Rangers (3 positions)
| Posting date: | 30 October 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £32,199 to £37,651 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 November 2024 |
| Location: | Lake District, North West England |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Lake District National Park Authority |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
We have three roles available; two in the Northern Ranger Team (based at the Northern Office in Threlkeld) and one in the Southern Ranger Team (based at the Southern Office in Haverthwaite).
We are running drop-in sessions as below, so you can find out more about the role, meet existing Ranger staff and see where the role will be based. The map/addresses of both locations can be downloaded from the job advert.
• Southern Office - 4pm-7pm on 11 November 2024
• Northern Office - 4pm-7pm on 13 November 2024
As well as completing the online application, please also download and complete the ‘Additional questions’ document and return a copy to people.team@lakedistrict.gov.uk before the closing date.
About us
The Lake District National Park Authority looks after this unique corner of England and UNESCO World Heritage Site. We encourage people to protect, connect and grow as well as supporting 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?
Our people of the Park are passionate about the landscape and proud of the work we do to look after it and help people enjoy it. We are innovative and agile in our approach to work, ensuring we get the best from our resources.
We’re a medium size organisation, which puts us in a good position to be adaptive and able to act on our decisions. Furthermore, our staff know each other and can quickly form workplace relationships to make great team players and problem solvers.
The Ranger team are a multi-disciplinary team, whose roles include access management, community engagement, rural property management, project delivery and visitor and recreation management. Supported by rights of way staff and business support roles and led by team leaders.
The role
You will play an important role leading and managing the team to negotiate, organise and deliver our practical work programme including securing permissions and agreements. Our work 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 Ranger role is varied and diverse, with roughly half of the time undertaking work programming and planning work, gaining consents and permissions from statutory bodies, stakeholders and landowners and line management of Field Rangers. The other half of the time will be on site visits, negotiating work, writing specifications, on site supervisory work and practical delivery.
Your main duties and responsibilities will be:
• Leading and managing Field Rangers and volunteers to negotiate, organise and deliver our practical work programme.
• Maintain and improve public rights of way, other paths and Open Access land.
• Oversee practical activities to ensure our owned rural properties are well looked after.
• Negotiating and writing up practical work plans with landowners and partners.
• Writing specifications, tendering and supervising contractors undertaking practical delivery.
See what it's like to be a Ranger in the Lake District National Park: https://youtu.be/rnogBUHKnLE
About you
You will be a great team player, have good communication skills, both written and verbal and the ability to identify, plan, organise, budget and deliver practical countryside management projects including substantial path improvement and bridge schemes. You will have several years of relevant experience for you to draw on to achieve this.
Working closely with other staff, managing Field Rangers and making best use of volunteers is a key part of the role. You will need to be able to manage your workload confidently as well as the demands on the team, in order to have a clear, well planned and prioritised work programme.
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 plan, prioritise and deliver 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 Local Government 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 discussion about the position please contact Steve Gaskell, Ranger Team Leader on 07887 754285 or Steve Tatlock on 07768977813.
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.
We are running drop-in sessions as below, so you can find out more about the role, meet existing Ranger staff and see where the role will be based. The map/addresses of both locations can be downloaded from the job advert.
• Southern Office - 4pm-7pm on 11 November 2024
• Northern Office - 4pm-7pm on 13 November 2024
As well as completing the online application, please also download and complete the ‘Additional questions’ document and return a copy to people.team@lakedistrict.gov.uk before the closing date.
About us
The Lake District National Park Authority looks after this unique corner of England and UNESCO World Heritage Site. We encourage people to protect, connect and grow as well as supporting 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?
Our people of the Park are passionate about the landscape and proud of the work we do to look after it and help people enjoy it. We are innovative and agile in our approach to work, ensuring we get the best from our resources.
We’re a medium size organisation, which puts us in a good position to be adaptive and able to act on our decisions. Furthermore, our staff know each other and can quickly form workplace relationships to make great team players and problem solvers.
The Ranger team are a multi-disciplinary team, whose roles include access management, community engagement, rural property management, project delivery and visitor and recreation management. Supported by rights of way staff and business support roles and led by team leaders.
The role
You will play an important role leading and managing the team to negotiate, organise and deliver our practical work programme including securing permissions and agreements. Our work 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 Ranger role is varied and diverse, with roughly half of the time undertaking work programming and planning work, gaining consents and permissions from statutory bodies, stakeholders and landowners and line management of Field Rangers. The other half of the time will be on site visits, negotiating work, writing specifications, on site supervisory work and practical delivery.
Your main duties and responsibilities will be:
• Leading and managing Field Rangers and volunteers to negotiate, organise and deliver our practical work programme.
• Maintain and improve public rights of way, other paths and Open Access land.
• Oversee practical activities to ensure our owned rural properties are well looked after.
• Negotiating and writing up practical work plans with landowners and partners.
• Writing specifications, tendering and supervising contractors undertaking practical delivery.
See what it's like to be a Ranger in the Lake District National Park: https://youtu.be/rnogBUHKnLE
About you
You will be a great team player, have good communication skills, both written and verbal and the ability to identify, plan, organise, budget and deliver practical countryside management projects including substantial path improvement and bridge schemes. You will have several years of relevant experience for you to draw on to achieve this.
Working closely with other staff, managing Field Rangers and making best use of volunteers is a key part of the role. You will need to be able to manage your workload confidently as well as the demands on the team, in order to have a clear, well planned and prioritised work programme.
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 plan, prioritise and deliver 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 Local Government 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 discussion about the position please contact Steve Gaskell, Ranger Team Leader on 07887 754285 or Steve Tatlock on 07768977813.
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.
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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.