Development Officer – Marketing (Maternity Cover)

Houghton-le-Spring

, DH4 6PU

Join the Trust as the the Development Officer (Marketing) and experience a values driven workplace where you can see first-hand how your marketing skills enable local nature restoration.

Contact details

Emily Routledge - eroutledge@durhamwt.co.uk

Role Documents

Over the last five years the Trust has grown its income from £2 million to £4 million, enabling the charity to respond with increasing urgency to the ecological and climate emergencies. We need to maintain that increased effort and income from supporters will be a vital part of our continued success. We are looking for someone who wants to be part of that success by playing a leading role in securing funding to support the charity’s work.

Durham Wildlife Trust is looking for a creative individual with a track record of developing impactful, data driven marketing campaigns and an understanding of using audience insights to inform marketing practices.

The successful candidate will lead on efforts to grow the Trust's supporter base by delivering targeted activity informed by data and insights. They will utilise techniques across traditional and digital channels to engage members of the public with wildlife and generate more direct actions for nature. This will generate greater support for Durham Wildlife Trust, enabling the charity to restore nature between the Tees and the Tyne.

For the full role profile, including person specification, please see the Job Pack. 

This role is part of the Trust's Development and Communications team. As well as having the opportunity to feed into this team's other areas of work, you will meet regularly with colleagues from the Conservation team to develop campaign ideas.

Trust staff are encouraged to gain experience of the full range of work the charity does. To gain that experience, there will be opportunities to participate in practical tasks, attend networking events and to support our education and engagement work.

As an organisation we are open to new thinking and ideas. We welcome applications from people already working in nature conservation, or who come from other sectors and have the skills, ideas and knowledge needed.

This is a maternity cover post, the anticipated start date is 10th August 2026, with the current post holder expecting to return to work in August 2027.

How to apply
Please complete the application form available here and provide a personal statement (maximum two sides of A4) setting out your suitability for the role.
Submit both the form and the statement as two documents (format either in Microsoft Word or as PDF) by email to – eroutledge@durhamwt.co.uk 
Please put Development Officer - Marketing in the subject line. 

Closing date for applications
9am Monday 22nd June 2026 

Interviews
Interviews are scheduled to take place at Rainton Meadows Nature Reserve, DH4 6PU on Thursday 2nd July 2026. 
Should you have any concerns regarding availability for interview, please contact eroutledge@durhamwt.co.uk
Please note, incomplete applications, CVs and/or covering letters will not be accepted. Due to the volume of applications, it is not possible to provide feedback to those not shortlisted.