Policy and Advocacy Officer at Surfers Against Sewage

The successful candidate will research and develop our positions on all policy and legislation related to mitigating plastic pollution and waste management in the UK, advocating for change to end plastic pollution. In particular they will help identify the impacts plastic pollution has throughout its lifecycle on human health, the environment and the climate.

They will support the creation and delivery of advocacy and campaigning plans that make the most of influencing opportunities to convince politicians, policy makers and business leaders to act to End Plastic Pollution. The new role will focus on plastic pollution but there will ample opportunity to also support work on the connected issues of sewage and chemical pollution.