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Ecology vacancies: roles covering ecology, biodiversity, mitigation, consultancy roles e.g. Ecological Clerk of Works and advice provision.

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Bat Survey Assistants (Casual) - Angela Graham Bat Consultancy Service Ltd

Logo: Angela Graham Bat Consultancy Service

I'm looking for assistants to help on a casual basis with dusk-emergence and dawn return-to-roost surveys, mainly in and around Manchester/Lancashire, from May to September inclusive.

Senior Ecologist - EMEC Ecology

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Salary: £34,653.82 - £36,766.21 per annum

Contract type: Permanent / Working hours: Full time

Location: Hybrid (Remote/The Old Ragged School, Nottingham) with regular travel within the Network Rail's Eastern Region

Initially you will work primarily with one of EMEC’s most significant clients, completing an innovative regional biodiversity project for a national infrastructure provider to deliver large-scale biodiversity improvements across their estate. You will be an ecological lead for a section of the project and collaborate with a varied team of ecologists including senior industry leaders, to ensure the best ecological practice is incorporated into our clients new biodiversity processes. Your knowledge and expertise will be utilised to produce Biodiversity Action Plans and Habitat Management Plans, creating a framework for long-term Biodiversity Net Gain at a regional scale.

Planning Ecologist - Powys County Council

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£35,745 to £37,336 per annum

37 hours, Permanent (Part time hours will be considered)

County Hall, Llandrindod Wells

To provide specialist advice on ecology and biodiversity matters relevant to the planning service.

Community Engagement Officer - Ribble Rivers Trust

Logo: Ribble Rivers Trust

Salary: £26,000 - £28,000 dependant on experience.

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Contract: Fixed term 2 years with possibility of extension

Location: The post holder will be based principally within RRT’s offices in Clitheroe, with travel around the catchment.

To engage with communities and promote and support the delivery of the Ribble Revival: Room for Rivers programme. This programme has significant amounts of on the ground habitat conservation activities, with most having elements of volunteering and community engagement. These activities include; tree planting, woodland maintenance, fencing, wetland creation, and fish passage, to name a few. The programme seeks to put local communities at the heart of the projects, involving them in design, monitoring and delivery. As such the programme requires a dedicated Community Engagement Officer.

Senior Policy Officer – Water - RSPB

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Salary: £38,389.00 - £41,212.00 Per Annum
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Location: Flexible in UK
An outstanding opportunity to help turn around the alarming state of England's freshwater habitats. You will work with a diverse range of teams across the RSPB to drive forward our policy and advocacy work on water and coastal policy issues and influence important debates and decisions across the England.

Assistant Warden - Lower Lough Erne - RSPB

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Have you got experience of practical habitat management, and do you want to make a difference to the wildlife of Lower Lough Erne, co Fermanagh? If so, apply to join our team!

Location: Lower Lough Erne Islands
Salary: £26,379.00 - £28,319.00 Per Annum
Hours: Full-Time, 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent

The Reserve is made up 47 islands on Lower Lough Erne, the UK’s second largest freshwater lake.

Junior Landscape Surveyors (x 2) - Devon Wildlife Trust

Logo: Devon Wildlife Trust

Salary: £23,400pa plus 7% pension

This is a full-time, fixed term appointment for 8 months, based at Aldens Court, Exeter.

Do you want to be involved in an exciting new project that will connect regenerative agriculture and wildlife surveys?

Devon Wildlife Consultants (DWC) is involved in an exciting new partnership project called ‘Connecting People and Landscapes’.

Coastal Officer - Tir Canol - RSPB

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Location: Dyfi Estuary or local surroundings
Salary: £26,397.00 - £28,319.00 Per Annum, Pro Rata
Contract: 20 months
Hours: 4 days per week.

This is an exciting opportunity. The role is fixed-term for 20 months and will deliver the Changing Tides - a Community Guide to a Resilient Coast project funded by the Heritage Fund. You will focus on creating a handbook for coastal adaptation based in the Dyfi Estuary but with wider applications. This project will use a series of co-design and co-production workshops.

Nature Officer - Tir Canol - RSPB

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Location: Dyfi Valley and wider Tir Canol project area

Salary: £32,022.00 - £34,377.00 Per Annum, Pro Rata

Contract: 3 Years

Hours: 30 hours (4 days) per week

The role focuses on the tree resource centred around the Dyfi Valley and wider Tir Canol project area, which has some of Wales’ most specular scenery and the species to match.

Environment Officer - Black Sluice Internal Drainage Board

Logo: Black Sluice Internal Drainage Board

An exciting vacancy has arisen for an Environment Officer, working for Black Sluice IDB in Lincolnshire. The IDB is an independent statutory authority providing flood risk management and land drainage services within our catchment area.

The Environment Officer will be the responsible lead for all environmental projects and schemes. Working in a small team working to conserve and enhance the environment, you will work with partner organisations (for example Environment Agency, Rivers Trust, Wildlife Trust, councils and other IDBs) to achieve greater benefits.

Rewilding Internship - Ecosulis

Job type: 1-year fixed term contract.

Start date: July-September 2024.

Salary: £22,308

Location: Home based (UK based)

Ecosulis Rewilding Internship Programme 2024

Are you passionate about Rewilding and want to learn more? The opportunity to gain experience across our wider business? Want to kick start your career within our sector and learn from some of our leading experts? Well, this could be the right opportunity for you!

Community Grants Manager - Trust for Oxfordshire's Environment

Hours of employment – Part time, three days (21 hours) per week, negotiable

Salary - £25,000 - £33,000 (dependent on experience)

Established in 2011, the Trust for Oxfordshire's Environment (TOE) is an independent environmental funder based in Oxfordshire. Since its inception, TOE has disbursed more than £3.4 million in grants to fund over 450 high-impact, locally led projects across Oxfordshire, supporting biodiversity, access to green spaces and public engagement with nature. TOE has been successful in raising funds from a range of sources including the Landfill Communities Fund, local authorities, charitable trusts and the corporate sector.

Data, Evidence and Engagement Officer - Westcountry Rivers Trust

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This is a permanent, 37.5 hour per week contract after a successful 6 month probation period.

The starting salary for this role is between £23,300 and £25,500 per annum (dependent on experience).

The Evidence & Engagement Team is instrumental in collating, analysing and presenting visually engaging data to ensure that the Trust is delivering the right measures, in the right places, and in monitoring and reporting the impacts of our work. A key element of this role will be to provide GIS, data, evidence and engagement support to the Trust’s on-going work in using evidence led, catchment based/whole ecosystem approaches across the river catchments of the South West and beyond.

Rother Partnership Coordinator - Arun & Rother Rivers Trust

Logo: Arun & Rothers Rivers Trust

Full time
Contract Length: 2 years
Location: West Sussex
This role will support the establishment, growth and success of the Rother Partnership. The partnership will bring together a diverse range of stakeholders, landowners, farmers, community groups and individuals to collaboratively set aims, objectives, and a costed action plan to bring about positive landscape scale change for the Western Rother. The Coordinator will create an ambitious, strategic case for support, working with core partners to submit a bid or bids to major funding streams.

Pine Marten Field Officer (Exmoor) - Devon Wildlife Trust

Logo: Devon Wildlife Trust

Salary: £26,976 plus 7% pension

This is a full-time, fixed term appointment until 31 March 2027

Located at Cricklepit Mill with scope for working at partner offices across Exmoor.

Do you want to play a critical role in the reintroduction of one of Britain’s rarest mammals to South West England? An opportunity has arisen to join the Two Moors Pine Marten Project as our Field Officer for Exmoor. The Field Officer, supported by a team of species reintroduction and conservation experts, will be integral to the successful reintroduction of pine martens into the wild in England. This is a varied and active role involving landowner liaison, ecological surveys, coordinating and delivering training, managing trainees and volunteers and communication with stakeholders.

River Restoration Coordinator - The River Dee Trust

Logo: River Dee Trust

This is a permanent position.

Hybrid-working from our River Office in Dinnet, Aberdeenshire.

This role will oversee the delivery of an innovative and wide-reaching multi-million-pound initiative recently launched on the Dee, Save the Spring. The 20-year programme is aimed at saving threatened species including the river’s iconic Atlantic salmon. It will also reduce the impacts of floods and droughts, benefitting all wildlife and communities, and it will involve the use of cutting-edge science.

Bat Surveyor - Phillips Ecology

Due to an increasing workload we are looking for additional bat surveyors to join our team of trusted sub-contractors in the Hampshire area and neighbouring Counties. We are looking for both experienced surveyors and those who wish to gain experience in bat surveying. Training from a friendly team of experienced and licensed surveyors will be provided during April 2024.

Senior Ecologist - Footprint Ecology Limited

Logo: Footprint Ecology

£33,000 to £38,000 pa FTE

We are seeking a senior person to work on nature conservation projects around the country. Footprint Ecology is a unique consultancy that advises and collaborates with non-commercial organisations to conserve and restore nature; we are based in one of the most biodiverse locations in the UK. We have a national profile and a large body of repeat clients, we do not work for developers.

Conservation Scientist - RSPB

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We are seeking Conservation Scientists to join the RSPB’s UK Marine Science team in an exciting fixed-term role for a minimum of 6 months, work will be both field-based and analytical/desk-based. The role provides a great opportunity to work at the cutting edge of research to improve our understanding of seabird distribution, movements, and behaviour.

Location: Flexible in UK

Salary: £36,577.00 - £39,267.00 Per Annum

Contract: Minimum 6 months

Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week

Site Manager - RSPB

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Location: Corrimony, Inverness, Highland, IV63 6TW
Salary: £36,577.00 - £39,267.00 pa
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent

Are you looking to combine your passion for nature with your land management and communication skills? If so this is the prefect role for you! Set in the North West Highlands, RSPB Corrimony reserve is part of the iconic Glen Affric landscape. We are looking for a site manager to be based in the local community and manage our nature reserve.

Pine Marten Engagement Officer (Dartmoor) - Devon Wildlife Trust

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Salary: £26,976 (60% pro-rata) plus 7% pension

This is a part-time (22.5 hours p/w) fixed term appointment until 31 March 2027, contractually located at Cricklepit Mill, Exeter

The Pine Martens Bounce Back: Two Moors Pine Marten project is a multi-partner project, led by Devon Wildlife Trust, which aims to bring pine martens back to our woodlands and to inspire and support diverse audiences to get involved. We are looking for an enthusiastic, organised community engagement professional to join the project team and to coordinate and deliver a range of engagement activities in and around the communities of Ashburton/Buckfastleigh, Moretonhampstead and Bovey Tracey.

Monitoring and Evaluation Officer - Ribble Rivers Trust

Logo: Ribble Rivers Trust

Purpose: To lead on the internal monitoring and evaluation activities of the programme

Location: Clitheroe

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £27,000 to £29,500 subject to experience

Contract: Fixed term 2 years with possibility of extension
Ribble Rivers Trust (RRT) is a regional charity established in 1998 to conserve the Ribble Catchment, particularly its rivers, brooks, becks, and streams. Over the last 10 years, RRT has developed and grown into a sector-leading organisation, known for getting things done, strong partnership working and a collaborative approach.

Project Officer / Project Manager - Ribble Rivers Trust

Logo: Ribble Rivers Trust

Purpose: Supporting the delivery of projects in the Room for Rivers programme

Location: Clitheroe

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £26,000 - £30,000 dependant on experience.

Contract: Fixed term 2 years with possibility of extension

We have five teams focusing on Data and Evidence, Land Management, People and Learning, River Conservation and Core Services. Every team member is empowered to achieve their best. Our teams work collaboratively on integrated projects to improve, protect and create a mosaic of habitats and land uses that will lead to a healthy riverine environment.

Warden - West Suffolk - Suffolk Wildlife Trust

Suffolk Wildlife Trust is the county's nature charity - protecting and restoring Suffolk wildlife. The West Suffolk Warden is a key member of the reserves team delivering for nature on the ground.

Based at Lackford Lakes you will be responsible for planning and undertaking the seasonal and day to day operations - creating fantastic spaces for nature to thrive. This is a diverse role where you will be able to apply your knowledge, experience and ideas.

Leading on managing the nature reserves you will make a real difference to wildlife and people.

Wildlife and Wetlands Officer - Worcestershire Wildlife Trust

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Starting salary £25,500 – £27,000

This is a fixed term post for 3 years (with potential of extension).

We’re looking for a great communicator who can inspire policy makers and land managers to take action for nature and the climate to help us deliver wildlife and wetland conservation across Worcestershire.

Head of Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre - Sussex Wildlife Trust

Logo: Sussex Wildlife Trust

Salary: £38,850

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 35 hrs per week

Location: Woods Mill with some hybrid options

The Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre is one of the many local environmental record centres situated around the UK. It provides environmental information services encompassing biodiversity, geodiversity and other aspects of Sussex’s natural capital. The post holder will champion high quality biodiversity data services for Sussex stakeholders and work to ensure the high standards and impartiality of SxBRCs data provision.The role will be part of a cohort of Senior Managers within Sussex Wildlife Trust, each with staff and budgetary responsibilities. SxBRC currently has a team of 7.6 FTE staff and a turn-over of over £250,000 annually.

BirdTrack Organiser - British Trust for Ornithology

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£33,288 per annum + 11% employer pension contribution

Full time, Permanent

Thetford, Norfolk

BirdTrack is an online bird recording scheme led by BTO in partnership with RSPB, BirdWatch Ireland, Scottish Ornithologists’ Club and Welsh Ornithological Society. It aims to provide a comprehensive bird recording platform that birdwatchers can use to store and share records of birds and selected other taxa they encounter whilst birdwatching. The BirdTrack Organiser will run BirdTrack, promoting it widely and have the vision for new functionality in the mobile app and web app.

Cairngorms Connect Next Generation Officer - RSPB

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Salary: £25,723.00 - £27,614.00 per annum, pro rata

Hours: Part Time, 22.5 hours per week

Contract: 12 months

Location: Edge of Aviemore, PH22 - Hybrid / Flexi

Through this role, you will further develop the Cairngorms Connect Youth Involvement Programme. Working with staff from across the partnership, you will have the flexibility to work in different settings and the confidence to develop resources and deliver activities on a range of ecological restoration topics, inspiring local young people to take an active interest in their local area. You will work closely with staff across the partnership, to deliver a programme of activities with local schools and youth groups, to build understanding, develop skills and inspire local rural career paths.

Environmental Contracting Technician - Brindle & Green

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Salary £25 - 31k per annum

Brindle & Green are looking for two full-time environmental contractors to join our environmental contracting division based at our Derby Office. The successful candidates will work closely with our Ecology, Arboriculture, and Landscape teams to implement mitigation schemes, habitat creation and habitat enhancement recommended and approved within our reports, under the supervision of the departmental manager.

Rainforest Advisor - North West England - Plantlife

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Do you have a passion for nature conservation and protecting and improving habitats and species? Do you have woodland management knowledge and would relish an opportunity to work in our Temperate Rainforests and Oceanic Woodlands to secure the future of the lichens, bryophytes and other wildlife within them? Are you an excellent communicator with the ability to influence and support landowners, managers and others? If you can answer ‘yes’ to these questions, we want to hear from you.

Plantlife are seeking an advisor to oversee the delivery of practical habitat management and species recovery management within temperate rainforest sites in Northwest England, and enthuse a network of site managers on the action required for threatened plants and fungi.

Rainforest Programme Manager - Plantlife

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Are you an experienced programme or project manager with a passion for temperate rainforests and working in collaboration to achieve results? Do you have woodland management knowledge and would relish an opportunity to work in our Temperate Rainforests and Oceanic Woodlands to secure the future of the lichens, bryophytes and other wildlife within them?

If you can answer ‘yes’ to these questions, we want to hear from you.

Plantlife are seeking a Rainforest Programme Manager to lead the delivery of our Rainforest Programme across England and Wales.

Rainforest Advisor - Wales - Plantlife

Logo: Plantlife

Do you have a passion for nature conservation and protecting and improving habitats and species? Do you have woodland management knowledge and would relish an opportunity to work in our Temperate Rainforests and Oceanic Woodlands to secure the future of the lichens, bryophytes and other wildlife within them? Are you an excellent communicator with the ability to influence and support landowners, managers and others? If you can answer ‘yes’ to these questions, we want to hear from you.

Plantlife are seeking an advisor to support practical habitat management and species recovery management within temperate rainforest sites in Wales, and enthuse a network of site managers on the action required for threatened plants and fungi.

Woodland ACTION Officer - Dumfries & Galloway Woodlands

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Dumfries & Galloway Woodlands is a new initiative with ambitious goals. We want to provide a local and tangible response to the biodiversity and climate crises, supporting trees, habitats and the people that depend upon then.

Trees are a vital part of what we do and we are now recruiting for a Woodland ACTION Officer to inspire and support broadleaf and native woodland creation across the region.

We need someone with experience of, and love for, trees to really help us make a difference!

Property Ecologist - National Trust

Logo: National Trust

Location: Hadrian's Wall, Bardon Mill, Hexham, NE47 6NN

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Part time 3 to 3.5 days per week

Salary: £18,580 per annum

The Hadrian’s Wall portfolio is comprised of several properties in the Tyne Valley, each supporting a wide variety of priority habitats and protected species. In this highly designated area, you will lead the development of a survey, monitoring and recording program and to support our conservation work.

Skills for BeeWalk Project Manager - Bumblebee Conservation Trust

Logo: Bumblebee Conservation Trust

An opportunity to join a successful and growing conservation charity!

Salary £27-30,000 (pro rata) per annum

This is a part-time (0.8FTE) permanent position, home-based in the UK.

Your primary role will be to lead the Trust’s bumblebee identification and monitoring training, including both in-person training days and the creation of an online training curriculum.

As the Trust grows, we are working to move our bumblebee identification and monitoring training programme beyond just one-day in-person field- & classroom-based events.

Ranger - National Trust

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Location: Wicken Fen, Lode Lane, Ely, CB7 5XP

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract

Salary: £24,145 per annum

Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve is a beautiful, wild landscape, one of Europe’s most important wetlands. You’ll play an integral role in helping look after one of the country’s most biodiverse site and the 9450 species that call this place home.

Reporting to the Area Ranger, you'll join an enthusiastic, hard-working Countryside team responsible for managing Wicken Fen, one of Britain’s oldest nature reserves.

Scientist - Fish Ecology - Scottish Environment Protection Agency

Logo: Scottish Environment Protection Agency

Salary: £35,831 - £39,585

Contract: Permanent – Full Time

Location: Flexible

We are looking for a highly motivated scientist with excellent communication skills. The successful applicant will contribute to SEPA’s freshwater fish ecology work across the whole of Scotland.

Nature Recovery Officer - Cranborne Chase National Landscape

Logo: Cranborne Chase National Landscape

Salary: £37,336 - £39,186

Working Pattern: Permanent Full Time

Location: Tollard Royal, Wiltshire, SP5 5QA

Cranborne Chase National Landscape is a nationally designated landscape and hosted by Wiltshire Council. As Nature Recovery Officer you’ll consult widely with multiple stakeholders to finalise our Nature Recovery Plan, prepare the Delivery Plan and guide its implementation on behalf of the National Landscape Partnership. This post will move from being office based to begin with, to being much more delivery focussed.

Senior Site Manager - RSPB

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Salary: £41,593.00 - £44,651.00 Per Annum
Hours: Full-Time, 37.5 hours pwk
Contract: Permanent
Location: Haweswater, Penrith, Cumbria
We are looking for an organised, dynamic, and passionate person to lead the team and work programme delivery on this large and exciting upland partnership reserve. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in driving and overseeing a significant and complex work programme across Haweswater with a wider landscape impact. The successful candidate will have an important external role, building positive relationships with key partners and stakeholders, so that partnerships policies and messages are understood and furthered within relevant partnerships, communities, the media and to a range of stakeholders and decision makers.

Operations Team - Programme Supervisor - Westcountry Rivers Trust

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Westcountry Rivers Trust is recruiting a Operations Team Programme Supervisor.

This is a permanent contract after a successful 6 month probation period.

The starting salary for this role is between £30,000 and £36,000 per annum (dependent on experience).

The role is 37.5 hours per week.

There will be the opportunity to work from home in this role and work flexible hours. Travel to sites throughout the Westcountry will also be required regularly; this role is a mixture of office and site based.

Assistant Ranger - Lee Valley Regional Park Authority

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£26,467- £30,943 per annum, plus flexible benefits,

35 hours per week (Monday – Sunday Shift Rota including bank holidays)

Fixed term 12 months

Lee Valley Regional Park stretches an incredible 26 miles along the leafy banks of the River Lee, from Ware in Hertfordshire, through Essex, to the Thames at East India Dock Basin. The park provides a unique 'natural' corridor on London’s doorstep and provides a vital refuge for wildlife.

Marine Futures North Sea Interns (East) x 2 - Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust

Location: Horncastle, Lincolnshire

The interns will be based in the Headquarters of Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust in Horncastle. The role will be a mixture of office with some homeworking, plus field work and visits to the other North Sea Wildlife Trusts.

Salary: £22,000 pa pro-rata.

Duration: Full-time (35 hrs per week) fixed-term for 6 months from June – December 2024.

The opportunity: The Marine Futures Internship Programme offers a unique opportunity to candidates who are passionate and enthusiastic about the marine environment.

Seasonal Assistant Warden - RSPB

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Salary: £25,723.00 - £27,614.00 Per Annum

Contract: 3rd June - 20th December 2024

Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week.

Location: Wallasea Island Wild Coast Project, SS4

We have an exciting opportunity at Wallasea Island for someone looking to gain valuable experience at the start of their career, as a Seasonal Assistant Warden on a large nature reserve on the Essex coast. Wallasea Island is a 750ha reserve made up of intertidal habitats, lowland wet grassland and saline lagoons and offers a great opportunity to pick up vital skills to help enhance your career. The successful applicant will undertake a range of habitat management and species monitoring activities.

Warden - RSPB

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Salary: £28,331.00 - £30,415.00 Per Annum
Hours: Full-Time, 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Lakenheath Fen

Cavenham is a restored quarry working of 70 hectares in size. Most of the site is dry acid grassland and supports a significant population of breeding stone curlews. Lakenheath Fen is a wetland RSPB created from arable farmland over the last 25 years and its reedbeds support bitterns, marsh harriers and cranes in nationally important numbers. We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and resourceful person to join our small team. The successful candidate would lead on the management of the Cavenham site and would assist in the management at Lakenheath.

Project Manager - Green Action Trust

Logo: Green Action Trust

Location: Central Scotland

The Green Action Trust are a trusted delivery partner for the Scottish Government and a wide range of stakeholders including local authorities, regional partnerships, landowners, environmental groups, and local communities. We are passionate about delivering positive environmental and social change in Scotland and are seeking candidates who have a similar passion to help us deliver and grow our activities. To meet our objectives, the expectations of our partners and to play our part in responding to the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, we are pleased to be recruiting for a Project Manager. Our Project Managers lead on the design and delivery of complex projects and programmes that help to realise the Trust’s vision and ambition at scale through multi-agency partnerships.

Shorebird and Engagement Assistant Ranger - Natural England

Logo: Natural England

Contract: Fixed Term 1st May – 31st August

Location: Based at Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve, Northumberland

Hours: 37.5 hours per week on rota and will include weekends and bank holidays

Salary: £23,108 pro rata

Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve is one of the most important sites for breeding shorebirds in north-east England covering 65km of coastline. This is an exciting opportunity to help protect this internationally important site through the education of visitors and extensive monitoring and management of nesting shorebirds across the Reserve.

Ranger - East Coast - Scottish Wildlife Trust

Logo: Scottish Wildlife Trust

Salary: £24,000-£25,600 FTE dependant on experience

Status: Full time Fixed term until end February 2025

Field location: various reserves over East Coast of Scotland

Office location: West Livingston with flexibility and hybrid approach

We are looking for a well organised individual with the skills to deliver a practical and ecological work programme across 17 wildlife reserves. Working with volunteers and contractors this post carries a significant level of responsibility and offers great potential for the right person to make a real impact.

Senior BNG Ecologist - The Land Trust

Logo: The Land Trust

Salary: £40,000, excluding any performance-related bonus

Terms: Permanent 36 hours p/w

Location: Home-based with some travel across the UK.

In preparation to play a leading role in the delivery of onsite and offsite Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), the Land Trust is seeking to employ a ‘Senior BNG Ecologist’ to assist the Head of Environment and Biodiversity deliver the Land Trust’s BNG Business Plan. The national role will play a part in trading over 2,000 Biodiversity Units from Land Trust estate and assisting the acquisition of onsite and offsite projects across England.

Central Dartmoor Landscape Recovery Project Director - Central Dartmoor Farm Cluster CIC

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£45,000 - £50,000 pa, plus pension contribution and expenses.

Initially for a two year project development period, with scope to transition to a full-time permanent position subject to our Landscape Recovery Delivery Plan being successful.

Could you develop and manage a Landscape Scale project on Dartmoor resulting in a huge increase of resilience and sustainability for farming, nature and people across a large proportion of the National Park? We are looking for an inspirational project director to knit together multiple workstreams and stakeholders.

Botanical Ecologist - Scotland - Bowland Ecology

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Competitive salary (£25K plus)

Bowland Ecology is a well-established and thriving ecological consultancy. Due to continued growth, we are seeking to appoint a Botanical Ecologist to our friendly and supportive team. The role will be based at our office in central Glasgow with the option for flexible home working. The successful candidate must be able to travel throughout Scotland as required.

Staff wellbeing underpins all that we do, and you will have the opportunity to develop and grow alongside the company.

Ecologist - Midlands - Bowland Ecology

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Competitive salary (£25K plus)

Bowland Ecology is a well-established and thriving ecological consultancy. Due to continued growth, we are seeking to appoint an Ecologist. The role will be primarily home-based with most of the survey work taking place within the Midlands and Wales.

Staff wellbeing underpins all that we do, and you will have the opportunity to develop and grow alongside the company.

Operations Manager - Ecological Land Management Ltd

Logo: Ecological Land Management Ltd

Salary bracket: £33,800 -38,800 per annum paid monthly

45 hours/wk (includes 1 hour per day of unpaid breaks)

Wrexham, North Wales

Do you have great organisational and planning skills? Can you calmly prioritise and resolve multiple issues at the same time? Can you clearly communicate your instructions to others in a friendly and motivational way? Would you enjoy seeing your skills deliver habitat enhancements that will last for generations?

Consultant / Senior Consultant Ecological Consultant - Logika Consultants Ltd

Logo: Logika Consultants Ltd

The role is full-time or part-time and based in Warrington with travel required across the UK for specific project opportunities.

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Consultant or Senior Ecologist. You will be responsible for undertaking ecological surveys, including UKHab habitat surveys and preferably for one or more protected species. You will also be expected to manage ecological projects or tasks, liaise with clients and sub-consultants, and help to prepare fee proposals and author technical reports including most particularly ecological impact assessment reports.

Fieldwork Assistants x 11 – LIFE Raft - RSPB

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Salary: £21,255.00 - £22,818.00 pa
Hours: Full-time
Contract: Fixed-term until 30/04/2025
Location: Rathlin Island, Ballycastle

We require 11 Field Officers for the ‘LIFE Raft project - Rathlin Acting for Tomorrow’ project. LIFE Raft aims to remove invasive non-native ferrets and rats from Rathlin Island, NI’s most important seabird colony, and the successful candidate/s will play a pivotal role in the overall outcome. This is your opportunity to grow your conservation career and make a real impact.

Senior Ecologist - Open Spaces Landscape and Arboricultural Consultants Limited

Logo: Open Spaces Landscape and Arboricultural Consultants Limited

£35,000-£45,000

Open Spaces, based just outside of the ancient town of Maldon, Essex, is an expanding, multidisciplinary consultancy practice (landscape architects, tree and ecology consultants), offering an exciting opportunity for the right person. Our work encompasses a wide range of project types from single residential developments to multi-phase housing, commercial and educational projects. In order to grow the ecology side of the business we are looking to bring ecology in-house by seeking an experienced, self-motivated, enthusiastic person to undertake a range of both field surveying and desk-based analysis and report writing.

Professional Practice Manager - CIEEM

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Salary: £36,430 - £39,246 p.a. FTE

Full-time: 37.5 hours per week (30 hour part-time option considered)

Location: Flexible depending on location with office base near Romsey, Hampshire

These are exciting and challenging times to be an ecologist or environmental manager. There is much work to do, and we are looking for someone with energy, enthusiasm and insights into professional practice, who never wants to stop learning in the role. The successful applicant will be a member of the management team and will play a key role in CIEEM’s ambition to raise the profile of our profession and ensure that members have the tools and resources needed to lead action to address biodiversity and climate emergencies.

Seasonal Field Surveyors - Ecology Solutions

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Competitive salary plus expenses

Ecology Solutions is a leading consultancy with an extensive range of expertise, specialising in ecology planning solutions for numerous, diverse high-profile clients within both the public and private sectors nationwide. Our Hertfordshire office is seeking to recruit Seasonal Field Surveyors to be involved in protected species survey and translocation work in various locations across the UK.

Seasonal Bat Surveyor - Wild Surveys Ltd

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Hourly rates start at £16.50 and will go up from there based on experience.

Wild Surveys are currently welcoming applications from candidates available to undertake bat emergence surveys around dusk time between May and September on a regular basis, in particular in locations across the west and East of Scotland.

Biodiversity Apprentice - Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council

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Appointment Type: Fixed Term Position

Full Time/Part Time: Full-time

Hours: 37

Salary Min: £22,407.70 - Salary Max: £24,180.10

This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to help Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council address environmental challenges by taking on an important role in delivering the council’s biodiversity agenda. The role includes the ability to work from home on average 40% of working week as part of a flexible working pattern and will include office and field work.

Head of Estates / Land Management & Natural Capital - Shropshire Wildlife Trust

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Salary: £41,428 - £44,174

Shrewsbury, Shropshire - some flexible working offered

Full Time, Permanent

35 hours per week Evening and weekend work will be required from time to time.

The Trust’s estate has grown in recent years to almost 1,000 hectares. It includes iconic habitats and some outstanding exemplars of conservation land management. Some already have significant visitor footfall. We do not plan to expand our holding significantly, but we need to address two emerging priorities which will have implications for the way we manage our land.

Ecologist - Estrada Ecology

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Salary: 25,000 - 28,000

Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent

Based: Rotherham, South Yorkshire

About Estrada Ecology: Estrada Ecology was formed in 2007 and currently employs a small close-knit team of ecologists, working predominantly within the north of England, we work closely with a vast array of clients, ranging from independent developers to large scale companies, conducting all types of ecological projects as required.

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