Beaver Field Officer

Avon Wildlife Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

The Avon Wildlife Trust is seeking a Beaver Field Officer to join its Beaver Advice and Support Team. This role focuses on collecting and analyzing data about wild beaver populations and providing crucial support and information to landowners, enhancing community knowledge about coexistence with beavers. It's an exciting opportunity for someone with GIS skills and a passion for wildlife conservation.

Qualifications

• Honed GIS skills required.
• Ability to discuss the impacts of beavers with landowners confidently.
• Experience in stakeholder engagement is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Collect and analyze data on beaver populations.
• Provide on-the-ground advice and support to farmers and landowners.
• Improve local knowledge and acceptance of beavers.

Skills

GIS

Effective communication

Data analysis

Job description

Are you interested in helping our wild beaver populations to thrive? Could you talk tactfully and confidently to landowners about the incredible, positive impacts beavers can have on our landscape? And do you have honed GIS skills which you’re keen to apply to help restore nature across our region?

The Bristol Avon catchment has a large population of wild beavers, a result of unlicensed release(s), which we think took place sometime around 2020. Unlike managed beaver enclosures and licensed wild releases (only permitted since Feb 2025), our beaver population has grown without management or support.

Our new Beaver Advice and Support Team (Bristol Avon & Somerset Frome) will upskill and inform a range of stakeholders – from Farm Advisors, Ecologists and Planning Authorities to farmers and landowners – about living alongside the beaver population to ensure they thrive.

We seek someone to join the Beaver Advice and Support team and wider strategic Beaver Advisory Group. Tasked with collecting, analysing and presenting high-quality data on the wild beaver populations living across our river catchments, you’ll also deliver on-the-ground advice and support to landowners, farmers and communities working/living alongside beavers, improving local knowledge, support and acceptance of beavers.

Apply through the website:Beaver Field Officer | Avon Wildlife Trust