Engagement Assistant

About Kent Wildlife Trust: 

Kent Wildlife Trust is the county’s leading conservation charity with more than 31,000 members
and over 1000 registered volunteers. We manage and protect over 9000 acres of land across more
than 90 different sites and nature reserves, alongside 2 visitor centres.

But we can’t save nature alone. So, we work closely with local communities, businesses,
organisations and individuals to protect and restore wildlife and wild spaces and create a
wilder Kent for the benefit of people and the planet.

The opportunity: 

To distribute and collect questionnaires in an area of Kent and to digitise collected data. 

One of our organisational goals at Kent Wildlife Trust is that 25% of Kent’s population are
taking such action for nature. In 2024 we want to calculate how much of Kent’s population are
currently taking for nature. This will enable to us to understand how many more people we need
to support to take action for nature to reach our goal. Different actions are more and less
meaningful to different people, and different people have different capacities to undertake
different actions, we follow these principles when we define if an action is meaningful or not.
To estimate how many people throughout Kent are taking meaningful action for nature we are
carrying out a survey across Kent and we need people to distribute and collect these
questionnaires.

You will be assigned an area of Kent to distribute questionnaires based on where is convenient
for you, for example if you live in Sevenoaks you may be asked to distribute questionnaires
throughout the Sevenoaks District. 

For this role you will need to be available for training on the 12th August between 4pm and 7pm
at Tyland Barn, Chatham Rd, Sandling, Maidstone ME14 3BD. You will be paid for this training. 

This work will be offered on a casual basis. The Trust is not obliged to offer you any work and
you are not obliged to accept any work that you are offered

Hours

Zero Hour – Fixed Term until 31st January 2025 – Either 1 to 3pm AND 4pm to 7pm. Or 1pm to 3pm
OR 4pm to 7pm. However, hours are flexible based on your availability.

Key Responsibilities:

• To distribute and collect questionnaires to an area of Kent.
• To support members of the community to fill in the questionnaire if required
• To input questionnaire data into excel
• Share with all staff a common duty to recruit members and volunteers, raise funds and enhance
  the good reputation of KWT wherever the opportunity arises.
• Have due regard to health & safety issues, including ensuring that all works by volunteers
  conform to Health & Safety best practice (i.e. as a minimum are in accordance with the
  Health & Safety at work act 1974).
• Any other duties as reasonably required by the Chief Executive

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• No Experience Necessary!
• Clear & concise communicator
• Excellent listening skills
• Comfortable working alone and in a small team
• Able to travel within an area of Kent in urban and rural areas
• Flexible, enthusiastic and happy to work outside in all weather
• Understanding of, and sympathy with, the Trust’s role as a conservation body would be very
  helpful.

We are unable to recruit anyone who does not have a right to work in the UK.

Benefits:

We offer exceptional enhanced benefits. Recognising the wellbeing pressures related to the
climate and nature crises we face as a society, we provide flexible work options, wellbeing
initiatives, and professional development opportunities. Whatever stage of your career you’re
at, our comprehensive benefits package at Kent Wildlife Trust can be a key factor in your
decision to join us. 

Procedure for applicants:

Applicants should read the Guidance Notes carefully before completing the online application
form supported by a personal statement and CV.

Successful candidates will be invited to an Interview
on the 30th July 2024 at Tyland Barn or on a Teams meeting.

The start date – 26th August 2024

Join our team and help us create a Wilder Kent!

The Kent Wildlife Trust Group is Wild About Inclusion. To us, this means inspiring, empowering
and engaging people from all backgrounds, cultures, identities and abilities, to change the
natural world for the better. It also means cultivating inclusive workspaces that are free from
discrimination, where differences are celebrated, everyone can be themselves and flourish, just
like nature!

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