Education Warden

Love being outdoors? Passionate about connecting people with nature?

We're recruiting an Education Warden to join the award-winning Thames Basin Heaths Partnership in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire.

If you'd rather spend your days on beautiful heathlands than behind a desk, enjoy talking to people, and want to help protect some of England's most important wildlife sites, we'd love to hear from you.

🌿 Education Warden

You'll help deliver our Our Amazing Heathlands education programme, inspiring children and young people to connect with nature through engaging, curriculum-linked sessions both in schools and out on the heathlands. One day you could be leading a field session with a class of primary school pupils, the next helping run a community event or creating content for social media.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working with young people and can bring the natural world to life in an engaging and accessible way.

What the role is really like

• Working outdoors in beautiful heathland landscapes most of the time
• Meeting a huge variety of people every day
• Inspiring children, families and visitors to care about nature
• Organising events, activities and pop-up engagement sessions
• Working alongside land managers, councils, Wildlife Trusts, the RSPB, Forestry England, the MOD and other conservation partners
• Helping protect rare wildlife through education, engagement and awareness raising

No two days are the same. You might be leading a school visit, speaking with dog walkers on the heath, helping at a community event, supporting the Heathland Hounds project, surveying visitors, creating social media content, or working with partners to deliver engagement activities.

If you're enthusiastic about nature, confident speaking to people from all walks of life, and want to make a real difference to one of the country's most important heathland landscapes, we'd love to hear from you.

📍 Based at Heathland House, Heather Farm, Woking, with daily travel across the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area.

Protecting wildlife. Inspiring people. Spending your working day in nature.

That's what this role is all about. 🌿🐦🐾