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About The Role
Are you passionate about urban wildlife and community engagement? We're seeking a dynamic Urban Rewilding Programme Officer to co-lead Wilding Chesterfield, an inspiring community-driven project focused on urban species recovery.
In this role, you'll empower the people of Chesterfield to take meaningful action, transforming the city into a thriving habitat for swifts, bats, hedgehogs, and pollinators. You'll develop and deliver cutting-edge urban nature recovery initiatives that make a real difference.
Additionally, you'll forge strong relationships with local stakeholders, creating a network that supports and enhances urban biodiversity. You'll join us at an exciting point where our Wilder2030 strategy takes shape, ensuring our collective efforts drive a broader vision of nature recovery and community engagement.
To be successful you will
Be passionate about nature recovery, proactively seeking opportunities to listen thoughtfully, share knowledge, and be inspired to co-create nature-based solutions projects that benefit urban wildlife.
Be curious and creative, exploring new ways to work in collaboration to deliver nature recovery projects that inspire communities to take action.
Be courageous, standing up for what is right and challenge yourself and others to reimagine how people can deliver transformative change for nature.
What we can offer you:
* Flexible working options, we have adopted a 9-day working fortnight meaning all full time staff get a non-working Friday every fortnight
* 33 days annual leave including bank holidays, we also have a festive shutdown so all staff get the days between Christmas and New Year off in addition to their leave entitlement
* Climate Perks (extra leave granted for staff using more green, sustainable transport)
* 9.5% employer pension contribution
* Electric bike and car salary-sacrifice schemes available
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Life Assurance Scheme
* Personalised Development programme designed to enhance your knowledge and progress your career
* A multi-disciplinary business, with opportunities to work on a wide range of projects, developing your experience and skills
* A close-knit, friendly and supportive team, with a relaxed office atmosphere
About You
This role might be right for you if you have:
* Experience of developing and delivering nature conservation or rewilding projects.
* Experienced in writing conservation management plans and ability to adapt these to a rewilding and natural processes approach.
* Experienced in contractor management and safe working procedures.
* Experience of environmental or ecological monitoring as part of project evaluation.
* Good understanding of the state of nature in Derbyshire, and ways of improving urban places for wildlife including swifts, bats, hedgehogs and pollinators.
* Excellent communication skills to engage audiences and mobilise action.
* Experience of delivering excellent volunteering opportunities and inclusive stakeholder engagement.
We are happy to talk flexible working!
This role will be based at our office in Middleton although a balance of home and office working will be allowed. We are a local charity so applicants should be easily able to access our office and other locations around the county.
Interviews are planned for...
Tuesday 3rd June
For more information please refer to the job description and key terms attached. If you have any questions about the role which are not answered in the attached documents, or require adjustments to the application process, please either email recruitment@derbyshirewt.co.uk or call 01773 881188.
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust
We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and believe that everyone should have access to nature. We expect people to work harmoniously with each other and with volunteers, and to provide help and guidance to others when needed. As a small charity, our employees need to be willing to be flexible about working arrangements and willing to provide occasional cover for absent staff. We want people to develop professionally and personally while working with us and employees are encouraged to participate in the range of opportunities available to enable this.
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust is an equal opportunities employer that strives to be a diverse and inclusive environment in which everyone is valued. We welcome applications from eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
Werecognisethat our workforce needs to represent the communities and people we work with. We particularly encourage applications from underrepresented groups within Derbyshire Wildlife Trust and the wider charity and conservation sector, such as people from Black and EthnicMinority backgrounds and those who identify as LGBTQ+.
We are proudly a Disability Confident Commitment employer. The scheme is helping us recruit and retain great people to meet our workforce needs. As a member of the scheme we interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the essential
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