Rewilding Site Manager

Location: Nazeing, Essex 
Employer: Nattergal Limited
Number of Positions: 1
Salary (per annum pro rata): £27,500 - £35,000 per annum
Start Date: ASAP 

Job Snapshot

We are looking for a local person to manage our new site near Nazeing, Essex, providing site and communities coordination as we develop our project plans. This is an exciting opportunity for someone to join the Nattergal team, take a lead on this rewilding project in its early stages and to play an integral role in the successful delivery of the project aims.

The Opportunity:

Nattergal is a leading nature restoration company building inspiring rewilding projects across the UK and beyond, creating stories of hope for nature and the future. Through joining the company you will be embedded in this innovative, inspiring organisation and will play an integral part of developing and delivering exemplar site-level processes that really add value to nature.

We are aiming to build a team and culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, and experience and would welcome applications from such.

About the Role:

The ideal candidate will live within driving distance of Nazing, as the role will be predominantly site based. They will need to be a great project and supplier manager, with the ability to smoothly coordinate activities on site, including Health and Safety processes and visitor management. They will be hands-on – collecting soil samples for carbon in the morning, then fixing a fence in the afternoon. They will also be a fantastic communicator – giving site tours to local groups one day, and presenting the project at a local landowners meeting the next.

Reporting to the Head of Operations, and with support from the wider Nattergal team, the successful candidate will deliver:

Site Management:

1. Developing and delivering yearly site budgets, including utilities.
2. Management of activities at the Wildland – including booking in, meeting on site and providing orientation tours to partners, suppliers and investors. This will include water, carbon and biodiversity baseline surveyors, academic researchers, investors, and team visits as required. There will also be tradespersons to co-ordinate as the site develops.
3. Building management responsibilities – including ex-farm buildings and site office, plus working with a property management company on the residential and commercial tenanted buildings.
4. To be the main contact point for all the above and related site activity, including, engaging with local suppliers to provide services, e.g., ordering lunches from local pubs where required.
5. To eventually include the management of ongoing monitoring data collection for ecological and hydrological monitoring– potentially undertaking some regular biodiversity surveys (as per skills and development ambitions).
6. General maintenance jobs – e.g. lawn mowing, fixing gates and fence upkeep.
7. Manage the site Health and Safety requirements for all the above and lead on site security.

Community Coordination:

1. To provide a focal contact point to the local community, to be a ‘friendly face’.
2. To coordinate, promote locally and run community engagement events – e.g., in local village halls.
3. To engage directly with local stakeholders – including visits to local farmers and interested other key persons in the community for coffee meetings to explain the project.
4. To engage with local community groups, schools, and council/local authority as needed.
5. To design and coordinate local volunteers and activity days.
6. To manage project-level Facebook group and contribute to Nattergal level social media regarding on site activities, including visual media of wildlife.

Person Specification

Essential:

1. A passion for nature recovery and biodiversity conservation.
2. Project Management experience, preferably in a land management related organisation (e.g., conservation charity, farming)
3. Experience within the nature conservation / land management industry.
4. Excellent communication skills including verbal and visual presentations.
5. A proactive self-starter with excellent organisational skills.
6. Good problem-solving skills.
7. A practical person who is happy to take on physical tasks and work outside in all weathers.
8. Good experience using Microsoft suite of programmes - Word, Outlook, Excel.
9. Commutable distance from the site.
10. Full UK driving licence

Desirable:

1. Degree / qualifications in a land management or natural science-based discipline
2. Health and Safety qualifications (full training will be given)
3. Adaptive to changing requirements and the excitement of working in a fast moving start upBenefits:

Annual Leave: 25 Days + 8 Bank Holidays

Pension Information: Pension Scheme

In addition to the role and it’s benefits you will be enrolled on to the Change Agents UK Sustainability Leadership Skills Programme. You can benefit from networking with peers, a series of workshops, 1:1 coaching to focus on your professional development.

About the Company:

Nattergal Limited

Nattergal is a nature restoration company with a mission to “deliver nature recovery at scale to provide vital benefits for society and sustainable financial returns”. Nattergal aims to restore degraded ecosystems at scale, initially through the purchase of ecologically degraded and lower productive land with limited employment.

The company aims to return ecosystems to nature in perpetuity, thereby increasing biodiversity, sequestering carbon, and providing a local nature-based economy. The initial focus is on lowland reversion projects in England, replicating the successes delivered at our partner organisation Knepp, now one of the most important biodiversity hotspots in the UK. For more info please see: https://www.nattergal.co.uk/

Change Agents UK:

Change Agents UK Trading Ltd works as a non-profit sustainability employment business and agency and is wholly owned by Change Agents UK Charity. Change Agents UK have worked in Sustainability education and employment for 25 years, supporting our partners to create superb opportunities in sustainability, delivering real impact and change and providing training and skills support for our Change Agents on placement.