Honeygar Land Management and Monitoring Manager

Honeygar Land Management and Monitoring Manager

Closing date:
Tuesday 20 January 2026

Salary: £29,000 - £35,000
Contract type:
Fixed term

Working hours:

Full time

Location:

Honeygar, Burtle Road, Westhay, Somerset

Are you ready to shape the future of nature recovery? Do you thrive on turning big ideas into action, bringing people together, and making landscapes flourish?

This new role will be part of the Avalon Marshes Reserves Management Team and will be responsible for the delivery of land management, coordination of research, engagement with communities, providing evidence for funders and the monitoring of the whole range of environmental factors being surveyed on Honeygar. Honeygar is a vital part of the Levels and Moors ecological network. Using natural regeneration approaches, you will effectively be responsible for all activities and outputs emerging from the land management and evidence gathering occurring on the site.

You will also be responsible for ensuring all financial instruments contributing to land management and land changes are supported with required evidence, and continue to look more broadly for funding options that are relevant to both Honeygar and the neighbouring land. This role will also be the budget holder for all land management operations  Land Management and Monitoring Manager will engage with other landowners, communities and stakeholders to develop and manage a shared approach to nature’s recovery across the wider landscape.

Whilst bringing together our science, monitoring and other land managers to innovate new ways of managing land to achieve our goals.

• Oversee the full lifecycle of Honeygar’s nature recovery programme from vision to implementation to ensure timely delivery, high environmental standards, and measurable results.
• Active delivery and oversight of land management to deliver the Honeygar wilding vision, involving a series of management interventions that allow nature to take the lead.
• Management, reporting and accounting for the Honeygar land management budget.
• Lead on the procurement and oversight of contractors and other suppliers undertaking works or supplying services or materials for the improvement or management of land at Honeygar.
• Work with the wider Somerset Wildlife Trust to develop and review our wilding approach to land management at Honeygar within the context of the wider landscape.
• Develop and deliver plans to restore the peat soils, turning Honeygar over time from a carbon-emitting site to a carbon sink, while delivering nature restoration and restoring ecological function.
• Develop opportunities for income generation at Honeygar and share learning with other land managers.
• Provide funders (through both private and public finance) with the appropriate evidence and reports necessary to fulfil any and all contractual obligations for that funding, with a particular emphasis on ensuring all evidence and reporting is undertaken as required by “Wilder Carbon” and other Green Finance/Funding agreements.
• Support the coordination, the collation and analysis of evidence and research undertaken at Honeygar.
• Writing land management and research-based reports for land-based activities at Honeygar (at least annually).
• Managing and leading site management activities to enable peat rewetting, grazing and research actions.
• Work with the innovation and evidence team to coordinate the science, evidence and monitoring group for Honeygar.
• Collaborate with the SWT Innovation and Evidence team to ensure evidence is collected and analysed to a high standard and that any gaps in the evidence-based approach are identified and plans are made for enhancements.

• Work closely with partners, landowners, and communities to co-design a nature-based approach to landscape recovery, using Honeygar as a demonstration site.
• Lead engagement with communities, landowners and other key stakeholders to involve them with and share learning from our approach at Honeygar.
• Develop and deliver events to showcase our work at Honeygar; produce and present…