Brecks Reserves Manager
Norfolk Wildlife Trust
Hours: Full Time. 37.5 hours per week (5 days/week), including occasional
weekends and bank holidays
Location: Breckland Reserve, Thetford
Norfolk Wildlife Trust are looking for a Brecks Reserves Manager who will play a key role in safeguarding and managing one of the country’s most ecologically important landscapes.
Norfolk Wildlife Trust is the county’s largest environmental charity, committed to the protection and enhancement of Norfolk’s wildlife and wild places.
NWT cares for a number of nationally important sites in the Brecks area of south Norfolk, including Weeting and Thetford Heaths National Nature Reserve, Thompson Common and The Wissey Wetlands, a habitat creation project in the Fens. These sites are homes to a staggering range of rare and endangered birds, plants and invertebrates.
The exciting permanent position of Brecks Reserves Manager will play a key role in safeguarding and managing one of the country’s most ecologically important landscapes. With responsibilities spanning habitat management and monitoring, staff and volunteer management, visitor engagement, and wildlife protection, this role is ideal for a dedicated conservation professional with a passion for habitat management and partnership working. The Reserve Manager in the Brecks will ensure the reserve’s delicate heathlands, grassland and wetland habitats are protected, nurtured, and enhanced for wildlife and people alike.
The successful candidate will have a developed 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 highly motivated team and an ability to lead colleagues and volunteers is vital. The successful candidate will also have at least 2 years’ experience working on a nature reserve or similar.
The role comes with a competitive benefits package.
The closing date for receipt of applications is midday on Monday 15th
September
Initial interviews will take place w/c 22nd September via Zoom.
Interested?
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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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