Trapper x 2 with RSPB

Wildlife Film Network Group; Kirkwall; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

Wildlife Film Network Group's Orkney Native Wildlife Project is recruiting for a field-based role in Orkney. The post is full-time, 37.5 hours per week, fixed term until 31 December 2027, with a salary of £30,977.00–£33,037.00 per annum.

Location: field-based work, Orkney (ONWP Office, Kirkwall). Candidates will work with local landowners to undertake stoat eradication and protect wildlife, contributing to the largest stoat eradication in an inhabited area worldwide, supporting conservation and

Job description

Location: Field based work, Orkney (ONWP Office, Kirkwall)

Terms: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week, Fixed Term, Until 31 December 2027

Salary: £30,977.00 – £33,037.00 Per Annum

The Orkney Native Wildlife Project (ONWP) aims to protect Orkney’s unique and globally important wildlife, and the benefits that it provides for local people, from an invasive non-native predator: the stoat. Stoats pose a serious threat to the Orkney vole, and many birds including hen harriers, short-eared owls, red-throated divers, waders, and seabirds.

This project works with hundreds of landowners in the local community to undertake the largest stoat eradication of an inhabited area anywhere in the world.