Community Ranger

The face of our engagement work with young people, you will inspire them to become conservation champions and lovers of all things outdoors. You’ll lead sessions, supporting young people to learn the skills to look after local green spaces.

Interview date: 19 or 20 November 2024

Working hours: 30hrs including some weekends

Type of contract: Fixed term

Salary: £21,746.40 including Outer London Weighting of £2,652.00 (pro rata)

This role is required to work with vulnerable groups including children and any offer of employment or volunteering is subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.

The ability to work weekends, bank holidays and evenings is essential.

Morden Hall Park is a vibrant and busy urban greenspace at the heart of the community in Merton. We’re an oasis and wildlife haven in the centre of the capital, with a diverse countryside landscape, the River Wandle and magnificent tree-lined avenues just a 500 metre walk from the Northern Line.

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With your endless passion for encouraging young people through nature, you’ll lead sessions teaching them to care for habitats and wildlife. You will encourage young people to love green spaces, big and small, as much as you do.

You’ll make sure that we’re delivering outstanding outdoors experiences and excellent conservation work. You’ll build relationships in the local community, making sure we can be relevant to the lives and needs of young people.

Whether you’re maintaining local green spaces with young people, engaging the community at events or working with schools, colleges and youth groups across the borough, no two days will be the same.

You’ll also share and promote the work that we do here, ensuring special places like these are here to be both protected and enjoyed by everyone for ever. After all, your passion and dedication could fire the imagination that makes a young person become a supporter for the rest of their life.

Diversifying our audiences and workforce is really important to us and we value lived experience and character. If you’re excited about this role but you don’t meet every requirement in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway if you have other experience and skills which are transferrable. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Our team believes that people deserve more than just ‘good service’, but an amazing experience they’ll never forget, and we are looking for like-minded people to join us.

You’ll need to;

• Have an open mind and positive attitude towards engaging young people from a diverse range of backgrounds including a dedication to the inclusion of marginalised or minoritised people.
• Experience of planning and delivering engagement and practical activities that help build or strengthen connections with nature and the outdoors, particularly amongst young people (aged 11-25).
• Experience (formal or informal) of helping people to develop practical conservation skills and enable them to design, develop and deliver their own small scale conservation projects.
• Good communication skills enabling positive relationships both internally and externally.
• Experience of working with volunteers, including being able to train, empower and support them to perform at their best. 
• Knowledge of Health & Safety compliance requirements and experience of producing risk assessments for day-to-day operations.

The National Trust has the motto ‘For everyone, for ever’ at its heart. We’re working hard to create an inclusive culture, where everyone feels they belong. It’s important that our people reflect and represent the diversity of the communities and audiences we serve. We welcome and value difference, so when we say we’re for everyone, we want everyone to be welcome in our teams too.

The National Trust has the motto ‘For everyone, for ever’ at its heart. We’re working hard to create an inclusive culture, where everyone feels they belong. It’s important that our people reflect and represent the diversity of the communities and audiences we serve. We welcome and value difference, so when we say we’re for everyone, we want everyone to be welcome in our teams too.

•Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary

•Free entry to National Trust places for you, a guest and your children (under 18)

•Rental deposit loan scheme

•Season ticket loan

•EV car lease scheme 

•Perks at work discounts such as gym memberships, shopping discount codes, cinema discounts

•Holiday allowance up to 32 days relating to length of service, plus holiday purchase scheme, subject to meeting minimum criteria.

•Flexible working whenever possible

•Employee assistance programme

•Free parking at most Trust places

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