Red Squirrel Ranger

Northumberland Wildlife Trust

Cumbria (home and field-based)
£22,470 pa
Full Time • Fixed Term
Closing on Fri, 25th Apr 2025
1 day left

Conservation & Wildlife


We are looking for a confident, innovative and enthusiastic person to join our Red Squirrel Project Team working in Cumbria. The post-holder will work for the Red Squirrels Northern England (RSNE) project and will be employed by Northumberland Wildlife Trust.

We are looking for an individual with a variety of skills who can carry out grey squirrel management with high levels of competency. The successful candidate will also possess great people skills, be computer literate, and will need to work with and train local community volunteers to help with both grey squirrel control and red and grey squirrel monitoring.

If you have experience of this type of work, and you would like the opportunity to work in a dynamic, friendly and forward-looking organisation then this may be the perfect job for you.

The role is offered initially as a 9 month contract and is for 35 hours a week, with the potential of renewal dependant on securing funding.

Deadline to submit applications is 9.00 on, 25th April 2025.  

The salary is £22,470 per annum.

An application form and full job pack can be found on our website. Please note CV’s cannot be accepted.

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About Northumberland Wildlife Trust

Northumberland Wildlife Trust is a charity dedicated to saving wildlife and wild places and helping people to get closer to nature. We are one of 46 Wildlife Trusts, a grassroots movement working across the UK to make life better – for wildlife, for people and for future generations. We aim to inspire people to value nature through our visitor centres, events, education programmes, volunteering and campaigns.

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