Wilder Grazing Officer

Closing date: Sunday 10 September 2023- Salary: £29,150
- Contract type: Fixed term / Working hours: Full time- Location: Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, Sandy Hill, Main Street, Middleton by Wirksworth, Matlock, Derbyshire, DE4 4LR-
- 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.**Contact details**:
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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.