Birmingham TreePeople, Closing date: 18 September 2024

This exciting role will support BTP to develop and grow.  We're looking for someone who is interested in trees and who can manage a small charity.  The post is 0.5FTE and the salary is £30,000 pro rata. 

The job description and person specification are here: https://birminghamtreepeople.org.uk/about-us/employment/

Purpose: To effectively manage the activities and workers of Birmingham TreePeople to meet the objectives of the Urban Forest Master Plan.
Duties: To manage employees, contractors and volunteers; To ensure that the charity meets its statutory requirements, eg. health and safety, safeguarding, finance and audit; To support the Trustees in fundraising; To undertake basic bookkeeping; To work effectively with partners and attend partnership meetings; To attend Trustee meetings and provide reports; To manage specific projects eg. tree planting; To ensure effective IT systems are in place; To monitor and evaluate projects and provide end of project reports for funders; To perform other duties which are commensurate with the post. See the downloadable job background and description for more details.

Birmingham TreePeople is the city’s charity for trees. We plant, promote and protect trees and our aim is to maximise the city’s tree canopy cover.

We are excited to expand our work thanks to a grant from the National Lottery Community Fund. This funding is game changing for us and will enable us to employ a part time Operations Manager for 3 years. For the last year we have employed an Engagement Lead and contracted with a self employed Communications Worker with project funding from the National Trust as part of the Urban Forest Accelerator. Both of these workers will continue in their roles from
1st September, funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.

Information about our projects, the Urban Forest Master Plan and our annual reports please see our website: www.birminghamtreepeople.org.uk 

If you have any questions before submitting your application form please contact our Chair, Tonia Clark on 07759 037657 or [email protected]  (CVs not accepted).

The closing date is Wednesday 18th September 2024 9am and interviews will be the week beginning 23rd September.