Site Checks and Maintenance Volunteer (Roving Ranger Snettisham reserve)

We need a team to help us maintain a presence on this remote reserve as much as possible. Essentially, we like to have volunteers on the reserve every day of the week. We are looking for people who can take on a regular shift walking the reserve, keeping an eye out for maintenance issues while engaging with visitors in a positive and friendly manner.

This role will include all of the following:

• Talking to members of the public about the reserve and the wildlife they might see.
• Supporting our 'Plovers in Peril' campaign to highlight the importance of shoreline habitats for beach nesting birds
• Checking paths, hides, benches and reporting issues back to the wider team.
• Litter picking and sweeping hides
• Checking the car park machine and reporting issues back to the wider team
• Reporting inappropriate visitor behaviour.
• Checking permits for special access parking area
• Reporting visitor footfall
• Supporting the wider team on high visitors days eg wader spectacles (dates and times for these will vary) by helping with parking, visitor flow and visitor engagement
• Where possible, this role is undertaken in buddy pairs

Training and support will be provided but for this role the following are essential:

• Physically fit and able to be on your feet for 2-4 hours.
• Good 'people skills', including diplomacy
• Problem solving skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Good wildlife ID skills are advantageous but not essential

This is a really rewarding role set in a beautiful wildlife rich setting. The great outdoors will be your place of work and you will be able to take it at your own pace. By talking to visitors as you go along, you'll have the pleasure of helping people learn more about the reserve and the work of the RSPB, or just be a familiar friendly face to our regulars.

You will be making a genuine contribution to nature conservation, and you might find it rewarding to safeguard nature in the area you are working to protect. You may be working alone in a remote setting or paired with another volunteer depending on our team capacity.

Our nature reserves are very special places for people and wildlife. Right across the UK the RSPB manages woodlands and wetlands, heathlands and meadows. A real mosaic of different kinds of habitats for a wide range of wildlife.