Nature Recovery Officer

7 months ago


Witney, United Kingdom Publica Full time

**Are you motivated by improving our environment for local communities?**

An exciting opportunity to join West Oxfordshire District Council as a Nature Recovery Officer. You will play a key role in engaging with communities on facilitate nature recovery and enhancement across the district, and thereby delivering on the council’s climate change and nature priorities.

This fixed contract post offers the flexibility of working within the offices at Witney and agile working, allowing you that extra freedom and work life balance.

**Are you interested in working in environmental conservation and engaging with communities? If so, we would love to hear from you.**

Our environmental service is fundamental to the success of the council’s ambition for a sustainable future. From high BNG requirements in the Salt Cross Garden Village to funding local nature recovery demonstrators, improving community access at Deer Park South and modifying Ubico’s maintenance regimes to encourage rewilding, our focus is to enable our communities in West Oxfordshire to thrive, creating sustainable places for people to live, work, learn and enjoy.

We want our future generations to blossom too and are serious about tackling the climate and environmental emergencies. Now is a fantastic time to be joining us. We want to successfully deliver our Council priorities and shape our environment for the benefit of the local area and beyond.

We are seeking an enthusiastic Nature Recovery Officer, who will support the Nature Recovery Lead in providing sound ecological advice. You will be a nature conservation specialist in the Council’s climate team, delivering on biodiversity-focused land management and enhancement projects in the Council’s new Nature Recovery Plan, as well as climate related workstreams.

With support from our Nature Recovery Lead, you will work with a variety of different stakeholders to facilitate nature recovery and enhancement across the district. You will also help to secure external funding for projects and improve environmental policies to ensure positive sustainable outcomes.

Ultimately, we are looking for someone who is interested in nature recovery and is keen to work with communities to restore, enhance and conserve our environment.

**You will need**
- A qualification in your area of expertise, equivalent to BTEC, HND, HNC, NVQ level 4/5 or degree in Biology, Zoology, Ecology or Conservation or relevant experience of five years
- Ensure all relevant customers and company information is captured and recorded accurately
- Ability to work independently under pressure and within tight deadlines
- Ability to work with others to deliver key outcomes

For more information about this role please see the Job Description/Person Specification.

**What can we do for you**
- Agile working allowing a mix of home and office working
- Flexible working arrangements (depending on the role)
- 27 days paid annual leave (pro rata if you are working part time) plus bank holidays and an extra two volunteering days off a year for you to support a charity of your choice
- Health cash plan giving you cash back on health, dental and eye care
- Pension scheme with a good employer contribution of 5% of your earnings
- Employee Assistance Programme 24/7, providing positive, preventative and supportive advice and counselling to deal with everyday events and issues
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary sacrifice car lease scheme with huge tax and NI savings to be made on electric cars
- Access to digital financial advice (covering your pension scheme, mortgages and other finances)
- Generous sickness cover above statutory entitlements
- Additional income protection, covering 50% of your salary for potentially a further five years if you are unable to work due to sickness or injury
- Life assurance, currently four times your annual salary
- These are just a handful of the benefits that you can enjoy when you join us

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