This is a UK based contract and as such, you are required to have the Right to Work in the UK. Evidence of your Right to Work will be checked prior to interview.
We will support this job holder in working towards a HR qualification such as CIPD Level 3 or a relevant apprenticeship.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a skilled HR administrator who enjoys working in a busy, fast-paced environment and has a love for our planet. You can develop your career in HR as a member of a high performing team that has a big impact on the day-to-day operation of the world's leading independent conservation organisation.
As HR Services Coordinator for WWF UK, you will play your part in the fight for our planet by ensuring that our HR team delivers a responsive service to our customers – the people who currently work for us and the ones that would like to! As the first point of contact for routine HR enquiries, you will help create the right impression of the HR team and the organisation. We will look to you to make sure our onboarding and offboarding processes are administered efficiently and that the documents we send out, and the records we keep, are accurate. You will become an expert user of our HR system and will help us to identify continuous improvement opportunities for our HR system and processes. You will also support employee engagement and retention, with the opportunity to participate in different people projects such as reward and recognition and wellbeing programmes.
For this role you must have previously used an HR database, preferably iTrent, and be proficient in MS Office. You will also be skilled in written and verbal communication, relationship building and team working skills. You will have an eye for detail, a high level of confidentiality and be good at prioritising your workload too. Naturally, you will be passionate about helping to bring about a world where people and nature can thrive.
If you have the expertise to be part of a team that delivers a value-added HR service, we would love to hear from you. Please visit our website via the link, complete the online registration and submit a copy of your up-to-date CV with the Supporting Statement highlighting what makes you a good fit for us.
WWF UK are committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. As a Disability Confident Employer, we acknowledge that some candidates may require additional support to overcome barriers experienced during the application process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview, please reach out to the Talent Acquisition team via recruitment@wwf.org.uk
Our policies and benefits reflect the importance of people being able to have a good work-life balance and being able to bring their ‘full self’ to work.
Our world needs you like never before. We are the first generation to know we are destroying the world and we could be the last that can do anything about it. We are looking for people who are passionate about making it politically, socially and economically unacceptable to destroy our planet’s natural resources. We need you to join us in the fight for our world.
This is an amazing opportunity to use your experience of account management in a commercial or charity setting to save our planet. We are the first generation to know we are destroying the world. And at WWF UK we are focussed on doing something about it, but we know we cannot succeed alone.
We have a growing portfolio of sector-leading, long-term partnerships with companies including Sky, HSBC, Vodafone, and Reckitt, to name just a few. We have ambitious targets to halt the decline of nature and reverse its loss. This requires ambitious partnerships, which deliver to income, influence and advocacy objectives, allowing us to scale our impact. This is where your skills come in as a Partnership Manager.
As Partnership Manager, you will take responsibility for managing a portfolio of partnerships. This will include leading key projects to deliver excellent partnership management and growing our relationship. We will look to you to ensure partnerships deliver against ambitious impact, income, advocacy, communication and growth objectives. You will make sure effective governance and monitoring mechanisms are in place as well as oversee budgets, income and expenditure. You will also develop strong relationships with key stakeholders in our corporate partners and support activities to grow our wider partnership portfolio. Important will be the ability to take on new partnerships from initial contract stage when needed.
You must have experience of account management in a commercial or charity setting coupled with a deep understanding of the corporate sector. Good at building relationships, you will also possess excellent networking, relationship-building, communication and presentation skills. An effective project manager, you will have a firm understanding of conservation and sustainability issues and trends too. Experience in a corporate or consultancy environment as well as being comfortable working with working with partner agencies would be an advantage.
If you have the ability to build impactful long-term partnerships to deliver value on multiple levels, we’d love to hear from you. Please click on the link and apply via our website by submitting a copy of your up-to-date CV and Supporting Statement to highlight what makes you a good fit for us.
WWF UK are committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. As a Disability Confident Employer, we acknowledge that some candidates may require additional support to overcome barriers experienced during the application process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview, please reach out to the Talent Acquisition team via our website.
WWF-UK believes anyone who is involved in our work or connected to it, especially children, should be safe from harm. Our first priority will always be to safeguard anyone at risk of harm or abuse. WWF-UK operates robust recruitment practices to ensure candidates for all roles are suitable. Our process includes values-based questions during interviews and annual performance reviews, reference checks that we verify orally, criminal records checks (at the appropriate level) and pre-employment declarations. We do not tolerate any form of abuse or exploitation and act robustly to any allegations or concerns.
Our world needs you like never before. We are the first generation to know we are destroying the world, and we could be the last that can do anything about it. We are looking for people who are passionate about making it politically, socially and economically unacceptable to destroy our planet’s natural resources. We need you to join us in the fight for our world.
With an established track record in thought leadership on marine science and policy as well as a good understanding of the ocean-climate nexus, you understand the importance of creating a world where people and nature can thrive together. That is why this role as Chief Advisor – Marine with the world’s leading independent conservation organisation is perfect for you.
Our major goal is to find solutions to the Triple Challenge of restoring nature, tackling climate change and feeding a growing global population all within the available resource limits of our one planet. As a member of our Science Team, you will help ensure we are viewed by the academic community and specialist bodies as a science and evidence-based organisation with conservation programmes and communications that are always informed by the latest scientific thinking.
As Chief Advisor you will lead our scientific understanding on marine issues and their impacts on the natural world and human society. You will help guide WWF-UK and WWF Network strategies on marine issues as well as help find solutions to address our Triple Challenge and reverse the decline in global biodiversity. We will look to you to provide technical support to our conservation and blue carbon work in UK coastal waters and be the lead expert on ocean systems and the drivers impacting them, including the potential for ocean tipping points. You will also act as a primary contact in your area of expertise with relevant UK government departments, specialists in the private sector, other NGOs and international policy-makers and have the ability to influence policy. You will help identify and fill knowledge gaps as well as provide the evidence underpinning WWF policy positions.
To play your part in saving our planet, you must have a track record in thought leadership on marine science and policy, coupled with a good understanding of the ocean-climate nexus and the negative drivers impacting ocean systems. You will also possess a good grasp of current science and policy debates, along with experience of providing strategic leadership to organisations and programmes. You will have sound knowledge of international policy and governance structures as they relate to the oceans including the UNFCCC, CBD and the High Seas Treaty.
Effective at influencing key political and business stakeholders and shaping policy debates, you will also have excellent communication and advocacy skills. Good at building relationships, you will be comfortable inspiring direct reports and translating knowledge into policy, communications and programme design. Of course, you will be able to demonstrate a commitment to the natural world and WWF’s core mission too.
If you have the knowledge to provide scientific expertise and advice across our organisation to help us build a movement in defence of nature, we would love to hear from you. Please visit our website via the link, complete the online registration and submit a copy of your up-to-date CV with the Supporting Statement highlighting what makes you a good fit for us.
This is a UK based contract, so you are required to have the Right to Work in the UK. Evidence of your Right to Work will be checked prior to interview.
We’re looking for a new Head of Brand at WWF-UK.
As Head of Brand, you will lead your team to develop our brand, keeping it relevant and aligned with our global network. You’ll grow our brand by improving brand value and recognition, and ensure it is embedded and understood across the organisation. You will also be responsible for creating consistent brand experiences and products.
With responsibility for developing our visual and verbal identity, you will communicate best practice and collaborate with stakeholders to influence how our brand is expressed. Whether overseeing budgets, championing creativity or coaching your team to develop great work, you will play a key role in shaping our success.
We’re looking for someone with experience of managing a high profile or international brand as well as a passion for insights led brand marketing. Comfortable managing a creative brand team, you will be used to implementing brand strategy via digital channels and products. You will have experience of delivering complex projects in a multi-stakeholder organisation with an international dimension. Effective at building relationships, you will also be used to managing external service providers, contracts and SLAs.
If you have the ideas, energy and skills to help us build brand loyalty and grow support to tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges, we would love to hear from you. Please visit our website via the link, complete the online registration and submit a copy of your up-to-date CV with the Supporting Statement highlighting what makes you a good fit for us.
Join us and help bring our world back to life.
This is a unique chance to use your qualification and/or experience in sustainable agriculture to save our planet. Nature, our life support system, is being lost at an alarming rate and we have a short window to reverse this. That is why we have formed a ground-breaking multi-year partnership through the Retailers Commitment for Nature (RCFN) working with six of the UK’s largest supermarkets to halve the environmental impact of the UK shopping basket. We now have an incredible opportunity to join us as a Sustainable Agriculture Lead and lead the sustainable agriculture workstream in the RCFN and support our business and governmental advocacy on food systems transformation across the value chain.
As Sustainable Agriculture Lead, you will the oversee the planning, implementation, coordination, delivery and reporting of the RCFN sustainable agriculture workstream. This will include collaborating with colleagues in leading the delivery of key individual projects within the workstream. You will track budgets and maintain oversight of sustainable agriculture investments too. You will also engage with our global network working on sustainable agriculture initiatives as well as support WWF’s communications on the RCFN. Important will be the ability to coordinate activities to maximise impact with wider WWF programmes of work as appropriate as well as collaborate with colleagues working on land use and management reform policy and projects covering transitioning to zero carbon agriculture, nature recovery and nature-based solutions.
For this key role, you must have a relevant qualification and/or equivalent experience in sustainable agriculture, business management, environment or sustainability. This will have given you a good understanding of soil health, water, biodiversity, greenhouse gas emissions and regenerative agriculture. You will have a track record of working with farming communities and/or corporate partners, in networked, remote or virtual teams too. You will also be used to bringing together stakeholders and creating a culture of collaborative working. Critically, you will be used to engaging with businesses on changing policy & practice.
Your technical expertise will be complemented by excellent communication, influencing, problem solving and presentation skills. Capable of working independently and proactively you will be good managing complex programmes, projects and budgets too.
If you are passionate about making our world a better place through your work, we would love to hear from you. Please visit our website via the link, complete the online registration and submit a copy of your up-to-date CV with the Supporting Statement highlighting what makes you a good fit for us.
An experienced senior advisor with a good grasp of current science and its application in the field of climate change, you understand the importance of creating a world where people and wildlife can thrive together. That is why this role as Chief Advisor for climate change issues with the world’s leading independent conservation organisation is perfect for you. As a member of the WWF-UK Science team you will help ensure we are recognised as a science and evidence-based organisation with our conservation work and communications always informed by the latest scientific thinking.
As Chief Advisor you will provide thought leadership on climate change issues and ensure we are engaged with and using the most up to date climate science. You will provide strategic direction to the breadth of work we undertake and contribute to our wider strategy, strengthening the rigour of, and in some cases leading, interventions, helping identify and then fill knowledge gaps and providing the evidence underpinning policy positions. You will also act as a primary contact point for WWF-UK with relevant UK government departments, specialists in the private sector, other NGOs and international climate bodies. You will use this position to influence policy and channel information from government, the private sector, the research community and specialist networks into the organisation.
To play your part in saving our planet, you must hold a relevant qualification (a PhD is preferable), and/or equivalent experience in this field. You will have operated as a senior adviser or lead specialist in the subject of climate change and will be able to demonstrate excellent up to date knowledge in this area and how this can be applied to solve real-world challenges. You will also possess a good grasp of current science and policy debates internationally, coupled with experience of providing strategic leadership to organisations and programmes.
Effective at influencing key political and business stakeholders and shaping policy debates, you will have excellent communication, presentation and advocacy skills. Good at building relationships, you will be comfortable working in a range of cultural environments and international contexts. You will have a track record of high impact presentations and written outputs to a variety of audiences.
If you have the knowledge to provide scientific expertise and advice across our organisation to help us build a movement in defence of nature, we would love to hear from you. Please click on the link and apply via our website by submitting a copy of your up-to-date CV and Supporting Statement to highlight what makes you a good fit for us.
WWF-UK are committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. As a Disability Confident Employer, we acknowledge that some candidates may require additional support to overcome barriers experienced during the application process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview, please reach out to the Talent Acquisition team via recruitment@wwf.org.uk
Our world needs you like never before. We are looking for people who are passionate about making it politically, socially and economically unacceptable to destroy our planet’s natural resources. We need you to join us in the fight for our world.