Salary: £37,579 plus 7% pension rising to £41,643 over 5 years, subject to satisfactory performance
Location: Cricklepit Mill, Woodah or Cookworthy
This is a Temporary, Full Time vacancy that will close in 14 days at 23:59 BST.
The role
Trained in water quality monitoring? Good understanding of agricultural issues affecting water quality? Excited by the opportunity to lead a small, highly skilled team? We’d like to meet you.
With support from South West Water, DWT is driving agricultural change and landscape restoration through our long running Working Wetlands project which is part of the Upstream Thinking programme, a national pioneer in natural catchment management.
You’ll be leading a small team of Farm Advisors using nature based solutions to deliver improvements in water quality, biodiversity and resource sustainability. The project aims to create a healthy, working landscape of rivers, wetlands and wet grasslands. You will have particular responsibility to ensure successful delivery of the project’s contribution to the Water Industry National Environment Programme in the Tavy river catchment.
You’ll need people and project management skills, water quality monitoring experience and an understanding of potential agricultural impacts on river water quality. Considerable travel across Devon will be required for which a pool vehicle is available.
This is a full-time, fixed-term contract until March 2030, which can be contractually located at any of DWT’s three main offices (Cricklepit Mill, Woodah or Cookworthy). DWT has agile working arrangements, which combines office, home and field-based working.
Interviews will be held on Thursday 18 June.
We welcome candidates of all backgrounds and abilities who meet the essential criteria for this role. We are an inclusive organisation that is seeking to involve more diverse audiences in our work.
For further information please download the Job Description, Recruitment Process and Terms & Conditions documents below. If you have any other questions please email jobapps@devonwildlifetrust.org or telephone 01392 279244.
About us
Nature is in trouble and Devon Wildlife Trust’s mission stems from the need for urgent change and our belief that, if enough people care and act, we can bring nature back and do it on a grand scale.
For 60 years, we have been at the forefront of protecting wildlife and the wild places that make Devon so special and believe, passionately, that a better world is one where nature and people thrive together. We are the only Devon focused charity that exists to protect all wildlife in Devon, on land and at sea.
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