People and Culture (HR) Assistant
The Wildlife Trusts
Location: Hybrid-Newark Office Tuesdays to Thursdays, working from home Mondays and Fridays
Full time: 35 hours per week
Contract: 12 month temporary contract
Closing date for applications: 7 December 2025
First interview: 15 December 2025
Second interview: 18 December 2025
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 944,000 members, over 38,000 volunteers, 3,600 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 getting together and working with others to make a positive difference to wildlife and future generations, starting 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, a registered charity in its own right founded in 1912 and one of the founding members of IUCN – the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Taken 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. We need to urgently reverse the loss of wildlife and put nature into recovery at scale if we are to prevent climate and ecological disaster. We recognise that this will require big, bold changes in the way The Wildlife Trusts work, not least in how we mobilise others and support them to organise within their own communities.
About You
If you are an excellent administrator looking for a role that will support the People and Culture and Learning and Development team in an exciting period of change at one of the UK’s best-loved nature charities, then we have an exciting opportunity for you. You are someone with sound experience working as a People and Culture Assistant in a complex and fast-moving environment. Proactively setting things in motion is something that you feel comfortable doing.
This is a great opportunity for a highly organised and efficient administrator to join our small central People and Culture and Learning and Development teams. You will play a key role in providing comprehensive administrative support across these functions. This will include training and development, recruitment and selection, induction, onboarding and file management. You will thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, demonstrating the ability to manage last minute requests, while maintaining exceptional attention to detail and the ability to multitask. A professional and composed demeanour is a must! You will always uphold strict confidentiality and discretion, demonstrate a proactive attitude and, remain flexible by supporting other areas of admin where required.
The Wildlife Trusts value passion, respect, trust, integrity, pragmatic activism and strength in diversity. Whilst we are passionate in promoting our aims, we are not judgmental and are inclusive. We particularly encourage applications from people who are underrepresented within our sector, including people from minority backgrounds and people with disabilities.
We are committed to creating a movement that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities.
RSWT take our Safeguarding responsibilities extremely seriously. Please click here to read our commitment statement. The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk. For applicable roles, applicants must be willing to undergo checks with past employers and Disclosure and Barring Service checks at the eligible level.
As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to offering an interview to anyone with a disability that meets all the essential criteria for the post. Please let us know if you require any adjustments to make our recruitment process more accessible. RSWT are committed to increasing the diversity of its staff through its Levelling the Field recruitment pledge and will put any ethnic minority applicants that meet all the essential criteria for the post through to the next stage of recruitment.
Please be aware we may not accept applications if we have reason to believe they have been wholly produced using generative AI tools.
About The Wildlife Trusts
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 870,000 members, over 35,000 volunteers, 2,000 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 getting together and working with others to make a positive difference to wildlife and future generations, starting where they live and work.
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 870,000 members, over 35,000 volunteers, 2,000 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 getting together and working with others to make a positive difference to wildlife and future generations, starting where they live and work.
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