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- Location: Cambridge
- Salary: £25,495 per annum
- Contract period: Permanent
- Start date: As soon as possible
Fauna & Flora is seeking a Programme Administrator, Africa, to undertake a key supporting role within the programme. As part of a growing team working on a diverse portfolio of programmes across Africa, you will deliver administrative, information management, and office support to the Africa team and its projects, helping ensure compliance with internal systems, policies and procedures, and donor requirements.
You will be a highly competent administrator, with previous relevant experience supporting a busy team. You will have excellent organisation and prioritisation skills and have a positive approach to dealing with challenges and problems.
Your excellent interpersonal and communication skills will enable you to build strong professional working relationships with colleagues in the UK and across the Africa Programme country offices. You will be a good team player and enjoy working in a dynamic environment where the ability to respond swiftly to changing organisational and team needs is paramount. With a proactive and pre-emptive approach to your work, you will seek to add value, work with minimal supervision, and manage your workload effectively. You will be meticulous in detail and maintain a high level of confidentiality and discretion at all times. Fluency in English is essential, and a good working knowledge of French is desirable.
In return, the role offers the opportunity to work within a ground-breaking and entrepreneurial organisation, at the forefront of global conservation, with opportunity to apply your skills and expertise where appropriate. In addition, Fauna & Flora offers a generous pension contribution, attractive annual leave allowance and life insurance.
Our offices are located in The David Attenborough Building in central Cambridge, just a few minutes’ walk from glorious historic buildings and museums, the picturesque River Cam, the central market and shopping centre, and a host of cafés and restaurants.
Please visit our website and download the job application pack for further details on how to apply.
The closing date for applications is Tuesday, 30 June 2026. Interviews are likely to take place mid-end July 2026.
This role is not eligible for sponsorship for a Skilled Worker Visa.
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Forest Farm Peace Garden is a small East London charity offering ecotherapy and community gardening to support people’s mental health and wellbeing.
We are looking for a strategic, hands‑on Director (21 hours per week) to lead our next chapter, working closely with a committed staff team, trustees and volunteers.
As Director you will hold overall responsibility for the charity’s vision, strategy and day‑to‑day operations, ensuring our programmes run safely, sustainably and in line with our values. You will lead on fundraising and finance, including developing and delivering a fundraising strategy, managing budgets and reporting to funders and the Board of Trustees.
You will line‑manage our Ecotherapy Worker, Gardener, and three sessional staff, nurture a positive, inclusive culture, and make sure staff and volunteers are supported to do their best work. Building relationships with local mental health services, community organisations and partners will be central to the role, helping us reach people who can benefit most from time in the garden.
This role would suit someone who enjoys combining strategic thinking with practical delivery in a small organisation, and who is confident working independently while collaborating closely with others. If you care about mental health, social justice and nature connection, and want to help a much‑loved local project thrive, we would love to hear from you.
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Brunswick Organic Nursery is a registered charity based in Bishopthorpe, York, which provides a productive and rewarding workplace environment for people with learning disabilities (‘workers’) to grow and thrive in. We build skills and confidence, support wellbeing and develop independence through offering opportunities in different work areas. These include horticulture (growing organic fruit and vegetables, growing plants at the garden nursery, and a contract gardening service for the local community), crafts, woodwork, cooking, and office administration.
About the role
Are you passionate about organic vegetable growing?
Do you enjoy enabling and supporting others to learn and develop?
Can you build genuine connections with the people you work alongside?
Are you organised and able to plan ahead and keep records up to date?
Are you a thoughtful and supportive team manager?
Our Land Crops teams work across two sites: our main site and a listed walled garden, and grow a wide range of organic vegetable and fruit crops. We sell these in our shop and also to local businesses. In this role, you will lead small teams of people with learning disabilities, who have a range of skills and abilities, to grow organic vegetables and fruit. You have responsibility for leading the work area of Land Crops including all the planning for crop rotations, growing and care of the land and soil.
Who are we looking for?
This role is about both growing and people. Growing-wise, you will be enthusiastic and knowledgeable about growing a range of vegetable and fruit crops on at least a smallholding scale. Our ideal candidate will have a good knowledge of organic growing and/or some experience of it. In addition to good knowledge and experience of growing, we’re looking for someone who thrives on enabling and supporting others with a range of skills and abilities to learn and develop. You must be able to build genuine connections with the people you work alongside, be able to think holistically about people and take responsibility for the team’s welfare whilst at work. Finally, the responsibilities of this role need you to have excellent organisation skills, an understanding of, and ability to ensure, that documents and records are completed using our IT system, and supportive people management skills.
Skills and experience required:
· Experience of growing a wide range of vegetable and fruit crops, preferably with experience of organic growing.
· Experience of maintaining growing records.
· Experience of working with and supplying customers.
· Knowledge and ideally experience of working inclusively with others.
· Experience of supporting people with a range of skills and abilities.
· Ability to motivate others and create a positive and rewarding work environment.
· Good IT skills using Word, Outlook and Office 365.
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