Heritage Ranger

You will work with the CEO and Centre Manager to deliver ‘Lavina’s Legacy’ programme, to promote volunteer and community engagement.

You will be hands-on leading conservation volunteers with site and facilities maintenance at Celtic Harmony Camp, the UK’s largest reconstructed Iron Age settlement, Bourne Wood. The role involves mentoring the education trainees ensuring the successful integration of volunteers into the education team on a day-to-day basis. You will also capture volunteer data to ensure they have a meaningful and enriching experience, gaining new skills and evaluating volunteer progress.

We are looking for an individual who is practical and experienced working outdoors with at least two years leading volunteers and  an interest in heritage and environmental conservation. You’ll be passionate about supporting our mission to inspire people about the natural environment and wellbeing through Prehistory.  Your role will be to coordinate volunteer activities, H&S on the ground and mentoring trainees as part of Lavina’s Legacy Programme

 Celtic Harmony has 25 years’ experience, providing formal and informal education opportunities to work with natural materials in a Prehistory settlement located in native woodland. The charity aims to improve the well-being of children, young people and adults through an emotive experience, creating a more sustainable future in harmony with the natural world. Celtic Harmony holds the Learning Outside the Classroom Badge for the high quality of outdoor education and is the UK School Trips 2023 Education Team of the Year.

Benefits to you:

• Opportunity to further your career in a growing charity.
• Enable you to ‘make a difference’ and the charity to improve well-being for children, young people and vulnerable adults.
• In-house and External Training
• Work as part of a dynamic charity team
• Free Car Park

This job is for you if:

• You have minimum 2 years’ experience of supervising volunteer / youth groups with mentoring responsibility or a similar role.
• You have a range of practical countryside management and basic maintenance skills with qualifications in outdoor activity such as chain saw and/or experience in coppicing / woodland management.
• You have knowledge of relevant health & safety with regard to working with volunteers.
• You have the ability to communicate confidently and with enthusiasm to a wide variety of people.
• You have excellent organisational skills
• You have your own transport, Celtic Harmony Camp is in a rural location.
• You have a flexible approach and work effectively within a team
• You have a ‘Can do’ attitude and willingness and ability to get the job done.

Apply soon, as we run an ongoing assessment for good candidates. Please read the Job Description and send your cv and a covering letter to work@celticharmony.org