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Site Checks and Maintenance Volunteer

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We need Site Check and Maintenance Volunteers to help look after our reserves. This role is about maintaining a site presence as much as possible and offers the opportunity to use your practical skills to make a real difference for nature.

Site Check and Maintenance Volunteers, sometimes known as Rangers or Wardens, play an important role. This role is all about ensuring that we maintain a site presence on the ground as much as possible. Essentially, we like to have volunteers out on the reserve every day of the week. We are looking for people who can help us out by taking on a regular shift walking the reserve 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.
  • Checking paths, fences and benches and reporting any issues.
  • Litter picking.
  • Checking livestock.
  • Reporting inappropriate behaviour.
  • Checking/replacing signage.
  • Reporting back to the site team.

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

  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Good 'people skills', including diplomacy
  • Problem solving skills

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 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. This role will involve a reasonable amount of physical activity, so it will enable you to keep your fitness levels high.