Specialist/Expert Volunteer (Twitch Presenter)

See yourself as the next David Attenborough or Gillian Burke, or simply love talking about Nature? Have 3-4 hours a week available? Looking to make a difference from home or from your neighbourhood? We want to hear from you!

We are looking for volunteers with a passion for sharing their love of nature to join our England Fundraising & Communication team and help grow our income and engagement capacity. This role is all about building up our new Twitch channel and presenting content on this platform to boost our operations.

This content would have a nature focus but could include anything from our communication priorities to our educational work with young people, while bringing in donations for the charity. By opening our work to more people in this way, it means we can scale up what we can achieve and do more for nature. Kit, full training and support will be provided.

We are looking for people with the following skills and experience:

• Being comfortable streaming and presenting on social media channels, ideally on Twitch (our streams have volunteer producer (‘techies’) in the background doing the complicated stuff in support)

• Excellent communication skills for engaging with different audiences, internal and external to the RSPB. The communications key is to keep things simple

• Ability to cope under pressure in unpredictable situations and use initiative to think on your feet

• Quick witted and good sense of humour

• Some knowledge about nature but no need to be expert level

• Enthusiastic and motivated to use your skills and expertise to Save Nature

• Tech savvy

• Organisational skills

• Relaxed personality and organised

For this role we would require at least 2 hours at the same time each week for presenting, with a few more additional but flexible hours every week for preparation, which also can be done from home.

What’s in it for you?

An opportunity to use your enthusiasm and communication skills to make a real difference to nature. This is your chance to make a positive impact for nature!

The opportunity to join a friendly and welcoming team of like-minded people and make new friends.

A chance to learn all about how the RSPB works and gain experience working for an environmental charity

As part of the recruitment process, we would like to ask you to submit a cover letter and a 2–3 minute video about yourself and your passion about nature.

Please complete your application for this role and send your cover letter and video to Hanifah.Master@RSPB.org.uk once you have it ready, use of Dropbox or WeTransfer may be required, drop us a line if you have any issues.

The RSPB are committed to better-reflecting society within our workforce and are keen to encourage more applications from people from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities and younger people who are currently underrepresented in the RSPB workforce. Due to the nature of this role, we require people aged 18 or over, but particularly welcome young adults to apply to connect with the young audience on Twitch’s platform All applications will be judged on merit.

The RSPB is committed to ensuring safety, especially for children and vulnerable adults. We have a Safeguarding Policy and guide in place to ensure that anyone who works with vulnerable adults understands the procedures in place to keep everyone safe. Successful candidates will be required to undertake Safeguarding Training 1 and 2, as well as having a DBS check, to ensure cyber safety for themselves and those who tune into the Twitch channel.

For all application/role enquiries please contact – Hanifah Master (England Community Fundraiser) – Hanifah.Master@RSPB.org.uk