Full-time | £35,000 to £40,000 depending on experience | Location: Remote (occasional travel for events and in-person activities) | UK Applicants only | Deadline: 31st July 

About the role

Protect the Wild is looking for a Campaigner/Content Creator to lead our End Bird Shooting campaign, one of the biggest fights we run against one of the biggest killers of British wildlife.

This campaign is about ending bird shooting in the UK, full stop. That means pheasants and partridges bred and released by the million to be shot for “sport,” it means grouse shooting on our moors, and it means every other form of bird shooting that goes on across this country. Millions of animals are killed every year through this industry, and most of the public has no real idea of the scale of it, or the suffering behind it. Our job is to change that.

This is a campaign with huge potential. Done right, it can help prevent an enormous amount of suffering and bring an industry that’s hidden in plain sight into the full glare of public attention. We want someone who can help us take EBS from a strong campaign to one that breaks through into mainstream consciousness, the kind of story people can’t scroll past.

We’re looking to grow and expand this campaign significantly over the coming months and years, building out a dedicated team around it. This role is about leading that charge from the front. This isn’t a job for someone who wants to tick boxes. We need someone with ideas, who can spot an opportunity before we point it out, who takes ownership of the campaign and runs with it, working directly with our founder to build and deliver a long-term strategy against the shooting industry in the UK.

It’s an exciting opportunity to join the Protect the Wild network and be part of the fastest growing animal rights organisation in the country.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading content strategy and output for End Bird Shooting across social media and Substack
• Planning content calendars, writing sharp and engaging copy, and turning research into stories people actually want to read and share
• Spotting trends, news hooks, and campaign opportunities, and moving fast when they appear
• Creating graphics, carousels, and video content using Adobe Creative Suite and/or Canva
• Making sure everything we put out reflects Protect the Wild’s values and tone, direct, factual, and impossible to ignore
• Working closely with our founder on the long-term direction of the campaign, and having real input into where it goes next
• Building your own knowledge of the shooting industry into genuine expertise, you’ll become one of the people who knows this issue better than almost anyone else in the country

Who we’re looking for

• Someone who cares about ending the shooting industry, this has to be a genuine passion, not just a job
• Confident, proficient content creator, you know your way around Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.) and/or Canva and can produce professional-looking content without hand-holding
• Some existing knowledge of the bird shooting industry, game shooting, or wildlife campaigning, or, if not, a genuine willingness to learn fast and become an expert
• A strong grasp of what makes content perform on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook, and an instinct for storytelling
• Proactive and full of ideas, you don’t wait to be told what to do, you bring things to the table
• Comfortable working independently and taking real ownership of a campaign
• Good writing skills, clear, punchy, factually accurate copy that cuts through

How to apply

Please send us:

1. Your CV to jobs@protectthewild.org.uk
2. A 5-slide Instagram carousel for the End Bird Shooting account, along with a short explanation of your thinking behind it

For the carousel: go through our End Bird Shooting Substack and find a story or angle we haven’t covered yet, something we’ve missed, overlooked, or not gone far enough on. Build a carousel around it that you think would genuinely perform well on social media, and tell us why. Email this to: jobs@protectthewild.org.uk