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SalaryT-Levels Placement Coordinator
Salary: £30,000
Location: Home based, with frequent travel to our Newark office and Wildlife Trust offices across England
Full time: 35 hours per week
Fixed term contract: 18 months
Closing date for applications: 3rd March 2024
First interview: 15th March 2024
Second interview: 22nd March 2024
About our client
Our client are a federated movement of 46 charities, supported by a central charity. Together they have over 900,000 members, 32,500 volunteers and 3,400 staff across the UK, Isle of Man and Alderney. They are at an exciting moment in our 110-year history, with the development of an ambitious new strategy, setting out a vision of nature in recovery, with abundant, diverse wildlife and natural processes creating wilder landscapes where people and nature thrive.
Our client have restored and care for some of the most special places for wildlife in the UK. Collectively they manage more than 2,300 nature reserves, operate 123 visitor and education centres and own 29 working farms. They undertake research, they stand up for wildlife and wild places under threat, and they help people access nature.
The next few years will be critical in determining what kind of world we all live in. We need to urgently reverse the loss of wildlife and put nature into recovery at scale if we are to prevent climate and ecological disaster. Our client recognise that this will require big, bold changes in the way they work, not least in how they mobilise others and support them to organise within their communities.
About You
If you are looking for an opportunity to work with young people at the start of their careers, all whilst helping people take action for nature then this could be the role for you. Our client are committed to increasing the diversity of provision for people aged 16-30, and to authentically integrate their voices into their work. As part of this journey, they are piloting a new offer of industry placements for T-Level students across England.
This role offers the chance to directly shape a brand-new initiative for the Trusts, and support their ambition to help young people influence the future work force within the Trusts. They are looking for someone with substantial previous experience of supporting 16–18 year-olds in a workplace or vocational capacity to help them realise this opportunity. Experience of the environmental sector is desirable but not essential.
Our client are looking for someone proficient in coordinating different groups and individuals, including young people and teams within organisations. You will be pragmatic and highly organised, with the ability to follow tightly controlled project timelines. Experience of supporting young people in a professional setting is essential to the role.
You will be part of a tight and dedicated central team and will need to be self-motivated, able to plan well and enjoy doing this with others.
You will be a brilliant communicator, able to work across both formal and informal groups to draw conclusions and establish ways forward. In addition, you will need to enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, be resourceful, an excellent networker and you’ll be a reliable support to fellow colleagues.
About You
Our client value passion, respect, trust, integrity, pragmatic activism and strength in diversity. Whilst they are passionate in promoting their aims, they are not judgemental and are inclusive. They want their people to be as diverse as nature, so they particularly encourage applications from people who are underrepresented within the sector, including people from minority backgrounds and people with disabilities. They are committed to creating a movement that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities.
Our client take their Safeguarding responsibilities extremely seriously. Please click here to read their commitment statement.
As a Disability Confident employer, our client are committed to offering an interview to anyone with a disability that meets all the essential criteria for the post. Please let them know if you require any adjustments to make their recruitment process more accessible. This role will require Enhanced DBS clearance with Bar.
As a Disability Confident employer, our client are committed to offering an interview to anyone with a disability that meets all the essential criteria for the post. Please let them know if you require any adjustments to make their recruitment process more accessible.
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