Landscape Recovery Project Manager

Landscape Recovery Project Manager

Reports to: Head of Freshwater

Salary: £32,000 – £35,000 per annum (depending on experience)

Contract: Fixed term until April 2026
Hours:
37.5 per week

Based at: Elm Tree Court, Devizes with some home working available

The Trust is seeking a highly motivated and personable individual to join our ambitious and
successful Water Team. You will play a key role in preparing, managing and delivering our
prestigious river and wetland restoration projects and join a dynamic team within a charity
committed to nature’s recovery across Wiltshire.

Within the Water Team you will work with the Head of Freshwater to deliver the Wylye Chalk
Stream Project – Round 2 of Defra’s Landscape Recovery scheme. This ambitious partnership
project is looking to restore natural functioning and biodiversity to the River Wylye on a
scale never seen before in our chalk river catchments. You will have the opportunity to work
with range of enthusiastic stakeholders, from farmers and angling clubs to other eNGOs,
corporates and statutory bodies.

We would love to hear from you if you have knowledge and experience of working with a wide
range of stakeholders to deliver projects in the freshwater environment. We also welcome
applications from those with knowledge and experience of hydromorphology and geomorphology,
private finance markets for ecosystem services, or environmental project management and design.

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is fully committed to safeguarding the welfare of all children, young
people and adults at risk. All WWT staff will receive safeguarding training and must ensure
that they comply with WWT’s safeguarding policy.

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is equal opportunity employer. We are committed to developing an
inclusive and diverse organisation, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be
their full selves. To achieve our vision of creating a world richer in nature, we need talented
people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side. Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is an exemplary
employer with high staff satisfaction and multiple benefits for employees. These benefits
include:

• Employer pension contribution up to 7.5%
• Group risk insurance – death in service and income protection
• 27 days annual leave plus public holidays
• Staff discount at Dragonfly café
• Head office in town centre with parking
• Cycle to Work Scheme

A full job description and application pack is available to download from our website here. 

If, after reading the job description you would like to discuss this opportunity informally,
please contact Alice Eley (Head of Freshwater) on 07872 117386 or [email protected].

Closing date: 9am Monday 12th February 2024

Successful candidates will be notified by the end of Wednesday 14th February. We regret we are
unable to provide feedback to candidates who are not selected for interview.

First round interviews: Monday 19th February 2024 – In-person at East Farm,
Codford, BA12 0PG

Please submit your application to [email protected]

(Please note we are only able to accept applications via our application form and when
completing the form please ensure you use the ‘supporting statement’ section to evidence how
you believe you meet the essential and desirable criteria detailed in the Job Description. This
information will be used in our short-listing process).

As a charity Wiltshire Wildlife Trust Ltd is committed to saving costs. Therefore, if you
have not received an invitation to attend an interview within three weeks of the closing date,
you should assume that your application has been unsuccessful.