Educational partnerships development for environmental charity - Volunteer in City of London

Join to apply for the Educational partnerships development for environmental charity role at East London Waterworks Park

Educational partnerships and community developers wanted to help East London Waterworks Park deliver its environmental learning goals.

What difference will you make? You will have a significant impact on the creation of a new biodiverse community‑owned park with free access natural swimming ponds. By volunteering in this role, you will help shape the future of East London Waterworks Park as a community‑led environmental learning space. This will also help our charity with the strategy to buy the land through showing the value of our environmental education programme before we create the park. If you’re interested in joining us, we’d love to hear from you!

What are we looking for? We welcome individuals with experience in outreach, partnership building, education, or nonprofit engagement. Strong communication and relationship‑building skills are key. Our roles are quite flexible. We hope that people bring radical imagination, peace with nature, and courageous inclusiveness to the role.

What will you be doing?

East London Waterworks Park is a volunteer‑led charity that won a 2024 New London Architecture award and has raised £2m towards buying land from the Department for Education to transform the 14‑acre Thames Water Depot on Lea Bridge Road on the border of Waltham Forest and Hackney, into a new biodiverse park with natural swimming ponds, forest schools and community spaces.

We are looking for a volunteer to lead partnership development and community outreach efforts for East London Waterworks Park. This role focuses on building and nurturing relationships with learning bodies to increase the opportunity for partnership opportunities.

• Researching and identifying new opportunities for environmental learning initiatives
• Building and nurturing relationships with schools, education bodies, and nonprofit organizations
• Supporting outreach efforts to promote ELWP’s existing learning programmes

Schools, universities and youth groups we\’ve collaborated with include

• Waltham Forest College
• Henry Maynard Primary School, Walthamstow
• Buxton School, Leytonstone
• Kingsmead Primary School, Hackney
• Daubeney Primary School, Hackney
• UCL
• Royal College of Art
• University of Westminster
• Project Zero
• Voyage Youth
• Loyola University Chicago
• Vanderbilt University Nashville

The Learning Circle currently meets monthly on a Wednesday evening at 8pm for an hour on Google Meet and spends voluntary time outside of the meeting completing agreed tasks remotely.