Water Team Project Officer

Reports to: Head of Freshwater
Salary: £24,000-£28,000 (dependent on experience)
Contract: Full Time 18-month fixed term with possibility of extension depending
on funding
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Mon–Fri) with a requirement for occasional weekend
and evening work
Based at: Elm Tree Court, Devizes with some home working available

The Trust is seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual to join our successful and
ambitious Water Team, to play a key role in preparing, managing and delivering our prestigious
river and wetland restoration projects. You will be joining a dynamic team within a charity
committed to nature’s recovery across Wiltshire, with over 40 nature reserves and 23,000
members. WWT delivers high profile, nationally important work.

Within the Water Team you will be working on a diverse range of projects, for example, woody
debris river habitat improvements with volunteers, large scale wetland creation, invasive
non-native species management, urban river improvements, removing barriers to fish migration
and citizen science monitoring.

You will have the opportunity to work with range of stakeholders, from farmers and angling
clubs to other NGOs, corporates and statutory bodies.

We would love to hear from you if you have knowledge and experience of working with freshwater
ecosystems, and we would also welcome applications from those with knowledge and experience of
hydromorphology and geomorphology, environmental project management and design.

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is fully committed to safeguarding the welfare of all children, young
people and adults at risk. All WWT staff will receive safeguarding training and must ensure
that they comply with WWT’s safeguarding policy.

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to developing an
inclusive and diverse organisation, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be
their full selves. To achieve our vision of creating a world richer in nature, we need talented
people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side. Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is an exemplary
employer with high staff satisfaction and multiple benefits for employees. These benefits
include:

• Employer pension contribution up to 7.5%
• Group risk insurance – death in service and income protection
• 27 days annual leave increasing to 30 days in your fifth year of service plus public
  holidays (pro-rata)
• Staff discount at Dragonfly Cafe
• Head office in town centre with parking
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Two staff wellbeing days per annum

A full job description and application pack is available to download from our website.

If after reading the job description you would like to discuss this opportunity informally,
please contact Connor Stapleton-Goddard on 07720896398 or [email protected].

Closing Date: 9am Wednesday 21st August 2024

PLEASE NOTE: if interest is significant we reserve the option to close the vacancy early and
conduct interviews on an as required basis. Should the vacancy remain open until the stated
deadline then interviews will be held on Tuesday
27th August 2024.

Please submit your application to [email protected]

(Please note we are only able to accept applications via our application form and when
completing the form please ensure you use the ‘supporting statement’ section to evidence how
you believe you meet the essential and desirable criteria detailed in the Job Description. This
information will be used in our short-listing process).

As a charity Wiltshire Wildlife Trust Ltd is committed to saving costs. Therefore, if you
have not received an invitation to attend an interview within three weeks of the closing date,
you should assume that your application has been unsuccessful.