Job Description
Reference: AUG20268491
Location(s): Farnham Heath GU10, Hazeley Heath RG27 and Blackbushe Airport GU17
Terms: Fixed Term, 12 months, Full Time, 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £28,940.00 - £30,898.00 Per Annum
Play a vital, hands-on role in managing and enhancing these special places. You’ll work alongside staff, volunteers and contractors to deliver conservation at scale, while helping to create a welcoming and inclusive environment for everyone involved. You’ll also lead and inspire a diverse team of volunteers, including residential volunteers, ensuring they feel supported, valued and empowered to contribute.
Our sites tell a powerful story of restoration and recovery:
- Farnham Heath: Once a commercial conifer plantation, this landscape has been transformed back into over 100 hectares of thriving lowland heath. It is now a stronghold for species such as woodlark, Dartford warbler, nightjar, sand lizard and field cricket.
- Hazeley Heath: A designated Site of Special Scientific Interest within the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area, this wetter heath supports rich biodiversity, including great crested newts, dragonflies and damselflies, and plants like sundews and heath spotted orchid.
- Blackbushe Airport: One of our newest sites, also within the Special Protection Area, where we are beginning an exciting programme of heathland restoration.
This is a fantastic opportunity to build your career in conservation. You’ll gain hands-on experience across a wide variety of conservation activities and work with dedicated colleagues and volunteers who share your passion for nature.
We are looking for someone with a genuine passion for conservation and outdoor work, who brings practical skills in habitat or land management or a clear willingness to develop these skills. You will feel confident working with and motivating volunteers, and be able to build positive relationships through strong teamwork and communication skills.
You will be:
- Delivering practical habitat management in line with reserve management plans and agri-environment schemes. The ideal candidate will have chainsaw crosscutting and maintenance (CS30), and felling (CS31) certifications. Certification for brushcutter and strimmer would be beneficial
- Maintaining estate infrastructure, tools and machinery
- Supporting ecological monitoring of key habitats and species
- Organising and leading safe, engaging volunteer work parties
- Helping to manage grazing livestock across the sites
- Assisting with contractor supervision and small project delivery
- Contributing to administration, reporting and planning
- Supporting the implementation of health and safety standards and organisational procedures
Closing: Sunday, 30th August
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