Are you passionate about connecting young people with nature? Do you believe nature is for everyone? Do you genuinely want to make a difference?
We have a fantastic opportunity for someone with the drive, skills and experience to lead Generation Wild, our nature connection programme for primary schools, children and families in disadvantaged areas. This ground-breaking project uses story, music, art, performance and puppetry to create a sense of magic and adventure, engaging a wide range of children irrespective of their background or ability.
You will join us at an exciting time as we are looking to develop our youth engagement work, building on the success of the Blue Influencers youth social action programme. You will support the ongoing delivery of this programme whilst having the chance to shape our youth engagement work going forward.
Join us as we inspire a new generation of nature lovers.
TheGeneration Wildprogramme is fully-funded until August 2027. An important part of this role will involve working with a Knowledge Transfer Partner to transfer and embed knowledge from the Psychology and Business Schools at Cardiff University, helping us to demonstrate the impact of the programme and develop new funding and delivery models to enable it to continue beyond August 2027.
For this role, we can offer flexibility around working from home if required. It is expected the role will need to work from their site base a few times a month and as required for key meetings.The successful candidate will be required to travel to the seven wetland centres across the UK whereGeneration Wildis delivered. This will involve stays away from home. This is a full time, fixed term contact until 31st August 2027, working Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week.
We're looking for someone with a passion for opening up opportunities for all young people to benefit from connecting with nature, irrespective of their background or ability.
Ideally you'll have experience of:
This is a management role and as such does not involve direct delivery to young people. However, you will need to be able to support others in doing so and an understanding of the pressures facing schools and their teachers would also be an advantage.
Appointment to this position is subject to the successful candidate receiving an enhanced disclosure and barred list check (child).
When visiting our website, you will notice the position is referred to as Generation Wild Project Manager . This is how the role is known internally within WWT.
We're WWT, and we're on a mission to restore the super-powered ecosystems we call wetlands . There's never been a more important moment for our work, and we've got some phenomenal people on the case.
Whether they're taking a new visitor under their wing, or conducting ground-breaking research further afield, our team are second to none. And there's nothing we love more than watching them soar.
Whatever you do here, you'll be helping to restore wetlands and unlock their power. So, the only question left is, what role will you play?
Why you'll love working at WWT
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