Instructor - Land and Wildlife

💰Salary: Up to £28,167 per annum (depending on qualifications, skills and experience)

🕒 Working Pattern: Full-time (37 hours per week / 52 weeks per year) – Fixed term

📍Location: Sparsholt Campus, Hampshire

📅Closing date: 1st June 2026

✨ Exciting opportunity to join our prestigious Land and Wildlife sector as an Instructor!

Sparsholt College has a national reputation and a long proud history of training future gamekeepers and wildlife managers, many of whom are now in key jobs across the whole of the UK. We are now seeking a member of staff to join the Land & Wildlife team. 🦌

About the role: 🌲

The successful applicant will deliver practical teaching to full-time and part-time courses. Applicants should possess a wide range of relevant and current experience and skills in gamekeeping and rearing, wildlife management, fisheries management and a more general involvement in the field sports industry. Competency in tractor and machinery operations is also beneficial.

The post holder will preferably hold an appropriate specialist qualification together with a recognised teaching qualification or be willing to attain both.

Why join Sparsholt: 🌱

You’ll be part of a forward-thinking college with exceptional facilities, a strong industry reputation, and a genuine commitment to staff development and wellbeing, all set with a stunning countryside campus.

College Benefits: 🎓

• Eligibility to join the Local Government Pension Scheme (a defined benefit pension scheme)

• Free on-site parking

• Occupational Sick Pay & Maternity Pay schemes

• Flexible Working Policy

• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme

• Free on-campus gym at Sparsholt Campus

• Opportunity to purchase Sparsholt-grown produce: plants, fresh fruit & veg, fish, and game

• Discounted hair treatments at the Andover campus salon

• Wide range of CPD events, plus support with professional qualifications

• Nursey on the Sparsholt campus operated by a commercial provider

🌈Join us in making a difference!

Make a real difference every day – help students grow, thrive, and reach their potential!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.