Isle of Wight Wetland Officer

Full Time – 35 Hours per Week

Salary: £29,190 - £31,600 gross per annum

Permanent Contract

Location: Little Duxmore Farm, Rowlands Lane, Havenstreet, Ryde, Isle of Wight, PO33 4DF

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust is shaping a wilder future for our counties – protecting special places, restoring habitats and inspiring people to act for nature. As part of the UK’s fastest-growing movement for nature’s recovery, we lead with passion, integrity and bold thinking. Join a team where your work has purpose, your ideas matter, and you can help create lasting change for wildlife and people.

We are seeking an Isle of Wight Wetland Officer to join our cause.

The Isle of Wight is an amazing place to live and work, and you will be part of a friendly team working from our new office based on our rewilding site, Wilder Little Duxmore.

This post offers a great opportunity to play a major role in the on-the-ground work needed to provide the best conditions for wildlife along the Eastern Yar wetland sites.

What you’ll be doing:

You will work predominantly within the Eastern Yar catchment on the Isle of Wight, working to re-naturalise the river and floodplain, deliver wetland habitat improvements, help to support the Trust’s ambition for a wild living beaver population and support the Trust in expanding and connecting the estate to make it more resilient.

The variety of work will involve managing scrub with a range of tools and machinery, building and maintaining fences to ensure they are stock proof, removing non-native plants, managing livestock, and working with our local dedicated volunteer teams.

About you:

You will enjoy working hands-on, as part of a team and be confident using machinery, with a genuine passion for protecting and restoring nature at scale. You will bring energy, commitment, and a solid, time earnt understanding of practical conservation management. You’ll have significant experience in the sector and with a variety of higher-level reserves management equipment.

We offer a wide range of benefits including a competitive salary, generous annual leave allowance, a contributory pension scheme, life assurance, learning and development support, 24-hour access to our employee assistance programme, discounted staff travel with our corporate partners Wightlink (subject to T&Cs), free parking at our sites and more.

Closing date: 12 July 2026

Interviews: 27 July 2026

To apply for the role, please visit our website here