Senior Programme Officer (London) National Education Nature Park

Job Title: Senior Programme Officer (London) Nationwide
Schooling Nature Park

Location: House, hybrid or workplace based mostly with common journey throughout London

Wage: £32,960

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Contract: Mounted Time period Contract – March 2025 with risk of
extension

Begin Date: Could 2024

The RHS is a nationwide charity with a mission to encourage everybody to develop, as it’s critical to our
wellbeing, the setting and the happiness of us all. We’re present process an thrilling interval of
growth, which incorporates bringing our work with group volunteers, colleges and teams to
the center of what we do.

In 2023 we launched the National
Education Nature Park – a Division for Schooling funded programme empowering
younger folks to take motion on the setting as a part of new measures designed to place local weather
change and sustainability on the coronary heart of schooling. It is a GLA funded function as a part of the
wider DfE funded programme.

As Senior Programme Officer you’ll construct and entry networks that help schooling settings
to attach with nature by way of the programme, and construct abilities for partaking and influencing
nature on their property. The Senior Programme Officer may also handle a programme officer to
allow a broad vary of faculties and schooling settings to take part within the programme. As a
regional staff you’ll work to ascertain widespread, significant and sustained engagement with
the programme.

Reporting to the Nature Park Senior Programme and Partnerships Supervisor, you’ll map colleges in
the London area to determine precedence areas, and join with senior college leaders throughout the
area to have interaction them with the programme. You’ll develop partnerships and networks at a
regional stage with native authorities, companies, and organisations within the schooling and
charity sectors to supply extra help for colleges and assist maintain them on their Nature
Park journey. You’ll work with the central programme staff and partnership to construct help
methods for colleges and settings that tackle obstacles to participation, which can contain
coaching and tapping in to current volunteer networks and operating occasions.

We’re on the lookout for a collaborative, artistic particular person with a ardour for vegetation and the
setting; somebody who’s skilled at partnership growth and with a confirmed monitor
document in challenge administration.

You’ll work inside a multidisciplinary challenge group together with companions and colleagues with
specialist scientific and group engagement information and abilities. Constructing and sustaining
efficient collaboration will probably be key to success on this function. You can be a assured
communicator and listener with glorious planning and organisational abilities. The best
candidate will share our ardour for the advantages of gardening and horticulture in colleges and
communities.

Particulars of our nice advantages may be discovered here.

Safeguarding and Inclusion

The RHS is dedicated to safeguarding and selling the welfare of kids, younger folks and
adults in danger and expects all personnel to share on this dedication. We’re an inclusive
employer and welcome candidates from all backgrounds.

*About Nationwide Schooling Nature Park

Nationwide Schooling Nature Park is a partnership challenge led by the Pure Historical past Museum,
working alongside the Royal Horticultural Society, the Royal Society, Royal Geographical
Society, Studying by way of Landscapes, Manchester Metropolitan College and extra
supporting companions.

The Nationwide Schooling Nature Park engages youngsters, younger folks and their educators with
nature, supporting younger folks in England to play a driving function in mapping and monitoring
biodiversity on their grounds utilizing citizen science and, critically, taking motion to boost
it.

From creating pollinator pleasant habitats the place biodiversity can thrive, to creating planting
schemes that help local weather resilience. The challenge will showcase what may be achieved on the
Schooling property. 

The Nature Park may also present alternatives for younger folks to participate in group
science, figuring out native impacts of local weather change and biodiversity loss and growing key
abilities to resolve these issues. 

Discover out extra by visiting the RHS Marketing campaign for Faculty Gardening web site

here .