Nature & Environmental Education Specialist

Overview

These roles can be site‑based, working on nature reserves or other protected sites – or they can work for an organization that doesn’t have sites, but provides an environmental education service in schools, colleges or on land owned by others.

Typically, they will teach both children and adults, so good communication skills are required. They can work for NGOs, in the public sector, or, more unusually, in the private sector.

NGO Environmental Educator

NGO educators may teach adults or children in a range of situations. This can be at nature reserves, or they may often be an external service brought into other organizations to teach. They may run events independently as “pop ups” or be a community organization focused on making change in a local area.

Public Sector Environmental Educator

Environmental educators will often go into schools, colleges and other educational institutions and teach children about nature and e...