Conservation Team Manager

c.£35,000 - £41,000 per annum dependent on current experience, with scope for role development and salary growth

Surrey is a diverse county of lowland heath, calcareous grassland, woodland and wetlands which we are re-connecting using evidence-based approaches, through practical management, partnership working, community engagement, passion and drive.

We are looking to recruit a Conservation Team Manager, a strong and practical people person who can help deliver the Trust’s nature restoration objectives, combining logical thinking, project and budget management skills with the imagination and determination to expand and explore alternative approaches to how we restore nature across the county.

With a background in ecology and nature restoration across a range of habitats, we need a competent, passionate, skilled individual to manage our team of Reserves Officers in the challenging conservation delivery of the land we manage and to drive plans forward by empowering the reserves team, prioritising effectively, responding to swiftly changing demands and dealing with complex issues.

You must have previous experience of successfully working within the environmental sector matched with an out-going, personable and friendly approach, and the ability to work with a wide range of people.

Initially this role will manage all the Reserves Officers as one team working across the county; it is anticipated that in Spring/early Summer 2026, the role will be split across two areas broadly in the line with the revised Unitary Authority structure due to be put in place as a result of local government devolution.

Closing date: Midday on Sunday 30th November 2025. Interviews will be held in early/mid December.

The job profile and application form are available on our website.

We are committed to having an inclusive and diverse workplace and encourage applications from backgrounds which may be underrepresented in our sector, including people from minority ethnic backgrounds and people with disabilities. Please let us know if you require any adjustment to make our recruitment process more accessible.

‘Our vision for a wilder Surrey is a future with abundant wildlife and nature recovery networks rich in biodiversity.’ We will realise this vision by creating bigger, better and more joined up areas of land for biodiversity benefit through direct conservation land management and key relationship management.

Surrey Wildlife Trust is one of 46 Wildlife Trusts across the UK, a grassroots movement working to protect and connect at least 30 per cent of land and sea for nature's recovery by 2030.

Guided by a collaborative vision where we all play a part in connecting nature, we provide expert advice and guidance to landowners and managers, making sure the land we look after leads by example, while inspiring and educating people and organisations across the county on what they can do. By doing this we will create a Surrey that is full of diverse and abundant wildlife, where nature is at the heart of individual choices, corporate decisions, and local economic and policy making. One that helps tackle the ongoing climate emergency, while supporting the health and wellbeing of all who live here.