Assistant Surveyor x2

Two part-time, self-employed Assistant Surveyor
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Three days per week for 16 weeks from June to September 2024 at £250 per day.

Teesdale Particular Flora Belief is looking for two part-time, self-employed assistant surveyors from
June to September this 12 months to be taught the vital talent of surveying the presence of uncommon
plant species.

That is an thrilling alternative to work with a nationally-renowned botanist in Higher Teesdale
within the North Pennines Nationwide Panorama space. That is one of many UK’s 5 ‘botanical
hotspots’, well-known for its distinctive assortment of uncommon and scarce plant species – the so-called
‘Teesdale Assemblage’. The survey work is usually based mostly on figuring out crops utilizing vegetative
characters. This work would go well with people who find themselves creating careers as specialist freelance
botanists.

Complete info on the flora of the world and its historical past might be discovered within the e book
Teesdale’s Particular Flora, by Dr. Margaret Bradshaw, the founding father of the Belief. Additional
details about the Belief might be discovered at www.teesdalespecialflora.uk

The Belief has been awarded a ‘Farming in Protected Landscapes’ grant to additional prolong its
ongoing programme of surveying, to determine a baseline file of the presence and site of
the uncommon species and – for the primary time – to supply coaching and mentoring for 2 assistant
surveyors to be taught the important expertise of doing this work, with a view to increasing the very
small pool of botanists ready to take action.

The contracts shall be for 2 self-employed assistant surveyors to work for 3 days per week
for 16 weeks from June to September at a day fee of £250 – making a contract worth of
£12,000 per put up.

The survey websites are fairly distant, so candidates might want to:

• have a full driving licence and their very own automobile
• be capable to address days in distant places on pretty tough terrain and in all weathers
• have, or be ready to acquire (on the Belief’s expense), an upland navigation and
  an outside or emergency first support certificates.

To specific an curiosity, please ship a CV and overlaying letter to [email protected]

Deadline: Monday 22 April 2024