Community Engagement Director (volunteer)

Organisation: Climate Fresk UK (Community Interest Company pending incorporation)

Type: Volunteer Board role

Location: Flexible within UK (remote, with occasional in-person meetings)

Time commitment: Ideally 6-8 hours per week (flexible - let's chat)

Start date: ASAP

About the role 

We're looking for a volunteer Community Engagement Director to:

• Support our Freskers across the UK, to deliver impactful workshops in their local communities & networks
• Engage and bring on board other volunteers (including non-Freskers) to use their skills & experience to help us run the organisation

This is a pivotal role for someone who loves building communities, connecting people, and creating the systems that help volunteer-driven organisations flourish.. 

Read our Director’s pack here for full context: https://bit.ly/4oIHuew

Key responsibilities

If the scope of this role feels a little intimidating, but you feel excited by some of it, please still get in touch - we’re keen to explore options & open to reconfiguring roles and board composition to accommodate. We’re building a committed team that can get things done.

This is a flexible, self-directed role, so we are open to how you approach this. Here are some examples of what your role *might* look like:

Planning (initial focus - could be fixed-term project)

• Consult with the Fresker community to understand what they need and want
• Create a strategy for increasing community engagement across the UK, including a participants recruitment strategy which has been a challenge for our volunteers
• Explore opportunities for fundraising (working with the Fundraising Director) to support community engagement and how to utilise the available funds for the benefit of the community
• Get a working group up and running to support delivery of the strategy

Delivery (ongoing ideas/needs)

• Facilitate an active national working group - coordinating efforts 
• Developing a survey/ research to gather Freskers’ feedback and address needs
• Facilitate regular group / community calls and events for facilitators to share experiences, ideas, and learn best practices
• Outside the box thinking / strategies (i.e. phone bank campaigns, road shows and mini campaigns)
• Develop and deploy practical toolkits for local community engagement (running regular events, finding partner organisations, participant recruitment, publicity, etc.)
• Capture and share examples of good practice across the UK Fresker community
• Develop and activate partnerships and networks with local organisations, councils, and community groups to recruit participants for free and low-cost Fresk workshops, linking local delivery to national campaigns."
• Learn from successful models (e.g., Shropshire group partnering with local NGOs, Islington Climate Centre) and help replicate what works

What we're looking for

• Experience in community engagement, volunteer management, or grassroots organising
• A natural connector who can inspire and support volunteers at different stages of their journey
• Strategic thinking combined with practical, hands-on delivery
• Strong facilitation and communication skills
• Comfortable creating systems and toolkits that empower others to take action
• Understanding of what makes local climate action successful and sustainable
• A collaborative, enabling leadership style - you're here to support others to shine
• Deep belief in people-powered change and the power of community
• Comfortable being listed as a Director on Companies House, alongside the other Directors

What you’ll gain

• A board-level leadership role in one of the UK's most exciting climate initiatives
• Privileged access to exceptional networking opportunities and professional development that come with representing Climate Fresk at the highest level in the UK 
• The opportunity to shape how we engage communities nationwide 
• Experience building and supporting a national volunteer network
• Connection with passionate volunteers and changemakers across the UK
• Real impact - enabling thousands more people in communities across the UK to understand and act on climate change
• The chance to experiment, learn, and develop innovative approaches to community engagement

How to apply & next steps

Email us an email (2-3 paragraphs) outlining:

• Why this opportunity excites you
• What experience of working with community volunteers you'd bring
• Your approach to managing diverse, and geographically dispersed group of volunteers in a growing organisation

? Send to uk@climatefresk.org

Deadline: Sunday 23rd November – we’ll set up times to meet you, and chat through the role as interest comes in

Looking for a Board role that’s good for your CV without requiring much actual work? This is not the role for you.