Youth and Volunteer Conservation Lead

Overview

With a focus on young people, adults and conservation management, this role is both diverse and dynamic as it crosses over many of our delivery projects onsite. As an adaptable individual who has a passion and love for nature at your core, you will be responsible for planning and delivering not just practical projects onsite, but also for engaging our community with a love for our planet and natural landscape.

Key objectives:

• Take a lead on the site Conservation Plan to develop and deliver plans which support both nature and the farm enterprise to thrive as a partnership.
• Plan, deliver and complete conservation tasks onsite whilst leading and training volunteers, young people or other youth groups as appropriate.
• To provide opportunities for visiting members of the public to engage with nature and wildlife onsite, encouraging them to better understand its importance through fun and engaging activities led by you and others within the team.
• To support young, vulnerable people at risk from being excluded from school through our Youth Project, to re-engage with education, and support them into the workplace/further education by inspiring them and building their self-belief using the natural environment at Fordhall Farm.

Expected hours: 32 per week (currently Tuesday - Friday), plus 6 pre-booked weekends per year.

Deadline: Midnight Sunday 5th October 2025