Assistant Ranger

Are you passionate about nature, conservation, and engaging with the community? Join us as an Assistant Ranger and play a key role in managing and preserving our beautiful open spaces for future generations!

This dynamic role is perfect for someone who loves working outdoors, leading conservation efforts, and inspiring volunteers and visitors to connect with nature. You'll be the friendly face of our parks, ensuring every visitor's experience is safe, enjoyable, and memorable. If you thrive in a varied and hands-on environment, this is your chance to make a real impact in our vibrant community.

About the role
Are you ready to get hands-on with nature and make a difference to your local environment? As an Assistant Ranger with Huntingdonshire District Council, you'll play a vital role in managing our parks and nature reserves for both people and wildlife.

From practical conservation tasks like habitat management, path maintenance, and ecological surveys, to supporting volunteer groups and engaging with visitors, no two days will be the same. You'll be part of a dedicated team working to protect and enhance a variety of natural habitats, ensuring our open spaces remain safe, welcoming, and bursting with biodiversity.

You'll also support the delivery of exciting events and educational activities, inspiring people of all ages to connect with nature. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow your skills, work in beautiful outdoor settings, and contribute to creating green spaces that benefit the community and wildlife alike., Please note that the official closing date is as above, and will be the correct date. Some third-party websites may have different dates. Please refer to the HDC website for the official closing date to ensure you do not miss out on applying.

Working for the council
As an employer who values diversity of thought, we seek to employ candidates from a range of backgrounds in order to make our organisation more innovative. We are seeking candidates who are looking for their next career opportunity and are supportive employers, enabling our staff to work in an environment that produces high standards of work in an employee-led environment.

Inspiring: You bring enthusiasm to everything you do, motivating others and taking pride in your work.

Collaborative: You enjoy working as part of a team and with volunteers, knowing that we achieve more when we work together.

Accountable: You take responsibility for your tasks, ensuring they're completed to a high standard and on time.

Respectful: You're considerate of the needs of others-whether that's wildlife, visitors, or your colleagues.

Enterprising: You're resourceful and proactive, ready to take on challenges and come up with new ideas to improve our open spaces.

Practical conservation skills, a love of working outdoors in all weathers, and the ability to communicate with a variety of people are key to this role. Whether you're starting your career in countryside management or looking to develop your skills further, we'd love to hear from you!

An offer of employment is conditional upon having the right to work in the UK. Huntingdonshire District Council does not hold a Sponsorship Licence and are unable to provide a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) or take over sponsorship for any role., Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

Huntingdonshire District Council (HDC) is passionate about providing high-quality services to our communities, residents and businesses. This means we must employ and retain the most talented and dedicated people.

Situated within the heart of the Cambridge-Peterborough Growth Area, Huntingdonshire is a beautiful district that boasts thriving market towns and many attractive villages, each with its own identity. We are an innovative and forward-thinking local authority whose residents are at the heart of our decision-making.

At HDC we want to employ staff who embody our icare values (Inspiring, Collaborative, Accountable, Respectful, Enterprising), all of which support our ultimate purpose of putting our customers first.