Public Affairs and Water Policy Officer

Public Affairs and Water Policy Officer

Closing date:
Sunday 12 July 2026 Salary: up to £36,380 per annum Contract type:
Permanent /

Working hours:

Full time

Location:

This role is predominantly home‑based with regular travel to locations across the UK specifically London. Office facilities are available at our Newark office (Tuesdays to Thursdays) for those within easy travelling distance.

This post will support the Head of Public Affairs in helping the Wildlife Trust movement make arguments and develop relationships with parliamentarians in order to influence policy in Westminster, to the benefit of nature recovery. You will work with policy, campaigning, and communications colleagues to build support for The Wildlife Trusts’ advocacy priorities, including work on water policy.

• Support the Head of Public Affairs to develop arguments and relationships with parliamentarians to influence policy in Westminster.
• Build support for The Wildlife Trusts’ advocacy priorities, including water policy, with policy, campaigning, and communications colleagues.
• Communicate detailed policies in a compelling and persuasive way, especially in written form.
• Support successful advocacy campaigns and develop policies and programmes for the Wildlife Trusts.
• Engage with politicians and provide policy support in parliamentary advocacy.

• Understanding of the legislative process and parliamentary procedures.
• Ability to communicate detailed policy information in a compelling and persuasive way, especially in written form.
• Experience and a proven track record of working with politicians.
• Experience supporting successful advocacy campaigns and fronting policies and programmes.
• Experience working on water policy is particularly useful.
• Comfortable with policy work as well as parliamentary advocacy.

The Wildlife Trusts are a grassroots movement of people from a wide range of backgrounds and all walks of life, who believe that we need nature and nature needs us. There are 46 individual Wildlife Trusts that are place‑based independent charities.

They are a corporate member of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, a registered charity founded in 1912, and one of the founding members of IUCN – the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. The federation comprises 47 charities known as The Wildlife Trusts.