Peatland Restoration Project Manager
RSPB
Job Description:
We are looking for a highly competent individual to oversee the planning and delivery of our ambitious peatland restoration programme at RSPB Forsinard Flows Nature Reserve. Our work programme consists of delivering both future open hill and forest-to-bog peatland restoration projects, as well as assuring that we meet our monitoring and maintenance comitments of previous Peatland Action and Peatland Code projects. Based at the RSPB Forsinard Flows Field Centre, you will be responsible for leading, managing and motivating our Peatland restoration team, comprising of two Peatland Restoration Project Officers and a pool of committed volunteers. You will work closely with RSPB’s wider Scottish Peatland Programme, and be supported by RSPB’s Project Management Framework to help you successfully delivering the outputs and objectives of the RSPB’s national Scotland Peatland Programme. The successful candidate will be someone with a proven track record of team leadership and project management to manage this complex work programme, and deliver truly landscape scale habitat restoration.
Please see the Recruitment Pack for further details.
Essentials skills, knowledge & experience:
- Qualification in a relevant subject or ability to show equivalent work experience.
- Knowledge of peatland habitat, function and wildlife, to enable oversight of peatland restoration projects.
- Proven leadership and line management experience, with track record of managing people and delivering a high performing team.
- Proven experience of project management, including development, delivery, reporting and budget management.
- Ability to deliver deadline-driven projects, and manage both your own and team’s workloads to changing priorities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to persuade and influence a wide range of people, both internally and externally.
- High level of IT skills for project and data management.
- Experience of contract management, including tendering and selection.
- A full, manual driving licence that is valid in the UK is required due to the remote nature of the sites (4x4 training will be provided).
Desirable skills, knowledge & experience:
- Experience of delivering peatland restoration projects.
- Experience of funding mechanisms for peatland restoration.
- Specialist conservation knowledge and experience in upland conservation.
- Specialist mapping software experience e.g., ArcGIS
- Experience of working with external stakeholders such as statutory agencies and private landowner.
- A drive to live and work in a remote and challenging environment.
Additional Information
This is a fixed-term contract until 31st March 2028 at 37.5 hours per week. We are looking to conduct interviews for this position in person on Friday 24th October 2025 at the Forsinard Flows Field Centre. For further information please see the information pack, or contact [email protected].
In order to apply you will be required to upload a CV and complete an application form. In the cover letter section of the application form please explain how you meet the criteria set above.
This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship - the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.
The RSPB is an equal opportunities employer. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Please note that we are actively recruiting for this vacancy, and reserve the right to close once sufficient applications have been received.
We are committed to developing an inclusive and diverse RSPB, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To achieve our vision of creating a world richer in nature, we need more people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side. People of colour and disabled people are currently underrepresented across the environment, climate, sustainability, and conservation sector. If you identify as a person of colour and/or disabled, we are particularly interested in receiving your application. Contact us to discuss any additional support you may need to complete your application.
About RSPB
The RSPB is a charity for the conservation of birds and nature. We bring people together who love birds and other wildlife, and who want to take action to restore the health and diversity of the natural world. We carry out conservation on a large scale, protect and restore habitats, and save species from extinction. We’re living in a nature and climate emergency, and we won’t stop whilst the threats persist.
We believe our work makes a real difference to the world we live in. It takes a great team to
save nature and we need a wide range of skills to make it happen.
As an RSPB employee, you will be helping to save nature every time you come to work. There’s never been a more important time to protect our wildlife and wild places, so we want to make sure you feel rewarded for everything you help us to achieve.
The RSPB is a charity for the conservation of birds and nature. We bring people together who love birds and other wildlife, and who want to take action to restore the health and diversity of the natural world. We carry out conservation on a large scale, protect and restore habitats, and save species from extinction. We’re living in a nature and climate emergency, and we won’t stop whilst the threats persist. We believe our work makes a real difference to the world we live in. It takes a great team to save nature and we need a wide range of skills to make it happen. As an RSPB employee, you will be helping to save nature every time you come to work. There’s never been a more important time to protect our wildlife and wild places, so we want to make sure you feel rewarded for everything you help us to achieve.
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