Wales Marsh Fritillary Recovery Project Officer

Wales Marsh Fritillary Recovery Project Officer (Fixed term)

Contract: Fixed Term until December 2025
Hours: 37 hours per week (1fte)
Location: Home based / flexible, with frequent travel across South and West Wales and occasional to North West Wales.
Salary: Grade C, salary range £28,148 to £32,519 pa (dependent on experience), plus 8% employer pension contribution

This project is funded by the Nature Networks Programme. It is being delivered by the Heritage Fund, on behalf of the Welsh Government.

We're looking for an enthusiastic, driven, and self-motivated individual to join Butterfly Conservation as Wales Marsh Fritillary Recovery Project Officer.

The ideal candidate will have experience of leading volunteers on species and habitat surveys and liaising with partner organisations and private landowners. They will also be able to use GIS mapping to create spatial data to inform future conservation efforts.

In this role you'd be working with partners and landowners, leading and coordinating volunteers undertaking metapopulation surveys and habitat assessments of core Marsh Fritillary sites to update mapping layers. This will create a landscape-scale focus, identifying opportunities to create recommendations and costed plans for habitat connectivity projects.

The successful candidate will also help create a ‘Marsh Fritillary Recovery Partnership’ with key stakeholders across Wales.

If this sounds like the role for you, and you aspire to work within landscape-scale conservation, please go to the Butterfly Conservation website where you can find a full job description.

Candidates must have the right to work in the UK.

Closing date: Midday Monday 22 April 2024

Interviews will take place in the week commencing 29 April 2024

Why choose Butterfly Conservation?

We believe our work has never been more important.

Wildlife is in steep decline across the UK and over three-quarters of butterflies and two-thirds of moths are declining. We recognise it needs a great team with a wide variety of skills to tackle the problems facing butterflies, moths and the environment.

Our staff and volunteers are proud to be part of Butterfly Conservation and are dedicated to making a difference to the environment we live in. We understand the importance of maintaining and expanding our expert and valued team of people and offer a range of roles located all over the UK, from the peat bogs in Scotland to the post room in Dorset.

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