About the job

Community Engagement Project Manager

Home Based in the UK

About Us

The Marine Conservation Society fights for the future of our ocean through people-powered action – with science on our side. We defend habitats and species, with communities, businesses and governments. Together, we work towards a cleaner, better-protected, healthier ocean. For seas full of life, where nature flourishes and people thrive.

The Benefits

- Salary of £30,500 - £34,500 per annum

- Annual leave starting at 25 days per year (plus Bank Holidays), increasing with service

- 6% employer contributions to our stakeholder pension scheme

- Sick pay at full pay for eight weeks, then eight weeks at half pay (after probation ends)

- Great work-life balance through flexible and remote working

- Health and wellbeing support, including an employee assistance programme

- A paid day to volunteer for another charity of your choice

- Cycle-to-work scheme

The Role

This is a fantastic opportunity for an innovative leader with community engagement and project management experience to drive & develop our portfolio of impactful community engagement work. Our projects in local communities allow people to give a voice to their ocean and their actions make it possible for us to show the importance of a healthy ocean.

We’re looking for you to drive the delivery of our existing projects and to develop new projects that support our ocean restoration and conservation objectives and grow volunteer engagement across more people and areas, inspiring everyone who gets involved on their journey with us.

You'll support the Project Leads to deliver their projects, and act as Project Lead at times on your own projects - ensuring that we can show the impact of our work to those who are involved in communities and to the partners and funders who make our work possible. You'll need to be able to design evaluation methods and put the learning into practice as a commitment to continuous improvement.

There is much to do, and our ocean needs us to act now. Join us to drive our ambitions for seas fit for life in communities.

About You

Our Community Engagement Project Manager, you will need to show:

- Proven people management experience, including providing positive and constructive line management support

- Experience of working effectively as part of a cross organisational delivery team

- A strong record of designing, planning and delivering multiple complex projects, including resourcing and budgeting responsibility

- A track record of successfully managing concurrent community engagement projects that have multi-skilled delivery teams, strict timelines and reporting milestones

- A detailed understanding of the community engagement sector

- A keen interest in the field of Environmental Community Engagement and the ability to apply knowledge of contemporary best practice in design and delivery of projects and resources

- The ability to apply robust monitoring and evaluation strategies for community engagement projects

- Proven ability to deliver high quality printed and digital projects on time and within budget

Due to the nature of some of the delivery activities, this role requires an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring check as part of the recruitment process.

The closing date for this role is 12th January 2025.

Other organisations may call this role Volunteer Manager, Volunteer Experience Manager, Community Project Manager, Conservation Engagement Manager, or Community Outreach Manager.

Webrecruit and the Marine Conservation Society are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you want to take on a unique and impactful role as a Community Engagement Manager, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.