This is your opportunity to make a real difference through your career in communications. Help WWF bring our world back to life and play your part in building a sustainable future.
WWF is looking for a strategic communications specialist to support our high-impact private sector partnerships.
We’re looking for a Senior Communications Manager to lead a range of WWF’s communications activities, primarily those we deliver through our partnerships with major companies. This role will see you working at the heart of our award-winning partnerships to engage consumer audiences and/or drive change in a key industries.
You will lead the development and delivery of innovative comms plans, which may involve working closely with counterparts at our partner companies and coordinating with WWF’s comms delivery teams.
This role would suit someone with a proven track record in leading communications campaigns in a complex stakeholder landscape, either in-house with brand or NGO, or at an agency. This experience could come from any sector.
WWF works in partnership with businesses to achieve our mission of building a future where people and nature thrive. Collaborating with some of the world’s leading companies, we’re accelerating sustainable business practices and inspiring new audiences to join our movement for nature.
If you have the skills to help us achieve our mission, please visit our website via the link to complete the online registration and submit a copy of your CV with cover letter highlighting why this role is for you.
Every role at WWF is open to applications from all sections of society. We believe in the potential of everyone regardless of; race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, different physical ability, family structure, socio-economics, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other aspect that makes you, well you. Here at WWF we’re committed to conscious inclusion that helps cultivate an ethos of belonging, connection, and shared purpose. We believe that the more diverse we are the better we become; this brings us together and empowers us to develop, engage and inspire; and critically to help build a future where people can live in harmony with nature.
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’re 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 and help bring our world back to life.
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.
Are you a confident, friendly, and positive individual? Do you have strong communication and multi-tasking skills, a high level of attention to detail, and a passion for providing excellent customer service? Do you have experience of working in a busy, multi-channel customer-facing team in a charity or other office-based environment? If so, this role is a fantastic opportunity to use your skills and experience to help save our planet.
As Senior Supporter Care Specialist, you’ll be part of a wider team dedicated to providing WWF UK’s supporters with a timely, reliable, warm, and personalised customer service experience. You’ll be helping to inspire trust in and loyalty to our organisation as the leading global environmental charity, ensuring we continue to receive the income we need to fund our increasingly urgent and critical work to bring our world back to life.
As the first point of contact for existing and potential supporters, the role is both fast-paced and varied. You’ll use your initiative to resolve a wide variety of enquiries and complaints across multiple contact channels, escalating to management or third-party agencies where appropriate. You’ll process and thank donations including one-off and regular gifts generated via different fundraising activity. You’ll also carry out a variety of related administrative tasks including processing Gift Aid declarations and updating supporter contact preferences. This role involves extensive use of the fundraising CRM database and the team’s cloud-based customer service platform.
In addition to assisting our supporters, you’ll also provide support to colleagues across the organisation and third-party agencies. This will include day-to-day activities such as assisting with complaint investigation and helping with team email triage, and ad hoc tasks such as training new members of the team and completing assigned tasks for team/organisational projects. This role also provides opportunities to volunteer at various fundraising and stewardship events, where you’ll get to meet some of our fantastic supporters whilst helping your colleagues with the running of these events.
Previous charity experience is preferred but is not essential. However, candidates must be able to able to demonstrate experience of working in an office-based customer services environment.
Experience of income processing as part of that experience would be ideal but is not essential. However, candidates must have the ability to quickly learn and use a variety of data processing software.
Experience of using CARE and/or MS Dynamics would be welcomed but is not essential. However, candidates must have a good working knowledge of CRM databases.
If you are interested in this role, we would love to hear from you. Please visit our website via the link, complete the online registration, submit a copy of your CV, and provide a supporting statement that highlights why you think you would be a good fit for the role.
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 recruitment team.
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.
If you have extensive policy development experience, this is an incredible opportunity to join the world’s leading independent conservation organisation and help change the future of our planet.
At WWF UK we are finalising our ambitious new 3-year strategy designed to secure four main outcomes critical to our 2030 climate and nature goals: stop nature loss from deforestation; resilient, prosperous, and sustainable UK; bring nature back from the brink; and securing a public mandate. As a key member of our Policy Solutions Team, the Head of Policy – Production will have a critical role in delivering this strategy by driving change through the food, finance and trade systems.
As Head of Policy - Production, you will lead a committed team and take responsibility for managing projects, programmes and portfolios across the organisation. You will create policy that influences government and business to act on the climate and nature crisis through the production and consumption of food. This will involve working to understand the problem, exploring and developing novel solutions as well as designing and prototyping policy. We will look to you to analyse existing and proposed policies for effectiveness and quality as well as identify new policy ideas from other contexts or locations. You will oversee the integration of policy and advocacy priorities into on the ground delivery too. You will also engage with our devolved and network offices to learn from their work and ensure objectives and activities are developed and coordinated to maximise effectiveness. This will include forming links and strategic relationships with other organisations and across our global network. Important will be the ability to inspire and build a high performing, creative and confident team.
To help build back nature, you must have extensive policy development experience in one or (ideally) more of the following areas: climate and the environment/food consumption/food production/biodiversity and nature restoration. You will have a strong understanding of how policy is influenced, both inside and outside Government and the ability to develop and influence key stakeholders. Comfortable proposing and driving novel approaches to public policy challenges, you will be used to evaluating policy and implementing insight to improve impact. You will also have experience of large-scale grant and programme management.
A strong project manager, you will be enthusiastic about working in and leading across matrix teams as well as skilled at bringing people together to work towards common goals. A confident communicator, you will be the sort of person who champions new ideas and builds strong external relationships.
If you are passionate about making our world a better place through your work, 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.
First round interviews: 1st, 2nd 3rd July
Second round interview: 15th, 16th, 17th July
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 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.
If you have extensive experience of leading strategic partnerships and a good understanding of how charities / NGOs interface with the corporate sector, this is a rare opportunity to use your expertise to save our planet. We are the first generation to know we are destroying the world. At WWF UK we are focussed on doing something about it, but we know we cannot succeed alone. Our success depends on effective partnerships with the game-changers, bold thinkers, and innovators, who will join us in tackling the pressing threats facing our world. As Senior Partnership Manager you can help make that happen.
As Senior Partnership Manager, you will be responsible for the development and delivery of one or more major strategic partnerships from the WWF portfolio. We will look to you to take a strategic approach to grow income, policy influence, programmatic impact and brand and communications reach. This will involve providing strategic oversight and guidance to your team in delivering their partnership portfolio, as well as collaborating with internal specialists to achieve partnership delivery and development objectives. You will ensure that effective partnership governance mechanisms are in place and activities are monitored, evaluated and reported too. Critical will be the ability to provide excellent partnership management and stewardship. You will also ensure the wider WWF network is aware of partnership achievements and updates to maximise our effectiveness.
To play your part in bringing our world back to life, you must have extensive experience of leading strategic partnerships and a good understanding of how charities / NGOs interface with the corporate sector. Used to engaging and networking at a senior level, you will possess excellent negotiation, influencing and diplomacy skills. You will have a firm understanding of conservation and sustainability issues and trends too. Corporate fundraising experience would be an advantage and in particular, experience of working with the FMCG and/or Food sectors.
Naturally warm and enthusiastic, you will also possess excellent networking, relationship-building communication and presentation skills. You will also be a strong project manager, who enjoys strategic planning and a collaborative working environment.
If you have the ability to deliver impact, income, advocacy, programmatic and communications objectives, 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.
Every role at WWF is open to applications from all sections of society. We believe in the potential of everyone regardless of; sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, different physical ability, family structure, socio-economics, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other aspect that makes you, well you. Here at WWF, we are committed to conscious inclusion that helps cultivate an ethos of belonging, connection and shared purpose. We believe that the more diverse we are the better we become; this brings us together and empowers us to develop, engage and inspire; and critically to help build a future where people can live in harmony with nature.