Vacancy: River Educator Isle of Wight (variable hours contract)
Salary: Hours worked will be paid between £12.03 and £13.56 per hour (depending on experience) and an additional 12.7% will be added to your hours worked and paid at the same rate in lieu of annual leave
Employer: Wessex Rivers Trust
Closing date: 5pm, Thursday 2nd January 2025
Interviews: Thursday 16th January 2025
Wessex Rivers Trust (Wessex RT) is an environmental charity, dedicated to the protection and conservation of rivers and chalk streams in the Wessex area. Wessex RT is part of the Rivers Trust movement; the umbrella organisation helping to protect and enhance most of the UK’s rivers. The Trust acknowledges that education and engaging with a wide and diverse audience is essential to sustain long-term interest in our local chalk streams and empower local communities to take ownership of these precious rivers. To deliver on this ambition, the Trust offers an education programme to all areas of Wessex and has recently begun offering river education sessions on the Isle of Wight.
Wessex RT is seeking to recruit a Variable Hours River Educator, based on the Isle of Wight, to mainly support the Our River, Our Water project in partnership with the Rivers Trusts South East and Southern Water.
This post will be mostly remote/home-based working on the Isle of Wight, with occasional day visits (2-3 a year) to Wessex RT’s Head Office in Salisbury.
Job Description / Person Specification
To apply, email your CV (not more than 3 pages) with two suitable references and a cover letter (1000 words maximum) describing your suitability for the role with explicit reference to the Person Specification to: recruitment@wessexrt.org.uk by 5pm, Thursday 2nd January 2025. Interviews will take place on the Isle of Wight on Thursday 16th January 2025.
