Project Officer – Coniston

Abstract

Passionate concerning the Lake District and dealing collaboratively with others to revive a
wholesome vibrant and numerous upland panorama? In return we’ll offer you new and
rewarding work experiences you in all probability have not had earlier than. We now have a brand new alternative for a
Mission Officer to affix our countryside workforce to assist us ship on these ambitions throughout our
4000ha property.

It’s an thrilling time to affix the workforce, in a diversified function that can mean you can use your
conservation information to have interaction tenants, companions and wider stakeholders within the growth
and supply of initiatives and agri-environment schemes which be a part of up alternatives for habitat
restoration throughout our tenanted farms.

Hours: Full time, this function requires you to work flexibly the place some night
and weekend working will probably be required to allow you to hold out efficiently the aims of
the function. 

Wage: £30,966pa

Contract: 2 12 months fastened time period contract

Head to head interviews: Friday third Could 

Please embrace a overlaying letter (no a couple of web page of A4) along with your software outlining
what key expertise and sensible abilities make you the best candidate to take our aspirations
ahead.

In case you have any questions on this function please contact: [email protected]

We’re growing our Mission Officers workforce within the Lake District and presently have one other
place out there, please see IRC150886. If you need to be thought-about for each roles,
please do apply for each.

We might very welcome functions from each inside and exterior candidates. 

What it is prefer to work right here

You’ll be based mostly from our workplace in Coniston within the coronary heart of the Lake District and be a part of
our dynamic 25 robust countryside workforce, working in a supportive studying surroundings serving to
each other and be line managed by our Countryside Supervisor. 

We take care of among the most spectacular and iconic components of the Lake District (UNESCO World
Heritage Website) round Coniston, Little Langdale and Hawkshead throughout a portfolio with robust
ties to Beatrix Potter, her beloved Hill Prime Home, and legacy of land, farms, buildings,
paintings and Herdwick sheep. This contains the favored customer locations of Wray Fortress, Hill
Prime Home, and the long-lasting Tarn Hows, which collectively welcome over 450,000 guests a 12 months.

Our 4000ha countryside property is a various vary of habitats from woodlands, and meadows round
the shores of Lake Windermere and Coniston Water to upland wooden pasture, heath and peatlands up
to the summit of Wetherlam at 763m.

What you may be doing

As Mission Officer you may assist us ship on our ambitions for our land within the South Lakes.
Working alongside the Countryside Supervisor and wider ranger workforce you may develop and ship
agreed initiatives that search to revive a wealthy, numerous and vibrant upland panorama, with a
explicit focus within the valley of Little Langdale. Right here, you may lead the
supply of the capital work programme for a new countryside stewardship
scheme to revive grassland and scrub habitats on 180ha of widespread land and plant over
25,000 bushes.

Working collaboratively with our tenants, accomplice organisations and wider stakeholders, you may
turn into their key level of contact with the power and oversight to affix up alternatives for
habitat restoration throughout our tenanted farms within the valley right into a cohesive panorama
imaginative and prescient.

Together with the ranger workforce, you’ll discover alternatives for habitat and entry
enhancements inside our wider land holding of the South Lakes, together with the administration of
different small discreet capital initiatives. You’ll recognise the significance of monitoring our work
and sharing it with others, investing time and power in each, offering
alternatives to encourage and contain native and wider audiences.

Please see the extra data and function profile on our web site.

Who we’re in search of

We’d love to listen to from you if you happen to’ve:

• information and expertise of working inside an upland surroundings, alongside an
  understanding of panorama significance and a dedication to the restoration of wholesome,
  vibrant, and numerous habitats inside an genuine upland farming system
• efficient communication abilities, in a position to construct real long-term relationships with our
  tenants, workers, companions, and wider stakeholders
• robust influencing and negotiation abilities, with a pure resilience, in a position to overcome
  challenges and discover options
• the power to work collaboratively, share, motive and encourage others of your work
• excessive organisational abilities, in a position to work independently and at tempo, prioritising and
  managing a number of workstreams
• challenge supply expertise, together with all features of contractor administration, with a
  explicit eye for element.
• written and verbal communication abilities, in a position to produce concise and coherent experiences for
  challenge administration, marcomms and social media.

The package deal

The Nationwide Belief has the motto ‘For everybody, for ever’ at its coronary heart. We’re working arduous to
create an inclusive tradition, the place everybody feels they belong. It’s necessary that our individuals
mirror and characterize the variety of the communities and audiences we serve. We welcome and
worth distinction, so once we say we’re for everybody, we would like everybody to be welcome in our
groups too.

• Substantial pension scheme of as much as 10% primary wage
• Free entry to Nationwide Belief locations for you, a visitor and your youngsters (below 18)
• Tax-free childcare scheme
• Rental deposit mortgage scheme
• Season ticket mortgage
• Perks at work reductions corresponding to health club memberships, purchasing low cost codes, cinema reductions
• Vacation allowance as much as 32 days referring to size of service, plus vacation buy
  scheme, topic to assembly minimal standards.
• Versatile working every time doable
• Worker help programme
• Free parking at most Belief locations
• Impartial monetary recommendation

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more about the benefits we offer to support you.