Design & Impact Advisor

Job reference REQ000869

Date posted 21/02/2025

Application closing date 09/03/2025

Location Woking

Salary £45,000

Package Hybrid working

Contractual hours 35

Basis Full time

Job category/type Conservation Programmes

Attachments JD - Design and Impact Advisor - 2025.pdf

About the role

A new Design & Impact Advisor is needed by WWF-UK: if you love the detail of supporting teams to design brilliant programmes and then guide their implementation from a monitoring perspective; if you want to support teams working anywhere between Peru and PNG; if you have lots of experience in leading DMEAL approaches; this may be the opportunity for you!

As Design and Impact Advisor you will support colleagues across the organisation in the design and implementation of programmes, projects, policy/advocacy plans, and fundraising activities. You will advise and coach colleagues in the UK and internationally, enabling the application of good practice in developing, monitoring and evaluating campaign, project and programme strategies too. You will also advise strategic leads in the monitoring and reporting of our Strategy as well as respond to requests from Network colleagues for technical support. You will be able to confidently consultancies in order to ensure value for money and effective delivery of products that inform learning.

We’re looking for someone with:

Hands-on project or programme management expertise in more than one international context.
AND experience of working in DMEL areas in both policy and place-based contexts
Experience of facilitating training and guidance of peers to support teams working on conservation, environmental policy and practice, corporate partnerships, campaigns and communications.
A track record of supporting the design and writing of successful fundraising proposals for a wide range of donors
A background of working within institutional conservation, fundraising or development programmes OR within the policy-advocacy space.
A strong understanding of Safeguards in environmental programmes.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Degree in environmental, social sciences or relevant disciplines.

Benefits, rewards & location

The salary for this role is £45,000 pro rata: job shares are welcome to apply. We also offer a full benefits and rewards package including:

Annual leave starting at 26 days a year, rising one day each year to a maximum of 30 days plus bank holidays
Flexible working options
5% employer contribution to pension, increased to 10% with employee contribution.
Training and development opportunities
Regular wellbeing initiatives.

This role is hybrid and you’ll be required to be in the office 20% of your contracted hours. The job is based at our UK head office, the Living Planet Centre in Woking, Surrey. The Living Planet Centre is one of the greenest buildings in the UK, and you’ll hot desk among trees and gardens.

About WWF-UK

We’re a global conservation charity with hundreds of projects around the world and millions of supporters.

At WWF-UK, we’re bringing our world back to life. Protecting what’s left is not enough – we’re now in a race to restore the natural world and prevent catastrophic climate change before it’s too late. And it’s a race we can still win.

We’re courageous and passionate about fighting for the future we want to see – a world where people and nature can thrive.

We were born out of passion and science, and for more than 60 years we’ve been at the forefront of global efforts to protect wildlife and the natural world. We operate with integrity, collaboratively and with respect for those we work alongside.

How to apply and the recruitment process

Please click on the link and apply via our website by completing the application form and submitting a copy of your up-to-date CV and a brief supporting statement to highlight what makes you a good fit for us. At the end of the supporting statement, we ask you to include your response to the exercise below by submitting a results chain as a demonstration of your skills

Application closes: COB 09/03/2025
Interviews will be virtual during the week of 17th March

EXERCISE FOR SUBMISSION AS PART OF YOUR APPLICATION

Please submit your response to the exercise outlined below at the end of your supporting statement. Note that this is not a scenario that is relevant for the specifics of this particular D&I role, but will allow you to be able to demonstrate some aspects of your D&I skills:

“A first draft of a programme strategy was sent to us recently; this is found below. Use the information that has been given to:

(1) Outline what a results chain could look like based on their project summary below. (Guidance: focus this towards results and impact and be prepared to clump activities into strategies. We are interested in the content of the results chain, and not in the format you use)

(2) Suggest up to 3 questions of clarification, related to this results chain, which you would want to pose to the Kenyan team who are developing the strategy.

Kenya has the second largest African elephant population in East Africa after Tanzania, with the Greater Mara Landscape having a population of 2,493 elephants (2022 census). The landscape is an ecosystem of over 12,000km2 with flagship species (elephant and rhino) which have cultural, economic and ecological importance.

These elephants utilize both protected and non-protected areas (privately owned land). Community livestock occasionally graze in protected areas particularly during the dry season and vice versa - elephants disperse into community and privately owned land causing competition for forage and disease transmissions and increased risks to both wildlife and livestock during the wet season. Presently communities outside the conservancies receive no benefits from elephants however elephants regularly threaten livelihoods through crop raiding and occasional kill people. The 2016 wet season aerial count report identified community owned land adjacent to Maasai Mara National Game Reserve (MMNGR) as a crucial wildlife dispersal area and called for pragmatic measures to be adopted to enhance the dispersal area conservation.

The overall project aim of this new elephant strategy is to secure space for elephants, reduce elephant poaching by 20% from the 2022 baseline, reduce Human Elephant Conflict (HEC) to acceptable levels, develop nature-based conservation interventions that will secure livelihoods of local communities living along elephants and that the community is the first line of defence in curbing elephant poaching. Project delivery will be achieved through partnerships with various stakeholders including local communities and government, by implementing provisions of the Wildlife Act 2013, cross–border collaboration (into Tanzania), training and capacity building, application of appropriate technology in conservation and implementing science-based conservation actions. Through participatory land use planning, community outreach, education and awareness the project will enhance good working relationships between communities, landowners and protected area managers. It is expected communities will be supportive of elephant conservation among other wildlife species as they are able to better mitigate the impacts of wildlife and start to see greater returns from wildlife conservation. This will improve elephant security as they will be able to receive benefits from elephants as they secure additional space for elephants.”

Our policies and benefits reflect the importance of people being able to have a good work-life balance and being able to bring their ‘full self’ to work.

This is a UK based contract and as such, you are required to have the Right to Work in the UK. Evidence of your Right to Work will be checked prior to interview.

At WWF-UK we’re committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. As a Disability Confident Employer, we acknowledge that some candidates may require additional support to overcome barriers experienced during the application process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview, please reach out to the Talent Acquisition team via recruitment@wwf.org.uk