Senior / Principal Ecologist

Peak Ecology Limited

Location: Bakewell, Derbyshire

Salary (Full-time): £32K to £48K 

A lot of ecological jobs come with big promises… and then bury you under paperwork, unrealistic deadlines, working away, no training and little support.

If you’re feeling used and abused; a tiny cog in a giant, joyless machine - we get it. Every voice matters here at Peak Ecology, so even if you just want a change or a new challenge and you are a seasoned ecologist with experience, you should consider Peak Ecology as your next move.

Call Jonathan (07866 897163) for a chat in complete confidence.

Who We Are

Peak Ecology is a company where top quality is essential.

Peak Ecology is a well-established specialist consultancy with an excellent reputation, based in the heart of the Peak District. We work in a wide range of sectors and our work tends to be more rural-focussed; we rarely work in an urban setting. The majority of our work is in the Midlands and Yorkshire, with projects ranging from barn conversions to infrastructure schemes and everything in between.

Why Peak Ecology?

We actually enjoy what we do, the sites we work on and even most of our clients - and we want you to enjoy it too.

We’re a relaxed, supportive and friendly kind of company where your well-being isn’t an afterthought and your ideas matter. It is important that your expertise is respected and allowed to flourish and your love of ecology is shared, not exploited.

What You’ll Do

You will play a key role in leading projects and working closely with our clients. There will also be a supporting element in mentoring a junior member of the team. You will have a personal development plan supported by internal and external training.

Work-Life balance is genuinely important; you will not be expected to be away from home more than one evening per week through the season.

• Get outdoors for real ecological work - not just the occasional token survey
• Write reports you’re proud of (and have time to do them properly!)
• Work with clients who care about doing things right
• Mentor junior ecologists who actually appreciate it
• Be part of company decisions, strategy, recruitment and innovation

What We’re Looking For

Somebody who will fit into the team, someone for whom high standards are important and someone that will thrive in a relaxed, yet professional environment. You’ll likely have:

• Several years’ experience as an ecologist or senior
• Strong survey skills
• A bat licence would be great, other licences also considered!
• Confidence in leading projects and guiding teams
• Practical understanding of wildlife legislation
• Clear, engaging report-writing skills
• Willingness to share your knowledge with others
• A friendly, down-to-earth approach.

If you’re ticking most of the points above then you are what we’re looking for.

Why You’ll Love Working With Us

• Flexible hours & hybrid working
• A great office location
• A genuinely supportive team culture
• Investment in your interests, training, and personal growth
• Exciting project work
• Proper work–life balance (we mean it)
• Hire cars for the occasional longer journey
• A company credit card
• A fantastic office, complete with a friendly dog or two.

If you’re looking for a role where you can grow, make a difference, and be part of a brilliant team - we’d love to hear from you!

Send us your CV and a brief intro to recruitment@peakecology.co.uk. Hopefully you fit what we are looking for, and we’ll invite you for a chat.

Deadline for applications is 26th June 2026

Tree Officer x 3

Oxfordshire County Council

£34434 - £37280
Full time
Permanent

Oxfordshire County Council (OCC) is in the unique position of offering new and existing opportunities to join our growing Tree Service. We are looking to recruit to three Tree Officer roles. Two roles are existing that have recently become vacant and one role is new.

Proactive tree care, tree retention and canopy growth are all priorities for Oxfordshire County Council. This is your chance to join our team of professionals to contribute to the delivery of these outcomes.

About you

Are you an experienced Tree Officer / Arboriculturist who wants a new challenge and the opportunity to deliver and influence tree retention and management across one of England’s most beautiful and diverse treescapes?

Are you recently qualified in arboriculture and are looking to start gaining invaluable experience to utilise and implement the knowledge that you have gained in education?

Are you an experienced Tree Surgeon / Climbing Arborist looking to take the next step in your career?

Are you passionate about shaping, influencing and creating new opportunities for increasing canopy cover?

If the answer is ‘YES’ to any of the above, then you could be the person we’re looking for to join our Tree Service to complement our team of tree professionals. Find out more about the Tree Service - Oxfordshire County Council’s Tree Service | Oxfordshire County Council

Our Tree Officer (Oxford), who has recently joined the team says,

“Since starting as an area tree officer at OCC I have found the role to be incredibly rewarding. What has truly stood out to me is the strong emphasis on continuing professional development opportunities and the wealth of knowledge that is openly shared by the rest of the team. The support I have received as I settled in has been outstanding, making the transition into my new role both smooth and enjoyable. I am genuinely grateful to be part of such a dedicated and supportive team, and I am thoroughly enjoying my time here.”

Rewards and benefits

• Culture of flexible and agile working;
• Significant support from experienced tree professionals in the Tree Service;
• Access to a County work van as part of your role, depending on demand and availability;
• Technology to support agile working, where role permits;
• 30 days’ holiday p.a. plus bank holidays (Increasing to 32 days after 10 years’ service);
• Offer access to a Relocation Scheme, depending on circumstances and conditions, should you need to consider moving closer to or into the County from where you currently live. Further details are available on request;
• Option to ‘buy’ additional holiday;
• Employee Assistance Programme including access to health and wellbeing support;
• Membership of the Local Government contributory pension scheme, with an employer’s contribution of up to 19.9%;
• Enhanced family friendly policies;
• Local and national discounts for shopping and travel;
• Great learning and development opportunities to support your ongoing growth through attendance at workshops, conferences and seminars or completing relevant qualifications.

About our Tree Officer roles

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. You could be undertaking a variety of functions that include:

• large-scale street surveys or site specific surveys;
• ad-hoc inspections;
• building strong working relationships with tree contractors to enable better outcomes;
• Opportunities to educate & engage with the public, Councillors and Council colleagues;
• opportunities to create your own projects;
• expectation to manage your own time to enable delivery of work;
• ownership of an area for which there is personal responsibility;
• access to a strong, experienced support network from the team;
• identify tree planting opportunities.

You will contribute to the proactive tree care of Oxfordshire County Council’s tree stock by promoting the Tree Service and the benefits of trees to residents and stakeholders to ensure a holistic and consistent approach to tree care across the County. You will promote transparency and build trust with our communities.

Each role will predominantly cover one of the following areas:

• Vale of White Horse - Highways
• Countywide - Focus on Property, Estates and School sites
• Countywide - Ash Dieback assessments

LINK to advert & Application portal

Head of Biodiversity Job Share

Bat Conservation Trust

We are seeking a Head of Biodiversity Job Share to work closely with their colleague in this role to jointly direct and co-ordinate the BCT Biodiversity team, and maintain BCT’s authority as the UK’s leading bat conservation non-government organisation (NGO). This role is a key contact with a wide range of BCT partners including government agencies, non-government organisations, professional bodies and industry and oversees the management of BCT’s biodiversity, built environment, woodland, agriculture, wildlife crime, advocacy, and policy programmes. A good understanding of legislation and policy in relation to protected species is essential along with strong experience relating to planning and development sectors and licensing.

This post may be carried out substantially from home with attendance at our office in Battersea, London as needed. Regular travel is required to attend meetings and events in London and elsewhere.

Please view the role on on our website, where you'll find the job description with further details about the role.

SANG Officer (Senior Reserves Officer)

Surrey Wildlife Trust

£26,000 to £29,000 per annum dependent on experience level

We are looking to recruit a full-time, permanent SANG Officer to manage a suite of 7 Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspaces (SANGs) that we operate under a contract with Land Trust.

We want someone who can manage the contract requirements but also work beyond that to engage the local community at each location for the benefit of biodiversity, wildlife and people. This will include public access, practical land management tasks, people liaison and budgeting/report writing.

These sites across Surrey are part of our landscape scale approach so their management will contribute to the overall mission of the Trust to restore Surrey’s Nature as outlined in our Strategic Plan. Your role will include encouraging a wider audience to become involved in the Trust to provide a strong, informed, and reliable group of volunteers and community groups to champion wildlife and the Trusts work; to significantly extend our reach to educate and influence individuals across Surrey to encourage them to realise the value of nature.

Whilst your focus will be on these SANG sites, you will be part of our wider Reserves Management team, fully integrated with their work across Surrey with opportunities for collaboration and joint working parties.

You must have previous experience of successfully working within the environmental sector matched with an out-going, personable and friendly approach, and the ability to work with a wide range of people and be confident in lone-working and leadership.

Travel across parts of the county will be required, and a vehicle is provided for this purpose; a valid UK driver’s licence is essential.

Our SANG sites

Our SANGs are a broad mix of habitats, all managed for recreation and public access as well as biodiversity, offering an important greenspace for public health and wellbeing. We are appointed as managing agents to these sites by the Land Trust, a charity working to improve the social and economic quality of people’s lives by creating sustainable, high-quality green spaces.

An interest in and experience of volunteer leadership is important, as this will form a key part of the role, and a creative flair for keeping tasks interesting for a wide-range of people would be useful. Tickets in use of brushcutters/strimmers, chainsaw qualifications, and ride-on mowers would be advantageous as would an understanding of SANGs.

If you believe you have the experience for the role and are able to fulfil the criteria outlined in the job profile, please complete an application form, or provide a covering letter and CV, and send it to Victoria.pinder@surreywt.org.uk by 5pm on Wednesday 24th June 2026. Formal interviews will be held during early July but we may make initial contact with candidates as applications are received. The job profile and application form are available on our website www.surreywildlifetrust.org

We are committed to having an inclusive and diverse workplace and encourage applications from backgrounds which may be underrepresented in our sector, including people from minority ethnic backgrounds and people with disabilities. Please let us know if you require any adjustment to make our recruitment process more accessible.

‘Our vision for a wilder Surrey is a future with abundant wildlife and nature recovery networks rich in biodiversity.’ We will realise this vision by creating bigger, better and more joined up areas of land for biodiversity benefit through direct conservation land management and key relationship management.

Reserves Officer

Surrey Wildlife Trust

Salary £23,500 to £26,000 pa (dependent on experience)

Do you enjoy the challenge of enthusing others about nature and have experience in leading volunteer groups and managing contractors?

If so, we would love you to join our Reserves Management team.

The work of a Reserves Officer is diverse and varied. Predominantly working outdoors, no two days will be the same. This includes leading volunteers and contractors to ensure required works across our land are undertaken in line with approved management plans and to meet our statutory and contractual obligations. Our Reserves Officers work together across geographical areas to manage projects and create links with local communities - an ability to adapt and manage a diverse portfolio of work is essential.

This role will cover a beautiful mix of sites, such as chalk grassland in the centre of the county and heathland in the west. Our chalk sites are home to fascinating wildlife such as rare orchids, Chalkhill blue and Small blue butterflies. Our heathlands are vital for rare ground nesting birds like Nightjar and Dartford warbler as well as rare reptiles like Sand lizards and Smooth snakes. We are looking for people who will be excited to work on these habitats and improve them for biodiversity.

You must have some previous experience of successfully working with volunteers and the ability to inspire others in nature conservation. Knowledge and understanding of working to management plans and agri-environment schemes would be advantageous.

An out-going, approachable and friendly personality with the ability to work with a wide range of people is essential coupled with a passion for the joy of nature. You might be very experienced or relatively new to the sector and the salary offered will be determined by what grade you fall in to.

The job will involve being outdoors undertaking practical tasks for most days of the year and a driving licence is essential as our locations cannot easily be accessed by public transport.

We are committed to having an inclusive and diverse workplace and encourage applications from backgrounds which may be underrepresented in our sector, including people from minority ethnic backgrounds and people with disabilities. We aim to offer an interview to all candidates that meet the essential criteria for the post. Please let us know if you require any adjustment to make our recruitment process more accessible; recruitment will be in person.

Please apply using the Application Form on our website or send a covering letter and CV to Victoria.pinder@surreywt.org.uk by latest 5pm Wednesday 24th June 2026. Candidates may be contacted/interviewed as applications are received so please apply early to avoid missing out. Practical interviews will be in the weeks following the closing date.

Park, Environment and Trees Officer

Highfield Park Trust

We are the custodians of a beautiful green space, which includes new and ancient woodland, orchards, meadows, ponds, allotments, and amenity land. Several amazing community and sporting organisations use our facilities.

You will be technically authorative and a team player. The role is wide ranging and you will need to have a flexible, ‘can-do’ attitude.

You will be responsible for the upkeep of the park management plan and provide administrative support to committee meetings and the outside team.

You will own the tree inspection process and undertake routine tree and other inspections around the park. We aspire the Green Flag standard and you will lead this process.

You will develop our plans to increase biodiversity and support the Local Nature Recovery Strategy. You will provide ‘hands-on’ support to volunteering days and help at events.

The role is wide ranging and you will be working at the Visitor Centre and in the Park.

You would be joining us at a very exciting time and will play a vital role in developing our operations. We are an ambitious charity and are well placed for the future.

Terms of appointment

• The role is based at the Highfield Park Visitor Centre, Hill End Lane, St. Albans, Hertfordshire. AL4 0RA.
• Salary to £33,485
• 37 hours per week.
• 25 days annual leave.
• 7% employer pension.
• 3x death in service benefit
• Employee assistance programme.
• Friendly, progressive working environment.
• Free on-site parking.
• Training
• Free uniform.
• Sick pay.

For more information and to apply, click here

Closing date for applications Friday 3^rd July

Restore Nature Delivery Manager

National Trust

Location: Newport (IoW)

Contract Type: Full Time/ Fixed Term 36 Months

Reference: IRC176166

Opening Date: 1^st June

Closing Date: 14^th June

Salary: £44,499 pa

We have a special opportunity on the Isle of Wight to recruit a Restore Nature Delivery Manager, a newly established role leading our countryside ambitions and helping deliver our vision for a connected network of nature recovery.

Caring for almost 6,000 acres of land – from the internationally important Newtown National Nature Reserve to the iconic Needles headland – we are shaping ambitious three- and ten-year plans to restore nature across the island. Working with tenants, graziers and partners such as National Landscapes and the Wildlife Trust, you’ll help ensure nature sits at the heart of land management, with opportunities to influence work both on and beyond the island.

What it’s like to work here

You’ll join a team of highly experienced rangers and be supported by colleagues across the Trust, including a Land Use and Nature Advisor, Countryside Manager and Senior Estate Manager.

As part of the Property Leadership Team, you’ll help shape the future of the Isle of Wight’s landscapes – from chalk downs to wetlands and coast – ensuring they are protected and enhanced for generations to come.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll lead the strategic approach to nature recovery across the island, helping deliver plans that build a resilient landscape in response to climate change and biodiversity loss.

Balancing conservation with increasing demand for access, you’ll ensure people can continue to enjoy these special places while protecting what makes them unique.

Collaboration will be central to your role. Working closely with partners, neighbours and tenants, you’ll help deliver shared ambitions at pace and scale.

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for someone with:

• ecological or land management expertise applied to landscape‑scale nature recovery
• leadership and communication skills to inspire teams, volunteers and partners
• ability to influence and negotiate effectively to deliver ambitious outcomes collaboratively
• resilient and adaptable, with a collaborative working style and commitment to inclusive engagement
• proven success leading change and delivering innovative solutions for nature, communities and climate resilience
• dedicated and bold advocate for the natural environment, able to share knowledge and enthusiasm with diverse audiences through tailored approaches
• strong understanding of compliance, risk management and contractor oversight
• strategic thinker able to shape long‑term vision aligned with regional and national ambitions

Please apply with your CV and a cover letter.

Apply: IRC176166 - Restore Nature Delivery Manager

Ranger

National Trust

Reference number: IRC177127

Location: Blakeney Point, Friary Farm, Holt, NR25 7NW

Salary: £27,612 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Summary

As a Ranger, you’re a champion of nature conservation and the great outdoors, and you’ll play a crucial role in ensuring Sheringham Park remains well managed - for wildlife and for people. You’ll help care for its nationally significant wild garden, historic parkland, and woodland, ensuring they thrive for future generations. You should be willing to work some weekends, bank holidays and evenings, and be on call.

Interview date: 26th June 2026

What it’s like to work here

You’ll be part of a passionate countryside team based at Sheringham Park, within the Norfolk Coast, Broads and Sheringham portfolio. The team is collaborative, supportive, and committed to high standards of conservation and visitor experience. Reporting to a Lead Ranger, you’ll work alongside other rangers, volunteers, and a gardener to care for one of Norfolk’s most iconic landscapes. This is a site with nationally significant rhododendron collections, diverse woodland, and stunning coastal views - an inspiring place to work.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll play an important role in helping us achieve our restore nature goals. Your work will focus particularly on habitat management and site presentation. This includes carrying out safety checks to ensure all areas are safe for visitors, as well as undertaking routine practical tasks such as planting, felling, and operating machinery including chainsaws, strimmers, lawnmowers, and tractors. You’ll also help maintain paths and viewpoints, and support the ongoing care and control of rhododendron.

Other responsibilities include wildlife recording, maintaining site infrastructure, and engaging with visitors to enhance their experience.

Who we’re looking for

We’d love to hear from you if you’re:

• practically experienced in conservation work, to protect and improve habitats and landscapes
• happy to talk to all kinds of people about the work you’re doing, and why it matters
• hard-working and willing to learn
• able to work safely, using risk assessments and following guidelines
• experienced in managing land, access and conservation, and working outdoors
• able to use machinery and equipment, with relevant certificates
• good knowledge of woodland management
• a driver with a full UK driving licence

Apply: IRC177127 - Ranger

Wild Heart Site Manager

Borders Forest Trust

Do you want to help shape the future of landscape-scale ecological restoration in Southern Scotland?

Borders Forest Trust (BFT) is a leading Scottish conservation charity dedicated to restoring native woodland and natural habitats for the benefit of both wildlife and people. We are seeking an enthusiastic, experienced and highly organised Wild Heart Site Manager to lead delivery of habitat restoration and community engagement across our inspiring Wild Heart sites in the central Southern Uplands and across other BFT sites when required.

This is a rare opportunity to combine practical conservation, team leadership and strategic land management within some of Scotland’s most beautiful wild landscapes.

About the Role

The Wild Heart Site Manager will lead the delivery of land management and engagement activity across BFT’s four Wild Heart ecological restoration sites: Carrifran Wildwood,  Corehead & the Devil’s Beef Tub, Talla & Gameshope and Ericstane North. 

Together these sites cover 3,250 hectares of hills and valleys in the Central Southern Uplands and are the focus of the “Reviving the Wild Heart of Southern Scotland” landscape scale nature recovery initiative. Our other sites will also need Wild Heart Site Manager oversight and coordination, where you will work collaboratively with our community and education and landowner outreach team members.

Reporting to the Head of Land Management, you will manage a small and dedicated team consisting of two Wild Heart Site Officers and a Wild Heart Project Officer. You will also manage the operational collaboration between the Land Management team and our community and education team. You will play a key role in ensuring our sites are safe, accessible, well-maintained and delivering BFT’s vision for landscape-scale ecological restoration.

The role combines indoor and outdoor working and requires a mix of practical land management expertise, excellent communication skills, strategic planning ability and a passion for working with people. 

If you have experience in practical land management, strong people management skills, excellent project management, and have a proactive and collaborative approach to problem solving, we would love to hear from you.

Why Join Borders Forest Trust?

You will join a small, dynamic and passionate team directly contributing to restoring native woodland and reviving woodland culture in the South of Scotland. This is an exciting opportunity to make a lasting impact on people, wildlife and landscapes at a meaningful scale.

Benefits

• 5% employer pension contribution
• 24 days statutory holiday + 10 bank holidays annually
• Employee assistance program to support wellbeing, including free counselling sessions
• Benefits package is currently being improved

We support all our staff with training and development, hold monthly team days, and other team building days to build a positive team experience in an organisation where many staff work remotely out on site throughout the week.

Salary, Location, Working hours & Travel

• Salary £40,000 per annum
• Based across BFT’s sites with an office base at Borders Forest Trust’s main office near Jedburgh. The post holder must have flexibility to be able to work in the BFT office and/or on BFT sites 3-4 days a week. Some home working will be considered with exact work place to be agreed on appointment.
• Permanent, full-time, role 37.5 hours per week, regularly including evenings and weekends. Core hours are flexible and weekend/evening work is acknowledged through time off in lieu (TOIL), overtime will not be paid.
• A driving license and car are required with agreed mileage expenses (in accordance with BFT’s mileage policy) re-imbursed at a rate of 45p/mile. Staff are responsible for recording their own mileage. A shared BFT vehicle is available for use for site travel.

How to Apply

Please send a CV and covering letter of no more than 5 pages in total, outlining how you meet all the person specification items in the job description to: recruitment@bordersforesttrust.org

Closing date: Noon on Monday 29 June 2026

Interviews are expected to take place on 20 July in Moffat, Dumfries and Galloway and will include a panel interview and site visit – so several hours will be needed.

Click here for full job description with person specification, 

Email recruitment@bordersforesttrust.org for any enquiries about the post.  

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Senior Agricultural Officer (Water & Wildlife Friendly Farming)

River Thame Conservation Trust

Location: Wheatley, Oxfordshire

Starting Salary: £40,000

Contract: Full-time, Permanent

Reporting to: CEO

River Thame Conservation Trust

Founded in 2012, the River Thame Conservation Trust (RTCT) is a charitable environmental organisation dedicated to safeguarding the River Thame, its catchment and wildlife, ensuring that these benefits can be enjoyed by people. We are a team of seven staff supported by a board of trustees, and a vibrant network of volunteers. We collaborate closely with landowners, and a range of statutory, private and charitable bodies, partnership with whom is key to the impact of our work.

The Trust has a strong focus of delivery on-the-ground, with work programmes to improve the habitat and connectivity of the catchment’s watercourses and create new floodplain wetland habitat. Improving our understanding of the health of the Thame’s watercourses, and the impacts they are subject to is also a focus, pursued via programmes to monitoring water quality by-wide citizen science, river fly monitoring, and monitoring to understand fish and mammal populations. The information we glean enables us to target on-the-ground projects, as well as to effectively engage with other organisations and sectors which are essential to solving the challenges the catchment faces. Our role as co-hosts for the Thame Catchment Partnership places us ideally to address those cross-sectoral challenges.

RTCT benefits from being part of a wider family of rivers trusts, under the umbrella of the national body the Rivers Trust. Rivers Trust affiliation provides a basis for knowledge exchange, sharing of resources, and representation to government and other national bodies, through national-level advocacy and campaigns led by the Rivers Trust.

One of the most active and important areas of the Trust’s portfolio is working with farmers to promote water and wildlife friendly farming practices. This has been achieved most recently through our role in facilitating the Thame Catchment Farm Cluster.

With our partners the Freshwater Habitats Trust, we recently completed the Project Development Phase (PDP) of the Defra funded Ock and Thame Farmers Landscape recovery project. This PDP submission is now under consideration by Defra. Should Defra approve the project, RTCT is likely to play a central role in the delivery of this project which will create and enhance freshwater and other habitats across up to 7,200 ha, and over the project’s 20-year term. Progression of the project will be transformational for both the Thame Catchment, and RTCT. The postholder would be expected to play a key role in the delivery of the Landscape Recovery Project.

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Agricultural Adviser to lead the delivery of high-impact, farm-based interventions that improve water quality, hydrological processes, biodiversity, and climate resilience across our catchment(s).

Working at the interface of farming, conservation, and water management, you will provide trusted, expert advice to farmers and land managers, supporting the transition to profitable, environmentally sustainable farming systems. You will play a key role in identifying, developing and delivering projects aligned with water and wildlife-friendly farming principles, helping to reduce diffuse pollution, restore habitats, and strengthen ecosystem resilience. You will identify where and how partners and other specialist suppliers can form part of the solution, and seek to secure partnership opportunities and projects as appropriate.

Key Responsibilities

Farm Advice and Engagement

• Build long-term, trusted relationships with landowners, tenant farmers, and agricultural stakeholders.
• Deliver targeted, one-to-one advice to farmers to reduce agricultural diffuse pollution and improve soil and water management.
• Promote and support adoption of nature-based solutions,and regenerative farming practices.
• Identify current conservation value of land holdings, and opportunities for enhancement of wildlife habitats and species.
• Identify funding opportunities through agri-environment schemes, public sector grants, philanthropic funding, offsetting through statutory (e.g. BNG) or voluntary mechanisms, and emerging markets for ecosystem services.

Programme Delivery

• Lead the design and delivery of catchment-sensitive farming initiatives, complimenting the activities of existing initiatives led by others, notably Thames Water, Natural England, and the Environment Agency.
• Identify opportunities for, design and implement on-farm capital works (e.g. farm water storage, fencing, sediment traps, slurry infrastructure improvements).
• Ensure projects meet environmental outcomes for water quality, habitat enhancement, and species recovery.

Technical Leadership

• Provide technical expertise on:
  • Species recovery and habitat creation and enhancement
  • Nutrient & pest management and diffuse pollution mitigation
  • Soil health and erosion control
  • Planning and delivery of Environmentally sustainable farming practices
  • Funding opportunities available to farmers / NGOs to undertake and sustain environmental enhancements, including SFI, Countryside Stewardship and Nature Based Solutions markets

Partnership Working

• Facilitate the Thame Catchment Farm Cluster, and play a leading role in its ongoing development, including through collaboration with neighboring farmer clusters.
• Collaborate with regulators, water companies, NGOs, and local authorities to deliver integrated catchment management.
• Represent the Trust at stakeholder meetings, farmer events, and industry forums.
• Initiate and contribute to partnership bids and funding opportunities.

Monitoring and Reporting

• Track project outputs and environmental outcomes, including improvements in water quality and biodiversity.
• Use data and evidence to evaluate effectiveness of interventions and inform adaptive management.
• Contribute to reporting required by funders and stakeholders.
• Work with the Trust’s Communications staff to promote RTCT’s work with farmers, within the agricultural community and amongst rural and agricultural stakeholders.

Team Leadership

• Mentor, support and line-manage staff within the land use team – Currently one Assistant Project Officer.

Strategic Leadership

• Contribute to organisational strategy and continuous improvement of advisory approaches.
• Secure the long-term viability of RTCT’s farming support activities, through securing sustainable funding sources, and providing a service which is trusted and valued by land managers and funders alike.
• Contribute to wider Trust Strategy, including ensuring farming support activities are complimentary to and achieve synergies with other areas of the Trust’s activities.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• Significant experience advising farmers on environmentally sustainable agriculture.
• Strong knowledge of:
  • Farm businesses
  • Species and habitats in a farmland context
  • Diffuse water pollution and mitigation techniques
  • Soil management and nutrient planning
  • Organic and non-organic fertilisers
  • Plant nutrient requirements
  • Agri-environment schemes and policy frameworks
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence behaviour change.
• Ability to manage projects and deliver outcomes to time and budget.
• Ability to work flexibly to fit with farming timetables – some evening and weekend working may be required.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel throughout the catchment.

Desirable

• Degree (or equivalent experience) in agriculture, environmental science, or a related field.
• BASIS, FACTS, or similar land-based qualifications.
• Experience working within a catchment-based approach

Personal Attributes

• Passionate about sustainable farming and environmental improvement.
• Practical, solutions-focused, and collaborative.
• Credible and empathetic when working with farmers and land managers.
• Highly organised and able to prioritise effectively.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to drive meaningful environmental change across landscapes.
• Supportive, mission-driven team environment.
• Professional development and training opportunities.
• Hybrid and flexible working.
• Membership of the Rivers Trust Pension scheme.

How to Apply

Please submit your CV and a covering letter outlining your suitability for the role and how you meet the required skills, knowledge and experience to: RTCT Administrative Support Officer Paula Hudson Paula@riverthame.org by 5pm on Thursday the 18th June. Interviews are scheduled for the 29th of June, in person in Wheatley, Oxfordshire.

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Ecological Consultant - South East of England

ADAS

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Develop your ecology career with ADAS while helping protect British wildlife

We’re looking for an Ecological Consultant to join our growing ecology team, working across a variety of project locations within the South East region of the UK.

This role is ideal for an ecologist with 2–3 years’ professional experience who is looking to build on their existing skills and take the next step in their consultancy career. You’ll work closely with Senior and Principal Ecologists, supporting the delivery of projects while gaining increasing responsibility.

As an Ecological Consultant at ADAS, you will play a key role in delivering field surveys, preparing technical reports, and supporting project management across a diverse portfolio, including infrastructure and development projects.

What you’ll be doing

• Undertaking a range of ecological field surveys (including habitat and protected species surveys), often independently
• Collecting, analysing, and interpreting survey data to inform project outcomes
• Preparing and contributing to technical reports, such as PEAs, EcIAs and species-specific surveys
• Supporting the coordination and delivery of projects, ensuring work is completed to programme and budget
• Liaising with colleagues, clients, and stakeholders under the guidance of senior staff
• Ensuring compliance with wildlife legislation, policy, and best practice guidance

Salary and Benefits

• Competitive salary, depending on skills, experience
• Company paid life assurance
• Contributed pension scheme
• Discounted Gym Memberships
• Regular career training and development
• A flexible benefits programme including the option to buy additional holidays, health cash plan and discounted gym membership

RSK Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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RSK will not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies other than RSK PSL or Secondary agencies.

Principal Ecological Consultant - Leeds

ADAS

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Play a leading role in protecting British wildlife with ADAS

We’re looking for a Principal Ecological Consultant to join our growing ecology team, based in Leeds.

As a Principal Ecological Consultant at ADAS, you will take on a regional leadership role, overseeing the delivery of high-quality ecological services across a diverse portfolio of infrastructure and development projects. Working with utility companies and developers, you will provide trusted, strategic advice on how to balance project delivery with environmental protection.

You will lead on complex projects, offering clear technical direction, overseeing surveys and assessments, and ensuring compliance with wildlife legislation and best practice. In addition, you will play a key role in managing and developing a team of ecologists - providing mentorship, technical guidance, and performance support to help others grow in their careers.

As a regional leader, you will help shape project pipelines, support business development activities, and strengthen client relationships across the North. Your ability to combine technical excellence with leadership and commercial awareness will be key to success in this role.

We envision this role as a hybrid position, combining time working from home, on-site visits, and collaboration with colleagues in the office. From day one, you’ll be part of a supportive and collaborative team environment.

We’re committed to supporting a healthy work-life balance, offering flexible working arrangements and opportunities to volunteer for causes that matter to you.

Looking ahead, we will support your continued professional development, including chartership progression, specialist training, and opportunities to further develop your leadership and management skills.

If you’re an experienced ecologist ready to step into a visible leadership role, bringing expertise, passion, and a proactive approach, we’d love to hear from you.

Salary and Benefits

• Competitive salary, depending on skills, experience
• Company paid life assurance
• Contributed pension scheme
• Discounted Gym Memberships
• Regular career training and development
• A flexible benefits programme including the option to buy additional holidays, health cash plan and discounted gym membership

RSK Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

#Ecology #Consultancy #Wildlife #Habitats #Sureys #Environment

RSK will not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies other than RSK PSL or Secondary agencies

Principal Ecological Consultant - Manchester

ADAS

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Play a leading role in protecting British wildlife with ADAS

We’re looking for a Principal Ecological Consultant to join our growing ecology team, based in Manchester.

As a Principal Ecological Consultant at ADAS, you will take on a regional leadership role, overseeing the delivery of high-quality ecological services across a diverse portfolio of infrastructure and development projects. Working with utility companies and developers, you will provide trusted, strategic advice on how to balance project delivery with environmental protection.

You will lead on complex projects, offering clear technical direction, overseeing surveys and assessments, and ensuring compliance with wildlife legislation and best practice. In addition, you will play a key role in managing and developing a team of ecologists - providing mentorship, technical guidance, and performance support to help others grow in their careers.

As a regional leader, you will help shape project pipelines, support business development activities, and strengthen client relationships across the North. Your ability to combine technical excellence with leadership and commercial awareness will be key to success in this role.

We envision this role as a hybrid position, combining time working from home, on-site visits, and collaboration with colleagues in the office. From day one, you’ll be part of a supportive and collaborative team environment.

We’re committed to supporting a healthy work-life balance, offering flexible working arrangements and opportunities to volunteer for causes that matter to you.

Looking ahead, we will support your continued professional development, including chartership progression, specialist training, and opportunities to further develop your leadership and management skills.

If you’re an experienced ecologist ready to step into a visible leadership role, bringing expertise, passion, and a proactive approach, we’d love to hear from you.

Salary and Benefits

• Competitive salary, depending on skills, experience
• Company paid life assurance
• Contributed pension scheme
• Discounted Gym Memberships
• Regular career training and development
• A flexible benefits programme including the option to buy additional holidays, health cash plan and discounted gym membership

RSK Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

#Ecology #Consultancy #Wildlife #Habitats #Sureys #Environment

RSK will not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies other than RSK PSL or Secondary agencies

Senior / Principal Ecological Consultant - North of England

ADAS

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We’re looking for a Senior or Principal Ecological Consultant to join our growing ecology team, based in the North of the UK.

As a Principal Ecological Consultant at ADAS, you will take on a regional leadership role, overseeing the delivery of high-quality ecological services across a diverse portfolio of infrastructure and development projects. Working with utility companies and developers, you will provide trusted, strategic advice on how to balance project delivery with environmental protection.

You will lead on complex projects, offering clear technical direction, overseeing surveys and assessments, and ensuring compliance with wildlife legislation and best practice. In addition, you will play a key role in managing and developing a team of ecologists - providing mentorship, technical guidance, and performance support to help others grow in their careers.

As a regional leader, you will help shape project pipelines, support business development activities, and strengthen client relationships across the North. Your ability to combine technical excellence with leadership and commercial awareness will be key to success in this role.

As a Senior Ecologist at ADAS, utility companies and developers will look to you for guidance on how to protect nature while they undertake work on sometimes complex infrastructure and housing projects. You will be confident giving clear instruction, overseeing works, and conducting appropriate assessments and surveys to ensure vulnerable species are considered and kept safe at all stages of development.

We envision this role as a hybrid position, combining time working from home, on-site visits, and collaboration with colleagues in the office. From day one, you’ll be part of a supportive and collaborative team environment.

We’re committed to supporting a healthy work-life balance, offering flexible working arrangements and opportunities to volunteer for causes that matter to you.

Looking ahead, we will support your continued professional development, including chartership progression, specialist training, and opportunities to further develop your leadership and management skills.

If you want to work as part of a friendly, flexible and committed team, and you can bring talent, passion, and a proactive, can-do attitude, consider becoming a senior/principal ecologist with ADAS.

Salary and Benefits

• Competitive salary, depending on skills, experience
• Company paid life assurance
• Contributed pension scheme
• Discounted Gym Memberships
• Regular career training and development
• A flexible benefits programme including the option to buy additional holidays, health cash plan and discounted gym membership

RSK Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

#Ecology #Consultancy #Wildlife #Habitats #Surveys #Environment

RSK will not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies other than RSK PSL or Secondary agencies.

Senior Ecological Consultant - South East of England

ADAS

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Play a leading role in protecting British wildlife with ADAS

We’re looking for a Senior Ecological Consultant to join our motivated and growing ecology team in the South East of England.

As a Senior Ecological Consultant at ADAS, utility companies and developers will look to you for guidance on how to protect nature while they undertake work on sometimes complex infrastructure and housing projects. You will be confident giving clear instruction, overseeing works, and conducting appropriate assessments and surveys to ensure vulnerable species are considered and kept safe at all stages of development.

We envision the role as a hybrid one - it will be a mix of working at home, out on site, and time in the office spent with your team. On your first day, you will be assigned a mentor to help you get settled and find your feet.

Helping you maintain a healthy work life balance is important to us so we offer flexible working hours and the opportunity to volunteer for causes important to you.

Looking ahead to the future, we will want to accelerate your professional development and provide you with any training you need to progress further in your career. In turn, you may be asked to support others who are early in their own career journey.

If you want to work as part of a friendly, flexible and committed team, and you can bring talent, passion, and a proactive, can-do attitude, consider becoming a senior ecologist with ADAS.

Salary and Benefits

• Competitive salary, depending on skills, experience
• Company paid life assurance
• Contributed pension scheme
• Discounted Gym Memberships
• Regular career training and development
• A flexible benefits programme including the option to buy additional holidays, health cash plan and discounted gym membership

RSK Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

#Ecology #Consultancy #Wildlife #Habitats #Surveys #Environment

RSK will not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies other than RSK PSL or Secondary agencies.

Senior / Principal Ecological Consultant - Bristol / South West Region of UK

ADAS

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We’re looking for a Senior or Principal Ecological Consultant to join our growing ecology team, based in Bristol / South West Region of the UK.

As a Principal Ecological Consultant at ADAS, you will take on a regional leadership role, overseeing the delivery of high-quality ecological services across a diverse portfolio of infrastructure and development projects. Working with utility companies and developers, you will provide trusted, strategic advice on how to balance project delivery with environmental protection.

You will lead on complex projects, offering clear technical direction, overseeing surveys and assessments, and ensuring compliance with wildlife legislation and best practice. In addition, you will play a key role in managing and developing a team of ecologists - providing mentorship, technical guidance, and performance support to help others grow in their careers.

As a regional leader, you will help shape project pipelines, support business development activities, and strengthen client relationships across the North. Your ability to combine technical excellence with leadership and commercial awareness will be key to success in this role.

As a Senior Ecologist at ADAS, utility companies and developers will look to you for guidance on how to protect nature while they undertake work on sometimes complex infrastructure and housing projects. You will be confident giving clear instruction, overseeing works, and conducting appropriate assessments and surveys to ensure vulnerable species are considered and kept safe at all stages of development.

We envision this role as a hybrid position, combining time working from home, on-site visits, and collaboration with colleagues in the office. From day one, you’ll be part of a supportive and collaborative team environment.

We’re committed to supporting a healthy work-life balance, offering flexible working arrangements and opportunities to volunteer for causes that matter to you.

Looking ahead, we will support your continued professional development, including chartership progression, specialist training, and opportunities to further develop your leadership and management skills.

If you want to work as part of a friendly, flexible and committed team, and you can bring talent, passion, and a proactive, can-do attitude, consider becoming a senior/principal ecologist with ADAS.

Salary and Benefits

• Competitive salary, depending on skills, experience
• Company paid life assurance
• Contributed pension scheme
• Discounted Gym Memberships
• Regular career training and development
• A flexible benefits programme including the option to buy additional holidays, health cash plan and discounted gym membership

RSK Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

#Ecology #Consultancy #Wildlife #Habitats #Surveys #Environment

RSK will not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies other than RSK PSL or Secondary agencies.

Area Greenspace Manager

Fexco Property Services

Help us bring nature to the built environment.

We are seeking to further strengthen our estate management offer, delivering our ambition to be the managing agent of choice for greenspace and habitat management on residential estates. Our managed portfolio consists of over 650 sites ranging from small residential estates to large garden villages, country parks and urban extensions, many with existing ecological features such as woodland, ponds and waterways.

The Area Greenspace Manager is an exciting new role requiring a flexible candidate with excellent greenspace, commercial and people management skills to work with us as we develop our sector leading team. You will build and lead a small team of Greenspace Managers across your area of operation, supporting them to ensure that all sites within your area are managed to a high standard and all compliance duties are met.

You will carry out pre-handover site audit reports at newly constructed sites, prepare site maintenance specifications, scrutinise proposals including on-site Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) plans and assist our Business Development Team with tenders. You will oversee collection of data required to satisfy Biodiversity Net Gain requirements and other corporate reporting including KPIs and customer satisfaction surveys. Working with your team you will help to prepare budgets for each site which suitably cover all planned and reactive works.

Our central teams will support with all aspects of property management including budget preparation, customer contact and legal enquiries. We have two roles available, one covering the Southwest of England and South Wales, and one covering the Southeast of England. This is a home-based remote working role predominantly covering one geographic area requiring regular travel across your area as required visiting sites and team members, with occasional visits to FPS offices, training sessions, events and other areas of the country when required. Our Head Office is in Salisbury, with subsidiary offices around the country.

Introducing the Fexco Property Services Group

The Group currently consists of 7 property management brands that collectively manage over 100,000 properties across England & Wales, supported by in-house teams that manage Admin & Finance, HR, H&S, Marketing & Communications and Legal & Compliance. You’ll be joining a well-established and growing group. More information can be found here: www.fexcopropertyservices.co.uk/

Some responsibilities and goals you’ll own:

• Work with the AD of Greenspace to develop processes and embed systems ensuring high quality delivery and monitoring of estate works
• Build and manage a team of skilled Greenspace Managers to deliver services across your area, ensuring sector leading performance and compliance with inspection, record keeping and reporting tasks
• Ensure that block walkthroughs are carried out by your team in a timely manner and that records of these visits are correctly recorded
• Have oversight of all landscape and estate maintenance contracts within your area
• Develop skills and training programmes for yourself and your team
• Visit new developments at least once in the quarter before handover, carrying out detailed audits of planting, BNG habitats, ecology features, Sustainable Drainage (SuDS) systems and other estate features
• Engage with key internal and external stakeholders in the handover and mobilisation process to assist with smooth and timely handovers into management
• Translate information from Landscape and Ecology Management Plans (LEMPs), Habitat Management and Monitoring Plans (HMMPs) and SuDS plans into detailed contractor and monitoring specifications
• Assist with tendering for services and appointing contractors. Work closely with internal teams to ensure that all contractual requirements and compliance needs are met
• Carry out Quality Control audits of managed sites, ensuring that all requirements are being met
• Manage formal complaints in compliance with set timescales
• Support at presentations and contribute to bid proposals
• Support our communities team with planning and delivery of events
• Provide advice to colleagues within the wider business
• Assist with BNG reporting and activity
• Assist with inbound communications and enquiries
• Assist with production of reports and KPI information for internal teams and external clients

Must have skills:

• Passionate about greenspace and biodiversity
• Excellent underpinning knowledge of greenspace and habitat management at scale through study and experience
• A keen eye for detail and good plant identification skills
• Ability to interpret complex drawings, management plans and datasets
• Experience of leading a team and monitoring high quality service delivery
• Flexibility to work on multiple tasks and projects simultaneously
• Positive and resilient under pressure with a level head
• Able to plan own workstream and schedules independently, adapting to suit business need
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills (written and oral) at all levels of engagement – internal and external
• Use of GIS mapping technology
• Knowledge of Biodiversity Net Gain
• Knowledge and experience within the housing/property management sector (D)
• Knowledge of SuDS management (D)

Qualifications

• NQF Level 4 or higher qualification in relevant landscape sector, or demonstrable equivalent knowledge through experience and learning
• Evidence of ongoing professional development
• Membership of a relevant professional body (D)

(D) - Desirable

For application details and an informal conversation about the role please call Rob Scholefield 07843 356838 or email robert.scholefield@fexcopropertyservices.co.uk

Seasonal Livestock Person

RSPB

Seasonal Livestock Person
Reference: JUN20263303
Location: RSPB Nene Washes + Whittlesey Office, PE7
Terms: 6 Months Fixed-Term, Full-Time, 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £30,977.00 - £33,073.00 Per Annum

The Nene Washes is a washland for the River Nene, in Cambridgeshire. We look after 800 hectares of the 1,522 hectare site, and it's one of the few remaining areas of washland in the UK. In the summer, the area is mostly grassland, while come winter, much of the area is flooded, providing safe haven and foraging for thousands of birds. We use c800 cattle to keep the land in favourable condition for the thousands of birds that visit and important species such as Snipe, Black-tailed godwit and Cranes.

We require a team player to join us in maintaining the health and wellbeing of the cattle throughout the grazing season, maintaining the associated infrastructure, monitoring and managing water levels, assisting with record keeping and performing daily shepherding (including some weekend cover).

Essential:

• Demonstrable experience handling cattle, including safe handling, routine husbandry, and monitoring animal welfare, or equivalent transferable experience.
• Ability to carry out husbandry tasks in line with recognised welfare standards and appropriately report concerns.
• Ability to work independently, organise and prioritise tasks, and complete duties reliably with minimal supervision.
• Experience in the installation and maintenance of cattle infrastructure
• Experience maintaining accurate records in line with relevant regulatory or organisational requirements, or the ability to learn quickly.
• Ability to safely operate off-road vehicles and farm equipment in line with health and safety standards.
• Working knowledge of land management practices, including the role of grazing in conservation or environmental outcomes, or willingness to develop this knowledge.
• Ability to carry out routine land management tasks safely and to a consistent standard.
• All criteria are open to applicants with equivalent experience, informal learning, or relevant training, and reasonable adjustments will be supported where needed.

You will be required to work on site at the Nene Washes and from our office in Whittlesey – accommodation may be provided.

Closing: 07:35 Tuesday, 7th July
N.B. we are actively recruiting for this vacancy, and reserve the right to close once sufficient applications have been received.
We aim to hold interviews as soon as possible and will be reviewing applications as they come in, so please don't hesitate to apply.

To complete your application online please CLICK HERE

Assistant Warden

RSPB

Assistant Warden
Reference: MAY20261945
Location:, Peak District, S17
Terms Fixed Term, 12 months, Full-Time, 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £28,940.00 - £30,898.00 Per Annum

Join the team at Eastern Moors Partnership (National Trust/RSPB) to deliver a programme of work that will support the warden team in delivering a range of practical works to aid nature restoration.

Key areas of work:

• Habitat management as defined by the reserve's management plan and agri-environment agreement
• Maintenance of tools and machinery
• Monitoring of critical species and habitats
• Planning and leading volunteer work parties
• Assist with ensuring legal compliance of conservation & land management operations
• Assist with the supervision of contractors
• Work with the team to engage with visitors and encourage responsible enjoyment of the site through appropriate behaviours e.g. keeping dogs on leads

Essential:

• Demonstrable ability to carry out practical habitat and estate management tasks (e.g. fencing, walling, tree planting) safely and to an agreed standard.
• Proven ability to plan, prioritise and complete work both independently and collaboratively within a team, meeting agreed objectives and timescales.
• Experience of engaging with and supervising volunteers or groups, including providing clear instruction, ensuring wellbeing, and supporting inclusive participation.
• Ability to communicate clearly and confidently with members of the public to promote responsible use of outdoor spaces e.g. managing behaviours such as dog control or fire use.
• Competence in the safe use of land management machinery and equipment e.g. brushcutters, tractors, ATVs or equivalent, through training, certification, or demonstrable practical experience.
• Ability to carry out routine inspection, maintenance, and safe operation of vehicles, tools, and equipment in line with organisational and safety standards.
• Experience of coordinating, instructing or overseeing contractors or external providers to deliver works safely and to specification.
• Ability to apply and maintain health and safety practices, including contributing to risk assessments and safe systems of work.
• Working knowledge of wildlife, habitats, and ecological principles, with the ability to support or carry out basic ecological observations or surveys.
• Awareness of environmental risks e.g. wildfire and practical land management considerations, including experience or ability to work safely around livestock such as cattle or deer

This role will

• involve lone working and working in remote locations.
• require up to 20% of work evenings and weekends depending on need

So will need someone who is able to be flexible.

Closing: Tuesday, 30th June

To complete your application online please CLICK HERE

Site Maintenance Assistant

RSPB

Reference: MAY20262608
Location: Sherwood and Budby South, NG21
Terms: Permanent, Part-Time, 18.75 hours per week (Sunday – Tuesday)
Salary: £13.45 - £14.36 Per Hour

We are looking for a Site Maintenance Assistant based at the magical home of Robin Hood, to provide general maintenance services to help ensure the premises are well maintained and in good order. The successful candidate will have experience of maintaining buildings and associated services. You will be a team player working across multi-disciplined teams providing support where required.

Sherwood is a landscape thousand of years in the making, alive with nature, history, and folklore. Today Sherwood it is a magical destination the home of the legend of Robin Hood and the famous Major Oak, estimated to be over a thousand years old. We care for 1,000 acres of woodland and rolling heathland which is home to thousands of species of bird life, insect, mammal, fungi, tree and plants. Wooded for centuries and once part of a vast royal hunting ground. For the 350,000 people that visit Sherwood Forest each year it is an incredible place to visit, boasting a unique collection of ancient oaks which has been thriving here for over 600 years.

Your role will sit within the Facilities Team at Sherwood. This is a hands on role which will see you supporting the other operational teams, ensuring the premises & site remain in safe and in good condition for our visitors. You will support the weekly testing regime to ensure our site remains compliant and you will take an active role in managing the daily cleanliness standards of the site.

Essential:

• Able to carry out maintenance tasks safely and to a good standard
• Experience carrying out general building maintenance tasks through work, training, or practical experience
• Able to identify maintenance issues and complete work accurately
• Able to identify potential safety risks and take appropriate action to make them safe
• Able to work independently and as part of a team to complete maintenance tasks
• Able to communicate effectively with colleagues, visitors, and contractors
• Able to carry out minor repairs, maintenance and basic redecoration of visitor and office facilities
• Understanding of health and safety practices relevant to building maintenance activities
• Able to organise and prioritise maintenance tasks to meet operational needs
• Able to maintain accurate maintenance and compliance records

Closing: Sunday 28th June

To complete your application online please CLICK HERE

Warden

RSPB

Reference: MAY20261507
Location: West Sedgemoor, Somerset Levels, TA10
Salary: £30,977.00 - £33,073.00 Per Annum
Terms: Permanent, Full-time, 37.5 hours per week

Do you want to help protect one of the UK's most exciting places for nature, the internationally important Somerset Levels & Moors?

The Warden at our 800ha Sedgemoor reserves in Somerset will be working in a dynamic wetland environment with diverse habitats and species with development of peat restoration and landscape recovery projects at its core.

You will

• Lead the wardening team delivering and developing our reserves management plan, ensuring we deliver benefits for important breeding populations of birds including, curlew, crane, bittern, crakes and snipe
• Mangage species rich meadows, internationally important wintering waterfowl populations and other water and climate objectives.
• Play a key role in delivering the reserve management plan through habitat work, monitoring and accurate record-keeping.
• Lead and support the wardening team to deliver the site’s work programme to a high standard.
• Help develop and report on funded conservation projects.
• Ensure safe, compliant operations by following best practice in H&S and environmental management.
• Oversee contractors on site to ensure work is delivered safely, legally and in line with management plan targets.
• Have an important part to play in maintaining and developing working relationships with stakeholders and neighbours with opportunities to influence nature delivery outside the reserve boundary.

What we need from you:

Among other things we are looking for

• Proven ability to maintain accurate records, manage data effectively and use GIS software to support site work.
• Established ability to procure, coordinate and oversee contractors to ensure safe, legal and high-quality delivery of work.
• Lantra (or equivalent) qualifications for operating equipment such as tractors, ATVs, chainsaws and PA1/6 pesticides.
• Sound knowledge of maintaining vehicles, machinery, tools and equipment to agreed standards.
• The role requires a full UK manual driving licence to be able to do work pick-ups to transport people and materials around the sites

Additional information:

• This role will involve lone working and working in remote locations.
• This role will require occasional weekend, early morning and evening working so will need someone who is able to be flexible.

Closing: Sunday 14th June 2026

To complete your application online please CLICK HERE 

Insh Marshes Traineeship

RSPB

Reference: MAY20262302
Location: RSPB Insh Marshes, Kingussie PH21
Terms: Fixed Term, 5.5 months, Full-Time, 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £26,228.00 - £27,999.00 Per Annum, Pro Rata

We are looking for an energetic, motivated and excellent communicator who has some voluntary experience wishing to develop their skills and experience in nature reserve management. Working with the site team and be trained and mentored to develop skills in survey and monitoring, estate work, habitat management, H&S, GIS, running work parties and more.

Insh Marshes reserve is one of the biggest and most naturally functioning floodplain wetlands in Britain. The reserve is home to a fantastic array of habitats, including sedge fen, wet grassland and woodland, and an incredible array of wildlife, including breeding waders, spotted crake and osprey, wintering hen harrier and whooper swan, and nationally important populations of invertebrates and plants.

You will work alongside a wide range of audiences including graziers, neighbours, land owners, local communities, and reserve visitors. The post holder will work closely with local and residential volunteers therefore enthusiasm to work with volunteers is essential. The trainee will be responsible for delivering our autumn and early winter practical habitat management and estate management work programme as part of a small team.

Essential:

• Ability to build positive working relationships
• Experience contributing to practical land or habitat
• Confidence in maintaining tools or equipment
• Commitment to health and safety compliance
• Enthusiasm for nature and conservation
• Positive and constructive communication
• Proven ability to plan and organise own workload
• Bird identification skills or willingness to develop them
• Understanding of safe working practices
• Full UK driving licence or ability to travel to remote sites. Reasonable adjustments or alternative travel arrangements may be considered where possible.

Personal development will be an important part of your objectives in this role, training, support and mentoring will be provided. This opportunity offers the chance to work and develop ecological knowledge of upland wet grassland, wetlands, and woodland habitats.

This role is funded by Cairngorms Connect, the largest habitat restoration partnership in Britain. The trainee role will help support the Insh Marshes team to deliver our vision to transform Insh Marshes into a prime example of a naturally functioning floodplain and river system. There will also be the opportunity to work within the partnership and attend training events.

Closing: Wednesday, 24th June

To complete your application online please CLICK HERE