PROGRAMME OFFICER

LitterHeroes Programme Officer

Contract: Fixed term until 31st March 2028

Hours: 22.5hours per week (working hours are flexible within the requirements of the team but working pattern must include a Friday)

Salary: £19,679p.a. pro-rata (£32,798 p.a. FTE)

Location: Remote based with some travel within England

We also offer 27 days of annual leave (pro-rated for hours worked) plus bank holidays and a birthday day off; extra days leave for travelling using alternatives to flying; the opportunity to join the UK’s first net carbon pension scheme and 8% employer pension contributions; a core hours system of working and enhanced family friendly policies.

Keep Britain Tidy is one of the UK’s leading environmental charities. At a time when we are facing huge environmental challenges, the work we do has never been more important or urgent.

About the role

We are seeking a programme officer to play a key role in developing and delivering our volunteer programmes.

This role supports our Litter Heroes programme, engaging thousands of hard-working volunteers across England. The programme offers high level support for our valued Ambassadors, as well as engagement with a large network of Litter Heroes.

You’ll build and maintain relationships with volunteers, supporting initiatives that enable more people to engage with their local spaces in ways that are meaningful to them. This will involve volunteer recruitment, managing volunteer data, high-quality communication, and providing practical and administrative support to the programme.

The programme officer will support volunteers to tackle environmental issues on the ground - removing litter from their local spaces, supporting biodiversity and highlighting the value of community places and how to protect them. Your skills in communication, organisation and administration will ensure volunteers feel connected and valued and can run activities safely and successfully. The role will champion reward and recognition of volunteers through planning events and initiatives, such as our annual conference.

You will communicate the inspiring stories of our volunteers and our campaign messages to our network and the public, through social media and email newsletters. You will directly contribute to the accurate recording, monitoring and reporting of progress, so that everyone knows the difference the programme is making.

You’ll be passionate about our mission and supporting everyone to love where they live. You will be committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, with a proven ability to build and maintain positive working relationships with people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lived experiences. You are confident using IT systems, particularly Microsoft Office applications.

Your support will ensure that all volunteers feel truly connected to Keep Britain Tidy and are able to undertake safe, impactful, and enjoyable volunteering action. At Keep Britain Tidy, we believe the environment belongs to everyone. We are interested in hearing from people with a diversity of skills and experience, who can provide new perspectives to our team. 

We want people from all backgrounds to be part of the solution.  It is for this reason that Keep Britain Tidy has flexible and supportive policies for all staff and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.  If you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please let us know.

If you are interested in this job role and want to help us make a difference, please review a copy of the full job description and continue to apply. 

As part of the application process, you will need to answer 3 questions highlighting your skills and experience, and submit your tailored CV. We also ask that you complete equal opportunities monitoring information as we want to try to make sure that our workforce is representative of the population and we are not excluding any community. Please note that this information will be held separately.

This is an opportunity to share what you can bring to this role and for us to get to know you.  We support the use of AI for accessibility purposes but can only accept answers that are your own during the application process. Please get in touch if you need any further support.

The deadline for applications is 08:00, 19th November 2026.

For successful candidates, interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams on Thursday 26th November 2026.

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