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We’re now the largest nature conservation charity in the country, consistently delivering successful conservation, forging powerful new partnerships with other organisations and inspiring others to stand up and give nature the home it deserves.

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Species Recovery Partnership Manager - RSPB

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Salary: £38,389.00 - £41,212.00 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract: until mid-January 2027.
Location: RSPB Northern Ireland HQ Belfast, Home Hybrid

Rethink Nature is a partnership of seven leading species conservation organisations whose aim is ‘to combine their extensive knowledge and experience to catalyse the action that species need across the four nations of the UK’. We are looking for a highly organised and passionate individual with a good working knowledge of priority species in NI, the mechanisms needed to deliver for them, and the ability to bring stakeholders together. You will be responsible for managing the project to sure that that the following key outcomes are delivered within budget and on time.

Hoo Peninsula Project Manager - Species Survival Fund - RSPB

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We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to lead on the delivery of habitat enhancement projects in North Kent and beyond. Working closely with landowners, tenant farmers and the RSPB, you will help design, consent, tender and deliver wetland restoration that will benefit breeding waders and other wildlife.

Location: Hoo Peninsula

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

Hours: Full-time, This is a Fixed-Term role for 37.5 hours per week.

Contract: Fixed until 28/02/26

Project Manager - Species Survival Fund - RSPB

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We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, skilled and passionate Project Manager to play a leading role in our Species Survival Fund programme.

Project Manager - Species Survival Fund - Fixed Term
Location: Flexible in England
Salary: £32,022.00 - £34,377.00 pa
Hours: Full-Time, 37.5 hours pwk / Contract: Fixed-Term until 28/02/2026

Species Coastal and Wetlands: more, better, bigger, joined has secured funding from the Species Survival Fund. Guided by the Lawton principles of more, bigger, better, joined, this programme will deliver transformative landscape-scale restoration across 14 sites for the benefit of species abundance, people, and communities.

Programme Manager - Species Survival Fund - RSPB

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We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, skilled and passionate Programme Manager to lead our Species Survival Fund programme.

Location: Flexible in England
Salary: £38,389.00 - £41,212.00 Per Annum
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week / Contract: Fixed-term to 28th February 2026

Species Coastal and Wetlands: more, better, bigger, joined has secured funding from the Species Survival Fund.

Guided by the Lawton principles of more, bigger, better, more, this programme will deliver transformative landscape-scale restoration across 14 sites for the benefit of species abundance, people, and communities.

Community Engagement Officer - Greater Sedgemoor Landscape Recovery - RSPB

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Location: Sedgemoor Grassland Reserves

Salary: £26,379.00 - £28,319.00 Per Annum, Pro Rata

Contract: Fixed Term contract until March 31st 2026 / Hours: Part Time, 30 Hours per week

The role will help develop an innovative landscape-scale 'Landscape Recovery Scheme' across the Southern part of the Somerset Levels and Moors and maximise the project's positive social impact. You will work closely with local communities, building relationships, problem solving, and bringing creative ideas to the table.

Wet Grassland Adviser - RSPB

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We are looking for a new Wet Grassland Adviser to work with landowners across the Norfolk Broads and Suffolk Coast to deliver habitat design, creation and improvement projects aimed at breeding waders, but with benefits for a range of other wetland wildlife.

Location: Home based/Travel throughout Norfolk Broads and Suffolk Coast
Salary: £32,022.00 - £34,377.00 Per Annum
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week / Contract: Fixed-term until 28 February 2026

Wader populations have declined dramatically across the UK in recent decades. The RSPB and its partners are working to try and reverse these declines in Norfolk and Suffolk.

Project Development Officer - Fair to Nature Advisory - RSPB

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Salary: £32,022.00 - £34,377.00 per annum
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Fixed-term for 12 months
Location: Flexible in Central England

We are looking for a Fair to Nature Advisory and Project Development Officer. This advisory role will play a key contribution to help grow the RSPB’s Fair to Nature programme and improve habitats to protect and restore nature and wildlife on UK farms with one specific major business partner, and with a wide range of other farmers and businesses.

Field Officer - Gough Island - RSPB

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Location: Gough Island
Salary: £26,379.00 - £28,319.00 Per Annum
Duration: Until 31 October 2025

The RSPB is looking to recruit a Field Officer to carry out research on Gough Island. This work will primarily include 1) field and captive trials assessing House Mouse Mus musculus behaviour and the effectiveness of eradication measures, and 2) the monitoring of the two land birds (Gough Moorhen Gallinula comeri and Gough Bunting Rowettia goughensis).

Field Team Leader - Gough Island - RSPB

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Salary: £29,200.00 - £31,347.00 Per Annum

This is a Fixed-Term role until 31st October 2025 for 37.5 hours per week.

Location: Gough Island

The RSPB is looking to recruit a Field Team Leader to carry out research on Gough Island. This work will primarily include 1) field and captive trials assessing House Mouse Mus musculus behaviour and the effectiveness of eradication measures, and 2) the monitoring of the two land birds (Gough Moorhen Gallinula comeri and Gough Bunting Rowettia goughensis). In addition, it will also involve 3) a limited amount of seabird monitoring, and likely 4) the control of an invasive plant Sagina procumbens.

Livestock Person - RSPB

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Salary: £29,200.00 - £31,347.00 per annum
Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week.
Contract: 6 months, fixed-term
Location: Ouse Washes, Cambridgeshire
Do you have a passion to work with beef cattle on the largest area of wetland grassland in the country? We are looking for a stock person to work as part of a 6-person team responsible for the management of 2000 beef cattle on the Ouse Washes on a 6-month contract. The main duties will include daily shepherding, cattle movements, routine veterinary treatments, treating ailments, assisting with record-keeping, and maintaining infrastructure.

Venison Project Manager - RSPB

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Location: Lowther, Cumbria
Salary: £32,022.00 - £35,000.00 per annum
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Fixed-term role for 36 months

Cumbria Connect supports its partners in delivering large-scale nature restoration. Deer are part of Cumbria’s natural ecosystem, but their numbers are high and in the absence of natural predators are preventing natural woodland expansion.

We are looking for a pioneering individual to support professional, compassionate and coordinated deer management.

Estate Worker - RSPB

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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.

Site Manager - Galloway Reserves - RSPB

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Salary: £38,389.00 - £41,212.00 Per Annum
This is a permanent, full-time role for 37.5 hours per week.
Location: Dumfries and Galloway Office
Are you looking to combine your passion for nature with your land management and communication skills? If so, this may be the perfect role for you! We are looking for an organised, dynamic, and passionate Site Manager to lead the team and deliver the work programmes on these varied and exciting nature reserves. Key elements of reserve management include managing the team, budgeting/financial management, H&S, compliance, project management, management planning, reporting and public relations.

Senior Project Manager - Fens Priority Landscape - RSPB

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Salary: £38,389.00 - £41,212.00 pro rata
Hours: Part-time, 30 hours per week
Contract: 2 years fixed-term

Location: Fens Area Office, Swavesey, Cambridge, CB24 4QG
Our ambitious Hanson - RSPB Wetland project at Needingworth, creating Ouse Fen reserve, is the largest planned nature conservation restoration scheme following mineral extraction in Europe. When complete, it will include the UK’s largest reedbed, covering 460 hectares (that’s 644 football pitches of land well managed for nature!) Recreating some of the lost wetland habitat that once dominated the entire fenland landscape and creating wildlife successes for species such as bitterns and bearded tits. As the Senior Project Manager for the area, you would be responsible for the effective delivery of projects and ensuring the RSPB delivers on project objectives, outcomes and outputs.

Site Manager - RSPB

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Salary: £38,389.00 - £41,212.00 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time, 37.5 Hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Forsinard Flows
The Forsinard Flows National Nature Reserve consists of a huge expanse of designated blanket peatland, which is part of the largest terrestrial Special Area for Conservation in the UK, and part of the tentative World Heritage Site bid. This post will help with the running of the Field Centre, education facilities and a laboratory, in order to help facilitate the continuation and growth of research work in the Flow Country, under the auspices of the Flows Research Hub.

Seasonal Ranger - Forest - RSPB

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Location: Abernethy
Salary: £24,890.00 - £26,720.00 Per Annum
Duration: 4 – 5 months

There are 2 full-time roles available, one for 4 months and one for 5 months. We will also consider part-time applicants.

RSPB Scotland is seeking to employ two friendly, responsible Rangers to assist our existing Abernethy visitor team in patrolling honeypot sites and vulnerable areas of the reserve. The main part of the role will be patrolling the key footpaths and core visitor areas to chat to people and ensure they are accessing the nature reserve responsibly.

Seasonal Ranger - Mountain - RSPB

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Location: Abernethy
Salary: £24,890.00 - £26,720.00 Per Annum

This is a fixed-term role for 2.5 months, full-time for 37.5 hours per week. Part-time hours are also an option, please specify in your application if preferred.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the spectacular Abernethy Reserve to help protect the wild and fragile Cairngorm Plateau.

We are looking for a reliable, responsible Ranger with proven mountain experience and excellent people skills to patrol the plateau over the summer season.

Assistant Warden - North-East Scotland Coastal Reserves - RSPB

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Salary: £26,379.00 - £28,319.00 Per Annum, Pro Rata
Contract: 9 months
Hours: Part Time 30 hours per week (4 days)
Location: Loch of Strathbeg based + work at other reserves
An amazing opportunity to work on a fantastic range of reserves on some of the most important areas for wildlife within the North-East of Scotland. The group of five reserves cover lochs, a range of associated wetland habitats, farmland, dunes systems, seabird cliffs and woodlands that are home to a diverse range of wildlife and we need your help to keep them special. We are looking for someone enthusiastic with good practical and communication skills, and who will become a key part of our small, friendly, dedicated team.

Senior Business Conservation Adviser - (Fixed Term) - RSPB

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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.

People Engagement Officer - Natur am Byth - RSPB

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Would you be interested in joining a team to help conserve the most endangered species in north-west Wales?

Location: RSPB Cymru – Bangor
Salary: £26,379.00 - £28,319.00 Pro Rata
Hours: Part-time role, 15 hours per week
Contract: Fixed-term contract for 3 years

The Lleyn peninsula and Isle of Anglesey has many special habitats, including wet grassland, lowland heath, soft cliffs, sand dunes and fens, but some of their most important species, such as curlew, chough, spotted rockrose and large mason bee, are declining and at risk of extinction.

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.

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.

Volunteer Posts

Brushcutter Operator, Cornwall Reserves, RSPB

Schools on Reserves Leader (Outdoor Education), RSPB

RSPB Conwy Environmental Education Internship (Outdoor Education), RSPB Conwy

Residential Volunteer (Trainee Warden 6 months), RSPB

Residential Volunteering Opportunities, RSPB

Schools On Reserves Leader (Outdoor Education), RSPB

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