Head of Media Relations

phase of our media work – who can continue to strengthen our national profile in the media, identifying

new opportunities for The Wildlife Trusts, and ensuring our message continues to cut through to drive

awareness and meaningful action.

You are an experienced and credible media professional with a track

record of leading and supporting high-performing teams in a fast

paced, high-profile environment. You will have demonstrable expert

knowledge of the media landscape, with a wide network of trusted media

relationships that you use thoughtfully and effectively to achieve impact.

You are equally confident developing and placing softer news stories as

you are managing complex or high-stakes situations, exercising sound

judgement and acting decisively when it matters most.

You will have substantial experience of reputation management, including

advising senior leaders and stakeholders on sensitive or contentious

issues. An understanding of the issues affecting UK wildlife and nature

recovery is highly desirable, alongside a commitment to using the power

of media to inform, engage and drive positive change.

The Wildlife Trusts are a grassroots movement of people from a wide range of backgrounds and all walks of life, who believe that we need nature and nature needs us. We have more than 945,000 members, over 33,000 volunteers, 4,100 staff and 600 trustees. There are 46 individual Wildlife Trusts, each of which is a place-based independent charity with its own legal identity, formed by groups of people getting together and working with others to make a positive difference to wildlife and future generations, starting where they live and work.

Every Wildlife Trust is part of The Wildlife Trusts federation and a corporate member of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, a registered charity in its own right founded in 1912 and one of the founding members of IUCN – the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Taken together this federation of 47 charities is known as The Wildlife Trusts.

The next few years will be critical in determining what kind of world we all live in. We need to urgently reverse the loss of wildlife and put nature into recovery at scale if we are to prevent climate and ecological disaster. We recognise that this will require big, bold changes in the way The Wildlife Trusts work, not least in how we mobilise others and support them to organise within their own communities.