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Part-time (0.6 FTE) • Fixed-term to September 2028 • Home-based with travel to sites across Mid Wales, centred on Llanwrtyd Wells or Builth Wells • Salary: £28,000 per annum, pro rata

Working with farmers, landowners, local residents, businesses, volunteers, conservation partners and Freshwater Habitats Trust colleagues, you’ll build trusted relationships and lead engagement and citizen science across the River Irfon catchment. Your work will help local people take part in an ambitious, connected approach to freshwater biodiversity conservation.

You’ll help drive the scheme by:

• Building and maintaining constructive relationships with farmers, landowners, local residents and businesses
• Planning and running quarterly engagement activities for the farming and landowning community
• Coordinating citizen science projects, including water-quality, invasive non-native plant and endangered wetland plant surveys
• Recruiting, supporting and motivating volunteers to take part in freshwater and wetland conservation
• Helping local people access, enjoy and understand important but often overlooked wetland habitats
• Creating project stories and information for the Freshwater Habitats Trust website, media and wider communications
• Keeping accurate time, volunteer and financial records, and supporting delivery on schedule and within budget

We need someone who brings:

• Experience of working with and motivating community groups and volunteers, including people experiencing economic, health or wellbeing disadvantages
• Confidence communicating nature-conservation ideas to non-specialist audiences
• An interest in freshwater and wetland ecology, ideally with knowledge of freshwater habitat management
• Strong stakeholder, organisational and time-management skills
• A relevant degree or equivalent qualification, ideally at 2:1 level or above, confident use of Microsoft Word and Excel, and a full current driving licence
• A friendly, professional and flexible approach, with close attention to detail
• Knowledge of the Welsh language is desirable; experience of citizen science or GIS would also be an advantage

Freshwater Habitats Trust is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences.

Please send the application form as well as your CV

No agencies, please.

Closing date: Friday 16th Oct 2026 (12 pm)

Interviews to be held on 21st and 23rd October 2026

Full-time (1.0 FTE) • Fixed-term to September 2028 • Home-based with travel to sites across Mid Wales, centred on Llanwrtyd Wells or Builth Wells • Salary: £28,000 per annum

Working with landowners, farmers, volunteers, conservation partners and Freshwater Habitats Trust colleagues, you’ll coordinate high-quality practical work across the River Irfon catchment and help demonstrate a new, connected approach to freshwater biodiversity conservation.

You’ll help drive the scheme by:

• Planning and delivering pond creation, wetland management and river and floodplain restoration
• Coordinating practical conservation work with volunteers, contractors, landowners and partner organisations
• Managing habitat for priority species, particularly Freshwater Pearl Mussel, and developing further species recovery opportunities
• Building trusted relationships with farmers and landowners, including supporting innovative grazing approaches
• Keeping projects, budgets, health and safety requirements, records and reporting on track

We need someone who brings:

• Proven experience in freshwater habitat and/or species conservation management
• Knowledge of freshwater natural history and ecology, with the ability to deliver evidence-based practical work
• Confidence working collaboratively with landowners, volunteers and conservation partners
• Strong project, budget, time-management and organisational skills
• A relevant degree, good IT skills and a full current driving licence
• A friendly, professional and flexible approach, with close attention to detail
• Knowledge of the Welsh language is desirable

Freshwater Habitats Trust is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences.

Please send the application form as well as your CV

No agencies, please.

Closing date: Friday 16th Oct 2026 (12 pm)

Interviews to be held on 21st and 23rd October 2026

Permanent contract • home working • based in Warwickshire or West Midlands• £28,000 per annum

Can you deliver great crested newt and wider biodiversity conservation in Sussex?

We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced, multi-skilled Project Officer who can deliver habitat creation and management projects, with a focus on ponds and great crested newt.

You will be able to engage and liaise with a variety of landowners and contractors and will have knowledge of pond and terrestrial habitat creation and restoration. Amphibian surveying skills are desirable. Training and expert support will be given to the right candidate.

The successful applicant will be employed by Freshwater Habitats Trust and seconded full-time to the Newt Conservation Partnership.

The Newt Conservation Partnership is a community benefit society whose sole purpose is creating and managing high quality habitat for great crested newts. We source good quality habitat sites and work together with landowners so that ponds and terrestrial features, such as hedgerows, woodland and meadowland, can be securely managed into the future to provide long-term landscape scale refuges for sustainable newt populations.

Freshwater Habitats Trust is a friendly, nationally well-respected conservation charity that works to protect freshwater wildlife through practical, evidence-based and effective nature conservation projects. This job is an exciting opportunity to join a dedicated team of botanists, invertebrate biologists, herpetologists and freshwater conservation experts who are making a difference.

Freshwater Habitats Trust is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences

No CVs or agencies, please.

Closing date: Wednesday 11^th November 2026 (12 pm)

Interviews: Tuesday, 24^th November 2026, in Oxford