Restore Nature Delivery Manager

We’re looking for a Restore Nature Delivery Manager to lead nature restoration partnerships across Wiltshire. This role is central to achieving the National Trust’s strategic ambition to restore nature at scale, working collaboratively with National Trust specialists, external partners and communities. Working in partnership with external organisations across Wiltshire, you’ll have a key role in delivering our ambition for “30 by 30” on Trust land and with others. You’ll be responsible for enabling and coordinating delivery through multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring our work is impactful, inclusive and sustainable.

Please include a cover letter within your application outlining any relevant skills & experience.

What it’s like to work here

Wiltshire is a distinctive and ecologically significant county, supporting one of the largest concentrations of calcareous (chalk) grassland in England, with an estimated third of the national total. It also contains a suite of high-value habitats of national and international importance, including chalk streams, species-rich grasslands, and ancient semi-natural woodlands.

These habitats are closely interwoven with a rich cultural landscape, most notably the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site, alongside a wider network of historic monuments and archaeological features. The county’s natural and cultural heritage has co-evolved over millennia, shaped by long-established farming systems that continue to influence landscape character, ecological function and wildlife.

This context presents a significant opportunity to deliver landscape-scale nature recovery, reconnecting habitats and restoring ecological processes in ways that also support farming resilience, public access, and cultural heritage. In this outward-facing and strategic role, you will work collaboratively with established partners while identifying and developing new relationships to help realise these opportunities and drive integrated, place-based delivery.

What you’ll be doing

You will be a driving force for nature recovery across Wiltshire. You’ll lead and coordinate the delivery of nature restoration projects and programmes, ensuring alignment with our Strategy. You’ll facilitate collaboration across teams, integrate expertise and best practice, and continuously evolve our delivery methods. You’ll manage risk, maintain compliance, and ensure delivery meets agreed quality, cost and time parameters. You’ll also play a key role in influencing stakeholders, unlocking funding opportunities, and driving change to restore nature at scale.

Who we’re looking for

We’d love to hear from you, if you are:

• highly experienced in nature conservation, working in protected landscapes, and in partnership with others
• resilient and experienced in working effectively with external partners
• skilled in managing large complex projects and budgets
• confident in leading a diverse team
• able to show examples of where you’ve successfully managed change
• adept at negotiating, influencing and communicating
• good at involving all kinds of people, sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm, and giving great service
• keen to make a difference, show initiative and work towards a sustainable future
• overseeing compliance and liaising with contractors

The package

The National Trust has the motto ‘For everyone, for ever’ at its heart. We’re working hard to create an inclusive culture, where everyone feels they belong. It’s important that our people reflect and represent the diversity of the communities and audiences we serve. We welcome and value difference, so when we say we’re for everyone, we want everyone to be welcome in our teams too.

• Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary
• Free entry to National Trust places for you, a guest and your children (under 18)
• Rental deposit loan scheme
• Season ticket loan
• EV car lease scheme (for roles that meet the salary criteria)
• Perks at work discounts such as gym memberships, shopping discount codes, cinema discounts
• Holiday allowance up to 32 days relating to length of service, plus holiday purchase scheme, subject to meeting minimum criteria.
• Flexible working whenever possible
• Employee assistance programme
• Free parking at most Trust places