We have a new and exciting position available as a River Restoration Coordinator. This role will oversee the delivery of an innovative and wide-reaching multi-million-pound initiative recently launched on the Dee, Save the Spring.
The 20-year programme is aimed at saving threatened species including the river’s iconic Atlantic salmon. It will also reduce the impacts of floods and droughts, benefitting all wildlife and communities, and it will involve the use of cutting-edge science.
The programme is supported by the leading organisations: The River Dee Trust, Dee District Salmon Fishery Board and Atlantic Salmon Trust. The Coordinator will be employed by the River Dee Trust, with hybrid-working from our River Office in Dinnet, Aberdeenshire.
With support from specialists in all the partner organisations, as well as partnerships in development with two universities, this role will coordinate a Source to Sea approach and ensure delivery of linked work packages. This will include strategic landscape-scale habitat restoration, novel conservation translocation methods to boost numbers of the most vulnerable genetic components of the salmon population, investigating pressures as migrating salmon transition between the river and sea, monitoring, and significant engagement and communication with our stakeholders
This is a permanent position. We are seeking an experienced project manager with an ecological or social science background; further information is available in the Job Specification on our website here - https://riverdee.org.uk/news/vacancy -for-river-restoration-coordinator/
To apply, please send your CV and a covering letter explaining your interest in this role to info@riverdee.org by 5pm on Monday 15 April.
We will invite selected candidates to interview held at Dinnet on Tuesday 30 April.
Qualifications
• Qualified at least to degree level, or equivalent practical experience, in a relevant social science and/or scientific discipline (e.g. a subject relevant to biodiversity, wildlife and land management and/or technical project delivery).
• A full UK driving licence.
Skills and Background
• Freshwater conservation and restoration management
• Excellent understanding of practices for habitat and species conservation and restoration.
• Understanding and knowledge of legislation and policies for biodiversity.
Skills
• Excellent communications skills, written and verbal, to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Delivery of community and stakeholder engagement events.
• Practical skills in multi-disciplinary ecosystem management projects.
• GIS and associated spatial analysis packages.
• Technical skills in aquatic and wildlife conservation and management.
• Ability to identify and engage with a range of funders.
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