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The Climate Psychology Alliance is hiring! We have four part-time, paid positions for people who want to join our growing community and help shape the collective response to our worsening climate crisis |
Closing date 31 October 2025. Interviews in November. All roles available immediately, for one year in the first instance with the possibility of renewal.
We are also seeking a voluntary Co-Treasurer.
Jump to individual roles by following the links here, or scroll down to see all of them:
2. Inner Climate Response Alliance youth coordinator
4. Inner Climate Response Alliance community resilience coordinator
5. Co-Treasurer (voluntary role)
1. Administrative coordinator (10 hours/week)
Do you have administrative experience and strong self-organising and planning skills? Can you use your own initiative to create an end product (an event, for example, or an improved work process) while keeping mutual trust and developing relationships? Do you like making admin processes run smoothly? Maybe you could be our new administrative coordinator.
Leading on membership processes, record-keeping, and organising internal events, you’ll work alongside our communications coordinator to keep CPA’s processes and relationships functioning well. The role is at the centre of the culture of care that CPA seeks to create in its work and working practices. You’ll receive support from the voluntary coordinating group which meets weekly, and you will have regular supervision from an established member of CPA.
Funded until 30 April 2027, thanks in part to National Lottery players and the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Global. Appointment for one year in the first instance. More details of the role and how to apply
2. Inner Climate Response Alliance youth coordinator (8 hours/week)
Are you a community facilitator or psychologist with knowledge of the intergenerational aspects of the climate crisis? Could you use your psychological knowledge and community experience to foster connection, support and understanding of the needs of young people among peers working with climate activists? Come and be the youth coordinator for the Inner Climate Response Alliance (ICRA).
You will support practitioners to work in their own communities to grow capacity for psychological or ‘inner’ work in relation to climate action and adaptation, and link to other communities doing inner work of this kind. Within this framework you will have a particular focus on youth-focused activities, initiating and supporting a Youth Forum within ICRA.
Funded until 31 May 2030, thanks to National Lottery players. Appointment for one year in the first instance. More details of the role and how to apply here
3. CPA youth coordinator (8 hours/week)
Do you have lived experience of the psychological needs of children and young people in relation to climate breakdown? Could you use your own experiences to support engagement with children and young people? Might you be able to enable people from older generations to understand intergenerational injustice, facilitating intergenerational dialogue and improving support for children and young adults? We hope you’ll apply to be CPA youth coordinator.
In the role you’d be working alongside an existing youth coordinator and your roles would be similar, with close teamwork invited. You would support CPA to engage and support young people, and support older people to better meet the needs of children and young people during a time of climate breakdown. You would lead on the development of CPA’s Students and Young Members’ group and work alongside the other youth coordinator and the ICRA youth coordinator to develop CPA’s offerings.
Funded until 30 April 2027, thanks to a grant from the Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Global. Appointment for one year in the first instance. More details of the role and how to apply
4. Inner Climate Response Alliance community resilience coordinator (11 hours/week)
Are you a community facilitator looking to play your part in the collective response to our worsening climate crisis? Could you use your psychological knowledge and community experience to foster connection and support among peers working with climate activists? Do you have a deep understanding of the links between social justice and the climate crisis? Then please apply to be CPA’s ICRA community resilience coordinator!
You would support CPA members and other practitioners to work in their own communities to grow capacity for inner work in relation to climate action and adaptation, and link to other communities doing inner work of this kind. You would work with colleagues in the Climate Majority Project to support the growth of inner work for climate action in specific communities.
Funded until 31 May 2030, thanks to National Lottery players. Appointment for one year in the first instance. More details of the role and how to apply
5. Co-Treasurer (voluntary role, hours to be agreed with the appointee)
Do you have the ability to think financially? Do you have an eye for detail? Do you want to make a contribution to CPA’s important work on the emotional dimension of the climate and ecological crisis? We’re seeking a co-treasurer. You would work alongside our existing experienced treasurer, and the supportive coordinating group within CPA, to ensure that our financial planning and record-keeping is keeping pace with our needs as we move into managing much bigger budgets. This is a voluntary role. More details can be found here.
Please share this opportunity with anyone you know who has the skills we are looking for.
Important information
We seek to acknowledge systemic oppression, challenge assumptions and support an inclusive and diverse community. We particularly encourage applications from candidates who are from marginalised groups.
By ‘inner work’ we mean a diverse range of approaches that support individuals, groups and communities to process the feelings and thoughts that come from engaging with the climate crisis, such that they can build stronger, more resilient relationships and better engage in action without becoming overwhelmed. We recognise that 'inner work' cannot be separated from the relational and socio-material contexts in which individuals and communities live.
Three of the four posts advertised here have some or all of their funding from the Inner Climate Response Alliance, a new partnership made up of the Mindfulness Initiative (MI), the Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA) and Climate Majority Project (CMP). The Inner Climate Response Alliance is bringing together the first UK-wide community of practice for people holding the inner dimension of our climate and global crisis. Thanks to National Lottery players, we are deeply grateful to have received almost £1.5m for this new project to support communities with the emotional impact of the climate crisis over the next five years.
This comes from the Climate Action Fund, a £100 million commitment over 10 years from The National Lottery Community Fund to support communities across the UK to take action on climate change and involve more people in climate action.
More paid opportunities within the Inner Climate Response Alliance will be announced soon - check out our website or subscribe to our Substack to stay in touch with us.
Climate Psychology Alliance
The Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA) is a membership organisation whose purpose is to explore psychological responses to the climate crisis in order to strengthen relationships and resilience for a just future. CPA has over 700 members who are predominantly from the psychological professions and psychosocial and arts academics, but we welcome anyone exploring the psychology and soul of our current ecological crisis. We see the climate and ecological crisis as inextricably linked with racism and coloniality, and have a commitment to decolonising our own working practices.
Our work falls into the following six areas:
- Support to individuals and groups suffering with eco distress and offer safe spaces to share emotions surrounding the climate crisis
- Young people – we are especially concerned with the impact of the climate crisis on young people
- Research and reflection on the psychological impact of the climate crisis and climate injustice
- Training and events - continuing professional development and educational and community development
- Talks and consultancy for organisations and businesses
- Membership with the opportunity for co-creation and making links to support members’ work on the climate crisis
