Ranger (Northern)
| Posting date: | 23 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £28,110 to £32,471 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 May 2024 |
| Location: | Threlkeld, Keswick |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Lake District National Park Authority |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
About us
The Lake District National Park Authority looks after this unique corner of England and UNESCO World Heritage Site. We encourage people to enjoy and understand its beauty and helping those who live and work here. Our staff include rangers and field workers, advisers at our visitor centres, planners and ecologists.
What’s it like to work here?
The Ranger team are committed to achieving high quality work and delivering important projects that improve people’s enjoyment in the Lake District National Park. You will be working in a team who work flexibly and support each other to ensure everyone is part of the team.
The role
We’re looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Ranger to join our Northern Ranger team, based at Threlkeld, near Keswick.
You will play an important role within the team to negotiate, organise and deliver our practical work programme. This includes maintaining and improving public rights of way, other paths and Open Access land, as well as practical activities to ensure our owned properties are well looked after.
The role is varied and diverse, with a mix of desk work, site visits, on site supervisory work and practical delivery.
Your main duties and responsibilities will be:
- To negotiate, organise and deliver work with colleagues, contractors and volunteers to survey, maintain and improve public rights of way, and other access, along with practical works our owned properties.
- To lead, supervise and work positively with fellow staff, partner organisations, volunteers and contractors to develop practical recreation and environment management skills.
- Work closely with our communities (farmers, residents, businesses and visitors) by providing advice, guidance and support. Engaging them in jointly identifying and delivering solutions and projects for minimising conflict and delivering environmental and recreational management projects.
About you
You will be a team player, have good communication skills and the ability to identify and deliver practical projects.
The Ranger role works closely with other staff, and motivating volunteers is a key part of the role. You will need to be able to manage your workload well as well as the demands on the team in order to have a well thought through and prioritised work programme.
You will have proven experience in prioritising work demands and reports of tasks and jobs.
You must be able to work well with partner organisations, other LDNPA teams, landowners, communities and members of the public and be able to communicate well to manage their expectations.
You will have a proven ability to find practical solutions to problems on the ground and have good knowledge and experience of land management skills.
Please read the attached role profile for the full person specification on this post.
Working with us, you’ll enjoy
• Generous Pension Scheme
• Electric car and Cycle to Work schemes
• Paid time off so you can volunteer
• Subsidised healthcare scheme
• Commitment to wellbeing
See our website for a complete list of our employee benefits.
Contact
For an informal chat and to find out more, please contact Steve Gaskell, Ranger Team Leader on 07887 754285 or Steve Tatlock, Ranger Team leader on 07768977813
Interviews will be held on 4 and 5 June 2024.
We reserve the right to close this advert early should we receive sufficient applications, so please apply early to avoid missing this opportunity.
Diversity and Inclusion
As an equal opportunities' employer, the Lake District National Park Authority is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination based on age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
Disability Confident Employer
We guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the role. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean that you must provide evidence in your application which demonstrates that you meet the level of competence required under each of the essential criteria, as well as meeting any of the qualification, skills or experience defined as essential.
The Lake District National Park Authority looks after this unique corner of England and UNESCO World Heritage Site. We encourage people to enjoy and understand its beauty and helping those who live and work here. Our staff include rangers and field workers, advisers at our visitor centres, planners and ecologists.
What’s it like to work here?
The Ranger team are committed to achieving high quality work and delivering important projects that improve people’s enjoyment in the Lake District National Park. You will be working in a team who work flexibly and support each other to ensure everyone is part of the team.
The role
We’re looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Ranger to join our Northern Ranger team, based at Threlkeld, near Keswick.
You will play an important role within the team to negotiate, organise and deliver our practical work programme. This includes maintaining and improving public rights of way, other paths and Open Access land, as well as practical activities to ensure our owned properties are well looked after.
The role is varied and diverse, with a mix of desk work, site visits, on site supervisory work and practical delivery.
Your main duties and responsibilities will be:
- To negotiate, organise and deliver work with colleagues, contractors and volunteers to survey, maintain and improve public rights of way, and other access, along with practical works our owned properties.
- To lead, supervise and work positively with fellow staff, partner organisations, volunteers and contractors to develop practical recreation and environment management skills.
- Work closely with our communities (farmers, residents, businesses and visitors) by providing advice, guidance and support. Engaging them in jointly identifying and delivering solutions and projects for minimising conflict and delivering environmental and recreational management projects.
About you
You will be a team player, have good communication skills and the ability to identify and deliver practical projects.
The Ranger role works closely with other staff, and motivating volunteers is a key part of the role. You will need to be able to manage your workload well as well as the demands on the team in order to have a well thought through and prioritised work programme.
You will have proven experience in prioritising work demands and reports of tasks and jobs.
You must be able to work well with partner organisations, other LDNPA teams, landowners, communities and members of the public and be able to communicate well to manage their expectations.
You will have a proven ability to find practical solutions to problems on the ground and have good knowledge and experience of land management skills.
Please read the attached role profile for the full person specification on this post.
Working with us, you’ll enjoy
• Generous Pension Scheme
• Electric car and Cycle to Work schemes
• Paid time off so you can volunteer
• Subsidised healthcare scheme
• Commitment to wellbeing
See our website for a complete list of our employee benefits.
Contact
For an informal chat and to find out more, please contact Steve Gaskell, Ranger Team Leader on 07887 754285 or Steve Tatlock, Ranger Team leader on 07768977813
Interviews will be held on 4 and 5 June 2024.
We reserve the right to close this advert early should we receive sufficient applications, so please apply early to avoid missing this opportunity.
Diversity and Inclusion
As an equal opportunities' employer, the Lake District National Park Authority is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination based on age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
Disability Confident Employer
We guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the role. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean that you must provide evidence in your application which demonstrates that you meet the level of competence required under each of the essential criteria, as well as meeting any of the qualification, skills or experience defined as essential.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.