Overview

Salary: £32,106 per annum pro rata

Closing date: Monday 1st May 2017

Location: Central Office, Dean Bradley House, 52, Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2AF (with some time to be spent offsite overseeing project work)

Part-Time 2.5 days per week

Fixed term to 31st March 2020

London Wildlife Trust is a growing charity with a diverse range of projects and funding sources. There is an exciting opportunity for London Wildlife Trust to deliver the ‘The Great North Wood (GNW)’, a Heritage Lottery Funded project that aims to ‘reconnect’ and enhance remnant sites of heritage woodland for both wildlife and people across the Forest Hill, Sydenham and Norwood ridge in south London. Over four years, the project will deliver a programme of volunteer training, community engagement events, woodland monitoring and surveying and woodland restoration, to record, celebrate and enhance 161.7 ha and 13 sites of woodland habitat in this part of south London. The project will increase local people’s knowledge of and access to this unique woodland heritage, assess the condition of the GNW through targeted monitoring of five flagship indicator species (oak, hornbeam, purple hairstreak butterfly, stag beetle and woodpeckers), enhance biodiversity of the remaining GNW through targeted interventions, link the remnant GNW sites together through unified interpretation, working with volunteer groups, and create a management recommendations tool kit for the ongoing management of the GNW.

The successful candidate will have significant ecological experience along with strong project management skills. With excellent networking and facilitation skills with a range of partners and stakeholders, you will have strong organisational, communication (both written and verbal) and IT skills and be experienced in staff management. This exciting new role will act as overall project manager for the Great North Wood Living Landscape project and will oversee the coordination and implementation of it across five south London boroughs: Southwark, Lambeth, Croydon, Lewisham and Bromley, working closely with other landowners and local partners to ensure that the project is a success. Knowledge of urban nature conservation issues, with understanding of some of the problems and solutions and demonstrable experience in the environmental and community sectors, ideally in an urban woodland situation will be key.

London Wildlife Trust manages over forty nature reserve sites across the capital that are exemplars of urban conservation land management and which engage the local communities that use the sites. The Trust delivers projects focusing on protecting priority habitats and species in London and works to influence policy makers. The Trust engages London’s diverse communities through access to our nature reserves, volunteering programmes and education and outreach work. To understand more about our plans ahead, read our strategic plan: For a Wilder City 2015 – 2020.

To apply, please send a completed Candidate Details Form and Application Form to recruitment@wildlondon.org.uk

Closing date: Monday 1st May 2017, 9am

An enhanced DBS Check is not required for this role.

London Wildlife Trust is an equal opportunities employer.