Nature Recovery Manager

The Nature Recovery Manager at Herefordshire Wildlife Trust will lead a team focused on habitat enhancement and conservation through the Wyescapes and Wye Adapt to Climate Change projects. Responsibilities include managing projects, liaising with stakeholders, and securing funding. The role requires experience in land management and ecological survey, excellent communication skills, and a full driving license. The position is permanent, full-time, and offers hybrid working options.
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 a prime position to find 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 optimize 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 programs. 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 license.

Main Job Purpose:
• To develop and manage projects that benefit priority species, wildlife habitat, and land management, and provide and develop support for the wider aspects of the Trust’s 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 maximize the impact of the Trust’s work.
• Utilize 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 holidays per annum (pro-rata), with incremental increases 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 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 prioritize and organize 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.

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