Closing date: Monday 4 August 2025
Salary: 26,104 - 28,145 FTE pro rata depending on skills and experience
Contract type: Fixed term / Working hours: Part time
Multiple locations:
Folly Farm Reserve and Hub, Stowey, Pensford, Bristol, BS39 4DW
Based at Avon Wildlife Trust Head Office in central Bristol, 17 Great George Street, Bristol, BS1 5QT
Are you interested in helping our wild beaver populations to thrive? Could you talk tactfully and confidently to a landowner about the incredible, positive impacts beavers can have on our landscape? And do you have honed GIS skills which you're keen to apply to help restore nature across our region? Then we're looking for you!
The Bristol Avon catchment has a large population of wild beavers, a result of unlicensed release(s), which we think took place sometime around 2020. In 2022, a Natural England survey identified 13 separate territories, and a possible population of 50 adult beavers across the area. Unlike managed beaver enclosures and licensed wild releases (which were only permitted since Feb 2025), our beaver population has been growing without structured management or support.
In April 2025 Avon Wildlife Trust launched a vital new project - the Beaver Advice and Support Team (Bristol Avon & Somerset Frome). We're working across the region to upskill and inform a range of stakeholders - from Farm Advisors, Ecologists and Planning Authorities to farmers, landowners and land managers - about living alongside the beaver population to ensure they thrive.
We are looking for someone to join this new Beaver Advice and Support team, and support the wider strategic Beaver Advisory Group. You will be tasked with collecting, analysing and presenting high quality data on the wild beaver populations living across our river catchments. In addition, you will deliver on-the-ground support and advice to landowners, farmers and communities living and working alongside beavers, resulting in improved knowledge, support and acceptance of beavers at a local, grassroots level.
Avon Wildlife Trust is a charity dedicated to working with local people for local wildlife, covering the West of England region (former county of Avon). It is supported by more than 17,500 members, manages over 30 nature reserves and is one of 46 Wildlife Trusts in the UK. We want to see nature restored on a grand scale across the Avon region, with one in four people taking action for wildlife.
The Wildlife Trusts value diversity. We are committed to creating a movement that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures.
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