Communications and Marketing Officer

Salary: £32,950 pa, 4-day week + company benefits.
Duration: Full time (32hrs, 4-day week)
Location: Flexible within the UK, home-based.
Closing date for applications: 9am, Monday 9th March 2026. Please note that we may close applications early if we receive a high volume, so early applications are encouraged.

Interviews will be held virtually over teams, the week commencing 23rd March 2026.

Expected start date: As soon as possible.

The Role

This role offers the chance for a communications and marketing specialist to play a meaningful part in tackling the UK’s wildlife emergency. You’ll be part of a ground-breaking project that is delivering a step-change in the conservation of great crested newts, while also looking ahead to exploring how its learning and momentum could be applied to other species.

We have a great message – high-integrity conservation schemes that are better for developers, better for planners and most importantly, better for wildlife – and the challenge of helping it reach and resonate with different audiences.

The role sits within the Business Support team – a small team with a wide remit – and will be line-managed by the Senior Communications and Marketing Officer. You’ll work closely together as NatureSpace’s communications function, while also working both independently and collaboratively with colleagues across the company.

The role would suit a mid-level graduate marketing/communications specialist looking to play a valued role within an evolving organisation. The role will focus primarily on external communications, with some involvement in internal communications to support colleagues. As a Communications and Marketing Officer, you will help shape communications with all the company’s stakeholders – from planners, developers and their ecologists to NGOs, politicians and the media. Alongside the Senior Communications Officer, you will be the company go-to for advice and support on communications.

In this role, you will widen and deepen relationships with new and existing audiences by delivering and supporting a range of work, from coordinating campaigns and creating content to event planning and market analysis. You will work across channels including website, social media, in-person events and email, using insight and feedback to improve effectiveness. This role will suit a creative thinker who enjoys working collaboratively, brings practical marketing experience and is excited to challenge themselves as we strengthen our brand and profile.

Key responsibilities:

• Deliver a wide range of communications and marketing work, contributing to campaigns, content and ongoing communications activity.
• Coordinate communications activity across channels including LinkedIn, web, email, partner/external media and in-person events.
• Draft, adapt and publish content for different audiences.
• Support campaign coordination, including scheduling activity, tracking progress and helping ensure deadlines are met.
• Manage and update website content using WordPress, including refining, creating and maintaining pages and publishing updates.
• Use insight and basic performance data to continually review what works well and what could be improved and to report on the impact and effectiveness of communication channels.
• Contribute creative ideas and practical solutions to communications challenges, working collaboratively within the team.
• To support and guide colleagues across the organisation to collate and co-ordinate the dissemination of information to the relevant audiences.
• To establish and maintain effective relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.

Essential skills, knowledge, and experience:

• Education at degree level or equivalent, or the ability to demonstrate work-related experience.
• Excellent proven writing skills, with a confident grasp of grammar, punctuation and spelling and the ability to write to a variety of different audiences.
• Experience of delivering public-facing communications campaigns.
• Ability to translate complex, technical information into accessible communications for a range of audiences.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to engage and influence.
• Strong skills in creating engaging content, including the use of Canva to create image and video content.
• Ability to plan and prioritise work effectively, with a methodical and conscientious approach, and to manage competing deadlines in a fast-paced, busy environment.
• Self-motivated and independent – able to work flexibly with minimal supervision.
• Familiarity with using performance metrics (e.g. email engagement, website/social media analytics) to monitor and evaluate campaigns and communication activities, determining reach and impact.
• Experience creating and updating content on a WordPress website, including creating and updating pages and basic site management.

Desirable skills, knowledge, and experience:

• Experience or enthusiasm to work on nature conservation issues.
• Good understanding and awareness of the wider sector landscape, as well as the current local and national planning policy and political landscape.
• Experience creating short and/or long form video content.
• Public engagement and event experience, both in person and virtual.
• Experience using LinkedIn for organisational communications/marketing and familiarity with emerging platforms such as Bluesky, as well as an interest in how channels are used by different audiences.
• Experience of using a CRM system or email marketing software to support targeted communication (specific experience using Zoho Campaigns would be an advantage).

Company background

Great crested newts have declined dramatically in the UK over the last 50 years and although still widespread across lowland England they are no longer common. Despite protection under UK and European wildlife law, numbers are still declining, and habitat loss is their biggest threat.

In 2018, the NatureSpace District Licensing Scheme was launched – set up in partnership with the UK’s leading freshwater and amphibian non-governmental organisations as well as seven local planning authorities across the South Midlands. Since then, the scheme has expanded nationally and now covers 70 local planning authorities across Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Surrey and West Sussex.

The scheme allows planning authorities to authorise (under strictly defined terms) activities which affect great crested newts at the same time as they grant planning permission. The District Licensing Scheme has significant advantages for newt conservation and wider biodiversity benefits through a fully funded region-wide conservation strategy that creates high-quality habitat at a landscape scale and delivers long-term management and monitoring for newts, which is carried out via our partners at the Newt Conservation Partnership (a community benefit society formed of experts from Freshwater Habitats Trust and Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust). The scheme benefits developers because the licensing process for great crested newts is simplified and streamlined.

We also work with national infrastructure providers, such as Network Rail and National Highways, to help them secure and deliver 'Organisational Licences' for protected species with the same conservation deliverables. The schemes are administered by NatureSpace, are regulated, and approved by Natural England and are supported by the country’s leading amphibian and freshwater NGOs.

2026 is an exciting year for us, as we advance new schemes that build upon our successes; this will include officially launching our uniquely stacked high-integrity BNG offer and piloting our Priority Species Scheme, as well as developing new licensing schemes for other protected species.

Company culture, employment benefits and location

NatureSpace Partnership is a small (c.68 staff) but busy and rapidly growing company. Being a small organisation, everyone has a big say in what we do and how we do it. Our agility and size mean that your voice will be heard and you will have the opportunity to directly see the results of your work.

Work/life balance is important to us. We support a flexible working arrangement so that our work fits in with our lives and we are open to exploring how this role could best work for you.

The successful candidate will be joining a friendly, close-working team of home-workers and will have responsibility for managing their workload and working independently as part of a dispersed national team. The post requires high levels of motivation and high standards of self-management. Location is entirely flexible within the UK - this post will be mainly desk-based but some travelling to meetings in England will be required.

NatureSpace embraces equal opportunities, diversity and inclusion and we welcome applications from all suitable qualified and experienced individuals. To build a team of the most talented employees, NatureSpace is committed to being a flexible employer and we place considerable emphasis on wellbeing and job satisfaction.

We offer a significant benefits package for all staff including flexible working, a 4-day working week plus occasional mandatory Friday meetings, time off-in-lieu (TOIL) or overtime pay (in agreement with your line manager), 20 annual leave days (which equates to 5-weeks off per year in light of the 4-day working week, plus bank holidays, weekday birthdays and additional holiday over the Christmas period), an annual performance bonus of up to 20% of your pay, company pension contributions, company private health and life insurance, plus the option to join our electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme.

Applicants must have the legal right to live and work in the UK.