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SalaryNature Recovery Role
If you’re passionate and enthusiastic about nature, then we have an opportunity for you. In the role you’d be working on high impact, landscape scale partnership projects, helping to tackle the nature and climate emergencies.
Sound like your ideal job? Then read on…
About Warwickshire Wildlife Trust
We are a grass roots organisation that began in 1970. We manage an estate covering 1,000 hectares in Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull. Everyone living or working in that area is within 6 miles of one of our nature reserves.
We believe everyone, everywhere, should have access to nature and the joy and health benefits it brings. As one of the largest Wildlife Trusts in the UK we have put ourselves on the forefront of enabling nature’s recovery.
This is the most important decade in the history of nature conservation and an exciting time to be joining us. If we are to tackle the climate and ecological crises, we need the best people who share our ambition to bring wildlife back.
The Role
As part of the Landscape Recovery Department, you’ll be a good communicator, well organised and committed to enabling others to act for nature by restoring habitats, maximising biodiversity and species recovery on their land.
In this role you will be working within the team, liaising with landowners and stakeholders, to design and deliver projects that enable nature’s recovery. We believe that farming and nature can coexist, and it’s possible for farmers to grow high quality food and support nature’s recovery at the same time. Creating a sustainable ecosystem and lasting legacy.
Are you enthusiastic about the natural world?
Do you have an understanding of wildlife conservation and some of the techniques available to restore and create different habitats?
Are you comfortable working outside in variable weather and conditions?
Then this could be the ideal role for you…
You will help fulfil our vison of a wilder Warwickshire
Warwickshire Wildlife Trust is embarking on an ambitious new strategy. By 2030 we want to have put wildlife into recovery by creating more space for nature with more people on nature’s side.
The Tame Valley Wetlands (TVW) Team play a crucial role in helping to deliver that vision. The Tame Valley Wetlands is a Landscape Partnership involving stakeholders across the Tame Valley catchment to deliver landscape scale nature recovery projects. It works across rural and urban settings. The TVW Team works with others to develop projects that will have a lasting impact on biodiversity across the landscape, including habitat restoration and creation, community engagement, citizen science and surveys. These projects will enable nature to recover and wildlife to thrive. A local response to the global challenge of the climate and nature emergencies, with the ultimate vision of creating a landscape rich in wildlife and accessible to all.
Experience, Skills, and attributes
To succeed in this role, you’ll need to be…
• Enthusiastic and keen, with a curious mind
• A great communicator and a real team player
• Someone with great attention to detail
• Driven and always seeking to improve
• Flexible, adaptable and solution focussed
Our ideal candidate will have some experience of habitat restoration, working with landowners, and be ready for the next chapter in your career. If you lack the hands on experience, then we’re looking for you to demonstrate that you understand the theory and could apply that in the real world.
You should already have a solid understanding of Windows desktop operating systems and Microsoft 365 – and your brilliant communication skills with colleagues and partners will be just as important.
Job Description
In the role you will be…
• Delivering a range of habitat restoration projects that supports our ambition to create a Wilder Warwickshire.
• Assisting with project development.
• Developing and maintain relationships with stakeholders and landowners.
• Working with the team to identify the best means to fulfil projects involving volunteers, contractors, corporate groups and trainees.
• Determining and implementing targeted surveys of habitats to assist with project development.
• Identifying opportunities to maximise the involvement of local communities, action groups, schools, landowners and other in projects, surveying and monitoring.
• Reporting project progress within the team and to partners and funders as required.
• Supporting the production of content for digital and print media, telling the story of the project, the work undertaken and the impact it has had.
Terms
We are considering appointing either an Officer or Assistant level role dependant on your experience.
We will assess your experience and skill level and appoint the best candidate to meet our needs, either at Officer or Assistant level, dependent on your experience.
• Full-time 35 hours per week.
• Permanent role.
• Salary is dependent on experience, between £22,000 - £28,000.
• Annual leave entitlement starts at 25 days per annum plus bank holidays.
• We provide an employee assistance programme.
• A combined 10.5% pension contribution scheme.
• Access to the electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme.
• Death in service benefit.
• Staff discount in our shops.
This role is contracted to Hams Hall Environmental Centre, Coleshill. It follows the agile working framework, which guides all roles at the Trust (i.e. a balance of office, site & home working where appropriate to the role). It also includes regular travel across county.
How to apply
To make an application, please complete the online application form via our website by Monday 1st January 2024. The interviews will be held on Friday 12th January 2024.
Thank you for your interest in this position and we look forward to receiving your application.
Department
Living Landscapes
Contract type
Permanent
Hours
35
Salary
£22,000 - £28,000
Benefits
Generous pension scheme Generous holidays Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Death in Service benefit Flexible working WWT Membership Continuous Training & Development opportunities On-site parking
