Overview
Business Engagement Officer (Maternity Cover)
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Salary: £24,565 pro rata (based on existing 4 days per week salary of £19,652)
Location: Hybrid working with regular travel to other places of work
Part-Time: Ideally 28 hours, 4 days per week or would consider less hours with minimum of 14 hours per week.
Temporary contract: to cover maternity leave for approximately 7 months
Closing date for applications: 22nd October 2025
First interview: 29th October 2025
Second interview: 4th / 5th November 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. The next few years will be critical in determining what kind of world we all live in. 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
Role: As the new Business Engagement Officer, you will work with businesses to drive positive change for, and investment in, nature and climate. This will include engaging with companies within a range of sectors, including food and farming, infrastructure, finance and technology.
Attributes: You will be a credible, motivated self-starter who is able to take the lead in enthusing business contacts and colleagues across the wider Wildlife Trusts family.
Experience: You will be an expert communicator, experienced in the planning and delivery of commercial activities and deepening mutually beneficial relationships with businesses. You will ideally have a proven track record in successfully developing and nurturing sustainable business relationships, and in driving income growth (desirable).
Diversity and safeguarding: The Wildlife Trusts value passion, respect, trust, integrity, pragmatic activism and strength in diversity. We are inclusive and encourage applications from people underrepresented in 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.
The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts takes safeguarding responsibilities seriously. RSWT 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 is committed to increasing the diversity of its staff through its Levelling the Field recruitment pledge and will promote ethnic minority applicants that meet all the essential criteria for the post 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.
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