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Assistant Grazing Ranger - The Conservators of Ashdown Forest
Salary: £24,294 to £25,979 subject to experience
Hours per week: 37 flexible working.
Would you like to take on an exciting new role working on one of the most important wildlife sites in southern England? The Board of the Conservators of Ashdown Forest have an exciting opportunity to appoint an Assistant Grazing Ranger to support the grazing management on Ashdown Forest, East Sussex. Working under the supervision of the Countryside Manager you will support the Specialist Grazing Rangers with an overarching goal of achieving favourable condition of the SSSI. The role will have oversight and supervision of volunteers and assisting with the delivery of habitat and species monitoring associated with grazing.
Are you looking to take the next step in your career, with opportunities to progress and grow your skills. Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, like reviewing research, and enjoy implementing mitigation strategies to promote ecological sustainability? If so, we want you to be a part of our team!
Ecology Solutions is a leading consultancy specialising in ecology planning solutions, offering an extensive range of expertise to numerous and diverse high-profile clients within both the public and private sectors.
Oxfordshire Reserves Officer - Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust
Salary: £26,800 - £27,733 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 35 hours per week. Flexibility in working pattern, in agreement with line manager
Based: The Lodge, Littlemore and Wells Farm, Little Milton. Hybrid working is available.
The Oxfordshire Reserves Officer will help nature recover by directly working towards habitat management objectives across a suite of reserves covering wetland, floodplain meadows, limestone grasslands, woodland habitats of which many are designated SSSI’s.
This will provide an exciting opportunity to work within a close knit, friendly team committed to nature conservation.
We are looking for an enthusiastic Estate Worker to join our team, helping to deliver our habitat and infrastructure objectives across Dorset from our Arne work centre.
Location: Arne
Salary: £23,401.00 - £25,122.00 Per Annum
This is a Permanent, Full-Time role for 37.5 hours per week.
Your main objectives will be to assist in delivering the habitat management objectives for the various reserves, staying on top of the Health and Safety requirements associated with this work and supporting the team on other works as needed.
Major Events Lead - Wildlife and Countryside Link
Would you like to help deliver a major environmental event in 2025?
We’re looking for a Major Events Lead to coordinate and help deliver a significant event in 2025, focused on environmental recovery and holding Government to account for its record on nature. The event will bring together the nature sector for what we hope will become an annual event, one that becomes a fixture in the political and press calendar, as well as a focal point for the environmental movement. Can you help us pioneer this major event?
Research Officer, Citizen Science - WWT
Location: Slimbridge
Salary: £27,847.00
Vacancy Type: Fixed Term
WWT’s Conservation Evidence department comprises a rapidly growing team of scientists, which provides the evidence that underpins the work of WWT. We use a wide range of inter-disciplinary methods across the social and ecological sciences to deliver high-quality conservation science. We work in collaboration with multiple NGO and academic partners, and a number of PhD students, across the UK and overseas.
Senior Project Officer - The Conservation Volunteers
Salary: £24,024 per annum, pro-rated to £14,414.40.
21 hours per week, to include weekend and evening work.
Based at the Wealden District Council office in Hailsham and working along the Cuckoo Trail but attached to the TCV Office in Hastings. This exciting role supports TCV in enabling people and communities to improve their health, prospects and outdoor places. We have an outstanding track record of delivering conservation, community and health projects across Sussex and we want to build on this whilst continuing to meet the needs of our diverse communities, existing and potential partners and becoming a beacon of best practice for us nationally.
Part time Event Coordinator - Surrey Wildlife Trust
Salary £25,000 pa fte
Part time working, 24-28 hrs per week
Do you thrive on organising and making things happen? We need a motivated, capable event coordinator to work with our Event Manager to run events and activities which fit with our ambitions to connect people and nature in Surrey.
Rye Harbour Trainee Ranger - Sussex Wildlife Trust
Salary: £20,820.80 pa
Hours: 35 hrs per week
Contract Type: Fixed Term to 14/03/2025.
Location: Rye Harbour, Rye Harbour Road, Rye Harbour, Rye TN31 7FW
This is an exciting opportunity for a trainee ranger to join our Nature Reserves Team and the successful candidate will follow an established training plan including modules in conservation, ecology, grazing and community engagement.. The role is designed to help the successful candidate develop the skills required to gain employment in the conservation sector whilst supporting the Sussex Wildlife Trust to deliver effective action for wildlife on its nature reserves. You will gain a vast array of valuable experience and skills in the conservation/environmental field including recognised qualifications and training in skills such as chainsaw, brushcutter, off-road driving, forestry first aid and Level 2 forest school leadership.
Assistant Nature-Based Solutions Officer - Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust
Salary: £22,000 - £24,000 gross per annum depending on skills and experience
Full Time - 35 Hours per week
Fixed Term Contract
Location: Beechcroft House, SO32 2DP
This post is held within our Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) Department. In order to achieve our ambitions for nature’s recovery, the Assistant Nature-based Solutions Officer will assist in the delivery of the survey and monitoring of externally funded project work, through our ecological consultancy, Arcadian Ecology & Consulting Ltd. Projects vary, but mainly include a large woodland restoration project. Duties will primarily include assisting officers with field survey work including bats, butterflies, bumblebees, dormice, moths, reptiles, habitat surveys, habitat management, and data entry using spreadsheets and Geographical Information Systems (GIS), reporting and equipment maintenance.
Assistant/Forest Manager x 2 - English Woodlands Forestry
English Woodlands Forestry is one of South East England’s longest-established and leading forestry consultants. We have a wide and prestigious range of clients from large mixed estates to small woodland owners and farmers. Our small professional team offer our clients a quality end-to-end service from woodland management plans and tree risk surveys through to arranging contractual work and timber harvesting/marketing. We also specialise in woodland creation projects including planning, planting, establishment and carbon sales.
We are looking to expand our team with the addition of two Assistant or Forest Managers. Both roles will be responsible for delivering quality woodland management services and being an integral part of our team.
Kent’s Plan Bee Project Officer - Bumblebee Conservation Trust
A unique opportunity to join a successful and growing conservation charity!
FTE for 20 months
Salary £23,140
The Bumblebee Conservation Trust (the Trust) is looking for a full-time Kent’s Plan Bee Project Officer to join the conservation team and lead on the delivery of Kent’s ‘Plan Bee’, the pollinator action plan for Kent County Council. This role is a secondment to Kent County Council.
Ecology Advisor - Hertfordshire County Council
Starting Salary: £32,076 Progressing to £34,834
Hours: 37 per week / Contract: Permanent
The LEADS team (landscape, ecology, archaeology, development sustainability) supports the County and most District planning authorities in Herts. You will also join the Team at a very exciting time as Biodiversity Net Gain and the Local Nature Recovery Strategy are implemented, a sea change in the profile and importance of ecology and the natural environment in planning and placemaking, and you will have an opportunity to be part of improving the ecology and biodiversity in this varied and attractive county.
Assistant Park Manager - The Royal Parks
Salary of up to £49,953 per annum (plus on-call allowance of £3,256 per annum)
Permanent, full-time basis, working 36 hours per week
St James’ Park and The Green Park, London (with occasional travel to all parks)
As an Assistant Park Manager, you will support the management of St Jame’s Park, The Green Park and Victoria Tower Gardens. Leading a diverse portfolio of park operations and activities you will be involved in a range of horticulture, arboriculture, learning, events and volunteering work. Alongside a fellow Assistant Park Manager, you’ll manage the day-to-day aspects of the Landscape Maintenance Contract and the delivery of a local project portfolio of improvement works, ensuring we obtain the highest value from our delivery partners.
Park Ranger - Earley Town Council
Salary Range £29,269 - £32,076, plus membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme.
Location: Earley, Reading
Earley Town Council is looking for someone to join our team as a Park Ranger to maintain public open spaces owned or managed by Earley Town Council. To maintain and improve these spaces with a focus on conservation, biodiversity and environmental benefits whilst also having regard for the health and safety requirements of a public open space. To support the Town Council’s commitment to providing opportunities for residents to learn about and experience the natural world and to work collaboratively with local conservation groups as well as relevant professional organisations.
Ecologist - Whitcher Wildlife Ltd
Salary between £26,000 & £45,000 dependent on experience.
Full or part-time (full time preferred).
Permanent role
Barnsley / Hybrid
Whitcher Wildlife Ltd are looking for a number of ecologists at various stages of their career to join our small but growing business. Having been operating for over 25 years, currently with twelve staff, we are looking to increase our workforce to meet the ever growing demand for ecological services.
Reserve Manager - Parsonage Down National Nature Reserve - Natural England
Salary is £34,072 on an annualised hours contract. Weekly hours fluctuate seasonally, averaging 43 hours per week.
Parsonage Down NNR is one of the largest most diverse calcareous grassland nature reserves in the UK and part of Salisbury Plain SAC. The NNR is also home to Cherry Lodge Farm, Natural England’s working farm dedicated to developing nature based sustainable farming.
We are seeking a motivated and passionate Reserve Manager whose primary responsibility will be delivering the NNR Management Plan work programme to meet the nature conservation objectives for the site.
You will be working alongside the Parsonage Down NNR Farm Manager and Stockperson, who are responsible for farm operations and livestock husbandry.
Site Manager - West - Sussex Wildlife Trust
Location: Woods Mill, Henfield.
Salary: £34,052
Contract Type: Permanent / Hours: Full Time, 35hrs per week
This role will manage our western portfolio, covering over 750ha (1800 acres) you will oversee the management of these dynamic, highly designated nature reserves. Your reserves will include Butcherlands, our pioneering Rewilding project consisting of flower-rich meadows and newly developing wood pasture with scrubland bursting with Nightingales.
Head of Wilder Learning - Sussex Wildlife Trust
Location: Woods Mill, with Hybrid working options; travel to locations across Sussex will be required.
Salary: £38,850
Contract Type: Permanent / Hours: 35 hours per week
Reporting to the Director of Communities, this exciting new role will enable Sussex Wildlife Trust to deliver effective action for wildlife in Sussex by leading and overseeing the Wilder Learning programme and managing the Wilder Learning team. This role will take a strategic approach to ensure delivery of an inspiring programme, including Forest School and Wild Beach training and events and courses.
Location: West Sussex, Estate Yard, Arundel, BN18 0RG
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £23,868 per annum
We're looking for a Farm Worker to assist and support the National Trust’s in-hand Livestock operations. Working as part of the Farm & Countryside Team, we want you to provide the practical and technical skills to support with the daily care of our beef cattle and flock of sheep. Grazing management, tractor skills and experience with trailers is essential.
Nature Recovery Project Officer - Sussex Wildlife Trust
Location: Southerham Farm, Lewes.
Salary: £27,000
Contract Type: Fixed Term. 2 years / Hours: Full Time, 35hrs per week
This role will be part of the Nature Reserve team and will oversee our ambitious nature recovery project on Pevensey Levels. This role will oversee large scale capital work delivery across multiple sites including on the Pevensey Levels National Nature Reserve managed by Sussex Wildlife Trust and Natural England. This project will help restore this precious but threatened landscape by improving water storage, creating new priority habitat, and engaging neighbouring landowners to follow suit.
Wilder Learning & Communities Officer - Sussex Wildlife Trust
Location: Rye Harbour Discovery Centre, East Sussex
Salary: £30,671.55 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent / Hours: 35 hours per week
We have an exciting opportunity to join the team at Rye Harbour. The Wilder Learning & Communities Officer will enable SWT to deliver effective action for wildlife in Sussex by delivering an inspiring education and community engagement programme at the Rye Harbour Nature Reserve and Discovery Centre, balancing financial viability with reaching our charitable and strategic aims.
Executive Assistant - Sussex Wildlife Trust
Location: Woods Mill with hybrid working options
Salary: £31,500
Contract Type: Permanent / Hours: 35 hours
The role of Executive Assistant to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) is a crucial one and will enable SWT to deliver effective action for wildlife in Sussex by supporting and developing the administrative and governance functions of the charity. You will be supporting SLT with diary management, organising meetings, preparing for Board meetings and will lead on other business support functions.
National Forest Inventory & Trees Outside Woodland Surveyor - Browning Forestry Ltd
Full time sub-contracting role located in: Central/Eastern Southern England.
Period – July 2024 to June 2025 with possible extension.
Payment: Variable (dependant on complexity of work).
Specific areas of skills & knowledge include navigation, NVC, advanced tree & basic ground flora identification, habitat identification, knowledge of silviculture, pests, diseases & mensuration.
Outreach Ranger - Content Creator (Bird Aware Solent) - Hampshire County Council
Salary range: £25,628 - £28,326 per annum
Hours per week: 37
Contract type: Permanent
Work location: River Hamble Rangers Depot, Southampton
Do you care about wildlife, have a flair for public engagement and proven experience in content creation? The focus of this role will be to enhance Bird Aware Solent’s outreach engagement by working alongside our Communications Lead to create relevant content for digital, broadcast and print media for a diverse audience. Platforms include social media channels, online engagement, website content, blogs, broadcast and print media and video creation. As well as creating content you will develop an understanding of which platforms on which we should be focusing our resources on. Additionally, all rangers patrol the coast throughout the winter providing a positive and engaging presence with all user groups, including dog walkers.
Senior Business Conservation Adviser - (Fixed Term) - RSPB
Salary: £36,577.00 - £39,267.00 Per Annum
This is a fixed term role for 3 years for 37.5 hours per week.
Location: Hybrid Home-based/London
This role provides the opportunity to work for UK’s largest conservation NGO on a new business partnership with a tangible impact. It will involve analysing, planning, managing and delivering this new national strategic partnership with Openreach to the highest standards. This is your chance to shape a more sustainable future, guiding your partner in their nature-positive journey and inspiring others to follow suit.
Countryside Partnership Officer (PT, Temporary) - Medway Valley Countryside Partnership
The role is 3 days a week currently for 8 months (with possible extension).
Location: Maidstone, Kent
Medway Valley Countryside Partnership (MVCP) are a not-for-profit conservation organisation in Kent. We are looking for an experienced individual who can run our weekly volunteer action group and deliver sympathetic habitat management tasks at a variety of sites in the Maidstone and Tonbridge and Malling boroughs. Tasks are seasonal and varied and may include tree planting and felling, scrub clearance, coppicing and construction such as creating new dipping platforms or woodland steps (for example).
Green Finance Manager - Surrey Wildlife Trust
Salary c£38,000 pa dependent on experience & skills
Our offices are in Pirbright, Leatherhead and Wisley and our hybrid working policy aims to provide a good work/life balance which can incorporate partial home working
If you are passionate about nature’s recovery and want to work within our Business Development/Nature Based Solutions Team with others who are creatively and systematically looking for solutions which will connect Surrey’s wildlife at a landscape level, this is your perfect job! This role sits in the Trust’s Business Development/Nature Based Solutions (NBS) team, an innovative new team focused on county wide recovery and green finance investment within the county of Surrey. This role will also manage the Trusts internal and external processes around Green Finance and drive forward investment in nature at a landscape level.
Senior Conservation Grazing Officer - Essex Wildlife Trust
Salary: £29,150.00 per annum
Contract type: Permanent / Working hours: Full time
Location: Blue House Farm Nature Reserve, Blue House Farm Chase, North Fambridge, Essex, CM3 6GU
We have an opportunity for a suitably qualified grazier and passionate ecologist to join us in this residential role, responsible Trust’s livestock at our Blue House Farm site, and other grazing areas across Essex. The Senior Conservation Grazing Officer is responsible for the day-to-day implementation of the Trust’s county-wide grazing programme across its nature reserves and Nature Discovery Parks. The postholder will assist the Grazing Manager in ensuring the annual completion of each nature reserve’s grazing plan and provide good day-to-day liaison with the Ranger teams and volunteer wardens throughout the grazing season.
Senior Policy Officer – Water - RSPB
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.
Growing Together Project Officer - Surrey Hills Society
Salary: £28,000 pro rata
Contract Length: 18 months
Hours of work: Full time preferred, 37.5 hours per week. Please note we will consider applications for a minimum of 30 hours per week.
Located at: Surrey Hills Estate Office - Warren Farm Barns, Dorking, RH5 6DG, site visits across the Surrey Hills National Landscape, wider Surrey County and working from home
To work with the Project and Volunteer Manager on leading and managing the planning, delivery, and evaluation of ‘Growing Together: Inclusion and Diversity in the Surrey Hills’ in close collaboration with the Surrey Hills Society Team and a Project Steering Group. This project aims to increase opportunities for inclusivity in the countryside by working with three primary target groups. These are Surrey Choices, supporting adults with learning disabilities, Surrey Coalition of Disabled people which represents and supports Disabled People, and Surrey Minority Ethnic Forum (SMEF) which represents more than 60 multi-ethnic community groups in Surrey.
Craftsperson - Forestry England
Salary: £24323
Permanent, full-time
Location: The New Forest, SO43 7NH
We are looking for an enthusiastic, hardworking and highly motivated team player who enjoys practical tasks in an outdoor environment. Working in the New Forest, Hampshire you will be part of the Open Forest team completing a wide range of management and maintenance tasks to help meet the team's and district's work commitments as instructed by the Open Habitats and Beat Managers.
Equine Groundsman - Combined Counties Properties
We are looking for a full time groundsman to care for our 45 acre equestrian property. Five day week, Monday to Friday. We are a neat setup and take pride in how smart the property looks. We have a small team based here and we are looking for a hard working, positive and happy individual to fill the role.
The role is varied, from looking after the land and fencing, harrowing equestrian arenas, looking after the vehicles, running errands and odd jobs in and around the house, outbuildings and stables.
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.
Regional Officer South-East (Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Middlesex) - BASC
Salary: Circa £30,000pa plus company vehicle
Location: Home based with travel around designated counties
We are looking for an enthusiastic, flexible and highly motivated person to cover territories in South-east England as a regional officer. The role involves day to day service of BASC members, delivering shoot briefings covering all the key and current topics. Training will be given but there is an expectation you will have an in-depth knowledge and experience across shooting and conservation activities, some educational and training activities and a general all-round knowledge of the sector.
Rother Partnership Coordinator - Arun & Rother 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.
Tree Officer (South) - Oxfordshire County Council
Salary range: £32,076 - £34,834 per annum
Hours per week: 37
Contract type: Permanent
Work location: You will have a based at Sutton Farm, Stanton Harcourt and you may be required to work from this location.
Proactive tree care, tree retention and canopy growth of our tree assets will enable delivery of key objectives to aid resilience and improve the environmental benefits for residents and visitors across the County. Your role comes with plenty of variety and is focused on caring for a varied and established tree stock, while identifying opportunities to increase canopy cover.
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.
Policy Officer (or Senior Policy Officer) - Wildlife and Countryside Link
Full time, permanent
Hybrid - Home-working and Vauxhall (London)
We’re looking for a Policy Officer to help develop and promote environmental policy on behalf of our 82 environmental charity members. The Government has promised to halt the decline of nature by 2030. This role is about making sure the urgent action needed to meet that pledge is delivered. Your job will be to convene some of England’s best environmental policy experts to agree bold and effective shared policy positions.
Club Manager - Scottish Ornithologists' Club
£35,000-£37,000 per annum
Full time, Permanent (part-time considered)
Aberlady, East Lothian (some home-working possible)
The Scottish Ornithologists’ Club, one of Scotland’s leading wildlife bodies and a registered charity, is excited to be seeking to fill its newly created post of Club Manager. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who is keen to lead and drive strategic direction for the Club and its members. We are looking for a manager who can lead our team of staff and work with our trustees (‘Council’) and committees to share and promote members’ passion and commitment to the study and enjoyment of birds in Scotland.
Arborist / Tree Surgeon Trainer - Activate Learning
Full or part time
Merrist Wood College, Guildford
Activate Learning is a pioneering education group with a global reach, committed to transforming lives through our approach to learning. Merrist Wood College are looking for an arborist/tree surgeon professional who is keen to pass on their knowledge and give something back by instructing others in their area of expertise. As an Arboriculture Vocational Trainer, you will deliver short course provision and practical modules for full time students. You will work side-by-side with our arboriculture teaching staff and support in delivering purposeful, yet exciting practical and theory lessons. You will be responsible for guiding learners and candidates as they build a wide range of practical skills across vocational pathways in Arboriculture.
Senior Ecologist - 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.