Wild Heart Ecologist

Updated: May 12, 2024 05:49 PM GMT

Borders Forest Trust

Jedburgh

Part time role. 3 days (22.5 hours) a week. £27,000-£30,000 (pro rata) per annum.

The Wild Heart Ecologist post presents an exciting new opportunity to join the work of Borders Forest Trust to lead on developing and delivering a monitoring programme for the Wild Heart Sites and to input into habitat restoration works on these sites.

The South of Scotland has one of the lowest land covers of native woodland in the country and BFT was formed to address this issue, delivering a landscape scale ecological restoration initiative called “Reviving the Wild Heart of Southern Scotland” on its four landholdings:
• Carrifran Wildwood
• Corehead & the Devil’s Beef Tub
• Talla & Gameshope
• and Ericstane

Together these sites span over 3,250ha of stunning uplands and valleys in the Central Southern Upland Hills where a range of upland habitats are being restored.

The part time post has been created to develop and deliver a monitoring programme to assess the impact of the habitat restoration... More Detail