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Site Checks and Maintenance Volunteer (Car Park Attendant, Bempton Cliffs)

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We need Car Park Attendant Volunteers to help manage our car parks. This role is about helping control traffic, directing new arrivals to available spaces in the car parks and managing visitors expectations.

Car Park Attendants, play an important role. This role is all about making a good first impression to our visitors. Essentially, we like to have volunteers supporting the car park team every day of the week. We are looking for people who can help us out by taking on a regular shift and undertaking a selection of small tasks.

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.

This role can vary from site to site, but can include the following:

  • Talking to members of the public about the reserve and the wildlife they might see.
  • Litter picking.
  • Reporting inappropriate behaviour.

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

  • Good customer care knowledge and experience
  • Enthusiastic, organised and motivated
  • Be able to work on your own initiative but also as part of a team
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Good 'people skills', including diplomacy
  • Problem solving skills
  • Experience of traffic control (but not essential)

This is a really rewarding role. You will enjoy doing your role in a beautiful wildlife rich setting, the great outdoors will be your place of work. 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. This role will involve a reasonable amount of physical activity, so it will enable you to keep your fitness levels high.