Location: Saltram, Plympton, Plymouth, PL7 1UH
Contract Type: Fixed-term / full-time
Reference/IRC: IRC159698
Closing Date: 9th February 2025
Salary: £24,843 pa
As a Green Communities Urban Ranger, you’ll play a key role in an innovative and exciting partnership between Plymouth City Council and the National Trust.
The project focuses on hyper-local urban engagement to encourage community greening, increase nature recovery and promote improved health and wellbeing from being more connected to nature.
Embedded within local teams, your work will be focused around Keyham and the West of the City.
Please include a cover letter with your application.
What it's like to work here:
Green Communities is a partnership between Plymouth City Council (PCC) and National Trust. It connects people and wildlife in 3 key neighbourhoods in Plymouth. As one of 3 National Trust Urban Community Rangers, you will work alongside PCC officers to help local people shape nature in their neighbourhoods.
What you'll be doing:
You’ll be a friendly face out and about in urban communities, working alongside businesses and social enterprises, residents, schools, and community groups to listen to how they want to improve their green spaces, and support them to make things happen.
A key part of your role will be delivering practical nature conservation activities, sharing green skills, coordinating ecological monitoring and recording, and promoting opportunities for citizen science.
This might be supporting a community garden project, looking at food waste and composting, or working with partners on Nature Counts and bioblitz events. There will be opportunities to work with other environment teams across the Council, such as Plymouth Natural Grid, and at NT properties in Devon and Cornwall.
Who we're looking for:
* Passionate about everyone in cities having access to greenspace, nature and wildlife
* A strong communicator and team player who can quickly create solid relationships in the neighbourhoods in which you’ll work
* An efficient collaborator working in partnership with others, who can overcome barriers while considering and implementing different approaches
* Confident in leading, motivating and inspiring groups of people, and keen to find ways to create nature advocates in local communities
* Happy to work with a wide range of different communities, local people, schools, youth groups and interest groups, reaching out to new audiences who might not already be connected to nature
* Adept with a range of practical skills and be happy to share them, encouraging people to get more active and involved in nature-based activities
* Comfortable with working both outside and inside, with some office duties
* A driver with a full UK driving licence
Apply: IRC159698 - Urban Community Ranger
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