11 min readThe following vacancies are being promoted on behalf of WWT Slimbridge:
Communications Officer (Maternity Cover)
Salary: £32,630 per annum
Contract type: Fixed Term
Working hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Directorate: Marketing, communications and campaigns
Application deadline: 18/10/2026 (click here to find out more and apply)
About The Role
Are you passionate about connecting people with nature?
Do you have the skills and creativity to help us promote WWT’s ten incredible wetland centres and build our brand profile with new and diverse audiences?
Our ten wetland centres are the windows into our wetlands world. They offer engaging wetland nature experiences, build people's understanding of wetlands and their incredible superpowers, and promise up-close wetland wildlife encounters. And we’re looking for an experienced Communications Officer to deliver creative multi-channel communications that promote our wetland centres and encourage more people to come and experience them for themselves.
Working closely with our Visitor Marketing team, this role will work across communications disciplines, flexing to support our marketing priorities through media relations and PR, social media, events management and internal communications. This is a really exciting opportunity to make a real difference for nature, to speak up for wetlands and wildlife and inspire new and existing audiences to visit and act for these amazing habitats.
We’re an organisation of action, running multiple conservation projects and networks in the UK and around the world, as well as our own ten wetland visitor sites in the UK. This hands-on role demands flexibility, imagination and a willingness to lead on delivering impactful and dynamic communications. You’ll help us bring wetlands and WWT to more people, through engaging storytelling and creative content, inspire our staff and volunteers and build our profile across on and offline channels.
The role is a full time 12 month fixed term contract, working 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday based at WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre, Gloucestershire. We support hybrid working, with an expectation for team members to be in Slimbridge at least once a week.
About You
We are seeking someone:
- Experienced in delivering successful communications plans aimed at a diverse range of public audiences.
- With a track record of delivering creative communications activity across a range of internal and external channels, including social media, PR, events, and digital content.
- An intuitive thinker and engaging writer, you’ll be able to seek out and tell stories aimed at raising an organisation’s profile and driving action.
- With a creative eye, you'll be comfortable capturing content and turning it into accessible, on-brand communications for social media channels like Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn, and for media and PR storytelling.
- Comfortable building relationships externally and internally, with a range of levels and stakeholders from journalists and partners to senior leaders and volunteers.
- Experienced in planning and delivering events that support the achievement of organisation objectives.
- Organised and able to manage competing priorities while remaining calm in a busy working environment.
Please view the full job description for all the responsibilities and specifications for the role.
Junior Designer
Salary: £25,985 per annum
Contract type: Permanent
Working hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Directorate: Marketing, communications and campaigns
Application deadline: 18/10/2026 (click here to find out more and apply)
About The Role
We are looking for a talented Junior Designer to join the creative in-house team. This is an exciting opportunity to help bring our brand and stories to life through compelling design across digital and offline channels.
In this role, you’ll transform ideas into creative assets that elevate our brand, ensuring every piece of work is visually striking, strategically aligned, and consistent with our brand. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to develop impactful visuals, refine concepts, and maintain a cohesive look and feel throughout all marketing outputs.
Whether it’s inspiring new visitors to our 10 UK wetland sites through national campaigns, driving membership growth, or delivering successful fundraising appeals, the breadth and diversity of our work creates endless opportunities to make a meaningful impact through creativity.
This is a full time position working 37.5 hours Monday to Friday. For this role we can offer the opportunity for hybrid working (with a minimum of 1-2 days a week in the WWT Slimbridge office and for team meetings).
About You
Our ideal candidate will bring:
- Experience producing high‑quality marketing materials for diverse audiences, supported by a portfolio demonstrating innovative design solutions across both online and offline channels.
- Good working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), with some working knowledge of Premiere Pro and After Effects highly desirable. An understanding of Microsoft Word and Powerpoint.
- A good understanding of layout, typography and digital platforms.
- Experience working to brand guidelines and ensuring consistency across all design outputs.
- Experience preparing artwork and files for both digital and print production.
Please view the full job description for all the responsibilities and specifications for the role. If you are shortlisted for interview then portfolios will be requested.
Senior Content Manager
Salary: £43,857 per annum
Contract type: Permanent
Working hours: Full time
Directorate: Marketing, communications and campaigns
Application deadline: 30/10/2026 (click here to find out more and apply)
About The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join a well-respected organisation with an ambitious mission to restore wetlands and inspire others to value and protect these incredible habitats. This role will put content right at the core of WWT’s communications and engagement activity, telling measurably impactful stories of wetlands and the work WWT does to unlock their superpowers.
Based in the Communications team, the Senior Content Manager will lead the development of a new content strategy for WWT, designed to elevate WWT’s voice, build brand awareness and deepen engagement with our visitors, supporters and partners. Leading a talented and creative team of content creators, you’ll work with colleagues from conservation teams to wetland centre staff and volunteers, to showcase the wonder of wetlands and the impact of WWT’s work across the UK and beyond.
You’ll have proven experience of developing successful content strategies that deliver high-quality, engaging and audience-focused content. You’ll understand how to optimise and enhance dynamic content plans that reach a range of audiences and support ambitious communications and campaign objectives. With an eye for a good story, you’ll bring our projects, our science and our work to life, and put wetlands at the heart of the conservation debate.
About You
You’ll be:
- A proactive and collaborative leader, comfortable championing a strategic vision for WWT’s content storytelling, putting it at the heart of WWT’s audience engagement.
- A confident team leader, who thrives when providing creative direction and support to content creators, getting stuck into content production when needed.
- Experienced in developing integrated, multi-channel content strategies designed to deliver measurable results against specific engagement objectives.
- Confident developing and implementing content plans that support wider fundraising, marketing and communications objectives.
- Comfortable managing a busy team, balancing competing priorities and translating them into clear and achievable plans.
- A strategic thinker, skilled in building effective working relationships across an organisation and confident advising colleagues on content plans that deepen connection and builds brand profile.
- With a strong focus on delivering impactful content, you'll know how to develop robust content objectives and KPIs, using tools and processes to enhance and optimise content that builds audience engagement and drives action.
- Experienced in working in complex organisations, you'll have an eye for storytelling opportunities that build a coherent narrative and bring a cause and work of an organisation to life for a wide range of audiences.
This role is based at WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre in Gloucestershire. We support hybrid working with an expectation for this role to be in Slimbridge at least two days a week. On occasion, travel to our 10 wetland centres located across the UK, as well as our conversation projects, will be required.
Please view the full job description for all the responsibilities and specifications for the role.
Marketing Officer
Salary: £32,630 per annum
Contract type: Permanent
Working hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Directorate: Marketing, communications and campaigns
Application deadline: 30/10/2026 (click here to find out more and apply)
About the role
As Marketing Officer at WWT Slimbridge, you will deliver engaging year-round and event-specific marketing campaigns that drive visitation and increase awareness. Working across digital, print, PR and content channels, you'll create compelling stories and campaigns that bring the visitor experience to life while helping achieve commercial and visitor growth targets.
This is an exciting opportunity to combine creativity, storytelling and data-driven marketing in one of the UK's leading visitor attractions. You'll work closely with colleagues across the centre and the wider organisation, helping to promote everything from seasonal events and family experiences to our vital conservation mission.
Through your work, you'll play a key role in connecting more people with wetlands, inspiring action for nature and helping WWT restore wetlands and unlock their power for people and wildlife.
This role is a full time position working 37.5 hours per week 5 days in 7, based at WWT Slimbridge, requiring a minimum of three days per week onsite.
About You
We're looking for an enthusiastic and results-focused Visitor Marketing Officer who can help drive visitation, grow audiences, raise awareness of WWT Slimbridge and support our mission through engaging marketing and communications activity. To be successful in this role, you'll have:
- Experience delivering marketing and PR campaigns for a consumer-facing (B2C) organisation.
- Strong digital marketing and social media management experience, including creating engaging content and measuring performance.
- Excellent copywriting, storytelling and communication skills, with the confidence to act as a spokesperson and undertake media interviews.
- Experience working in a visitor attraction, tourism, leisure, heritage or similar customer-focused environment.
- Strong organisational skills, with excellent attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.
Additional information:
- The role includes participation in the centre duty management rota, which involves some weekend and occasional evening working.
Please view the full job description for all the responsibilities and specifications for the role.
Senior Project Development Manager (Blue Recovery Leaders Group)
Salary: £26,314.20 per annum (£43,857 FTE)
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Working hours: 22.5 hours per week
Directorate: Project Management
Application deadline: 30/10/2026 (click here to find out more and apply)
About The Role
You will be responsible for working with WWT’s Blue Recovery Leaders Group to drive forward this partnership leading to the delivery of projects that fulfil WWT’s Blue Recovery workstream. By building and maintaining close relationships with the Blue Recovery Leader’s Group drawn from industries including the water, construction, finance, agriculture and engineering sectors, you will support the group to develop projects that demonstrate the multiple benefits that wetlands provide to society.
You will act as WWT’s main lead on supporting the Blue Recovery Leaders Group and work with them to develop project ideas and proposals that fulfil WWT’s strategic ambitions. You will liaise between our Philanthropy & Partnerships, UK Programmes and Conservation Evidence Teams, coordinating input from them to ensure successful delivery of The Blue Recovery Leaders contribution towards WWT’s Strategic Plan.
Hours: This is a fixed-term contract for up to 12 months, working 22.5 hours per week. The hours will be worked across Monday – Friday.
Location: Hybrid working considered, based between Home and WWT Headquarters at Slimbridge, Gloucestershire
About You
The key skills we are looking for are:
- Strong project development and project management skills
- Excellent stakeholder and partnership management
- Influencing and leadership without direct authority
- Strategic and creative problem-solving
- Outstanding communication and facilitation skills
You will be a committed person who cares deeply about the success and impact of your work. You will be a key advocate for multi-benefit wetlands, be enthusiastic about what you believe in, and can work closely and get the best from people across multiple disciplines within WWT.
You will be, able to nurture trusted relationships with colleagues in other teams and counterparts in other organisations. You will also be a great communicator, advocating your work successfully to a wide range of stakeholders.
You will have experience in developing successful projects and will understand the importance of following a project management framework.
Please view the full job description for all the responsibilities and specifications for the role.
