River Skills Officer

Thames21 is a leading environmental charity, working across London and the Thames Basin to deliver high-impact nature-based solutions to the climate and biodiversity crisis through restoring rivers, whilst also connecting communities to their local green-blue spaces and inspiring long-term stewardship of them.

The role

We are seeking a skilled River Skills Officer to joinThames21 working on our projects in London and the Thames Basin. This role offers an opportunity for the post holder to lead on the delivery and development of Thames21’s environmental training programme, which aims to empower communities to take independent action for rivers. Furthermore, the post holder will contribute to the support of Thames21’s network of volunteer-led River Action Groups.

The key skill for this role is the ability to create and deliver inclusive, engaging and inspiring courses that help people understand what makes a healthy river; explore the crucial role that rivers play in our lives; and demonstrate how everyone can be involved in protecting, maintaining and improving London’s blue-green spaces.

The key value for this role is a passion for rivers and learning, coupled with the ability to share that enthusiasm with diverse groups of people, helping them to build their knowledge and skills to enhance London’s blue-green spaces.

You’ll thrive in this role if you enjoy breaking down complex ideas and processes, making them accessible to a wide range of audiences. You will be comfortable working with people in a variety of settings, mixing theory with practice.

A typical day is likely to involve delivering one of Thames21’s flagship courses, gathering ideas for new training or making tweaks to existing modules; contacting community-led River Action Groups about upcoming activities, or keeping on track with various admin tasks. You might be working from home, at one of our offices in Bow or Guildhall, or at a river talking learners through the physical features in a river.  You could be checking over River Action Group risk assessments, promoting training opportunities or advising a local community river action group about organising their first session. 

You might also be helping to plan the annual River Action Group Forum to create opportunities for River Action Groups to learn from each other and build power as a network or working on strategic long-term plans or monitoring project outputs and incorporating learnings into project development. You’ll be thinking both big and small on any given day.

Please see the attached job description for more information about the role, responsibilities, and requirements, and visit Thames21's website to learn more about the organisation.

Apply

To apply for this position, please email an up-to-date copy of your CV and supporting statement that addresses skills, knowledge and experience relating to the person specification and email this to [email protected]  with the reference (RSO1026), in the subject box of your email application. 

For any queries about this position, please email Sam Bentley-Toon at [email protected]

• The closing date for applications is:  9am 16 November
• Interview dates:  26, 27 November (subject to change)

 We appreciate the time you will have taken to apply to this role, and we do appreciate that it is disconcerting when you don’t hear back from a role you have applied for. However, due to the high number of applications we expect to receive, we are unable respond to or give feedback on individual applications, but we do want to be able manage expectations. Therefore, if you do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.

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