Westcountry Rivers Trust is recruiting a Operations Team Programme Supervisor.
This is a permanent contract after a successful 6 month probation period.
The starting salary for this role is between £30,000 and £36,000 per annum (dependent on experience).
The role is 37.5 hours per week.
There will be the opportunity to work from home in this role and work flexible hours. Travel to sites throughout the Westcountry will also be required regularly; this role is a mixture of office and site based.
Benefits:
Apply by midnight on Sunday 14th April 2024 by CV and Covering Letter here
Interviews will be held in person at our offices in Stoke Climsland on Tuesday 23rd April 2024
For queries about this role or the application process please contact recruitment@wrt.org.uk
About the Westcountry Rivers Trust
Formed in 1994, the Trust was established to restore Westcountry rivers. Measures to protect rivers can help to save money for farmers, lower costs for water companies, boost tourism, reduce the need to dredge estuaries and even benefit human health. Everything the Trust does is informed by the best available science. Their work is driven by an ‘ecosystems approach,’ considering the function of the entire catchment, not just the rivers that flow within them.
Today the charity works with a wide range of stakeholders from landowners to local communities, businesses, farmers and water companies to restore and protect the rivers, lakes, estuaries and coastal areas for the benefit of people, wildlife and the local economy. There has never been a more important time to work on the rivers of the West Country as the impacts of climate emergency and the ecological crisis is forcing society to invest in building catchment resilience.
Spurred by a shared love of rivers, the Westcountry Rivers Trust is very much a grassroots organisation, brought into existence from the bottom up. In the early 90s, a group of individuals, passionate – but concerned – about the waterways around them, began to stitch together their ambitions for restoring Westcountry rivers, laying the foundations for the Trust we know today.
Everything the Trust does is informed by the best available science. Their work is driven by an ‘ecosystems approach,’ considering the function of the entire catchment, not just the rivers that flow within them.
It was this new perspective – not to mention the hands-on and tireless approach to river restoration – that grabbed the attention of so many supporters and funders and which lies behind the flourishing rivers trust movement. Since then, the Trust now has circa 75 employees with an annual turnover of c£3m running multi-annual projects spread across a wide range of funders.
The Trust has three main delivery teams and a support services team. Our employees work on delivery sites, from home and from the office. Following the pandemic we have moved to a hybrid way of working and it is important that our IT enables and supports this change.
The Role
Are you looking for a role where you can work with a positive and forward-thinking organisation to deliver tangible benefits, demonstrable change and increase the resilience of our rivers and freshwater ecosystems in the South West? Do you have skills and experience in project management, the safe delivery of site-based work of varying scales and technicality, and a passion for managing and mentoring a team of wonderful people to enact real change on our river systems throughout the Westcountry?
As project delivery specialist contractors and consultants in the freshwater environment, the Operations Team undertakes and supports the in-house delivery of a range of projects delivered either directly by the team or supported by our trusted sub-contractors. The type of project outputs, monitoring and interventions we deliver and oversee consist of, but aren’t limited to, bankside and in-river habitat management such as arboricultural work, wetland creation, protection and restoration, tree planting and woodland creation, gravel augmentation, natural flood management (NFM) and other nature-based solution (NBS) opportunities, floodplain restoration and reconnection, weir removals and modifications, electrofishing monitoring, catchment walkovers, gravel audits, invertebrate monitoring, arboricultural and ecological surveys, supporting applications to countryside stewardship and the England woodland creation offer (EWCO), training and development, and specialist work in protected and sensitive sites.
This role will contribute to the effective delivery of the broad programme of work undertaken by our Operational Team at WRT across a range of projects. Supporting the Operations Manager and Operational Team by taking the lead on a range of project and programme management, internal and external engagement, and enabling processes which assist our good work to be delivered. This role will support development of the team and Trust during an exciting period of growth and opportunity, enabling the delivery of projects and encouraging the environmental resilience and sustainability of our catchments throughout the South West.
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Closing Date: 14/04/2024 Location: Westcountry