Campaign and Advocacy Officer (Wye Now)

22.5 hours per week, with flexible working arrangements. Some evening work occasionally required for which Time Off In Lieu will be awarded.

The closing date: 9th February 2024

Interviews on 16th February 2024

At a time of critical change and opportunity for our rivers and their catchments we have created a key role to help champion, campaign, and advocate for clean and healthy rivers.

RWT’s campaigning efforts have significantly helped to put the River Wye on the political agenda. We work with partners both nationally and locally to win support for meaningful action and change, while delivering advice and practical management in the catchment, across the wider team.

Join a vibrant and energetic team, living and working in Mid Wales, and work with colleagues delivering landscape scale work focused on the uplands, rivers and our own estate, which includes Gilfach Nature Reserve and Wilder Pentwyn Farm.

You’ll work closely with colleagues at The Wildlife Trust and Wildlife Trust Wales, building action with partner organisations and communities across the catchment, sharing common messages and ask across Wales.

With elections in both England and Wales over the next 2 years there will be a concerted focus on ensuring actions for clean and healthy rivers feature in debates and discussions and that there is a clear understanding that connected landscapes and wildlife-rich habitats, giving space to nature are well funded and supported at all levels of decision making.

With shifting agricultural subsidies and rising costs of inputs there is increasing pressure on farming and food production for the UK. 86% of farm income in Wales comes from Basic Payment Subsidies, set to be removed by 2028.

We need to help address that, using our status as a trusted delivery body and brand, that can hold funds from multiple sources, to secure a sustainable future for our river and the local economy. Part of our advocacy work is to set a course of action for a sustainable future, where local families can stay on their land, working more for nature and people, while still producing food in a sustainable way and enabling a vibrant rural economy where green tourism and diversified production is strongly featured.

Sustainable farming solutions are at the heart of RWT’s work, and are key to a sustainable and healthy Wales, fit for future generations. Mid Wales can help lead change nationally.

Our Ideal Candidate Will Have / Be

• Experience of campaigning or organising to achieve change.
• Experience of managing and working with volunteers.
• Experience of community outreach in the local area.
• Good project management skills, able to balance a range of priorities.
• Experience organising events
• A familiarity with campaigning across platforms
• Experience meeting and influencing decision makers
• Passionate about UK rivers, clean water and healthy vibrant catchments and of driving positive change for nature and climate.

As a Wildlife Trust, we fundamentally understand the value of healthy environments and the codependency of people and nature. Our community is made up of people who see the value in healthy eco-systems and healthy rivers. It is also people that will be directly impacted by the changes we foresee in the Wye catchment happening. Livelihoods will be lost if farming is unable to continue due to loss of income, livelihoods will be lost if the rivers flood with greater regularity and intensity, unchecked, and damage local communities.

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Radnorshire Wildlife Trust is one of 46 Wildlife Trusts working across the UK and one of 5 within Wales. With the invaluable support of volunteers and members, we manage 19 nature reserves in Radnorshire. We also work with other landowners and organisations to protect and connect wildlife sites across the county and inspire local communities and young people where they live.