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Morridge Hill Country Project Manager - Peak District National Park Authority
Bakewell/Hybrid
37 hours per week
£40,221 to £43,421 per annum
Looking for the chance to have an important role in nature recovery in one of England’s most distinctive and dramatic landscapes? We're seeking a skilled individual to lead the delivery of the Morridge Hill Country (MHC) Landscape Recovery project. This exciting opportunity is a DEFRA funded Landscape Recovery Round 2 Pilot project led by the Peak District National Park Authority and supported by the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust and National Parks Partnership.
Tree Officer - Planning - Oxford City Council
Conserving and enhancing the landscape of Oxford is a key responsibility for Oxford City Council. Trees play an intrinsic role in the landscape of Oxford, providing a myriad of social, environmental, and economic benefits for all those who live or work in the city, or come as visitors.
The historic city has a wealth of trees, many in truly outstanding locations such as the college parks and gardens. We also have valuable tree collections from around the world such as in Headington Hill Park, University Parks and the Botanic Gardens.
Advisor £28,000 to £34,000
Assistant Advisor £22,500 to £27,000
With increased demand for our services this is a fantastic opportunity to join the growing group of professionals at FWAG South East as a Farm Environment Advisor or Assistant Advisor (depending on experience and qualifications) with the Kent & East West Sussex team.
FWAG South East provides environmental advice to farmers and land managers on a wide range of agri-environment topics. We also work with other organisations to deliver projects and on a landscape scale with a number of farm cluster groups.
Outdoor Access Officer - Cairngorms National Park Authority
Salary: £35,152 - £42,092 (Band D)
Location: Grantown on Spey
Job Type: Fixed Term Contract - 16 months / Hours: Full time (35 hrs per week)
The Cairngorms National Park (CNP) is the largest national park in the UK, covering 4500km2. It is also a place of sheer abundance, having more high mountain ground than anywhere else in the UK, the largest Caledonian forest, some of Scotland’s purest rivers and finest livestock rearing farmland. We now have an exciting opportunity for an Outdoor Access Officer to join the CNPA to help us fulfil our statutory access functions and plan, develop and implement policies and access programmes and provide advice on a range of access issues.
Coastal Officer - Tir Canol - RSPB
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.
Species Recovery Partnership Manager - RSPB
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.
Forest Liaison Officer - Forestry and Land Scotland
Location: Huntly
Salary: £34,028 - £36,302 + 37% Employer Pension Contributions
Contractual hours: 37 / Basis: Full time
Working at Forestry and Land Scotland is all about ‘People, Pride and Purpose.’ Join us and take pride in helping look after something incredibly valuable to the people of Scotland and its visitors – Scotland’s national forests and land.
The planning and environment teams work closely with other teams and specialists to design sustainable forests of the future. Our forests and land deliver multiple benefits, often within the same space.
Biodiversity Officer - Powys County Council
£29,777 to £31,364 per annum
Llandrindod Wells
37 hours, Fixed term until 31/03/2025
The Biodiversity Officer will play a key part in supporting Powys County Council to progress actions to deliver against its declaration of a Nature Emergency. The postholder will work alongside the Council’s Nature Recovery Officer to engage with and advise Council Services and communities, identifying opportunities to deliver nature recovery and seeking external funds to support the work. Initially to March 2025, with the possibility of extension, subject to funding.
Conservation Projects Officer and Idle Catchment Host - Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
Salary: £15,217 pa (which equates to a full time salary of £25,362 pa) plus pension and other benefits
Part time, Permanent
Based at Idle Valley Rural Learning Centre in Retford
We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to deliver our biodiversity conservation and Living Landscape aspirations in Nottinghamshire. You will be helping with and leading on a range of nature recovery project work, including administering and supporting the delivery of externally funded projects, responding to planning applications, providing conservation land management advice to landowners and undertaking the role of Idle Catchment Host.
Project Manager - Species Survival Fund - RSPB
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.
Community Engagement Officer - Greater Sedgemoor Landscape Recovery - RSPB
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.
National Landscapes Project Officer - East Devon District Council
£33,945 to £40,221 per annum
Permanent, full time x 37 hours
An exciting opportunity has arisen to help deliver the Council’s obligations to conserve and enhance one of England’s finest landscapes at a time of great change. Reporting to the East Devon National Landscape Manager, you will co-ordinate and facilitate the planning, design and implementation of projects and initiatives that will contribute to the delivery of the East Devon National Landscape Management Plan, working with a wide range of agencies, organisations, landowners, farmers and local communities.
£31,000 pa, plus a £6,000 car allowance, based on 37hr week plus pension contribution, mileage and expenses.
2 year contract (until May 2026), and subject to funding may be extended.
Would you like to be part of a Landscape Recovery Project on Dartmoor that aims to deliver a huge increase in the resilience and sustainability for farming, nature and people across a large proportion of the National Park? We are looking for a Farm Conservation Coordinator who will be working with farmers to develop plans to maintain a resilient, profitable farm business via regenerative, low carbon, high nature agricultural management that balances environmental and economic benefits.
Tarmac is the UK’s leading sustainable building materials and construction solutions business. Our innovative products and solutions not only deliver the infrastructure needed to grow the UK economy today, but also help to create a more sustainable built environment for the country’s long-term future.
We are currently seeking a Restoration Manager to join our Restoration team here in Land and Natural Resources.
Project Development Officer - Fair to Nature Advisory - RSPB
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.
Lindow Moss Community Projects Officer - Groundwork Cheshire, Lancashire & Merseyside
Salary: £23,791 – £29,158
Full Time: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent contract
Based: Lindow Moss, Wilmslow, Cheshire with hybrid working from home or Groundwork offices
We are looking for an exceptional Community Projects Officer to help protect and enhance the landscape around Lindow Moss in Cheshire on behalf of the Lindow Moss Partnership.
Nature Based Solutions Manager - London and Slough - WWT
Location: London
Salary: £34,405.00 (plus a London weighting allowance of £3,714 depending on base location)
This is a fixed term contract until 31st March 2027, 37.5 hours per week working 5 days in 7
As our Nature Based Solutions Manager, you will be at the forefront of the co-creation of NBS that change peoples' lives and the places they live in two projects - Project Sponge in Slough and Community Bluescapes in Richmond, London. Alongside the other team members, you will demonstrate the power of urban wetlands and other blue infrastructure to help communities to adapt to climate change and build better, safer, more natural places to live.
Senior Ecology Officer - The Highland Council
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Highland Council’s Environment Team, a small team of specialist officers that advise the Council on issues affecting the Scottish Highland’s exceptional countryside, heritage and natural resources. Highland Council is the largest Local Authority in the UK with the longest coastline and home to many of the country’s most important and iconic habitats and species.
Ecology Officer (Planning) - The Highland Council
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Highland Council’s Environment Team, a small team of specialist officers that advise the Council on issues affecting the Scottish Highland’s exceptional countryside, heritage and natural resources. Highland Council is the largest Local Authority in the UK with the longest coastline and home to many of the country’s most important and iconic habitats and species. The successful candidate will deliver significant biodiversity enhancement improvements across the region and shape biodiversity policy.
Farming in Protected Landscapes Officer - Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority
Salary of £30,824 to £36,647 per annum
Full time (37 hours per week)
Fixed term until March 2025
Grassington, near Skipton, with the potential for some home working
Are you an experienced farm adviser looking for an opportunity to work in one of the most beautiful landscapes in Britain? If so, we have a fantastic opportunity to join our Farming in Protected Landscapes team and make a real difference. The role is integral to the successful delivery of the Defra funded programme within the Yorkshire Dales National Park and will include: Helping to develop project ideas with farmers and land managers; Assessing applications; Providing recommendations to the Local Assessment Panels; and Providing monitoring and feedback on the progress of the scheme to Defra.
Project Manager - Nature Accelerators - National Trust
Location: South West Wales AO, The Granary, Llandeilo, SA19 6RT
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract
Salary: £44,500 per annum
We're looking for an experienced landscape-scale conservation project manager to join a dynamic team in Wales. With many years of ground-breaking peat restoration, woodland creation and nature improvement work already underway, this is a unique opportunity to be behind accelerating delivery of our strategic vision.
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?
Project Manager (Species Survival Fund) - WWT
£20,643 (FTE £34,405)
Part time 22.5 hours per week
Fixed term until 28th February 2026
Steart Marshes, Somerset
We have an exciting opportunity to oversee the management of a 2 year funded project: Wetter For Waders: Enhancing Somerset’s Coastal Wetlands. You'll be part of our team based at the Steart Marshes and Bridgwater Bay National Nature Reserves. A predominantly capital based project which will include the coordination and management of internal resources, contractors and consultants. You will oversee the management of consultants and contractors, take responsibility for projects and prioritise resources accordingly whilst working alongside the site manager.
Site Manager - Galloway Reserves - RSPB
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.
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.
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.
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.
Conservation Manager - Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust
Salary: £31,638 to £36,252
Contract: Full time, permanent.
Location: IoSWT office, Trenoweth, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, TR21 0NS
We are looking for an experienced and talented nature conservationist with leadership experience or potential, who excels at project development and partnership working. Ideally you will also have substantial ecological knowledge. We need an inspirational and collaborative person who will contribute a great deal to the Trust team. We seek someone who is excited by the opportunities – and challenges – of life in Scilly, and who shares our passion for keeping Scilly special.
Assistant Warden - North-East Scotland Coastal Reserves - RSPB
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.
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.
Project Officer - Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust
Based in Horncastle, Lincolnshire with flexible working options
Circa £25,000 pa
Saltmarsh Restoration and Sand Dune Enhancement
Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust is seeking a Project Officer to work with our partners to deliver our joint pioneering Wilder Humber Project with Yorkshire Wildlife Trust for the next 5 years. Trialling the combined restoration of dune, saltmarsh, seagrass and native oyster habitats in collaboration with and supported by Ørsted, a leading global renewable energy company.
'Making Space for Nature for Dorset' Project Vacancies - Dorset Wildlife Trust
Dorset Wildlife Trust is currently looking to fill four exciting job roles to help deliver a major new initiative to increase wildlife abundance in Dorset. The initiative is funded by a grant worth over £1 million from the Government’s Species Survival Fund, and supported by individual givers.
Making Space for Nature in Dorset aims to create thriving wildlife hubs, which will help drive wildlife conservation throughout Dorset. The project will create and revitalise over 500ha of habitats across 18 distinctive nature reserves, as well as help neighbouring landowners to enhance the wildlife habitats on their land.
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.
Senior Land Adviser - Nature Restoration - Somerset Wildlife Trust
Salary: Manager Level 3: £32,500 - £37,000
Contract type: Permanent
Working hours: Full time
Location: Somerset Wildlife Trust, County of Somerset with opportunities for hybrid working.
We are looking for an experienced land management adviser to oversee the provision of land management advice and support which will deliver SWT’s goals for 2030 across Somerset.
Regional Firearms Officer (North) - BASC
Salary: Circa £30,000
Location: Northern regional office (Lancashire)
We are looking for an individual with excellent knowledge of firearms and ammunition to include practical, legal, and technical experience. The role is to join a team delivering accurate advice to BASC members across a broad spectrum of firearms and ammunition related matters.
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.