Vacancy: National Trust wildlife manager

[deerstalker.308]

National Trust: Wildlife Manager advertised with CJS

Location: Holnicote Estate, Selworthy, Minehead, TA24 8TJ Contract Type: Permanent Salary: £32,000 We have a rare opportunity for an individual to play a lead role in delivering a first-class, professional wildlife management service ensuring the ecological protection and enhancement of our...

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[Terrydeer]

Nice job and a lovely estate, I believe there are a few deer in the area!!

 

[John Gryphon]

And if ye cant find a beaver best to take one with you...

I had a look about on the net re the place and what a grand history of hunting it has. Staghounds and red stags, even the stables have their hunt decorations.

 

[Greenmist]

Fantastic opportunity to work for a woke organisation

 

[croydbay]

Big boots to fill!

 

[Ratel]

They banned all hunting even though the estate owner had written it into the agreement. They now have to spend money to replace it. Good luck to the single handed individual to do the cull let alone anything else. Dunkery and Horner are home to a good proportion of the Exmoor Reds so factoring in the other areas he'll need a broom up the rear end to sweep up behind him.

 

[AGR]

They banned all hunting even though the estate owner had written it into the agreement. They now have to spend money to replace it. Good luck to the single handed individual to do the cull let alone anything else. Dunkery and Horner are home to a good proportion of the Exmoor Reds so factoring in the other areas he'll need a broom up the rear end to sweep up behind him.

Yep. NT are good at ignoring the conditions that they agree to when they take on an estate, as many fox hound packs have found.

 

[shortshot]

Good luck with the badger vaccination programme, along with beaver release scheme. . . along with the multiple environmental interests conflicting with any management plan implementation.
All that glitters may not be gold.

 

[Cumbrian 1]

The successful applicant will have to have woke/left views and lack ambition or self respect.

 

[Greenmist]

The successful applicant will have to have woke/left views and lack ambition or self respect.

You used to work for them as well then

 

[Cumbrian 1]

You used to work for them as well then

 

[Terrydeer]

The last two posts really do depend on the property manager for the estate. I too worked for them and I only left due to the offer of a better paid job and with a family to support etc it was a choice that had to be taken, as I was at the top of my grade and no regrading in the pipeline

 

[spanj]

Hopefully you arent the most recently appointed WM as we have worked together previously if you are

 

[Yukonmountainhunter]

Would they ever hire foreigners who have a pragmatic outlook to wildlife management and don't do woke very well?

 

[Stalker62]

Would they ever hire foreigners who have a pragmatic outlook to wildlife management and don't do woke very well?

 

[NickJ]

Would they ever hire foreigners who have a pragmatic outlook to wildlife management and don't do woke very well?

Well, the Head of Wildlife Management for the NT is a foreigner, she is German. As for pragmatism she is an ex FC Wildlife Ranger Manager and stalks.

This doesn’t mean I agree with all of the NT’s policies mind.

I also worked for them for a number of years but in the late eighties and then again in the early nineties.

 

[Yukonmountainhunter]

My comment was a bit facetious but also mildly inquisitive. I'll be retiring by March and on the look out for some part time/seasonal work. My wife is a British citizen and we have thought about living part time in another country. Her citizenship probably doesn't mean diddly as far as a work permit for me goes though. lol The grey squirrel eradication job would have perfect!

Sigh, back to trophy husband status.... (if it says "participant" it's still a trophy, right?)

 

[NickJ]

My comment was a bit facetious but also mildly inquisitive. I'll be retiring by March and on the look out for some part time/seasonal work. My wife is a British citizen and we have thought about living part time in another country. Her citizenship probably doesn't mean diddly as far as a work permit for me goes though. lol The grey squirrel eradication job would have perfect!

Sigh, back to trophy husband status.... (if it says "participant" it's still a trophy, right?)

I was probably being a bit over sensitive. The National Trust gets a lot of stick these days. Some of it is justified, quite a lot in fact.

What remains a fact is that this role is still a great one in a beautiful part of the world. Managing deer will make up a significant part of the job, it's a large cull. There are few few professional stalkers' roles in the South of England.

 

[NickJ]

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[Cyres]

Well the grey squirrels control will occupy all the persons time. Visited Attingham Park last Friday the place was alive with tree rats!
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