Community Super Champion x3

Community Super Champion (Three Positions Available)

Zero Hours Contract
Fixed-Term until September 2028*
Hourly Rate: £13.45 per hour
Base Location: Portsmouth, the Isle of Wight, Southampton and surrounding areas

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust is shaping a wilder future for our counties – protecting special places, restoring habitats and inspiring people to act for nature. As part of the UK’s fastest-growing movement for nature’s recovery, we lead with passion, integrity and bold thinking. Join a team where your work has purpose, your ideas matter, and you can help create lasting change for wildlife and people.

We are seeking three Community Super Champions to join our cause.

Community Super Champions play a vital role in inspiring people to take action for nature. Depending on your interests and skills, you will contribute to community organising by leading and supporting a diverse range of environmental initiatives. These may include empowering communities to protect, enhance, and connect with local natural spaces; promoting environmental awareness and understanding; creating and enhancing spaces for nature; engaging children and schools through the delivery of educational programmes and activities; supporting community-led nature initiatives; and promoting opportunities for people to connect with nature. There will be a requirement to attend a two-day Outdoor First Aid course due to the nature of the role as well as a one-day training day at our head office in Botley.

We currently have seven Community Super Champions based across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight; we have three new positions available based in Portsmouth, Isle of Wight, Southampton and surrounding areas. Hours are flexible and dependent on events and projects being supported.

*These are zero hours, fixed-term opportunities until September 2028. Our intentions are to continue the project and will endeavour to source new funding nearer the time and hope to extend the Super Champion roles.

About you:

You are an enthusiastic and proactive individual with a genuine passion for nature and commitment to environmental stewardship. You have some experience of working on community or environmental projects, either in a voluntary or paid capacity, and enjoy empowering and inspiring people to take positive action for nature.

Wild About Inclusion!

As an inclusive employer we recognise that our workforce needs to better reflect the communities in which we live and work. We encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly those underrepresented within our sector, including people from black, Asian, minority Ethnic backgrounds and people with disabilities. We are committed to creating a Movement that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities.

Disability Confident.

We are proudly a Disability Confident Committed employer. The scheme is helping us recruit and retain great people to meet our workforce needs. As a member of the scheme, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. You can request adjustments including accessible formats of this vacancy by emailing [email protected].

To be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme you must:

• Identify as being disabled which under the Equality Act 2010 means a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial*, long term** adverse effect on your ability to carry out normal day to day activities; or a long-term health condition; and;

(*Substantial is more than minor or trivial **Long-term means 12 months or more)

• Set out how you meet all the minimum qualifying criteria set out in the person specification for the post at the application and testing stages. This is a requirement for all candidates, not just those applying under the scheme.

Closing date: 15 March 2026
Interviews: To be confirmed