Project Manager - Saving Slavonian Grebes

RSPB

Inverness
£32,022 - £34,377 pa
Full Time • Fixed Term
Closing on Mon, 17th Feb 2025

Conservation & WildlifeEcologyRivers, Water & Hydrology


Would you like to help advance the conservation of a rare breeding bird species in Scotland?  

Significant population declines in recent years mean that Slavonian Grebe is now one of our rarest breeding birds in Scotland. This dynamic role offers an opportunity to advance Slavonian Grebe conservation focussing on the core breeding range around Inverness. The role will lead on developing a delivery phase project to implement solutions at breeding lochs, while building partnerships with landowners and key stakeholders. This is a Project Manager role for a 1 year Development Project titled ‘Saving Slavonian Grebes’. The post holder will work in collaboration with key contacts internally and externally.

About the role:

The development project will involve the creation of a cross-organisation Slavonian Grebe steering group and developing working relationships with landowners and key stakeholders such as angling associations and recreational groups.  

The role will manage a Project Assistant and volunteers and be responsible for hiring and supervising contractors. The actions for the team include data on habitat condition, predation pressure, fish presence and recreational disturbance on breeding lochs through a combination of direct fieldwork and information gathering through key stakeholders as well as testing conservation interventions such as the use of sedge bed buffers. Information gathered will be used to develop a delivery phase plan, including fully costed management measures for lochs to be agreed with landowners and any required consents secured.

What we need from you:

  1. Knowledge and understanding of conservation issues
  2. Be well organised, flexible and adaptable to take on a diverse workload
  3. Excellent communication skills to develop collaborative working relationships with landowners/managers and external stakeholders, and to motivate and inspire others to get things done
  4. Have excellent project management skills, to develop and manage a project yourself
  5. Experience in securing and delivering contracts, including meeting Procurement, Health & Safety and Legislative requirements
  6. Monitor and oversee management of the project budget so that financial targets are met
  7. Effective stakeholder management that facilitates collaborative external and internal relationships to ensure successful project delivery and development of a delivery project
  8. Risk management, ensuring the work of the team is delivered following RSPB and funder requirements to manage financial and reputational risk and contribute to suitable mitigations where required
  9. Experience in data management (recording, analysis and presentation) and report writing
  10. Managing a team, including volunteers to deliver project objectives
  11. Ability to work well as part of a cross-functional project team
  12. Competent IT user (e.g MS packages, outlook, excel etc) and experience with GIS and sharepoint or similar file sharing software
  13. A full driving licence that is valid in the UK or ability to access remote locations without public transport.

This post is a fixed-term, full-time role until 31st March 2026. We are looking to conduct interviews on 3rd March 2025. For further information contact: [email protected]

As part of this application process you will be asked to complete an application form including evidence on how you meet the skills, knowledge, and experience listed above.

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, we need more people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side. People of colour and disabled people are currently underrepresented across the environment, climate, sustainability, and conservation sector. If you identify as a person of colour and/or disabled, we are particularly interested in receiving your application. Contact us to discuss any additional support you may need to complete your application.

The RSPB is an equal opportunities employer. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship - the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.

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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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