We recruit to specific roles. For each role, we will give you an indication of the activities involved, along with an outline of the skills you will need to carry it out. Please specify which role you are applying for when you submit an application. We don’t accept speculative applications.
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Activities & Events
Enthusiastic individuals who particularly enjoy working with families and children are sought to support our programme of activities and events for our visitors.
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Administration - Supporter Services Assistant
Are you looking to gain experience in an office environment within fundraising? Join our friendly Supporter Services team as an administration volunteer.
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Animal Care - Birds Support
Use your bird keeping experience to help out the Aviculture team look after our birds and the habitats they live in.
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Collection Support Team
Don't mind getting your hands dirty? Assist our team in managing, feeding, caring for and clearing up after our collection birds.
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Content and Communications
If you are interested in digital communications and marketing, have good attention to detail and administrative skills, and want to gain experience in a conservation charity setting, a volunteer role in our PR team could be for you!
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Education - Formal Learning Session Assistant
If you are organised, proactive, interested in UK wildlife and enthusiastic about sharing your knowledge with school children, join us in the Education department.
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Education - School Facilitator
Join us on a seasonal basis and help us to provide a friendly welcome to school groups attending the centre to get closer to wetland wildlife. We are particularly looking for help on Wednesdays, but can be flexible.
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Facilities & Maintenance
If you are a skilled tradesperson or competent DIY-er, why not contribute your expertise in an entirely different environment?
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Family Activities - Arts & Crafts Assistant
If you are creative and enthusiastic about engaging children with wetland wildlife through fun activities, join our friendly team supporting us to deliver arts and crafts activities for visitors of all ages.
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Family Activities - Lego
If you are a LEGO® fan and would love to volunteer with WWT we are recruiting Family Activities Assistants with immediate effect to assist with delivering our LEGO® brick wildlife activities and pond-dipping sessions. No previous experience necessary.
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Family Engagement Volunteer
If you are creative and enthusiastic about engaging families with wetland wildlife, join our friendly team to help with our exciting holiday activities.
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Grounds - Gardening
Are you an enthusiastic gardener who is happy to undertake physical work outdoors that may involve kneeling, bending and lifting? Join our Grounds team undertaking hands-on tasks that will enhance our visitors' enjoyment of our wetland centre.
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Grounds - Support
Are you looking for practical, hands-on experience in a beautiful outdoor setting? Join our friendly team of staff and volunteers to help maintain the grounds of an award winning wetland centre.
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Grounds Maintenance - Carpenter
Maintaining our award winning wetland centres requires a lot of physical practical work to keep things looking in excellent condition. Do you have carpentry skills to offer? Join our maintenance team as a volunteer.
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Maintenance - Vehicle and Machinery
This role will suit you if you have previous experience of maintaining a range of vehicles and machinery and are proactive and able to work on your own initiative.
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Marketing - Image Library
Sound bird knowledge, research skills and an understanding of what makes an engaging, marketable image are needed for this role in the media team.
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Marketing - Photography
Talented photographers with an eye for engaging images of people, wildlife and events wanted.
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Marketing - Visitor Experience Photography
Talented photographers with an eye for capturing engaging images of people in the natural environment wanted for a unique volunteering role at WWT
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Practical Work Experience
Are you looking to join a friendly group of volunteers and staff undertaking practical, often physically demanding outdoor tasks in a beautiful wetland landscape? A work experience placement in our Reserves team could be for you.
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Reserve
Are you looking to join a friendly group of volunteers and staff for practical, often physically demanding outdoor tasks in a beautiful wetland landscape and in all weather conditions?
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Reserve - Wildlife Gardening
If you have a keen interest in wildlife gardening, and want to help preserve our beautiful wetland reserves, a gardening role in our reserves team could be for you!
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Visitor Experience - Guide in a Hide
Do you enjoy spending time outdoors? Are you passionate about birds and wildlife? Would you like to share your knowledge? Join our team of guides in the hides.
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Visitor Experience - Roaming Engager
If you are friendly and welcoming with an enthusiasm to promote the work of WWT, join us as a Roaming Engager.
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Visitor Experience - Visitor Survey
If you are outgoing, great at talking to people, and keen to help us in getting feedback from our visitors, a volunteer role as a visitor survey volunteer could be for you!
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Weekend Welcome Team
Looking for something to do on a Weekend? Why not join our welcome team and share your enthusiasm for wildlife with our visitors? Full and half-day opportunities available.
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Welcome Team
Outgoing, helpful and pro-active people are needed to help our visitors make the most of their time at our centres.
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Welcome Team - Information Desk
Outgoing, helpful and pro-active people are needed to provide a warm and friendly welcome to our visitors thus enabling them to make the most of their time at our centre.
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Welcome Team - Welney
Outgoing, helpful and pro-active people are needed to help our visitors make the most of their time at our centres. Specialist birding knowledge is useful but absolutely not essential.
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Volunteer Recruitment Assistant
If you are confident, good at communication, and seeking experience in the third sector, join us as a volunteer recruitment assistant!
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Art Assistant
Could you help us to engage and inspire visitors by creating and promoting artwork?
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Gardening - Water & Insect Garden
If you have a keen interest in wildlife gardening, and want to help preserve our beautiful wetland centre, a gardening role in our water and insect garden could be for you!
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Marketing & Events
Do you have a creative outlook and an interest in public relations and events management? Join our friendly Marketing team as a marketing & events volunteer to develop these skills and support our marketing.
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Research and Monitoring Assistant
If you have experience in data handling and fieldwork, and are keen to help out with Project Godwit, this role could be for you!
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Video Production
If you have an interest in conservation and wildlife, and some experience in photography or filming this could be the perfect opportunity to combine them and support our media team in a dynamic role.
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Visitor Experience - Make it a day to remember
Inspire the next generation of conservationists by ensuring our visitors have an amazing experience. Focus on one area or get a broad range of experience supporting the welcome team, canoe safari attraction, admissions and retail team, craft room and pond
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