Conservation Officer – Life on the Edge

Conservation Officer – Life on the Edge (Full time, 5 days per week)
Length: Till finish of March 2029
Wage: £28,337.89 every year

Are you passionate in regards to the small issues that run the world? Now we have an thrilling alternative
to affix our staff and assist to make an actual distinction for a few of South Devon’s most threatened
invertebrates.

Buglife is recruiting a Conservation Officer who would be the species conservation and habitat
restoration ecologist on the Life on the Edge venture (LotE). LotE is a multi-partner Nationwide
Lottery Heritage Fund venture that goals to revive viable populations of among the UK’s
rarest invertebrates and crops dwelling alongside the South Devon coast between Berry Head and
Wembury, together with the final identified colony of the Six-banded Nomad Bee (Nomada
sexfasciata). This bee faces imminent extinction except motion is taken. The venture will
additionally allow the restoration of over 30 different threatened invertebrates together with the Lengthy-horned
Bee (Eucera longicornis), Quick-necked Oil Beetle (Meloe brevicollis), and
Moon Spider (Callilepis nocturna), together with 30 uncommon or declining plant species.

The venture will present 675ha. of latest and improved species-rich grasslands alongside the coast of
South Devon between 2024 and 2029. The Conservation Officer will encourage and help farmers
and landowners inside the 5 venture hotspots to revive species-rich grassland, together with
through Countryside Stewardship, in addition to delivering occasions, talks and offering habitat
administration recommendation for pollinators.

You’ll be a part of a dynamic staff, working with venture companions together with South Devon
Nationwide Landscapes, Nationwide Belief, South West Coast Path Affiliation, Doorstep Arts and native
communities, organisations, farmers and landowners.

This position will embody: sensible venture administration and supply; partnership working;
overseeing sensible habitat administration works; growing and delivering revolutionary concepts and
options to participating farming communities with invertebrates and their conservation;
enterprise ecological surveys, managing volunteers; public relations; monetary administration and
teamwork.

We’re on the lookout for somebody who has their very own space of curiosity and specialism, however may also
reveal a broad information of invertebrate ecology and a willingness to increase their
information and work in new areas.

Do you could have?

• Expertise of working with the farming group
• Data of a variety of invertebrate teams, and a few botanical information.
• Demonstrable dedication to defending the surroundings and conserving wildlife
• Good degree of ecological information and understanding of conservation points
• Expertise of working in partnership with different organisations, volunteers, landowners and
  contractors.
• Undertaking administration, monetary information and expertise
• Expertise of elevating public consciousness of wildlife and environmental points
• Expertise of organising occasions and involving the general public in tasks.

This position is mounted time period till thirty first March 2029, primarily based on 5 days every week. You’ll work with the
wider Life on the Edge staff on the South Devon Nationwide Panorama workplace in Totnes, and at
Buglife’s workplace in Plymouth, dwelling working will even be thought-about. A versatile strategy to the
working sample will probably be thought-about for the profitable candidate.

We satisfaction ourselves on our dedication to equality of alternative for all employees and candidates.
Do you have to require any help to help you together with your software please don’t hesitate to
contact us at [email protected].

About us

Buglife’s goal is to halt the extinction of invertebrate species and to realize sustainable
populations of invertebrates.

We’re working laborious to realize this by:

• Selling the environmental significance of invertebrates and elevating consciousness in regards to the
  challenges to their survival.
• Aiding within the improvement of laws and coverage that may make sure the conservation of
  invertebrates.
• Creating and disseminating information about the right way to preserve invertebrates.
• Encouraging and supporting invertebrate conservation initiatives by different organisations in
  the UK, Europe and worldwide.
• Endeavor sensible conservation tasks that may contribute to attaining our goal.

Buglife provide a advantages package deal together with, Enhanced Pension, Versatile Working, 23 days annual
go away (rising to twenty-eight after 3 years service) along with winter shut between Christmas and
New Yr.

How you can apply

A full job description is offered on our web site: www.buglife.org.uk/jobs

To use please e-mail your CV and a masking letter explaining why you’re the finest particular person to
help our work to avoid wasting websites to [email protected]

Deadline for functions: tenth April. On-line interviews will probably be held on seventeenth and 18th
April.

Please word, that this position shouldn’t be eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship – the profitable applicant should have a
pre-existing Proper to Work within the UK to be supplied an employment contract.

We reserve the appropriate to shut this advert at any time.