Curlew Landscapes Wales Project Manager

We are seeking a suitably experienced and qualified project manager to lead the Curlew Landscapes Wales (Tirweddau Gylfinir Cymru) project for the three-year duration of the project. The Project Manager will be an ambassador for Welsh Curlew, driving forward the project, linking with the Curlew Wales - Gylfinir Cymru Partnership and pursuing objectives set within the Wales Action Plan for the Recovery of Curlew.

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and highly motivated project manager to support and enhance the development, management and delivery of Curlew Landscapes Wales from initiation through to successful completion.

You will help ensure that the project is managed in a systematic and consistent way to ensure high quality outcomes. This will include supporting the development of new projects (design, planning, applications for funding), business case development, project plans, contract and financial management, resource management, reporting, monitoring, communications, engagement, partnership management and evaluation, and procurement.

You will work with the Curlew Landscapes Wales Steering Group and Project Management Board to provide support, information and advice to aid the operation of the Board to meet its objectives and strategic priorities. You will work with our programme partners to ensure resource planning, reporting and implementation consistency and integration across the organisation.

Candidates should have experience in working collaboratively across organisations and stakeholders, and have previous experience in development and delivery of successful projects.

We are keen to hear from candidates who share our commitment to making a genuine difference to curlew populations, communities and the environment across the project area.

The successful candidate will be based in the Authority’s Head Quarters in Brecon, but we operate flexible working arrangements and work/life balance is encouraged. A full list of the duties and requirements are set out in the Job Description and Person Specification.

The Project

The Eurasian Curlew – IUCN listed as “Near Threatened” - is one of the highest bird conservation priorities in Wales. Without urgent intervention, its rapid and ongoing decline means it could well become extinct as a Welsh breeding species within eight years.

Curlew Landscapes Wales is a major new project developed to help reverse this decline and ensure that breeding curlews have a future within the Welsh landscape.

Funded through the Nature Networks Fund (Round five) via the Welsh Government and the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Curlew Landscapes Wales will target recovery work and will be focussed across two Important Curlew Areas (ICAs) within Wales: Bannau Brycheiniog National Park and the Clwydian Range & Dee Valley National Landscape.

This post is for an enthusiastic and self-motivated Project Manager, employed by the Project’s lead partner (Bannau Brycheiniog National Park Authority) on a three-year fixed term contract from May 2026 to March 2029.

Job Purpose:

• To manage the development and delivery of the Curlew Landscapes Wales programme through initiation, implementation, monitoring and review, including managing associated risks and issues and comprehensive reporting and dissemination.
• To provide expertise in programme and project management ensuring that the project is designed and delivered on time, within budget and to agreed outcomes.
• To work collaboratively across the organisation, project partners and with relevant stakeholders to ensure the efficient and effective management and delivery of this high-quality project.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

• The Project Manager will coordinate the work plan of two Curlew and People officers and two assistant Curlew and People Officers who will work closely with a range of rural communities, local champions, landowners, farmers, professionals and the wider public across the project area.
• Ensuring project and programme objectives are delivered within budget, on time and to the standard and quality required.
• Promote and demonstrate the use of best practice in project and programme management methodologies e.g., developing appropriate project plans, project documentation including the production of a fundraising strategy, project initiation documents, evaluation strategy, exit strategy, project plans, risks and issues logs, project budgets, monitoring reports, communications plans, etc.
• Support project governance ensuring that all projects are planned, managed, monitored, and reported in line with the Authority’s reporting and governance requirements.
• Project manage the delivery of the project against objectives set within the Project Plan, whilst collating information and submitting of claims and reports to NLHF.
• Be responsible for project budgets and undertake any procurement, ensuring Financial Standing Orders and/or any other funding requirements are adhered to.
• Develop and lead the work programme for each of the project staff within clear financial targets set for each ICA.
• Ensure the project team is suitably resourced and supported, assigning tasks/actions to the project team and ensure these are completed on time.
• Act as the intermediary between the Project Steering Group and Project Board.
• Ensure robust systems of project governance (e.g., quality, financial, staff, audit, data management, health and safety and risk management) are in place.
• Accountable for project financial transactions and reporting. Liaising closely with the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park Authority finance team.
• Ensure outcomes and lessons learned are shared appropriately externally, across the partnership organisations, the Welsh Government and with the Gylfinir Cymru stakeholders.
• Lead and develop intervention measures designed to increase curlew productivity in the project area and provide strong and effective advocacy for curlew recovery and its associated benefits across Wales.
• Create strong connections between the project and local communities, championing curlew recovery objectives and encouraging dynamic community collaborations which benefit curlew.
• Communicate and engage with the rural communities within the project areas and share the projects events, outcomes, and achievements to the wider world through available channels including social media.
• Develop best practice advice to project stakeholders and communicate through various channels including a programme of events, training, and guidance.
• Collaborate with the wider Curlew Wales - Gylfinir Cymru Partnership, helping the partnership to deliver the objectives set out in The Wales Action Plan for the Recovery of Curlew (currently under review).
• Supporting the principles and practice of equality of opportunity as stated in the National Parks Equal Opportunities Policy.
• Undertake such other duties as may reasonably be required commensurate with the grade or general level of responsibility of the post.

Please follow the link below for the full Job Pack and to apply.

Closing date: 20th April 2026