Head of Development

About the role

As Head of Development, you will lead and develop one of the Western Forest’s most critical functions. Your purpose is clear: to ensure Western Forest is nurtured from start-up, scaled to enable impactful delivery and sustained to ensure it strategically delivers for the long-term. You will lead effective development of our brand, communications, offer to our partners and key audiences, ensuring the Western Forest is strategically supported and funded, enabling us to deliver our ambitions at scale.

This is a senior leadership role with strategic, financial, and cultural responsibility. You will shape how people experience, support, and champion our work— turning a love of our region’s trees, woodlands and landscapes into long term commitment and investment.

Join us in growing the Western Forest

The Western Forest is a bold new initiative – part of England’s National Forest network and hosted by the Forest of Avon Trust – to drive an ambitious mission to restore nature, improve wellbeing, and create a climate-resilient landscape across the West of England.

Currently the Western Forest is a five year, £7.5m government funded programme. Looking ahead we will firstly match funding working with our partners and then explore develop our income streams with a focus on grant, government funding and corporate partnership. This is where you come in.

Go to our website to download the full recruitment pack with more info about the role, a message from our Director, full job description and person specification.

If you would like an informal conversation about the role, you are welcome to contact Jamie Audsley (Director) via email at [email protected] or 07950 658 865.

Interviews will be held on Wednesday 15 April in Bristol