We are looking for someone who can do outreach and community engagement with businesses, project stakeholders, and people across the Midlands.

While most outreach will be done remotely, there will be opportunities to attend in-person events so being located close enough to reach events in Warwickshire is essential.

About Love to Ride

Love to Ride is the online platform that gets more people riding bikes. We make it easy and fun to encourage our friends and co-workers to ride. We work with cities, companies and people all over the world to encourage more people to enjoy the benefits of riding a bike. We believe that life is much better when we feel happy, healthy, energised and connected to the people and places around us. We believe riding a bike has so many benefits to us individually, to our communities and our world.

Roles and Responsibilities

You’ll lead outreach and engagement efforts across Warwickshire, helping local workplaces, organisations, and individuals take part in our campaigns. Tasks include:

• Engaging organisations and individuals to register and take in Love to Ride Challenges, including Cycle September. This will involve: contacting workplaces by phone and email (with both warm and cold leads); giving presentations; meeting with relevant staff & selling the concept of Love to Ride, supporting media activity; distributing marketing materials to bike shops & co-promoters, on cycle paths & on parked bicycles; promotion at local events etc.
• Contact and engage local partner organisations and encourage them to promote the program externally to their local networks e.g. Chambers of Commerce, business associations, town and city governments bicycle clubs, bike shops
• Identify suitable ‘Champions’ within participating organisations, and develop effective working relations with them to provide on-going support so that they can promote Love to Ride internally and succeed at getting a high number of colleagues participating in the program.
• Call and email program participants to support their participation, help ensure they get the most out of the program and to encourage them to spread the word to their co-workers and friends to join their team and take part as well.
• Provide excellent customer service to all participants and workplace Champions.
• Source and manage locally sponsored incentives and prizes.
• Carry out monitoring activities to help evaluate the program, e.g. collection of case studies.
• Act as a central liaison for stakeholders and project partners, developing and maintaining effective working relationships and providing regular progress reports.
• Carry out any other duties defined by the Project Manager that may be necessary to further the aims of the program.
• Work alongside the client team to identify priority areas and deliver a highly effective program of activity.

You will be a friendly ‘people person’ who is excellent at building relationships and is capable of presenting and ‘selling’ the Love to Ride program (the program is free to participate, but we still need to market and ‘sell’ participation in the program). You are an enthusiastic, quality driven self-starter, with a can-do attitude and a structured approach to your work. The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• Experience in outreach and community engagement

• Sales and / or promotions background
• Strong communications background, or skills including experience in: verbal and written presentations; short format copywriting; chairing meetings and working groups
• Experience in, or relationships with the local business community
• Experience in remote outreach/sales/engagement via phone and email
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

• Strong organizational skills
• Dedicated ‘make it happen’ attitude.
• Effective at developing and maintaining relationships at all levels
• Ability to work independently
• Friendly, collaborative, and fun
• Knowledge and ability to ride a bike safely
• High degree of IT literacy and use of online applications and tools
• A passion for promoting a program that benefits people, our communities & our planet

Contract type: Freelance, fixed-term

Duration: Now - August 2026.

Estimated input: Minimum 46 days between now and August 2026.

Pay: £135 per day, plus travel expenses.

Potential Extension

We also have a team member going on maternity leave in September 2025, and there is potential for this role to expand to include additional project work and hours during that period. This may include covering a broader region and supporting more community engagement initiatives with us.

If you’re passionate about community engagement and excited to help people and organisations enjoy the benefits of cycling, we’d love to hear from you.