RSPB

Seasonal Assistant Warden

Seasonal Assistant Warden
Reference: MAR20241585
Location: Wallasea Island Wild Coast Project, SS4
Salary: £25,723.00 - £27,614.00 Per Annum
Contract: 3rd June - 20th December 2024
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week.

We have an exciting opportunity at Wallasea Island for someone looking to gain valuable experience at the start of their career, as a Seasonal Assistant Warden on a large nature reserve on the Essex coast. We are looking for an enthusiastic, resourceful and resilient person keen to take an early step in a career in conservation.

Wallasea Island is a 750ha reserve made up of intertidal habitats, lowland wet grassland and saline lagoons and offers a great opportunity to pick up vital skills to help enhance your career.

The successful applicant will undertake a range of habitat management and species monitoring activities. Ideally, you will have experience in managing the habitats found at Wallasea Island, but this post will enhance and develop your skills and knowledge in areas such as water management and vegetation control. Over the next year, the team will undertake various activities to enhance and improve the reserves ecological potential and are trialling some new technology to improve management and monitoring of both biological and physical features.

Essential:

• Energy, adaptability and the desire to achieve.
• Comfortable managing volunteers from a range of backgrounds.
• Experience of estate management.
• Well organised approach to work including developing and effective prioritisation of workplans and workloads.
• The ability to work unsupervised, within a team or leading a team.
• Implementing and updating health and safety records and assessments.
• Experience in the safe operation and maintenance of machinery, tools and equipment.
• a full, manual driving licence that is valid in the UK .

Desirable:

• Lantra or equivalent qualification in using equipment such as brushcutter and tractor.
• Knowledge of lowland wet grassland habitat management for breeding and wintering waders and wildfowl.
• Experience of working with contractors/graziers.
• Experience of use and maintenance of tools such as brushcutters.
• Knowledge of the requirements of agri-environment and cross-compliance regulations.
• Experience of biological monitoring.
• Knowledge of livestock management.

Additional information:

• This role will involve lone working and working in remote locations.
• This role will require occasional weekend, early morning and evening working so will need someone who is able to be flexible.

Closing date: 23:59, Sunday 14th April 2024

To complete your application online, please CLICK HERE. 

Closing Date: 14/04/2024  Location: Wallasea Island Wild Coast Project, SS4