Overview
Programme Coordinator – Nature Based Neighbourhoods (NBN) is a full‑time, 5‑year fixed term role with potential for extension. Location: Hybrid – remote working with one day fortnightly in WFET’s Leatherhead office (Wednesdays). Travel: Regular travel to project sites across England. Reporting to: NBN Partnership Programme Lead. Salary: up to £45,000 per annum. Hiring: Wates Family Enterprise Trust.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead programme planning, delivery and annual review cycles, ensuring the project is delivered on time and to budget, aligned with its vision and aims.
* Manage relationships with funded community partners, providing support to enable them to deliver against their grant ambitions.
* Foster cross‑sector relationships in the community.
* Oversee grant administration and budget management.
* Work with learning and impact partners to facilitate peer learning, evaluation and storytelling to share impact.
* Convene programme boards and partner meetings, providing timely updates to key stakeholders.
* Collaborate with internal teams to amplify programme visibility and share learnings, supporting local and national movement building.
Person Specification
Essential
* Experience managing multi‑year, large‑budget projects, preferably in the third sector.
* Strategic thinker with a track record of driving change.
* Strong community engagement and facilitation skills.
* Skilled in impact evaluation and reporting.
* Passionate about climate action, social justice, nature and community‑led approaches.
* Willingness to travel regularly.
Desirable
* Experience in grant‑making.
* Expertise in urban green infrastructure or climate transition.
* Ability to raise public profile of initiatives.
* Experience in cross‑sector collaboration.
How To Apply
* Completed application form.
* Covering letter outlining your interest and suitability, no more than two sides of A4.
* CV.
Deadline and Interviews
Deadline: 27 October 2025 – Midnight. Interviews: 19 and 20 November 2025 in London.
About The Programme
Connection to nature can have powerful social, health, economic and environmental benefits. These benefits are not shared equally. Our most deprived communities also have the least access to nature where they live. Communities are working to tackle this problem, but their efforts are often stifled by a lack of investment.
The NBN programme aims to strengthen community organisations, providing the financial and non‑financial resources they need to create greener neighbourhoods and communities more connected to nature.
This work will take place in a small number of places and explore how sustained commitment, engagement and investment can transform outcomes for a place, people and nature.
Specifically, this funding partnership will:
* Provide direct support in the form of core funding to selected urban community organisations that share our aims.
* Provide communities with the means to connect with the great work already happening around the county and develop peer networks.
* Enable communities to co‑develop equitable long‑term plans to increase nature connection locally.
* Support community‑led storytelling of this work, its challenges and successes.
The rationale and development of this work can be found in our theory of change.
About Wates Family Enterprise Trust
The Wates family envisages a fairer, more sustainable, more prosperous society – a world in which connection to place and planet, underpinned by a sense of belonging and empowerment within a supportive community, provides the foundation for every individual to thrive. To belong in a healthy home. To belong to a community and feel connected to nature.
Find out more about our work here: www.wfet.org.uk
Work for Wates
Wates is one of the UK’s leading family‑owned development, building and property maintenance companies. We are driven by our purpose, “reimagining places for people to thrive” and our three promises:
* Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
* Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
* Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in, and treated with care.
We are recognized as Gold Investors in People and a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure recruitment processes do not discriminate on the basis of background.
Wates Group is one of the largest, and most successful family‑owned private construction, development, and property services companies in the UK. We are committed to equality and are proud to have gold Investors in People accreditation and Disability Confident status. We are a family‑owned business that values long‑term relationships and sustainable practices; our environmental targets for 2025 include Zero Waste, Zero Carbon, and Positive Nature Enhancement.
Seniority level
* Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
* Contract
Job function
* Other
Industries
* Construction
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