Ryton Natural Flood Management Project Officer (Maternity Cover)

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Closing date: Wednesday 10 September 2025
Salary: £25,514pa plus pension and other benefits
Contract type: Fixed term / Working hours: Full time
Location:

Idle Valley,

North Road, Retford, Nottinghamshire, DN22 8RQ
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We are passionate about protecting nature and wildlife across our County, but we need help to make sure we are ready to respond when nature calls!

Saving Worksop and Shireoaks through Natural Flood Management (NFM) is an exciting EA-funded project that demonstrates how nature can help people by reducing flood risk to their homes. We are delivering a range of measures that will create new habitats and benefit wetland wildlife along the River Ryton and its tributaries, whilst reducing flood risk and improving water quality. This is one of the largest projects in the EA's national NFM programme and runs until March 2027.

We are looking for a passionate, committed and highly organised professional to cover a period of maternity leave. Reporting into the Project Manager, you will work with various partners and landowners to reduce flooding by designing and building appropriate NFM measures such as ponds, bunds, leaky barriers, wetland habitat, tree planting and restoring of floodplain connections into the river Ryton catchment upstream of Shireoaks and Worksop.

Our culture

We are strong believers that it is our culture that makes it a special place to work and drives our huge successes. Our people are passionate and dedicated to making Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust the best that it can be.

We are the county's leading conservation charity run by local people for the benefit of local wildlife, with nature reserves across the county. We are a part of a UK network of 46 local Wildlife Trusts working to protect wildlife

We are supportive of hybrid working with a flexible and friendly team. There will be travel required to our other sites and reserves in the county, so a full driving licence is essential.

This role is subject to a DBS (Basic) Check

Benefits

NWT offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes:

  • 8% employer pension contribution
  • Life Assurance
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Healthcare cash reimbursement scheme
  • Cycle scheme
  • Generous annual leave.