Restore Nature Delivery Manager

Restore Nature Delivery Manager

National Trust

• Location: Avebury Estate, Estate Office, High Street, Marlborough, SN8 1RF
• Contract Type: Permanent, full time (37.5hrs pw)
• Reference/IRC: IRC174534
• Closing Date: 3rd May 2026
• Salary: £44,499 per annum

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.

What it's like

Wiltshire is a distinctive and ecologically significant county, supporting one of the largest concentrations of calcareous (chalk) grassland in England. It also contains 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 presents a significant opportunity to deliver landscape-scale nature recovery, reconnecting habitats and restoring ecological processes in ways that support farming resilience, public access, and cultural heritage. In this strategic role, you'll 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

Apply: IRC174534 - Restore Nature Delivery Manager

Closing Date: 03/05/2026

Location: Avebury Estate, Estate Office, High Street, Marlborough, SN8 1RF

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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., 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
  
  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.
What it's like Wiltshire is a distinctive and ecologically significant county, supporting one of the largest concentrations of calcareous (chalk) grassland in England. It also contains 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 presents a significant opportunity to deliver landscape-scale nature recovery, reconnecting habitats and restoring ecological processes in ways that support farming resilience, public access, and cultural heritage. In this strategic role, you'll work collaboratively with established partners while identifying and developing new relationships to help realise these opportunities and drive integrated, place-based delivery.