World Land Trust is seeking a Conservation Programmes Assistant to provide project administration support to the Programmes Team. This is a full time post, based in our offices in Halesworth, Suffolk. It will be initially on a 12 month fixed term contract, with the potential for becoming permanent, depending on funding and performance.
The duties and responsibilities:
Project Administration
- Collating and summarising reports and data from programme partners, and assisting with the preparation of reports.
- Assisting with the administration and management of budgets.
- Organising travel
- Organising and storing computer-based information.
- Drawing up basic contracts.
- Co-ordinating meetings and minute taking.
Conservation Programme Co-ordination
- Liaising with relevant programme partners on progress and outcomes of conservation programmes funded by WLT
- Assisting with information-gathering, fact-checking and editing content for WLT website and other communications as required.
- Representing WLT as required at relevant events/symposia/external meetings.
- Providing general assistance to the conservation programmes team as required.
Some national and international travel to visit project sites may be involved.
Qualifications and experience
- Degree-level or equivalent in a field relevant to the conservation sector.
- Knowledge of ecological concepts and basic conservation management
- Knowledge of International Conservation would be an advantage
Abilities and skills
- Ability to work in a team environment.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities
- Proficient in use of MS Office: Excel, Word, PowerPoint
- Excellent organizational skills
- Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
- A high-level of numeracy and literacy is essential.
- Spanish would be an advantage
Candidates must be eligible to work in the EU.
Salary: £16,500 p.a.
To apply: please send your CV, together with a covering letter outlining why you are applying for this post and what you will bring to it, to:
Jenny Chattington, Governance Support & HR Manager, jobs@worldlandtrust.org, or by post to World Land Trust, Blyth House, 3 Bridge Street, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 8AB
If applying by email your application should be sent as an attachment in a Word document or as a pdf; please do not send links to web-based file sharing services (we will return any applications sent in this format).
Closing date for applications: 11 June 2017. Interviews will be held WLT’s offices in Halesworth, Suffolk, between Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 June 2017. Please indicate in your application if you are likely to be unavailable on any of the key dates.
Please note that the closing date given is a guide. We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we do advise you to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
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