Director of Nature and Species Recovery

Permanent, Full Time (35 hours per week)

Below covers everything you need to know about what this opportunity entails, as well as what is expected from applicants.

This role is predominantly home-based with regular travel to London, locations across the UK and our Office facilities at The Kiln, Waterside, Mather Road, Newark, NG24 1WT for those within easy travelling distance. There may be an opportunity to on occasion work from the offices at a local Wildlife Trust.

Closing date for applications: 22 November 2026

First interview: 08 & 09 December 2026 (Online)

Second interview: 16 December 2026 (In person at our Newark office)

About Us

The Wildlife Trusts are a grassroots movement of people from a wide range of backgrounds and all walks of life who believe that we need nature and nature needs us. We have more than 945,000 members, over 33,000 volunteers, 4,100 staff and 600 trustees. There are 46 individual Wildlife Trusts, each of which is a place-based independent charity with its own legal identity, formed by groups of people coming together to make a positive difference for wildlife and future generations where they live and work.

Every Wildlife Trust is part of The Wildlife Trusts federation and a corporate member of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, founded in 1912 and one of the founding members of IUCN. Together this federation of 47 charities is known as The Wildlife Trusts.

The next few years will be critical in determining what kind of world we all live in. Nature is declining at an alarming rate and the climate crisis continues to accelerate. Through our collective Strategy 2030, Bringing Nature Back, we are committed to putting nature into recovery, creating resilient ecosystems, recovering species, restoring natural processes and enabling more people to take action for nature.

Achieving this ambition will require bold leadership, strong partnerships and large-scale collaboration across communities, government, land managers, business and civil society. It will require us to think and act at landscape scale while remaining rooted in place and connected to local communities.

About You

Are you passionate about restoring nature at scale and helping create a future where people and wildlife thrive together?

Do you have the vision, ambition and strategic leadership experience to bring together partners, communities, Wildlife Trusts and funders behind a shared ambition to recover nature across land, freshwater, coastal & rural landscapes?

The Wildlife Trusts are looking for an inspiring, collaborative and values-driven leader with expertise in landscape-scale nature recovery, ecological restoration, strategic partnerships and innovation to lead one of the most exciting areas of our work.

This is a unique opportunity to help shape how nature recovers across the UK. You will be a visible advocate for nature recovery and a trusted ambassador for The Wildlife Trusts, the wider federation ...

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