Senior Nature Recovery Manager (Wilder Wight and Solent)

Senior Nature Recovery Manager (Wilder Wight and Solent)  

Salary: £41,000 with a review when probation is complete  

Location: Ryde, Isle of Wight (Little Duxmore Farm, Havenstreet) 

Full Time – 35 Hours per week  

Permanent Contract 

The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust is a grassroots movement working for nature’s recovery and to bring people closer to nature. 

‘Our vision for a wilder future is beautiful and vital!’ 

Our future has to be wilder! 

We are seeking a Senior Nature Recovery Manager (Wilder Wight and Solent) to join our cause. 

The Senior Nature Recovery Manager (Wilder Wight and Solent) is critical in shaping and delivering the vision for the area and guiding the implementation of objectives on the ground. The Isle of Wight offers much potential for delivering landscape scale restoration through trialled and innovative solutions. The Solent area includes some of the Trusts best loved nature reserves but under pressure from a range of issues requiring proactive management and engagement to facilitate nature and its recovery into the future. This is an exciting opportunity to oversee an area-based team managing some of the Trusts flagship reserves and leading on the delivery and management of the organisation’s first rewilding sites, an expanding portfolio of nature reserves and ambitious plans for species recovery. 

Reporting to the Director of Nature Recovery, Wilder Wight, Solent and Seas, this role will bring operational leadership and management capacity across two highly important areas, overseeing delivery of strategic objectives and managing the conservation teams. The Isle of Wight is facing some major challenges, but the Trust is demonstrating how nature led approaches can resolve many of the local issues through ecosystem service provision. It’s an exciting time for the Island with the Trust delivering Wilder 2030 and through collaboration with partners much more is planned for nature and people by delivering land and seascape scale restoration. The Solent area hosts some of the Trusts most loved nature reserves. This area is under pressure from development, climate change and sea level rise posing some challenging scenarios for the future and the need for proactive engagement and problem solving to ensure sustainable solutions for the future. 

Wild About Inclusion! 

As an inclusive employer we recognise that our workforce needs to better reflect the communities in which we live and work.  We encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly those underrepresented within our sector, including people from black, Asian, minority Ethnic backgrounds and people with disabilities. We are committed to creating a Movement that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities. 

We are happy to discuss the possibilities of hybrid and flexible working 

This role will be based at our office at Little Duxmore Farm, however, we are happy to accommodate a hybrid working routine, and discuss a pattern of work which mutually suits the candidate. Officially, office hours are Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm with an hour lunch break. 

We offer a wide range of benefits including a competitive salary, generous annual leave allowance, a contributory pension scheme, life assurance, learning and development support, 24-hour access to our employee assistance programme and more. 

Closing date:  07th August 2024 

Interviews:  16th August 2024 

To apply for the role, please click on the 'Apply Now' button at the top of the page. In the ‘supporting information’ section, you’ll need to demonstrate, with detailed examples, how you meet the job requirements using the Job Description and Recruitment Pack below. 

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