Nature Recovery Advisor

Closing date: Sunday 21 May 2023 Salary: £27,000 pa plus 9.5% employer pension Contract type: Fixed term / Working hours: Full time Location: Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, Sandy Hill, Main Street, Middleton by Wirksworth, Matlock, Derbyshire , DE4 4LR Apply here We’re looking for Nature Recovery Advisor to join our team and work with landowners and partners across the county to facilitate nature’s recovery and achieve Derbyshire Wildlife Trust’s goal of 30% of Derbyshire managed for nature by 2030. Contact details

For more information, please refer to the job description and key terms attached, to apply please specify in your application how you meet the criteria identified within the Person Specification in the Job Description document. If you have any questions about the role which are not answered in the attached documents, please either email recruitment@derbyshirewt.co.uk or call 01773 881188.

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As a Nature Recovery Advisor, you will work with various landowners, partner organisations, stakeholders and corporate clients on a range of opportunities and plans which include the creation and expansion of nature recovery networks, local biodiversity strategies, habitat restoration, climate resilient catchments and nature-based finance.

To be successful you will be an ecologist who is passionate about developing nature-based solutions to the climate and ecological crises and recognise the potential of natural regeneration and rewilding.

Responsibilities

In this role, you'll be responsible for:

• Delivering and designing nature-based solutions that deliver for nature and other natural capitals – we want to see landscape scale changes to address the issues that society faces, including biodiversity loss, carbon sequestration and storage, and reducing the risk and impact of flooding

• Working with colleagues, landowners, and partners to identify opportunities for developing, linking, and enhancing sites to create nature recovery networks

• Undertaking ecological surveys and monitoring of sites, including Local Wildlife Sites, DWT reserves and privately owned land and identify ways of delivering positive management.

About you

This role might be right for you if:

• You care deeply for nature and are driven to deliver landscape scale change

• You are organised and can manage a varied workload

• You have a good understanding of British ecology and ecosystem services

• You have experience of working with clients, contractors and developers and can foster great relationships.

We are happy to talk flexible working!

This role will be based at our office in Middleton although a balance of home and office working will be allowed. We are a local charity so applicants should be easily able to access our office and other locations around the county.

Interviews are planned for Tuesday 1st June

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