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Senior Project Officer - The Conservation Volunteers

Logo: The Conservation Volunteers

Salary: £24,024 per annum plus £3,882 London Weighting

Hours: 35 per week

Location: Enfield, North London

The Senior Project Officer will oversee a range of tasks including planning and executing community events, maintaining site Health & Safety, leading volunteers in practical projects like building wooden planters, tending to garden plants, and ensuring timely completion of administrative duties such as procurement, risk assessments, social media updates, and task reporting. They will also lead activities for the under 5's Nature Explorers group, school visits, themed evening events, and family weekends. Additionally, they'll organise corporate volunteering sessions and cover holiday shifts for the Green Gym gardening program.

Tree Officer - Planning - Oxford City Council

Logo: Oxford City Council

Conserving and enhancing the landscape of Oxford is a key responsibility for Oxford City Council. Trees play an intrinsic role in the landscape of Oxford, providing a myriad of social, environmental, and economic benefits for all those who live or work in the city, or come as visitors.

The historic city has a wealth of trees, many in truly outstanding locations such as the college parks and gardens. We also have valuable tree collections from around the world such as in Headington Hill Park, University Parks and the Botanic Gardens.

Landscape Contractor - Brindle & Green

Logo: Brindle and Green

Salary £25 - 31k per annum

Brindle & Green are looking for full time landscapers to join our Environmental Contracting Division based at our Derby office. The successful candidates will work closely with our landscape designers, managers and contracting team to implement soft landscape plans for various clients nationwide. Work will involve turfing, planting and seeding in accordance to detailed landscape plans, carried out to spec. The ideal candidate will have a passion for delivering beautiful work and be experienced in all areas of soft landscaping.

Head of Plant Seed and Supply - Forestry and Land Scotland

Logo: Forestry and Land Scotland

Newton Nursery

Salary: £61,409 - £67,959

As Head of Plant and Seed Supply you will be accountable, through successful leadership of your team, for the resilient supply of healthy seeds and trees to ensure Scotland’s forests are resilient for generations to come.

We are seeking a confident individual who will be responsible for establishing and leading a cohesive team comprising both new recruits and existing staff, navigating through a period of operational change with sensitivity and strategic direction.

Professional Work Placement (PWP) in Ornamental Horticulture - Royal Horticultural Society

Logo: Royal Horticultural Society

Location: RHS Garden Hyde Hall

Salary: £20,319 per annum

Hours of work: This is a full-time work-based training programme (37.5 hours per week) with a working pattern of 5 days out of 7 (including weekend and occasional evening work).

Duration: One year (fixed-term)

From the naturalistic plantings of perennials and grasses on Clover Hill, to the intricate detail of the Modern Rose Garden and Herbaceous Border in the Hilltop Garden, you will learn about a range of horticultural maintenance tasks and techniques throughout an intensive work experience placement teaching you how to ensure that these varied areas of the Garden always look their best.

Park Ranger - Norse Group

Logo: Norse Group

Medway Norse have an exciting opportunity for two Park Rangers to join the team on either a permanent or fixed term contract for 12 months.

As Park Ranger, you will be part of a frontline team based at Capstone Farm Country Park but working between the two country parks and a variety of woodlands with in Medway.

Our Park Rangers have a wide a varied job role, maintaining the public areas within the site through grounds work and repairs and installation of site infrastructure, improving and maintaining a variety of habitats, both parks offer a wild variety of habitats and rare species, conducting surveys as well as producing and delivering an annual events programme and leading educational session for local schools both on and off site.

Care Farm Education and Wellbeing Officer Day 6 Provision - Wiltshire Wildlife Trust

Logo: Wiltshire Wildlife Trust

Salary: £14,385 – 15,000 (depending on experience)

Hours: 22.5 hours per week (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday)

Contract: Permanent Term Time (40 weeks)

Based at: The Willows Care Farm, Broughton Gifford, Melksham

Working alongside the Care Farms’ Manager, Assistant Managers and our experienced staff team, the post holder will be responsible for leading the daily delivery of one-to-one nature-based therapeutic activities for ‘Day 6 Provision’ children and young people with additional needs, mental health, social and communication difficulties, and those in need of emotional support.

Skilled Gardener - The Royal Parks

Logo: The Royal Parks

Richmond Park, Surrey

Salary of £30,072 per annum, depending on experience

We are now looking for a Skilled Gardener to join us at Richmond Park on a full-time, permanent basis.

The Royal Parks (TRP) is a charity created in March 2017. We manage over 5,000 acres of diverse parkland, rare habitats and historic buildings and monuments in eight Royal Parks across London. These are Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, The Green Park, St James’s Park, The Regent's Park and Primrose Hill, Greenwich Park, Richmond Park and Bushy Park.

Path Builder - A.C.T Heritage Ltd.

Logo: A.C.T Heritage Ltd

We are an independent environmental construction company specialising in Upland and Lowland footpath construction, Bridge and Boardwalk infrastructure, machine works and Access Management. Due to continued development we are seeking to expand our capacity by finding the right person to join our experienced team.

We are looking to expand our upland footpath team. Successful applicants will work as part of a highly experienced team with the predominant task of constructing and maintaining hand-built mountain footpaths.

Professional Work Placement (PWP) Edibles and Productive Horticulture - Royal Horticultural Society

Logo: Royal Horticultural Society

Location: RHS Garden Bridgewater

Duration: One year fixed term

Salary: Circa £20,319

Are you enthusiastic about edibles and productive horticulture? Do you have an existing Level 2 qualification and at least three months’ work experience in horticulture? Are you interested in specialising? The RHS School of Horticulture (SoH) has been at the forefront of horticultural training for over 100 years. Its one year Professional Work Placement (PWP) programme will enable you to learn about the science, art and practice of horticulture in the specialist area of Edibles and Productive Horticulture at RHS Garden Bridgewater.

Professional Work Placement (PWP) Wellbeing and Communities - Royal Horticultural Society

Logo: Royal Horticultural Society

Location: RHS Bridgewater

Salary: £20,319 per annum

Duration: One year (fixed-term)

The RHS School of Horticulture (SoH) has been at the forefront of horticultural training for over 100 years. It’s one year Professional Work Placement (PWP) programme will enable you to learn about the science, art and practice of horticulture in the setting of RHS Garden Bridgewater in the specialist area of Wellbeing and Communities. The Wellbeing and Communities Professional Work Placement (PWP) candidate will be involved in all aspects of therapeutic and community gardening practiced at RHS Bridgewater.

Professional Work Placement (PWP) Alpines & Streamside - Royal Horticultural Society

Logo: Royal Horticultural Society

Location: RHS Harlow Carr

Salary: £20,319 per annum

Duration: One year (fixed-term)

The one year Professional Work Placement (PWP) programme will enable you to learn about the science, art and practice of horticulture in the setting of RHS Garden Harlow Carr and the specialist areas of Streamside & Alpines. The Alpine Zone and the Streamside at RHS Harlow Carr sits at the heart of the site and has inspired visitors for many years. Throughout this placement you will work within the Garden’s departments and with its teams and individuals to gain knowledge, skills, training and experience of Alpines and Streamside plants in the work-based context to prepare you for professional life in the industry.

Estate Worker - RSPB

Logo: RSPB

We are looking for an enthusiastic Estate Worker to join our team, helping to deliver our habitat and infrastructure objectives across Dorset from our Arne work centre.

Location: Arne
Salary: £23,401.00 - £25,122.00 Per Annum

This is a Permanent, Full-Time role for 37.5 hours per week.

Your main objectives will be to assist in delivering the habitat management objectives for the various reserves, staying on top of the Health and Safety requirements associated with this work and supporting the team on other works as needed.

Head Gardener - National Trust for Scotland

Logo: National Trust for Scotland

Salary range: £36,469 - £40,342 pro-rata, per annum

Hours: 40

Location: Pitmedden Gardens and Haddo House

The Key Purposes of the job will be met by ensuring the conservation and practical maintenance of the garden and policies – whether through delegation to other staff/volunteers, or personal participation - in terms of: Practical horticulture; Plantsmanship; Research and development; Interpretation.

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