Want to be part of the last ever CJS (Countryside Jobs Specialists) Focus on Volunteering?

The first edition of CJS Focus was published as a Special Edition supplement on 21 February 2005.
After 20 years we have decided to retire the format and the February 2025 edition will be the last ever CJS Focus. Making it a very special edition and one you do not want to miss.
Although there are opportunities to advertise for volunteers all year round our specialist publication gives them an extra push and this final edition will be even more widely promoted.

The Focus, in association with The Conservation Volunteers, will contain articles from industry professionals and lots and lots of adverts for anything from long term volunteer opportunities to citizen science projects via workdays, apprenticeships, fieldwork tasks and micro volunteering.

Whether you want to advertise for volunteers now or just want to promote your organisation, why not take up the opportunity to advertise for free to people looking to volunteer to improve their career prospects or to give something back.

Take a look at last year’s edition on https://www.countryside-jobs.com/cjs-focus/Feb24

Advertise for free at https://www.countryside-jobs.com/cjs-focus/submit-your-advert

Deadline: Friday 31 January 2025 for publication on 10 February 2025

Two job opportunities at the University of Sheffield to research planning and biodiversity

A new ESRC-funded research project ‘Planning for Nature’ is looking to recruit researchers to two posts (30 months):

• Researcher in planning policy and biodiversity – requiring skills and expertise in planning, geography, urban studies or a relevant field and experience of using social science methods to evaluate planning policies, practices, and the role of communities in protecting nature.
• Researcher in ecology and biodiversity – requiring skills and expertise in GIS/spatial mapping and knowledge of the impacts of urbanisation on ecology to investigate how planning policies affect biodiversity at a range of scales across England and Scotland.