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Volunteer and Tree Planting Coordinator

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Job Description

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Worker Type: Onsite Worker

Salary: Starting Salary is £33,945 (Level one) rising to £36,648 'pro rata' for part time.

Location: Woodthorpe Grange Park, Nottingham, NG5 4HA

We've got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you've been looking for? Read on to find out more.

Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.

In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.

* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.

About the Role

This opportunity will involve working across the city to help deliver practical conservation tasks, utilising volunteers, staff and business partners to help deliver improvements to Parks, Green Spaces and wildlife sites.

Providing day to day coordination of the Nottingham Green Guardians volunteer programme for Nottingham's parks and open spaces and wider public realm, ensuring that volunteers are safe and well supported, whilst helping to develop the range of volunteer opportunities available. To provide coordination to the council's tree planting targets ensuring the right tree, right place approach is adopted.

Supporting the wider team you will be able to contribute to management plans, Health & Safety obligations and site inspections, whilst also delivering events, activities, and actively engaging in communication channels such as social media to publicise the service.

The Nottingham City Greenspace & Natural Environment Service is a fast-moving dynamic team that manages and constantly improves green spaces across the city

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

• Knowledge and experience of managing volunteers including promotion, recruitment and retention.

• Knowledge and experience of organising successful volunteer activities and events.

• Ability to project manage tree planting activities and work with colleagues and external partners to achieve this goal.

• Experience in applying for funding and providing evidence to release the funds

. Ability to organise and deliver training to volunteers and to colleagues

  • A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
  • You can find the job description for this post here

At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.

For informal enquiries please contact Jane Barton - Community Engagement Manager, by telephone on 07903 841511 or by email at jane.barton@nottinghamcity.gov.uk.

Closing Date: 04 October 2024

Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Interviews will be held: TBC

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About Us

Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits.

In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:

  • 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years' service) + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
  • Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
  • Smart Working - to support your work life balance
  • Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
  • Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!

Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference.

We particularly want to hear from you if you are from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic community, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community (LGBT) and if you are Disabled - these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we'd like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes.

We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process, should this be something you are interested in.

Volunteer and Tree Planting Coordinator

NOTTINGHAM CITY COUNCIL
Nottingham, UK
Full-Time

Published on 23/09/2024

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