Wilder Blean Assistant Ecologist

Location: Tyland Barn ME17 3BD or Remote
Salary: £25,000 – £27,000 pa, pro rata, dependent upon experience
Hours: FT working hours are 37.5 hours per week
Job Type: Full time
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract

Globally and nationally wildlife is in steep decline. We appear to be reaching critical tipping
points around the loss of biodiversity as well as around climate change, both being
interlinked. Human society cannot prosper without wildlife and healthy ecosystems.

Kent’s wildlife needs to be restored to much higher levels. We can no longer allow common
things to become rare. We can only do this by restoring large-scale habitat from degraded land.
Doing this will contribute to solving global problems. But we won’t be able to do this unless
we publicly aspire to a higher level of impact and show that we can deliver this.

The growing Monitoring & Evidence team at Kent Wildlife Trust is leading on the critical
research underpinning our new strategic direction and thinking to respond to threats from
climate change and increase resilience for climate adaptation. You will be supporting this
vital work through taking a leading role in supporting the delivery of existing and novel
Citizen Science approaches to collecting conservation evidence, along with working alongside
the other Evidence Leads to develop robust vegetation monitoring protocols to be rolled out
across our Estate and new Wilder Grazing sites, supported by a training programme aimed at
staff and volunteers.

Wilder Blean Assistant Ecologist

This post draws together a number of tasks that are crucial to the Trust’s Conservation
Strategy. Ecological monitoring across our nature reserves will provide the evidence for our
habitat management activities, especially as we move towards more naturalistic grazing and
wilding approaches. The post holder will play an important part in the delivery of the survey
and monitoring work.

In this post you will also play a key role in ensuring that volunteers are recruited, supported
and engaged with the ongoing survey and monitoring work to help evidence the impact of our
habitat management activities. This will involve working with existing and new volunteers on
the Wilder Blean project, as well as inspiring new volunteers and coordinating with county
recording groups to get involved with Kent Wildlife Trust’s wider survey and monitoring work
programme.

Additionally, you will also support the Monitoring & Evidence team with ad hoc duties such
as report writing, stakeholder management and GIS tasks.

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