Campaigning And Organising Assistant

Closing date: Sunday 12 April 2026

Salary: £25,550 per annum

Contract type: Permanent / Working hours: Full time

Location: Newark - Hybrid working with regular travel to other places of work. There is a requirement to attend in-person the monthly team meeting at the Newark office.

Apply here

Wildlife Trusts are deeply rooted in local areas and we work with communities of all kinds. We use two particular approaches to this element of our work, one which is known as Organising (working with people to help them to help Nature in their own way – for example listening to their concerns about their local green spaces and supporting them to make improvements), and one which is known as Mobilising (helping people influence changes for Nature - for example changing Government policy by engaging with their MP). Our intention is always to influence nature’s recovery.

This is an exciting time to join us. The purpose of this role is to support the Campaigning and Organising team as we develop a more equal balance between both approaches (“Organising” and “Mobilising”) so everyone can enjoy a wilder future.

You are a natural communicator and work collaboratively. You may be starting out in your career and looking for a role where you can make a meaningful contribution and positive impact.

In this role, you will be supporting work across the federation of 46 Wildlife Trusts to help mobilise supporters, driving locally-led action that contributes to nationally impactful campaigns, while building power within communities of all kinds so they feel more empowered to act for nature in their own ways.

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.