Staffordshire Project Officer

Newt Conservation Partnership

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Can you deliver great crested newt and wider biodiversity conservation in
Staffordshire?

Newt Conservation Partnership

Staffordshire Project Officer

£27­- £31k per annum

Permanent contract

  • home working
  • based in Staffordshire

We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced, multi-skilled Project
Officer who can deliver habitat creation and management projects, with a focus on ponds and
great crested newt
.

You will be able to engage and liaise with a variety of landowners and contractors and will
have knowledge of pond and terrestrial habitat creation and restoration. Amphibian surveying
skills are desirable. Training and expert support will be given to the right candidate.

The successful applicant will be employed by Freshwater Habitats Trust, seconded full-time to
the Newt Conservation Partnership.

The Newt Conservation Partnership is a community benefit society whose sole
purpose is creating and managing high quality habitat for great crested newts. We source good
quality habitat sites and work together with landowners so that ponds and terrestrial features,
such as hedgerows, woodland and meadowland, can be securely managed into the future to provide
long-term landscape scale refuges for sustainable newt populations.

Freshwater Habitats Trust is a friendly, nationally well-respected
conservation charity that works to protect freshwater wildlife through practical,
evidence-based and effective nature conservation projects. This job is an exciting opportunity
to join a dedicated team of botanists, invertebrate biologists, herpetologists and freshwater
conservation experts who are making a difference.

No CVs or agencies please.

Closing date: Friday 11th October 2024
Interviews: week commencing 21st October 2024

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