Conservation & Volunteering Officer

Objective: Delivering the conservation operations and volunteer programme
Stories to: Head of Land Administration
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Fastened time period 2 years with risk of extension

Ribble Rivers Belief (RRT) is a regional charity established in 1998 to preserve the Ribble
Catchment, significantly its rivers, brooks, becks, and streams. During the last 10 years, RRT has
developed and grown right into a sector-leading organisation, recognized for getting issues performed, robust
partnership working and a collaborative strategy.

Now we have 5 groups specializing in Information and Proof, Land Administration, Folks and Studying, River
Conservation and Core Providers. Each crew member is empowered to attain their finest. Our groups
work collaboratively on built-in initiatives to enhance, defend and create a mosaic of habitats
and land makes use of that can result in a wholesome riverine setting. That is underpinned by a
science-driven strategy that delivers a number of advantages.

The Belief additionally works collaboratively and in partnership with a variety of organisations, comparable to
the Surroundings Company, United Utilities, Jamie’s Farm, Woodland Belief, Lancashire Wildlife
Belief, Yorkshire Dales Millennium Belief, The Forest of Bowland AONB, and lots of Native
Authorities.

With Assist from Defra’s Species Survival Fund we’re launching a brand new programme of river
enchancment initiatives known as ‘Ribble Revival: Room for Rivers’. This programme has important
quantities of on the bottom habitat conservation actions, with most having components of
volunteering. These actions embody; tree planting, woodland upkeep, fencing, wetland
plug planting, and Fish Passage, to call just a few. This position will undertake the supply of many
of those actions independently and thru the supervision of volunteering days. The position
will be sure that we create and keep prime quality habitats, in addition to making certain volunteers
work safely, ship optimistic conservation actions, are engaged & studying about river
conservation and having fun with nature.

As such, the Belief is seeking to recruit a reliable, dynamic, and enthusiastic one that will
be becoming a member of a inventive and devoted crew, dedicated to creating a distinction to the setting.
This individual may have information of creating and delivering volunteer days, together with
preparation actions, device field talks to volunteers, and supervising volunteers.

The profitable candidate may have information of subjects comparable to catchment/landscape-scale conservation, ecosystem companies, river restoration, and the way bodily enchancment initiatives ship these subjects.