Growing Together Project Officer

Job title: Rising Collectively: Inclusion and Conservation within the Surrey Hills – Venture Officer

Reporting to (put up): Venture and Volunteer Supervisor

Hours of labor: Full time most well-liked, 37.5 hours per week. Please observe we are going to think about functions for at least 30 hours per week.

Positioned at Surrey Hills Property Workplace – Warren Farm Barns, Dorking, RH5 6DG, web site visits throughout the Surrey Hills Nationwide Panorama, wider Surrey County and dealing from dwelling.

Wage: £28,000 professional rata

In regards to the Surrey Hills Society:

The Surrey Hills Society is an unbiased charity selling the optimistic enjoyment and conservation of the Surrey Hills Nationwide Panorama for many who reside, work in, or go to the world. The Society encourages individuals to discover and be taught concerning the particular qualities and distinctiveness of the world by means of walks, talks, occasions, sensible conservation, and volunteering.

The Position:

An 18-month employment contract with the Surrey Hills Society (reviewed after a probationary interval of three months) to ship The Nationwide Lottery Heritage Funded Venture ‘Rising Collectively: Variety and Inclusion within the Surrey Hills’.

In regards to the challenge:

The challenge will probably be primarily based within the Surrey Hills Nationwide Panorama. The flexibility to take pleasure in and admire our protected landscapes has been a elementary a part of our lives because the conception of the Nationwide Parks and Countryside Entry Act in 1949. Nonetheless, it’s obvious that they’re disproportionately loved by sure sectors of the group, leaving inequalities in entry and a insecurity in utilizing the pure atmosphere. We have to ship higher outcomes for communities dealing with these inequalities.

This challenge goals to extend alternatives for inclusivity within the countryside by working with three major goal teams. These are Surrey Decisions, supporting adults with studying disabilities, Surrey Coalition of Disabled individuals which represents and helps Disabled Individuals, and Surrey Minority Ethnic Discussion board (SMEF) which represents greater than 60 multi-ethnic group teams in Surrey.

The primary two months of the challenge will probably be spent facilitating workshops with our goal teams to construct relationships, belief and co-create the exercise programme. By way of a yr lengthy
programme of co-designed nature-based actions, we want to enhance confidence within the countryside, construct out of doors and conservation expertise and supply better alternatives for individuals to be taught concerning the panorama. Over the course of a yr, we hope to interact with 100 individuals and run 4-5 exercise periods monthly. It will contain working intently with individuals from every of our goal teams and their associate organisations, in addition to a wide-variety of site-managers, conservation organisations and farmers and landowners.

By way of better illustration, and empowering communities, this challenge goals to create a legacy for variety and inclusion within the Surrey Hills going ahead, making certain that heritage options such because the Surrey Hills Nationwide Panorama will be accessed and loved by all.

Key areas of labor:

To work with the Venture and Volunteer Supervisor on main and managing the planning, supply, and analysis of ‘Rising Collectively: Inclusion and Variety within the Surrey Hills’ in shut collaboration with the Surrey Hills Society Crew and a Venture Steering Group.

This contains:

• Constructing belief and relationships with associate organisations and appearing as a degree of contact for challenge individuals and companions.
• Facilitating taster and workshop periods to help with the planning of a co-designed
  nature-based and conservation volunteering exercise programme.
• Organisation and supply of the co-designed exercise programme, contemplating entry wants and necessities, in addition to suggestions all through challenge. This contains, figuring out applicable websites, transport, and actions and general coordination all through.
• Bringing companions similar to present volunteer networks, site-managers, and conservation organisations collectively to ship actions in addition to construct relationships with challenge individuals.
• Facilitate suggestions and surveys in partnership with Surrey College’s Environmental Psychology division, to observe challenge progress and consider challenge outcomes. This contains challenge reporting and story seize on quite a lot of platforms.
• Coordinating with native landowners and site-managers to establish alternatives to work collectively to ship conservation and entry tasks.
• Aiding with the supply of sensible conservation duties together with, incorporating participant periods into group volunteering open days, company group constructing days and group group occasions.
• Working intently with the Surrey Hills Board and Surrey Hills Arts to ship the challenge goals in addition to helping with Surrey Hills-wide occasions, together with an annual symposium at Surrey College.
• Working in partnership with different organisations similar to Surrey Wildlife Belief and The Nationwide Belief to ship the challenge outcomes.
• Promotion of the challenge together with particular affords to Nationwide Lottery Gamers.
• Co-creating digital property to advertise better illustration to communities.

Individual Specification:

Important:

• Wonderful communication and interpersonal expertise.
• Empathy and understanding of the worth of variety and integration.
• The flexibility to construct efficient relationships and belief.
• Open mindedness and a recognition of the obstacles that sure members of the group face.
• A ardour for the atmosphere, UK wildlife and the countryside.
• Confidence in main teams of individuals.
• Good organisational and IT expertise and the flexibility to assume in your ft/be resourceful.
• The flexibility to self-motivate and handle your personal calendar.
• The flexibility to work as a part of a group and in partnership with others, together with with those that work inside different organisations.
• Enthusiasm and dedication to the position.
• Clear UK driving licence and entry to a automotive.
• Topic to DBS examine.

Fascinating:

• Related expertise in relation to conservation and the atmosphere.
• Information of the native space and native communities.
• Background of working with minority teams.
• First Support skilled.
• Information of social media.

Job Outcomes/Alternatives:

• Expertise of working inside a charitable organisation and as a part of a Nationwide Panorama.
• Expertise working with a variety of individuals, together with these with totally different necessities and talents.
• Alternative for networking with numerous Surrey primarily based organisations which can assist with future employability and profession prospects.
• Coaching programs (topic to availability) which can embody First Support, Psychological Well being First Support, Incapacity Consciousness, and Volunteer administration.
• Sensible work expertise together with helping and main with sensible conservation duties.
• Growth of time administration, organisational and interpersonal expertise.
• Intensive expertise of occasion planning, together with the administration of instruments, logistics, creation of danger assessments and supply.
• Wonderful alternative to make a marked distinction on the range of customer and volunteer profiles within the Surrey Hills.

Job Info:

The contract will probably be for a length of 18 months. Commonplace working hours will probably be from
9am-5:30pm. Regular working hours will probably be Monday-Friday, however you’ll be required to work weekends when the challenge requires. As a result of nature of the audience some exercise periods should be at weekends and sometimes through the night. The appointed candidate is predicted to totally take part in all actions provided to them, however any extra working will probably be accounted for by means of day without work in lieu (TOIL).

The profitable candidate will probably be primarily based out of the Surrey Hills Property Workplace, which is positioned at Warren Farm Barns, Headley Lane, Mickleham Dorking, RH5 6DG. Nonetheless, additionally, you will be anticipated to journey to all kinds of web sites throughout the world in addition to earn a living from home.

You may be entitled to 25 days vacation (professional rata if lower than 37.5 hours per week) plus financial institution holidays. Journey bills will probably be agreed and paid for. Additionally, you will be entitled to a pension as soon as the probationary interval has handed.

It’s essential to have a full UK driving licence and have entry to a automotive to achieve totally different websites and sometimes transport gear.

Deadline: Friday nineteenth April.

Equal Alternatives

We’re dedicated to having an inclusive and numerous organisation and encourage functions from these with backgrounds, which can be underrepresented in our sector, together with individuals from minority ethnic backgrounds and other people with disabilities.