Reserves Assistant - Broads North
Norfolk Wildlife Trust
We are looking for a Reserves Assistant to join our Broads North Reserves team based at the incredible NWT Hickling Broad National Nature Reserve.
Norfolk Wildlife Trust is the oldest Wildlife Trust in the country and Norfolk’s largest environmental charity, committed to the protection and enhancement of Norfolk’s wildlife and wild places.
A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join our Broads North Reserves team based at the incredible NWT Hickling Broad National Nature Reserve, a 600ha site of open Broad, reed bed and fen, wet woodland and open grazing marsh. The role will be predominantly working at Hickling but also other important NWT sites within the Broads including Martham Broad NNR and Pigneys Wood. We are seeking an enthusiastic and practical person who will carry out a variety of tasks, including habitat management and infrastructure maintenance using machinery such as a Truxor, tractors and boats. This is an exciting time to join the team as we work on a vision for the future of Hickling, with adaptation to habitats and visitor opportunities as well as work for the benefit of existing species such as the iconic Swallowtail butterfly and rare birds that call Hickling home like crane, bittern and newly arrived spoonbills which now breed on the nature reserve.
The successful candidate will have a good basic knowledge of wildlife conservation and habitat management techniques as well as effective communication skills, both with colleagues and members of the public. The post will work within a close-knit team and an ability to work well with colleagues is vital. The successful candidate will ideally have experience of working on a nature reserve or similar. Experience and/or training in tractor operation, chainsaw, brush-cutter, livestock handling and first aid would be an advantage.
In return, we offer a competitive benefits package, a full list of which can be found on our website.
The closing date for applications is midday on the 26th August 2025.
Initial interviews are likely to take place w/c 1st September 2025.
Interested?
If you would like to apply and find out more about this position, please click the apply button to be directed to our website.
No agencies please.
About Norfolk Wildlife Trust
Norfolk Wildlife Trust is the oldest Wildlife Trust in the country. The purchase of 400 acres of marsh at Cley on the north Norfolk coast in 1926 to be held ‘in perpetuity as a bird breeding sanctuary’ provided a blueprint for nature conservation which has now been replicated across the UK.
Our vision for Norfolk: where the future of wildlife is protected and enhanced through sympathetic management and people are connected with and inspired by Norfolk’s wildlife and wild spaces.
Norfolk Wildlife Trust is the oldest Wildlife Trust in the country. The purchase of 400 acres of marsh at Cley on the north Norfolk coast in 1926 to be held ‘in perpetuity as a bird breeding sanctuary’ provided a blueprint for nature conservation which has now been replicated across the UK. Our vision for Norfolk: where the future of wildlife is protected and enhanced through sympathetic management and people are connected with and inspired by Norfolk’s wildlife and wild spaces.
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