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.

Group 4

Current Opportunities

Can you use your hospitality and community building skills to help us bring our cafés to life?

We are looking for enthusiastic Supervisors for our Alexandra Park Café in Poole, Redhill Park Café, Winton Park Café, and Boscombe Chine Gardens Café and Mini Golf in Bournemouth, and our Kingfisher Barn Visitor Centre on the Stour Valley Nature Reserve, Bournemouth, who can support the Café Managers in coordinating the daily operations of the cafés with a focus on developing our volunteer’s skills as well as increasing park use and engagement. Our cafés 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. £12.71 if over 21 years old, £10.85 for 18-20 years)
  • Zero hours contract
  • Hours: Peak times including Saturday and Sunday working
  • Fixed term to 31 August 2026
  • 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.

Unfortunately, due to the small size of our organisation, we can only provide feedback to applicants who are shortlisted for interview.

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. 

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