Service Area: Sustainable Communities

Job Title: Somer Valley Rediscovered Project Officer

Salary: £30,151 – £32,909 per annum 

Hours: 37 hours per week

Basis: Fixed term to 30/09/25 with possibility of extension subject to

securing further funding REF: 22CORP10646A

Location: Keynsham, Bristol

We are recruiting for a project officer to join the Somer Valley Rediscovered

team delivering the GreenSpaces Project. 

If you have experience of community engagement, developing communication strategies, producing publications and using social media, with an interest in the natural environment and health and well-being, this role is an opportunity to deliver benefits for our communities and nature. Somer Valley Rediscovered is a strategic green infrastructure project with duel aims of improving biodiversity and improving health and wellbeing through connection to nature. Somer Valley Rediscovered sits within Bath & North East Somerset Council’s Green Infrastructure and Nature Recovery Team and is an important element of the Council’s response to address the Ecological Emergency.

We have secured significant funding to deliver a 3-year Somer Valley Rediscovered Greenspaces Project, focusing on 5 key greenspaces in Radstock, Westfield and Midsomer Norton. The project will work with several B&NES services that include the Public Health Team and Parks Dept, and with external partners, including town and parish councils, Natural England and Wessex Water. 

The project involves:

 Nature recovery including grassland and woodland restoration

 Improvements to access and interpretation

 Volunteering opportunities,

 Events and activities

 Green Social Prescribing

The post holder will be responsible for developing and coordinating a community engagement programme, including delivering elements of the programme. They will develop a volunteer strategy with the Volunteer Coordinator for the Somer Valley Rediscovered Greenspaces Project. 

As the communication lead for the Somer Valley Rediscovered you will assist the Project Manager with the development of a Somer Valley Rediscovered website.

For more information please contact: Miriam Woolnough miriam_woolnough@bathnes.gov.uk or Jess Taylor jess_taylor@bathnes.gov.uk our Somer Valley Rediscovered Project Managers

To apply, please visit our website at www.bathnes.gov.uk/jobs

Closing date: 29 January 2023