Urban Nature & Community Officer

We’re seeking a community-focused, skilled communicator to lead engagement across Stockton, Redcar, and Middlesbrough - empowering local people through place-based and systems-level change.

Role purpose

To empower communities to take action for nature’s recovery in the urban areas of Redcar & Cleveland, Stockton and Middlesbrough, with a particular focus on the green corridors that connect communities. To create and enable community leadership, decision-making and action through a series of capacity building activities, leading to a ripple effect of people taking action for nature and the climate.

What you’ll be doing

You will build trusted relationships with local people, community leaders, and champions, helping them recognise the value of nature in their area. You will listen to residents to understand their needs, aspirations, and the barriers they face; support the Project Co-ordinator to design and deliver community-led activities that promote shared learning and peer networks; and help communities co-design and run bespoke projects so they can lead and sustain action themselves. You will also reach out to under-represented or isolated groups to strengthen community cohesion through environmental activities, and gather ongoing feedback and learning so the project stays relevant and its successes are shared.

Place-based, whole-systems approach

This work begins at the grassroots, and not the top down: you will prioritise local voices and co-designed solutions, to feed up the chain. Working under direction from the Project Co-ordinator; you will connect social, ecological, and institutional elements so activities change behaviours, relationships, policies, and resource flows. Success is shown by stronger community capacity, deeper partnerships, and lasting shifts in how the area cares for nature rather than by one-off events.

• Full-time 37.5 hours per week
• Fixed term until 31st July 2028
• £26,300pa
• 28 day annual leave +plus public holidays