Nature Investment & Partnerships Manager

About the role

Nature Investment & Partnerships Manager - East Kent (East Kent Nature Investment Zone Development Manager) is a fixed term contract of two years offering hybrid working.

The client is the county’s leading conservation charity managing over 9,000 acres of land across more than 90 sites and nature reserves.

The East Kent Nature Investment Zone Development Manager will lead development work essential to delivery of the East Kent Nature Investment Zone, accelerating landscape-scale nature recovery through innovative finance mechanisms, strategic partnerships, and targeted ecological restoration.

We need a skilled project development manager with experience in the environment, natural capital, or nature-based finance sector. You will develop, shape and communicate multi-stakeholder projects, working across sectors with Local Authorities, statutory agencies, private sector investors, businesses and landowners as well as eNGOs.

You will have experience developing project portfolios, identifying and securing funding and creating long-term partnerships for delivery.

Exceptional enhanced benefits including flexible work options, wellbeing initiatives, and professional development opportunities.

Apply via our website, including your personal statement and CV. They reserve the right to close the vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.

They are unable to recruit anyone who does not have a legal right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, they cannot provide visa sponsorship.

Our client believes that everyone has a responsibility to safeguard children, young people, and adults at risk; they are committed to ensuring their safety and wellbeing is at the heart of our engagement with people. The successful candidate will be subject to references, Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks as appropriate to the role.

Our client is Wild About Inclusion. To them, this means inspiring, empowering and engaging people from all backgrounds, cultures, identities and abilities to change the natural world for the better. It also means cultivating inclusive work spaces that are free from discrimination, where differences are celebrated, everyone can be themselves and flourish, just like nature.

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