Fundraiser - Dee Estuary

RSPB

Burton Mere Wetlands, Neston, Cheshire
£24,890 - £26,720 pa
Full Time • Permanent
Closing on Sun, 16th Feb 2025
2 days left

Conservation & Wildlife


Are you able to deliver fantastic customer service, and would you like to work for an organisation that is making a big difference to our natural world? We are looking for an enthusiastic and hard-working people person to work in Burton Mere Wetlands' visitor centre at the heart of our Dee Estuary reserve.

*The ideal candidate will be close enough to Dee Estuary to commute daily.

What’s the role about?

The Dee Estuary is one of the RSPB’s largest and most diverse reserves spanning over 6000 hectares straddling the England-Wales border. Habitats range from tidal saltmarsh, mudflats, sand dune and shingle beach to the freshwater reedbed, wet grassland and ancient woodland at Burton Mere Wetlands, where our increasingly popular visitor facilities serve as the gateway to the estuary’s impressive wildlife spectacles.

As a member of the Dee Estuary team, you’ll work alongside passionate staff and volunteers to welcome visitors, share the conservation significance of this remarkable reserve, and inspire support for the RSPB through fundraising and membership recruitment.

What we’re looking for:

You don’t need prior fundraising experience—we’ll provide full training!

While expert wildlife knowledge isn’t required, you’ll need:

  • A passion for conservation and protecting nature.
  • Strong communication skills and an engaging personality.
  • The ability to tell compelling stories and inspire others.
  • Resilience and a results-driven mindset and willingness to work toward membership targets.
  • Availability  to work 3 out of 4 weekends in any given month.
  • Full drivers license valid for use in the UK

Here’s what we offer:

•    Flexible contracts: choose between 3, 4, or 5 days per week
•    A set salary—no commission-based work - Pro-rata for seasonal role
•    34 days’ annual leave (including eight bank holidays, pro-rata).
•    Full training and a comprehensive induction

Additional Information

Please read through the FAQs and candidate guidance notes on our site before applying.

Please note that in order to be considered for this position you will be asked to upload a CV and complete a short online application form with cover letter option - For any role/application enquires please contact: [email protected]

The closing date for this vacancy is the 16th February 2025. Please note that we are actively recruiting for this vacancy, and reserve the right to close once sufficient applications have been received. 

We are committed to developing an inclusive and diverse RSPB, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To achieve our vision of creating a world richer in nature.

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About RSPB

The RSPB is a charity for the conservation of birds and nature. We bring people together who love birds and other wildlife, and who want to take action to restore the health and diversity of the natural world. We carry out conservation on a large scale, protect and restore habitats, and save species from extinction. We’re living in a nature and climate emergency, and we won’t stop whilst the threats persist. We believe our work makes a real difference to the world we live in. It takes a great team to save nature and we need a wide range of skills to make it happen. As an RSPB employee, you will be helping to save nature every time you come to work. There’s never been a more important time to protect our wildlife and wild places, so we want to make sure you feel rewarded for everything you help us to achieve. 

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