Location
Little Duxmore Farm, Rowlands Lane, Havenstreet, Ryde, Isle of Wight, PO33 4DF

Hours
35 hours per week

Salary
£29,190 per annum

About the Role
Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust is shaping a wilder future for our counties – protecting special places, restoring habitats and inspiring people to act for nature. As part of the UK’s fastest-growing movement for nature’s recovery, we lead with passion, integrity and bold thinking. Join a team where your work has purpose, your ideas matter, and you can help create lasting change for wildlife and people.

We are seeking an Isle of Wight Wetland Officer to join our cause. The Isle of Wight is an amazing place to live and work, and you will be part of a friendly team working from our new office based on our rewilding site, Wilder Little Duxmore. This post offers a great opportunity to play a major role in the on-the-ground work needed to provide the best conditions for wildlife along the Eastern Yar wetland sites, including water voles, marsh harriers and breeding waders that call our nature reserves home.

You will work predominantly within the Eastern Yar catchment on the Isle of Wight, working to re-naturalise the river and floodplain, deliver wetland habitat improvements, help to support the Trust’s ambition for a wild living beaver population and support the Trust in expanding and connecting the estate to make it more resilient. The variety of work will involve managing scrub with a range of tools and machinery, building and maintaining fences to ensure they are stock proof, removing non-native plants, managing livestock, and working with our local dedicated volunteer teams.

Experience
Significant experience in practical conservation management within the sector. Confident use of a variety of higher-level reserves management equipment and machinery is essential.

About you
You will enjoy working hands-on as part of a team, bringing energy, commitment and a genuine passion for protecting and restoring nature at scale. You will have a solid, time-earned understanding of practical conservation management and be confident using machinery.

We are an inclusive employer and encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly those underrepresented within our sector, including people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds and people with disabilities. We are committed to creating a Movement that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities.

As a Disability Confident Committed employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria will be offered an interview. To be considered under this scheme, applicants must identify as disabled under the Equality Act 2010 and demonstrate how they meet all minimum qualifying criteria.

Qualifications
Not explicitly stated but significant sector experience and practical skills with machinery and conservation management equipment are required.