Senior Grasslands Conservation Officer – Epping Forest and Buffer Lands

Job reference: OENV024
Contract Kind: Everlasting
Wage: Grade C+ £34,510 – £38,490 every year inclusive of all allowances
Alternative: 35 hours
Shift and Schedule: Monday-Friday between the hours of 07:30-17:00

An thrilling alternative has arisen to nominate a Senior Grasslands Conservation Officer
at Epping Forest. We’re on the lookout for an skilled tractor driver with a ardour for
conservation and land administration to guide and ship quite a lot of amenity, conservation, and
entry vegetation administration throughout the Epping Forest Panorama.

When you have clear management expertise, a capability to handle a small group working in a
number of disciplines, have glorious communication expertise and the will to work
collaboratively to handle this dynamic, extremely visited panorama, then we might love to listen to
from you.

About Us

Epping Forest is amongst 11,000 acres of open areas, parks, and gardens in and round London
owned and managed by the Metropolis of London as a part of its dedication to sustaining a first-class
metropolis. Every open house is a singular useful resource for the use and pleasure of the general public and for the
conservation of wildlife and the historic panorama.

Epping Forest stretches from London’s East Finish for 14 miles out into Essex and covers over 6000
acres together with an extra 2000 acres of ‘buffer land’ and receives over 10 million visits every
12 months. Two thirds of the Forest is designated as SSSI and SAC and is residence to over 50,000 veteran
bushes, historic pollards, over 100 ponds and lakes, two registered parks, historic monuments, and
listed buildings. The traditional wooden pasture panorama is managed with the assistance of a resident
herd of 200 Longhorn cattle.

The Function

You’ll work as a part of the Grazing and Panorama Staff serving to to ship grassland administration
throughout the traditional panorama of Epping Forest. You can be accountable for delivering a
programme of works and monitoring the outcomes that may inform future administration. In addition to
utilizing tractors and equipment the group makes use of arboriculture gear to handle entry routes and
for habitat creation. It is a multi-skilled function offering a number of selection and a possibility
to assist construct and develop on 20 years of conservation works. As a part of the broader group, you
will help and supply help when wanted managing our 200 head herd of cattle and related
infrastructure. The works you perform will assist ship our targets for biodiversity and
environmental stewardship which we obtain grants for. With a brand new fleet of tractors and
gear, the function will embody making certain correct and common upkeep and checks are carried
out. Equipment necessities inside groups can fluctuate and a collaborative pragmatic strategy
is required to make sure we meet our objectives as a division.

The Preferrred Candidate

You can be a significant member of group, encouraging collaboration to attain the most effective steadiness of
conservation necessities with public security, entry and recreation. You’ll have motivational
management expertise and might display sensible conservation expertise with managing groups or
small teams and people working in quite a lot of disciplines. You can be obsessed with
the atmosphere and captivated with partaking with the group, volunteers, and associate
organisations to handle this advanced and busy atmosphere.

If you want to debate this function please name 0208 532 1010. Ask for John Phillips

Advantages Embrace

• Aggressive wage beginning at £34,510 professional rata (together with outer London weighting).
• 28 days annual go away plus public holidays (or time in lieu the place relevant).
• Pension scheme is operated in accordance with Native Authorities Pension Scheme
• Worker help programmes together with psychological well-being help.
• Bicycle Mortgage scheme.
• Journey card scheme

To use on-line please go to careers.cityoflondon.gov.uk 

Alternatively, please contact 020 7332 3978 (24 hr answerphone) quoting reference quantity
OENV0245. A minicom service for the listening to impaired is offered on 020 7332 3732.

The Metropolis of London Company is dedicated to Equal Alternatives and welcomes functions
from all sections of the group.

Time limit: 12 midday on 19 February 2024.