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Online careers festival by Belfast Hills Partnership to raise awareness of environmental jobs

A careers festival for young people interested in environmental jobs will be held next month. Picture from Belfast Hills Partnership
A careers festival for young people interested in environmental jobs will be held next month. Picture from Belfast Hills Partnership A careers festival for young people interested in environmental jobs will be held next month. Picture from Belfast Hills Partnership

A charity has launched a careers festival for young people interested in environmental jobs.

Belfast Hills Partnership is hosting the festival, aimed at people aged 18 and 25, from April 19-26.

The event hopes to inform young people about different types of environmental jobs and organisations and offer some tips on employability.

The week will include new content published on Belfast Hills Partnership's social media channels, culminating in an online environmental employability workshop on Monday April 26.

The workshop will have panellists, including young professionals who will offer job-hunting tips, and a live Q&A.

It is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund’s Our Bright Future project.

Patricia Deeney, youth development officer at the Belfast Hills Partnership, said: "The environmental job sector isn’t as well known as other sectors, so young people might not know about the variety of roles out there, or the different routes you can take into the sector.

"It is our aim that this environmental careers festival will help or perhaps even ignite an interest in an otherwise unknown career path."

Those interested can sign up to the workshop via the events section on the Belfast Hills website.

To find out more, contact patricia.deeney@belfasthills.org or phone the Belfast Hills Partnership office on 028 9060 3466.