Rewilding Delivery Manager

We're looking for a Rewilding Delivery Manager to lead our on the ground delivery of a wilder future for Derbyshire.

Joining our Wild Solutions team, you'll drive the growth of our land and habitat management enterprise, through developing our commercial land management contracts for our own sites and for those of our external partners.

In this role, you'll lead on identifying what our clients need and coordinate the resources required to do it. Do we need to fly materials onto site? Bring in a 12 tonne excavator? Work on a boat? We need you to be solutions focussed to identify how to reinstate natural processes in a way that is sustainable for The Trust and the landowners.

You'll deliver competitive and expanding rewilding contracts across the county, utilising both our internal team and recruiting external contractors when appropriate. You'll be confident in establishing and growing great relationships with clients and working up small and large job specifications and quotes.

To be successful you will have a robust understanding of a range of land and habitat management techniques, with a strong emphasis on working with natural processes, including animals, and a nature-based approach. You'll have a commercial mind and have strong people and communication skills. You'll have a passion for commercially sustainable rewilding and the ability to motivate a team and our clients to achieve our vision of a wilder Derbyshire.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Growing and developing our programme of rewilding delivery, including budgeting and business growth planning.


• Managing and developing our rewilding delivery team, identifying skill and recruitment gaps.


• Providing work specifications and quotes for a range of land management contracts, including significant scale contracts.


• Ensuring all contracts are delivered in adherence to relevant policies and procedures (e.g. Health and Safety, Environmental, CDM).


• Ensuring the delivery of practical land management contracts, on time and on budget.


What we can offer you:

• Flexible working options, we have adopted a 9-day working fortnight meaning all full time staff get a non-working Friday every fortnight


• 33 days annual leave including bank holidays, we also have a festive shutdown so all staff get the days between Christmas and New Year off in addition to their leave entitlement


• Climate Perks (extra leave granted for staff using more green, sustainable transport)


• 9.5% employer pension contribution


• Electric bike and car salary-sacrifice schemes available


• Employee Assistance Programme


• Life Assurance Scheme


• Personalised Development programme designed to enhance your knowledge and progress your career


• A multi-disciplinary business, with opportunities to work on a wide range of projects, developing your experience and skills


• A close-knit, friendly and supportive team, with a relaxed office atmosphere, We're committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and believe that everyone should have access to nature. We expect people to work harmoniously with each other and with volunteers, and to provide help and guidance to others when needed. As a small charity, our employees need to be willing to be flexible about working arrangements and willing to provide occasional cover for absent staff. We want people to develop professionally and personally while working with us and employees are encouraged to participate in the range of opportunities available to enable this.
  
  This role might be right for you if:


• You have significant experience developing and delivering a range of practical land and habitat management tasks, including recruitment and supervision of contractors.


• You are passionate about rewilding and are committed to delivering more space for nature.


• You are a team player and enjoy collaborating with others.


• You are organised and can schedule efficient work programmes for yourself and others.


• You have good commercial awareness and a passion for business growth.


We are happy to talk flexible working!

This role will be based at our office in Middleton although a balance of home and office working will be allowed. We are a local charity so applicants should be easily able to access our office and other locations around the county.