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We are offering an exciting opportunity to join the committed and friendly team at the Chilterns Chalk Streams Project, working to conserve a globally rare habitat in one of the country’s finest and most accessible protected landscapes. Could you be our new Rivers Officer?
About the Role
The Chilterns Chalk Streams Project, hosted by the Chilterns National Landscape, has been campaigning
for, protecting and enhancing chalk streams for nearly 30 years, through working with local community river
groups, farmers and landowners alongside a wide range of partner organisations such as water companies,
statutory bodies, community groups and non-governmental organisations
The Rivers Officer position seeks to achieve positive and long-lasting improvements in the condition, management and appreciation of chalk streams. Whilst we are a small team that requires a certain amount of flexibility, most of your work will be within two multi-year programmes: Thames Water’s ground-breaking Smarter Water Catchment (SWC) initiative in the Chess catchment and Mending the Misbourne part funded by HS2.
You will work with land managers, community groups and local partners to identify where and how the natural form and function of chalk rivers and their wider corridors can be restored, and will then lead the design, development & delivery of projects. You will have a good understanding of nature conservation, rivers, and water management, and be able to meet the needs of stakeholders as well as achieving ecological improvement. You will have experience of leading conservation projects in the field, as well as working collaboratively with multiple partners, stakeholders and citizen scientists.
You will be an excellent communicator and team player, with strong problem solving skills and the ability to build & develop constructive relationships with people from a wide range of organisations. You will work across multiple projects, with the ability to balance competing priorities.
The post will be based at the Chilterns National Landscape’s offices in Chinnor, Oxfordshire with the
successful candidate being required to travel to multiple sites in the Chess and Misbourne catchments and
across the wider Chilterns. The role will occasionally require some work outside of normal office hours (e.g.
running and facilitating training sessions at weekends, holding meetings with community groups in the
evenings).
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