Reserves Officer Central

Responsible To: Conservation Manager Central
Location: Home based, with frequent travel required around Central England, and occasionally
the wider UK
Salary: Grade C – £28,148 – £32,519 gross per annum pro rata, depending upon experience, plus
8% employer pension contribution
Hours: 0.6 FTE, 22.2 hours per week
Contract: Established post

We’re looking for an enthusiastic, driven, and self-motivated individual to join Butterfly
Conservation’s Nature Recovery team.

This new role will involve working with colleagues, partners, contractors and volunteers to
deliver essential management work on our nature reserves in Central England. The successful
candidate will oversee and provide delivery of day-to-day operations on our reserves, meeting
the conservation and restoration objectives through practical work, managing locally based
volunteers, supporting management planning and monitoring responses of target species to
positive management actions.

The successful candidate will ideally have:

• Good understanding of land management for wildlife conservation.
• Proven experience of delivering habitat management targeting species outcomes and assessing
  results.
• Experience of procurement and contract management.
• Experience of working with volunteers, partners and the general public.

If you are passionate about conserving butterflies, moths and other wildlife through bespoke
habitat management, and monitoring responses of target species, we would love to hear from you.

Closing date: 08/08/2025
Interviews: held online w/c 25/08/2025

We believe our work has never been more important.

Wildlife is in steep decline across the UK and over three-quarters of butterflies and
two-thirds of moths are declining. We recognise it needs a great team with a wide variety of
skills to tackle the problems facing butterflies, moths and the environment.

Our staff and volunteers are proud to be part of Butterfly Conservation and are dedicated to
making a difference to the environment we live in. We understand the importance of maintaining
and expanding our expert and valued team of people and offer a range of roles located all over
the UK, from the peat bogs in Scotland to the post room in Dorset.

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