Wilder Grazing Officer

**We’re looking for a**_ Wilder Grazing Officer _**to join our team delivering natural process led management across a range of our own nature reserves and land owned by others to support our goal of 33% of Derbyshire managed for nature by 2030.**

In this role, you’ll be part of a small team co-ordinating the delivery of high nature, low carbon, landscape scale grazing. Working to achieve ecosystem complexity, you will consider the role of a range of small native and large semi-domesticated or wild herbivores to replicate natural grazing systems. Working with our existing herd of Highland cattle you will also be responsible for sourcing and caring for other breeds including equines, pigs and potentially larger herbivores like water buffalo and bison. You will work closely with the Wilder Landscapes team to devise natural processes led herbivory regimes across DWTs estate and beyond.

To be successful you will be passionate about rewilding and bring a good level of livestock handling and management skills, ideally in a conservation setting with an emphasis on equines and pigs. You will be familiar with UK legislation around livestock care and movements and be able to share your knowledge with colleagues, industry professionals and other landowners.

**Responsibilities**

In this role, you will be responsible for:

- **Co-ordinating all DWT grazing activities required to deliver large herbivore actions on both DWT nature reserves and for other landowners under agreement.**:

- **Delivering existing Wilder Grazing contracts and providing grazing plans and quotes for new landowners to generate income and grow the team.**:

- **Responsibility of the well-being of livestock, planning the breeding, purchase and sale of livestock and livestock products, and expanding the range of livestock we own as required to meet grazing needs.**:

- **Managing and developing the Wilder grazing staff team, with line management responsibility for the Wilder Grazing Assistant.**:

- **Ensure legal requirements for livestock and agricultural activities are met, such as movement reporting, meeting Tb testing regimes and other obligations such as Cross Compliance, biosecurity measures and animal welfare.**:

- **Ensuring yourself and your team adhere to relevant health and safety policies and procedures**

**About you**

This role might be right for you if:

- You have experience working with livestock and delivering conservation grazing plans across multiple sites
- Experience of working with equines, pigs and cattle, and other grazing species
- A comprehensive working knowledge of livestock legislation and good practice
- Qualifications or suitable experience operating and maintaining specialist farm machinery such as tractor driving, PTO attachments, towing trailers, front loader use
- You are passionate about nature conservation and are committed to delivering more space for nature
- You are a team player and enjoying working and communicating with others
- You are organised and can schedule a work programme for yourself and others
- You have good numeracy skills and commercial awareness

**We are happy to talk flexible working**

This role will be _based at our office in Middleton_ or at a range of sites across the County. We offer a balance of home and office working. We are a local charity so applicants should be easily able to access our office and other locations around the county.

**Interviews are planned **for week commencing 18th September at Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, Middleton near Matlock.**

**Derbyshire Wildlife Trust**:
We’re a small charity, with big ideas We believe that everyone has their part to play in Nature’s recovery. We are the only organisation in Derbyshire working to protect and enhance wildlife and wild places throughout the county but through our work with businesses, other conservation charities, and the public we are mobilising others across the county and the rest