We’re looking for an Area Ranger with highly developed people skills, project experience, and resource management to join our Southern Ranger team covering the Western area of the Lake District National Park.
What’s it like to work here?
As individuals and as an Authority we are passionate about the landscape and proud of the work we do to look after it and help people enjoy it. We are innovative and agile in our approach to work, ensuring we get the best from our resources.
We’re a medium size organisation, which puts us in a good position to be adaptive and able to act on our decisions. What’s more, our staff know each other and can quickly form workplace relationships to make great team players and problem solvers.
The Southern Ranger Team are one half of the Ranger Service that looks after public Rights of Way and our green properties within the National Park. The team work with our partners, key stakeholders and community groups, supporting them in delivering National Park aims across access, conservation, education, sustainable transport and visitor management.
We operate a hybrid way of working combining working primarily from our southern office with days at our other offices at Wayfaring House, Kendal or at our northern office near Threlkeld. You’ll be provided with a laptop to enable you to access our secure IT network when working remotely including from home.
The role
Your main duties and responsibilities will be:
• To be the point of contact for engagement and support for our key communities in the national park (farmers, residents, visitors and businesses).
• To lead the delivery of defined environmental, recreation and transport management projects and initiatives that realise multiple public benefits.
• To manage our distinctive area ways of working with other staff, members and partners colleagues to ensure we have an integrated, committed and prioritised approach to the delivery of both our partnership plan, business plan, policies, programmes and project activities.
• To assist the coordination and supervision of delivery and forward planning for service plan activities, projects and associated resources.
• To provide guidance and support to other service staff, apprentices, contractors and volunteers through supervision, coaching and mentoring.
• When required act as deputy to the Team Leader(s) for defined pieces of work and for specific time periods.
• Responsible for the maintenance and safe use of the Authority’s assets and for tasks that support operational delivery.
• To contribute to planned activities and to undertake visitor management work.
Upcoming priorities
You will use your skills to manage and support others in delivering key projects which benefit the landscape and those that work and visit here. For the next two years you’ll devote a significant amount of your time working with local communities, partners and stakeholders in leading and supporting elements of our work centred around developing and enhancing sustainable transport to and in key sites and valleys in the west of the park as we look to provide the best opportunities for visitors and residents to access popular sites without having to use private vehicles.
About you
You’ll have excellent people skills that you use to understand the needs of our key communities and to help them engage with the work of the Authority and its partners to deliver priority work in the National Park Partnership plan. You’ll have proven project management skills which you have used to deliver, and ideally have led, strategically important projects, drawing on a sound background of the countryside and protected landscapes to ensure projects protect and enhance this world class landscape.
The remainder of your time will be working with colleagues and volunteers on a wide range of topics from visitor management, green property management, and the strategic development of access and rights of way projects.
Meet our team
We are holding a ‘drop-in’ session at our Southern Office on Monday 24 February between 4pm and 7pm. Meet members of the Ranger team informally and hear more about our work. Please email Lorne at Lorne.Mellonie@lakedistrict.gov.uk to let us know you are coming.
Working with us, you’ll enjoy
• Generous Local Government Pension Scheme
• Electric car and Cycle to Work schemes
• Paid time off so you can volunteer
• Subsidised healthcare scheme
• Commitment to wellbeing
We’re happy to talk about flexible working – let us know if you want to find out more.
This post is equivalent to 4 days per week, with some weekend work between Easter and the end of October. We are happy to discuss the pattern of the 29.6 hours within the working week.
See our website for a complete list of our employee benefits.
Contact
For an informal chat and to find out more, please contact Steve Tatlock (Ranger Team Leader) on 07768 977813, please leave a message if your call isn’t answered and Steve will get back to you.
We reserve the right to close this advert early should we receive sufficient applications, so please apply early to avoid missing this opportunity.
Diversity and Inclusion
As an equal opportunities' employer, the Lake District National Park Authority is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination based on age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
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We guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the role. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean that you must provide evidence in your application which demonstrates that you meet the level of competence required under each of the essential criteria, as well as meeting any of the qualification, skills or experience defined as essential.
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