Countryside Ranger

Countryside Ranger - Grade B3

**Countryside Ranger**
**Permanent**
**37 Hours per week**
**£22,369 - £24,054 per annum**

Would you like to be part of something bigger and join us in our ambition to become the Best City, working together as a Team for Leeds. Do your values match ours and do you have something to offer?

Leeds City Council delivers over 500 different services to residents and is dedicated to bringing the benefits of a prosperous, vibrant and attractive city to the people of Leeds. This is a fantastic time to join us.

**Benefits of working with us**:
We pride ourselves on offering the best employee experience, with a genuine commitment to keeping our colleagues safe and well at work. You can expect great benefits whilst working for us including:

- a competitive pay progression structure including generous employer pension contributions
- flexible career paths with tailored personal and professional development
- support for you, your home and your family including personal, and financial support

For more information about our benefits please see the benefits section of our jobs page.

**Introduction to the role of the team**
We are a friendly, collaborative, and ambitious team and with the help of the hundreds of volunteers who work with us every year, we can achieve so much in our mission to protect, promote and enhance the green spaces of Leeds.

**Your role**
To work in partnership with friends of, in bloom groups and other relevant organisations

To assist our in bloom and community groups within Leeds to manage, maintain and enhance areas for biodiversity and our visitors.

To assist in the management, co-ordination and delivery of volunteer and education activities in support of the Parks and Green Spaces Strategy.

To develop, promote and co-ordinate the involvement of local groups and volunteers in the care and enhancement of the parks, green spaces and more general countryside of Leeds.

Working with volunteers, children and community groups.

**What you will bring to the role**
A friendly, outgoing personality and provide excellent standards of customer service to inspire those around you. Enterprising, resourceful, enthusiastic, and self-motivated.

You will be supportive and ambitious with organisational skills and a can do approach.

Familiarity of major habitat/vegetation types and appreciation of the issues concerning their conservation with an understanding of ecological, biodiversity and broader environmental issues

With experience in environmental education, countryside management or nature conservation.

**We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.**
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**We promote diversity and want a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds and the communities we serve. Leeds City Council is an Inclusive employer, ranked 70 on the Stonewall top 100 employers 2023 list. We are also an Age friendly employer, a Mindful employer and a Disability Confident leader.**

**This role is based in the UK. Employment is conditional on confirmation of the right to work in the UK - either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa. If you do not have the right to work in the UK and the role does not meet eligibility for sponsorship, please consider carefully whether you meet the eligibility to apply.