Careers
If you’re interested in the outdoors, environment, wildlife and making our amazing parks and open spaces even better, then we’d love to hear from you.
Current Opportunities
Can you use your love of nature and your environmental experience to help bring our parks to life?
We are looking for an enthusiastic, nature-loving person with a strong environmental background who can work with stakeholders to deliver urban greening initiatives (such as SuDS, planters, street trees, and swift towers), share your skills with local people so they can replicate practical urban greening actions themselves, and encourage engagement and support for urban greening in our local community.
The role will involve:
- Developing a programme of activities to inspire and educate local people about urban greening initiatives
- Leading talks and workshops on topics such as local wildlife and conservation
- Attending community events to promote urban greening principles
- Alongside the Programme Manager, managing the project delivery including budget
- Collect and analyse data on the success of nature-based initiatives and programmes
View the job description and person specification for more information about the role.
Key information:
- Salary: £27,810 per annum
- Full time – 37.5 hours a week, with occasional weekend and evening working
- 12 months fixed term
- Closing date: Monday 26 May 2025
- Provisional interview date: week commencing Monday 2 June 2025
Please complete the application form (hard copy available on request) and send it to stephen@parksfoundation.org.uk before 11:59 pm / 23:59 on Monday 26 May 2025.
Can you use your love of nature and your knowledge of food growing to help bring our parks to life?
We are looking for an enthusiastic, nature-loving person with a particular interest in food growing who can bring together residents and members of the community to grow food together, deliver engaging activities for local people to learn about food growing and the environment, and make physical improvements in parks to benefit nature.
The role will involve:
- Establishing and supporting volunteering and community food growing groups
- Delivering nature-based activities
- Developing relationships and engaging with local community groups and stakeholders
- Preparing growing plans for the community growing spaces
- Undertaking administration tasks for the project
View the job description and person specification for more information about the role.
Key information:
- Salary: £25,460 pro rata
- 30 hours a week, with occasional weekend and evening working
- 12 months fixed term
- Closing date: Monday 26 May 2025
- Provisional interview date: week commencing Monday 2 June 2025
Please complete the application form (hard copy available on request) and send it to jess@parksfoundation.org.uk before 11:59 pm / 23:59 on Monday 26 May 2025.
Can you use your enthusiasm and love of nature to help bring our parks to life?
We are looking for an enthusiastic, nature-loving person who can deliver a programme of activities to increase the local communities’ engagement with and use of their local parks, educating them about the environment, and making physical improvements in parks to benefit nature.
The role will involve:
- Delivering nature-based activities in local parks such as volunteering sessions, sessions for families and children, and activities to support our community cafes and food growing hubs
- Developing relationships with local community groups and stakeholders
- Helping to deliver a programme of physical changes in parks for the benefit of nature
- Carrying out ecological surveys (e.g. species monitoring) and citizen science activities, recording the data on national databases
- Undertaking administration tasks for the project
View the job description and person specification for more information about the role.
Key information:
- Salary: £25,460 pro rata
- 3 days a week, with occasional weekend and evening working
- 12 months fixed term
- Closing date: Monday 26 May 2025
- Provisional interview date: week commencing Monday 2 June 2025
Please complete the application form (hard copy available on request) and send it to lauren@parksfoundation.org.uk before 11:59 pm / 23:59 on Monday 26 May 2025.
Can you use your hospitality and community building skills to help us bring our café to life?
We are looking for an entrepreneurial manager for our Alexandra Park Café, who can manage the daily operations of the café with a focus on developing our volunteer’s skills as well as increasing park use and engagement. Our cafes will be operated in the most environmentally conscious way possible.
The role will involve:
- Day to day management of the café operations
- Recruiting and supervising a team of volunteers (many of whom may have special education needs or need additional support)
- Monitoring all income & expenditure via profit & loss reports and meeting set financial targets
- Facilitating a programme of activities and events in the café and park to increase footfall
- Promoting the café
View the job description and person specification for more information about the role.
Key information:
- Salary: £26,208 per annum
- 40 hours a week, including regular weekend work
- Fixed term to 31 October 2025 – with potential to extend
- Start date in May 2025
Please complete the application form (hard copy available on request) and send it to lauren@parksfoundation.org.uk
Can you use your hospitality and community building skills to help us bring our café to life?
We are looking for entrepreneurial supervisors for our Alexandra Park Café in Poole and Redhill Park Café in Bournemouth, who can coordinate the daily operations of the cafés with a focus on developing our volunteer’s skills as well as increasing park use and engagement. Our cafes will be operated in the most environmentally conscious way possible.
The role will involve:
- Coordinating day to day running of the café operations
- Coordinating volunteers on a day-to-day basis
- Opening and closing cashing up procedure
- Providing excellent customer service
- Assisting with regular and seasonal events and activities when required
View the job description and person specification for more information about the role.
Key information:
- Salary: Minimum wage (e.g. £12.21 if over 21 years old)
- Zero hours contract
- Fixed term to 31 August 2025 – with potential to extend
- Start date in May 2025
- When applying, please specify if you have a preferred location
To apply, please send your CV and covering letter to lauren@parksfoundation.org.uk
Applications will be reviewed and interviews held on a rolling basis, so don’t delay your application.
If there aren’t any roles advertised here then we don’t have any vacancies at the moment. Why not check out our volunteering opportunities instead to see how you could get involved with our charity?
Join the team
No matter what your role, we think you’ll get to work in the best office in Bournemouth, Christchurch or Poole – our parks!
We offer a competitive salary, 34 days holiday a year (including bank holidays), pension contribution and flexible working.
For more information about any of our vacancies please contact the office on 01202 143724 or info@parksfoundation.org.uk.
