and feel you have the relevant skills and experience to make a difference, please apply now using the apply button.
Safeguarding
The RNLI is committed to safeguarding; protecting a person’s health, wellbeing, and human rights, enabling them to live free from harm, abuse, and neglect. We expect all employees and volunteers to share this commitment and have a zero-tolerance approach. The suitability of all prospective employees and volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment. This will include relevant criminal record checks being carried out, dependent on the eligibility of the role. (England & Wales; DBS check, Scotland; Disclosure Scotland PVG, Northern Ireland; Access NI, Republic of Ireland; Garda Vetting; International, International Child Protection Certificate process).
Diversity at the RNLI
Our staff and volunteers have been saving lives at sea without prejudice for 200 years. We respect and value diversity of background, skills and perspectives within our teams, and consider it essential to help us deliver a world-class lifesaving service. We are an inclusive organisation and welcome applications from everyone. In addition to having the skills needed for the role, we also look for applicants who share our commitment to living our RNLI values (trustworthy, courageous, selfless, and dependable), and helping us work towards Our Vision: To save Every One