Peatland Code Officer
Salary: up to £31,000 per annum
Location: Newark office but Home working (UK), with some travel required
Full time (35 hours per week) Occasional out of normal hours working may be required
Fixed Term contract (to 31 March 2026) with possibility to extend
Closing date for applications: 14 February 2025
First interview: 26 February 2025
Second interview: 3 March 2025
About Our Client
The new team member will be pivotal in the delivery of their objectives to champion peatland values. They will have the level of knowledge and experience to drive forward and promote peatland restoration in the UK and be able to advocate the multiple benefits of peatlands through partnerships, strong science, sound policy and effective practice, and communication.
Trust are a federated movement of 46 charities, supported by a central charity. Together they have 870,000 members, 38,000 volunteers and 3,400 staff across the UK. They are at an exciting moment in their 110-year history, with the development of an ambitious new strategy, setting out a vision of nature in recovery, with abundant, diverse wildlife and natural processes creating wilder landscapes where people and nature thrive.
About You
Our client are looking for a motivated, highly organised and professional individual with a passion for the environment. Are you the right person to support the operation of the Peatland Code and deliver tangible benefits for UK peatland conservation? The Peatland Code currently has in excess of 370 projects and they are looking for an organised and motivated individual to help bring even more peatland restoration under this growing standard.
This is a unique opportunity to join their Peatland Programme team, supporting the Peatland Code: the quality assurance standard for peatland restoration projects in the UK, which generates independently verified carbon units. The Peatland Code offers the UK s only government backed standard to support peatland restoration under the voluntary carbon market, operating under the UK Government s Environmental Reporting Guidelines. 2025 is an exciting time to join the Peatland Code team as they are about to add biodiversity crediting alongside their existing carbon quantification.
You need to be diligent, an excellent project manager, able to juggle multiple priorities and projects, strive for improvement in processes and be able to use your initiative. You will work in the rapid developing arena of voluntary nature markets and will work with partner organisations and a variety of their stakeholders to manage the Peatland Code process of all projects efficiently.
You will be responsible for the administration of all Peatland Code projects as they move through the project pipeline. This includes managing initial enquiries, checking all project registrations on the UK Land Carbon Registry as well as oversight of the validation and verification process. To achieve this, you will need to be an exceptional project manager and develop good, trusted working relationships with a variety of stakeholders. In addition, you will support the their wider team in delivering training on the mechanics of the Peatland Code and supporting in the future development needs of the standard. Excellent organisational and communication skills are critical and the ability to digest technical information and communicate it in an accessible way is key.
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As they are Disability Confident employer, they are committed to offering an interview to anyone with a disability that meets all the essential criteria for the post. Please let them know if you require any adjustments to make their recruitment process more accessible.
Our client are committed to increasing the diversity of their staff through their Levelling the Field recruitment pledge and will put any ethnic minority applicants that meet all the essential criteria for the post through to the next stage of recruitment.
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