Volunteer WILDside Project Events Assistant
, Billing, Northamptonshire
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Rosalind Johnston, Northamptonshire Biodiversity Records Centre Manager, Lings House, Billing Lings, Northampton NN3 8BE
WILDside is a Heritage Lottery Fund supported project covering Northamptonshire that is run by the Northamptonshire Biodiversity Records Centre. This project started in March 2017 and lasts until December 2019. The project aims to enthuse and enable the next generation of wildlife recorders across Northamptonshire. This includes encouraging new recorders and supporting existing recorders to develop their skills.
This role will provide valuable experience in event administration, support and delivery, public engagement activities, health and safety awareness and risk assessment procedures. There will also be the opportunity to attend in-house wildlife training, improve your natural history skills and to learn about recording wildlife.
The main tasks will include; assisting in organising and delivering WILDside public engagement and recording events throughout the summer wildlife recording season.
You will also be helping to enthuse the public about our natural environment and promoting wildlife recording across the county.
Closing Date: August 2018