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Assistant Reserves Officer/Solent Jobs in Curdridge, England, UK at Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust
Position: Assistant Reserves Officer (Solent)
Location: Curdridge
Assistant Reserves Officer (Solent)
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Salary £23,000 – £25,000
Location:
Curdridge, Southampton, Hampshire, SO32 2DP
Full Time – 35 Hours per Week
Fixed Term Contract for 12 Months
Closing date: 21 April 2025
Interviews: 29 April 2025
Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust is a grassroots movement working for nature’s recovery and to bring people closer to nature.
‘Our vision for a wilder future is beautiful and vital!’
Our future has to be wilder!
We are seeking an Assistant Reserves Officer (Solent) to join our cause.
As part of the Solent Estates team, you will be playing a key role in nature’s recovery. You will be helping to manage a range of nature reserves along Hampshire’s South coast, focusing primarily on wader and wildfowl conservation. Working as part of a small team, you will be responsible for delivering practical land management covering nine nature reserves including two flagship sites, Farlington Marsh and Swanwick Lakes.
You will help to manage nationally important and highly designated sites such as Farlington Marshes, as well as our other sites comprising of chalk streams, grasslands, flood meadows, lakes, and woodlands. We routinely survey for butterflies, river flies, breeding waders and overwintering wildfowl, as well as other occasional biological and infrastructure surveys. This role requires a high level of practical competency, a broad understanding of ecology and habitats and good IT skills for routine admin.
The successful candidate will assist the Reserves Officer with day-to-day estate management and biological surveying. You will be responsible for leading volunteers on a varied and practical work programme whilst ensuring their welfare. This post is physically demanding and requires
flexible working
and occasional on-call hours.
Experience with
power tools, farm machinery and habitat management are essential. Good coastal bird identification is beneficial to the role but not essential. A full UK driving licence is required.
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Inclusion
!
As an
inclusive
employer we recognise that our workforce needs to better reflect the communities in which we live and work. We encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly those underrepresented within our sector, including people from black, Asian, minority Ethnic backgrounds and people with disabilities. We are committed to creating a Movement that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities.
We are proudly a Disability Confident Committed employer. The scheme is helping us recruit and retain great people to meet our workforce needs. As a member of the scheme, we interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the essential criteria for the role. You can request this and adjustments including accessible formats of this vacancy.
We offer a wide range of benefits including a
competitive salary
, generous annual leave allowance, a contributory pension scheme, life assurance,
learning and development
support, 24-hour access to our employee assistance programme, discounted staff travel with our corporate partners Wightlink (subject to T&Cs) and more.
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Title: Assistant Reserves Officer/Solent
Company: Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust
Location: Curdridge, England, UK
Category: Outdoor/Nature/Animal Care (Environmental Science)
