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Business Support Coordinator - Future Nature Wildlife Trust Consultancy

This is a wonderful opportunity to help make a real impact for both nature and people across our three counties. We are looking for someone to provide business, finance and administrative support to the Future Nature Wildlife Trust Consultancy (FNWTC).

You will have excellent communication skills and organisational skills, be able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines. You will also have experience in a business support role including finance, admin, reporting, credit control, document and report preparation.

For all your hard work you can expect a great rewards package in return. In addition to being part of a friendly, skilled and knowledgeable team, passionate about making a difference, when you work for us you’ll also receive

• Generous annual leave entitlement with paid birthday leave, generous sick pay
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and family-friendly policies
• Flexible working to achieve work-life balance
• Pension with generous employer contribution
• Learning & Development Programme for all (SEED)
• Well-being initiatives including qualified Mental Health First Aiders across BBOWT, access to our Employee Assistance Programme, providing you with immediate and confidential help for any work, health or life matters; 3x life assurance, online GP access and a YuLife benefit package with free will writing, a variety of discounts and ability to claim vouchers to use in a wide range of stores when you redeem YuPoints earned by being active or meditation sessions.
• Salary sacrifice Cycle scheme & Electric Vehicle scheme
• Membership to BBOWT’s, and The Wildlife Trusts’, Staff Network Groups for social interaction, peer support and personal development

Salary: £16800 - £17970 (pro rata) per annum (£28,000-29,950 FTE)

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 21 hours per week. Flexibility in working pattern

Based: Littlemore, Oxford with hybrid working available

How to apply

For full details, please read the job description and T&Cs below. To apply, please follow the application link.

The closing date for applications is 11.59pm on Sunday 13th August 2023. Applications will be considered for interview on a rolling basis, so we would advise applying as early as possible. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.

Future Nature Wildlife Trust Consultancy provides ecological consultancy services to clients ranging from domestic homeowners, farmers, residential developers, public sector organisations, commercial businesses, utilities, estates and landscape-scale infrastructure projects. We also specialise in producing nature recovery plans, to support a variety of landowners, from both the public and private sectors, with their ambitions to enhance biodiversity on their land. The services we provide are chargeable, and all profits from our work are reinvested back into Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.

BBOWT values diversity and inclusion and the benefits this brings. We want every candidate to have the best chance of success as part of this process. In order to do this we know that some candidates will need reasonable adjustments.

Adjustments could include us providing the questions in an alternative format, providing extra time for assessments. We are also very happy to make adjustments for interview, which could include aspects such as lighting, physical access or simply making us aware when you arrive where it would be best for you to sit.

Contact us on [email protected] if there are any reasonable adjustments we can provide during the selection stages, including completing your application form.

When applying for the role you can expect to answer a few questions online relating to the skills required and what you would be doing in the role. Your responses will be anonymised, randomised and scored by a panel of reviewers.

You’ll also be asked for information about your background, anything you feel uncomfortable sharing will be anonymised and will not be shared as part of the selection process, it will only be used to help us understand how we are performing against our equal opportunities metrics. All candidates will receive feedback on their application.

We want our people to be as diverse as nature, so we particularly encourage applications from people who are underserved within the communities in which we operate. This includes people from visible ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities (including those who are neurodivergent), the LGBTQ+ community, those from lower socio-economic backgrounds, and younger people. We are committed to creating an organisation that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities.