New Forest Assistant Reserves Officer

The New Forest Assistant Reserves Officer will be assisting in practical management and biological surveying of a suite of nature reserves across the Trust's New Forest land holding. These sites hold significant wildlife value and cover a broad range of habitat types, priority species and management requirements., You will support Estates colleagues across a range of activities including habitat management, livestock management, operating and maintaining machinery and power tools, leading volunteer groups, contractor management and biological surveying.

You'll be joining a team of passionate and enthusiastic about nature conservation delivering a varied work programme. You will have experience in the sector and will be ticketed and experienced in the use of a variety of tools and machinery.,

• Identify as being disabled which under the Equality Act 2010 means a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial, long term adverse effect on your ability to carry out normal day to day activities; or a long-term health condition; and
  
  Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust is shaping a wilder future for our counties - protecting special places, restoring habitats and inspiring people to act for nature. As part of the UK's fastest-growing movement for nature's recovery, we lead with passion, integrity and bold thinking. Join a team where your work has purpose, your ideas matter, and you can help create lasting change for wildlife and people.
  
  (Substantial is more than minor or trivial Long-term means 12 months or more)
• Set out how you meet all the minimum qualifying criteria set out in the person specification for the post at the application and testing stages. This is a requirement for all candidates, not just those applying under the scheme.
We offer a wide range of benefits including a competitive salary, generous annual leave allowance, a contributory pension scheme, life assurance, learning and development support, 24-hour access to our employee assistance programme, discounted staff travel with our corporate partners Wightlink (subject to T&Cs), free parking at our sites and more.