Senior Conservation Officer - RSPB

RSPB; Wales; Remote; GBP 39,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading conservation organization is looking for an experienced professional to enhance wildlife conservation across South Wales. In this role, you will manage projects and staff to protect vital habitats while engaging with local communities and stakeholders. If you're passionate about nature and ready to advocate for vital ecological policies, this position offers a unique chance to influence change and protect crucial biodiversity. Join RSPB and make a difference.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of species and habitats of South Wales.
• Experience working to survey and manage important sites.
• Staff or volunteer management experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and oversee conservation work in the South Wales area.
• Manage conservation teams focused on rare species and habitats.
• Build relationships with partners and stakeholders.

Skills

Building partnerships

Negotiating

Influencing

Analysis

Communication

Staff management

Biodiversity benefits delivery

Education

Degree level qualification in a relevant subject

Job description

Reference: JUN20253142

Location: Home based, South Wales

Salary: £39,205.00 - £41,856.00 Per Annum

Terms: Permanent, Full Time 37.5 hours per week

Are you passionate about providing a future for Wales’s wildlife? Do you have a clear understanding of the challenges facing our coastal, upland, woodland and wetland wildlife? Are you a team player who wants to have wider impact? If so, we have a fantastic opportunity for you to conserve species and habitats across South Wales Area by joining the RSPB Cymru South Wales Area team.

About the Role

In your role you will be responsible for developing, delivering and overseeing RSPB’s wider countryside conservation work and managing associated staff to ensure conservation of the many species and habitats of international importance and so ensure delivery of relevant outcomes of RSPB’s Saving Nature Strategy across Wales. The role will lead, manage and develop the conservation and project teams in the area, helping to deliver a work programme focused on some of Wales’s rarest and most iconic species and habitats.

There is a strong culture of partnership and co-production working, with the innovative Tir Canol programme on the Dyfi/Rheidol, the peatland partnership and woodland groups in the Elenydd-Mallaen.

You will

• build and maintain positive relationships with key external partners, stakeholders and communities to help further RSPB’s policies and priorities.
• be an excellent communicator, you will advocate the RSPB’s position on a variety of issues such as woodland, forestry, peatland restoration, and coastal adaptation.
• be a key member of the Area Leadership team and Conservation Team network in Wales.

Essential:

• Degree level qualification in a relevant subject or ability to show equivalent work experience.
• Sufficient knowledge and understanding of the species and habitats of South Wales, to advise staff on appropriate responses and interventions.
• Confident advocating a position to landowners and managers, local politicians, members and volunteers
• Quickly analyse significant quantities of information
• Prioritise and balance a diverse workload often to tight deadlines.
• Experience of working to survey, protect and/or manage important sites, species or habitats.
• Staff or volunteer management experience
• Building partnerships
• Negotiating / influencing the public or private sector
• Deliver biodiversity benefits, through both regulatory and voluntary means

Desirable:

• Ability to converse in Welsh

Make no mistake, this is a role with immense professional opportunity and will make a difference for people and nature.

Closing: Sunday 3rd August

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