Reserves Officer Central
Butterfly Conservation
Responsible To: Conservation Manager Central
Location: Home based, with frequent travel required around Central England, and occasionally
the wider UK
Salary: Grade C - £28,148 - £32,519 gross per annum pro rata, depending upon experience, plus
8% employer pension contribution
Hours: 0.6 FTE, 22.2 hours per week
Contract: Established post
We're looking for an enthusiastic, driven, and self-motivated individual to join Butterfly Conservation’s Nature Recovery team.
This new role will involve working with colleagues, partners, contractors and volunteers to deliver essential management work on our nature reserves in Central England. The successful candidate will oversee and provide delivery of day-to-day operations on our reserves, meeting the conservation and restoration objectives through practical work, managing locally based volunteers, supporting management planning and monitoring responses of target species to positive management actions.
The successful candidate will ideally have:
- Good understanding of land management for wildlife conservation.
- Proven experience of delivering habitat management targeting species outcomes and assessing results.
- Experience of procurement and contract management.
- Experience of working with volunteers, partners and the general public.
If you are passionate about conserving butterflies, moths and other wildlife through bespoke habitat management, and monitoring responses of target species, we would love to hear from you.
Closing date: 08/08/2025
Interviews: held online w/c 25/08/2025
We believe our work has never been more important.
Wildlife is in steep decline across the UK and over three-quarters of butterflies and two-thirds of moths are declining. We recognise it needs a great team with a wide variety of skills to tackle the problems facing butterflies, moths and the environment.
Our staff and volunteers are proud to be part of Butterfly Conservation and are dedicated to making a difference to the environment we live in. We understand the importance of maintaining and expanding our expert and valued team of people and offer a range of roles located all over the UK, from the peat bogs in Scotland to the post room in Dorset.
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About Butterfly Conservation
Butterfly Conservation is a vibrant, inspiring place to work and we're passionate about connecting people to nature. We're looking to recruit passionate ‘can-do’ people who can help us to create a world where butterflies and moths thrive and can be enjoyed by everyone, forever.
- Butterfly Conservation is a charity dedicated to saving butterflies, moths, and our natural environment. We are a leading authority on the conservation of these beautiful creatures – key indicators of a healthy ecosystem – and we have achieved numerous successes for them locally and nationally.
- Our people are at the heart of what we do. Our work is only possible thanks to the commitment and dedication of our supporters, volunteers, and staff.
- We employ world-class conservation scientists, making us the world’s largest research institute for butterflies and moths. Our data is used by government and policymakers to make a long-term difference for the environment.
- We are actively involved in hands-on conservation throughout the UK, at every level from individual households to landscape-scale habitats, working tirelessly to make a difference for butterflies, moths, and our environment – and to benefit all wildlife and the ecosystems upon which life depends.
- We run projects to protect threatened species, and we are involved in conserving hundreds of other sites across the UK.
Butterfly Conservation is a vibrant, inspiring place to work and we're passionate about connecting people to nature. We're looking to recruit passionate ‘can-do’ people who can help us to create a world where butterflies and moths thrive and can be enjoyed by everyone, forever. Butterfly Conservation is a charity dedicated to saving butterflies, moths, and our natural environment. We are a leading authority on the conservation of these beautiful creatures – key indicators of a healthy ecosystem – and we have achieved numerous successes for them locally and nationally. Our people are at the heart of what we do. Our work is only possible thanks to the commitment and dedication of our supporters, volunteers, and staff. We employ world-class conservation scientists, making us the world’s largest research institute for butterflies and moths. Our data is used by government and policymakers to make a long-term difference for the environment. We are actively involved in hands-on conservation throughout the UK, at every level from individual households to landscape-scale habitats, working tirelessly to make a difference for butterflies, moths, and our environment – and to benefit all wildlife and the ecosystems upon which life depends. We run projects to protect threatened species, and we are involved in conserving hundreds of other sites across the UK.
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