New Forest Assistant Reserves Officer

Full Time – 35 Hours per Week

Salary: £25,390 gross per annum

Permanent Contract

Location: New Forest area, with work primarily taking place at Roydon or Blashford Lakes

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 a New Forest Assistant Reserves Officer to join our cause.

The New Forest Assistant Reserves Officer will be assisting in practical management and biological surveying of a suite of nature reserves across the Trust’s New Forest land holding. These sites hold significant wildlife value and cover a broad range of habitat types, priority species and management requirements.

This post is aimed at individuals who wish to pursue a career in the environmental sector with a focus on habitat and nature reserve management. In-house and external training will be provided to develop the successful candidate.

What you’ll be doing:

You will support Estates colleagues across a range of activities including habitat management, livestock management, operating and maintaining machinery and power tools, leading volunteer groups, contractor management and biological surveying.

About you:

You’ll be joining a team of passionate and enthusiastic about nature conservation delivering a varied work programme. You will have experience in the sector and will be ticketed and experienced in the use of a variety of tools and machinery.

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: 05 August 2026

Interviews: 18 August 2026

To apply for the role, please visit our website here