Salary: £22,278 pa (review pending) for 35 hr week, pro rata for part time (HLF Funded)
Closing date: Tuesday 31st January 2012
Location: Merstham, Surrey
Job ref: Community Outreach Officer
Do you have the ability to encourage and support communities to engage with their local environment? If so, you could be just the person we need to join our successful and exciting Surrey Greenspace Project.
Community Outreach Officer – short term contract to Dec 2013
Full-time post, but part-time and/or job share considered
Merstham, Surrey
£22,278 pa (review pending) for 35 hr week, pro rata for part time (HLF Funded)
Do you have the ability to encourage and support communities to engage with their local environment? If so, you could be just the person we need to join our successful and exciting Surrey Greenspace Project.
Based in Merstham, this is a real opportunity to make a difference to people’s lives and their local environment by delivering training, practical conservation, healthy walks, innovative community outdoor activities and education. During the project you will help to conserve the biodiversity of priority sites, working with many partners including the local authority, encouraging the use and protection of Surrey’s urban greenspaces by giving local people a sense of ownership of the sites on their doorsteps. You will be actively involved in outreach education to local schools and groups, lead curriculum sessions and produce innovative learning resources for primary and secondary children. You will also advise how to enhance school grounds and utilise local greenspaces for the benefits of wildlife and natural heritage learning.
To deliver this demanding yet highly rewarding role you will require a recognised environmental/conservation qualification (degree/HND/NVQ) plus an outgoing personality, the ability to communicate with all ages and cross sections of society, organisational skills and the ability to prioritise. Ideally you will have experience of delivering out of classroom learning to young people or other relevant experience. Above all, you will need a passion for environmental heritage that will rub off on the people you meet.
For an informal chat you can contact Aimee Clarke, People and Wildlife Manager, on 01483 795468.
Closing date: Tues 31st Jan by 5pm.
Interviews w/c 6th Feb and 13th Feb 2012.
Please download full job description and application form below.
Contact details:
Aimee Clarke, People and Wildlife Manager, on 01483 795468
Aimee.clarke@surreywt.org.uk