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A paid opportunity to launch your career in conservation, ecology and community action.This isn't just a job. It's your chance to help transform Blackpool into a greener, healthier and more climate-resilient town while gaining the skills, experience and professional support to build a career in the environmental sector.As part of the Blackpool GreenWave Partnership, you'll work alongside conservation professionals, ecologists and community specialists to improve parks, green spaces, habitats and neighbourhoods across the town.You'll gain hands-on experience in:• Practical conservation and habitat management• Biodiversity surveys and ecological monitoring• Community engagement and environmental education• Volunteer leadership and event delivery• Green infrastructure and nature recovery projectsYou'll receive mentoring, accredited training and real responsibility from day one, developing the confidence and experience employers across the environmental sector are looking for.If you're passionate about nature, climate action and making places better for people, this could be the start of your career.

This is an opportunity to do more than survey habitats and write reports — it is a chance to help redefine the relationship between nature and a modern urban community. As Blackpool GreenWave Ecologist, you will play a central role in one of the UK's most ambitious nature recovery programmes, helping to transform Blackpool's parks, schools, housing estates, coastline and community spaces into a connected network where wildlife and people can thrive together. Your work will leave a lasting legacy, creating greener neighbourhoods, improving biodiversity and building resilience to climate change for generations to come. Working at the heart of a pioneering partnership spanning local government, the NHS, housing providers, businesses and community organisations, you'll help turn bold ideas into investable projects and real change on the ground. From leading habitat surveys and shaping restoration projects to inspiring volunteers and engaging local communities, this is a role for an ecologist who wants to influence strategy as much as species, and who believes that nature recovery should sit at the centre of healthier, stronger and more prosperous places. This role offers the rare opportunity to see the direct impact of your work every day. Whether you're restoring habitats, supporting community-led projects or helping unlock investment for large-scale nature recovery, you'll be contributing to a vision that places the environment at the heart of Blackpool's future. If you're motivated by purpose, partnership and the chance to create meaningful change, this is a role where your expertise can make a genuine and lasting difference.

The Call Centre Agent (also known as the Customer Engagement Officer) will play a key role in delivering our Water Efficiency Programme. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to tackling one of the most pressing environmental challenges in the UK.We are looking for someone who is confident and clear in communication, especially over the phone and by email. You must be organised and proactive in engaging with customers and promoting the programme benefits.

You will join the Homes Team and assist the Water Efficiency Lead in the delivery of Water Efficiency projects. The team deliver Water Efficiency audits across the Northwest to businesses and schools. Audits include behaviour change, Water Literacy Awareness, providing and installing water efficiency devices, identifying and fixing water leaks, and promoting and facilitating rain water harvesting and sustainable drainage solutions to reduce water consumption. You will be required to develop good working relationships with project partners and colleagues and liaise with other members of Groundwork staff delivering similar or complementary services. You will generate and respond to referrals and be responsible for providing effective support and customer service. Both advisory and practical, to enable people to make positive changes to their behaviour and to improve the quality of their lives through water savings. You will attend relevant team meetings/training to raise awareness of the programme and to develop/improve skills.

Energy and Retrofit Advisors will provide energy and retrofit advice to homes across the region as part of the North East Warm Homes programme. Focussing on the private rented sector Advisors will work alongside staff within Local Authorities to develop and deliver support to engage our communities and stimulate retrofit activity.

Groundwork has an exciting opportunity within our Project Team for a Home Energy Advisor (Green Doctor). Our Green Doctor will support those in need across the region, engaging and offering practical support to people most at risk of fuel poverty, helping to make their homes more environmentally friendly and cheaper to run.

We are looking for a passionate and proactive Community and Environment Project Officer to lead community-driven initiatives that enhance the use and stewardship of local parks and green spaces. This role aims to increase community engagement, reduce anti-social behaviour, and promote well-being through nature-based activities for both adults and children.

The purpose of this role is to provide an effective and efficient front of house service alongside administrative support to the Trust. Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to; acting as the first point of contact for general enquiries via telephone and email, delivering a professional messaging service and redirecting calls to the appropriate staff when needed, monitoring and ordering stationery, hospitality and cleaning supplies, and maintaining organisational calendars and schedules to support the effective day-to-day operation of the office. You will also have the opportunity to develop your knowledge and experience across a range of support service functions including finance, health and safety and HR. Full on-the-job training and ongoing support will be provided.

The Delivery Manager will oversee the delivery of our Climate Action Fund project over the next five years.Communities Prepared works with volunteers and communities across England to help them build the skills, confidence and knowledge needed to prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies. This includes supporting communities to plan for climate-related risks such as flooding, storms, heatwaves, and severe weather.Despite the successes we have had through our programme to date, we are not currently reaching diverse enough audiences and too often there are people missing from the resilience sector. This needs to change. To address this we are now embarking on an exciting new UK-wide partnership programme funded through the National Lottery Community Fund’s Climate Action Fund over the next five years.The programme responds to growing evidence that climate-related emergencies, including extreme heat, flooding, fire, cold and severe weather, disproportionately impact marginalised communities, while those same communities are often excluded from resilience planning and decision-making.The programme brings together Equally Ours, Communities Prepared (part of Groundwork South), and the VCS Emergencies Partnership (VCSEP, part of the British Red Cross) to strengthen climate resilience by ensuring that communities experiencing discrimination and disadvantage are at the heart of climate preparedness, response, recovery and policy-making.Through a rights-based and co-produced approach, the programme seeks to shift climate resilience policy and practice away from models that frame communities as “vulnerable”, and towards approaches grounded in agency, participation, equality and shared responsibility.