Nature Recovery Manager

The Nature Recovery Manager at Herefordshire Wildlife Trust will lead a team to enhance habitats and provide conservation advice through various projects. Responsibilities include managing project outcomes, liaising with partners, and developing new initiatives for nature recovery in Herefordshire. The role requires relevant experience in land management and ecological survey, excellent communication skills, and involves hybrid working with site visits.
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 visit

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

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.