Admin Assistant

Reports to:                         Landscape Recovery Manager

Salary:                                  £16,293

Contract:                             Fixed Term (January – December 2025)

Hours:                                  26 hours per week Monday to Friday

Based at:                             Elm Tree Court, Devizes with some home working available

The Trust is seeking a highly motivated and personable individual to join our ambitious and successful Nature Recovery Team, and play a key role in preparing, managing and delivering our prestigious river and wetland restoration projects. You will be joining a dynamic team within a charity committed to nature’s recovery across Wiltshire, with over 40 nature reserves and 23,000 members. WWT delivers high profile, nationally important work.

Within the Nature Recovery Team you will help in the smooth running of the Landscape Recovery Project, a pioneering project working in the Wylye Valley to develop a strategy to deliver nature’s recovery alongside sustainable farming. You will also support the Wiltshire and Swindon Biological Records Centre and Water Team in the administration of their river, wetland and species recovery projects. This role covers three teams all delivering groundbreaking projects so you will have the opportunity to be at the cutting edge of nature’s recovery in Wiltshire.

We would love to hear from you if you have knowledge and experience of managing or administrating projects, particularly in the conservation sector. We also welcome applications from candidates with experience administering projects in the public and private sector or with demonstratable strong organisational skills.

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is fully committed to safeguarding the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. All WWT staff will receive safeguarding training and must ensure that they comply with WWT’s safeguarding policy.

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to developing an inclusive and diverse organisation, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To achieve our vision of creating a world richer in nature, we need talented people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side.  Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is an exemplary employer with high staff satisfaction and multiple benefits for employees. These benefits include:

• Employer pension contribution up to 7.5% 
• Group risk insurance – death in service and income protection
• 27 days annual leave increasing to 30 days in your fifth year of service plus public holidays (pro-rata)
• Staff discount at Dragonfly Cafe
• Free tea and coffee
• Head office in town centre with parking
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Two staff wellbeing days per annum

If after reading the job description you would like to discuss this opportunity informally, please contact Hannah Needham (Landscape Recovery Manager) on 07702802962 or HannahN@wiltshirewildlife.org.

Closing Date: 9am on Tuesday 10 December 2024

PLEASE NOTE: if interest is significant we reserve the option to close the vacancy early and conduct interviews on an as required basis. Should the vacancy remain open until the stated deadline then interviews will be held on either the 11^th, 12^th or 13^th December 2024 at Elm Tree Court, Devizes.

Please submit your application to recruitment@wiltshirewildlife.org

(Please note we are only able to accept applications via our application form and when completing the form please ensure you use the ‘supporting statement’ section to evidence how you believe you meet the essential and desirable criteria detailed in the Job Description. This information will be used in our short-listing process).

As a charity Wiltshire Wildlife Trust Ltd is committed to saving costs.  Therefore, if you have not received an invitation to attend an interview within three weeks of the closing date, you should assume that your application has been unsuccessful.

A full job description and application pack is available to download from below.