Join our inspirational team
At City to Sea, we live our values, and this is reflected in everything we do as a team, and in our work. Being balanced, positive, creative, earth-kind and brave is at the core of what we do, and those shared values shine through in our campaigns, working relationships and everyday lives. Together, we can find positive solutions to plastic pollution.
If our values resonate with you, get in touch or see how you can volunteer with us.
Our current job vacancies
We’re looking for dedicated, like-minded people to join our team, all applicants will be treated equally regardless of sex, race or other status. City to Sea is under-represented by Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups, men and 45+ year olds. Therefore, candidates from these groups are particularly encouraged. You’ll find our open positions here:
Sorry, we’re not recruiting right now, check back soon.
EVERYONE’S WELCOME
We welcome colleagues of all ages and experiences and we’re very conscious that currently, our staff team is mostly made up of people who identify as white, able-bodied women. And we’re not ok with that. We know we’ll be even stronger and more effective in helping power the changes we need to see in the world when we’re a more diverse team. Our board is made up of 2/7 people from a minority ethnic background, and we’ve got a way to go when it comes to diversifying our team.
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- Impact Assessment: Update our equality impact assessment for all protected characteristics across the organisation to create meaningful targets and action plan for improvement.
- Collect & Share data: Share diversity data bi-annually with SLT and team to drive change.
- Training: Continue to deliver diversity-based training to team.
- Creative engagement with under-represented young person: If successful with grant, we will work with an under-represented young person as an ambassador for our signature annual campaign – world refill day.
- Internships for under-represented young people: We will be joining a pilot programme that offers short term work experience in the environmental movement to under-represented young people.
- Develop more representation in our campaigns: Proactively prompt campaigns and projects in their design stage, to ask these questions:
– What are the intersectionality and social justice benefits of the work
– How do we surface these benefits in the design and delivery of the work?
– How do we work with our partners to amplify the benefits and meet the needs of diverse audiences? - Recruitment: Continue to encourage applicants to engage in our equalities monitoring form and guarantee interviews to all candidates who identify as having a disability or from a minority ethnic group (providing they meet our role requirements / have the transferrable skills)
- Share our learnings via the Diverse Sustainability Initiative (DSI), as well as pro-actively engaging and sharing our findings with other organisations in our sector (e.g., engagement with DSI and participation in The RACE Report).
As Natalie, our founder writes “Protecting the planet for future generations isn’t women’s work, it’s everyone’s, and we need to actively create seats at the table for a diverse set of hearts and minds to help make it happen.” Read the full article.
How you can create a wave of change
What you’ll bring to City to Sea
- To be a positive force for change and a proud champion of City to Sea’s work!
- To get stuck into City to Sea’s training and developmental programme so you can grow, learn and help us be better!
- To understand and embrace City to Sea’s mission, vision, values, objectives, policies, procedures, and practices. (That sounds a lot, but they’re simple and fun really.)
What you’ll get from us
- A positive, fun and inclusive working environment.
- Flexibility in your working hours.
- A thorough and engaging onboarding process to help you get up to speed.
- Development and coaching.
- A range of benefits including great holiday allowance, discounted environmentally friendly products, cycle to work scheme and four organisational wide team days per year.
Benefits of working with City to Sea
✔️The opportunity to work for an award-winning, not for profit.
✔️The chance to work on meaningful projects that show a positive impact on our planet.
✔️36 days holiday (pro-rata, including bank holidays).
✔️Pension scheme.
✔️Plus, you’ll work with a great group of people who will always be there to help answer any questions.
Get to know us
Find out a little more about what motives us each day and how our paths have brought us together at City to Sea.
Volunteering at City to Sea
We are immensely grateful for the incredible help and support we get from our wonderful volunteers. We love working with these amazing people and hope that, in return, we’ve enabled them to learn new skills, gain valuable experience for their CVs, and have fun. Their input makes a real difference to our campaigns against single-use plastic.
If you’d like to volunteer with City to Sea, we’d love to hear from you!
Meet some of our volunteers
I started volunteering with City to Sea as an intern for Refill Day. My role was really hands-on, giving me a taste of all different areas of the organisation including social media, being involved with action days and video production. My time volunteering showing me what it takes to run a fantastic national campaign!
As proof of how much I enjoyed my volunteering, I applied for a role with City to Sea and was lucky enough to be hired as Digital Assistant.
Volunteering with City to Sea definitely expanded my horizons, allowed me to meet some truly interesting people from experts in different environmental fields to peers with equal interest in sustainability but most importantly it further enhanced my knowledge on the importance of being more environmentally conscious.
The highlight of my volunteering experience was representing City to Sea at the ‘Going for Gold’ event hosted by Bristol City Council. This is because I learnt how collectively as a city we can all reduce our impacts on the environment as well as share resources towards a common goal.
I have volunteered with City to Sea on multiple occasions in video production, and every time it was a rewarding experience. I was treated as part of the team and was given a great insight as to what working in a fast-paced not-for-profit organisation is like.