Are you passionate about tackling the nature and climate emergency? Do you want the opportunity to deliver amazing havens for wildlife across the Fens Priority Landscape?
We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate, well -organised and pragmatic individual to join our team and provide project management support on a series of conservation restoration initiatives, with key RSPB partners, across the Fens priority landscape.
Part-Time Senior Project Manager - Fens Priority Landscape (Fixed-Term)
Reference: APR20245372
Location: Fens Area Office, Swavesey, Cambridge, CB24 4QG
Salary: £38,389.00 - £41,212.00 pro rata
Hours: Part-time, 30 hours per week
Contract: 2 years fixed-term
What’s the role about?
Our ambitious Hanson – RSPB Wetland project at Needingworth, creating Ouse Fen reserve, is the largest planned nature conservation restoration scheme following mineral extraction in Europe. When complete, it will include the UK’s largest reedbed, covering 460 hectares (that’s 644 football pitches of land well managed for nature!) Recreating some of the lost wetland habitat that once dominated the entire fenland landscape and creating wildlife successes for species such as bitterns and bearded tits.
Our pioneering partnership with Morgan Sindall, enabled us to acquire additional farmland at our Lakenheath Fen reserve, enabling large- scale restoration to wetland, extending habitat for threatened species such as bittern, and locking in 1,782 tonnes of CO2 annually (equivalent to 660 UK homes!)
What we want to see
As the Senior Project Manager for the area, you would be responsible for the effective delivery of projects and ensuring the RSPB delivers on project objectives, outcomes and outputs.
Essential Skills and Experience
* Evidence of strong project management principles and processes that have enabled you to achieve high quality delivery.
* The ability to build, collaborate and maintain excellent working relationships with our external partners, internal site teams and experts (such as ecologists, rural surveyors, HSE advisors), to deliver the best outcomes for nature.
* Experience of effective contract and budget management.
* Prior experience of procuring contractors and consultants to enable successful delivery of projects.
* Exceptional communication skills, you will be articulate and can make the often complex, simple for others to understand.
* Characteristics of an excellent negotiator and can demonstrate examples where you have negotiated to a successful outcome.
* Demonstrable exposure to working with funders.
Closing date: 23:59, Friday, 3rd May 2024
We are looking to conduct interviews for this position from 15th May 2024.
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