At a Glance
- Tasks: Drive policy and advocacy to protect rivers and secure sustainable water outcomes.
- Company: Agile campaigning organisation dedicated to rescuing UK rivers from pollution.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, dynamic work environment, and the chance to make a real impact.
- Other info: Opportunity to engage with decision-makers and influence meaningful change.
- Why this job: Join a passionate team fighting for cleaner rivers and a sustainable future.
- Qualifications: Strategic thinker with strong writing skills and experience in advocacy.
The predicted salary is between 45000 - 50000 £ per year.
This is a full-time role. We are a small and agile campaigning organisation on a mission to rescue UK rivers from a toxic cocktail of agricultural, sewage and industrial pollution and water shortages. We support community action, galvanise and mobilise public opinion, influence government policy, take legal actions and call out destructive industrial practices to incentivise changes that end river pollution and secure freshwater. We are building a talented team of positive disrupters and stakeholder mobilisers to deliver our strategy to urgently protect and restore our rivers for the benefit of communities, rivers and wildlife. Britain’s rivers are our life support system and they are dying. We need urgent action to bring them back to life.
Overview
We are expanding our political influence by introducing this new position, which will work closely with our existing Policy and Advocacy Manager to bolster our strategic reach particularly in the areas of water scarcity, security and justice, sewage and chemical pollution, and water sector reform.
Responsibilities
- Drive forward policy and advocacy work to protect rivers and secure sustainable water outcomes.
- Expand political influence and strategic reach in areas of water scarcity, security and justice, sewage and chemical pollution, and water sector reform.
- Engage with decision-makers, industry, government, and media, holding polluters and relevant actors to account with a professional and diplomatic approach.
- Blend analytical problem-solving with intelligent advocacy to drive meaningful policy changes.
- Draft complex policy documents and develop top-line arguments for broader communications.
Qualifications
- Strategic thinker with strong policy insights and the ability to translate analysis into advocacy outcomes.
- Excellent writing skills and the ability to draft complex policy documents as well as concise arguments for wider audiences.
- Dynamic, self-motivated, and capable of working in fast-paced environments.
- Professional and diplomatic approach with experience engaging across sectors, government, industry, and media.
Application deadline Wednesday 15th July 2026
