Volunteer ranger
Support our countryside rangers with a variety of conservation and estate management tasks
About the opportunity
This role will work alongside the Countryside Ranger staff to carry out a wide variety of conservation and estate management tasks. The countryside service have a lot of different types of habitats including woodland, grassland, canal and river banks, so there are always plenty of conservation tasks to do in managing the sites and parks for wildlife and visitors
Tasks and duties
Many of the conservation tasks are dependent on the seasons and the specific site.
Throughout a typical year the conservation tasks could include:
- Coppicing, woodland management and dead hedge laying and scrub management
- Installing and maintaining gates, fences, signs and benches
- Keeping footpaths accessible by clearing overgrowing vegetation and maintaining the surface
- Surveying and monitoring
- Visitor management and events
Training
No previous experience is needed as any tasks and use of hand tools will be demonstrated by the Countryside Rangers or an experienced volunteer.
For long term volunteers training is available and can include First Aid, practical tool use and Leadership Skills.
Who we are looking for
You will
- be able to work on your own and be self motivated
- have basic IT skills to carry out desk based research and record data
- have good interpersonal and communication skills
- have good written skills to record research results
- have basic natural history knowledge
Queen Elizabeth Country Park Gravel Hill Horndean PO8 0QE
Staunton Country Park Middle Park Way Havant PO9 5HB
Titchfield Haven Nature Reserve Cliff Road, Hill Head Fareham PO14 3JT
Basingstoke Canal Centre Mytchett Place Road, Mytchett Surrey GU16 6DD
Central Countryside sites Crabwood depot, Sarum Road, Winchester SO22 5QS 01962 860948
Northern sites North Area Office, Basing House Redbridge Lane, Old Basing RG24 7HB
Southern sites Manor Farm Ranger Depot, Pylands Lane Southampton SO31 1BH
Rights of Way
There are countywide opportunities
Blackwater Valley Countryside Partnership Ash Lock Cottage, Government Road Aldershot GU16 6DD
