Campaigns and Advocacy Officer – Wye Now Programme

Working base: Llandrindod Wells, Warwick House (with travel within Wales and England)

Contract: Fixed-term – until March 2026 – Hybrid working

Working Hours: 22.5 hours per week, with flexible working arrangements. Some evening and
weekend work required for which Time Off In Lieu will be awarded.

At a time of critical change and opportunity for our rivers and their associated habitats and
their future we have created a key role to help champion, campaign, and advocate for clean and
healthy rivers.

RWT’s campaigning efforts have significantly helped to put the River Wye on the political
agenda. We work with partners both nationally and locally to win support for meaningful action
and change, while delivering advice and practical management in the catchment, across the wider
team.

Join a vibrant and energetic team, living and working in Mid Wales, and work with colleagues
delivering landscape scale work focused on the uplands, rivers and our own estate, which
includes Gilfach Nature Reserve and Wilder Pentwyn Farm.

You’ll work closely with colleagues at The Wildlife Trust and Wildlife Trust Wales, building
action with partner organisations and community groups across the catchment, sharing common
messages and calls for action across Wales.

With elections in both locally and in Welsh Assembly elections over the next 2 years, following
a new government in Westminster, there will be a concerted focus on ensuring actions for clean
and healthy rivers feature in debates and discussions and that there is a clear understanding
that connected landscapes and wildlife-rich habitats, giving space to nature, are well funded
and supported at all levels of decision making.

As a Wildlife Trust, we fundamentally understand the value of healthy environments and the
codependency of people and nature. Our community is made up of people who see the value in
healthy eco-systems and healthy rivers. It is also people that will be directly impacted by the
changes we foresee in the Wye catchment happening. Livelihoods will be lost if farming is
unable to continue due to loss of income, livelihoods will be lost if the rivers flood with
greater regularity and intensity, unchecked, and damage local communities.

Closing Date: Friday 12th July
Interview Date: Friday 26th July