Wildwood jobs special
We have a number of vacancies at Wildwood, if you want the chance to work at the park please visit our jobs page to read the full job description and for details of how to apply.
Hours: Full time (37.5 hours a week)
Salary: £12,000 to £17,000 (+ 9% pension & other benefits after 12 months)
The post holder will support a number of tasks that are crucial to the wellbeing of a growing organisation, notably financial & office management. The post holder will work closely with the Administrative Co-ordinator to ensure sound financial administration and the smooth running of a busy office.
Specifically:
- To maintain the Wildwood procedures and systems and ensuring an efficient secretarial facility.
- Responsible for facilitating internal communications, particularly through the dissemination of all incoming communications.
- To maintain personal records, staff timesheets, produce letters of appointment and arrange advertisements and interviews.
- To assist with all financial administration, playing a key role in cost control and making financial systems effective.
- To ensure that Wildwood's health and safety arrangements are effective, consistent and well documented across the board.
The closing date is 11th May 2012. Interviews will be held by arrangement within 2 weeks of that date.
Hours: Full time (37.5 hours a week)
Salary Senior Keeper: up to £15,272 (+ 9% pension & other benefits after 12 months)
We require a Keeper/Senior Keeper to assist with the care of our animal collection & conservation projects.
Specifically:
- To care for our collection of British native & once native wildlife
- To build and maintain our natural woodland animal enclosures
- To help educate the public through talks and demonstrations about our animals
- To help our conservation projects and to promote wildlife conservation.
The closing date is 11th May 2012.
Interviews will be held by arrangement within 2 weeks of that date.
Water Vole Keeper (maternity cover)
Hours: Full time (37.5 hours a week)
Salary Keeper: £11,364 to £13,174 (+ 9% pension & other benefits after 12 months)
We require a water vole keeper for maternity cover in our conservation department. The role is to assist in the husbandry of Wildwood's captive water voles and will suit a fit, practical person who can work outdoors during all weathers doing a physically demanding job. You need to be able to work independently as well as part of the Keeper & Conservation team.
Specifically:
- Husbandry of water voles in our conservation centre
- Captive breeding of water voles
- Preparation of water voles for reintroduction
- Trapping, monitoring and release of water voles
The closing date is 11th May 2012
Interviews will be held by arrangement within 2 weeks of that date.
Cafe Assistants (temporary summer cover)
Function: To assist in Wildwood's Beaver Lodge Cafe
Responsible to: Cafe Manager
Hours: Temporary summer cover, flexible hours
Salary: on application
The Beaver Lodge Cafe is set amongst the ancient woodland of the Wildwood Park on Herne Common and, with a very busy summer ahead of us, we need your help!
If you are fantastic with customers and are willing to multi task behind the scenes too, please send your CV and a covering letter telling us why you'll be a valuable addition to our summer team
Salary: £21,000 to £32,000 9% pension & other benefits (after 12 months)
The Fundraising Projects Managers role will be to administer the Trust's fundraising programmes. This is an exciting position which will help develop a range of new projects to help protect wildlife across the UK and enable projects that allow people to play a role in wildlife conservation.
Specifically:
- To apply for the maximum amount of relevant grant aid possible including: lottery grants, grant making trusts, government grants, Major donors and corporate sponsorship.
- To make externally raised funds as effective as possible in achieving our long-term goals.
- Make sure post grant reporting is completed in full and donor organisation are happy with how we have administered and spent their funds
- We are looking for someone with good written English and report writing skills that can systematically fill in grant applications, and manage the projects that come about from their success.
The post holder will receive mentoring from the Chief Executive who is an experienced charitable fundraiser, developing their skills in business planning and project management.
The closing date for applications is 24th May 2012
Interviews and selection tests will be held at Wildwood offices at Wealden Forest Park, Herne Common by arrangement during the following two weeks after the closing date for applications.
Salary: £18,370 to £26,195 9% pension & other benefits (after 12 months)
We are looking for a flexible technically astute individual to develop our online and offline database marketing systems, websites and booking systems. We are looking for someone with coding and technical understanding to develop the right mix of in house and outsourced data management infrastructure. Working closely with the Chief Executive, Marketing Officer and membership team your primary focus will be the smooth running our websites and databases.
The ideal candidate will be technically able with sound data handling ability, but wishing to develop their career into more practical aspects of marketing and income generation and integrate their work with our administration systems. We favour open source solutions, but are looking to redevelop all of our online systems in the most cost effective and productive way.
The post holder will welcome working in a very small team with the limited resources that are available to a small charity.
Specifically:
- Migrating the organisation to Direct Debit and ensuring our systems collect the Direct Debits and staff are trained (we are already Auddis enabled).
- Developing online membership system.
- Developing online shop, charitable gifts and appeals.
- Developing online event booking system.
- Integration of online database systems and existing charity marketing systems.
- To assist in the design and development the charity websites ensuring strong functionality and optimisation.
- To assist the Chief Executive and Marketing Officer in the planning of overall charity strategy regarding online marketing and fundraising.
- To monitor web server and site technical performance.
- To facilitate our charitable work through online publishing and information sharing, including social media and online information stores.
The closing date for applications is 30th May 2012
Interviews and selection tests will be held at Wildwood offices at Wealden Forest Park, Herne Common by arrangement during the following two weeks after the closing date for applications.
Salary: £6.50 p/h + 9% pension & other benefits (after 12 months)
This post is crucial in developing the charity to achieve is aims. The post holder will excel in giving our members the service they demand and expect, through timely and accurate management of the membership, adoption and fundraising database. This post's will key objectives are to maximise the turnaround of membership administration, membership recruitment and Gift Aided donations.
Key responsibilities:
Responsible for processing new applications for membership on a daily basis, adding to database and sending out all relevant documentation.
Ensuring the up to date maintenance of the existing records, e.g. changes of address, deletions, covenant and bank changes.
Backing up the membership records on a regular basis to avoid data loss.
Responsible for all subscription renewals/reminders.
Dealing with members queries by letter, telephone, e-mail and in person.
The closing date for applications is 30th May 2012
Interviews and selection tests will be held at Wildwood offices at Wealden Forest Park, Herne Common by arrangement during the following two weeks after the closing date for applications.
For full details and how to apply please visit our jobs page to read the full job description before submitting your application.
The Wildwood Team
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