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This is an exciting opportunity to manage and develop a new and growing Naturetrek division – the sale, creation and operation of bespoke, tailormade holidays for Naturetrek clients seeking private arrangements as opposed to group travel. We are looking for a well-travelled wildlife expert/enthusiast, preferably with several years of tour operating experience with a similar specialist tour operator (either in product, sales or operations). As well as extensive wildlife and travel knowledge, the successful applicant will require meticulous administrational skills, attention to detail, accuracy, common sense, good literacy and numeracy skills, a confident telephone manner, motivation within a busy office, and a natural ability for flexibility and negotiation. Wide-ranging computer skills are also essential. In addition, the successful applicant will be enthusiastic, experienced, articulate, capable, highly motivated and blessed with the energy, focus and entrepreneurial intuition required to develop and grow a division with huge potential. The role will include dealing with hotels, wildlife lodges, airlines, local ground operators, wildlife tour guides and other suppliers, as well as offering advice to Naturetrek clients, using both phone and email. He/she will be based at our Cheriton Mill office, near Alresford, Hampshire, but will additionally and regularly be required to travel overseas to worldwide wildlife destinations in order to expand, improve and develop our holiday product each year through recces and research. The role will not only include the development of such new destinations for both our brochure and website, but also of our tailormade systems, strategies and sales/tour literature. Most importantly, you will be tasked with ensuring that our all aspects of both the organisation and operation of Naturetrek’s tailormade holidays are second to none!

Salary

A good salary package (ca £20,000 - £25,000, plus rewarding bonus and incentive scheme), commensurate with experience, is negotiable. You will also have the advantage of regular travel, as well as occasional discounted holidays offered by our suppliers and tourist boards. The opportunity for developing your division, role and salary is considerable.

Hours & contract information

Hours: Full-time (9am – 5.30pm, or similar)
Holiday: 20 days, initially, plus Bank Holidays
New position: Yes – due to business expansion
Replacement position: No
Closing date: Open

This is an exciting opportunity to combine both office and field work. We are looking for a well-travelled and experienced wildlife expert to combine the management of a portfolio of Naturetrek holidays (from our Cheriton Mill office, near Alresford, Hampshire) with the leadership of around  4 to 5 tours each year. In addition the successful applicant will be asked to actively improve and develop our holiday product by visiting and researching new regions each year. The role will include the packaging of such new destinations and, more importantly, all aspects of the both the organisation and operation of Naturetrek tours to both these new, and existing Naturetrek destinations.

As well as expert wildlife and travel knowledge, the successful applicant will require meticulous administration skills, attention to detail, accuracy, common sense, good literacy and numeracy skills, a confident telephone manner, motivation within a busy office, and a natural ability for flexibility and negotiation. Wide-ranging computer skills are also essential. Previous travel trade experience is preferred, but is not essential.

When not leading or researching tours, the role will be office-based, dealing with hotels, airlines, local ground operators, tour leaders and other suppliers, as well as offering advice to Naturetrek clients, using both phone and email.

Salary

A good salary package (plus rewarding incentive scheme), commensurate with experience, is negotiable. You will also have the advantage of occasional discounted holidays offered by our suppliers and tourist boards.

Hours & contract information

Hours: Full-time (9am – 5.30pm, or similar)
Holiday: 20 days, initially, plus Bank Holidays
New position: Yes – due to business expansion
Replacement position: No
Closing date: Open

We are always looking for expert botanists, with abundant energy and enthusiasm, to lead Naturetrek botanical and natural history tour groups overseas on a freelance basis, particularly to Europe, but also to the Himalaya, China, Australasia and South Africa.

As well as being an expert in botany, with an extensive portfolio of overseas experience relevant to Naturetrek destinations, a successful applicant will need to be both a natural organiser and communicator, and gregarious and outgoing. A good sense of humour, positive outlook and the ability to make each holiday ‘fun’, as well as educational, are further essential qualities.

As well as organising, managing and leading each group, each applicant will also need to demonstrate experience of driving a 9-seater minibus (used on some western European tours) and the ability to be calm and proactive in problem-solving.

An ability to present clear post-tour accounts, and to write well and to produce post-tour natural history ‘tour reports’, preferably illustrated with digital images taken on tour, is also required. Additional work may include overseas tour research and the enhancement of the Naturetrek programme of botanical tours.

Salary/fee

Negotiable, and depending on experience.

Terms & contract information

Employment: Freelance, per-tour contract, though some tours leaders are full-time, salaried staff members.
Hours: On call 24 hours each day whilst on tour

We are always looking for expert and enthusiastic ornithologists and naturalists, preferably with wide all-round natural history knowledge and experience, to lead Naturetrek’s natural history tour groups overseas on a freelance basis, particularly to Europe, but also to Africa, Asia, Australasia, the Americas, and occasionally to the Arctic and Antarctica.

As well as being an expert birder or naturalist, with an extensive portfolio of overseas experience relevant to Naturetrek destinations, a successful applicant will need to be both a natural organiser and communicator, and gregarious and outgoing. A good sense of humour, positive outlook and the ability to make each holiday ‘fun’, as well as educational, are further essential qualities. As well as organising, managing and leading each group, each applicant may also need to demonstrate experience of driving a 9-seater minibus (used on some western European tours) and the ability to be calm and proactive in problem-solving.

An ability to present clear post-tour accounts, and to write well and to produce post-tour natural history ‘tour reports’, preferably illustrated with digital images taken on tour, is also required. Additional work may include overseas tour research and the enhancement of the Naturetrek programme of natural history tours.

Salary/fee

Negotiable, and depending on experience.

Terms & contract information

Employment: Freelance, per-tour contract, though some tours leaders are full-time, salaried staff members.
Hours: On call 24 hours each day whilst on tour