Public Programming Manager

Role purpose:
To create a step change in Earth Trust’s public programming offer, delivering experiences and events that connect our visitors with nature and inspire an understanding of their environment, their place in it and their role in caring for it. Taking the lead in driving collaboration in public programming to effectively deliver our narrative and stories to a range of audiences, both on site and digitally, while contributing to income generation.

This will include responsibility for:
o Devising and delivering audience-led and participatory experiences and visitor programming across Earth Trust’s spaces, including its digital space
o Respond to social research, building evidence, delivering public events that contribute to Earth Trust strategies, projects and campaigns
o Thinking creatively about suppliers and partners, creating a network of performance artists, filmmakers, storytellers, environmental experts and many others that will help you deliver a programme of events unique to Earth Trust
o Managing ticketing and all event logistics o Interpreting and sharing audience insight, championing the audience voice and collaborating with colleagues to ensure audiences needs are met
o Embedding access, equality, inclusion and participation within the public programmes, both online and physical experiences
o Embedding evaluation in the planning and delivery cycle to ensure feedback from each event is captured and used to continuously improve the programme
o Monitoring innovation and best practice in events organisation and management to ensure that Earth Trust’s events are creative, engaging and efficient

About us:
Earth Trust is an environmental learning charity with 40 years’ experience in caring for and inspiring others with the natural green spaces. Together with our supporters, Earth Trust is guardian of some extremely special and inspiring places full of nature and heritage. We care for 500 hectares of woodland, farmland, wildflower meadows and wetlands, which receive 200,000 visits a year. We use these amazing places to engage and inspire people and to demonstrate nature-based solutions to climate, biodiversity and public health crises, that we hope others will take and use elsewhere.