Communications Executive

About us

At Environment Bank, we’re working together to help restore natural habitats across England. With thousands of acres of new habitat creation already underway, our projects are delivering biodiversity gains and helping vital ecosystems to recover and flourish. 

Our diverse team includes ecologists, land managers, habitat specialists, geospatial analysts, planning advisors, account managers, digital creatives, legal experts, and more. 

From our habitat specialists to our sales and marketing teams, everyone at Environment Bank is a champion for our values, working towards our goal of reversing biodiversity loss. 

Environment Bank is a market-leading organisation in a sector that’s experiencing rapid growth. We’ve already built a highly skilled team of experts and we’re actively looking to expand our team in the coming months. 

We’re incredibly proud of all we achieved so far and we’re still growing. If you'd like to be part of a driven organisation that's making a real difference, find your next role with the team at Environment Bank. 

About the role

As the Communications Executive, your primary focus will be to handle all aspects of internal communication and in addition, supporting with external communications as required. This is an exciting position within our in-house marketing team, where you will play a key role in the business's growth and success.

You will work across all business areas, particularly with our people team, galvanising our internal comms and raising our profile to diverse audiences, including landowners and farmers, ecologists, forward-thinking corporations, building developers, and government stakeholders. The role offers a fantastic opportunity to work alongside a talented team of marketing and PR experts to hone your skills in a fast-moving and collaborative environment.

As such, we seek a well-organised individual with a passion for writing to amplify our pioneering brand in a vital and emergent sector.

Internal Communications:

• Implement a best-in-class internal comms plan to improve employee engagement, including executing our internal newsletter, Team Leader Briefings, and internal-facing comms platforms
• Use your writing skills, creativity, and knowledge of comms channels to ensure that our largely remote working organisation is connected and up to date with the latest news and key business information 
• Proactively seek out and bring to life the brilliant stories within the business by building strong relationships across departments
• Work with a small cross-functional team to deliver our internal events     

External Communications:

• Work alongside our PR and Public Affairs agency to support all activities, including drafting press releases to the highest standard and organising visits to our Habitat Bank for journalists and government stakeholders
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, our landowner partners, and clients to create brilliant stories that bring to life Environment Bank's positive impact
• Support with content for social media, reports, presentations, FAQ documents, case studies and brochures

·       Proven experience in a comms role, ideally across internal and external comms

·       First class writing ability – you will need to be talented wordsmith, who loves to write  

·       Experience of devising and executing communications plans in a professional environment

·       Strong organisational skills

·       Results-driven with the aptitude to thrive in a fast-paced, ambitious scale-up business

·       Desire to work in an environmental, sustainability-driven business would be beneficial

We would like to see a cover letter with your application, highlighting your motivations for working for Environment Bank, as a competent writing style is essential for this role.

As an organisation, we believe that work should be fulfilling, inspiring, and balanced, so we’re creating a space where our team can thrive, both personally and professionally – providing flexible working arrangements, mental wellbeing support, and more.  

We offer... 
🎁 Performance-based annual bonus up to 10% of salary 
💸 Pension scheme with employer-matched contributions at 6% of salary 

🏖️ 30 days of annual leave, plus paid bank holidays, birthday, and wellbeing day 
➕ Option to purchase 5 additional days of annual leave after probation

🏡 Remote and hybrid flexible working options 
💼 Regional and departmental team co-working days 

🌞 Expenses-paid whole company meet twice a year 
🎗️ Team fundraising and charity events 
🎓 Ongoing career development with training and mentoring 

🩺 Medical cash back scheme to cover everyday healthcare costs 
‍🧠 Employee assistance mental wellbeing support 
❤️‍🩹️ Enhanced sickness pay allowance