Natur am Byth! Project Officer (Lleyn and Anglesey)

RSPB; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 27,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

An environmental charity is seeking a dedicated wildlife conservationist to support practical conservation management and ecological monitoring in North-West Wales. The role involves engaging with landowners and local communities, implementing conservation plans, and conducting ecological surveys. This full-time position is home-based with various project sites. A passion for natural history and conservation is essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• Interest in natural history and wildlife conservation.
• Experience in engaging with landowners and stakeholders.
• Ability to conduct ecological surveys.

Responsibilities

• Support practical conservation management efforts.
• Engage with local communities and stakeholders.
• Implement conservation interventions and monitor success.

Skills

Ecological monitoring

Engaging with communities

Conservation management

Job description

Reference: AUG20257051
Location: Homebased and project sites in North-West Wales
Terms: 21 month contract, Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £27,123.00 - £28,956.00 Per Annum

The Lleyn peninsula (Pen Llŷn) and Isle of Anglesey (Ynys Môn) has many special habitats, including wet grassland, lowland heath, soft cliffs, sand dunes and fens, but some of their most important species, such as curlew, chough, spotted rockrose and large mason bee, are declining and at risk of extinction.

Natur am Byth unites nine environmental charities and Natural Resources Wales (NRW) to deliver the country’s largest natural heritage and people engagement programme to save species from extinction and connect people to nature.

We are looking for a hard-working wildlife conservationist with an interest in natural history to support a programme of practical conservation management, ecological monitoring and people engagement activities. You will be involved in engaging with landowners and managers, the RSPB Reserve and Conservation team, partner organisations and local communities across this landscape to empower more people to take action for nature on their doorstep.

You will play a key role in implementing conservation interventions and monitoring their success through ecological surveys. Planned conservation actions for the target species include:

• creation and protection of curlew nesting and foraging habitat;
• ditch and pond maintenance for Baltic and dwarf stonewort, clubbed general soldier fly, Limnephilus tauricus caddisfly, shore dock and water vole;
• restoration of coastal grassland and heath for chough, Cladonia peziziformis lichen, large mason bee and spotted rock-rose;
• sand dune management for dwarf rush;
• scrub clearance for black night-runner ground beetle, Desmoulin's whorl snail and six-spotted crane fly;
• translocation of Geyer's whorl snail and juniper.

You will

• consult with project partners to finalise conservation plans for each target species and obtain any consents required.
• liaise with landowners and managers to increase their awareness of target species,
• provide conservation advice, and secure permissions for surveying and habitat management tasks
• play an important role in developing and implementing a programme of people engagement activities and volunteer tasks, providing people with experiences of nature conservation

Your role in the surveying of target species and their habitats will be crucial in enabling the implementation of conservation interventions, and the subsequent advice given to landowners and managers.

Closing: Thursday, 4th September

This advert is also available in Welsh on our site.

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