Nature Recovery Partnership Manager

37 hours per week – (flexible working options available)
Fixed Term / Secondment to July 2025
Reference: 13747

We are passionate about improving the future for our customers, our communities and the
environment.

If you are too, join us as a Nature Recovery Partnership Manager and make a
huge and meaningful impact. Your innovation and drive will help us to continue improving and
evolving. Our opportunities and support will enable you to make a difference and leave a
positive, lasting legacy.

Reimagine the possibilities.

This is an exciting opportunity to be at the heart of the Nature Recovery Partnership for
Norfolk and Suffolk. Leading our joint work to develop Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRS)
for the two counties, to help shape and realise landscape scale nature recovery across the
region. You will be based with Suffolk County Council’s (SCC) Natural and Historic Environment
Team but work as part of a joint project team with Norfolk County Council. You will have the
ability to work flexibly from different locations across the two counties.

We are looking for someone with a passion to foster collaboration and build alliances that can
deliver nature recovery at scale across the two counties. You will have the drive and vision to
engage a wide range of sectors and interests in developing the Local Nature Recovery
Strategies, and an awareness and understanding of how these can help support nature recovery
actions and nature-based solutions going forward. We are happy to consider secondment options
for suitable candidates.

Your role and responsibilities

• You will help shape and deliver the respective Local Nature Recovery Strategies for the two
  counties through the Norfolk and Suffolk Nature Recovery Partnership and wider collaboration
  and shared resourcing.
• Working with a wide range of stakeholders and delivery bodies, promoting innovation and
  good practice in addressing the priorities identified in the LNRS and Norfolk and Suffolk
  Natural Capital Evidence compendium.
• Identify policy and funding mechanisms emerging from government and business and help to
  facilitate greater awareness and investment in those opportunities across the two counties,
  supporting collaborative approaches where appropriate.
• The role supports the work of the Norfolk and Suffolk Nature Recovery Partnership and will
  involve representing Norfolk and Suffolk’s nature recovery ambitions locally, regionally, and
  nationally.

What you will need

• To be a self-starter, able to work independently with limited supervision, with good
  analytical and entrepreneurial skills, be an effective communicator, and have good experience
  working with multiple interests and stakeholders towards shared goals.
• You will need to demonstrate a broad understanding of the environmental, economic, and
  social context for nature recovery across Norfolk and Suffolk, as well as a good awareness of
  the broader socio-political context.
• Experience in applying natural capital, ecosystem services, and nature-based solutions to
  real situations would be ideal but not essential, as would experience in developing proposals
  for funding or investment.

The team

You will be working as part of a project team across both County Councils as well as through
the Nature Recovery Partnership to deliver the LNRS. You will be working alongside
knowledgeable and committed professionals within a supportive, learning environment. There will
be opportunities to contribute to wider initiatives and programmes, particularly where
potential synergies with this role exist. You will be able to set learning and development
goals and be supported in achieving those. 

Shaping Careers and Learning

We want to champion talent and seek to continuously develop everyone’s professional knowledge,
potential and job satisfaction. Through accessible learning opportunities and clear career
pathways we aim to identify individual strengths, diversify skill sets and enable people, from
all walks of life, to build influential and impactful careers. 

Empowering Everyone

We’re big believers in potential, possibility and the power of different ideas. We’re always
searching for ways to encourage, respect and enable everyone to be the best they can be. We aim
to include all communities we serve in our representation. To achieve this, we encourage
applications from everyone. 

For more information

Please contact Tim De-Keyzer (he/him), Head of Natural and Historic
Environment, or Wendy Brooks, Head of Environment at Norfolk County Council,
for a casual conversation. You can reach them by calling 07732 604171 (for
Tim) or (01603) 223853 (for Wendy) or by emailing [email protected] or
[email protected]

Closing date: 11.30pm, 18 February 2024.

This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people
and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. DBS
(Disclosure and Barring Service) checks or police vetting will be required for relevant posts. 

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