Head of Farmer-led Nature Recovery

Reports to:    Director of Nature Recovery

Salary:            £45,423 – £46,786 per annum (depending on experience)

Contract:        Permanent 

Hours:             37.5 per week (flexible working arrangements considered)

Based at:        Elm Tree Court, Devizes and Great Chalfield, including regular travel across Wiltshire, with some home working available

Help shape the future of farming and nature recovery.

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is looking for an ambitious, collaborative and inspiring leader to drive our pioneering programme of farmer-led landscape-scale nature recovery.

Working alongside the Director of Nature Recovery, this is a rare opportunity to lead one of the UK's most exciting farming and nature recovery portfolios. You’ll work with farmers, land managers, partners and communities, to create a future where productive farming, thriving nature and resilient rural businesses go hand in hand.

At the heart of the role is Great Chalfield, our flagship Learning Hub for nature-friendly farming, nature-based solutions and green finance. You'll help establish Great Chalfield as a nationally recognised centre of excellence, developing innovative farming approaches and professional training programmes that equip the next generation of trusted advisers and influence policy and practice across the UK.

Beyond Great Chalfield, you'll lead an ambitious portfolio of farmer-led initiatives, from Chalkland Revival, bringing together five neighbouring farmer clusters across more than 40,000 hectares of the North Wessex Downs, to Western Forest, England's first new national forest in over 30 years, and Project Peewit, helping reverse the decline of breeding lapwing through farmer-led conservation. Together, these programmes put collaboration at the heart of landscape-scale nature recovery.

Leading a talented multidisciplinary team of ecologists, ornithologists and advisers, you'll work in close partnership with the Director of Nature Recovery to shape the future of farmer-led nature recovery at Wiltshire Wildlife Trust. As part of an ambitious Nature Recovery Leadership Team, you'll collaborate with the Head of Nature Markets and Head of Freshwater to grow our impact, develop new opportunities and build partnerships that shape the future of nature recovery.

You'll be a strategic and collaborative leader with credibility in farming, land management or conservation, and a passion for bringing people together to deliver lasting change. Whether your background is in farming, conservation or a related field, you'll be excited by innovation, collaboration and the opportunity to shape approaches that could influence nature recovery across the UK.

From developing the next generation of trusted advisers to supporting farmers to lead landscape-scale recovery, this is an opportunity to build something with national significance.

If you believe the future of nature recovery starts with farmers, and you're ready to help shape programmes that inspire change across the UK, we'd love to hear from you.

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is fully committed to safeguarding the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. All WWT staff will receive safeguarding training and must ensure that they comply with WWT’s safeguarding policy.

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to developing an inclusive and diverse organisation, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To achieve our vision of creating a world richer in nature, we need talented people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side.  Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is an exemplary employer with high staff satisfaction and multiple benefits for employees. These benefits include: 

• Company pension & Salary exchange scheme
• Group risk insurance – death in service and income protection
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 27 days annual leave increasing to 30 days in your fifth year of service plus public holidays (pro-rata)
• Staff discount at Dragonfly Cafe
• Free tea and coffee
• Head office in town centre with parking
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Two staff wellbeing days per annum

A full job description and application pack is available to download below.

Closing Date: 9am on Tuesday 25^th August 2026

PLEASE NOTE: if interest is significant we reserve the option to close the vacancy early and conduct interviews on an as required basis. Should the vacancy remain open until the stated deadline then interviews will be held on Thursday 3^rd September 2026.

Please submit your application to recruitment@wiltshirewildlife.org

Please note we are only able to accept applications via our application form and when completing the form please ensure you use the ‘supporting statement’ section to evidence how you believe you meet the essential and desirable criteria detailed in the Job Description. This information will be used in our short-listing process.

As a charity Wiltshire Wildlife Trust Ltd is committed to saving costs.  Therefore, if you have not received an invitation to attend an interview within one week of the closing date, you should assume that your application has been unsuccessful.