At WWT, we believe the best way for people to understand and connect to wetlands is to experience them, so we bring awe-inspiring nature up close. We are looking for people to join our Slimbridge Wetland Centre Learning Team and contribute to this aspect of our work by assisting them in facilitating our special learning visits.
With around 9000 formal learners visiting the centre each academic year, we work together to ensure that every learning group has a positive experience as they explore the site. Key to this is offering an organised and friendly welcome and supporting the arrival and navigation of learning groups, and enhancing the self-guided experience for these groups when they are not in a guided learning session.
These visits include our award winning Generation Wild project, now in its fifth year. This project helps to connect school children and their families to nature. We are very proud to be able to offer this free of charge to schools with over 25% of pupils eligible for free school meals. You will play a key role in facilitating these school visits.
Your role will be to assist the Learning Team with preparatory tasks in advance of visits, greeting and briefing them upon arrival, engaging learners during the self-guided portion of their visit, assisting with guided learning sessions, and to tidy up resources after they have left.
Volunteers are an essential part of the WWT team. You'll get a warm welcome, including information on training, equipment and anything else you need.
If you are interested in volunteering for WWT but don't wish to apply online, please email [email protected] or leave a message at 01453 891 231 with your name and number.
Just to let you know, some of our roles are very popular. To help our teams and minimise disappointment for people kind enough to want to support us, we might take roles down before the closing date if we get a lot of applications. If you do miss a role, or are looking for something particular, you can sign up to opportunity alerts.