Head of Community

Salary: £35,041 per annum, based on a 35-hour week.

We are currently seeking a highly motivated and passionate individual to lead #TeamWilder our Community Team. In this role, you will be responsible for facilitating and supporting community action across Cumbria. Fostering strong relationships with the community, promoting our values and initiatives, and ensuring the well-being of our community members.

#TeamWilder is a growing national movement led by the Wildlife Trusts and helps tip the scales back in nature’s favour.

The Head of Community will lead the Trust’s people engagement activity across Cumbria to involve local people in their natural environment and help them to create a nature recovery network in partnership with the Trust. 

This role will develop and deliver a new approach to how Cumbria Wildlife Trust inspires and empowers 1 in 4 local people to achieve bigger and better outcomes for the environment, wildlife and people in Cumbria. This is about place-making and improving the places people live, work and visit. Activities that engage a wider range of people with the natural, cultural and historic heritage in their neighbourhoods will be a priority.

The post holder will lead an integrated team (including volunteering and education staff) supporting collaborative activity in which individuals, local communities and groups can take practical action together for wildlife across the County (with or without the Trust’s involvement). 

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. If you have not heard anything within 14 days of the closing date, please assume your application has not been successful.

To apply, please click on the link below.

Closing date: 23:59 on Sunday 4 February 2024.

Interviews will be held at our Headquarters in Kendal on Tuesday 13 February 2024 (possibility of second interviews on 26 February).

Cumbria Wildlife Trust is devoted to the conservation of the wildlife and wild places of Cumbria.