Postcode Gardener

We’re recruiting for our new mission – THE HACKNEY BUZZLINE

Utilizing cash raised by Nationwide Lottery gamers, The Nationwide Lottery Heritage Fund helps
tasks that join folks and communities with the UK’s heritage. The Hackney Buzzline is
made attainable with The Nationwide Lottery Heritage Fund. 

Because of Nationwide Lottery gamers, we are going to create a 4 km pollinator hall connecting
4 parks in Hackney via three social housing estates. The parks are native websites of
significance for nature conservation. We are going to construct the hall by sowing wildflower meadows,
planting flower beds and creating ‘stepping-stone’ habitats and monitoring their influence on
pollinator variety. We are going to contain colleges, youth hubs, neighborhood teams and residents
dwelling in Hackney to assist us perform the planting tasks and survey the bees, butterflies
and moths that go to the Hackney Buzzline. The mission will final three years (Might 2024 – March
2027, topic to mission funding being in place).

We’re recruiting to fill two new roles – The Undertaking Supervisor & Group
Ecologist, and The Postcode Gardener 

The Postcode Gardener

The Postcode Gardener will ship a neighborhood planting programme, which can permit us to construct the Hackney
Buzzline over three years in assist of Hackney’s Native Nature Restoration Plan. We are going to create
our flower-rich pollinator hall in 4 Hackney parks, inside college and neighborhood centre grounds, on social housing estates, and beside strolling and biking paths to assist increase the bodily
well being and psychological wellbeing of Hackney residents. 

Key duties for The Postcode Gardener will embody:

1. Serving to to enhance the pure heritage in Hackney, by offering gardening actions and
   horticultural assist for residents within the borough, specializing in rising pollinator
   variety and abundance.
2. Organising and delivering pollinator-planting and habitat-creation tasks, structured in
   6-12 weekly session blocks for neighborhood teams, colleges and residents dwelling alongside the
   Hackney Buzzline.
3. Participating and supporting a variety of individuals to participate in gardening classes,
   significantly those that are underrepresented in conventional environmental
   actions.
4. Offering hands-on coaching and sensible expertise for members and volunteers,
   supporting them to realize new abilities in sustainable gardening.
5. Help neighborhood hubs to know find out how to preserve the pollinator habitats created
   alongside the Hackney Buzzline sooner or later.

The Postcode Gardener publish is a component time, three days per week, which can often embody some weekend and night work.

For additional particulars on the mission and to use for the position, please go to our web site.

Deadline for purposes is Monday twenty second April at 9 am and interviews will happen throughout
the week commencing twenty ninth April 2024.