Green Farm Engagement Officer

We’re on the lookout for somebody who can encourage communities to like and take motion for nature in and
round our Monkwood nature reserve simply north of Worcester. 

You

We’re on the lookout for somebody who is very personable, passionate and organised. You’re equally
comfy constructing relationships in communities as you’re tree planting and also you’re dedicated
to supporting community-powered motion. This function will allow you to make an actual distinction to
nature’s restoration and to be a part of our imaginative and prescient to guard 30% of land and sea by 2030.

Us

Neighborhood engagement is a necessary a part of the Belief’s work. We recognise that to provide nature
the perfect probability of recovering and flourishing in Worcestershire, the help of communities is
important throughout the county to take motion. This may be motion on individuals’s native patch in addition to
conservation work on our nature reserves.

Worcestershire Wildlife Belief is the county’s main native charity working in the direction of a county
wealthy in wildlife. With the help of our volunteers and members we handle over 3,000 acres of
land for wildlife and other people throughout Worcestershire. We work with organisations and landowners
to guard and join wildlife websites throughout the county. We additionally work with and encourage native
communities and younger individuals to look after wildlife the place they reside. Worcestershire Wildlife
Belief is certainly one of 46 Wildlife Trusts working throughout the UK.

We’re Wild About Inclusion. To us, this implies inspiring, empowering and
participating individuals from all backgrounds, cultures, identities and skills, to vary the pure
world for the higher. It additionally means cultivating inclusive workspaces which might be free from
discrimination, the place variations are valued, everybody will be themselves and flourish, simply
like nature!

The mission

The mission is one yr in and we’ve got already achieved an excessive amount of engagement with the
area people, particularly in delivering nature enhancements akin to tree planting on the
nature reserve and constructing hyperlinks with the native colleges. The brand new officer will proceed to steer
on the good work that has already been achieved and construct on these native connections to
strengthen our roots into the group.

Monkwood nature reserve is a semi-ancient woodland owned by Worcestershire Wildlife Belief and
managed in partnership with Butterfly Conservation, with whom we co-own Little Monkwood. The
Belief has been profitable in fundraising to develop, join and shield Monkwood for the primary
time in over three-hundred years by way of buying land to the instant west of Monkwood at
Inexperienced Farm. This has been made attainable on account of funding from the Nationwide Lottery Heritage Fund,
Severn Waste Companies, The Bannister Charitable Belief, L G Harris Charitable Belief, 3DTotal.com
and beneficiant non-public donations from many members and supporters of our work.

It is a unbelievable alternative for an Engagement Officer to proceed to work with colleagues
to ship a spread of group engagement actions, each on Inexperienced Farm and inside the native
group. We shall be working with native colleges and faculties, teams akin to Wildgoose Rural
Coaching CIC, religion teams and different group organisations. They may also work with
stakeholders and colleagues to ascertain new nature trails and enhance the accessibility of
this glorious website.

Some night and common weekend working shall be required, a full driving licence is important.
That is 0.6 FTE/21 hours per week place on a one-year fastened time period contract.

The function shall be largely primarily based at Worcestershire Wildlife Belief, Decrease Smite Farm, Hindlip,
Worcester WR3 8SZ with common journey to Inexperienced Farm adjoining to Monkwood Nature Reserve to the
north of Worcester.

Deadline for functions: 2nd Might 2024

Interviews shall be held w/c: sixth Might 2024