Senior Agricultural Officer - Water and Wildlife Friendly Farming

Job Description: Senior Agricultural Officer (Water and Wildlife Friendly Farming) Location: Wheatley, Oxfordshire Starting Salary: £40,000 Contract: Full-time, Permanent Reporting to: CEO River Thame Conservation Trust Founded in 2012, the River Thame Conservation Trust (RTCT) is a charitable environmental organisation dedicated to safeguarding the River Thame, its catchment and wildlife, ensuring that these benefits can be enjoyed by people. We are a team of seven staff supported by a board of trustees, and a vibrant network of volunteers. We collaborate closely with landowners, and a range of statutory, private and charitable bodies, partnership with whom is key to the impact of our work. The Trust has a strong focus of delivery on-the-ground, with work programmes to improve the habitat and connectivity of the catchment''s watercourses and create new floodplain wetland habitat. Improving our understanding of the health of the Thame''s watercourses, and the impacts they are subject to is also a focus, pursued via programmes to monitoring water quality by-wide citizen science, river fly monitoring, and monitoring to understand fish and mammal populations. The information we glean enables us to target on-the-ground projects, as well as to effectively engage with other organisations and sectors which are essential to solving the challenges the catchment faces. Our role as co-hosts for the Thame Catchment Partnership places us ideally to address those cross-sectoral challenges. ..... full job details .....