Administration Support Officer (Wilder Landscapes)

The project support officer will support the brilliant work of our Wilder Landscapes team, a small but very active team within Suffolk Wildlife Trust’s conservation department. A lot of the team's work is off-reserve and project based, working with farmers, landowners, communities and projects beyond our nature reserves to protect and restore nature.  The project officer will have 3 key areas of work:

Support Wilder Landscapes Project delivery: : Track project progress; • Assisting with project and funding applications; • Supporting contract issuance and ensuring compliance with best practice; • Supporting project claims; • Manage tendering processes and support assessment of tender returns; • Support project and contract work billing, working with the finance team; • Support client relationship management with long term recurring projects. • Ensure reporting of progress against SWT’s KPI’s is maintained and project successes support this.

Increase external recognition of the Wilder Landscapes Team and their work:  • Liaise with the team to gather news items • Create regular public facing news pieces that celebrate our successful work, for a range of audiences; • Develop new channels of communication through external collaboration with media outlets, working closely with the communications manager.

Support the delivery of excellence in training and engagement events: • Support the delivery of excellent training events in close collaboration with experts in the team. • Work with the Wilder Landscapes Manager, Senior Farm Adviser and others to develop opportunities to deliver accredited training as an income generating activity.

We are looking for someone to join us who has

• A professional, organised and confidential approach to working with a variety of clients and projexts
• The ability to work flexibly and  independently under their own initiative but also as a collaborative team member
• Excellent communication skills,and the ability to liaise with funders and landowners.

Our benefits include; 33 days holiday (including bank holidays), a 9% non-contributory pension ( or those that quaify), your birthday off and working with a great team of people.