Water Team Project Officer

Reports to:        Head of Freshwater

Salary:                 £28,000 per annum

Contract:            Permanent Full Time

Hours:                 37.5 hours per week (Mon–Fri) with a requirement for occasional weekend and evening work

Based at:            Elm Tree Court, Devizes with some home working available

With only 200 chalk streams in the world, this is an extremely exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of their conservation.

The Trust is seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual to join our successful and ambitious Water Team, to play a key role in preparing, managing and delivering our prestigious river and wetland restoration projects. You will be joining a dynamic team within a charity committed to nature’s recovery across Wiltshire, with over 40 nature reserves and 23,000 members. WWT delivers high profile, nationally important work. 

Within the Water Team you will be working specifically to deliver Wessex Water’s ambitious Water Industry National Environment Program to create a more flow resilient Hampshire Avon. This will involve taking the lead to design and deliver a diverse range of smaller projects, for example, woody debris river habitat improvements with volunteers, and wetland creation, as well as helping to design and deliver larger scale river restoration projects such as river re-meandering. You will also have the opportunity to be involved in the Water Team’s groundbreaking project work across the county

You will have the opportunity to work with range of stakeholders, from farmers and angling clubs to other NGOs, corporates and statutory bodies. 

We would love to hear from you if you have knowledge and experience of working with freshwater ecosystems, and we would also welcome applications from those with knowledge and experience of hydromorphology and geomorphology, environmental project management and design. 

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is fully committed to safeguarding the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. All WWT staff will receive safeguarding training and must ensure that they comply with WWT’s safeguarding policy.

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to developing an inclusive and diverse organisation, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To achieve our vision of creating a world richer in nature, we need talented people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side.  Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is an exemplary employer with high staff satisfaction and multiple benefits for employees. These benefits include: 

• Employer pension contribution up to 7.5%
• Group risk insurance – death in service and income protection
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 27 days annual leave increasing to 30 days in your fifth year of service plus public holidays (pro-rata)
• Staff discount at Dragonfly Cafe
• Head office in town centre with parking
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Two staff wellbeing days per annum

Closing Date:     9am on Tuesday 8^th July 2025

PLEASE NOTE: if interest is significant we reserve the option to close the vacancy early and conduct interviews on an as required basis. Should the vacancy remain open until the stated deadline then interviews will take place week commencing 14^th July 2025. 

Please submit your application to recruitment@wiltshirewildlife.org

Please note we are only able to accept applications via our application form and when completing the form please ensure you use the ‘supporting statement’ section to evidence how you believe you meet the essential and desirable criteria detailed in the Job Description. This information will be used in our short-listing process.

As a charity Wiltshire Wildlife Trust Ltd is committed to saving costs.  Therefore, if you have not received an invitation to attend an interview within three weeks of the closing date, you should assume that your application has been unsuccessful.

A full job description and application form is available to download below.