Landscape Recovery Trainee - Devizes, United Kingdom - Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts
Description
Closing date:
Monday 22 April 2024- Salary: £12,000 (£1,000/pcm) + training budget
- Contract type: Fixed term / Working hours: Full time
- Location:
- Devizes, Elm Tree Court, Wiltshire, SN10 1NJ
- The Trust is seeking a highly motivated and personable individual to join our ambitious and successful Water Team as a Trainee to support the planning and delivery of the Wylye Chalk Stream Project
Contact details:
- Job reference: Landscape Recovery Trainee
Reports to:
Landscape Recovery Project Manager
Bursary:
£12,000 (£1,000/pcm) + training budget
Hours:12-month Traineeship. Full-time (37.5 hours per week), Monday - Friday***
Based at:Elm Tree Court, Devizes with some home working available
The Trust is seeking a highly motivated and personable individual to join our ambitious and successful Water Team as a Trainee to support the planning and delivery of the Wylye Chalk Stream Project, successful in Round 2 of Defra's Landscape Recovery scheme.
The Wylye Chalk Stream Project will be the first landscape-scale collaboration of its kind focused on enhancing a large stretch of chalk stream for the benefit of wildlife in Wiltshire.
The project will be led by Wiltshire Wildlife Trust and delivered in partnership with the Wylye Valley Farmers group and the Wessex Rivers Trust.
The project aim is to restore the river's natural relationship with its floodplain along over 20km of now under-utilised farmland.
About the Traineeship
The Trainee will contribute to several aspects of the Landscape Recovery project.
This is likely to involve supporting the Water Team with tasks such as:
- Conducting habitat and species surveys (training will be provided)
- Project planning (e.g. attending project meetings, writing up meeting minutes, updating project documents)
- Supporting the production of project documents (e.g. conducting deskbased research, creating/editing maps in GIS, design drawings)
- Communicating with project partners and stakeholders (e.g. circulating information, events planning and coordination) including eNGOs, farmers, angling clubs, corporate and statutory bodies.
This is likely to involve tasks such as:
- Delivery of practical river restoration works (e.g. inchannel works, tree planting)
- Management of invasive and nonnative species (e.g. removal of Himalayan Balsam)
- River restoration and/or natural flood management
- Ecological monitoring
- Stakeholder engagement and partnership working
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