Full time (35 hours per week)
Temporary contract until March 2026
Closing date for applications: 24th August 2025
First interview: 2nd September 2025
Second interview: 8th September 2025
About Us
The successful candidate will be employed by the IUCN UK Peatland Programmes host organisation, the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts. The new team member will have the level of knowledge and experience to drive forward and promote biodiversity assessment and quantification within peatland restoration and woodland creation projects. They will be part of a UK-wide team who advocates the multiple benefits of peatlands and woodlands through partnerships, strong science, sound policy and effective practice, and communication. This project will be directly embedded within the IUCN UK Peatland Programme team but will work in close collaboration with the WCC team at Scottish Forestry and Scotlands Rural College (SRUC).
The Wildlife Trusts are a grassroots movement of people from a wide range of backgrounds and all walks of life, who believe that we need nature and nature needs us. We have more than 944,000 members, over 38,000 volunteers, 3,600 staff and 600 trustees. There are 46 individual Wildlife Trusts, each of which is a place-based independent charity with its own legal ide...