Marine Restoration

**Job title**: Marine Restoration & Engagement Officer (Wild Oysters/Stronger Shores)

**Salary**:£25,000 per annum, pro rata

**Hours**: Part Time - 22.5 hours / 3 days per week

**Duration**: Fixed Term to March 2026

**Location**: Sunderland and Homeworking with regular travel for fieldwork

**About us**

Groundwork is a leading regeneration charity, working through partnership to create communities in which people are proud to live and work. We help people to carry out thousands of diverse, locally-led projects each year. Projects that tackle climate change and help people out of fuel poverty. That bring out the best in young people by helping them to improve their local area. Projects that build stronger communities by improving green space or get people back into work and create green jobs.

The Wild Oysters Project is a national oyster restoration initiative, developed by the Zoological Society of London, funded by the Stronger Shore Partnership and delivered locally in Tyne & Wear by Groundwork North East & Cumbria.

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**About the role**

The project aims to restore self-sustaining native oyster populations in the Northeast of England. The project delivers three key activities: 1) Oyster nurseries in Sunderland marina, 2) Seabed restoration sites, 3) Outreach, engagement, and education.

As the Marine Restoration & Engagement Officer, you will work extensively with volunteers to monitor the oyster nursery sites and deliver public outreach and education sessions to engage the local community with the project. The postholder will support the Marine Ecology Technical Lead on all aspects of seabed restoration work and any other technical support appropriate to the role.

More information about the project can be found using the links below

Wild Oysters project - Wild Oyster Projects (wild-oysters.org)

Whitburn: 10,000 oysters released on to reef to help clean sea - BBC News

**About you**

We want someone who is comfortable delivering education sessions with school groups and community events. Your role will require regular travel to the nursery sites and working outdoors near water. You will also have experience of carrying out fieldwork in a marine or environmental context, and be a good team worker with excellent organisation skills.

**Want to apply?**

Application Form

Marine Restoration & Engagement Officer - Job Description

Marine Restoration & Engagement Officer - Person Specification

**Closing date: Noon on Friday 8th December 2023**

**Proposed Interview Date: Monday 18th December 2023**

**Make yourself at home**

We want you to be yourself at Groundwork and we value everything that makes you unique. We recognise and celebrate your difference and together we make Groundwork a special and great place to work. As a Disability Confident employer we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.

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