We are looking for a freelance Community Climate Action Manager in Bristol between March and the end of July 2025 to bring this new role to life and support youth-led climate action in local school communities. This is an exciting opportunity to shape a new role in a small but ambitious social enterprise that is helping schools and young people to tackle the climate and nature crisis. In the past four years we have grown from a one-person organisation to a team of six through successful fundraising and the growth of our unique and innovative Zero Carbon Schools programme. We created the Community Climate Action Manager role to align with the ‘Act’ and ‘Inspire’ stages of Zero Carbon Schools. In these stages, pupils design and lead projects to reduce their schools’ carbon footprints, and then involve and inspire their schools and communities through awareness-raising days, events, and campaigns. The Community Climate Action Manager role will provide capacity and expertise to ensure that these activities translate into wider climate action, inspired by the voices and ideas of school pupils. You’ll be working with our team in Bristol and the schools we work with locally to support their pupils to inspire community climate action. You’ll work closely with our Head of Development, Development and Communications Officer, and Programme Manager, all based in Bristol, with oversight from our Managing Director, based in London. The role would suit someone with experience of working with schools, facilitation of workshops with young people or adults, community engagement and events, environmental education, climate action, or a mix of the above We believe that tackling the climate and nature crisis is the most urgent issue facing society and that schools need to educate young people about the situation they face and involve them in addressing it. Young people bear no responsibility for causing the climate crisis, yet they will have to live through this issue which will define their future. We believe that, given the opportunity, they have the energy, enthusiasm, and determination to change attitudes and behaviour on a local and global scale. Our values that we do our best to embody at all times are to be enthusiastic, innovative, environmentally responsible, ethical, collaborative, and fun. We exist to help young people learn about and get actively involved with tackling the climate and nature crisis. We support schools to provide opportunities for their pupils to learn about the individual actions and systemic responses required. We are keen to attract applicants from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences but particularly interested to hear from applicants where the environmental education sector is currently underrepresented (ethnicity, disability, LGBT, living in areas of low social mobility). What you’ll do: Work with our Bristol team to create a plan for engaging our Bristol schools and their communities in wider climate action. Our schools funded through this programme are Evergreen Primary, May Park Primary and Whitehall Primary, and we also work with Brunel Field Primary, Westbury-on-Trym Academy and Somerdale Primary in Keynsham. Facilitate sessions with pupils in our Bristol schools to ensure that this wider climate action is pupil-led. Organise events and campaigns with these schools and their pupils to bring together young people’s voices and learning for wider action. Help the growth of new and existing partnerships with like-minded organisations – such as Sparks/The Global Goals Centre, Gloucestershire Cricket Club, and Let’s Go Zero – to support the above actions. Create new opportunities for Green Schools Project to work with more schools and sector relevant organisations through the above. Support our Development team to report on the impact of the above. We need you to have: The ability to engage communities and organise community events. The ability to hit the ground running, coming up with your own ideas and plans for this new role. An understanding of the educational and/or the community landscape of Bristol. Strong organisational skills with an ability to prioritise while working on a variety of tasks. Strong relationship building skills with the ability to enthuse. A resilient attitude that sees setbacks as a chance to learn and thrives in challenging situations. An enthusiasm for working with a small organisation with an ability to be agile around the tasks required and an ability to thrive when offered flexibility and autonomy in your work. It would be useful if you have: Experience of working with children and young people (e.g. as a teacher, delivering workshops or assemblies, working in youth and community settings). A passion for environmental issues and a commitment to help tackle the climate and nature crises. A network of contacts in the Bristol educational and community sectors. Experience of climate action campaigns. What you’ll get from us: An opportunity to work with an award-winning social enterprise that is working to change the way schools respond to the climate and nature crisis. A supportive and encouraging environment in which to grow your skills and knowledge, as well as shape a new and exciting role. £180 per day for 28 working days in total between March and August, between 1-2 days a week, with the opportunity for repeat employment depending on successful fundraising. Location: Bristol Timeline: Deadline for applications: 12th February Interview – task with questions: Week commencing 17th February Notification of decision: Week commencing 24th February Provisional job start date: In March (schedule to be agreed with the successful applicant) The role is on a freelance basis so the successful candidate would need to invoice us for work carried out. If you have any questions or if you need any adjustments made to the application process before you make an application, please get in touch with Tom Hague, Head of Development: tomgreenschoolsproject.org.uk