CJS Professional: March 2021
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Title, Employer, Location:, Basis: (contract details if known)
Senior
Consultant Ecologist, EnviroCentre Limited. Central Belt: Glasgow or
Edinburgh (Permanent)
Principal
Consultant/Associate Director Level Ecologist, EnviroCentre Limited. Glasgow
or Edinburgh (Permanent)
Visitor
Experience Assistant, RSPB. Newport Wetlands (6 months - Full Time)
Estate
Worker, RSPB. Leighton Moss, Lancashire
Casual
Bat Surveyor, Midland Ecology Ltd. Ideally living in the West Midlands
(between May - September)
Case
Officer (Rights of Way),Open Spaces Society. Home-based. (part time 21
hpw)
Community
Engagement Officer, Surrey Wildlife Trust. Surrey.
Development
Manager, Viewpark Conservation Group. Historical Douglas Support Estate
(Full time permanent position, subject to funding)
Works
Supervisor, Forestry England. Hamsterley
Ecological
Consultant (Senior considered) Middlemarch Environmental Ltd. Home-based,
ideally within the south of Hampshire / West Sussex region.
Assistant
Field Ecologist, ECOSA. Hampshire. (Initially a 7-month contract position
beginning in spring 2021 with a view to becoming permanent, subject to
review)
Nature
Spaces Officer, Surrey Wildlife Trust. Surrey. (Will consider both full and
part time applications, a job share may be feasible)
Project
Officer, Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust. Home based within
southern Wales. (Full time (37.5 hours) fixed term contract – April to July
2021)
Tree
Officer, Oxfordshire County Council. Work location: Predominantly across the
West of Oxfordshire. (Permanent, 37hpw)
Assistant
Conservation and Education Manager, League Against Cruel Sports. Dulverton,
Somerset. (Permanent role 35hpw)
Countryside
& Greenspace Officer, The Land Trust. Home based (Permanent, Full Time
36 hpw)
New
Forest Priority Landscape Conservation Officer, RSPB. Franchises Lodge, New
Forest.
Conservation
Officer (Maternity Cover),Surrey Wildlife Trust. Pirbright, Surrey.
(Ideally start in March/April 2021. This is a full time role as maternity cover
for approximately 12 months; part-time (over 25 hours) applications will also be
considered.)
Visitor
Experience Manager, RSPB. Rye Meads. (Permanent, full-time)
Seasonal
Research Assistant - English Twite Recovery Project, RSPB. South Pennine
Uplands, focus areas - Todmorden & Marsden (3 month contract)
Database
Development Officer, Surrey Wildlife Trust. Surrey. (Full time or 4 day week
considered)
Consultant
Ecologist, Tyrer Ecological Consultants Ltd
Outdoor
Education & Activities Instructor, Lochranza Centre CIC. Lochranza, Isle
of Arran. (Fixed term (28-35hpw) contract from May until October with possible
extension into 2022)
What you think CJS does: advertise jobs
for rangers. What CJS actually does…..
Promotes countryside
projects, publishes adverts for volunteers, collates a daily news roundup, works
with many different organisations to highlight issues and introduce new
initiatives, runs a large directory of sector wide training courses and
professional events, hosts a wide range of advice and information covering all
parts of the conservation sector, produces three newsletters as well as managing
a large website and yes, advertises jobs for rangers, amongst lots of others!
[more]
According to our unusual days of the
year calendar next Thursday (18/3) will be Companies that Care
day.
So it seems a perfect time to remind everyone that CJS cares -
a lot. About what we do, the differences (we hope) we make, about our readers,
advertisers and everyone across the CJS family - yes, that's how we think of you
all. It's so ingrained in CJS's DNA (can a business have DNA?) that we put it
on any of our affiliate and sub sites: CJS was set up not to make vast profits
but to make a difference, to put back into the conservation sector and help
everyone in it along the way. [more]
We celebrated National Careers Week
#NCW2021 – careers are something we specialise in; we like helping you
lovely people get jobs and start your journeys in the conservation sector, we’ve
been doing it for over 25 years. [more]
Features and In Depth Features
Bringing nature back to the
wetlands by Lancashire Wildlife Trust.
On a spring day in 2020, the
Manchester Argus flew on a Manchester moss for the first time in more than 150
years. Not even the Lockdown could prevent this momentous flight of a butterfly
that had been driven from many North West wetlands by development and
agricultural drainage of peat. [more ]
& Another Thing: An honest place
for conservation issues written by By Kirsty Crawford
Hands up if
you shudder at the word ‘networking’? ‘& Another Thing’ is an honest place
for conservation issues, in the broadest sense. It was created from many
conversations with friends and colleagues that inevitably ended with those words
‘oh, and another thing…’. [more]
Beavers are back in Dorset
After an absence of 400 years,
beavers have returned to Dorset. Dorset Wildlife Trust’s Marketing and
Communications Officer, Alex Hennessy explains why they matter and how they
shape the landscape. Originally posted for World Wildlife Day and has been one
of the most popular articles this year so far. [more]
Looking for a way to upskill or
progress in your career or train new or upskill your employees? Then the new
Level 4 Countryside Ranger Apprenticeship could be for you!
Demelza
Hyde, Chair, L4 Countryside Ranger Trailblazer and National Trust Ranger, NW
Dartmoor writes about the new Level 4 (L4) Countryside Ranger Apprenticeship
which has been designed and developed by employers from across the industry , as
part of the Countryside Ranger Trailblazer group. This new level 4 qualification
will help individuals wanting to progress within the countryside management
profession and employers looking to hire someone new or upskill existing
employees. Once complete, apprentices will be qualified in roles such as
countryside, community or recreation rangers, reserve or countryside wardens,
estate supervisor or estate or park rangers. [more ]
The rise of the next scientific
leaders in environmental science – Open Wilding Project
Launched by
a community of current students spread across the United Kingdom, The Open
Wilding Project is empowering the next generation of scientists and specialists.
Each year, opportunities for student jobs, work experience, research and
investigation become more and more difficult, with the sector heavily saturated
with part to full time only volunteer opportunities that are inflexible and hard
to come by, and employers requiring academic and practical experience, leaving
graduates discouraged and eventually abandoning a profession in nature. We are
changing that. [more]
Reflecting on a strange (but wonderful)
year at A Focus on Nature written by Carys, AFON Creative
Director
2020 will go down in history as one of the most
strange and uncertain years. It certainly wasn’t what I was expecting when I
accepted the role of Creative Director at A Focus on Nature (AFON) in January
last year. We quickly realised that we’d need to head back to the drawing board
if we wanted to achieve our vision of a more inclusive and diverse AFON. We
have done so much in the last 12 months, but to save you from an eternal essay
here’s a quick summary of what we did and how we did it. [more]
CJS Focus on Volunteering is included in full. This edition is in association with the National Federation of Parks and Green Spaces (NFPGS) with Parks Community UK. Next edition will be in Spetember looking at Careers in Ecology - suggestions for content or offers to write an article welcome, contact Amy
A good mix of news, this month featuring lots of beavers. Reactions to last week's budget and a call from BTO to give your old kit a new lease of life by donating it to their new scheme to help young wildlife enthusiasts.
Last chance to book for the CIEEM Spring
Conference on 16 March - Long term Ecological Research Projects: Using
Evidence to Inform Practice [more]
Calendar of events and short
courses occurring in May plus additions made over the past month.
The next edition of CJS Professional will be published on: 8 April
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