Climate Outreach is seeking an enthusiastic, committed individual to work with our colleagues to run the organisation’s influencing and advocacy activities. You will: 

• Lead our partnership work influencing the Government’s public participation strategy on climate change 

• Hold and actively manage our relationship with key senior civil servants 

• Hold and actively manage our relationships with key MPs and APPGs 

• Identify new opportunities for influencing and impact 

• Bring a political analysis to Climate Outreach’s work and help us respond quickly to the politics of the day 

• Help shape our longer term, strategic work with colleagues in research and communications teams 

This varied role will provide an opportunity to apply your strategic and influencing skills to shape the organisation’s brand and image. Through a feminist and anti-colonial approach to management, this role will provide strategic thinking space and platforms for managers to innovate, cross collaborate and represent Climate Outreach’s work at different levels.

Key attributes and skills

• You take collective responsibility for fostering and role modelling the culture we want 

• You actively empower others to take ownership and decisions, supporting them to do so 

• You have strong working knowledge, insight and understanding of politics, economics and governmental systems

• You have a sound understanding of research and are confident in applying research insights to advocacy

• You are comfortable with quick and agile strategic decision-making and solving problems

• You have excellent project management skills including external contract management

• You have excellent relationship development and management skills, alongside an awareness of your own biases and emotional intelligence

• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills and an ability to apply them appropriately in different contexts

• You are a confident public and media speaker, able to represent the organisation at a strategic level

• You apply a growth mindset by being resilient, comfortable taking risks, making mistakes and learning from them 

• You take initiative and hold yourself and others accountable 

• You take responsibility for your workload management and developing your organisational skills

• You are able and willing to work with people from different backgrounds 

• You are willing to work with technological systems and solutions

Like the rest of the Climate Outreach team, you'll benefit from:

• Defined contributions Pension Scheme where Climate Outreach will match contributions up to 5%

• Employee Assistance Programme - a confidential service that provides support and guidance with any personal or professional problems that may affect your overall health and wellbeing

• Flexible working policy

• Enhanced parental leave pay (after 12 months service)

• 36 days annual leave including bank holidays

• Office closed for 3 days over the Christmas and New Year period (deducted from annual leave)

• Training and personal professional development support 

Diversity, equity and inclusion

Climate Outreach is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all of its employment programmes and decisions. We recognise that a diverse and inclusive movement is critical to solving climate change and that we must ensure that those directly impacted – particularly those who have been excluded in the past – are at the centre of the movement for change. 

We do our best to make staff positions accessible to all potential team members, regardless of race, colour, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, assigned gender, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or identity, religion or creed, veteran status, and marital or parental status. We strive to recruit team members from communities most impacted by climate change or impacted by other kinds of environmental, social, and economic injustice. We therefore strongly encourage applications from people of colour, women, LGBTQ people and members of marginalised communities.

If you are invited to interview for the position, do let us know if you would like any carer's costs that you incurred due to attending this interview to be reimbursed.

Next steps

To get started, pop your email on the top right of this page.

You’ll answer some questions that are related to the day-to-day job. After the job closes, your answers will go through our sift process: all answers will be anonymised, randomised and then reviewed by a panel of reviewers.

If you are shortlisted, we’ll invite you to the next step, which includes an interview in London on Wednesday 18th June.

Also, we love giving feedback, so at the end of the application process we'll share how well you performed.

If you have any additional questions about the job or recruiting process, please contact us by emailing recruitment@climateoutreach.org.