Working Wetlands Team Leader (Water Quality)
Devon Wildlife Trust
Trained in water quality monitoring? Good understanding of agricultural issues affecting water quality? Excited by the opportunity to lead a small, highly skilled team? We’d like to meet you.
With support from South West Water, DWT is driving agricultural change and landscape restoration through our long running Working Wetlands project which is part of the Upstream Thinking programme, a national pioneer in natural catchment management.
You’ll be leading a small team of Farm Advisors using nature based solutions to deliver improvements in water quality, biodiversity and resource sustainability. The project aims to create a healthy, working landscape of rivers, wetlands and wet grasslands. You will have particular responsibility to ensure successful delivery of the project’s contribution to the Water Industry National Environment Programme in the Tavy river catchment.
You’ll need people and project management skills, water quality monitoring experience and an understanding of potential agricultural impacts on river water quality. Considerable travel across Devon will be required for which a pool vehicle is available.
This is a full-time, fixed-term contract until March 2030, which can be contractually located at any of DWT’s three main offices (Cricklepit Mill, Woodah or Cookworthy). DWT has agile working arrangements, which combines office, home and field-based working.
Interviews will be held on Thursday 18 June.
We welcome candidates of all backgrounds and abilities who meet the essential criteria for this role. We are an inclusive organisation that is seeking to involve more diverse audiences in our work.
About Devon Wildlife Trust
We have lost incredible amounts of our wildlife. Species which once thrived in Devon have gone; many others which were commonplace are now rare. We need urgent change. It is time to put nature into recovery. We need to restore what has been lost and we need to do this on a grand scale. This means being bold: restoring degraded landscapes and seas, recreating wildlife habitat, reintroducing key species that have become locally extinct and properly protecting what we still have. Everyone can play a role in nature's recovery and this is where our work starts - shoulder to shoulder with all who love Devon and its wildlife.
We have lost incredible amounts of our wildlife. Species which once thrived in Devon have gone; many others which were commonplace are now rare. We need urgent change. It is time to put nature into recovery. We need to restore what has been lost and we need to do this on a grand scale. This means being bold: restoring degraded landscapes and seas, recreating wildlife habitat, reintroducing key species that have become locally extinct and properly protecting what we still have. Everyone can play a role in nature's recovery and this is where our work starts - shoulder to shoulder with all who love Devon and its wildlife.
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