Nature Recovery Manager

Join us. We’re foresters, professionals and experts. We are a passionate team who love to share our enthusiasm and want to make a positive difference for you and the environment.

Together, we’re using our scale and expertise to grow the nation’s forests for everyone. We’re already adapting our landscapes for tomorrow, and getting stuff done today, like creating amazing places and experiences for you to enjoy. We’re providing vital homes for wildlife, making our air cleaner to breathe and producing sustainable timber.

We’ve not always been known for our conservation work, but Forestry England have bold ambitions to be a leading force for nature recovery. Our progress is real and measurable: FSC certified since 1999, WWF’s ‘Gift to the Earth’ award in 2001, and commitments to restore all our ancient woodlands in 2007 and 11,000 hectares of open habitats in 2013. In 2022 we launched our first Biodiversity Plan with a clear goal to make the nation’s forests the most valuable places for wildlife to thrive and expand in England.

Explore our work to see how we’re putting nature recovery at the heart of England’s forests:

• White-tailed eagle reintroduction
• Nightjar Conservation
• Creating Wilder Forests

What you’ll do…

As Nature Recovery Manager in Forestry England’s Yorkshire District, you’ll lead a programme of ambitious nature recovery projects including landscape-scale Wild Areas, pioneering species reintroductions, and the creation nature-rich, dynamic habitat networks. You’ll provide leadership to a small team of specialist project officers, supporting and overseeing effective project delivery, budget development and tracking, risk management, and stakeholder engagement. Your ecological knowledge and experience in project management will support a fast-paced scaling of impactful, evidence-based nature recovery.

Please see the job description for more information and details about what we need from you.

Where you’ll work…

The post will initially be based at Forestry England’s Yorkshire Office in Pickering. It will move to the Dalby Forest Office in autumn/winter 2027. Regular travel around Forestry England’s estate in Yorkshire will be required. There will be occasional trips outside of Yorkshire for Forestry England-wide meetings, which may require an overnight stay.