Assistant Warden – Fixed Term
Location: Blean Woods
Salary: £26,379.00 - £28,319.00 Pro Rata
Fixed-term role until September 2025, full-time for 37.5 hours per week.
We are looking for an Assistant Warden to assist in the management of two nature reserves in East Kent - Blean Woods and Seasalter Levels.
You will work with the warden team to maintain the reserves' habitats and infrastructure. The role will require you to contribute towards the maintenance of Health & Safety standards. You will also help deliver management plan objectives and achieve targets set out in Agri-Environment schemes across both reserves.
It is a practical role and will require the use of machinery and hand tools to undertake tasks such as track repairs, fencing, infrastructure maintenance, invasive species control, grass topping, and hydrological management. You will also undertake avian survey work for breeding birds. Towards the end of the contract, you will partake in habitat management tasks including coppicing, ride and glade management, and scrub control.
We are looking for someone with enthusiasm for wildlife conservation and a keen interest in land management. You will need a broad, practical skill set and be able to contribute towards administrative work. Above all, you will have good interpersonal skills to be able to work in a small staff team and manage large groups of volunteers.
Essential qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience:
* You will have knowledge and experience of practical habitat and estate management.
* You will have a proven track record of completing work alone and working within a varied team.
* Comfortable managing volunteers from a range of backgrounds.
* Reasonable birdwatching knowledge and experience of biological surveys.
* Be willing to assist with predator control to benefit ground nesting birds.
* A full, manual driving licence that is valid in the UK.
Desirable qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience:
* Lantra or equivalent qualification in using equipment such as chainsaw, brushcutter and tractor, PA1/6 pesticides.
* Knowledge of servicing and maintaining vehicles, machinery, tools and equipment to agreed standards.
* Experience of staff or volunteer recruitment and line management.
* Implementing and updating health and safety records and assessments.
Additional information:
* This role will involve lone working and working in remote locations.
* This role will require occasional weekend, early morning and evening working so will need someone who is able to be flexible.
Closing date: 23:59, Sun, 23rd Feb 2025
Interviews: 27th February 2025.
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