Impact reporting researcher - Volunteer

Impact Reporting Researcher

We want a volunteer researcher to help East London Waterworks Park deliver its environmental learning goals.

You will have a significant impact on the creation of a new biodiverse community-owned park with free access natural swimming ponds. By volunteering you will shape the future of East London Waterworks Park as a community-led environmental learning space and help our charity strategise to buy the land by showing the value of our environmental education programme before we create the park.

Ideal candidates have experience in writing, content creation, social media, or nonprofit storytelling. Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to translate data into compelling narratives are essential. Our roles are quite flexible. We hope that people bring radical imagination, peace with nature, and courageous inclusiveness to the role.

East London Waterworks Park is a volunteer-led charity that won a 2024 New London Architecture award and has raised £2m towards buying land from the Department for Education to transform the 14-acre Thames Water Depot on Lea Bridge Road on the border of Waltham Forest and Hackney, into a new biodiverse park with natural swimming ponds, forest schools and community spaces.

We are looking for a volunteer to showcase the achievements of East London Waterworks Park’s Learning Circle through storytelling, website content, and social media. This role focuses on communicating the value of our programs to funders, partners, and the public.

• Documenting the outcomes of existing environmental education initiatives
• Writing case studies and success stories from past initiatives
• Working with the communications team to create engaging content for the public

• Waltham Forest College
• Henry Maynard Primary School, Walthamstow
• Buxton School, Leytonstone
• Kingsmead Primary School, Hackney
• Daubeney Primary School, Hackney
• UCL
• Royal College of Art
• University of Westminster
• Project Zero
• Voyage Youth
• Loyola University Chicago
• Vanderbilt University Nashville

The Learning Circle currently meets monthly on a Wednesday evening at 8pm for an hour on Google Meet and spends voluntary time outside of the meeting completing agreed tasks remotely.

Location:

London, England, United Kingdom.