Growing Together Project Officer

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

Reporting to (put up): Challenge and Volunteer Supervisor

Hours of labor: Full time most popular, 37.5 hours per week. Please notice we are going to take into account purposes for at least 30 hours per week.

Situated at Surrey Hills Property Workplace – Warren Farm Barns, Dorking, RH5 6DG, website visits throughout the Surrey Hills Nationwide Panorama, wider Surrey County and dealing from residence.

Wage: £28,000 professional rata

Concerning the Surrey Hills Society:

The Surrey Hills Society is an unbiased charity selling the constructive enjoyment and conservation of the Surrey Hills Nationwide Panorama for many who stay, work in, or go to the realm. The Society encourages individuals to discover and study in regards to the particular qualities and distinctiveness of the realm by means of walks, talks, occasions, sensible conservation, and volunteering.

The Function:

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 Challenge ‘Rising Collectively: Variety and Inclusion within the Surrey Hills’.

Concerning the venture:

The venture might be based mostly within the Surrey Hills Nationwide Panorama. The power to take pleasure in and recognize our protected landscapes has been a basic 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 setting. We have to ship higher outcomes for communities going through these inequalities.

This venture goals to extend alternatives for inclusivity within the countryside by working with three major goal teams. These are Surrey Selections, 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 venture might be spent facilitating workshops with our goal teams to construct relationships, belief and co-create the exercise programme. By way of a 12 months lengthy
programme of co-designed nature-based actions, we want to enhance confidence within the countryside, construct outside and conservation abilities and supply higher alternatives for individuals to study in regards to the panorama. Over the course of a 12 months, we hope to interact with 100 contributors and run 4-5 exercise classes monthly. This can contain working intently with contributors from every of our goal teams and their accomplice organisations, in addition to a wide-variety of site-managers, conservation organisations and farmers and landowners.

By way of higher illustration, and empowering communities, this venture 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 may be accessed and loved by all.

Key areas of labor:

To work with the Challenge 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 Staff and a Challenge Steering Group.

This contains:

• Constructing belief and relationships with accomplice organisations and performing as a degree of contact for venture contributors and companions.
• Facilitating taster and workshop classes 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 venture. This contains, figuring out acceptable 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 venture contributors.
• Facilitate suggestions and surveys in partnership with Surrey College’s Environmental Psychology division, to watch venture progress and consider venture outcomes. This contains venture reporting and story seize on quite a lot of platforms.
• Coordinating with native landowners and site-managers to determine alternatives to work collectively to ship conservation and entry tasks.
• Helping with the supply of sensible conservation duties together with, incorporating participant classes into group volunteering open days, company crew constructing days and group group occasions.
• Working intently with the Surrey Hills Board and Surrey Hills Arts to ship the venture 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 venture outcomes.
• Promotion of the venture together with particular presents to Nationwide Lottery Gamers.
• Co-creating digital property to advertise higher illustration to communities.

Individual Specification:

Important:

• Glorious communication and interpersonal abilities.
• Empathy and understanding of the worth of variety and integration.
• The power to construct efficient relationships and belief.
• Open mindedness and a recognition of the limitations that sure members of the group face.
• A ardour for the setting, UK wildlife and the countryside.
• Confidence in main teams of individuals.
• Good organisational and IT abilities and the flexibility to suppose in your ft/be resourceful.
• The power to self-motivate and handle your individual calendar.
• The power to work as a part of a crew 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 automobile.
• Topic to DBS verify.

Fascinating:

• Related expertise in relation to conservation and the setting.
• Data of the native space and native communities.
• Background of working with minority teams.
• First Assist educated.
• Data 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 based mostly organisations which can assist with future employability and profession prospects.
• Coaching programs (topic to availability) which can embrace First Assist, Psychological Well being First Assist, Incapacity Consciousness, and Volunteer administration.
• Sensible work expertise together with helping and main with sensible conservation duties.
• Growth of time administration, organisational and interpersonal abilities.
• In depth expertise of occasion planning, together with the administration of instruments, logistics, creation of threat assessments and supply.
• Glorious alternative to make a marked distinction on the range of customer and volunteer profiles within the Surrey Hills.

Job Info:

The contract might be for a length of 18 months. Commonplace working hours might be from
9am-5:30pm. Regular working hours might be Monday-Friday, however you may be required to work weekends when the venture requires. Because of the nature of the target market some exercise classes 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 further working might be accounted for by means of day without work in lieu (TOIL).

The profitable candidate might be based mostly 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 realm in addition to earn a living from home.

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

You should have a full UK driving licence and have entry to a automobile to succeed in totally different websites and sometimes transport gear.

Deadline: Friday nineteenth April.

Equal Alternatives

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