Project Assistant

Job title: Challenge Assistant
Location: Merseyside
Wage: £23,400 per yr (plus £20/month telephone allowance)
Closes: Wednesday 1st Might 2024
Place: Challenge Assistant
Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week. Flexibility required (some night
& weekend work)

Background

The Mersey Rivers Belief (MRT) is an environmental charity focussing on the safety and
enhancement of rivers and waterbodies within the Mersey Catchment. It operates in an space overlaying
Better Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire. The Belief works with companions, native communities
and volunteers to ship a variety of initiatives together with river restoration, discount of
flood threat by Pure Flood Administration methods, river monitoring, volunteer occasions (eg river
clean-ups/invasive species management and citizen science), neighborhood engagement and training
occasions, farm recommendation/plans and biodiversity web acquire.

This can be a nice alternative to achieve useful expertise working within the environmental sector.

The profitable candidate will assist our NFM Programme Supervisor to develop MRT’s new Alt
Catchment NFM Challenge, and help MRT Challenge Managers to ship ongoing initiatives.

The position is initially provided till October 2024, however with the hope of extension (depending on
profitable bid submission and funding).

Predominant duties

• Help the NFM Programme Supervisor with the monitoring necessities of the Alt Catchment NFM
  programme e.g. water high quality evaluation, river MoRPh surveys, assortment of water movement and depth
  information and many others – common of two days per week however prone to be extra some weeks than others.
• Help the Merseyside Challenge Managers of their day-to-day duties – common of three days per
  week
  • Peat undertaking – sampling of peat water ranges (coaching offered), engagement with
    farmers
  • Species survival undertaking – help with ecology surveys
  • Alt Meadows – help with Water Vole survey and electrofishing
  • NFM initiatives – help with walkovers, neighborhood engagement work and many others.
• Help different MRT Challenge Managers if required, and when workload permits

Key expertise/expertise:

• Scientific background preferable
• An curiosity within the setting and/or ecology
• Capacity to interact with stakeholders, together with farmers and the broader neighborhood
• Have a full driving licence and entry to a automobile insured for enterprise functions
• Self-motivated and capable of work successfully from house
• Capacity to work flexibly, together with some early mornings, some evenings and a few
  weekends/financial institution holidays – ecology surveys can be at unsociable hours
• Ideally Merseyside-based to cut back mileage and subsequently carbon footprint

Please be aware that while useful, no undertaking administration or surveying expertise is required –
as all obligatory coaching can be offered.

To use: 

For those who want to apply, please ship a CV (not more than two sides of A4) and overlaying letter (no
greater than two sides of A4), outlining the way you meet the necessities of the individual specification
and job description and why you wish to work for the Belief. Please electronic mail your utility to
the Merseyside Senior Challenge Supervisor, Andy Martin ([email protected]).

Functions have to be acquired by electronic mail no later than the top of Wednesday 1st Might 2024.

Interviews can be held in early Might both through Zoom or face-to-face relying on
circumstances.

If you need extra details about the position earlier than submitting an utility, you could contact
Andy Martin 07786992444 ([email protected]) or Rebecca Howard 07811207893 ([email protected]).