Do you love working outdoors and want to encourage others to?

Arnos Vale Cemetery is a 45-acre urban green space; a unique and fascinating place for the community and visitors to explore. Using our Landscape Management Plan, we manage different areas of the site in different ways; for families visiting graves and memorials, as well as for wildlife conservation. We depend on and value the contributions of our volunteers to deliver so much. We offer a range of volunteering opportunities from landscape maintenance to working in the shop, guiding tours, and undertaking historical research. Volunteers are central to our organisation.

Our Values are Community, Conservation, Compassion, Collaboration

These are a strong set of values that inform everything we do and we’re looking for someone who is aligned with them. As our Landscape Volunteering Officer, you’ll love getting out, meeting new people, and helping them learn about how we manage our site.

Role description

You’ll forge new relationships across the city, with the support of colleagues and Voscur to engage new volunteers, reaching out to new audiences as well as existing volunteers and community groups, engaging with the groups hit hardest by Covid. You’ll work mainly on-site supervising and supporting volunteers to achieve the aims of the project, ensuring that they have a positive and enjoyable experience. You’ll be responsible for championing and promoting volunteering externally and across the organisation.

You’ll assist in the delivery of the Rooted in Nature project, including woodland management and chainsaw work, maintaining scrub and grassland habitats, maintaining open ground and the site boundary, constructing and maintaining paths and steps, and other landscape-based tasks, in line with the Trust’s Vision and policies for the site.

This is a full time role on a 2 year contract funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Normal working hours are 9am to 5pm, 5 days a week including Saturday.

You’ll plan, organise and supervise practical activities our volunteering sessions

You’ll make sure that tools, equipment and machinery are maintained, stored and looked after to ensure that they are in the best condition and are safe for use. Health and safety is important in this role and you’ll create risk assessments and communicate them to ensure our activities are safe.

We’re a small team so being able to help across the site is important. You might be asked to help with cemetery-related duties and other events, looking after and maintaining the buildings, or opening and closing the cemetery gates.

How to Apply

Please read through the Job Description and send us your CV, a covering letter (no more than two pages) or a 3 min video explaining your suitability for the role. Also complete the Arnos Vale Cemetery Trust Equality and Diversity monitoring form and send to ellie.collier@arnosvale.org.uk

If you’d like more information, please call on 0117 971 9117

Deadline: 3^rd May 2022 5pm

Interviews: 9^th May 2022