RiverCare and BeachCare Manager

RiverCare and BeachCare Manager

Salary: £21,959p.a. pro-rata (£36,598p.a. FTE) 

Hours: 22.5 per week, to be worked over 3-5 days

Contract: Fixed term until March 2025 with potential for extension

Location: Home Based with travel in the Anglian Water region

Keep Britain Tidy is an iconic and dynamic charity, providing first-class solutions to environmental challenges. For more than 60 years as the country’s anti-litter charity, we work tirelessly to combat waste and neglect so that everyone can love where they live. Using our world-class research and working with partners, we develop game-changing programmes that fly the flag for clean, accessible and attractive beaches, rivers, parks and green spaces. The work of Keep Britain Tidy has never been more informed, important and urgent as it is today.

We are looking for a passionate and outstanding programme manager to join our RiverCare & BeachCare programme. Run by Keep Britain Tidy in partnership with programme funder, Anglian Water, it works across the Anglian Water region and aims to reconnect people to their environment through local volunteering opportunities. This is an exciting role in a fast-paced charity and a highly successful team.

The successful applicant will have experience of overseeing and monitoring large-scale volunteer programmes, working with a wide variety of partner organisations, and hold a good knowledge of environmental sustainability, and ecological challenges in the water and marine environment.

You will be an effective communicator and networker, highly organised and able to manage a small team, a self-starter able to work to deadlines without supervision. You will be working as part of a regional and national team. Some travel within the region will be required, as will occasional weekend and evening work.

At a time when we are living in a world that is facing its greatest environmental challenges, the work we do has never been more important or more urgent. As we’re moving forward we recognise that a diverse workforce yields the best results. We embrace all different identities across the UK and we want our workforce to reflect that.

Environmental change is affecting us all and we want people from all backgrounds to be part of the solution and help us make the changes that cannot wait. It is for this reason that Keep Britain Tidy has flexible and supportive policies for all our staff, and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.

All our roles benefit from generous holiday entitlements and pension contributions, including the opportunity to join the UK’s first net zero carbon pension scheme and to receive extra days leave for using alternatives to flights. If you have any special requirements for interview just let us know.

If you are interested in this job and want to help us make a difference, please review a copy of the full job description. After reading the application information, if you would love to work with us please apply here.

As part of the application process you will need to answer 5 questions, submit your CV and complete equal opportunities monitoring information as we want to try to make sure that our workforce is representative of the population and we are not excluding any community. Please note that this information will be held separately.

Please submit your application before the closing date.

The deadline for applications is 12:00, Tuesday 30 January 2024.

Interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams on: Wednesday 07 and Thursday 08 February 2023.

If you require an in person interview, please let us know.

Please note we will only be able to contact successful candidates. Thank you for your interest in our work.

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