Climate Change Engagement Strategist

Climate Outreach is seeking a Climate Change Engagement Strategist in Oxford, UK, to manage global climate engagement programs. The role involves developing outreach initiatives, providing strategic communication advice, and working closely with various partners. Candidates should have experience in program management, communication strategies, and research. The position supports personal initiative and offers opportunities for skill development, though it may require travel and some work outside the UK.
We're looking for a creative, dynamic and ambitious person to initiate, manage and deliverglobal climate engagement programmes and join our multi-skilled and highly effective team.This position offers an exceptional opportunity within a vitally important area working within ahighly respected organisation that places a high value on personal initiative, new thinking andachieving results.BackgroundClimate Outreach is an ambitious and rapidly growing non-profit organisation that has built aninternational reputation for its pioneering and creative approach to one of the greatestchallenges of our time: how to truly engage diverse communities with climate change.As a leading European specialist in climate communication we base our work on socialresearch and partner with a wider variety of organisations currently ranging from the IPCC tothe World Bank and Green Faith to CAN International. We are committed to building bridgesacross sectors .The successful candidate will be focused on developing, delivering and managing both standalone outreach programmes and strategic communications advice to partner organisations.You'll have the support of our well respected Research Team and work closely with theDirector of Projects to drive effective public engagement across a range of climate issues andaudiences. As you develop in the role your perspective will be critical in developing ourprogramme of work., You will have opportunities to work across all stages of our outreach programmes,communications research and strategic communications advice. Our current programme ofactivities are documented on our website. New programmes that you would work on include:enabling behavior change across the world's five main faiths; advising a coalition ofgovernments on public communication of carbon pricing; training organisations across theworld to develop regional language climate narratives.You will be working alongside the Director of Projects and the Training & Consultancyco-ordinator. Work tasks will be shared across our whole team, according to aptitude andcapacity, though we always encourage and support staff to learn new skills.You will be required to have a flexible approach, willingness to share tasks, and sometimeswork to deadlines or under pressure. The position may involve some travel or work outside theUK. We work hard but value a work life balance and strive to be a flexible employerThe responsibilities for this full-time role will include:
• Writing reports and articles.
• Delivering high level trainings, workshops and presentations.
• Strategic development of Climate Outreach programmes.
• Managing programme delivery and associated budgets.
• Liaising with clients, partners and funders.
• Providing and designing communications strategies for clients and partners.
• Managing and conducting qualitative research in interviews and focus groups and quantitative research in polls and surveys.
• Developing and implementing funding plans in tandem with our Development Executive.
• Writing and submitting proposals for funding, tenders and consultancy briefs.
• Line management

The position will draw on a wide range of skills and our job definition is deliberately broad toencourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds. It is critical that the candidate canshow a track record in initiating, running and evaluating effective projects/programmes/workplans, including skills in fundraising, budget management, time management, and workingwithin small teams. The candidate must be able to show strong understanding of the issues ofclimate change and broad based experience of applying communications to attitudinal,behavioural or policy change.Beyond these competencies we will consider candidates who have not worked primarily incommunications, but can show a strong track-record in programmes that contained a majorcommunications component. Similarly we will consider candidates who have not previouslyspecialised in climate change but can display a strong strategic understanding of the obstaclesand opportunities for public engagement around climate change.We are open to applicants from a wide range of backgrounds which might, for example,include science communications, social research, journalism, campaigning and advocacy,advertising, marketing, or more broad based experience in project management. Although weexpect the successful candidate to have a strong track record in most of the required fields wedo not anticipate that any candidate will have the entire range of skills in this description andwill provide on-job training and skills support as required.The candidate will be expected to have a strong understanding and share Climate Outreach'score mission of reaching and motivating new audiences by developing narratives that speak tocommon values and identity. Our work is delivered across multiple media including personalpresentations, webinars, media articles and formal reports. The candidate will therefore berequired to be an experienced across these formats, be a confident public speaker and haveexcellent writing and presentation skills.We specialise in reaching new audiences and welcome candidates with backgrounds that areunder-represented in the environmental and charity sectors. The successful candidate may beworking on our flagship programmes working with people of faith and people withcentre-right/conservative political values, and we welcome applicants who share these valuesand have personal experience in relevant networks. We also welcome candidates withbackgrounds outside the charity sector, for example in business, government and multilateralagencies.,
• Practical experience of developing communications programmes with a range of audiences.
• Programme / project management experience
• Strong understanding of the issues and challenges of climate change.
• Strategy design and implementation.
• Excellent language skills for narrative design, analysis and report writing.
• Confidence in personal presentation and delivery.
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
• Competent user of IT packages e.g. Google Drive/Microsoft Office
• A commitment to Climate Outreach's values.Desirable
• Social research including qualitative and quantitative research.
• Design of slogans, brands, narratives, and other detailed communication content.
• Design and facilitation of workshops and trainings.
• Experience and personal networks with a wide range of audiences and stakeholders.