Woodland Development Manager

Location: Lee

Woodland Development Manager   | Full-time, permanent contract | 35 hours per week (part time at four days per week will be considered) | £37,834 - £40,774 |   Based at our offices in Clapham, near Settle, with a mix of office and home working.
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Project Manager to lead on delivering our woodland strategy, focused on offering guidance, advice and support to landowners and communities.
Youll play a critical role in creating and enhancing woodlands across the Yorkshire Dales, Nidderdale and the Forest of Bowland, as well as helping people to create, enhance and celebrate our woodlands through training, volunteering and events.
About the role  Our ambitious  woodland strategy  has enabled us to grow the depth and breadth of our woodland work, increasing our ability to help  tackle climate change, biodiversity loss and connect more people with nature . We have  strong partnerships  in place to ensure a joined up approach to woodland creation, helping to share best practice and deliver greater impact.
Our woodland team help  landowners and communities  to navigate their choices and understand the multiple benefits trees provide. A focus on the  creation and better management of small woodland  areas has enabled more people to take climate action and help connect up the patchwork mosaic of habitats that form the landscape character within the Dales.
Our support includes a  flexible grant programme  for the creation of woods, hedgerow, landscape trees, scrub and wood pasture, as well as  woodland management grants  to boost biodiversity and resilience.
We  inspire and enable local communities to deliver alongside us through a range of woodland activities, including the development of a network of  community tree nurseries . Our newly created woodlands are revisited to ensure they are being  maintained  and to  monitor changes  in biodiversity. We work collaboratively to  remove and recycle tree guards . We are passionate about addressing the skills shortage that the whole woodland sector faces, through the recruitment of  Woodland Trainees  and  upskilling our communities .
About you  We're looking for someone with a  background in woodland creation and management  who can work with a range of landowners.

Your role will involve the effective delivery of the Woodland Strategy with a focus on  building and maintaining strategic partnerships  and managing the Woodlands Team.
As a Manager at YDMT you will help to support the development of your team and work across our  interlinking projects  to deliver our aims and objectives.
Underpinning all of this is your ability to work within our culture  which means sharing our values of being  creative, caring, honest and enabling .
We believe the role will be a highly rewarding one, and a real opportunity for someone to develop their skills in a fantastic organisation, whilst benefiting this wonderful area and its communities.
About Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust  We are a small charity doing big things to help to protect and enhance the People, Landscape and Wildlife of the Dales.
For 29 years we have delivered diverse and inspirational projects, helping to plant 1.6 million trees and securing the future of more than 850 hectares of wildflower hay meadows, creating habitats for our wildlife and combatting climate change. We are passionate about inspiring disadvantaged groups and future generations to care for this special area. Our three-year strategy is centred around building partnerships that increase the scale and pace of nature recovery.
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The Final date to receive applications is 9am, 28th September 2026. Interviews will be held on 12th October.