Based at Tyland Barn, Maidstone with some opportunity for home working and with frequent travel to all our hubs across Kent and non KWT locations.
Globally and nationally wildlife is in steep decline. We appear to be reaching critical tipping points around the loss of biodiversity as well as around climate change, both being interlinked. Human society cannot prosper without wildlife and healthy ecosystems.
Kent’s wildlife needs to be restored to much higher levels. We can no longer allow common things to become rare. We can only do this by restoring large-scale habitat from degraded land. Doing this will contribute to solving global problems. But we won’t be able to do this unless we publicly aspire to a higher level of impact and show that we can deliver this.
The Job:
The aim of the project coordinator’s role is to improve the effectiveness of Kent Wildlife Trusts’ programmes and projects. You will play an co-ordination and facilitatory role, supporting technical leads and wider project teams to plan, track, review, and adapt their projects. The is an exciting and crucial role to enable Kent Wildlife Trust to continue working at the forefront of conservation in the UK. You will enable teams across Kent Wildlife Trust, including our wilding projects, reserves based projects and many others.
Working as part of the People and Projects Team, you will work with colleagues across the organisation to embed a Project Led approach using our cultural framework, matrixed structure and operating systems to improve the effectiveness of Kent Wildlife Trusts’ programmes and projects. The post holder will play a coordination and facilitatory role, supporting teams to plan, track, review, and adapt their projects and programmes.
The post holder will also enable teams to maximise the potential of Kent Wildlife Trusts’ projects and programs, through the use of the Project Management Framework, incorporating the Open Standards for the Practise of Conservation https://conservationstandards.org/ and Miradi https://www.miradishare.org/ux/home.
You:
You are an organised and enthusiastic self starter. Someone who is able to support others and work with multiple teams. You are positive and resilient, and keen to try new ideas and have a flexible approach. You are passionate about improving conservation and wildlife in the UK.
Kent Wildlife Trust is the leading wildlife charity for Kent and Medway, supported by its members and staffed by committed professionals. Join our team and help us create a Wilder Kent! In return we will inspire you, listen to you, value you, treat you equally and fairly, look after your health and wellbeing and encourage flexibility from day one, enabling you to draw on these benefits to be a better, happier and more productive you.
Contact details:
For an application pack please visit our website: www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/jobs
The Kent Wildlife Trust Group is Wild About Inclusion. To us, this means inspiring, empowering and engaging people from all backgrounds, cultures, identities and abilities, to change the natural world for the better.
It also means cultivating inclusive workspaces that are free from discrimination, where differences are celebrated, everyone can be themselves and flourish, just like nature!
