Project Coordinator — Green Futures Collective

37.5 hours per week | Real Living Wage (£27,495 per year from May 2027)
24-month fixed-term contract | Birkenhead + Liverpool City Region
Funded by the Co-op Foundation's Green Opportunities Fund

Help us open doors to green careers that young people might never have known existed, and challenge who gets to shape our environmental future.

We're looking for a thoughtful, creative and values-led Project Coordinator to join Comics Youth and deliver Green Futures Collective, a two-year youth-led programme developed in partnership with the Environment Agency. The green economy is growing, but access to its opportunities remains deeply unequal. Too often, young people from marginalised communities are excluded from the networks, experiences and decisions shaping our environmental future.

We don't believe young people should have to change who they are to access opportunities. We believe opportunities should change to include them.

Working with young people aged 14–20, you'll coordinate creative workshops, environmental experiences, mentoring and two youth-led campaigns exploring green careers, climate resilience, biodiversity and environmental justice.

You'll support paid Youth Climate Leaders and Ambassadors to challenge barriers, influence employers and shape the programme themselves. Because meaningful participation isn't just about giving young people a voice — it's about sharing power and acting on what they tell us.

We're not looking for someone with a perfect CV, an environmental science degree or a conventional career path. We're looking for someone who builds trust, understands the importance of access and belonging, and believes young people are experts in their own lives.

Our practice is trauma-informed, anti-racist, LGBTQIA+ affirming and neurodivergent-affirming. We don't expect young people — or our colleagues — to communicate, participate or succeed in one prescribed way.

We particularly encourage applications from people who experience structural barriers to employment, including racially minoritised people, disabled and neurodivergent people, LGBTQIA+ people, care-experienced people and people from working-class backgrounds.

Lived experience counts. Community knowledge counts. Skills developed through youth work, activism, caring, volunteering and creative practice count too.

You don't need to meet every desirable criterion. We care about your values, your transferable skills and the difference you could make.

How to apply

Applications are open now and close at 5pm on Thursday 26 November 2026.

Please send your CV and cover letter to richard@comicsyouth.co.uk, telling us why you're interested in the role and what you'd bring to Green Futures Collective.

Apply in the way that works for you. We welcome written, audio, video, visual or other accessible application formats. You won't be disadvantaged for choosing a different format, and we'll assess everyone against the same role criteria.

We welcome requests for reasonable adjustments, alternative formats and conversations about access needs at any stage. You don't need to disclose a diagnosis or personal circumstances to ask for support.

Read the full Job Description & Person Specification for more information.

If you need the information in another format, need adjustments to take part in our recruitment process, or would like to apply in a different accessible way, please contact richard@comicsyouth.co.uk.

Equality, Diversity & Access Monitoring

We want Comics Youth to be a place where people who have historically been excluded from the arts, youth and charity sectors can belong, contribute and lead.

Alongside your application, we invite you to complete our Equality, Diversity & Access Monitoring Form.

The form helps us understand who our opportunities are reaching, where barriers to recruitment may still exist, and whether we are living up to our commitments around equity, diversity and inclusion. It also helps us look critically at our recruitment practices and make them better.

Completing the form is voluntary. You can choose “prefer not to say” for any question, or choose not to complete the form at all. This will not affect your application in any way.

Your monitoring information is kept separate from your application and the shortlisting process. It will not be used to decide whether you are shortlisted or appointed, and recruitment panel members will not use this information when assessing your application.

We recognise that monitoring forms can sometimes ask people to fit themselves into boxes that do not fully describe who they are. Wherever possible, our form includes inclusive options, opportunities to self-describe and the option not to answer.

The information is used for equality monitoring and improving our recruitment practice, with reporting carried out in a way that does not identify individual applicants.

👉 Complete the voluntary Equality, Diversity & Access Monitoring Form: