Closing date: Wednesday 21 August 2024
Salary: £32,000 – £35,000 (dependent on experience)
Contract type: Fixed term / Working hours: Full time
Location: Devizes, Elm Tree Court, Wiltshire, SN10 1NJ
The Trust is seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual to join our successful and ambitious Water Team, to play a key role in preparing, managing and delivering our prestigious river and wetland restoration projects.
Contact details
If after reading the job description you would like to discuss this opportunity informally, please contact Connor Stapleton-Goddard (Head of Freshwater) on 07720896398 or connorg@wiltshirewildlife.org.
Job reference: Water Team Project Manager
Reports to: Head of Freshwater
Salary: £32,000 – £35,000 (dependent on experience)
Contract: Full time, 18-month fixed term with possibility of extension depending on funding
Hours: 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday with a requirement for occasional weekend and evening work
Based at: Elm Tree Court, Devizes with some home working available
The Trust is seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual to join our successful and ambitious Water Team, to play a key role in preparing, managing and delivering our prestigious river and wetland restoration projects. You will be joining a dynamic team within a charity committed to nature’s recovery across Wiltshire, with over 40 nature reserves and 23,000 members. WWT delivers high profile, nationally important work.
Within the Water Team you will be leading on the delivery of and managing a diverse range of projects, for example, woody debris river habitat improvements with volunteers, large scale wetland creation, invasive non-native species management, urban river improvements, removing barriers to fish migration and citizen science monitoring. Many of these projects focus on globally rare and important chalk streams so you will have the opportunity to deliver pioneering river restoration and research projects.
You will have the opportunity to work with range of stakeholders, from farmers and angling clubs to other NGOs, corporates and statutory bodies.
We would love to hear from you if you have knowledge and experience of leading on the delivery of projects within freshwater ecosystems. We would also welcome applications from those with knowledge and experience of hydromorphology and geomorphology, or other environmental project management and design.
Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is fully committed to safeguarding the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. All WWT staff will receive safeguarding training and must ensure that they comply with WWT’s safeguarding policy.
Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to developing an inclusive and diverse organisation, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To achieve our vision of creating a world richer in nature, we need talented people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side. Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is an exemplary employer with high staff satisfaction and multiple benefits for employees. These benefits include:
- Employer pension contribution up to 7.5%
- Group risk insurance – death in service and income protection
- 27 days annual leave increasing to 30 days in your fifth year of service plus public holidays (pro-rata)
- Staff discount at Dragonfly Cafe
- Head office in town centre with parking
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Two staff wellbeing days per annum
Closing Date: 9am Wednesday 21st August 2024
PLEASE NOTE: if interest is significant we reserve the option to close the vacancy early and conduct interviews on an as required basis. Should the vacancy remain open until the stated deadline then interviews will be held on Tuesday 27th August 2024.
Please submit your application to recruitment@wiltshirewildlife.org
A full Job Description and Application Form is available to download below.
(Please note we are only able to accept applications via our application form and when completing the form please ensure you use the ‘supporting statement’ section to evidence how you believe you meet the essential and desirable criteria detailed in the Job Description. This information will be used in our short-listing process).
As a charity Wiltshire Wildlife Trust Ltd is committed to saving costs. Therefore, if you have not received an invitation to attend an interview within three weeks of the closing date, you should assume that your application has been unsuccessful.