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Assistant Grazing Ranger - The Conservators of Ashdown Forest

Logo: Ashdown Forest

Salary: £24,294 to £25,979 subject to experience

Hours per week: 37 flexible working.

Would you like to take on an exciting new role working on one of the most important wildlife sites in southern England? The Board of the Conservators of Ashdown Forest have an exciting opportunity to appoint an Assistant Grazing Ranger to support the grazing management on Ashdown Forest, East Sussex. Working under the supervision of the Countryside Manager you will support the Specialist Grazing Rangers with an overarching goal of achieving favourable condition of the SSSI. The role will have oversight and supervision of volunteers and assisting with the delivery of habitat and species monitoring associated with grazing.

Assistant Ranger - Bradgate Park Trust

Logo: Bradgate Park Trust

Full time, permanent

With around 750,000 visitors a year, Bradgate Park and Swithland Woods is very much about people and wildlife. If you are looking for a hands-on role helping to maintain an amazing landscape whilst also delivering walks, talks and activities for people, look no further! This role is part of a Ranger team who work alongside the Wardens, volunteers and other teams to maintain and improve the park and manage the visitor pressures on it. With 1,200 acres of incredible green space, a Visitor Centre and amazing ruins and monuments, we are looking for a motivated, skilled individual to join the team.

Farming in Protected Landscapes Officer - Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority

Logo: 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.

Forestry & Harvesting Management Opportunities - Scottish Woodlands

Logo: Scottish Woodlands

We have exciting opportunities for a Forest Manager/Senior Forest Manager and Harvesting Manager, to join our progressive team to service both our existing client base and expanding business. The successful candidates will be based in our Fort William office and duties will include all aspects of woodland establishment, restructuring and management from planning through to harvesting, compliance with Health & Safety regulations and other legislation relevant to forestry operations, liaising directly with a range of clients and contractors, preparing and managing budgets, GIS mapping, processing grant scheme applications and planning forestry operations.

Field Team Leader - Gough Island - RSPB

Logo: RSPB

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

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

Location: Gough Island

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

Livestock Person - RSPB

Logo: RSPB

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

Oxfordshire Reserves Officer - Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust

Logo: BBOWT

Salary: £26,800 - £27,733 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 35 hours per week. Flexibility in working pattern, in agreement with line manager

Based: The Lodge, Littlemore and Wells Farm, Little Milton. Hybrid working is available.

The Oxfordshire Reserves Officer will help nature recover by directly working towards habitat management objectives across a suite of reserves covering wetland, floodplain meadows, limestone grasslands, woodland habitats of which many are designated SSSI’s.

This will provide an exciting opportunity to work within a close knit, friendly team committed to nature conservation.

Project Manager - Nature Accelerators - National Trust

Logo: 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.

Ecologist - Ecology Solutions

Logo: Ecology Solutions

Are you looking to take the next step in your career, with opportunities to progress and grow your skills. Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, like reviewing research, and enjoy implementing mitigation strategies to promote ecological sustainability? If so, we want you to be a part of our team!

Ecology Solutions is a leading consultancy specialising in ecology planning solutions, offering an extensive range of expertise to numerous and diverse high-profile clients within both the public and private sectors.

Ranger - National Trust

Logo: National Trust

Location: Botallack, St Just, TR19 7QQ

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract

Salary: £23,868 per annum

As a Ranger, you’re the heart and soul of the National Trust in the landscapes we protect. You’re a champion of nature conservation and the great outdoors, and you’ll play a crucial role in keeping the nation’s beloved countryside and coast in good shape, for wildlife and for people.

You’ll be helping to protect and care for habitats, wildlife, livestock, buildings and machinery.

Area Ranger - National Trust

Logo: National Trust

Location: North Devon, Arlington Court, Arlington, EX31 4LP

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract

Salary: £27,500 per annum

As a countryside property, the National Trust in Arlington is at the forefront of conservation – managing its estate through a small but dedicated team, to the highest international standards for conservation, access, and wider public benefits. As Area Ranger you’ll lead the team in the day-to-day delivery of our land management and operations across Arlington, North Devon.

Area Ranger - National Trust

Logo: National Trust

Location: Dyrham Park, Dyrham, Bath, SN14 8ER

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract

Salary: £21,466 per annum

Dyrham Park is a historic 500-year-old deer park, house and formal gardens all within the 273 acre site. The parkland is a mosaic of woodland, grasslands, veteran trees, avenues, deer, wildlife habitat, archaeology, ponds and a well-loved café in the heart of the parkland.

You will lead the ranger team to deliver great nature conservation in the parkland, promoting the parkland for the benefit of nature, public access and representing the history of Dyrham Park

Ranger - National Trust

Logo: National Trust

Location: Branscombe, Seaton, EX12 3DB

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: £23,868 per annum

As a Ranger, you’re the heart and soul of the National Trust in the landscapes we protect. You’re a champion of nature conservation and the great outdoors, and you’ll play a crucial role in keeping the nation’s beloved countryside and coast in good shape, for wildlife and for people.

Ecologist - Norfolk Rivers Trust

Logo: Norfolk Rivers Trust

Purpose: To complete baseline habitat, species and Biodiversity Net Gain surveys and reporting in Norfolk.

Location: Office at Bayfield near Holt. Visits across Norfolk, Cam and Ely Ouse (CamEO) and potentially further afield. In the first year, work will primarily be in North Norfolk.

Job term: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week

Salary details: Grade 3: £32,473-£33,540 (9% employer Pension Contribution)

Norfolk Rivers Trust’s ambition is to deliver catchment-scale change to our water environment, protecting our watercourses from pollution, improving habitat and ecological functioning of streams and rivers, and enhancing resilience to climate change.

Farming in Protected Landscapes Administrator - Exmoor National Park Authority

Logo: Exmoor National Park Authority

Salary of £26,421 - £29,777 per annum

Exmoor House, Dulverton, Somerset (with hybrid working and travel across the National Park to visit sites)

We are now looking for a Farming in Protected Landscapes Administrator to join us on a full-time basis, for a fixed-term contract until the 31st March 2025.

Exmoor National Park is a unique and beautiful part of the country. Our vision is to ensure Exmoor National Park has a thriving living landscape and is a place where people can enjoy and benefit from Exmoor’s special qualities and sustainable communities.

Conservation Officer - Initiative for Nature Conservation Cymru (INCC)

Logo: Initiative for Nature Conservation Cymru

Working Hours - Four days / 28 hours per week

Term - Fixed Term - three years

Salary - £27,000 (Pro-rata)

Role Location – Various locations within the Glamorgan uplands (headwaters of the Afan, Rhondda, and Cynon Valleys). Also working from home and at INCC’s office at the National Botanic Garden of Wales.

Thanks to funding from the Pen-y-Cymoedd Vision Fund, INCC are looking to appoint a Conservation Officer to oversee our three-year upland Water Vole conservation project in the Glamorgan uplands, South Wales.

Lead Ranger - National Trust

Logo: National Trust

Location: Stowe Barton, Kilkhampton, Bude, Cornwall, EX23 9JW

Contract Type: Permanent/Full-time (37.5 hours per week)

Salary: £30,966 per annum

Are you a dynamic and experienced countryside professional with a passion and knowledge of nature, it’s conservation and the outdoors? Do you want to make a difference for a stunning stretch of the North Cornwall coast and its people? We are offering a rare and outstanding opportunity to lead on the delivery of our vision for a more nature rich, accessible and resilient coast.

Professional Work Placement (PWP) Alpines & Streamside - Royal Horticultural Society

Logo: Royal Horticultural Society

Location: RHS Harlow Carr

Salary: £20,319 per annum

Duration: One year (fixed-term)

The one year Professional Work Placement (PWP) programme will enable you to learn about the science, art and practice of horticulture in the setting of RHS Garden Harlow Carr and the specialist areas of Streamside & Alpines. The Alpine Zone and the Streamside at RHS Harlow Carr sits at the heart of the site and has inspired visitors for many years. Throughout this placement you will work within the Garden’s departments and with its teams and individuals to gain knowledge, skills, training and experience of Alpines and Streamside plants in the work-based context to prepare you for professional life in the industry.

Professional Work Placement (PWP) Wellbeing and Communities - Royal Horticultural Society

Logo: Royal Horticultural Society

Location: RHS Bridgewater

Salary: £20,319 per annum

Duration: One year (fixed-term)

The RHS School of Horticulture (SoH) has been at the forefront of horticultural training for over 100 years. It’s one year Professional Work Placement (PWP) programme will enable you to learn about the science, art and practice of horticulture in the setting of RHS Garden Bridgewater in the specialist area of Wellbeing and Communities. The Wellbeing and Communities Professional Work Placement (PWP) candidate will be involved in all aspects of therapeutic and community gardening practiced at RHS Bridgewater.

Professional Work Placement (PWP) Edibles and Productive Horticulture - Royal Horticultural Society

Logo: Royal Horticultural Society

Location: RHS Garden Bridgewater

Duration: One year fixed term

Salary: Circa £20,319

Are you enthusiastic about edibles and productive horticulture? Do you have an existing Level 2 qualification and at least three months’ work experience in horticulture? Are you interested in specialising? The RHS School of Horticulture (SoH) has been at the forefront of horticultural training for over 100 years. Its one year Professional Work Placement (PWP) programme will enable you to learn about the science, art and practice of horticulture in the specialist area of Edibles and Productive Horticulture at RHS Garden Bridgewater.

Modern Apprenticeship - Assistant Countryside Ranger - Falkirk Council

Logo: Falkirk Council

Appointment Type: Fixed Term Position – 18 months

Full Time/Part Time: Full-time

Hours: 37

Salary: £23,088

Falkirk Council are recruiting for an Apprentice Assistant Countryside Ranger to join our team at Muiravonside Country Park, Falkirk. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain a foothold in the conservation sector, gaining experience in a varied Ranger role while completing a Modern Apprenticeship in Rural Skills with SRUC.

Research Officer, Citizen Science - WWT

Logo: WWT

Location: Slimbridge

Salary: £27,847.00

Vacancy Type: Fixed Term

WWT’s Conservation Evidence department comprises a rapidly growing team of scientists, which provides the evidence that underpins the work of WWT. We use a wide range of inter-disciplinary methods across the social and ecological sciences to deliver high-quality conservation science. We work in collaboration with multiple NGO and academic partners, and a number of PhD students, across the UK and overseas.

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?

Estate Worker - RSPB

Logo: RSPB

We are looking for an enthusiastic Estate Worker to join our team, helping to deliver our habitat and infrastructure objectives across Dorset from our Arne work centre.

Location: Arne
Salary: £23,401.00 - £25,122.00 Per Annum

This is a Permanent, Full-Time role for 37.5 hours per week.

Your main objectives will be to assist in delivering the habitat management objectives for the various reserves, staying on top of the Health and Safety requirements associated with this work and supporting the team on other works as needed.

Education & Engagement Officer - North West Highlands Geopark Ltd

Logo: North West Highlands Geopark

We are hiring! - We are looking for two Education and Engagement Officers.

Do you have a passion for engaging people with the natural and cultural heritage of the North West Highlands? If you do, then the role of Education and Engagement Officer could be perfect for you! This is an opportunity for two hardworking and enthusiastic individuals to join our team to work with the communities of the North West Highlands on the Access Connect and Take Part programme of activities.

Landscape Lead - Grosvenor Estate

Logo: Grosvenor Estate

We are looking for an experienced Landscape Lead to join our Grosvenor Forestry and Conservation Team. This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in a team responsible for the maintenance of landscape across a truly beautiful rural estate.

Grosvenor Rural Estates is responsible for the long-term stewardship of three rural estates in the United Kingdom. This role will be based at our Eaton Estate, just outside Chester city centre.   Working to protect, enhance, and restore sensitive environmental habitats within these unique locations and improving local property and places, our aim is to be a leading example of sustainability within the rural economy - contributing to the economic, social, and environmental wellbeing of the communities we are part of. 

Senior Forest Manager / Forest Manager - Scottish Woodlands

Logo: Scottish Woodlands

Due to our increasing activities and expanding work programme in North Scotland, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Forest Manger / Forest Manager, to join our progressive team to service both our existing client base and expanding business. The successful candidate will be based out of our Banchory office. The role will involve all include all aspects of woodland establishment, restructuring and management from planning through to harvesting, compliance with Health & Safety regulations and other legislation relevant to forestry operations, liaising directly with a range of clients and contractors, use of GIS mapping systems, preparing and managing budgets, processing grant scheme applications and planning forestry operations.

Assistant Engagement Officer (Species Survival Fund) - WWT

Logo: WWT

£9,561 per annum (£23,903 FTE)

Part time 15 hours per week

Fixed term contract until 28th February 2026

Steart Marshes, Somerset

An exciting opportunity to work alongside the Engagement & Learning Manager to coordinate volunteers, events and engagement on site as part of the Species Survival Fund, a 2 year 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. This will include supporting volunteers, community engagement and programming engagement activities.

Project Manager (Species Survival Fund) - WWT

Logo: 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.

Lead Forester - Grosvenor Estate

Logo: Grosvenor Estate

This role will be based at our Eaton Estate, just outside Chester city centre.

We are looking for an experienced Lead Forester to join our Grosvenor Forestry and Conservation Team. This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in a broader team with increasing and renewed focus on woodland management, arboriculture, conservation and timber processing. Reporting to the Head of Forestry, the main purpose of the role is to lead a forestry team and to organise, supervise and implement day-to-day forestry tasks such as harvesting, planting and maintenance. The Lead Forester will deal with operational health and safety which includes risk assessment, maintenance of machinery and supervision of staff and contractors.

Rye Harbour Trainee Ranger - Sussex Wildlife Trust

Logo: Sussex Wildlife Trust

Salary: £20,820.80 pa

Hours: 35 hrs per week

Contract Type: Fixed Term to 14/03/2025.

Location: Rye Harbour, Rye Harbour Road, Rye Harbour, Rye TN31 7FW

This is an exciting opportunity for a trainee ranger to join our Nature Reserves Team and the successful candidate will follow an established training plan including modules in conservation, ecology, grazing and community engagement.. The role is designed to help the successful candidate develop the skills required to gain employment in the conservation sector whilst supporting the Sussex Wildlife Trust to deliver effective action for wildlife on its nature reserves. You will gain a vast array of valuable experience and skills in the conservation/environmental field including recognised qualifications and training in skills such as chainsaw, brushcutter, off-road driving, forestry first aid and Level 2 forest school leadership.

Senior Project Officer - The Conservation Volunteers

Logo: 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.

Operations Officer – West Central - NatureScot

Logo: NatureScot Starting salary £38,242
Hours: 35 hours
Temporary – Fixed term to 31 March 2025
Clydebank, Ayr or Hamilton

This is a fixed term role until the end of March 2025 working as part of the National Operations West Central team. The role will focus on providing advice in relation to Town and Country planning, renewable energy proposals, marine licences and other regulatory casework, alongside related plans, strategies and action plans relating to biodiversity, climate change and nature recovery. The post holder will have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects and major initiatives within the West Central Operations area, including priority work to develop nature networks and enhance our protected areas.

Operations Officer – West Central - NatureScot

Logo: NatureScot

Starting salary £38,242
Hours: 35 hours
Permanent
Clydebank, Ayr or Hamilton
Working as part of the National Operations West Central team the post holder will help deliver NatureScot’s priorities relating to nature restoration, climate change and the creation of nature rich places. Helping to deliver NatureScot’s Corporate Plan objectives of protecting, restoring and valuing nature, the post will be involved with a diverse range of tasks including the provision of our advice to Local Authorities, developers, land managers and others.

Site Manager - Galloway Reserves - RSPB

Logo: 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.

Senior Project Manager - Fens Priority Landscape - RSPB

Logo: RSPB

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

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

Site Manager - RSPB

Logo: RSPB

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.

Green Farm – Engagement Officer - Worcestershire Wildlife Trust

Logo: Worcestershire Wildlife Trust

Salary: £24,960 FTE (0.6 FTE)
Contract type: Fixed term / Working hours: Part time
Location: Lower Smite Farm, Hindlip, Worcester WR3 8SZ with regular travel to Green Farm adjacent to Monkwood Nature Reserve to the north of Worcester.

We're looking for someone who can inspire communities to love and take action for nature in and around our Monkwood nature reserve. This role will enable you to make a real difference to nature’s recovery and to be part of our vision to protect 30% of land and sea by 2030. The project is one year in and we have already achieved a great deal of engagement with the local community, especially in delivering nature improvements such as tree planting on the nature reserve and building links with the local schools. The new officer will continue to lead on the great work that has already been achieved and build on those local connections to strengthen our roots into the community.

Assistant Nature-Based Solutions Officer - Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust

Logo: Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust

Salary: £22,000 - £24,000 gross per annum depending on skills and experience

Full Time - 35 Hours per week

Fixed Term Contract

Location: Beechcroft House, SO32 2DP

This post is held within our Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) Department. In order to achieve our ambitions for nature’s recovery, the Assistant Nature-based Solutions Officer will assist in the delivery of the survey and monitoring of externally funded project work, through our ecological consultancy, Arcadian Ecology & Consulting Ltd. Projects vary, but mainly include a large woodland restoration project. Duties will primarily include assisting officers with field survey work including bats, butterflies, bumblebees, dormice, moths, reptiles, habitat surveys, habitat management, and data entry using spreadsheets and Geographical Information Systems (GIS), reporting and equipment maintenance.

Part time Event Coordinator - Surrey Wildlife Trust

Logo: Surrey Wildlife Trust

Salary £25,000 pa fte

Part time working, 24-28 hrs per week

Do you thrive on organising and making things happen? We need a motivated, capable event coordinator to work with our Event Manager to run events and activities which fit with our ambitions to connect people and nature in Surrey.

Job of the Day: Wednesday 10th April
Coastal Visitor Engagement Rangers - Lulworth Estate

Venison Project Manager - RSPB

Logo: RSPB

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

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

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

Natural Heritage Officer - Development Plans & Heritage - Shetland Islands Council

Logo: Shetland Islands Council

£43,691.30 - £45,448.20 per annum, inclusive of Distance Islands Allowance

Permanent Full Time post for 37.0 Hours per Week , 52.18 weeks per year

Shetland is an archipelago in north of the British Isles where you will find freedom, wildlife and wild beauty, but also a rich culture and a dynamic, forward-looking society. The islands have a thriving and diverse economy full of opportunities and offer residents the ideal work/life balance. Shetland combines stunning coastal landscapes and wide open spaces with friendly, bustling island communities.

Kent’s Plan Bee Project Officer - Bumblebee Conservation Trust

Logo: Bumblebee Conservation Trust

A unique opportunity to join a successful and growing conservation charity!

FTE for 20 months

Salary £23,140

The Bumblebee Conservation Trust (the Trust) is looking for a full-time Kent’s Plan Bee Project Officer to join the conservation team and lead on the delivery of Kent’s ‘Plan Bee’, the pollinator action plan for Kent County Council. This role is a secondment to Kent County Council.

Assistant Reserve Warden (Species Survival Fund) - WWT

Logo: WWT

Location: Steart Marshes

Salary: £23,402.00

Vacancy Type: Fixed Term

An exciting opportunity to assist with practical reserves management, as part of the Species Survival Fund, a 2 year project: Wetter For Waders: Enhancing Somerset’s Coastal Wetlands. You'll be part of our team based across the Steart Marshes and Bridgwater Bay National Nature Reserves.

Information Support Officer - North York Moors National Park Authority

Logo: North York Moors National Park Authority

Helmsley, North Yorkshire

The North York Moors National Park Authority looks after and promotes one of the most phenomenal parts of the British Isles. Filled with breath-taking scenery, magnificent wildlife, picture book villages and a dramatic coastline, the North York Moors boasts some of the most diverse landscapes in the UK.

We are now seeking an Information Support Officer to join our team on a permanent basis, working 30 hours per week.

Ecology Advisor - Hertfordshire County Council

Logo: 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.

Seasonal Ranger - Forest - RSPB

Logo: RSPB

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

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

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

Seasonal Ranger - Mountain - RSPB

Logo: RSPB

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

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

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

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

Seasonal Project Officer x 5 - Scottish Invasive Species Initiative

Logo: Scottish Invasive Species Initiative

We are currently looking for 4 x Seasonal Project Officers in various locations across project area. See below for details.

The Scottish Invasive Species Initiative is a multi-year project in northern Scotland, which aims to encourage communities to tackle invasive non-native species such as Japanese knotweed, giant hogweed and American mink. It is currently funded by the Scottish Government’s Nature Restoration Fund.

Assistant/Forest Manager x 2 - English Woodlands Forestry

Logo: English Woodlands Forestry

English Woodlands Forestry is one of South East England’s longest-established and leading forestry consultants. We have a wide and prestigious range of clients from large mixed estates to small woodland owners and farmers. Our small professional team offer our clients a quality end-to-end service from woodland management plans and tree risk surveys through to arranging contractual work and timber harvesting/marketing. We also specialise in woodland creation projects including planning, planting, establishment and carbon sales.

We are looking to expand our team with the addition of two Assistant or Forest Managers. Both roles will be responsible for delivering quality woodland management services and being an integral part of our team.

Reserve Warden - WWT

Logo: WWT

£23,903.00

Full time

Permanent

Washington

We are looking for a motivated and engaging Reserve Warden to join our team. The main duties of the post are to assist in the management of the nature reserve, including the development and management of habitats, reserve infrastructure and species monitoring in line with management statements and approved management plans. You will also play an active role in both onsite and online engagement with our site and core conservation messaging.

Park Ranger - Earley Town Council

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Salary Range £29,269 - £32,076, plus membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme.

Location: Earley, Reading

Earley Town Council is looking for someone to join our team as a Park Ranger to maintain public open spaces owned or managed by Earley Town Council. To maintain and improve these spaces with a focus on conservation, biodiversity and environmental benefits whilst also having regard for the health and safety requirements of a public open space. To support the Town Council’s commitment to providing opportunities for residents to learn about and experience the natural world and to work collaboratively with local conservation groups as well as relevant professional organisations.

Investment Manager - The National Lottery Heritage Fund

We are currently recruiting for a full time Investment Manager on a permanent contract based in Edinburgh (Hybrid Working).

This varied and rewarding role as part of the Investment Team, is to support our diverse and creative heritage sector through the assessment of a wide range of grant applications, making clear recommendations to decision makers. The role is also to offer advice and support to grantees so that they can complete their projects successfully, sharing best practice and encouraging innovation.

Conservation Manager - Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust

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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.

Ecologist - Whitcher Wildlife Ltd

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Salary between £26,000 & £45,000 dependent on experience.

Full or part-time (full time preferred).

Permanent role

Barnsley / Hybrid

Whitcher Wildlife Ltd are looking for a number of ecologists at various stages of their career to join our small but growing business. Having been operating for over 25 years, currently with twelve staff, we are looking to increase our workforce to meet the ever growing demand for ecological services.

Assistant Park Manager - The Royal Parks

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Salary of up to £49,953 per annum (plus on-call allowance of £3,256 per annum)
Permanent, full-time basis, working 36 hours per week
St James’ Park and The Green Park, London (with occasional travel to all parks)
As an Assistant Park Manager, you will support the management of St Jame’s Park, The Green Park and Victoria Tower Gardens. Leading a diverse portfolio of park operations and activities you will be involved in a range of horticulture, arboriculture, learning, events and volunteering work. Alongside a fellow Assistant Park Manager, you’ll manage the day-to-day aspects of the Landscape Maintenance Contract and the delivery of a local project portfolio of improvement works, ensuring we obtain the highest value from our delivery partners.

Three Peaks Ranger - Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority

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£24,293 to £27,334, pro rata, per annum

Part-time, 30 hours worked over 4 days per week (22.5 hours over 3 days considered)

Permanent

Stainforth near Settle

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the iconic Three Peaks area of the Yorkshire Dales. You will be primarily concerned with the maintenance of the public rights of way network and other access routes and it’s essential you can plan and implement, to a high standard, a variety of practical tasks. You will play a key role in maintaining engineered paths on the Three Peaks challenge route as well as assisting the Area Manager with developing and implementing the Three Peaks Project.

Reserve Manager - Parsonage Down National Nature Reserve - Natural England

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Salary is £34,072 on an annualised hours contract. Weekly hours fluctuate seasonally, averaging 43 hours per week.

Parsonage Down NNR is one of the largest most diverse calcareous grassland nature reserves in the UK and part of Salisbury Plain SAC. The NNR is also home to Cherry Lodge Farm, Natural England’s working farm dedicated to developing nature based sustainable farming.

We are seeking a motivated and passionate Reserve Manager whose primary responsibility will be delivering the NNR Management Plan work programme to meet the nature conservation objectives for the site.

You will be working alongside the Parsonage Down NNR Farm Manager and Stockperson, who are responsible for farm operations and livestock husbandry.

Ranger - National Trust

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Location: Woolacombe, Combe Heights/Woolacombe Rise, Woolacombe, EX34 7AS

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: £23,868 per annum

As a Ranger, you’re the heart and soul of the National Trust in the landscapes we protect. You’re a champion of nature conservation and the great outdoors, and you’ll play a crucial role in keeping the nation’s beloved countryside and coast in good shape, for wildlife and for people.

National Park Centre Assistant (Part-Time) - North York Moors National Park Authority

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Danby Lodge National Park Centre, Whitby, North Yorkshire

Salary of £11.98 - £12.38 per hour (pay award pending)

We are now seeking a National Park Centre Assistant to join our team at Danby Lodge National Park Centre on a permanent, part-time basis, working approximately 600 hours per year, including one weekend a month alongside hours during the week.

As a National Park Centre Assistant, you will help to ensure a high-quality experience with high standards of presentation are delivered to all visitors at Danby Lodge National Park Centre.

Farm Worker - National Trust

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Location: West Sussex, Estate Yard, Arundel, BN18 0RG

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: £23,868 per annum

We're looking for a Farm Worker to assist and support the National Trust’s in-hand Livestock operations. Working as part of the Farm & Countryside Team, we want you to provide the practical and technical skills to support with the daily care of our beef cattle and flock of sheep. Grazing management, tractor skills and experience with trailers is essential.

Farming & Nature Support Officer - North Pennines National Landscape

Salary: Grade 9 £33,024 to £36,648 per annum

Employment Location: North Pennines National Landscape Office, Stanhope (hybrid working options available).

We are looking for a Farming & Nature Support Officer to join the North Pennines National Landscape team for a period of 24 months.

This role is a hands-on, feet on the ground facilitation role working with farmers and landowners and building up close relationships across different elements of the Tees-Swale programme.

Executive Assistant - Sussex Wildlife Trust

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Location: Woods Mill with hybrid working options

Salary: £31,500

Contract Type: Permanent / Hours: 35 hours

The role of Executive Assistant to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) is a crucial one and will enable SWT to deliver effective action for wildlife in Sussex by supporting and developing the administrative and governance functions of the charity. You will be supporting SLT with diary management, organising meetings, preparing for Board meetings and will lead on other business support functions.

Site Manager - West - Sussex Wildlife Trust

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Location: Woods Mill, Henfield.

Salary: £34,052

Contract Type: Permanent / Hours: Full Time, 35hrs per week

This role will manage our western portfolio, covering over 750ha (1800 acres) you will oversee the management of these dynamic, highly designated nature reserves. Your reserves will include Butcherlands, our pioneering Rewilding project consisting of flower-rich meadows and newly developing wood pasture with scrubland bursting with Nightingales.

Head of Wilder Learning - Sussex Wildlife Trust

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Location: Woods Mill, with Hybrid working options; travel to locations across Sussex will be required.

Salary: £38,850

Contract Type: Permanent / Hours: 35 hours per week

Reporting to the Director of Communities, this exciting new role will enable Sussex Wildlife Trust to deliver effective action for wildlife in Sussex by leading and overseeing the Wilder Learning programme and managing the Wilder Learning team. This role will take a strategic approach to ensure delivery of an inspiring programme, including Forest School and Wild Beach training and events and courses.

Nature Recovery Project Officer - Sussex Wildlife Trust

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Location: Southerham Farm, Lewes.

Salary: £27,000

Contract Type: Fixed Term. 2 years / Hours: Full Time, 35hrs per week

This role will be part of the Nature Reserve team and will oversee our ambitious nature recovery project on Pevensey Levels. This role will oversee large scale capital work delivery across multiple sites including on the Pevensey Levels National Nature Reserve managed by Sussex Wildlife Trust and Natural England. This project will help restore this precious but threatened landscape by improving water storage, creating new priority habitat, and engaging neighbouring landowners to follow suit.

Wilder Learning & Communities Officer - Sussex Wildlife Trust

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Location: Rye Harbour Discovery Centre, East Sussex

Salary: £30,671.55 per annum

Contract Type: Permanent / Hours: 35 hours per week

We have an exciting opportunity to join the team at Rye Harbour. The Wilder Learning & Communities Officer will enable SWT to deliver effective action for wildlife in Sussex by delivering an inspiring education and community engagement programme at the Rye Harbour Nature Reserve and Discovery Centre, balancing financial viability with reaching our charitable and strategic aims.

Volunteering Leader - Canal and River Trust

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Advertised Salary: £25,720

Location: Swarkestone Depot

Working Hours: 1931.4 Annualised Hours.

We currently have an opportunity for a Volunteering Leader within our dynamic and enthusiastic operations team, based at Swarkestone. This team are responsible for the south Derby and Leicestershire canal networks. This role will predominantly cover the Erewash Canal.

Volunteering Leaders plan and deliver a wide range of volunteer activities and events, assist operational teams in their task management of volunteering activities and liaise with volunteers, volunteer groups and supervisors.

Engagement Officer - Pine Martens (Exmoor) - Somerset Wildlife Trust

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Salary: £17,100 actual (£28,500 FTE)

Contract type: Fixed term

Working hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week

Location: Somerset Wildlife Trust, 34 Wellington Road, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 5AW, with opportunities for hybrid working

The Two Moors Partnership, comprised of Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT), Dartmoor National Park Authority (DNPA), Exmoor National Park Authority (ENPA), National Trust (NT), Woodland Trust (WT), Forestry England (FE) and Somerset Wildlife Trust (SWT) was formed with the aim of restoring a viable pine marten population, at a landscape scale, to the wooded landscape across Somerset and Devon.

Ure Connected Project Intern - Lower Ure Conservation Trust

Paid Position

We are looking for an enthusiastic candidate to assist with the delivery of our two-and-a-half-year National Lottery Heritage Fund project ‘Ure Connected – Engaging People with Nature in the Lower Ure Valley’. The project’s aim is to increase capacity for nature conservation and restoration on undermanaged Priority Habitats in the area while also increasing engagement with the local community.

Based primarily at Nosterfield Nature Reserve, you will carry out a variety of tasks, taking in aspects of both practical conservation and community engagement.

Contract Manager - North England - Woodland Trust

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Full Time, 2 year fixed term contract

The Contracts Manager will join our Operations team to represent the Woodland Trust locally, supporting a diverse portfolio of sites within North England, in line with the Trust’s standards and ensuring the safety of our colleagues, visitors, contractors and volunteers. It shall be the Contracts Manager’s responsibility to support Site Managers’ in the preparation and delivery of grant applications, operational contracts and projects including silvicultural operations.

National Forest Inventory & Trees Outside Woodland Surveyor - Browning Forestry Ltd

Full time sub-contracting role located in: Central/Eastern Southern England.

Period – July 2024 to June 2025 with possible extension.

Payment: Variable (dependant on complexity of work).

Specific areas of skills & knowledge include navigation, NVC, advanced tree & basic ground flora identification, habitat identification, knowledge of silviculture, pests, diseases & mensuration.

Gardener - National Trust for Scotland

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Hours: 40

Locations: Newhailes

Salary range: £24,960 pro-rata, per annum

The key purposes include: Undertaking practical maintenance of the garden plant management (trees, shrubs, vegetables etc.); turf care, pest and disease control, biosecurity, propagation, irrigation, and composting, to the required standards expected by the Trust and for the maximum safety of, and enjoyment by visitors; Fostering positive relationships with local communities and organisations and promote the work of the Trust.

Druridge Bay Data Monitoring and Engagement Officer - Northumberland Wildlife Trust

The role is for 35 hours per week on a 2 year contract. NWT operates a flexitime system.

The salary range is £24,336 to £27,364 on a grade C .

Northumberland Wildlife Trust is looking for a confident, innovative and enthusiastic person to join our Druridge Bay Team as Drurigde Bay Data Monitoring and Engagement Officer.

This role will manage the delivery of the Biodiversity Boost project, including completing all of the project administration and grant claims.

Countryside Partnership Officer (PT, Temporary) - Medway Valley Countryside Partnership

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The role is 3 days a week currently for 8 months (with possible extension).

Location: Maidstone, Kent

Medway Valley Countryside Partnership (MVCP) are a not-for-profit conservation organisation in Kent. We are looking for an experienced individual who can run our weekly volunteer action group and deliver sympathetic habitat management tasks at a variety of sites in the Maidstone and Tonbridge and Malling boroughs. Tasks are seasonal and varied and may include tree planting and felling, scrub clearance, coppicing and construction such as creating new dipping platforms or woodland steps (for example).

Farming in Protected Landscapes Officer - Staffordshire County Council

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Salary: £36,648 - £41,418

Full Time

Fixed Term until 31st March 2025

Location: Stafford

We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed individual to join the Cannock Chase National Landscape Team to help deliver the Farming in Protected Landscapes (FiPL) programme.This is an opportunity to make a real difference to farming and land management in the National Landscape and to help conserve and enhance the natural beauty of this nationally important landscape.

Fundraising Manager - Coetir Anian

Salary: Full time salary £27,181 - £35,233 (pro rata if part time.)

Hours: Full-time or part-time, 3-5 days per week (22.5-37.5 hours) with flexible working hours. Applicant expected to work flexibly in response to funding deadlines.

Contract: Permanent

Location: Remote working, within reasonable distance to enable travel to project site near Machynlleth, mid Wales at least four times per year. Office available in Aberystwyth if required.

This is an opportunity to work for an inspirational Welsh charity which is restoring nature and connecting people to this wild place, in a magnificent geographical area. The post holder will work with the Director and other staff to implement an income generation strategy which supports the work of Coetir Anian through unrestricted and restricted income streams.

Fundraising Manager - The Rivers Trust

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Starting salary of £39,037

This is a full-time, home-based, permanent position (subject to ongoing funding).

The Rivers Trust is a leading environmental charity and the umbrella body of The Rivers Trust movement, comprising over 60 independent local charities. We are seeking a highly organised, efficient and dynamic individual to take on the brand new role of Fundraising Manager, co-ordinating core and strategic fundraising for The Rivers Trust, supporting and facilitating the Senior Management Team. We have had considerable success with securing project funding, and have achieved rapid growth in headcount and delivery as a result, but we need to increase income for core functions such as HR, IT, finance, communications and project development.

Green Finance Manager - Surrey Wildlife Trust

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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.

Assistant Warden - North-East Scotland Coastal Reserves - RSPB

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

Outdoor Learning Officer - Ribble Rivers Trust

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Location: Clitheroe, Lancashire

We are looking to recruit an Outdoor Learning Officer who will be a confident and clear communicator with experience in directly delivering environmental education and engagement activities both in and out of education settings and with community groups. Leading on our work with schools in priority locations in Blackpool and the Fylde Coast, the Outdoor Learning Officer will deliver outdoor learning to meet the aims and objectives of our Coastal Explorers education programme, using feedback and evaluation techniques to ensure we continue to improve and develop what we offer.

Stiperstones National Nature Reserve Ranger - Natural England

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Salary: £25,064

Working pattern: Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Contract type: Permanent

This position is based at Stiperstones NNR, Minsterley, Shropshire

The successful candidate will be based at the Stiperstones and will be part of a small team working on the Stiperstones and Downton Gorge National Nature Reserves (NNRs). Working as part of the Stiperstones NNR site management team, you will be expected to be flexible, working largely outdoors, on-site, working from our reserve base at the Stiperstones NNR.

Outreach Ranger - Content Creator (Bird Aware Solent) - Hampshire County Council

Logo: Hampshire County Council

Salary range: £25,628 - £28,326 per annum

Hours per week: 37

Contract type: Permanent

Work location: River Hamble Rangers Depot, Southampton

Do you care about wildlife, have a flair for public engagement and proven experience in content creation? The focus of this role will be to enhance Bird Aware Solent’s outreach engagement by working alongside our Communications Lead to create relevant content for digital, broadcast and print media for a diverse audience. Platforms include social media channels, online engagement, website content, blogs, broadcast and print media and video creation. As well as creating content you will develop an understanding of which platforms on which we should be focusing our resources on. Additionally, all rangers patrol the coast throughout the winter providing a positive and engaging presence with all user groups, including dog walkers.

Senior Business Conservation Adviser - (Fixed Term) - RSPB

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Salary: £36,577.00 - £39,267.00 Per Annum

This is a fixed term role for 3 years for 37.5 hours per week.

Location: Hybrid Home-based/London

This role provides the opportunity to work for UK’s largest conservation NGO on a new business partnership with a tangible impact. It will involve analysing, planning, managing and delivering this new national strategic partnership with Openreach to the highest standards. This is your chance to shape a more sustainable future, guiding your partner in their nature-positive journey and inspiring others to follow suit.

Working Wetlands Administrator - Devon Wildlife Trust

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Salary: £23,400pa plus 7% pension

This is a full-time permanent post contractually located at Cookworthy.

Do you have great admin skills and enjoy working within a busy, enthusiastic team? Are you keen to support nature conservation in the wider countryside? Join our team for a fulfilling admin role. We are looking for a team player who is comfortable working across a range of administrative, financial and team support tasks. You will have excellent administration, IT, financial and interpersonal skills and the ability to support a busy team delivering farm advice and conservation services. Some experience in producing newsletters and monitoring health and safety compliance is desirable.

QLPS Wildlife Officer - Somerset Council

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The salary range for this role is £26,421 to £29,777 per annum.
Fixed term contract until 31/03/2025
The QLPS is based out of the Thomas Poole library in Nether Stowey. We have regular weekly office-based days together but otherwise staff normally work from home when not delivering activities or working on site.

You’ll be instrumental in helping to deliver our busy habitat management, events and activities programme throughout the final year of the QLPS. You’ll be inheriting an established conservation work programme, focused on practical habitat (mostly woodland) management and a range of biological surveys, as well as the unfolding events programme. As part of our outreach programme, you will be working with a wide range of people and groups, currently including economically disadvantaged local families and young people, members of the local West African, Bulgarian, and Ukrainian communities, young LGBTQ+ people, and people recovering from mental health difficulties. Plus of course our amazing volunteers and loads of other people who just love the Quantocks!

Freelance Community Ranger - Tayvallich Initiative

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Remuneration: £150 per day (inclusive of VAT if applicable) for 104 days per year. £31,200 total fee

Freelance opportunity, 24 months fixed term, from early June 2024 to 30 May 2026

Hours: on average 2 days a week (with flexibility to meet the varying demands of this role). Some out-of-hours working will be required

Are you passionate about working with communities? Do you love nature and the outdoors, and have the enthusiasm and versatility to help our community be more engaged with the land in our guardianship and actively involved in its management?

We are seeking a part-time, freelance Community Ranger to strengthen connections between local communities and the land Tayvallich Initiative (TI) owns on their behalf, encompassing its natural and cultural heritage, with a particular emphasis on people who are experiencing barriers to becoming involved.

Outdoor Learning Officer - LESS (Lancaster District) CIC

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Salary: £27,963 for full time (pro-rata £22,370.40 for 30 hours per week for 3 years )

As part of the FoodFutures Where The Wildings Are! project, LESS has an exciting opportunity for someone who is experienced in delivering outdoor learning activities to children and young people, and an interest in permaculture or gardening, to become an Outdoor Learning Officer planning and delivering the PermaWarriors Club. PermaWarriors is a new 3 year program of permaculture, gardening and nature-based after-school clubs and holiday clubs across school communities in the Lancaster and Morecambe area, inspiring children and their families to develop a connection to their local environment.

Centres Assistant - Dorset Wildlife Trust

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Salary: £22,653 for FT. PT option available

Contract type: Fixed term / Working hours: Flexible

Location: The Kingcombe Centre, Toller Porcorum, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 0EQ

Do you love connecting people with wildlife? We have an exciting opportunity to join the centres team, based at Kingcombe Visitor Centre sitting within Kingcombe National Nature Reserve. If you enjoy sharing your knowledge, and inspiring others to take action for wildlife, this role may be for you.

Centres Education Officer - Dorset Wildlife Trust

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Salary: £27,056 p.a.

Contract type: Permanent / Working hours: Full time

Multiple locations: The Kingcombe Centre, Toller Porcorum, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 0EQ; Fine Foundation Wild Chesil Centre, Portland Beach Road, Portland, DT4 9XE

Dorset Wildlife Trust has a vacancy for someone to join us as a key member of the centres team, in a visitor facing role. Your prime role will be developing and delivering education and learning activities at our visitor centres, mainly the Kingcombe centre and the Wild Seas Chesil centre.

Assistant Warden (North Dorset) - Dorset Wildlife Trust

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Salary: £22,653

Contract type: Permanent / Working hours: Full time

Location: Dorset Wildlife Trust HQ, Brooklands Farm, Forston, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 7AA

Does the idea of spending your time assisting in our work on the DWT reserves of North Dorset appeal to you? If so, this is just the job for you!

Dorset Wildlife Trust is seeking an enthusiastic and hardworking Assistant Warden to work within our Nature Recovery Team.

Wilder Landscapes Assistant - Dorset Wildlife Trust

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Salary: £27,056 p.a.

Contract type: Fixed term / Working hours: Full time

Location: Kingcombe Farm, Kingcombe Farm, Clift Lane

Dorset Wildlife Trust is looking for a hardworking and passionate person to join our Wilder Landscapes team. The postholder will be based in West Dorset and will work alongside the team to help create more space for nature. The work will involve working with farmers, landowners and partner organisations as well as leading volunteer tasks such as meadow restoration and hedge laying.

'Making Space for Nature for Dorset' Project Vacancies - Dorset Wildlife Trust

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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.

Project Officer - Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust

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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.

People Engagement Officer - Natur am Byth - RSPB

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

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

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

Assistant Surveyor - Teesdale Special Flora Trust

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Two part-time, self-employed Assistant Surveyor Posts

Three days a week for 16 weeks from June to September 2024 at £250 per day.

Teesdale Special Flora Trust is seeking two part-time, self-employed assistant surveyors from June to September this year to learn the important skill of surveying the presence of rare plant species. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a nationally-renowned botanist in Upper Teesdale in the North Pennines National Landscape area. This is one of the UK’s five ‘botanical hotspots’, famous for its unique collection of rare and scarce plant species – the so-called ‘Teesdale Assemblage’.

Croft Woodland Adviser - Western Isles (Lewis & Harris) - Woodland Trust

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Part Time (18.75 hours), permanent

The Croft Woodlands Project is a partnership initiative between Woodland Trust Scotland, Point & Sandwick Trust, Scottish Forestry, Scottish Crofting Federation, the Woodland Croft Partnership, Shetland Amenity Trust, Orkney Woodlands Project and Communities Housing Trust. The aim is to engage crofters in woodland creation and management on their holdings to deliver multiple benefits in terms of biodiversity, agricultural diversification, landscape and environment. This role receives generous support from Point & Sandwick Trust.

Project Officer (Ecology and Land Management) – Linking Levisham - North York Moors National Park Authority

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Salary of £30,296 - £33,024 per annum
37 hours per week.
Fixed term contract to 31 March 2026 with potential for extension
Pickering or Helmsley, North Yorkshire

As a Project Officer, you will deliver key ecology and land management components of our Linking Levisham Project. Co-ordinating the collection and analysis of ecological and land management data, you will create a detailed baseline of the project area. You will also work with the Engagement Project Officer on specialist farmer and land manager engagement and develop a Citizen Science Programme.

Project Officer (Engagement) – Linking Levisham - North York Moors National Park Authority

Logo: North York Moors National Park Authority

Salary of £30,296 - £33,024 per annum
37 hours per week
Fixed term contract to 31 March 2026 with potential for extension
Helmsley, North Yorkshire

As a Project Officer, you will lead and co-ordinate engagement activities for our Linking Levisham Project. Managing engagement meetings, site visits and events, you will showcase the project, highlighting the vision and plans, in order to build support and awareness. You will also work with the Ecology and Land Management Project Officer on specialist farmer and land management engagement and develop a Citizen Science Programme.

Project Manager – Linking Levisham - North York Moors National Park Authority

Logo: North York Moors National Park Authority

Salary of £31,364 - £34,834 per annum

37 hours per week

Fixed term contract to 31 March 2026 with potential for extension

Helmsley, North Yorkshire

Linking Levisham is an ambitious, multi-partner Landscape Recovery Project at the heart of the North York Moors National Park. It will showcase landscape recovery in the spectacular, working North York Moors landscape, balancing nature recovery, farming and archaeological and geological interests for diverse audiences to experience. As a Project Manager, you will lead the work of our Linking Levisham project. Ensuring the project delivery strategy is translated into appropriate work briefs, you will manage the procurement process and delivery of each work package. You will co-ordinate the preparation of briefs and the procurement of specialist consultancy work and other external contractors.

Senior Conservation Grazing Officer - Essex Wildlife Trust

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Salary: £29,150.00 per annum

Contract type: Permanent / Working hours: Full time

Location: Blue House Farm Nature Reserve, Blue House Farm Chase, North Fambridge, Essex, CM3 6GU

We have an opportunity for a suitably qualified grazier and passionate ecologist to join us in this residential role, responsible Trust’s livestock at our Blue House Farm site, and other grazing areas across Essex. The Senior Conservation Grazing Officer is responsible for the day-to-day implementation of the Trust’s county-wide grazing programme across its nature reserves and Nature Discovery Parks. The postholder will assist the Grazing Manager in ensuring the annual completion of each nature reserve’s grazing plan and provide good day-to-day liaison with the Ranger teams and volunteer wardens throughout the grazing season.

Head Gardener - National Trust for Scotland

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Salary range: £36,469 - £40,342 pro-rata, per annum

Hours: 40

Location: Pitmedden Gardens and Haddo House

The Key Purposes of the job will be met by ensuring the conservation and practical maintenance of the garden and policies – whether through delegation to other staff/volunteers, or personal participation - in terms of: Practical horticulture; Plantsmanship; Research and development; Interpretation.

Trainer Assessor – Countryside & Water Environment (Home based – South West) - Bridgwater & Taunton College

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Salary: £29,957 - £31,952 per annum

Location: Home based – South West (Exeter, Tiverton or Taunton)

This post will plan, co-ordinate, train and assess for countryside worker, water environment worker, countryside ranger and related occupations, including contract delivery for the Environment Agency. Your knowledge and experience in the full range of countryside management, including water management, will be shared with apprentices and colleagues and the quality and delivery of the new programmes carefully updated and monitored with the support of the Deputy Head of Apprenticeships – Land Based.

Ribble Wader Monitoring Assistant – Part Time - RSPB

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Salary: £24,890.00 - £26,720.00 Pro Rata

This is a fixed-term role for 4 months, part-time for 15 hours per week

Location: Marshside

The role involves conducting breeding bird surveys at Newton and Freckleton Marshes and specific black-tailed godwit monitoring on Newton Marsh. The monitoring of breeding black-tailed godwits will include, finding nests using thermal imagers, siting and monitoring nest cameras, and monitoring chicks to fledging across neighbouring farmland.

Ranger - National Trust

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Salary: £23,868 per annum

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Stonehenge Landscape, King Barrows, SP4 7DD

Joining the hard working and dedicated team here at Wiltshire Landscape you will play a key role in maintaining our special places and ensuring these are presented to the highest possible standard. There is lots going on, including grassland management, practical estate maintenance work, regular volunteer work parties and ecological surveying. You will work both on your own and with other members of staff, as well as with several volunteer groups supervising them on a variety of practical tasks. It is all about being outside and getting your hands dirty, looking after our heritage and nature, and making our sites accessible for our many visitors.

Lead Ranger - National Trust

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Salary: £30,966 per annum

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Stonehenge Landscape, Stonehenge Cottages, SP4 7DD

This is a unique opportunity to be at the heart of this iconic and evolving landscape as hundreds of hectares of land are reverted to species rich chalk grassland protecting the outstanding archaeology and enhancing biodiversity for ever, for everyone. You will review and collate existing baseline data and instigate new surveys and monitoring to ensure that we keep a record of the changes and improvements we make. You will produce and implement a dynamic grassland management strategy with a focus on protecting and enhancing the World Heritage Site and its archaeology of outstanding universal value whilst developing some of the best species rich chalk grassland in the UK.

Area Ranger - National Trust

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Salary: £26,832 per annum

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Avebury Estate, Estate Office, High Street, Marlborough, SN8 1RF

With line management of two rangers to assist you, you will be involved with the protection and care of outstanding archaeology in the northern half of the World Heritage Site, as well as helping to deliver conservation outcomes across our many important grassland habitats. It is all about getting the best out of your team whilst looking after our heritage and nature and making our sites accessible for our many visitors. You will be working closely with our property staff, archaeologists and nature conservation advisers as well as overseeing the countryside volunteering offer ensuring we make best use of the many groups and individuals who want to volunteer with the team.

Ranger - National Trust

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Salary: £23,868 per annum

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract

Location: Avebury Estate, Estate Office, High Street, Marlborough, SN8 1RF

You will be working on internationally important archaeological sites and species rich chalk grassland habitats at Avebury and beyond. There is lots going on, including scrub management, practical estate maintenance work, regular volunteer work parties and ecological surveying, to name but a few elements of this exciting ranger role.

Severn Treescapes Trees and Woodland Advisor - Worcestershire Wildlife Trust

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Starting salary £25,000 - £27,000

This is a fixed term post that ends 31st March 2025.

Location: Lower Smite Farm, Smite Hill Hindlip , Worcester & Droitwich, Worcestershire, WR3 8SZ

Worcestershire Wildlife Trust is looking for a skilled and enthusiastic person to help deliver our Trees Call for Action Fund, Severn Treescapes: Wye to Wyre, connecting nature and people project. This is a well-established collaborative partnership with Gloucestershire and Herefordshire Wildlife Trusts and the successful applicant will help us to deliver a 60 mile corridor of enhanced tree cover to connect two of England’s largest semi-natural woodlands, from the Lower Wye Valley to the Wyre Forest.

Countryside Ranger (Purbeck) - Dorset Council

Salary £24,702 - £27,334 per annum (depending on experience)

Full time 37 hrs/week (mostly Monday - Friday, occasional working weekend and out of hours)

Permanent post

Based in Wareham

Dorset Council are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated person to join the dynamic Greenspace Ranger Team in Purbeck, you will help to manage and maintain the public rights of way, Dorset Council sites and verges in the Purbeck area. A strong customer focus, as you engage with residents, members of the public, and good practical skills are essential to ensure work is to a high standard.

Woodland Management Officer - Forest of Avon Trust

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Salary band £29-34,000 gross per annum

3 days per week (0.6 FTE)

Initial one year fixed term contract

Main office base in St Pauls, Bristol, with some homeworking optional

As one of England’s Community Forests, we are seeking a Woodland Management Officer to join our team. We are looking for a committed individual to plan and deliver woodland management projects across the region, working with private landowners, businesses, communities, councils and others, to help bring our Forest of Avon Plan to fruition. Are you knowledgeable about trees and woodlands? Experienced in working with a diverse range of partners to produce and deliver woodland management plans? Committed to making a difference and playing a key role with an ambitious and growing charity? If so, we have just the role for you!

Project Officer - Green Action Trust

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This is a permanent, full-time position, based from our office in Stepps, North Lanarkshire

To meet our objectives, the expectations of our partners and to play our part in responding to the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, we are pleased to be recruiting for a Project Officer. Our Project Officers are responsible of overseeing the on-site construction works, ensuring these are delivered on time and within the contracted price, while ensuring build quality. Project Officers work collaboratively with the technical design team, including Development Officers, Foresters and Landscape Architects, to produce contract documents, evaluate tenders and work with the selected contractor to realise project ambitions and outcomes during the development and delivery phases.

Project Officer - Neighbourhoods Nurturing Nature - Worcestershire Wildlife Trust

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Salary: £26,000 FTE (0.8 FTE)

Contract type: Fixed term / Working hours: Part time

Location: Lower Smite Farm, Smite Hill Hindlip, Worcester & Droitwich, Worcestershire, WR3 8SZ

Community engagement is an essential part of the Trust’s work. We believe that involving local people is crucial for the restoration and recovery of nature in Worcestershire. Our approach is simple, we listen to what communities want for their open spaces and work together to break down barriers. We are looking for someone who is highly personable, passionate and organised. You are committed to supporting community-driven action, at ease when it comes to building relationships in communities and equally comfortable leading and planning habitat creation activities and events. This role offers you the opportunity to make a real difference in the restoration of nature and to contribute to our vision of protecting 30% of land and sea by 2030.

Project Assistant - Neighbourhoods Nurturing Nature - Worcestershire Wildlife Trust

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Salary: £23,000 FTE (0.5 FTE)

Contract type: Fixed term / Working hours: Part time

Location: Lower Smite Farm, Smite Hill Hindlip , Worcester & Droitwich, Worcestershire, WR3 8SZ

Our Neighbourhoods Nurturing Nature project centres on the River Salwarpe to River Severn corridor, encompassing Droitwich Spa, Fernhill Heath, Worcester and Kempsey. This corridor features a variety of natural landscapes, such as rivers, canals, parks, grasslands and woodlands, all of which host crucial habitats and species. It is rich in opportunities to support and encourage local communities to take action for nature in their own neighbourhoods. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a small team delivering a range of community engagement activities, events and workshops to help connect more people with their local open spaces.

Regen Stock Person and Land Stewardship Assistant - Ampney Brook Farm

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Full-time with rotational weekend work | Accommodation available from late summer | Salary in accordance with experience

Ampney Brook Farm is a 600-acre mixed organic farm near Cirencester. We are looking for an energetic and dynamic team player with a passion for regenerative farming, soil health and biodiversity to assist with day-to-day farm jobs. This is hands-on role across our 600-acre certified organic mixed farm with a variety of seasonal tasks including cattle moving, feeding, electric fencing, handling and husbandry, routine yard, machinery and equipment maintenance, habitat and biodiversity management, maintenance of fences, hedges, woodlands and stewardship areas, tractor driving, farm infrastructure setup and improvements.

Bat Survey Assistants (Casual) - Angela Graham Bat Consultancy Service Ltd

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I'm looking for assistants to help on a casual basis with dusk-emergence and dawn return-to-roost surveys, mainly in and around Manchester/Lancashire, from May to September inclusive.

Craftsperson - Forestry England

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Salary: £24323

Permanent, full-time

Location: The New Forest, SO43 7NH

We are looking for an enthusiastic, hardworking and highly motivated team player who enjoys practical tasks in an outdoor environment. Working in the New Forest, Hampshire you will be part of the Open Forest team completing a wide range of management and maintenance tasks to help meet the team's and district's work commitments as instructed by the Open Habitats and Beat Managers.

Senior Policy Officer – Water - RSPB

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Salary: £38,389.00 - £41,212.00 Per Annum
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Location: Flexible in UK
An outstanding opportunity to help turn around the alarming state of England's freshwater habitats. You will work with a diverse range of teams across the RSPB to drive forward our policy and advocacy work on water and coastal policy issues and influence important debates and decisions across the England.

Conservation & Volunteering Officer - Ribble Rivers Trust

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Salary: £26,500

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Contract: Fixed term 2 years with possibility of extension

Location: Clitheroe, Lancashire

With Support from Defra’s Species Survival Fund we are launching a new programme of river improvement projects called ‘Ribble Revival: Room for Rivers’. This programme has significant amounts of on the ground habitat conservation activities, with most having elements of volunteering. These activities include; tree planting, woodland maintenance, fencing, wetland plug planting, and Fish Passage, to name a few. This role will undertake the delivery of many of these activities independently and through the supervision of volunteering days. The role will ensure that we create and maintain high quality habitats, as well as ensuring volunteers work safely, deliver positive conservation actions, are engaged & learning about river conservation and enjoying nature.

Community Engagement Officer - Ribble Rivers Trust

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Salary: £26,000 - £28,000 dependant on experience.

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Contract: Fixed term 2 years with possibility of extension

Location: The post holder will be based principally within RRT’s offices in Clitheroe, with travel around the catchment.

To engage with communities and promote and support the delivery of the Ribble Revival: Room for Rivers programme. This programme has significant amounts of on the ground habitat conservation activities, with most having elements of volunteering and community engagement. These activities include; tree planting, woodland maintenance, fencing, wetland creation, and fish passage, to name a few. The programme seeks to put local communities at the heart of the projects, involving them in design, monitoring and delivery. As such the programme requires a dedicated Community Engagement Officer.

Senior Ecologist - EMEC Ecology

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Salary: £34,653.82 - £36,766.21 per annum

Contract type: Permanent / Working hours: Full time

Location: Hybrid (Remote/The Old Ragged School, Nottingham) with regular travel within the Network Rail's Eastern Region

Initially you will work primarily with one of EMEC’s most significant clients, completing an innovative regional biodiversity project for a national infrastructure provider to deliver large-scale biodiversity improvements across their estate. You will be an ecological lead for a section of the project and collaborate with a varied team of ecologists including senior industry leaders, to ensure the best ecological practice is incorporated into our clients new biodiversity processes. Your knowledge and expertise will be utilised to produce Biodiversity Action Plans and Habitat Management Plans, creating a framework for long-term Biodiversity Net Gain at a regional scale.

Growing Together Project Officer - Surrey Hills Society

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Salary: £28,000 pro rata
Contract Length: 18 months
Hours of work: Full time preferred, 37.5 hours per week. Please note we will consider applications for a minimum of 30 hours per week.
Located at: Surrey Hills Estate Office - Warren Farm Barns, Dorking, RH5 6DG, site visits across the Surrey Hills National Landscape, wider Surrey County and working from home

To work with the Project and Volunteer Manager on leading and managing the planning, delivery, and evaluation of ‘Growing Together: Inclusion and Diversity in the Surrey Hills’ in close collaboration with the Surrey Hills Society Team and a Project Steering Group. This project aims to increase opportunities for inclusivity in the countryside by working with three primary target groups. These are Surrey Choices, supporting adults with learning disabilities, Surrey Coalition of Disabled people which represents and supports Disabled People, and Surrey Minority Ethnic Forum (SMEF) which represents more than 60 multi-ethnic community groups in Surrey.

Community Ranger - Groundwork Yorkshire

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Salary: £23,088

Duration: Full Time, Permanent

Location: Main base: Fryston Country Trails – Castleford, Wakefield

Working across 3 sites: Fryston Country Trails, Frickley Country Park and Rabbit Ings Country Park.

Groundwork Yorkshire Ranger team manage three country parks on behalf of the Land Trust: Fryston Country Trails, Frickley Country Park and Rabbit Ings Country Park. The rangers are responsible for keeping the sites safe for visitors, maintaining and improving habitats for the local wildlife and running events for schools and communities.

Community Grants Manager - Trust for Oxfordshire's Environment

Hours of employment – Part time, three days (21 hours) per week, negotiable

Salary - £25,000 - £33,000 (dependent on experience)

Established in 2011, the Trust for Oxfordshire's Environment (TOE) is an independent environmental funder based in Oxfordshire. Since its inception, TOE has disbursed more than £3.4 million in grants to fund over 450 high-impact, locally led projects across Oxfordshire, supporting biodiversity, access to green spaces and public engagement with nature. TOE has been successful in raising funds from a range of sources including the Landfill Communities Fund, local authorities, charitable trusts and the corporate sector.

Senior Land Adviser - Somerset Wildlife Trust

Logo: Somerset Wildlife Trust

Salary: Manager Level 3: £31,000 - £34,000

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.

Data, Evidence and Engagement Officer - Westcountry Rivers Trust

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This is a permanent, 37.5 hour per week contract after a successful 6 month probation period.

The starting salary for this role is between £23,300 and £25,500 per annum (dependent on experience).

The Evidence & Engagement Team is instrumental in collating, analysing and presenting visually engaging data to ensure that the Trust is delivering the right measures, in the right places, and in monitoring and reporting the impacts of our work. A key element of this role will be to provide GIS, data, evidence and engagement support to the Trust’s on-going work in using evidence led, catchment based/whole ecosystem approaches across the river catchments of the South West and beyond.

Equine Groundsman - Combined Counties Properties

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We are looking for a full time groundsman to care for our 45 acre equestrian property. Five day week, Monday to Friday. We are a neat setup and take pride in how smart the property looks. We have a small team based here and we are looking for a hard working, positive and happy individual to fill the role.

The role is varied, from looking after the land and fencing, harrowing equestrian arenas, looking after the vehicles, running errands and odd jobs in and around the house, outbuildings and stables.

Rights of Way and Access Support Officer - Exmoor National Park Authority

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Salary of £14,576 - £15,587 per annum (pro rata full time equivalent £24,294 to £25,979)

Part time

Exmoor House, Dulverton, Somerset

As a Rights of Way and Access Support Officer, you will provide technical support to the Access and Recreation Team and volunteers. This varied role will not only see you supporting rights of way and access, but supporting volunteer programmes, such as our Path Watcher scheme, and assisting in vital activities such as Public Path Order work. Alongside data collection and record keeping, you will also update our website and play a key role in producing communications for our events programme.

Rother Partnership Coordinator - Arun & Rother Rivers Trust

Logo: Arun & Rothers Rivers Trust

Full time
Contract Length: 2 years
Location: West Sussex
This role will support the establishment, growth and success of the Rother Partnership. The partnership will bring together a diverse range of stakeholders, landowners, farmers, community groups and individuals to collaboratively set aims, objectives, and a costed action plan to bring about positive landscape scale change for the Western Rother. The Coordinator will create an ambitious, strategic case for support, working with core partners to submit a bid or bids to major funding streams.

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

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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.

Fundraising Manager - Devon Wildlife Trust

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Salary: £40,692 plus 7% pension
This is a full-time permanent post based at Cricklepit Mill, Exeter. A part-time appointment at 0.8 FTE will be considered.
Devon Wildlife Trust is looking for a Fundraising Manager to lead our Grants & Major Giving team, which plays a vital role in helping the organisation to secure the resources it needs to achieve more for nature’s recovery in Devon. The Trust has a fantastic track record of high quality fundraising activity that is rooted in respect for our supporters, in strong partnerships, and in our desire to build a community of nature champions. We are looking for an experienced fundraiser who can manage an effective team to oversee income generation from grants, legacies, major donors and corporate supporters.

Tree Officer (South) - Oxfordshire County Council

Logo: Oxfordshire County Council

Salary range: £32,076 - £34,834 per annum
Hours per week: 37
Contract type: Permanent
Work location: You will have a based at Sutton Farm, Stanton Harcourt and you may be required to work from this location.
Proactive tree care, tree retention and canopy growth of our tree assets will enable delivery of key objectives to aid resilience and improve the environmental benefits for residents and visitors across the County. Your role comes with plenty of variety and is focused on caring for a varied and established tree stock, while identifying opportunities to increase canopy cover.

Ranger (maternity cover) - Northumberland National Park Authority

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£26,873 - £29,777 per annum

Full time (37 hours per week)

Temporary contract (maternity cover up to 12 months)

Based at Bardon Mill, Northumberland.

Northumberland National Park is a stunning expanse of natural beauty, rich in cultural heritage and biodiversity. We are seeking a passionate and dedicated individual to join our team as a Ranger. As a Ranger, you will play a crucial role in the conservation and enjoyment of this unique landscape, ensuring that visitors have a memorable experience.

Bat Surveyor - Phillips Ecology

Due to an increasing workload we are looking for additional bat surveyors to join our team of trusted sub-contractors in the Hampshire area and neighbouring Counties. We are looking for both experienced surveyors and those who wish to gain experience in bat surveying. Training from a friendly team of experienced and licensed surveyors will be provided during April 2024.

Site Manager - RSPB

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Location: Corrimony, Inverness, Highland, IV63 6TW
Salary: £36,577.00 - £39,267.00 pa
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent

Are you looking to combine your passion for nature with your land management and communication skills? If so this is the prefect role for you! Set in the North West Highlands, RSPB Corrimony reserve is part of the iconic Glen Affric landscape. We are looking for a site manager to be based in the local community and manage our nature reserve.

Hebridean Mink Project Support (3 positions) - NatureScot

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Hours: 35

Contract: Fixed Term to 31 March 2025

Salary: £27,940

Location: Uist or Lewis and Harris

Job Purpose: To carry out control of mink in support of a project set up and funded by NatureScot. The project aims to eradicate American mink (Neovision vision) from the spectacular landscapes of the Outer Hebrides.

Coastal Visitor Engagement Rangers - Lulworth Estate

Pay: £12.00/hr

Dates: May to early September

You will be working at one of the most popular locations along the World Heritage Jurassic Coast in Dorset, ensuring visitors to the site have a safe and enjoyable visit, and adhere to the countryside code. Working mainly outdoors, you will have a passion for conservation and people, good communication skills, be level-headed in various situations, have a love for the natural environment, a good level of physical fitness and ideally a good knowledge of the local area including flora, fauna, geology and history.

Fieldwork Instructor - Wild Things environmental education in action

Salary: £22,750 per annum

Hours: 35 hours per week (fulltime)

Contract Duration: Approximately 7 months (up to October 2024)

Location: Findhorn

Award-winning environmental education charity, Wild Things, is seeking an experienced outdoor practitioner to join the fieldwork team in the delivery of our charitable and social enterprise programmes.

(Assistant) Forest Manager & (Senior) Forest Manager - Scottish Woodlands Ltd

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Monitoring and Evaluation Officer - Ribble Rivers Trust

Logo: Ribble Rivers Trust

Purpose: To lead on the internal monitoring and evaluation activities of the programme

Location: Clitheroe

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £27,000 to £29,500 subject to experience

Contract: Fixed term 2 years with possibility of extension
Ribble Rivers Trust (RRT) is a regional charity established in 1998 to conserve the Ribble Catchment, particularly its rivers, brooks, becks, and streams. Over the last 10 years, RRT has developed and grown into a sector-leading organisation, known for getting things done, strong partnership working and a collaborative approach.

Admin Officer - Scottish Ornithologists' Club

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£22,393-£26,874 (under review for 2024-25)

Full time, Permanent (job-share considered)

Aberlady, East Lothian

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who is highly organised and thrives on a varied work schedule. The successful candidate will play a key role in assisting the Club Manager in the running of the Club. They will become the key initial point of contact for members and others and fundamental to the smooth running of member services.

Policy Officer (or Senior Policy Officer) - Wildlife and Countryside Link

Full time, permanent

Hybrid - Home-working and Vauxhall (London)

We’re looking for a Policy Officer to help develop and promote environmental policy on behalf of our 82 environmental charity members. The Government has promised to halt the decline of nature by 2030. This role is about making sure the urgent action needed to meet that pledge is delivered. Your job will be to convene some of England’s best environmental policy experts to agree bold and effective shared policy positions.

Club Manager - Scottish Ornithologists' Club

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£35,000-£37,000 per annum

Full time, Permanent (part-time considered)

Aberlady, East Lothian (some home-working possible)

The Scottish Ornithologists’ Club, one of Scotland’s leading wildlife bodies and a registered charity, is excited to be seeking to fill its newly created post of Club Manager. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who is keen to lead and drive strategic direction for the Club and its members. We are looking for a manager who can lead our team of staff and work with our trustees (‘Council’) and committees to share and promote members’ passion and commitment to the study and enjoyment of birds in Scotland.

Community Forest Manager - Aigas Community Forest

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£35,000 - £45,000 per year FTE (paid pro-rata) (dependent on experience)

Between 16 and 24 hours per week (2-3 days)

Temporary contract for a period of 23 months

Location: Aigas, By Beauly Inverness-shire

Aigas Community Forest covers an area of 260 hectares. The Forest is presently delivering a LTFP. We are looking for an experienced forester/forest manager to work with the board to continue the work to implement this plan and to put into practice our Vision for the future of the forest, which includes working with volunteers.

Landscape Contractor - Brindle & Green

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Salary £25 - 31k per annum

Brindle & Green are looking for full time landscapers to join our Environmental Contracting Division based at our Derby office. The successful candidates will work closely with our landscape designers, managers and contracting team to implement soft landscape plans for various clients nationwide.

Work will involve turfing, planting and seeding in accordance to detailed landscape plans, carried out to spec. The ideal candidate will have a passion for delivering beautiful work and be experienced in all areas of soft landscaping.

Environmental Contracting Technician - Brindle & Green

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Salary £25 - 31k per annum

Brindle & Green are looking for two full-time environmental contractors to join our environmental contracting division based at our Derby Office. The successful candidates will work closely with our Ecology, Arboriculture, and Landscape teams to implement mitigation schemes, habitat creation and habitat enhancement recommended and approved within our reports, under the supervision of the departmental manager.

Farm Technician - Louma Farm and Retreat

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Louma Farm and Retreat is an exciting new destination in the glorious West Dorset Countryside. Our focus is on wellness and a big part of that is centred on producing wholesome food for our guests from our farm and garden. We farm and garden regeneratively and are adopting principles of agroforestry and silvopasture.

Duties will include: Livestock and housing checks, cleaning, maintenance and care; Milking our Red Ruby Devons; Lambing and calving duties; Grazing and land management

Senior Site Manager - RSPB

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Salary: £41,593.00 - £44,651.00 Per Annum
Hours: Full-Time, 37.5 hours pwk
Contract: Permanent
Location: Haweswater, Penrith, Cumbria
We are looking for an organised, dynamic, and passionate person to lead the team and work programme delivery on this large and exciting upland partnership reserve. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in driving and overseeing a significant and complex work programme across Haweswater with a wider landscape impact. The successful candidate will have an important external role, building positive relationships with key partners and stakeholders, so that partnerships policies and messages are understood and furthered within relevant partnerships, communities, the media and to a range of stakeholders and decision makers.

Nature Recovery Officer - Cranborne Chase National Landscape

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Salary: £37,336 - £39,186

Working Pattern: Permanent Full Time

Location: Tollard Royal, Wiltshire, SP5 5QA

Cranborne Chase National Landscape is a nationally designated landscape and hosted by Wiltshire Council. As Nature Recovery Officer you’ll consult widely with multiple stakeholders to finalise our Nature Recovery Plan, prepare the Delivery Plan and guide its implementation on behalf of the National Landscape Partnership. This post will move from being office based to begin with, to being much more delivery focussed.

Arborist / Tree Surgeon Trainer - Activate Learning

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Full or part time

Merrist Wood College, Guildford

Activate Learning is a pioneering education group with a global reach, committed to transforming lives through our approach to learning. Merrist Wood College are looking for an arborist/tree surgeon professional who is keen to pass on their knowledge and give something back by instructing others in their area of expertise. As an Arboriculture Vocational Trainer, you will deliver short course provision and practical modules for full time students. You will work side-by-side with our arboriculture teaching staff and support in delivering purposeful, yet exciting practical and theory lessons. You will be responsible for guiding learners and candidates as they build a wide range of practical skills across vocational pathways in Arboriculture.

SCRAmble Editor - Scottish Countryside Rangers' Association

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A new volunteer Editor for the Scottish Countryside Rangers' Association (SCRA) Magazine, SCRAmble is sought!

The current SCRAmble Editor will be stepping down at the AGM in April, so SCRA Council are now looking for a new Editor. With 3 editions a year, and working with a wonderful Designer, the Editing of SCRAmble is an excellent addition to any CV. You don't have to be a 'serving' Ranger in Scotland, but you do need to be someone who cares about Rangering in Scotland and knows people and places.

Senior Ecologist - Open Spaces Landscape and Arboricultural Consultants Limited

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£35,000-£45,000

Open Spaces, based just outside of the ancient town of Maldon, Essex, is an expanding, multidisciplinary consultancy practice (landscape architects, tree and ecology consultants), offering an exciting opportunity for the right person. Our work encompasses a wide range of project types from single residential developments to multi-phase housing, commercial and educational projects. In order to grow the ecology side of the business we are looking to bring ecology in-house by seeking an experienced, self-motivated, enthusiastic person to undertake a range of both field surveying and desk-based analysis and report writing.

Seasonal Field Surveyors - Ecology Solutions

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Competitive salary plus expenses

Ecology Solutions is a leading consultancy with an extensive range of expertise, specialising in ecology planning solutions for numerous, diverse high-profile clients within both the public and private sectors nationwide. Our Hertfordshire office is seeking to recruit Seasonal Field Surveyors to be involved in protected species survey and translocation work in various locations across the UK.

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