Climate Tv Trainer

Job description

**Job description**

**Job Type**: 20 month contract, 3 days per week

**Pay**: £375 per day

**Reporting to**: Head of Training and Engagement, working with climate team including Nicky Hawkins, Heard framing and insights consultant

**Based at**: Remote - but willing and able run in person meetings, and to be happy to come into the office for regular team catch ups (event and meeting travel costs covered, travel to the office not covered)

**Job Brief**:
The stories we hear about the climate crisis shape how we as a society respond to it. We’re looking for someone from the TV world to lead our work supporting TV to tell stories that change the world.

With the British TV industry turning its attention to content that features climate change, there’s huge potential to make a real difference.

You’ll be someone in TV or who has a background in TV who’s a warm, dynamic communications enthusiast, eager to throw yourself into this exciting role. You’ll be working alongside our team of expert facilitators and comms experts. This role is focussed on shaping, inspiring, encouraging TV stories that talk about climate in ways that actually leads to change. This is done through workshops, briefings, consultation and events.

**Responsibilities**

**What would I be doing?**
- Pitching, planning and arranging behind-the-scenes workshops for people working across and with TV, inspiring more effective storytelling around climate change.
- You’ll be working with our team of skilled facilitators and communications experts to learn how we run these workshops and eventually deliver these alongside the team
- Liaising with teams across TV, talent working on TV, impact campaigns, and including collaborating on stories, consulting on scripts and making sure TV has what it needs to tell climate stories effectively.
- Keeping up to date with relevant communications insight, attending trainings, workshops and collaborating with other organisations working in this space.
- Reviewing media and popular culture, analysing content and highlighting examples.
- Developing and maintaining programme schedules, delivery plans, budgets, monitoring and evaluation, and reporting consistently and to deadlines.
- Supporting our comms team to engage our audiences via our online presence and digital content.
- Identifying risks with the programme and proactively bringing this to your team
- Taking part in - and sometimes leading - team meetings and events.
- As the programme develops, potentially overseeing an additional team member.

**Skills**

These are key to the role, but we recognise you may not have experience on every point.
- Experience in the TV industry: we’re looking for someone who wants to take their knowledge of how TV works and put it to use to tackle the climate crisis. You know how best to approach and work with different teams.. You may have a background in production, commissioning, press, or any other aspect of the TV industry.
- A desire to engage in communications science: you’ll be eager to learn about something you might not have engaged with much before. You will be fully supported by our expert consultant and the Heard team, and to find your own ways to bring this to the TV world.
- Facilitation: You’ll feel confident training and facilitating different workshops and meetings, and know how to run interesting and engaging events.
- Initiative and ideas: You’re comfortable working independently and using your initiative to seize opportunities or work through issues. You’re keen to come up with new, relevant ideas and put them into practice.
- Organisation and time management: You can work to deadlines, manage your time effectively and will have good organisational skills.
- IT: You can use different software, preferably including Google Workspace and Salesforce.

**Our Values**

This is our team, and this is the work we do. These are our values at Heard: we’re inclusive, thoughtful, patient, creative, determined and brave.

When we’re adding members to the team this is what we’re looking for someone who’s
- Personally committed to Heard’s mission, vision and values and collaboration-focussed method of work.
- Committed to reflection and learning, including sharing failures and uncertainties; openly giving and receiving feedback to/from the team and members of the community.
- Awareness of your own needs: you will be good at knowing your limits under pressure and will be confident to ask for help when you need it. You will receive support from your team - we’re keen to nurture an environment where no-one feels worried about asking for help or support when they need it.
- You’ll be up for working the odd evening or weekend as needed, with a time-off-in-lieu policy.
- You’ll be interested in emotional intelligence and in empathising with and appreciating others. You’ll be keen to explore and grow, and to create opportunities for those you work with to do the same.

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