Salary: £32,000 - £35,000, subject to experienceContract: Full time; one year but potentially extendable Hours: 35 hours per week, including occasional evening and weekend workingHolidays: 27 days plus bank holidaysFlexibility: The post requires a mix of home, online, and site working. The successful applicant will need to account for their working hours, but providing the needs of the organisation are met, RLCP will aim to meet the flexible working needs of the employeeCompetitive pensionDeadline for applications: 23.59 on 7 March Interviews: 13 March (tbc) The River Lark is designated as the Flagship chalk stream for East Anglia, and traverses four National Characteristic Landscape areas. Its headwaters and tributaries rise in the clay farmlands south of Bury St Edmunds, and in the chalk grasslands of Cambridgeshire. It flows through the Brecklands, and the fens, past historic and prehistoric sites of cultural, industrial, and agricultural importance. All these features pose different challenges for the river today. The area is one of the most water-stressed in the UK, and the underlying aquifer is heavily over-abstracted. The river, which has been canalised and confined, rerouted and polluted for hundreds of years, is now in urgent need of restoration, although parts of it still retain beautiful stretches of meandering gravel beds, characteristic of chalk streams. RLCP is a registered incorporated charity. We work closely with a wide range of partners and stakeholders including several Rivers Trusts, the National Trust, Suffolk and Norfolk Wildlife Trusts, the Environment Agency, Natural England, West Suffolk District and Suffolk County Councils. We are Anglian Water’s community partner on the River Lark Flagship Chalk Stream Restoration project, scheduled to begin later this year. Founded in 2015, and a registered charity since 2018, RLCP has established a sound reputation for delivering citizen science and river restoration projects, and is now embarking on a programme of rapid organisational growth and change in order to promote ecological improvements to the river and surrounding habitats. What you will bring: You are passionate about conserving, restoring, and, where possible, rewilding the watery inland habitats of East Anglia. Committed to the Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) to river management, you are keen to spread your enthusiasm and to engage with a range of local people from school children to farm and other business owners, as well as corporate bodies, and both local and national government. You are numerate, computer literate, and willing to learn new skills. You are an excellent communicator, both orally and in writing. You have strong inter-personal skills, that you will use to help develop partnerships with stakeholders, and recruit, train, and manage a growing band of citizen science and river restoration volunteers. You understand the variety of reasons that bring people to want to volunteer or just spend time in ‘blue’ environments, and will help to diversify our community appeal through varied forms of public engagement. RLCP is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds. If successful for the role, you will be required to undergo pre-employment checks that will include a basic Disclosure Check (DBS), carried out through a Third-Party Company, prior to commencing employment. To talk to someone further about this role please phone 07825831541.