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WWT Slimbridge (Centre)
Closing date for applications: 27th Oct 2026
Contact: Recruitment Team (recruitment@wwt.org.uk)
Sector: PR/Marketing
Type: Paid
Contract type: Full-time
Salary: £43,857 per annum
About The Role
Are you passionate about telling stories and delivering powerful content that builds understanding, inspires action, and drives change?
Do you have the skills, knowledge, and experience to lead WWT’s content team to deliver engaging and creative content that speaks to a wide range of audiences?
This is an exciting opportunity to join a well-respected organization with an ambitious mission to restore wetlands and inspire others to value and protect these incredible habitats. This role will put content right at the core of WWT’s communications and engagement activity, telling measurably impactful stories of wetlands and the work WWT does to unlock their superpowers.
Based in the Communications team, the Senior Content Manager will lead the development of a new content strategy for WWT, designed to elevate WWT’s voice, build brand awareness, and deepen engagement with our visitors, supporters, and partners. Leading a talented and creative team of content creators, you’ll work with colleagues from conservation teams to wetland centre staff and volunteers, to showcase the wonder of wetlands and the impact of WWT’s work across the UK and beyond.
You’ll have proven experience of developing successful content strategies that deliver high-quality, engaging, and audience-focused content. You’ll understand how to optimize and enhance dynamic content plans that reach a range of audiences and support ambitious communications and campaign objectives. With an eye for a good story, you’ll bring our projects, our science, and our work to life, and put wetlands at the heart of the conservation debate.
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About You
You’ll be:
- A proactive and collaborative leader, comfortable championing a strategic vision for WWT’s content storytelling, putting it at the heart of WWT’s audience engagement.
- A confident team leader, who thrives when providing creative direction and support to content creators, getting stuck into content production when needed.
- Experienced in developing integrated, multi-channel content strategies designed to deliver measurable results against specific engagement objectives.
- Confident developing and implementing content plans that support wider fundraising, marketing, and communications objectives.
- Comfortable managing a busy team, balancing competing priorities and translating them into clear and achievable plans.
- A strategic thinker, skilled in building effective working relationships across an organisation and confident advising colleagues on content plans that deepen connection and builds brand profile.
- With a strong focus on delivering impactful content, you'll know how to develop robust content objectives and KPIs, using tools and processes to enhance and optimise content that builds audience engagement and drives action.
- Experienced in working in complex organisations, you'll have an eye for storytelling opportunities that build a coherent narrative and bring a cause and work of an organisation to life for a wide range of audiences.
This role is based at WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre in Gloucestershire. We support hybrid working with an expectation for this role to be in Slimbridge at least two days a week. On occasion, travel to our 10 wetland centres located across the UK, as well as our conversation projects, will be required.
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About Us
We’re WWT, and we’re on a mission to restore the super-powered ecosystems we call wetlands. There’s never been a more important moment for our work, and we’ve got some phenomenal people on the case.
Whether they’re taking a new visitor under their wing, or conducting ground-breaking research further afield, our team are second to none. And there’s nothing we love more than watching them soar.
Whatever you do here, you’ll be helping to restore wetlands and unlock their power. So, the only question left is, what role will you play?
Why you’ll love working at WWT
- Wake up every day knowing your work is helping to restore wetlands, and our world
- Be surrounded and inspired by our team of passionate, dedicated people
- 33 days annual leave (which goes up to 38 days after 5 years of service) – this includes bank holidays and you have flexibility to take those days whenever you want
- Free entry to all our wetland centres, including your family
- Free car parking and secure bike storage areas
- Colleague discount on shopping and memberships
- Cycle to work scheme
- Contributory pension scheme
- Life Assurance of three times your salary, for peace of mind for your loved ones
- Independent personal, workplace and financial advice from our Employee Assistance Programme
WWT is an equal opportunities employer and all applications will be considered solely on merit.
Registered Charity Number England & Wales, no 1030884 and Scotland, no SC039410
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For more information, and to apply for the role, please follow the link: https://vacancies.wwt.org.uk/vacancies/962/senior-content-manager.html
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