North Dorset Warden

Company

Dorset Wildlife Trust

Location

Dorchester DT2 7AA

Employment Hours

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Employment Type

Permanent

Salary

£28,983 a year

Job Highlights

The role involves maintaining and enhancing nature reserves, engaging with visitors, and performing habitat management tasks in a practical capacity.
The ideal candidate should possess hands-on skills, a passion for nature conservation, and the ability to work collaboratively within a team.
The position is based in Dorchester with full-time hours and offers the chance to work in beautiful natural settings while contributing to ecological monitoring.

Job Requirements/Description

This is a great opportunity to work on the stunning north Dorset nature reserves, with their many varied habitats like the chalk downland of Fontmell Down and the lowland meadows and woodlands of Bracketts Coppice. Based out of our Head Office at Brooklands Farm, the role combines the many and varied practical skills of habitat management with ecological monitoring, and you will be part of a small but friendly, skilled and vibrant team.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, hard-working and practical person to work in the north. Whilst working within the N&W wider team, they will play a vital part in maintaining and enhancing our nature reserves, maintaining infrastructure and equipment, and engaging with visitors.

Contact details

To apply for this role, please submit a completed Dorset Wildlife Trust

If you require further information regarding this vacancy or have any difficulty in accessing the files, please contact the Reserves Manager on 01305 264620 or by email at ngibson@dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk

The deadline for completed applications is 5pm on 02 October 2026.

Interviews to be held w/c 12th October at our Brooklands Farm offices, with an option for second interviews if required.

Job reference: ND2026

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