SANG Officer (Senior Reserves Officer)
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We want someone who can manage the contract requirements but also work beyond that to engage the local community at each location for the benefit of biodiversity, wildlife and people. This will include public access, practical land management tasks, people liaison and budgeting/report writing.
These sites across Surrey are part of our landscape scale approach so their management will contribute to the overall mission of the Trust to restore Surrey’s Nature as outlined in our Strategic Plan. Your role will include encouraging a wider audience to become involved in the Trust to provide a strong, informed, and reliable group of volunteers and community groups to champion wildlife and the Trust's work; to significantly extend our reach to educate and influence individuals across Surrey to encourage them to realise the value of nature.
Whilst your focus will be on these SANG sites, you will be part of our wider Reserves Management team, fully integrated with their work across Surrey with opportunities for collaboration and joint working parties.
You must have previous experience of successfully working within the environmental sector matched with an out-going, personable and friendly approach, and the ability to work with a wide range of people and be confident in lone-working and leadership.
Travel across parts of the county will be required, and a vehicle is provided for this purpose; a valid UK driver’s licence is essential.
Our SANG sites
Our SANGs are a broad mix of habitats, all managed for recreation and public access as well as biodiversity, offering an important greenspace for public health and wellbeing. We are appointed as managing agents to these sites by the Land Trust, a charity working to improve the social and economic quality of people’s lives by creating sustainable, high-quality greenspaces.
An interest in and experience of volunteer leadership is important, as this will form a key part of the role, and a creative flair for keeping tasks interesting for a wide-range of people would be useful. Tickets in use of brushcutters/strimmers, chainsaw qualifications, and ride-on mowers would be advantageous as would an understanding of SANGs.
If you believe you have the experience for the role and are able to fulfill the criteria outlined in the Job Profile, please complete an Application Form, or provide a covering letter and CV, and send it to Victoria.pinder@surreywt.org.uk by 5pm on Wednesday 24th June 2026. Formal interviews will be held during early July but we may make initial contact with candidates as applications are received.
We are committed to having an inclusive and diverse workplace and encourage applications from backgrounds which may be underrepresented in our sector, including people from minority ethnic backgrounds and people with disabilities. Please let us know if you require any adjustment to make our recruitment process more accessible.
‘Our vision for a wilder Surrey is a future with abundant wildlife and nature recovery networks rich in biodiversity.’ We will realise this vision by creating bigger, better and more joined up areas of land for biodiversity benefit through direct conservation land management and key relationship management.
Guided by a collaborative vision where we all play a part in connecting nature, we provide expert advice and guidance to landowners and managers, making sure the land we look after leads by example, while inspiring and educating people and organisations across the county on what they can do. By doing this we will create a Surrey that is full of diverse and abundant wildlife, where nature is at the heart of individual choices, corporate decisions, and local economic and policy making. One that helps tackle the ongoing climate emergency, while supporting the health and wellbeing of all who live here.