Lead Nature Recovery Officer

Are you enthusiastic about nature restoration within the native space?

An distinctive alternative to affix West Oxfordshire District Council as Lead Nature Restoration
Officer. You’ll lead on biodiversity-focused land administration and enhancement initiatives
offering top quality and sturdy ecological recommendation to facilitate nature restoration and
enhancement throughout the district and on Council owned land, and thereby delivering on the
Council’s local weather change and nature priorities.

This everlasting position provides the pliability of working inside the workplaces at Witney and agile
working, permitting you that additional freedom and work life stability.

Are you interested by taking the following stage in your profession in environmental
conservation? Or are you already a Nature Restoration Officer, who’s skilled in offering
sound environmental steerage? If that’s the case, we might love to listen to from you.

Our environmental service is prime to the success of the Council’s ambition for a
sustainable future.. From excessive BNG necessities within the Salt Cross Backyard Village to funding
native nature restoration demonstrators, bettering neighborhood entry at Deer Park South and
modifying Ubico’s upkeep regimes to encourage rewilding, our focus is to allow
communities in West Oxfordshire to thrive, creating sustainable locations for folks to dwell,
work, study and luxuriate in.

We wish our future generations to blossom too and are critical about tackling the local weather and
environmental emergencies. Now could be a implausible time to be becoming a member of us. We wish to efficiently
ship our Council priorities and form our surroundings for the advantage of the native space and
past.

We’re searching for a extremely competent Nature Restoration Result in play a pivotal position in offering
sound ecological recommendation. You may be a nature-conservation specialist within the Council’s local weather
crew, spearheading biodiversity-focused land administration and enhancement initiatives within the
Council’s new Nature Restoration Plan, in addition to some local weather associated workstreams.

You’ll work with quite a lot of completely different stakeholders to facilitate nature restoration and
enhancement=by an modern and sensible solutions-based method. Additionally, you will
characterize the Council in exterior collaborations and consultations, safe exterior funding for
initiatives, report on the biodiversity finances to Central Authorities, and enhance environmental
insurance policies to make sure optimistic sustainable outcomes.

In the end, we’re searching for a proficient Nature Restoration Lead, however we might additionally welcome
functions from candidates seeking to step up of their profession. We wish to assist you,
harness your potential and so that you can flourish in your position long run.

You’ll need

• A qualification in your space of experience, equal to a level in Biology, Zoology,
  Ecology or Conservation or related expertise of 5 years
• Expertise of working flexibly as a part of a crew and collaborating with colleagues and
  stakeholders
• Capacity to stay calm and assured when coping with difficult clients and
  environments 
• Capacity to resolve advanced points by negotiation
• Ship commitments and take possession of personal caseload, reshaping of plans to ship
  required outcomes

For extra details about this position please see the Job Description/Particular person Specification.

What can we do for you…

• Agile working permitting a mixture of house and workplace working
• Versatile working preparations (relying on the position)
• 27 days paid annual depart (professional rata if you’re working half time) plus financial institution holidays and an
  additional two volunteering days off a yr so that you can assist a charity of your alternative
• Well being money plan providing you with money again on well being, dental and eye care
• Pension scheme with an excellent employer contribution of 5% of your earnings
• Worker Help Programme 24/7, offering optimistic, preventative and supportive recommendation
  and counselling to take care of on a regular basis occasions and points
• Cycle to work scheme
• Wage sacrifice automotive lease scheme with enormous tax and NI financial savings to be made on electrical vehicles
• Entry to digital monetary recommendation (protecting your pension scheme, mortgages and different
  funds)
• Beneficiant illness cowl above statutory entitlements
• Further revenue safety, protecting 50% of your wage for probably an additional 5
  years if you’re unable to work as a consequence of illness or harm
• Life assurance, at the moment 4 occasions your annual wage
• These are only a handful of the advantages that you could take pleasure in while you be part of us!

To use for this place please click on on “apply now” inside this web page and submit your CV and
supporting assertion. Please inform us about your expertise, information, {qualifications}, expertise
and the way they meet the standards listed above and within the job description/individual specification.
It’s essential that we’re an excellent match for one another, so tell us what’s essential to you and
why you wish to work for Publica Group Ltd..

Your utility won’t be thought-about when you have not offered a supporting assertion, in
addition to your CV.

Accredited of the incapacity assured scheme, we assure to interview all disabled
candidates who meet the minimal standards for the emptiness/ies – Please state this inside your
protecting assertion or in a separate e mail. 

Our organisation is dedicated to safeguarding the welfare of weak adults, younger folks
and kids. Safer recruitment practices are utilized to all job vacancies

Safer recruitment practices are utilized to all job vacancies. Profitable candidates can be
required to finish a pre-employment medical questionnaire; present references; proof of
identification; nationality and immigration standing; three years’ employment or training historical past (if
relevant) and, in some instances, verification of felony document.