As North East Reserves Sites Manager, you will be an authentic and inspiring leader who brings significant experience of managing natures reserves and leading teams to deliver more for wildlife.

Reporting to the Director of Wildlife Conservation & Recovery, the overall objective is to create and maintain a network of nature reserves that are exceptional for wildlife and help to inspire our visitors to do more to help reverse biodiversity decline.

You will have oversight of 12 nature reserves, including Carlton Marshes which is our flagship site. The reserve network boasts an incredible array of habitats from reedbeds and marshes to wildflower meadows, ancient coppice woodland, and Sandlings heath. Within and connecting the Broads National Park and the Suffolk and Essex Coasts and Heaths National Landscape, it is one of the most biodiverse areas in the UK.

This role has three key areas of responsibility: 

1. Nature reserve management
    
2. Leadership of reserve staff and volunteers
    
3. Develop the role of reserves as flaghips for the Trust's work and act as an ambassador within the local community

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced nature reserve practitioner, to do amazing things for wildlife. 

The closing date for applications is 8am on Tuesday 5th November 2024 and interviews will be held on Wednesday 20th November 2024 at Carlton Marshes. Please indicate your availability in your application.

To apply:
 

• Read through the recruitment pack.
   
• Complete our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Monitoring Form.
   
• Send a summary of your experience (eg. your CV) and a covering letter to recruitment@suffolkwildlifetrust.org using the subject line ‘Application for North East Reserves Sites Manager’. Your covering letter should address the following four points:

1. Why this role?
2. Why you?
3. Tell us about you as an innovator.
4. Why Suffolk Wildlife Trust?