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 hospitality and community building skills to help us bring our Visitor Centre to life?
We are looking for an entrepreneurial manager for the Kingfisher Barn Visitor Centre, located on the beautiful Stour Valley Nature Reserve, who can manage the daily operations of the Centre and its small café offering with a focus on developing our events programme and volunteering opportunities. Our cafes will be operated in the most environmentally conscious way possible.
The role will involve:
- Day to day management of the Visitor Centre 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
- Delivering and facilitating a programme of activities and events in the Kingfisher Barn Visitor Centre and nature reserve to increase footfall
- Promoting the Visitor Centre
View the job description and person specification for more information about the role.
Key information:
- Salary: £19,656 – £24,570 per annum
- Part or Full time (30 – 37.5 hours a week) including 1 weekend day per week
- Fixed term to 2 April 2026
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 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 April 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 an entrepreneurial manager for our Boscombe Chine Gardens Café and Mini Golf, 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
- Running the mini golf facility at Boscombe Chine Gardens
- 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 and mini golf
View the job description and person specification for more information about the role.
Key information:
- Salary: £26,200 per annum
- 40 hours a week, including regular weekend work
- Fixed term to 31 August 2025
- Start date: 3 April 2025
To apply, please send your CV and covering letter to lauren@parksfoundation.org.uk
Provisional interview date: Wednesday 26 March 2025, however applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and interviews may be held earlier, so don’t delay your application.
Can you use your hospitality and community building skills to help us bring our café to life?
We are looking for an entrepreneurial supervisor for our Boscombe Chine Gardens Café and Mini Golf, who can coordinate 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:
- 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
- Start date in April 2025
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.
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 April 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.
