Policy and Advice

Nature Recovery Project Manager - Staffordshire County Council

Salary: £46,579 - £50,908

Location: Staffordshire Place

Are you a natural communicator and relationship builder? Do you have experience of delivering a strategy through cultivating consensus and partnership working, and through project development?

Working with partners including farmers and landowners, local communities, environmental organisations, businesses, local authorities and politicians, you'll be at the centre of efforts to deliver tangible outcomes that really make a difference for nature.

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• Closing Date: 01/11/2026
• Location: Staffordshire Place
• Level: Management
• Posted: 02/10/2026

Farm Officer - South West Peatland Partnership (SWPP) - South West Water

Salary: £33,000 - £35,000/year

Location: Okehampton

The South West Peatland Partnership (SWPP) is an ambitious collaboration of 22 partner organisations working together to restore and protect peatlands across Cornwall, Devon and Somerset. Hosted by South West Water, we're delivering large-scale environmental improvements through a range of funding programmes, including Defra's Nature for Climate Peatland Grant Scheme administered by Natural England. We're looking for an experienced and passionate Farm Officer to play a key role in engaging farmers, landowners and rural stakeholders to help deliver peatland restoration and sustainable land management across the region. If you're knowledgeable about upland farming systems, agri-environment schemes and habitat restoration, and enjoy building trusted relationships within farming communities, we'd love to hear from you.

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• Closing Date: 26/10/2026
• Location: Okehampton
• Level: Main
• Posted: 30/09/2026

National Peatland Action Programme Specialist Officer - Natural Resources Wales

Grade/Salary range: 06: £42,662 - £46,662

Working pattern: Full time - 37 hours per week

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Flexible in Mid Wales, Flexible in North Wales

If you’re driven by demanding fieldwork, working outside, and the reward of seeing real change take shape, this role will be a great fit. As a Peatland Restoration Specialist in the National Peatland Action Programme (NPAP), you’ll spend time in some of Wales’s wildest landscapes—often wet, often muddy, and always rewarding. Whether you’re navigating deep heather, negotiating boggy ground, or working through relentless Welsh rain, you’ll be doing it with purpose: restoring peatlands that are vital for climate resilience, biodiversity, and water management.

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• Closing Date: 14/10/2026
• Location: Flexible in Mid Wales, Flexible in North Wales
• Level: Main
• Posted: 29/09/2026

National Peatland Action Programme Specialist Officer - Natural Resources Wales

Grade/Salary range: 06: £42,662 - £46,662

Working pattern: Full time - 37 hours per week

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Flexible in Mid Wales, Flexible in South Wales

You’ll take projects from concept to completion, developing technical specifications, securing consents, managing budgets, and overseeing contractors to ensure high‑quality delivery. Your work will involve mapping, surveying, and designing restoration interventions across both NRW-managed land and privately owned sites, while providing expert advice to colleagues, partners, landowners, and stakeholders. You’ll also contribute to monitoring, reporting, and knowledge-sharing as NPAP continues to expand, building a rolling portfolio of projects at different stages of progress.

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• Closing Date: 14/10/2026
• Location: Flexible in Mid Wales, Flexible in South Wales
• Level: Main
• Posted: 29/09/2026

Head of Local Nature Recovery Strategy Delivery Partnership - Durham Wildlife Trust

Now is a crucial time for nature. Despite long term decline it is still possible to bring nature back and Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRSs) will be an essential part of that recovery process.

Across the North East the Mayoral Strategic Authority is taking on responsibility for delivery of LNRS and has put in place two sub regional partnerships to coordinate delivery on the ground. Durham Wildlife Trust has been appointed as the delivery organisation for one of those partnerships - South of Tyne & Wear and County Durham. This role will be responsible for leading that delivery partnership and championing nature recovery across Gateshead, South Tyneside, Sunderland and County Durham.

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• Closing Date: 23/10/2026
• Location: North East England
• Level: Senior
• Posted: 25/09/2026

Fisheries Specialist - South East Rivers Trust

Full time, permanent

We're looking for a proactive and technically skilled Fisheries Specialist to join South East Rivers Trust (SERT) and help deliver an ambitious programme to improve fish passage and river connectivity across the Great Stour catchment. This is a unique opportunity to play a central role in progressing the Stour fish passage roadmap, helping to shape a flagship programme that combines monitoring, evidence, partnership working and practical river restoration.

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• Closing Date: 18/10/2026
• Location: South East
• Level: Main
• Posted: 24/09/2026

River Restoration Lead - Wiltshire Wildlife Trust

Salary: £35,000-38,000

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 hours, Monday-Friday with the need for occasional weekend or evening work

Based at: Head Office, Elm Tree Court

Working within our wider Nature Recovery Directorate, you'll lead the development and delivery of complex river and wetland restoration projects, collaborating with landowners, contractors, communities and partner organisations to create lasting benefits for wildlife, water, and people. From restoring natural river processes and reconnecting floodplains to delivering innovative catchment-scale solutions, you'll play a key role in turning ambitious ideas into successful projects on the ground.

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• Closing Date: 20/10/2026
• Location: Head Office, Elm Tree Court
• Level: Senior
• Posted: 24/09/2026

Farm Advisor - South East Rivers Trust

We're looking for a proactive and approachable Farm Advisor to help farmers, growers and landowners build more resilient farming businesses while delivering lasting benefits for rivers, water resources and nature. This is an exciting opportunity to become the face of South East Rivers Trust's on-the-ground farm engagement, supporting the delivery of the Holistic Water for Horticulture (HWH) project alongside a growing programme of water resilience and catchment restoration work.

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• Closing Date: 18/10/2026
• Location: South East
• Level: Main
• Posted: 22/09/2026

Site Manager - RSPB

Salary: £40,381.00 - £43,113.00 Per Annum

Terms: Permanent, Full-Time, 37.5 hours per week

Location: RSPB Ham Wall, Meare BA6

We’re looking for an inclusive, inspiring leader with proven experience in land management and visitor operations to manage RSPB Ham Wall - a flagship wetland reserve in the heart of the Avalon Marshes. As Site Manager, you’ll lead a passionate team of staff and volunteers to deliver conservation excellence and outstanding visitor experiences. You’ll manage day-to-day operations, oversee budgets, drive income, and work closely with RSPB colleagues and partners across the wider landscape.

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• Closing Date: 19/10/2026
• Location: Meare BA6
• Level: Management
• Posted: 22/09/2026

Land Advice Administrator - Devon Wildlife Trust

Salary: £21,250.40pa (£26,563 FTE) plus 7% pension, rising to £27,962 FTE over 3 years

This is a part time post (30 hours per week) fixed term appointment until 31 March 2030, contractually located at Cookworthy, Beaworthy, Devon, EX21 5UX.

Do you have great admin skills and enjoy working within a busy, enthusiastic team? Are you keen to support farm advisors working in the wider countryside? Join our team for a fulfilling admin role. We are looking for a team player who is comfortable working across a range of administrative, financial and team support tasks.

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• Closing Date: 11/10/2026
• Location: Cookworthy, Beaworthy, Devon, EX21 5UX
• Level: Main
• Posted: 21/09/2026

Ecologist - Advance Northumberland

Salary: £32,000 to £45,000 (depending on experience) with incentive scheme and excellent benefits.

Location: You will be working at our offices located in Ashington, Northumberland. There will be an expectation that you will need to travel to other locations within Northumberland.

Our newly formed Ecology and Sustainability team is responsible for creating and managing the third largest habitat bank in the country, as well as ensuring that our activities are sustainable. As an Ecologist within the Advance Green Futures division, you will be at the forefront of managing our ecology programme, supporting the work on our habitat banks and providing advice and guidance to colleagues across the business.

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• Closing Date: 23/10/2026
• Location: Ashington, Northumberland
• Level: Main
• Posted: 18/09/2026

Greenspaces and Projects Manager - Dacorum Borough Council

Permanent / Full-time

Salary: £53,409 to £56,585 (inclusive of London Fringe Weighting)

The Neighbourhood Delivery service is at the heart of delivering services to residents in Dacorum, whether this be parks and open spaces to trees and woodlands to street cleansing and grounds maintenance to cemeteries and bereavement services to parking services. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Greenspaces and Projects Manager within the service.

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• Closing Date: 26/10/2026
• Location: Hemel Hempstead
• Level: Management
• Posted: 18/09/2026

PeacePlus Nature Conservation Scientist (Wader Surveys) - RSPB

Salary: £40,381.00 - £43,113.00 Per Annum

Terms: 33 months Fixed Term, Full-time, 37.5 hours per week

Location: Northern Ireland – Site travel + Desk Work

A rare opportunity to advance wader conservation science. PeacePlus Nature is an ambitious €20.8 million programme that brings together nine partners to tackle the decline in priority species and habitats in Northern Ireland, and the border counties of Ireland. They will be undertaking two national scale breeding wader surveys over 2027 and 2028 with a significant proportion of volunteer engagement and citizen science.

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• Closing Date: 13/10/2026
• Location: Northern Ireland – Site travel + Desk Work
• Level: Main
• Posted: 15/09/2026