RSPB

Warden

The Lakenheath Fen team are seeking to recruit a new Warden to lead on management of our Cavenham Quarry site and to assist in the management of Lakenheath Fen.

Warden
Reference: MAR20240248
Location: Lakenheath Fen
Salary: £28,331.00 - £30,415.00 Per Annum
Hours: Full-Time, 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent

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. Applicants should have a good natural history knowledge especially of dry grassland and wetland and be able to quickly and effectively integrate into a small team. You would have good organisational skills and experience of running and working with volunteers. This is a full time post with occasional weekend working in the visitor centre at Lakenheath.

At Cavenham key work will include delivering the new Countryside Stewardship agreement, both options and capital works. This will involve working with the grazier and contractors. Ensuring the predator fence is maintained and effective, monitoring key breeding species notably stone curlew and managing deer control on site and liaising with neighbours. Other habitat management will include scrub control both with contractors and volunteer groups and working with Natural England on bare ground creation.

At Lakenheath you will be working with the rest of the team on the full range of habitat management, monitoring and visitor services. This will include assisting with reedbed, wet grassland and woodland management. Lakenheath is currently undertaking a significant habitat creation project which also involves carbon credits and biodiversity net gain and you will be involved in helping the site manager deliver this work. With a small team everyone takes turns in duty manager work at the weekend in the visitor centre.

Closing date: 23:59, Sunday, 7th April 2024

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Closing Date: 07/04/2024  Location: Lakenheath Fen, Brandon, IP27 9AD