Service Area: Sustainable Communities

Job Title: Somer Valley Rediscovered Volunteer Coordinator

Salary: £27,344 – 29,439 per annum, pro rata

Hours: 22 hours per week

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

REF: 22CORP10647A

Location: Keynsham, Bristol

We are recruiting for a p/t Volunteer Coordinator to be part of the Somer Valley Rediscovered team delivering the Greenspaces project. If you have experience of recruitment, training and management of volunteers working in the natural environment, and an interest in delivering health and well-being benefits for our communities and as well as nature, this is a role for you.

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 work with the Somer Valley Rediscovered Project Officer

to create a Volunteering Strategy and Volunteer Work Pack, to then produce

and deliver annual volunteering work programmes in partnership with diverse

range of delivery partners.

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 mManagers

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

Closing date: 29 January 2023