Project Officer / Project Manager

Objective: Supporting the supply of tasks within the Room for Rivers programme
Stories to: Head of River Conservation
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Fastened time period 2 years with chance of extension

Ribble Rivers Belief (RRT) is a regional charity established in 1998 to preserve the Ribble
Catchment, notably its rivers, brooks, becks, and streams. Over the past 10 years, RRT has
developed and grown right into a sector main organisation, identified for getting issues performed, robust
partnership working and a collaborative method.

We have now 5 groups specializing in Knowledge and Proof, Land Administration, Folks and Studying, River
Conservation and Core Companies. Each workforce member is empowered to realize their greatest. Our groups
work collaboratively on built-in tasks to enhance, shield and create a mosaic of habitats
and land makes use of that can result in a wholesome riverine surroundings. That is underpinned by a
science-driven method that delivers a number of advantages.

The Belief additionally works collaboratively and in partnership with a spread of organisations, akin to
the Setting Company, United Utilities, Jamie’s Farm, Woodland Belief, Lancashire Wildlife
Belief, Yorkshire Dales Millennium Belief, The Forest of Bowland AONB, and plenty of Native
Authorities.

With help from Defra’s Species Survival Fund we’re launching a brand new programme of river
enchancment tasks referred to as ‘Ribble Revival: Room for Rivers’. This programme has vital
quantities of on-the-ground habitat conservation actions, with most having components of
volunteering and neighborhood engagement. These actions embrace; tree planting, woodland
upkeep, fencing, wetland creation, river channel habitat enchancment, and fish passage, to
identify a couple of.

This position will work with colleagues and stakeholders to ship many of those tasks and
actions, each independently and thru the supervision of contractors. The position will guarantee
that we create and preserve prime quality habitats, guarantee contractors work safely and in an
environmentally delicate means, and that tasks are delivered in price range, to schedule, and
involving the broader workforce, companions and stakeholders.

As such, the Belief is seeking to recruit a reliable and enthusiastic one who might be
becoming a member of a inventive workforce, dedicated to creating a distinction to the surroundings. This individual will
have data of challenge administration, ideally technical environmental challenge administration,
linking knowledge and proof to supply.

The profitable candidate could have data of matters akin to catchment / landscape-scale
conservation, ecosystem companies, river restoration, and the way bodily enchancment tasks ship
these matters.

Please be aware that the deadline for this emptiness is Tuesday ninth April, with interviews on the
twenty second and twenty third of April.