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Purpose of the role Whipsnade Zoo engages with diverse communities through education and outreach programmes, helping to connect people with nature and inspire positive action for wildlife. We are currently seeking a Community Programme Support Officer who will play a key role in delivering inclusive and impactful community experiences at Whipsnade Zoo. The primary focus of the role is to support our Supported Volunteering Programme, which works in partnership with local charities and councils to help individuals build employability skills through meaningful volunteering opportunities. This role supports both the delivery (approx. 70%) and coordination (approx. 30%) of a diverse range of activities designed to create positive, educational, and inclusive experiences for community visitors. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference by supporting inclusive programmes that both empowers and connects communities with nature. This is a 1-year fixed-term contract, based on a 37.5 hour working week. The role requires occasional evening work and availability for weekend working on a monthly basis. Key responsibilities: <ul> <li>Delivery &amp; Engagement: Support the planning and delivery of inclusive activities, workshops, and training to ensure positive learning experiences for community groups and volunteers.</li> <li> Administration &amp; Coordination: Manage administrative tasks including enquiries, stakeholder communication, rota creation, and overseeing the community bookings system.</li> <li>Relationship Building: Build and maintain positive relationships with community partners, volunteers, and advisory groups to support meaningful engagement and participation.</li> <li>Programme Support &amp; Improvement: Assist with ongoing evaluation by collecting data, maintaining and preparing resources and spaces, and supporting improvements to the Zoo experience for community and general visitors.</li></ul>About You <ul> <li>Experience delivering programmes in either a formal or informal environment. </li> <li>Confidence in engaging with diverse audiences. Experience delivering presentations, talks and events would be beneficial.</li> <li>Able to ascertain the needs of their audience and adapt their delivery of a programme accordingly.</li> <li>Good knowledge of current environmental issues and sustainable actions that can be promoted to mitigate environmental impact.</li> <li>An understanding of the role that zoos, and other informal learning environments, can play in engaging the public in environmental issues.</li> <li>Thrives when working outside and able to work in all weather conditions.</li> <li>Strong commitment to creating a culture that lives ZSL values and commitment to safeguarding, equality and diversity (collaborative, inspiring, inclusive, innovative, impactful and ethical).</li></ul>As the post involves working with children and vulnerable adults, an enhanced DBS check will be required. This role is subject to standard pre-employment checks, including the candidate's right to work in the UK. We strongly encourage applications from all backgrounds and celebrate the value of having a team of employees with diverse skills, experiences, and heritage. We are committed to ensuring our teams can bring their authentic selves to work without fear of discrimination. ZSL has active equality networks for our staff with lived experience and those who provide active allyship in Race and Culture, Team Pride, Disability Network, and Menopause Network, complemented by our strategic EDI Steering Group. About Us We're ZSL, an international conservation charity. Through our unrivalled animal experts in our two zoos (London Zoo and Whipsnade Zoo), the work of our pioneering scientists, our dedicated conservationists, our purpose is to inspire, inform and empower people to stop wild animals going extinct. Our vision is a world where wildlife thrives and we're working every day to achieve this. From investigating the health threats facing animals, to helping people and wildlife live alongside each other, we are committed to bringing wildlife back from the brink of extinction. What do we offer? At ZSL, we are proud of our approach to employee benefits. Our benefits include: <ul> <li>Our vision and purpose - you'll work alongside colleagues who are passionate about science-led conservation, knowing that you will help us to inspire, inform and empower people to stop wildlife going extinct </li> <li>Pension scheme - we offer a generous pension scheme with up to 12% contributory pension</li> <li>Flexible working - talk to us about your flexible working requirements and we will do everything we can to make sure you work in a way that suits you </li> <li>Holidays - 25 days annual leave allowance, plus UK bank holidays Wellbeing - access to a blended programme of wellbeing initiatives, including confidential access to our 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme </li> <li>Life assurance - eligible employees will be enrolled in ZSL's life assurance scheme from their first day </li> <li>Complimentary tickets - annual allocation of Whipsnade Zoo and London Zoo tickets, with a 30% discount in online and retail shops </li> <li>Cycle2Work - our cycle to work scheme enables you to lease a bicycle </li> <li>Season ticket loan - we offer an interest free loan for eligibly London-based employees to buy a season ticket for travel between home and work </li> <li>Family friendly policies - we offer enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption packages </li></ul>NB: We reserve the right to close our advertisement early or extend the advertising date until a suitable candidate has been found.

Community Engagement Officer

<ul><li> Guidance for Applicants </li><li> Job Description </li></ul> Apply now This is an exciting opportunity to join Sense's team within Sense TouchBase Pears as our Community Engagement Officer. This permanent role working 30 hours per week. The successful candidate will develop and run a successful community events programme, using Sense TouchBase Pears to connect with the people we support and the wider local community.

Department The Smart Data Donation Service (SDDS) is a new large-scale piece of research infrastructure funded by Smart Data Research UK's Data Services Call. The SDDS combines extensive research facilitation with construction of technical infrastructure at scale at the University of York. The SDDS is about making people's data rights work for them. Corporations hold vast amounts of behavioural data about citizens, but this data is often inaccessible either to the individuals who generated it, or to independent researchers who need it to understand the impacts of online environments. However, under GDPR, individuals have the right to data portability: If they wish, they can obtain a copy of their personal data from a corporation - they could then share this data with the research community. This 'data donation' paradigm is at the heart of the SDDS. It will break deadlocks in understanding domains like gaming and social media by enabling individuals to exercise their right to data portability en-masse, crowdsourcing massive-scale data donations at a national scale. Further information about the SDDS can be found at <a href="https://sdds.org.uk" target="_blank">https://sdds.org.uk</a>. Role We are looking for an experienced, adaptable, and passionate community engagement manager with experience of engaging, involving and collaborating with the public, and extensive knowledge of public involvement, engagement and co-production methods, to ensure the success of this incredible project. This role is a unique opportunity: a successful applicant will help to drive profound societal change at a key juncture in online safety and digital wellbeing; and will support large-scale team science, tapping into an inclusive and vibrant new research institution to enact this vision. Skills, Experience &amp; Qualification needed <ul> <li>Delivering external engagement: Work with the SDDS management team and Involvement@York's team to develop and implement the project's public involvement and engagement strategy. Be the 'go to person' for managing all aspects of the project's public involvement activity (with support and guidance from I@Y).</li> <li>Operational management: Support the Service Manager in the execution of administrative tasks underpinning the effective operation of the SDDS, including meeting and event planning, external stakeholder engagement, involvement and collaboration, project monitoring and financial reporting;</li> <li>Partnership management: Support and facilitate effective co-production and partnership working between the public contributors and the research team, providing a friendly, supportive and point of contact for all public contributors throughout;</li> <li>Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Help develop and implement a service-wide strategy for Equality Diversity and Inclusion as part of the overall public involvement and engagement strategy</li> </ul>Interview date: TBC For informal enquiries: please contact Faye Chivers on <a href="mailto:faye.chivers@york.ac.uk" target="_blank">faye.chivers@york.ac.uk</a>

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