Conservation and Volunteering Officer

Job Title: Conservation and Volunteering Officer
Purpose: Delivering the conservation operations and volunteering programme
Reports to: Head of Land Management
Location: Clitheroe
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Fixed term 2 years with possibility of extension

Ribble Rivers Trust (RRT) is a regional charity set up to conserve the Ribble Catchment,
particularly its rivers, brooks, becks, and streams. Over the last 10 years, RRT has developed
and grown into a sector leading organisation, known for getting things done, strong partnership
working and a collaborative approach.

We have five teams, each with their own particular focuses (Data and Evidence, Land Management,
People and Learning, River Conservation and Core Services), each full of passionate and
dedicated individuals with diverse skills and experience. The teams work closely together on
collaborative and integrated projects to improve, protect, and create a mosaic of habitats and
land uses that will lead to a healthy riverine environment. This is underpinned by strongly a
science driven approach that deliver multiple benefits.

The Trust also works collaboratively and in partnership with a range of organisations, such as
the Environment Agency, United Utilities, Jamie’s Farm, Woodland Trust, Lancashire Wildlife
Trust, Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust, The Forest of Bowland AONB, and many Local
Authorities. Some of our current projects and programmes include Room for Rivers, Community
Catchments, Chipping, and Loud Phosphate and NFM project, Lancashire Woodland Connection, Tawd
Valley Wetlands, Trawden and Blackburn with Darwen NFM project, and Catchment Monitoring
Cooperative.

All of these are on the ground habitat conservation activities, with most having elements of
volunteering. These activities include tree planting, woodland maintenance, fencing, wetland
plug planting, river cleans and invasive species control, to name a few. This role will
undertake the delivery of many of these activities independently and through the supervision of
volunteering days. The role will ensure that we create and maintain high quality habitats, as
well as ensuring volunteers work safely, deliver positive conservation actions, are engaged and
learning about river conservation and enjoying nature.

As such, the Trust is looking to recruit a competent, dynamic, and enthusiastic person who will
be joining a creative and dedicated team, committed to making a difference to the environment.
This person will have knowledge of developing and delivering volunteer days, including
preparation activities, toolbox talks to volunteers, and supervising volunteers.

The successful candidate will have knowledge of topics such as catchment/landscape-scale conservation, ecosystem services, river restoration, and how physical improvement projects deliver these topics.