Horticultural Careers and Skills Officer

Overview of the Role: The Horticultural Careers and Skills Officer based at either RHS Garden Wisley will be joining the RHS New Shoots team at an exciting time as we build on strong foundations to expand our reach to more under-represented groups in providing high-quality horticultural careers guidance, exploration and experience. Currently live at RHS Gardens Bridgewater, Harlow Carr, Rosemoor and Wisley, New Shoots is a friendly, passionate and agile team delivering a range of engagement programmes at and in the vicinity of each garden to help close the skills gap in horticulture. We are looking for an enthusiastic and agile new team member with a good understanding of policy and insight research, a passion for horticulture, and a desire help engage diverse groups and individuals with careers in Horticulture. The role of Horticultural Careers and Skills Officer will support our Horticultural Engagement Manager to keep the New Shoots and wider RHS Professional Programmes teams at the leading edge of the policy and horticultural sector skills landscape and how it maps onto, and evolves, our horticultural careers outreach. Ideally, candidates will have seen or experienced the transformational impact gaining a horticulture qualification can have on future life opportunities, access to new career opportunities and an understanding of our role as gardeners within the wider natural environment. This role will be five days per week, with the opportunity to work from home up to three days per week. It is a fixed contract for 18 months and has the option to be based from RHS Garden Wisley (Surrey) with some travel between RHS and partner gardens. To work for the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is to join a thriving charity, whose mission is to be there for everyone on their lifelong adventure with gardening. Everything we do is built on the transformational power of gardening – and the benefits it brings to people, places and our planet. And we couldn't do this without our people. We're proud of the knowledge, enthusiasm and ideas that each one of our team members brings. From working across our social media channels, to volunteering in the RHS Gardens, from serving customers in our garden centres to running marketing campaigns, we believe that every member of the RHS team should have the opportunity to make a difference. Our careers portal here provides a comprehensive overview of what we offer, the teams that work at the RHS and our great benefits. Safeguarding and Inclusion