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Job Location | South West England |
Education | Not Mentioned |
Salary | Competitive salary |
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Job Type | Permanent, full-time |
SummaryOur gardens and parklands are a remarkable cultural and natural resource across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Caring for these gardens is a great privilege and comes with a huge responsibility. We seek to improve our gardening expertise andcapabilities to raise horticultural standards and adopt innovative approaches to sustainable garden management. Our gardens are internationally renowned for their historical significance, horticultural excellence and for their beauty, and we aim to improvethe standards of care and plant conservation and deepen audience and visitor enjoyment and engagement.We are open to mix of remote working, time in the office and visiting our regional teams.What youll be doingYou will be our national expert on the curationof garden plant collections and bring strong horticultural knowledge and a sound understanding of plant pests and diseases and their controls. You will share your expertise and draw on research and new technologies and techniques for the benefit of our gardenstaff. You will help to improve standards of plant conservation and identify ways in which our gardens can become more resilient to pests, disease and to the effects of climate change. You will also help to develop and provide advice on the provision of peatfree plants to our gardens to ensure their needs are met. You will help with the interpretation of our plant collections and special plants. Ultimately, you will help to raise our profile, representing the Trust in national and governmental plant health andconservation advisory groups. You will contribute to our role as an IRO (Independent Research organisation) by actively engaging in research and sharing research outputs in a range of format from academic articles to accessible and engaging public content.Pleasealso read the full role profile, attached to the end of this advert.Who were looking forThis is a hugely important and influential role, within the Trust and beyond. You will be a great communicator and comfortable speaking publicly (internally and externally)about the valuable work we do. Knowledgeable and credible in all areas of horticulture, we would like you to have a recognised professional accreditation and, ideally, a degree or Masters qualification relevant to the curation and conservation of plant collections.You will know all about the practicalities of managing important plant collections and your knowledge of plant conservation and plant health will be exemplary, only matched by your enthusiasm for the subject area.