Mend the Gap Project Officer

The Mend the Gap Project Officer will help nature recover by providing wildlife friendly
management advice and delivering habitat enhancement works, supporting landowners to act for
nature and manage their land positively for wildlife.

What you’ll be doing;

• Building relationships with, and creating habitat management plans for, landowners throughout
  the Mend the Gap project area
• Preparing work specifications, managing quotes and instructing external contractors to carry
  out works
• Supervising external contractors carrying out surveys and capital works on our Cholsey Marsh
  Reserve and third party land
• Providing advice to landowners on sources of funding for wildlife friendly land management and
  developing links between local volunteer organisations to facilitate nature conservation
  activities

What we’re looking for;

• Ability to connect with people across BBOWT as well as external stakeholders such as
  landowners, farmers and contractors to deliver conservation based activities
• Ability to independently draw up conservation management plans
• Experience of drawing up work specifications and managing contractors carrying out works on
  site
• Able to work to targets/deadlines without close supervision

For all your hard work you can expect a great rewards package in return. In addition to being
part of a friendly, skilled and knowledgeable team, passionate about making a difference, when
you work for us you’ll also receive

• Generous annual leave entitlement with paid birthday leave, wellbeing days and generous
  occupational sick pay
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and family-friendly policies
• Flexible working to achieve work-life balance
• Pension (salary exchange) with generous employer contribution
• Learning & Development Programme for all (SEED)

Wellbeing initiatives including qualified Mental Health First Aiders across BBOWT, access to
our Employee Assistance Programme, providing you with immediate and confidential help for any
work, health or life matters; 3x life assurance, online GP access and a YuLife benefit package
with free will writing, a variety of discounts and ability to claim vouchers to use in a wide
range of stores when you redeem YuPoints earned by being active or meditation sessions.

Salary sacrifice Cycle scheme & Electric Vehicle scheme

Membership to BBOWT’s, and The Wildlife Trusts’, Staff Network Groups for social interaction,
peer support and personal development

The closing time and date for applications is 11.59pm on 4th June 2024. Interviews will take
place 13th June 2024.

BBOWT values diversity and inclusion and the benefits this brings. We want every candidate to
have the best chance of success as part of this process. In order to do this, we know that some
candidates will need reasonable adjustments. Adjustments could include us providing the
questions in an alternative format, providing extra time for assessments. We are also very
happy to make adjustments for interview, which could include aspects such as lighting, physical
access or simply making us aware when you arrive where it would be best for you to sit.

Contact us on if there are any reasonable adjustments we can provide during the selection
stages, including completing your application form.

We don’t use an application form, or CVs – your answers to our situational based questions will
be scored against a review guide and scores from these will decide which candidates go through
to the interview stage. See here to find out why we do this.

Whilst we appreciate ChatGPT and other AI platforms can answer these questions, we know what
they have to say (and generally the answer they generate isn’t great). We want to hear your
perspective written in your own words. If it is clear that any of your answers are not your own
work, we reserve the right to reject your application on that basis.

You’ll also be asked for information about your background, anything you feel comfortable
sharing will be anonymised and will not be shared as part of the selection process, it will
only be used to help us understand how we are performing against our equal opportunities
metrics. All candidates will receive feedback on their application.

To find out more about what we do please visit our
website.

We want our people to be as diverse as nature, so we particularly encourage applications from
people who are underserved within the communities in which we operate. This includes people
from visible ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities (including those who are
neurodivergent), the LGBTQ+ community, those from lower socio-economic backgrounds, and younger
people. We are committed to creating an organisation that recognises and truly values
individual differences and identities.