Nature Recovery Manager
Salary £ 32,500-34,000
Queenswood Country Park and working from home
Vacancy listed 21/03/2025
Application deadline 20/04/2025
Details
Nature Recovery Manager

You will lead a busy and dedicated team, providing habitat enhancement and conservation advice through our ambitious and successful Nature Recovery Project: Wyescapes and Wye Adapt to Climate Change project. You will manage the projects delivering agreed outcomes on time and within budget. You will liaise with project partners, develop relationships with stakeholders and support the project teams.

Building on our past successes you’ll be in prime position to find the opportunities and help guide the projects that deliver nature’s recovery in Herefordshire. You will help to develop and undertake new nature recovery projects and work with partners to optimise nature’s recovery. You will be working closely with partners and a wide range of stakeholders, using your biodiversity expertise to help deliver new and improved habitat across Herefordshire.

This is a varied and skilled role and will require you to work on a diverse range of projects from planning applications to landscape-scale restoration programmes. You’ll have relevant qualifications and/or significant experience in, land management, ecological survey and land-use planning, excellent communication skills, demonstrable enthusiasm for wildlife, good field identification skills and a capacity to work to challenging deadlines. The post requires a full driving licence.

Main Job Purpose:

· To develop and manage projects that benefit priority species, wild life habitat and land management and provide and develop support of the wider aspects of the Trust activities.

· Drive the acquisition of external funding through grants and other sources

· Work in partnership with a broad range of project partners to develop initiatives and maximise the impact of the trust work

· Utilise a variety of external funding streams to develop conservation project evaluation and reporting

Term: Permanent/Full time 37 hours per week

Reports to: Head of Nature Recovery

Location: Queenswood Country Park, Hybrid, Home working, Site visits

Management Responsibility: 3-5 Staff of the Nature recovery team and occasional mentoring and support for trainees and volunteers



Benefits

We offer some fantastic benefits including:
• 25 days holiday plus bank hols p.a. pro rata with incremental increase with length of service
• 5 % Employer pension contributions
• Flexible working
• Health cash plan
• Sick Pay
• Free parking
• Training & development
Work and live in a beautiful rural county with a relatively low cost of living

Notes

To apply please upload your CV and a comprehensive covering letter
In your covering letter you will need to demonstrate the following skills and experience using the STAR method:

· Knowledge and experience of nature recovery and/or conservation;

· Experience of managing successful landscape scale projects;

· Experience of delivering results through others on time and to required standards;

· Ability to prioritise and organise tasks and resources to ensure timely achievement of results;

· Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships;

· Ability to communicate effectively by conveying information and ideas clearly, accurately and persuasively through speech and writing

Closing date: midnight Sunday 20th April 2025 Interviews: Wednesday 30th April and Thursday 1st May 2025
To make an enquiry about this role please contact Claire Spicer Head of Nature Recovery on 07341736183.

Attached documents
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Job Description Nature Recovery Manager Staff_pack_March_2025_NR_Manager.pdf
HWT Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policy HWT_EQUAL_OPPORTUNITIES_AND_DIVERSITY_POLICY.pdf
Recruitment of ex offenders policy statement Recruitment_of_ex_offenders_policy_statement.pdf
New Diversity Monitoring form 05_New_Diversity_Monitoring_Form.xlsx
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