Job Title: Species on the Edge Conservation Officer (East Coast)
Employer: Buglife
Salary: £31,093.74
Contract: Full time (37.5 hours per week, 5 days a week), fixed-term contract until 31st December 2026
Vacancy expiry date: 9am on Monday 24 March 2025
Overview
Buglife is looking for a conservation officer to join the Species on the Edge East Coast team. You will work with other Species on the Edge staff on the East Coast to deliver multi-taxa activities and engagement work with local communities.
This role will include practical project management and delivery; partnership working; overseeing practical habitat management works; developing and delivering innovative ideas and solutions to engaging local communities with species and their conservation; managing volunteers; public relations; financial management and teamwork. You will be responsible for delivering outreach and public engagement activities that will raise awareness of the importance of species, how to identify and record them, and what actions that individuals and community groups can take to help them.
The Species on the Edge Programme
Species on the Edge is a ground-breaking partnership programme of NatureScot and seven nature conservation charities, all dedicated to improving the fortunes of 37 priority species found along Scotland’s coast and islands. Funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, we are delivering a four-and-a-half-year programme of work to tackle the impacts of environmental change on wildlife, to benefit both nature and people. The partnership consists of Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, Bat Conservation Trust, Buglife, Bumblebee Conservation Trust, Butterfly Conservation, NatureScot, Plantlife, and RSPB Scotland.
