Site Manager – Galloway Reserves

Are you trying to mix your ardour for nature together with your land administration and communication
abilities? If that’s the case this can be the right function for you! Set within the South West of Scotland, the RSPB
Galloway reserves comprise the Wooden of Cree, the Criminal of Baldoon, the Mull of Galloway and
Ken-Dee Marshes. We’re on the lookout for an organised, dynamic, and passionate Web site Supervisor to guide
the workforce and ship the work programmes on these diverse and thrilling nature reserves. To make
successful of this chance, you can be a succesful supervisor with the power to work properly with
a broad vary of contacts, each inside the RSPB and with statutory company companions, NGOs and
past.

The 4 reserves cowl a mixed space of over 1,000ha, and embody Western Atlantic oakwood,
wooden pasture, open moorland, moist floodplain woodland, fen, coastal cliffs, maritime heath and
grassland, freshwater wetland and saltmarsh. They host vital populations of many species,
together with a collection of resident and migrant woodland birds like Willow Tit, Pied Flycatcher and
Wooden Warbler, breeding waders reminiscent of Lapwing and Redshank, wintering and breeding wildfowl,
breeding seabirds, a variety of bats and Pink Squirrels. 

Administration throughout the suite of reserves is usually multi-layered and complicated, so good venture
administration abilities twinned with ahead pondering, and a eager willingness to resolve sensible
issues will likely be required. 

Key components of reserve administration embody managing the workforce, budgeting/monetary administration,
H&S, compliance, venture administration, administration planning, reporting and public relations. 

You can be a part of RSPB’s Scottish Lowlands & Southern Uplands workforce and the function is probably going
to be dwelling primarily based, with a powerful choice for being a part of the local people.

Important abilities, data and expertise:

• Ecological necessities of key species.
• Undertaking administration.
• Confirmed observe document of managing nature reserves.
• Contract administration.
• Well being, Security and Environmental administration.
• Related site-specific specialist data (e.g. grazing, woodland administration).
• Time administration and prioritisation.
• Price range administration.
• Management.
• Particular person and workforce administration abilities.

Fascinating abilities, data and expertise:

• Diplomacy.
• Understanding of the significance of a variety of administration interventions together with predator
  management {and professional} deer administration.
• Wonderful communication abilities (verbal, written and presentational) –together with a capability
  to talk in public to quite a lot of audiences to share finest apply and advocate positions to
  landowners and managers, native politicians, members and volunteers who’ve differing views.

You’ll require a full, handbook driving licence that’s legitimate within the UK in
order to drive our fleet automobiles.

Further Info:

This can be a everlasting, full-time function for 37.5 hours per week. 

We wish to conduct interviews for this place from 10 June 2024. For additional
data please contact [email protected].

As a part of this utility course of you can be requested to finish an utility type together with
proof on the way you meet the talents, data, and expertise listed above.

We’re dedicated to growing an inclusive and various RSPB, during which everybody feels
supported, valued, and in a position to be their full selves. To realize our imaginative and prescient of making a world
richer in nature, we want extra individuals, and extra various individuals, on nature’s aspect. Folks of
color and disabled persons are at present underrepresented throughout the atmosphere, local weather,
sustainability, and conservation sector. In the event you establish as an individual of color and/or disabled,
we’re notably fascinated by receiving your utility. Contact us to debate any
further assist it’s possible you’ll want to finish your utility.

The RSPB is an equal alternatives employer. This function is lined by the
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

This function is just not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship – the profitable applicant might want to have
a pre-existing Proper to Work within the UK with a purpose to be provided an employment contract.