Environmental Education Manager

Purpose

Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful wish to appoint a skilled, enthusiastic and highly motivated manager to oversee and guide the strategic development of the Environmental Education Department at Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful.

The Environmental Education Manager will directly manage the following Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) international programmes: Eco-Schools; Young Reporter’s for the Environment and Learning About Forests. The Manager will also have responsibility for leading a number of other environmental education initiatives including, for example, the Translink Travel Challenge and the Wheelie Big Challenge and will deliver a wide range of agreed environmental education outcomes.   

The Environmental Education Manager will develop effective relationships with new and existing educational, council and delivery partner organisations, funders and sponsors to build the quality and reputation of our programmes and ensure continued growth in investment.

The nature of this post will at times require the successful candidate to work directly with the Chief Executive and the Head of Development, assisting in preparing new funding applications relating to environmental education and youth engagement.