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Wildlife Work and Animal Care vacancies: wildlife projects dealing with one specific species, working with animals such as wildlife hospital workers. also animal handling e.g. zoos and aviculture.

 

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Regen Stock Person and Land Stewardship Assistant - Ampney Brook Farm

Logo: Ampney Brook Farm

Full-time with rotational weekend work | Accommodation available from late summer | Salary in accordance with experience

Ampney Brook Farm is a 600-acre mixed organic farm near Cirencester. We are looking for an energetic and dynamic team player with a passion for regenerative farming, soil health and biodiversity to assist with day-to-day farm jobs. This is hands-on role across our 600-acre certified organic mixed farm with a variety of seasonal tasks including cattle moving, feeding, electric fencing, handling and husbandry, routine yard, machinery and equipment maintenance, habitat and biodiversity management, maintenance of fences, hedges, woodlands and stewardship areas, tractor driving, farm infrastructure setup and improvements.

Growing Together Project Officer - Surrey Hills Society

Logo: Surrey Hills Society

Salary: £28,000 pro rata
Contract Length: 18 months
Hours of work: Full time preferred, 37.5 hours per week. Please note we will consider applications for a minimum of 30 hours per week.
Located at: Surrey Hills Estate Office - Warren Farm Barns, Dorking, RH5 6DG, site visits across the Surrey Hills National Landscape, wider Surrey County and working from home

To work with the Project and Volunteer Manager on leading and managing the planning, delivery, and evaluation of ‘Growing Together: Inclusion and Diversity in the Surrey Hills’ in close collaboration with the Surrey Hills Society Team and a Project Steering Group. This project aims to increase opportunities for inclusivity in the countryside by working with three primary target groups. These are Surrey Choices, supporting adults with learning disabilities, Surrey Coalition of Disabled people which represents and supports Disabled People, and Surrey Minority Ethnic Forum (SMEF) which represents more than 60 multi-ethnic community groups in Surrey.

Project Officer - Neighbourhoods Nurturing Nature - Worcestershire Wildlife Trust

Logo: Worcestershire Wildlife Trust

Salary: £26,000 FTE (0.8 FTE)

Contract type: Fixed term / Working hours: Part time

Location: Lower Smite Farm, Smite Hill Hindlip, Worcester & Droitwich, Worcestershire, WR3 8SZ

Community engagement is an essential part of the Trust’s work. We believe that involving local people is crucial for the restoration and recovery of nature in Worcestershire. Our approach is simple, we listen to what communities want for their open spaces and work together to break down barriers. We are looking for someone who is highly personable, passionate and organised. You are committed to supporting community-driven action, at ease when it comes to building relationships in communities and equally comfortable leading and planning habitat creation activities and events. This role offers you the opportunity to make a real difference in the restoration of nature and to contribute to our vision of protecting 30% of land and sea by 2030.

Project Assistant - Neighbourhoods Nurturing Nature - Worcestershire Wildlife Trust

Logo: Worcestershire Wildlife Trust

Salary: £23,000 FTE (0.5 FTE)

Contract type: Fixed term / Working hours: Part time

Location: Lower Smite Farm, Smite Hill Hindlip , Worcester & Droitwich, Worcestershire, WR3 8SZ

Our Neighbourhoods Nurturing Nature project centres on the River Salwarpe to River Severn corridor, encompassing Droitwich Spa, Fernhill Heath, Worcester and Kempsey. This corridor features a variety of natural landscapes, such as rivers, canals, parks, grasslands and woodlands, all of which host crucial habitats and species. It is rich in opportunities to support and encourage local communities to take action for nature in their own neighbourhoods. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a small team delivering a range of community engagement activities, events and workshops to help connect more people with their local open spaces.

Equine Groundsman - Combined Counties Properties

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We are looking for a full time groundsman to care for our 45 acre equestrian property. Five day week, Monday to Friday. We are a neat setup and take pride in how smart the property looks. We have a small team based here and we are looking for a hard working, positive and happy individual to fill the role.

The role is varied, from looking after the land and fencing, harrowing equestrian arenas, looking after the vehicles, running errands and odd jobs in and around the house, outbuildings and stables.

Assistant Warden - Lower Lough Erne - RSPB

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Have you got experience of practical habitat management, and do you want to make a difference to the wildlife of Lower Lough Erne, co Fermanagh? If so, apply to join our team!

Location: Lower Lough Erne Islands
Salary: £26,379.00 - £28,319.00 Per Annum
Hours: Full-Time, 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent

The Reserve is made up 47 islands on Lower Lough Erne, the UK’s second largest freshwater lake.

Chief Executive Officer (Nature Conservation) - Tees Valley Wildlife Trust

Logo: Tees Valley Wildlife Trust

Salary: £50,000 Circa

Contract: Permanent, subject to a 6 month initial probationary period

Hours: Full-time (37.5 hours per week) with occasional evening or weekend work

Location: Guisborough, North Yorkshire, at the edge of the North York Moors National Park. - some flexible / hybrid working 

This is an exciting opportunity to lead nature recovery in the Tees Valley. Working closely with the Chair and Trustees you’ll ensure the smooth and efficient management of the Trust, leading an innovative but respected and financially sustainable organisation. As the principal external ‘face’ of the Trust, you'll be expected to play a leading role in strengthening relationships with partners, supporters, agencies and other organisations, and to foster and enhance the reputation of the Trust.

River Restoration Coordinator - The River Dee Trust

Logo: River Dee Trust

This is a permanent position.

Hybrid-working from our River Office in Dinnet, Aberdeenshire.

This role will oversee the delivery of an innovative and wide-reaching multi-million-pound initiative recently launched on the Dee, Save the Spring. The 20-year programme is aimed at saving threatened species including the river’s iconic Atlantic salmon. It will also reduce the impacts of floods and droughts, benefitting all wildlife and communities, and it will involve the use of cutting-edge science.

Access and Recreation Team and Projects Manager - Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority

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£34,834 - £39,185 per annum

Full time (37 hours per week), permanent basis

Grassington or Bainbridge

This is an exciting new role in which you will be focusing on identifying funding, developing bids and applications and delivering successful projects with multiple partners and stakeholders to achieve shared objectives. You will be the lead officer and for the Authority on recreation, active travel (walking, cycling, etc.) and public transport matters and will work collaboratively with Active Travel England and the Highway Authorities, partners, landowners, communities and existing and potential users.

Conservation Scientist - RSPB

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We are seeking Conservation Scientists to join the RSPB’s UK Marine Science team in an exciting fixed-term role for a minimum of 6 months, work will be both field-based and analytical/desk-based. The role provides a great opportunity to work at the cutting edge of research to improve our understanding of seabird distribution, movements, and behaviour.

Location: Flexible in UK

Salary: £36,577.00 - £39,267.00 Per Annum

Contract: Minimum 6 months

Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week

Site Manager - RSPB

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Location: Corrimony, Inverness, Highland, IV63 6TW
Salary: £36,577.00 - £39,267.00 pa
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent

Are you looking to combine your passion for nature with your land management and communication skills? If so this is the prefect role for you! Set in the North West Highlands, RSPB Corrimony reserve is part of the iconic Glen Affric landscape. We are looking for a site manager to be based in the local community and manage our nature reserve.

North Bucks Assistant Reserves Officer - Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust

Logo: BBOWT

Salary: £22,500 - £23,089

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 35 hours per week. Flexibility in working pattern, in agreement with line manager.

Based: Meadow Farm

The North Bucks Assistant Reserves Officer will help nature recover by directly working towards habitat management objectives across a suite of reserves covering woodland, wetland and floodplain meadow habitats. This will provide an exciting opportunity to work within a close knit, friendly team committed to nature conservation.

Ranger - Chichester Harbour National Landscape - Chichester Harbour Conservancy

Chichester Harbour Conservancy

Chichester Harbour National Landscape is one of the most important sites for wildlife in the UK, as well as being an active harbour for water users. Our mission revolves around protecting and regenerating nature while fostering recreation and leisure opportunities. At the heart of our endeavor is the commitment to ensure Chichester Harbour remains a haven for wildlife and a special destination for generations to come.

As a National Landscape Ranger, you’ll play a pivotal role in maintaining and conserving the beautiful landscape of Chichester Harbour as part of our ranger team.

Pine Marten Engagement Officer (Dartmoor) - Devon Wildlife Trust

Logo: Devon Wildlife Trust

Salary: £26,976 (60% pro-rata) plus 7% pension

This is a part-time (22.5 hours p/w) fixed term appointment until 31 March 2027, contractually located at Cricklepit Mill, Exeter

The Pine Martens Bounce Back: Two Moors Pine Marten project is a multi-partner project, led by Devon Wildlife Trust, which aims to bring pine martens back to our woodlands and to inspire and support diverse audiences to get involved. We are looking for an enthusiastic, organised community engagement professional to join the project team and to coordinate and deliver a range of engagement activities in and around the communities of Ashburton/Buckfastleigh, Moretonhampstead and Bovey Tracey.

Farm Technician - Louma Farm and Retreat

Logo: Louma Farm and Retreat

Louma Farm and Retreat is an exciting new destination in the glorious West Dorset Countryside. Our focus is on wellness and a big part of that is centred on producing wholesome food for our guests from our farm and garden. We farm and garden regeneratively and are adopting principles of agroforestry and silvopasture.

Duties will include: Livestock and housing checks, cleaning, maintenance and care; Milking our Red Ruby Devons; Lambing and calving duties; Grazing and land management

Trainee Ranger - White Cliffs Countryside Partnership

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£20,524 per annum (subject to pay award)

Fixed term 12 months

Are you passionate about the natural world? Do you want to learn the skills to help nature face the biodiversity and climate crises? Then this opportunity may be for you…

We are currently looking to recruit an outgoing and positive individual to join our team and assist with the management of our nature reserves in the Kent Downs National Landscape.

Ranger - National Trust

Logo: National Trust

Location: Wicken Fen, Lode Lane, Ely, CB7 5XP

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract

Salary: £24,145 per annum

Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve is a beautiful, wild landscape, one of Europe’s most important wetlands. You’ll play an integral role in helping look after one of the country’s most biodiverse site and the 9450 species that call this place home.

Reporting to the Area Ranger, you'll join an enthusiastic, hard-working Countryside team responsible for managing Wicken Fen, one of Britain’s oldest nature reserves.

Conservation Grazing Officer - Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

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Full time, 35 hours per week

£24,509 - £26,490 per annum

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is one of the UK’s fastest growing nature conservation organisations and seeks to appoint a Conservation Grazing Officer

Do you want to use your livestock and nature conservation knowledge and expertise to help bring about nature’s recovery in Yorkshire? We are looking for an exceptional individual to work as part of our grazing and nature reserves team to deliver habitat restoration and management at a range of fantastic nature reserves across Yorkshire.

Senior Site Manager - RSPB

Logo: RSPB

Salary: £41,593.00 - £44,651.00 Per Annum
Hours: Full-Time, 37.5 hours pwk
Contract: Permanent
Location: Haweswater, Penrith, Cumbria
We are looking for an organised, dynamic, and passionate person to lead the team and work programme delivery on this large and exciting upland partnership reserve. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in driving and overseeing a significant and complex work programme across Haweswater with a wider landscape impact. The successful candidate will have an important external role, building positive relationships with key partners and stakeholders, so that partnerships policies and messages are understood and furthered within relevant partnerships, communities, the media and to a range of stakeholders and decision makers.

Wildlife Ranger Manager - Forestry and Land Scotland

Logo: Forestry and Land Scotland

Location: West Calder

Salary: £33,360 - £35,590 + 27% employer pension contributions

Contractual hours: 37

Basis: Full time

We are looking to recruit a Wildlife Ranger Managers to join the FLS Central Region Wildlife Management Team. The post will be based working out of our West Calder Office covering the Scottish Lowlands Area of Central Region. Occasional support to elsewhere in the Region West towards Aberfoyle may occur.

Warden - RSPB

Logo: RSPB

Salary: £28,331.00 - £30,415.00 Per Annum
Hours: Full-Time, 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Lakenheath Fen

Cavenham is a restored quarry working of 70 hectares in size. Most of the site is dry acid grassland and supports a significant population of breeding stone curlews. Lakenheath Fen is a wetland RSPB created from arable farmland over the last 25 years and its reedbeds support bitterns, marsh harriers and cranes in nationally important numbers. We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and resourceful person to join our small team. The successful candidate would lead on the management of the Cavenham site and would assist in the management at Lakenheath.

Estate Assistant (West Dorset) - Dorset Wildlife Trust

Logo: Dorset Wildlife Trust

Salary: £22,653

Contract type: Fixed term / Working hours: Full time

Location: Kingcombe Farm, Clift Lane

Dorset Wildlife Trust is looking for a hardworking and enthusiastic person to join our West Dorset Reserves team. The postholder will be based at our Kingcombe Meadows Farm and work across the Kingcombe National Nature Reserve and other high-quality sites. The work will involve practical conservation and estate management tasks, with an emphasis on helping with the day-to-day management and welfare of livestock retained by Dorset Wildlife Trust.

Conservation Project Officer and Research Coordinator - Wildwood Trust

Logo: Wildwood Trust

The annual salary for the Conservation Projects Officer is £ 27,824.

The post is advertised as 37.5 hours per week, averaged over the year, over 5 days.
This is an exciting opportunity to work within a small but busy and passionate team delivering pioneer native species conservation projects. Our reputation as a leader in this field has led to the establishment of several highly professional partnerships bringing together skill sets essential to the successful delivery of conservation projects.

Shorebird and Engagement Assistant Ranger - Natural England

Logo: Natural England

Contract: Fixed Term 1st May – 31st August

Location: Based at Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve, Northumberland

Hours: 37.5 hours per week on rota and will include weekends and bank holidays

Salary: £23,108 pro rata

Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve is one of the most important sites for breeding shorebirds in north-east England covering 65km of coastline. This is an exciting opportunity to help protect this internationally important site through the education of visitors and extensive monitoring and management of nesting shorebirds across the Reserve.

Care Farm Education & Wellbeing Officer - Wiltshire Wildlife Trust

Logo: Wiltshire Wildlife Trust

Salary: £12.76 per hour

Contract: Variable

Hours: Variable

Based at: Lakeside Care Farm, Lower Moor Nature Reserve, near Oaksey

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 children, young people and adults with additional needs, mental health, social and communication difficulties, and those in need of emotional support.

Manager / Assistant Utilities Environmental Advisor - Perth, Central Scotland - Scottish Woodlands Ltd

Logo: Scottish Woodlands

Are you a talented individual with drive, enthusiasm and ambition, with a passion for the outdoors and ready to grow a sustainable career? If so, we are recruiting for a Manager / Assistant Utilities Environmental Advisor to work within our Utilities Division.

Forestry is a growing industry and Scottish Woodlands Ltd is well placed to take advantage of developing opportunities and challenges the industry faces. We want you to be part of our future.

Fieldwork Assistants x 11 – LIFE Raft - RSPB

Logo: RSPB

Salary: £21,255.00 - £22,818.00 pa
Hours: Full-time
Contract: Fixed-term until 30/04/2025
Location: Rathlin Island, Ballycastle

We require 11 Field Officers for the ‘LIFE Raft project - Rathlin Acting for Tomorrow’ project. LIFE Raft aims to remove invasive non-native ferrets and rats from Rathlin Island, NI’s most important seabird colony, and the successful candidate/s will play a pivotal role in the overall outcome. This is your opportunity to grow your conservation career and make a real impact.

Senior Policy Officer – Bioenergy - RSPB

Logo: RSPB

Salary: £36,577.00 - £39,267.00 pa
Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hours pwk
Contract: 1 year fixed-Term
Location: Flexible in England

You will influence both the UK government and UNFCCC processes at a pivotal moment for bioenergy and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) policy. Through joint work in coalition with UK and international partners. You will lead the RSPB’s work on bioenergy and BECCS, building on our existing positions and shaping and delivering an advocacy plan. The RSPB is a leading organisation in this policy area, and this role provides an exciting opportunity to become a key expert in an increasingly critical policy area.

Livestock Person - RSPB

Logo: RSPB

Salary: £28,331.00 - £30,415.00 Pro Rata

Duration: Full Time 37.5 Hours per week, 5.5 months FTC

Location: RSPB Nene Washes, PE7

This contract is for a stockperson on a 5.5 month contract starting in May 2024, working as part of a 4-person team managing the 800 hectare RSPB Nene Washes Nature Reserve. The purpose of the post is to assist with the management of 1000 grazing beef cattle; your main duties will include daily shepherding, cattle movements, treating ailments and maintaining infrastructure.

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