We’re looking for a passionate Project Officer to empower girls and young women to connect with nature and take action for birds and the environment. You’ll play a key part in empowering girls and young women to connect with, and take meaningful action for, birds and nature.
Project Officer – Girlguiding Partnership
Reference: JUN20251151
Salary: £27,123.00 - £28,956.00 per Annum, Pro Rata
Terms: 12 months FTC, Part-Time, 22.5 hours per week
Location: The role holder will be a homeworker, ideally based in Gloucestershire, Bristol, Dorset, Somerset, Berkshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire. Additional travel may be required.
Key tasks:
* Design and deliver youth-focused nature engagement activities, including co-creating a nature and climate youth action toolkit and launching a Youth Nature Ambassador Network for members aged 10-18 to shape initiatives and lead their own projects.
* Design and deliver 'train the trainer' sessions to empower adult and young leaders to embed nature and climate action into their core programming as well as driving the changes they are most passionate about.
* Coordinate and deliver project activities, ensuring timely, high-quality, and cost-effective outcomes. E.g. managing volunteers, collaborating with partners, supporting budget monitoring, maintaining documentation, and helping embed project outcomes into long-term practice.
* Coordinate communications and stakeholder engagement, including facilitating meetings and creating briefings
Essential:
Experience in:
* designing and delivering youth engagement sessions, events, workshops, or facilitated discussions for young people, with a focus on fostering learning and development, encouraging collaboration and promoting meaningful participation and decision-making.
* developing, collaborating and working within effective partnerships and project teams, engaging both internal and external stakeholders to achieve shared goals and deliver outcomes.
* compiling reports and analysing numerical data to monitor progress, evaluate impact, etc.
* developing and delivering engaging training programmes for adults, particularly in a way that builds confidence and practical skills.
Strong:
* Communication skills with both adults and young people, with the ability to convey project goals in a passionate, credible, and persuasive manner
* Time management and organisational skills, with a working knowledge of project management principles
You will be supported by our England Youth Partnerships team, with opportunities to meet virtually with staff and volunteers, so you feel part of a team. An induction and relevant training will be provided as well as support.
You will need to be available to run training at weekends and/or evenings.
Closing: Wednesday 2nd July
To complete your application online please CLICK HERE
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