Saltmarsh Recovery Manager
Essex Wildlife Trust
We are looking for an experienced, ambitious, practical and passionate individual to join the Trust’s growing Marine & Coastal Recovery Team to lead the development and delivery of the Trust’s active saltmarsh restoration work.
The Marine & Coastal Recovery Team delivers several ambitious and impactful projects to deliver marine and coastal recovery in Essex. Focus wildlife and habitats include saltmarsh, intertidal seagrass meadows, native oyster reefs, coastal sand and shingle and beach-nesting birds. For more information, visit our website.
You will join us at an exciting time as we develop and scale-up our efforts to achieve marine and coastal recovery in line with the Trust’s core aims of 30% of land and sea in Essex to be actively managed for nature’s recovery by 2030, and 1 in 4 people in Essex taking action for nature and climate by 2030.
The Saltmarsh Recovery Manager will lead the delivery and development of the Trust’s saltmarsh recovery programme. This role is funded through Transforming the Thames, a multi habitat coastal restoration project, and will make a significant contribution to the partnership’s impact and the development of the evidence base for future saltmarsh restoration in the Greater Thames Estuary.
We aim to restore 7ha of existing saltmarsh using smaller-scale, experimental active restoration approaches at at least two sites in the Blackwater and Colne estuaries over a three-year delivery period. Collaboration and co-creation with coastal landowners is an important focus, as well as being the Trust’s advocate for saltmarshes and saltmarsh recovery.
This role is a fixed-term, 36-month contract starting in January 2026 (Monday to Friday from 9:00am to 5:00pm) with a starting salary of £34,130 per annum.
The role will require a valid full UK driving licence and access to your own vehicle.
To make an application, please complete an online application form on our website by Tuesday 4 November 2025. Interviews will be held on Thursday 20 November and Friday 21 November 2025. We reserve the right to close this advert early. Please submit your application at the earliest opportunity.
Our values are Impactful, Collaborative, United and Proactive.
About Essex Wildlife Trust
Essex Wildlife Trust protects wildlife through landscape conservation, education on our nature reserves and discovery centres and campaigns that help to give wildlife a greater voice in our county.
We are a local wildlife charity supported by over 1900 volunteers and over 38,000 members. Together we protect and care for wildlife and wild places across Essex.
Essex Wildlife Trust protects wildlife through landscape conservation, education on our nature reserves and discovery centres and campaigns that help to give wildlife a greater voice in our county. We are a local wildlife charity supported by over 1900 volunteers and over 38,000 members. Together we protect and care for wildlife and wild places across Essex.
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