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External Affairs and Strategy Specialist
Location: Home Based, Expectation of travel
Working Hours: 37
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £38,960.00 - £48,960
Flexibility in terms of hours and possible part time hours to be considered.
Please note: The salary listed reflects the full earning potential for this role. Starting salaries depend on experience and progression within the band.
About Waythrough
Waythrough was formed in 2024 following the merger of Humankind and Richmond Fellowship. Together, we’ve created one of the largest mental health and social support charities in England.
Every year, we support around 125,000 people through nearly 200 services – and it’s all made possible by our 3,500 brilliant staff and volunteers.
Make a real difference in your community
Are you passionate about helping others live safer, healthier, more independent lives? Join our team at Waythrough and support people facing challenges around mental health, substance use, housing or domestic abuse. This is more than just a job – it’s a chance to build meaningful relationships and create lasting change.
About the Role
As the External Affairs and Strategy Specialist, you will help shape Waythrough’s external influence, ensuring the organisation understands and responds to an increasingly complex political, policy and social environment. Working closely with senior leaders, you will support strategic decision-making, build key partnerships and drive campaigns and policy projects that create positive change for the people we support.
This is a home-based role with some travel required, including attendance at our joint All Party Parliamentary Group (five or six times per year), and service visits, team away days and wider meetings as required. . You will work closely with colleagues across the organisation, particularly the Communications team, to ensure our external voice is informed, impactful and rooted in lived experience.
Key Duties
- Monitor and interpret political, policy and sector developments, identifying emerging risks, opportunities and trends.
- Build strong relationships across Waythrough to identify subject matter experts and ensure external positions are informed by operational and lived experience.
- Lead and coordinate elements of national campaigns, maintaining momentum and working collaboratively with Communications colleagues to maximise impact.
- Brief senior leaders on external affairs issues and provide high-quality research, papers and recommendations to support organisational decision-making.
- Represent Waythrough at parliamentary groups, policy alliances, external forums and partnership meetings.
- Develop policy submissions, consultation responses, speeches, presentations and campaign materials.
- Build and maintain relationships with senior stakeholders, including parliamentarians, sector bodies and partner organisations.
- Ensure the voices of the people we support remain central to all advocacy, policy and campaign activity.
About You
You are a confident and proactive relationship builder who thrives in a complex and fast-moving environment. Working as part of a small team, and with support and coaching from the Director, you'll be comfortable seeking out expertise across the organisation, collaborating with a wide range of colleagues and influencing senior stakeholders.
You have excellent communication skills, a strong understanding of politics and policy, and the confidence to work closely with directors and executive leaders. You can balance multiple priorities while maintaining focus on what matters most, and you are motivated by ensuring that campaigns, policy positions and external messages are genuinely informed by the experiences and voices of the people we support. Above all, you'll bring initiative, curiosity and a willingness to get stuck in and make things happen.
What We Offer
We value the people who make a difference every day. Alongside meaningful work, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package:
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27 days’ annual leave, rising to 32 after 1 year (plus bank holidays)
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Pension scheme with 4.5% employer contribution, matched up to 6.5%
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Life assurance (3× annual salary)
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Enhanced sick pay and family-friendly pay
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Birthday leave and the option to buy up to 5 extra days’ annual leave
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Professional fee reimbursement for relevant qualifications
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24/7 online GP access and Employee Assistance Programme
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Recognition and long service awards via our Way to Go and Aspirations portals
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£500 Recommend a Friend bonus
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Cycle to Work scheme and Credit Union membership
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Discounts via Blue Light Card, Charity Discounts, Extras and Tickets for Good
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Free will writing service and wellbeing initiatives throughout the year.
Inclusion and accessibility
Waythrough is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and communities, especially those with lived experience of the issues we support.
We have signed up to the Disability Confident Scheme - all applicants are welcome, and adjustments can be made to enable fair participation.
Registered Charity
More than 1000
Our vision is to break down the barriers that stop people getting the support they need to live a life they value.
Thank you!
The Woodland Trust is looking for an Outreach Manager to join our South West team. The Outreach Manager leads the Trust’s outreach work in Southwest England, providing expert advice on woodland creation, management and restoration to landowners, organisations and stakeholders across the region, in support if the Woodland Trust’s conservation aims. They lead, inspire and manage the South West Outreach Team, ensuring advice is appropriate, effective and focused for delivering impact and strategic goals.
A company vehicle will be provided for this role. Please note that out Company Vehicle Policy is also under review as part of our Job Families and Contract Review project, so the eligibility criteria therein are subject to change in due course.
The Role:
- Lead and support Regional Leads and the Regional Director to deliver strategic priorities aligned with the Woodland Trust’s vision, values and objectives.
- Provide effective leadership and day-to-day management of the South West Outreach team, ensuring delivery is prioritised, on time and within budget.
- Build, manage and strengthen strategic partnerships with landowners, stakeholders, volunteers, delivery partners and suppliers to maximise regional impact.
- Promote and deliver the Trust’s landowner offers through compelling proposals and business cases, influencing action and securing engagement.
- Act as an ambassador for the Woodland Trust, representing outreach work internally and externally, including with media and key partners.
- Provide strategic leadership for temperate rainforest recovery, driving regional priorities, collaboration and long-term ecosystem restoration planning.
- Work closely with fundraising teams to secure and maximise funding opportunities, develop partnerships and support high-value agreements.
- Oversee regional resources, including budget management, reporting, communications, and the development of case studies to showcase impact and best practice.
- This is a homebased role, requiring regular travel to locations within the South West landscape and wider England, sometimes to remote locations. You would be expected to live within reasonable travelling distance of your area of responsibility. Occasional travel to regional offices and overnight stays will be required.
The Candidate:
- Capable of leading, motivating and developing high-performing teams, with a strong understanding of health & safety requirements.
- Understanding of the forestry or environmental land-based sector, with a track record of delivering impactful outcomes.
- Expertise in managing landscape-scale programmes and complex, multi-partner projects to successful delivery.
- Strong networking and influencing skills, with the ability to build relationships and drive outcomes with key stakeholders and partners.
- Capability of shaping and implementing strategic plans, managing large budgets and reporting on performance and outputs.
- Excellent communication skills, with confidence to engage professionally and positively across a wide range of audiences and situations.
- Ability to manage and prioritise a demanding workload, ensuring efficient delivery, value for money and maximum impact.
- Strong technical knowledge, including woodland creation and restoration, temperate rainforest recovery, forestry incentives and landowner drivers, supported by a relevant qualification (HND/Degree or equivalent) and a full driving licence.
Benefits and Wellbeing:
Joining our team means you’ll be a big part of tackling environmental and climate issues. We take good care of our staff, offering support and training opportunities. We also offer:
- Enhanced Employer Pension
- Life Assurance
- Flexible & Hybrid Working Options
- Generous Annual Leave - 25 Days Plus Bank Holidays (pro rata’d for part-time)
- Buy and Sell Holiday Scheme
- Enhanced Parental Pay
- Employee Assistance Programme
About Us:
The Woodland Trust is the UK’s largest woodland conservation charity. We want to see a world where trees and woods thrive for people and nature. The Trust engages and inspires people to make their difference tackling the nature and climate crisis helping protect, restore and create our vital woods and trees.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
To achieve our vision of a world where woods and trees thrive for people and nature, we need to better reflect society and the communities we work in. All people, no matter their background, identity, ability, or circumstance, should benefit from trees.
People of colour and disabled people are currently under-represented across the environment and conservation sector. If you identify as a person of colour and/or disabled, we particularly encourage you to apply.
Please contact us to discuss any additional support or adjustments you may need to complete your application.
Application Advice:
For fairness we keep our candidates’ personal details hidden from the hiring managers, and we do not ask for your CV at application.
Make sure that your Personal Statement clearly shows how your skills and knowledge link to the specifications in the job description and you share with us your passion for the role.
Acceptable Use - Artificial Intelligence (AI):
We understand that candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their job applications-for example, to help structure or edit written responses. We welcome the use of AI in this way, particularly where it helps improve accessibility, such as for neurodivergent applicants. However, we ask that any information submitted reflects your own experience, skills and understanding. During interviews, candidates are expected to respond independently without the use of AI tools.
Apply Now:
If you're ready to make a difference and grow with us, send in your application today. We might close the job opening early if we get a lot of applications, so it's a good idea to apply soon. If we do close the advert early, and you have an application in process, we will email you prior to closing to give you time to complete.
Interviews will take place on August 14th 2026.
Thank you!
Corporate Partnerships Manager, Primary Science Teaching Trust
Key info:
- Salary £40,000 - £50,000 p/a (35 hours a week)
- Home based, The role will require regular travel to PSTT’s premises in Bristol (at least 1 day per month)
- Closing midnight Wednesday 15th July 2026
- Annual leave of 28 days, which can be taken flexibly throughout the year with 3 days to be taken at Christmas
- Enhanced maternity pay and adoption pay, contributory pension scheme (5% employer contribution), 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme
Role
PSTT’s long term vision is: Excellent primary school teaching in every primary school in the UK.
The goal of PSTT is to make science more accessible and attractive to children of primary school age throughout the UK. Research has shown that children’s interest in science is shaped before they leave primary school. That makes it vital for them to have a positive experience of science from their early years onwards.
The Corporate Partnerships Manager is responsible for developing and implementing plans to maximise income from corporate partners and trusts and foundations There is huge scope to develop both income streams at PSTT as this is a newly created position with the responsibility for growing and further developing these income streams.
This is an exciting role for a candidate who wants to grow and shape the income stream, and demonstrate their personal impact on generating income, and providing partners with an incredible supporter experience. There will be an element of change as the organisation embeds an internal culture that effectively supports fundraising.
This specialist manager role would suit someone who is already operating at a senior fundraiser or manager level, or someone who can demonstrate experience of developing a corporate and/or trusts & foundations pipeline, creating operational plans and delivering income. PSTT is an organisation with big ambitions so a background that includes working within a smaller charity would be helpful for the candidate to have but isn't essential.
Please download the Candidate Info Pack provided for further information about the role, timelines and next steps.
Please note, we cannot shortlist candidates who have not had a screening call so please allow enough time to have a call before the closing date.
Closing date for applications: Midnight Wednesday 15th July 2026
Interviews are expected to be held on the week commencing Monday 20th July in person.
