Climate Change Ambassador

Role: Climate Change Ambassador

Location: Chorley

Contract: Part time (21.75 hours per week) / Permanent

Salary: £30,559 - £32,654 (pro rata)

Closing Date: 9 March 2025

Are you passionate about the environment? Do you enjoy engaging and communicating with the public? We are looking for someone who can bring energy to the role and use their passion and creativity to spread awareness about climate change and biodiversity, promoting positive behavioural change within the community.

Within this role you will be working within schools, online, and with community groups to engage, educate and inspire about addressing the climate and ecological emergency across the borough.

What you’ll be getting up to

Chorley Council declared a climate emergency in 2019 and as part of this have made community engagement and education a priority within the Climate Change Programme. You will have a varied role on a day-to-day basis and responsibilities will include:

• Developing a programme of innovative and exciting ways to deliver education and engagement through a variety of channels.
• Delivering face-to-face engagement activities to groups including schools, businesses, community groups and council officers about climate change & simple steps we can all take to make a difference.
• Representing the Council at local events.
• Developing online materials for social media and websites.
• Working with officers within the Council to inspire and promote climate and biodiversity activity within their own roles.
• Working alongside the Climate Change Lead Officer in project delivery.

Who we’re looking for

• The successful candidate will have experience working within the community and presenting in front of groups of varied sizes.
• Someone with qualifications or equivalent work-related experience in environmental and biodiversity studies and/or other relevant subjects.
• Knowledge of local and national effects of climate change, sustainability and carbon reduction initiatives.
• The ability to confidently work with a wide range of different stakeholders of different ages, backgrounds and base environmental understanding.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Other requirements

• This role may require some travel around our boroughs. It is desirable for the candidate to have a valid driving license or the equivalent mobility.
• Successful applicants will be subject to a DBS check (applied and paid for by the Council).

Our Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (and Christmas shutdown).
• Hybrid/agile working from day one.
• Local Government pension.
• Healthcare Cash Plan for cash back on health treatments.
• Cashback website access for savings on brands you love.
• Volunteering days.
• Free parking.
• Car Allowance.

About Us

Chorley Council is dedicated to providing first-class services and promoting the well-being of the local community. Our staff are our greatest resource, at the heart of everything we do, and are crucial to the delivery of excellent services for our residents. At Chorley Council, we’re always striving to make our borough the best to live, work and visit.

Working Together

We share a number of our services with South Ribble Borough Council. This allows for improved resilience across both councils and provides numerous benefits to our operations. Whilst some staff and back-end processes are shared between the Councils, both Councils still retain sovereignty and have separate strategies and corporate plans.

Additional information

Applicants are advised to apply early. We reserve the right to close a vacancy prior to the closing date.

Equal Opportunities

We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to the elimination of unfair and unlawful discrimination and prejudice in all our policies, procedures, and practices.

We’re committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and accessible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process, please contact us via the "Contact Us" page on our website.

If you are disabled or your last employer was the armed forces, and you meet all the essential criteria of a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.