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An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Communications and Marketing Officer to join in our Restore Nature portfolio to tell the story of our Landscape Recovery Project - Heart of the Dales (HoD). We’re looking for someone with marketing and communications experience to help share our work to create landscape-scale change for nature, climate and people.
Salary: £27,849 per annum
Contract Duration: Fixed-term contract until 31st March 2027
Working Pattern: You will work 22.5 hours per week. In our team, we have hybrid working arrangements, which means you will be able to work from home if that suits you.
If you have any questions about this role please contact: [email protected].
What it's like to work here:The landscape you will be working on stretches from Malhamdale, Upper Wharfedale and up to Hudswell Woods in Richmond. You will connect the people to the landscape through messages, communication, events and supporting stakeholder management with the team.
Our Landscape Recovery Project - Heart of the Dales (HoD) looks to restore over 9500 hectares of National Trust and neighbouring land across three distinctive areas of the Yorkshire Dales. It involves woodland and habitat creation, natural flood management, peat restoration and species re-introduction coupled with a large, exciting programme of stakeholder engagement at its core. Could you be our storyteller?
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What you'll be doing:As part of our north regional Land & Nature consultancy team, you’ll sit alongside other project teams delivering transformational landscape scale change across the North of England. The role is varied; you could be photographing a community tree planting event, planning press coverage of landscape-scale projects, or dealing with delicate stakeholder management comms.
Alongside sharing the nature restoration story of the HoD project, you’ll also shine a light on partnerships, local community connections, our new Tenants of Tarn House, and share our staff and volunteer stories. There will be a requirement for managing press, PR stories and public events working closely with PLT and Participation Team in particular.
With your creative flair, you will find the news hook, seek out the photo opportunity, and enable advocacy of the project through sharing nature connection opportunities. Doing this, you’ll secure press coverage and create digital content (web, social media and video) and internal communications coverage about our partnership case studies and habitat restoration work, to reach a wider audience through their channels.
You’ll help bring the best out of the project team, property and countryside team, sharing their aims and passions and encouraging them to be our spokespeople. There’s never been a more exciting time to inspire our audience about our work to restore habitats, protect nature and heal climate harm.
You can view the full role profile for this role in the document attached. You don't need to have all the knowledge, skills and experience listed in the role profile; this is just to provide a full picture of what’s possible in this role.
Who we're looking forWe’d love to hear from you if you’re:
- Practical experience in a communications and marketing role
- Experience of developing and delivering communications and marketing plans to achieve objectives.
- Proven experience creating, editing and publishing content across a range of channels, including web, social media, PR and email communications.
- Understanding of relevant legislation and guidance, including marketing regulations, data protection, copyright and model release requirements.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong attention to detail and the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Well organised, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, work to deadlines and deliver measurable outcomes.
- Strong relationship-building skills, with the ability to work collaboratively and build positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to identify potential reputational risks and escalate concerns appropriately.
The packageThe National Trust has the motto ‘For everyone, for ever’ at its heart. We’re working hard to create an inclusive culture, where everyone feels they belong. It’s important that our people reflect and represent the diversity of the communities and audiences we serve. We welcome and value difference, so when we say we’re for everyone, we want everyone to be welcome in our teams too.
- Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary
- Free entry to National Trust places for you, a guest and your children (under 18)
- Rental deposit loan scheme
- EV car lease scheme (for roles that meet the salary criteria)
- Perks at work discounts such as gym memberships, shopping discount codes, cinema discounts
- Holiday allowance up to 32 days relating to length of service, plus holiday purchase scheme, subject to meeting minimum criteria.
- Flexible working whenever possible
- Employee assistance programme
- Free parking at most Trust places
Requirements :Compliance.Eligibility to Work in the UK
Fixed Term p/t (22.5 hrs pw to 31/03/27)
