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We are always looking for passionate, dedicated and resourceful people to join us. If you have an interest in nature conservation issues and a passion for the values of Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust, we would love to hear from you. Our vacancies will be published on this page as and when they become available. If you would like to speak to us about our vacancies, please use the contact details listed in the vacancy information.
We’re always looking for new volunteers to join us too. View our volunteering information for details of current volunteering opportunities at the Trust.
Current Vacancies
South Yorkshire Woodland Creation Partnership
Do you have a passion for woodland creation? We have a fantastic opportunity within the Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust to work with us to expand and connect woodlands, and develop a forward strategy.
We are building our team of the South Yorkshire Woodland Creation Partnership to deliver high quality woodland creation and tree establishment in South Yorkshire. This is an extremely exciting time for the Trust as we take the opportunity to contribute to the increase in woodland and tree cover in South Yorkshire and see the natural capital benefits this brings to people and wildlife.
JOB TITLE: South Yorkshire Woodland Creation Senior Project Officer
Salary: £29,829.74 full-time (37.5 hrs/week)
+ 9% employee pension contribution entitlement
Job Ref No: SYWC SPO22
Closing Date: 9am on Monday 23rd May 22
Interview Date: 10th June 2022
As Senior Project Officer you will enable delivery of woodland creation targets within the South Yorkshire area of the Northern Forest. This will be through working with partners to provide support in design and development of woodland creation projects, including navigating the regulatory process and securing funding, through to completion.
You’ll be working as part of a team to engage landowners and others to develop woodland creation projects as part of SYWCP Project Pipeline.
Bringing an ability to network and share advice, you’ll be able to engage effectively with a wide range of landowners and other stakeholders from large estates, to local authorities, environmental NGOs and smallholders.
We will be looking for experience delivering high quality woodland creation as well as the ability to work in partnership. With an understanding of forestry regulation you will be able to provide high quality advice while enthusing others.
The South Yorkshire Woodland Creation Partnership (SYWCP) is hosted by the Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust (SRWT). Partners include:
South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA)
Local Authorities of Barnsley, Rotherham, Doncaster, Sheffield
The Woodland Trust
SRWT/South Yorkshire Local Nature Partnership Secretariat
More information is available here: https://www.wildsheffield.com/discover/sy-woodland-creation/
To apply please download the applicant pack, Application form and return your completed application to recruitment@wildsheffield.com
Should you wish to discuss the role please call 0114 2634335 and ask for Matthew North.
Application Pack below:
Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust believes that equality, diversity and inclusion is an essential part of what we do and how we achieve our vision for wildlife and nature. Our staff, volunteers, and the communities we work with deserve equality of opportunity, benefit from embracing diversity and thrive in an inclusive environment.
We welcome applications from everyone and value diversity in our workplace.
Current Vacancies
Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust are currently recruiting for a GIS Officer which is kindly funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. 
JOB TITLE: GIS Officer
Hours: The working week for this post is initially 37.5 hours, reducing to 22.5 hours in 2023 and 15 hours in 2025, exclusive of lunch breaks. Working days to be negotiated and may be flexible. The post may involve some evening and weekend work for which time off in lieu (TOIL) can be taken.
Contract: 0.4 FTE of this post is offered on a permanent contract. A further 0.4 FTE until 30 June 2023 and 0.2 FTE is offered on a fixed term contract until 31 March 2025. This reflects specific funding for these proportions of the role.
Salary: £24,859.99 (pro rata)+ 9% employee pension contribution entitlement
Reference: GIS-22
Closing Date: 9am on Wednesday 25th May 2022
Interview Date: 8th June 2022
The GIS Officer responsibilities are to:
Carry out GIS mapping of SRWT Nature Reserves and project sites, contributing to the work of the trusts monitoring and evidence team.
Supporting trust staff, including non-expert users, in adopting and utilising GIS in their day to day roles, including carrying out inductions, training and establishing and maintaining forums for peer to peer support.
Ensure SRWT’s GIS systems are maintained, updated, and relevant licenses are kept up to date.
The role will also have responsibility to:
- Undertake specific Nature Reserve and project GIS work – for example creating updated nature reserves maps.
- Maintain and update the GIS system, working with the support staff to ensure that GIS software is fit for purpose and licences are up to date and complied with.
- Ensure all GIS data is appropriately recorded, stored and made accessible to staff and others as appropriate.
- Provide technical support to SRWT staff GIS users
- Develop and deliver basic in-house training on how to use GIS, encouraging adoption by staff throughout the organisation.
To apply please download the applicant pack, Application form and return your completed application to recruitment@wildsheffield.com
Application Pack below:
Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust believes that equality, diversity and inclusion is an essential part of what we do and how we achieve our vision for wildlife and nature. Our staff, volunteers, and the communities we work with deserve equality of opportunity, benefit from embracing diversity and thrive in an inclusive environment.
We welcome applications from everyone and value diversity in our workplace.
Current Vacancies
Could your technical skills be used to help wildlife? We are looking for someone to bring their experience of databases to develop and manage our systems to strengthen our capabilities. We are recruiting for a Senior Database Officer.
JOB TITLE: Senior Database Officer
Salary: £29,829.75 pro rata plus +9% non contributory pension scheme
Hours: 15 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Reference: SDO-22
Location: Sheffield (homebased working can be considered)
Closing Date: 9am on Friday 27th May 22
Interview Date: Monday 6th June 22
This role will provide database expertise for both the Trust’s Nature Counts ecological database and our CRM database.
Ultimately Nature Counts builds a catalogue of information that will help us to get a clearer representation of how our local flora and fauna are thriving or where they are in decline. This data is vital to us make evidence-based decisions to best support nature’s recovery. This is an Indicia based database and you will take responsibility for the drupal multi-site the database is hosted on and ensure dataflow systems are maintained.
Our CRM database is central to how we manage memberships as well as those that participate in our activities. You will play an important role in improving our data collection systems and embedding our ability to analyse, report and apply marketing intelligence.
Of course our databases don’t sit in isolation and we’ll need you to train & support users both within the Trust and for our partner organisations.
You will bring experience in database management and development along with producing data analysis and reports. Your skills at undertaking complex and technical database and systems development will be matched with an ability to explain complex systems to non-technical staff & volunteers.
To find out more about how you can contribute to natures future please visit https://www.wildsheffield.com
To apply please download the applicant pack, and application form and return your completed application to recruitment@wildsheffield.com
This role is also open to freelance or consultants to express their interest
Application Pack Below
Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust believes that equality, diversity and inclusion is an essential part of what we do and how we achieve our vision for wildlife and nature. Our staff, volunteers, and the communities we work with deserve equality of opportunity, benefit from embracing diversity and thrive in an inclusive environment.
We welcome applications from everyone and value diversity in our workplace.
Current Vacancies
Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust are recruiting for a Wild at Heart Assistant Project Officer.
Wild at Heart is an established programme, which encourages and supports older people and more vulnerable adults from across Sheffield and Rotherham to join in with nature based activities that will boost their physical and mental wellbeing.
Wild at Heart Assistant Project Officer
Job Reference: WH-PA/052022
Salary: APO £18525 Pro Rata
Hours: 18.75 hours per week (0.5 FTE)
Contract: Permanent subject to funding (current funding is secured to March 2025)
Location: This role will be based between Victoria Hall, Stafford Road, Sheffield, S2 2SF with delivery at locations across Sheffield & Rotherham.
Application deadline: Monday 30th May 2022 10am
Interviews: 6th June 2022
We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join the team, who is empathetic to the needs of older people or others who may have had very little interaction with nature or the outdoors.
The role will involve working as a team planning, promoting and delivering activities which will be focused on the seasons and delivered mainly outdoors. You will need to be available to support an existing group which meets on a Thursday in Rotherham, as well as helping to set up a new group in North Sheffield on a Wednesday. The groups meet in a local park or green space, providing nature based craft activities & taking a short walk or stroll round the local area. Visits to other woodlands, nature reserves or places of interest are planned throughout the year.
The role will also involve putting together and distributing activity packs to new participants and engaging in telephone calls to reassure them and welcome them to the group. There is also an element of remote/digital engagement to enable a wider reach.
Being outdoors in nature has proven to have a positive impact on wellbeing & we are looking for someone who enjoys being outdoors, is creative, enthusiastic & is empathetic to the needs of others, in particular older people. A knowledge of local wildlife, birds, plants, trees etc. is essential as you will be asked lots of questions from participants keen to find out more.
The ideal person will be part of a small team, but also needs to be able to be motivated to work on their own at times.
Many of the participants will have been referred to the sessions, so being able to keep them interested & engaged is important. Activities are all nature based so we are looking for someone with an understanding of nature & the environment & as well as how nature benefits wellbeing.
If you think you have the skills & experience to bring to this role. We would love to hear from you.
To apply please download the applicant pack, and application form and return your completed application to recruitment@wildsheffield.com
Application Pack Below
To discuss the role further please contact Jenny King – Senior Wild at Heart Project officer j.king@wildsheffield.com or telephone 0114 263 4335.
Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust believes that equality, diversity and inclusion is an essential part of what we do and how we achieve our vision for wildlife and nature. Our staff, volunteers, and the communities we work with deserve equality of opportunity, benefit from embracing diversity and thrive in an inclusive environment. We welcome applications from everyone and value diversity in our workplace.
Current Vacancies
Wildscapes Community Interest Company are currently recruiting for a Contracts Manager
JOB TITLE: Wildscapes Contracts Manager
Salary: £33,299.63 Programme Manager Grade, plus +9% non contributory pension scheme
Hours: Full time 37.5 hours
Contract: Permanent subject to business performance
Job Reference: CMW522
Location: This role will be based at Victoria Hall, Stafford Road, Sheffield, S2 2SF with delivery at locations across Sheffield & Rotherham and further afield.
Application Deadline: 29th May 22 (midnight)
Interview Date: 7th June 22
Wildscapes Contracts Manager
The successful candidate will be an experienced leader excited to help develop the business. They will support the Business Development Manager and the broader team in ensuring that Wildscapes CIC is a progressive social enterprise with an excellent reputation, delivering for people, wildlife, the natural environment, and Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust.
You will manage the Wildscapes Land Team to oversee the delivery of high quality conservation, land management and maintenance contracts. Core services include moorland restoration, invasive species treatment, livestock fencing, tree planting and woodland management, wildlife habitat creation and restoration, and natural flood risk management.
You’ll also lead and manage the Wildscapes land management service in a professional and business-minded way, taking responsibility for an excellent level of technical output, quality, and health and safety across the delivery programme
Manage delivery contracts and budgets, and actively seek out and develop new clients to successfully secure contracts.
The role requires a hands-on approach including supporting teams on site where required.
You will have:
A knowledge of the land management sector
- A working knowledge of project & contract management processes
- A working knowledge of Health and Safety in relation to on-site land management delivery, including knowledge of CDM
- At least 3 years’ experience as a Contracts / Commercial Manager within a similar industry sector
- Prior experience of working within one or more of the following sectors: ecological contracting, landscaping, agricultural, countryside management and vegetation clearance industries.
- Successful contract and project delivery experience (within the Civils/Construction industry preferred)
- Strong project management experience, running contracts and managing multiple teams on-site
- Experienced in maintaining project health, safety, environmental and wellbeing standards
- Experience of seeking out new contract work, pricing, bidding and successfully securing profitable land management contracts.
- Experience of line managing a staff and volunteers, in both an office and remote location.
- Experience of developing and maintaining excellent customer/client relationships
If you think you have the skills & experience to bring to this role. We would love to hear from you.
For more information about Wildscapes CIC and what we do visit our site https://wildscapes.co.uk
To apply please download the applicant pack, and application form and return your completed application to recruitment@wildsheffield.com
Application Pack Below:
Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust believes that equality, diversity and inclusion is an essential part of what we do and how we achieve our vision for wildlife and nature. Our staff, volunteers, and the communities we work with deserve equality of opportunity, benefit from embracing diversity and thrive in an inclusive environment. We welcome applications from everyone and value diversity in our workplace.
We are currently looking for great people to join our Wildscapes team
Wildscapes, is a registered Community Interest Company (CIC) and commercial subsidiary of the Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust. All profits are reinvested back into the charitable work of the Trust, collectively creating a better future for wildlife, people and the green spaces of Sheffield, Rotherham, and beyond.
The Wildscapes team supports clients to ensure projects are carried out with a detailed sensitivity to habitats and conservation whilst achieving their outcomes.
The main services currently delivered are:
Ecology – protected species surveys, licensing, mitigation, habitat management plans, ecological management plans, planning consultation, and biodiversity net gain support
Land Management – pond and wetland creation, site maintenance, tree planting, soft landscaping, heather moorland restoration, habitat maintenance and creation
If you have land management or ecology skills & experience we would love to hear from you. Please send your CV and brief description of your career to date, to recruitment@wildsheffield.com
FEATURED ROLE: WILDSCAPES PRINCIPAL ECOLOGIST
Salary: £37,287 (full-time) + 9% pension contribution
Location: Sheffield
Job Reference: WSPE-22
As Wildscapes Principal Ecologist you will lead and manage the ecology service, providing technical ecological advice to clients and take responsibility for an excellent level of technical outputs, quality, and health and safety across the delivery programme.
The successful candidate will be an experienced leader excited to help develop the business. They will support the Business Development Manager and the broader team in ensuring that Wildscapes CIC is a progressive social enterprise with an excellent reputation, delivering for people, wildlife, the natural environment, and Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust.
The successful candidate will have:
- Degree qualification in Ecology or a related subject
- Natural England Class 2 bat licence holder
- A full or chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM), (or eligible if not currently held)
- Excellent level of proficiency in practical ecology skills, with a willingness to continue to develop professionally
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to work with clients and staff
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills – especially related to client liaison and report production
- Full UK driving licence
The Principal Ecologist role will:
Lead and manage the Wildscapes ecology service in a professional and business-minded way, managing and delivering contracts to CIEEM and other industry accepted standards. This will include maintaining and developing client relationships to successfully secure new contracts and future opportunities.
Lead on providing technical ecological advice to clients and staff to ensure the delivery of high quality ecological services including European protected species and habitat surveys & mitigation, EcIA reports, PEAs and Biodiversity Net Gain assessments. This includes taking the lead on protected species surveys, particularly bats.
Manage the Ecology team and contracts, taking responsibility for an excellent level of technical outputs, quality, and health and safety across the delivery programme.
An experienced Senior ecologist looking to progress, or existing Principal with experience of organising and delivering ecology services for a variety of clients in the public, private and third sectors.
Further information about the consultancy can be found on our website www.wildscapes.co.uk and made available for candidates shortlisted for interview.
Please download the Job Description/Person Specification for more information.
Please send your C.V and cover letter to recruitment@wildsheffield.com
Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust believes that equality, diversity and inclusion is an essential part of what we do and how we achieve our vision for wildlife and nature. Our staff, volunteers, and the communities we work with deserve equality of opportunity, benefit from embracing diversity and thrive in an inclusive environment.
We welcome applications from everyone and value diversity in our workplace.