Estate Ranger Intern – Invergeldie

Not many people get the opportunity to learn how a large-scale landscape restoration project works on their own doorstep. At Invergeldie, we’re just beginning the delivery of an ambitious programme of work across 11,700 acres at the head of Glen Lednock. The plans include planting 1.5 million native trees, restoring 1,300 acres of peatland, creating and improving habitats, launching new ecotourism with Oxygen Escapes and much more.

As an intern, you’ll join us at this exciting early stage, becoming part of the team and getting involved in real work from the outset. You’ll see how conservation, agriculture, ecology, property, infrastructure, and ecotourism come together across a working estate, while learning what it takes to deliver nature restoration at this scale.

This is an opportunity to bring your unique skills and experience to the internship, develop new ones, and build a practical understanding of how a conservation-focused estate operates. You’ll be able to see the impact of your work, and your knowledge, grow throughout the internship.

This is a three-month, hands-on internship for someone who wants to understand what it takes to run a working estate through a period of major landscape restoration. You’ll learn by doing; contributing to day-to-day activity while gaining experience of how ambitious restoration plans are turned into practical work on the ground. Every day will be different; across a single week you might be out on peatland restoration, checking in on agricultural operations, assisting ecological surveys, lending a hand to keep the estate’s buildings and infrastructure compliant and presenting it to the highest standard.

You’ll work with the Estate Manager, the wider estate team and specialists such as contractors and ecologists, gaining insight into both practical delivery and the decisions behind it.

The breadth of this internship is intentional. Running a large-scale restoration landscape involves much more than conservation work alone: it requires agriculture, ecology, property, compliance, data, visitor management and sound day-to-day operations to work together. We don’t expect you to arrive with experience in all these areas. We’re looking for someone who brings useful skills or experience of their own, is ready to contribute from the outset, and is keen to learn about every part of the operation.

What matters most is curiosity, a strong work ethic, and a genuine interest in what's happening on your own doorstep.

This internship is one of the commitments identified through our community benefit offer, developed in partnership with the local community around Invergeldie. We’re excited to put that commitment into practice by creating a meaningful opportunity for someone local to build practical experience, develop their skills to carry into whatever comes next — further study, a career in land management, or simply a deeper connection to the place they live.

This role suits people from a range of backgrounds. You don't need direct experience in every area below; we're just as interested in transferable skills, local knowledge, and clear potential as we are in a perfect match on paper.

• A love for the natural world and rural landscapes, and a genuine interest in habitat and peatland restoration.

• Curiosity about ecological surveying and how land management shapes biodiversity.

• Reliable and proactive, taking pride in getting the detail right — whether logging a survey result or checking a compliance box.

• Comfortable working across varied tasks rather than sticking to one specialism.

• Willing to work outdoors in all conditions, and happy to pick up hands‑on, physical tasks when needed.

• Genuinely curious, and up for…