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Assistant Conservation Officer
Fantastic full-time job opportunity for an Assistant Conservation Officer based in Ashburton, Devon, UK.
Would you like to join our team and help conserve Britain’s favourite farmland bird?
The Barn Owl Trust is a small, national, Devon-based charity engaged in practical and advisory work, research, education, and owl care. We respond to 4,000 enquires a year from across the UK.
We’re looking for someone who’s highly motivated, with a keen interest in owls, and a good working knowledge of UK farmland birds and habitats.
The position is full-time and based near Ashburton (Devon). It is an extremely diverse role. It requires the strength and ability to safely lift and erect a 24 kg ladder, a head for heights, and DIY-type skills, alongside excellent communication and IT skills, and a willingness to be office based (mostly screen work, seasonally up to 85% of the time).
Please note: A full UK driving licence is a requirement for this role. Remote working is not an option for this role.
- Starting Salary: £23,557.72.
- Initial 12-month contract (renewable).
- Interviews will be held in person on Wednesday 2nd October 2024 at Ashburton, Devon, UK.
- To apply, please send your compeleted Application Form to kaye@barnowltrust.org.uk.
See below for the Application Form, Job Description and Person Specification.
Closing date for applications: Wednesday 18th September 2024
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Part time Administrator Post
Fantastic part-time job opportunity for a local Part Time Office Administrator.
Barn Owl Trust is a local Conservation Charity based in Ashburton, Devon, UK. We are recruiting a part time Administrator for our busy and friendly office. The successful applicant will have recent office admin experience and be familiar with routine office systems such as using a database, excel spreadsheets, record keeping, filing, stock control, and other processes. They will be required to answer the phone, and deal with email enquiries (after training), but will mainly focus on ensuring the efficient and smooth running of our online shop sales, and our supporter administration.
Ideally, we would love to attract someone who has some experience of writing promotional material, and attractive and informative social media posts. However, it’s more important to us to ensure we recruit a capable, friendly person with up-to-date administrative experience, and a willingness to become an active and key member of our Admin Team.
We anticipate the role being 20 or 25 hours per week, spread over the week (4 or 5 hours per day) to provide daily admin support within the Admin Team. The pay starts at £22,702 (pro rata) which is a rate of £11.64 per hour.
A full job description can be found below together with the job application form. If you are interested in this post, please send your completed application form to info@barnowltrust.org.uk . Make sure to tell us why you think you’d be a suitable applicant! We look forward to hearing from you.
The closing date for this vacancy is Friday 6th September at 5pm. Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we find a suitable candidate. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible.
Please note: Remote working is not an option for this role.
Conservation Team
Although vacancies in our Conservation Team don’t come up very often, we are always pleased to hear from anyone with a keen interest in Barn Owls seeking permanent employment in Barn Owl conservation. Here’s a brief outline of our ideal Assistant Conservation Officer applicant.
Volunteering
Volunteers are vital!
Weekly Volunteers generally come in 1 or 2 days a week, covering tasks such as aviary cleaning, car cleaning, woodwork, fieldwork, and grounds maintenance.
Monthly Volunteers join in with monthly conservation tasks in our nature reserve (The Lennon Legacy Project), or office admin.
Seasonal Conservation Work: Come and join our Conservation Team for a day doing practical work in our Lennon Legacy Project wildlife haven, which is managed for Barn Owls and other wildlife. Usually once a month.
See: Conservation Days for more information.
Special Task Volunteers who come in less often to help with things like newsletter mailings, demolition jobs, or helping out at events. We also have a list of ‘owl transport volunteers’ who we can call on if an injured owl needs collecting or taking to the vets.
We are currently on the look out for a gifted cartoonist or illustrator, who could occasionally produce a drawing for us.
If you are interested in volunteering, please contact us telling us how much time you have available and what sort of things you’d like to do. We will then get in touch when we need you.
Here’s what our volunteers say:
“I collect and deliver injured owls taking them to and from the vets as required, and I also help in the office with things like mailings, packing sales goods, and odd things like wrapping lucky dip prizes. I’ve been an occasional volunteer for many years and enjoy the socialising as well as knowing that I’m doing something useful”. Margaret Rhodes.
“I come in for 1 or 2 days a week depending on my other commitments. I do all sorts of things including cleaning aviaries and cars, going out on fieldwork with the conservation team to navigate and carry ladders, working on the Trust’s land on conservation tasks and even helping out in the office when they need an extra pair of hands. It’s a great thing to do.” Kim Baker
Regular volunteers are a wonderful asset and their help is really appreciated. Having people we can call on to help out occasionally is also very important to us, especially to transport injured owls. If you are close enough you could help us with mailings – twice a year (spring and autumn), or come along on a conservation team day and help out with practical tasks on the Trust’s land – see our Events Diary for dates.
Wherever you live you could run a fundraising event like a coffee morning, a cheese and wine party, a jumble sale, or you could find homes for leaflet dispensers or donation boxes.
Our grateful thanks to all our volunteers – you really help to make a difference!
Who will you be working with?
Staff & Volunteers
Trustees