Communication and Outreach Officer
Alderney Wildlife Trust
The communications and outreach officer supports the wider AWT team in the delivery of communications and outreach activity across the Alderney Wildlife Trust (AWT), promoting its campaigns, projects and strategic goals.
This is a stipended placement covering living expenses and has additional earning opportunities, with guiding services for tours and activities paid at a commercial rate to the successful candidate.
Duties
- Deliver communications activity across AWT's campaigns and progammes, including ACAN, Wilder Learning, The Hut, Protecting Nature in Recovery (PNiR) and Nature is the Solution projects, working under the direction of the Operations Manager and relevant Campaign Leads.
- The management and development of AWT's website and social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn and Bluesky.
- Produce engaging multimedia content and maintain the AWT image and video library.
- The production of the membership magazine, posters, leaflets, information boards and promotional materials.
- Support and help coordinate guided walks, wildlife tours, talks and community events, assisting campaign teams in promoting and, where appropriate, delivering outreach activities.
- Support the Operations Manager and CEO in delivering fundraising communications, including grant communications and reporting, sponsorship materials, corporate engagement packs, membership communications, legacy promotion and digital fundraising campaigns.
- Ensure consistency with AWT and Wildlife Trust branding, protecting and strengthening AWT's public profile and reputation.
- Assisting in other aspects of the AWT as required; this may include supporting the growing communications needs of AWT Enterprises (AWTE) and strategic external partnerships and getting out with volunteers.
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Have excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to adapt tone and format across social media, press, print and web.
- Have experience managing social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, etc).
- Have experience creating engaging multimedia content including photography, video, graphic design.
- Have experience producing publications and marketing materials.
- Be confident in representing the AWT professionally.
- Have the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.
- Be willing to learn on the job, be intuitive and show initiative.
- competent with standard Microsoft packages and website content management systems.
About Alderney Wildlife Trust
The Alderney Wildlife Trust is one of the 46 Wildlife
Trusts working across the British Isles. Support from our members and volunteers allows us to
manage over 130 hectares of terrestrial land for wildlife - quite considerable on an island of only
800 hectares. We also manage over 20km of footpath to ensure public access to the Island's
countryside whilst minimising the impact on the wildlife that lives there. We work with the local
community to engage them with their natural environment in order to protect Alderney's wildlife for
the future.
The Alderney Wildlife Trust is one of the 46 Wildlife Trusts working across the British Isles. Support from our members and volunteers allows us to manage over 130 hectares of terrestrial land for wildlife - quite considerable on an island of only 800 hectares. We also manage over 20km of footpath to ensure public access to the Island's countryside whilst minimising the impact on the wildlife that lives there. We work with the local community to engage them with their natural environment in order to protect Alderney's wildlife for the future.
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