Senior Policy Officer – Bioenergy

This can be a distinctive alternative to affect necessary choices throughout the UK and internationally
on local weather, nature and land use within the bioenergy coverage area. You’ll affect each the UK
authorities and UNFCCC processes at a pivotal second for bioenergy and bioenergy with carbon
seize and storage (BECCS) coverage. By joint work in coalition with UK and worldwide
companions. You’ll lead the RSPB’s work on bioenergy and BECCS, constructing on our current
positions and shaping and delivering an advocacy plan. The RSPB is a number one organisation in
this coverage space, and this function supplies an thrilling alternative to grow to be a key professional in an
more and more important coverage space.

What is the function about?

Regardless of rising considerations about its capacity to actually cut back emissions and questionable
sustainability credentials, bioenergy has grown considerably as a ‘renewable’ power within the
final decade each within the UK and internationally. Rising efforts are being made to develop
bioenergy with carbon seize and storage (BECCS), with the promise that this might ship web
destructive emissions, regardless of warnings that this might harm local weather and nature.

This function would require a self-starter to supply strategic management in RSPB’s bioenergy and
BECCS coverage advocacy by the newest proof to affect related authorities insurance policies and
enter into worldwide advocacy by way of the UNFCCC course of. You’ll coordinate a rising
coalition of UK NGOs to work in partnership and develop joint positions on this key difficulty.

The Senior Coverage Officer will work throughout the UK Land and Local weather Coverage staff within the RSPB’s UK
Coverage and Advocacy Division. Internally, the function will contain working with coverage employees
throughout the UK to construct and advocate RSPB’s bioenergy coverage throughout the devolved, UK and world
context. It would contain constructing relationships with RSPB nation groups and communications
employees to make sure that the RSPB’s place is aligned.

Externally, the function will deal with constructing off the prevailing proof base and RSPB coverage
positions and delivering an advocacy technique centred on securing key outcomes with the UK
Authorities, Devolved Administrations (DAs), and UNFCCC determination makers. You’ll construct
relationships and customary approaches to bioenergy and BECCS throughout NGOs in UK and worldwide
networks. The postholder might be chargeable for the RSPB’s Westminster and Whitehall determination
maker going through advocacy, while working intently with colleagues in different groups to make sure
positions are aligned and successfully communicated within the media and our personal publications.

 Key facets of the function embody:

• Growing efficient coverage positions primarily based on sound science and proof and translating these
  into impactful coverage briefings.
• Contributing to, and sustaining consciousness of, the event of information and proof of
  local weather change, nature and conservation responses within the bioenergy area.
• Growing and delivering efficient advocacy methods along with coverage and advocacy
  colleagues.
• Enterprise advocacy and speaking persuasively to determination makers.
• Constructing, monitoring and sustaining relationships with key stakeholders.
• Serving to to plan and coordinate work throughout totally different groups and disciplines to make sure we
  affect coverage choices in every of the 4 UK nations.
• Working intently with colleagues to develop and ship communications materials that successfully
  additional RSPB ‘s coverage advocacy aims.
• Coordinating UK NGO coalition work on bioenergy coverage and increasing sector-wide participation
  on this coverage space.
• Inputting into worldwide networks to affect bioenergy coverage on the UNFCCC stage.

Important expertise

• It is possible for you to to exhibit a great information of local weather and nature coverage within the UK or
  wider, with related tutorial or skilled {qualifications}
• You’ll have a working scientific information of each local weather change and land use and the
  interplay of the previous on the latter
• It is possible for you to to behave independently to generate, lead and coordinate work with others to
  develop coverage positions, related influencing methods and lead their implementation
  successfully
• You’ll have a confirmed observe file in good challenge administration.
• It is possible for you to to analyse complicated points in a fast-paced surroundings.
• You’ll have well-developed advocacy and influencing expertise and be capable to have interaction with a
  big selection of people and organisations, together with at senior ranges.
• You’ll have a great understanding of the function of public going through communications/campaigns to
  help coverage advocacy.
• You’ll have written and verbal communication expertise to a really excessive normal; skilled
  and persuasive.
• You can be assured and able to being a public face for RSPB coverage and advocacy to
  the media and social media.
• You’ll have sturdy time administration, prioritisation and organisational expertise.
• You can be a reliable person of core MS Workplace programmes

Fascinating expertise

• Information of updated bioenergy and BECCS coverage and science.
• Information/expertise of UNFCCC processes.

This can be a One yr Contract Full Time function for 37.5 hours per week. 

The RSPB reserves the best to increase or make this function everlasting with out additional promoting
depending on enterprise wants on the finish of the contract time period.

We want to conduct interviews for this place from w/c eighth April . For additional
info please contact [email protected] .

As a part of this software course of you’ll be requested to supply a replica of your CV and full
an software type together with proof on the way you meet the abilities, information, and expertise
listed above.

The RSPB is an equal alternatives employer. This function is roofed by the Rehabilitation of
Offenders Act 1974.