Rural Biodiversity and Conservation Adviser

Location: Windsor and Rural Estates

Ready to make a real impact on the environment?

At The Crown Estate, we’re on a mission to restore habitats, enhance biodiversity and deliver nature recovery projects across 120,000 acres of farmland in England. This is your chance to be part of something bigger—helping shape landscapes for generations to come.

Why join us?

• Purpose-driven work: Every project you lead will contribute to nature recovery and to more resilient agricultural landscapes.
• Collaborative culture: Work with our tenant farmers, conservation professionals, communities and passionate colleagues.
• Professional growth: Access training, industry qualifications and opportunities to lead innovative projects.
• Flexibility and wellbeing: We value balance and offer a supportive, inclusive environment.
• Impact at scale: Position The Crown Estate as a leader in sustainable land management.

What you’ll do

• Develop and deliver a programme of ambitious, practical nature recovery projects in agricultural landscapes.
• Work closely with our tenant farmers and managing agents to support their role in nature recovery and facilitate transitions to more sustainable and regenerative food production systems.
• Ensure The Crown Estate fulfils its statutory duties as a public body, particularly with regard to Protected Sites and contributes towards national commitments such as Environment Act Habitat Targets and ’30 by 30’.
• Measure progress and showcase impactful outcomes.

Could this be you?

Are you experienced in farmland conservation with a deep knowledge of farmland ecology? Can you successfully manage multiple and sometimes complex projects within a high performance environment? If you’re ready to bring your expertise and enthusiasm to a role where you can make a difference, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today and help us lead the way in biodiversity and conservation.

We welcome applications from all backgrounds and communities. The Crown Estate is committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. If you’re passionate about conservation and want to make a difference, we’d love to hear from you.

Our Offering / benefits:

As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.

Disability Disclaimer:

We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK.

We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.

If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us on [email protected]