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 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.

Impact

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.

Adventure

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

Genuinely curious, and up for learning something new every dayweek.

Togetherness

A friendly, approachable manner — confident chatting with visitors, contractors and the wider estate team.

And let’s be honest, kindness counts too — sharing snacks on long days out is basically part of the job.

We especially want to hear from people local to Invergeldie and the surrounding community, and from anyone who doesn’t yet tick every box above but brings strong potential and a real interest in the work. We believe in recruiting exceptional people and building the role around them — if you think you could make a real difference here, we’d love to hear from you.

Assist in monitoring and verifying the progress of woodland creation and peatland restoration, alongside the design and implementation of wider ecological projects.

Assist with day-to-day agricultural operations alongside the Invergeldie team, including maintaining infrastructure such as fencing, gates and stock handling equipment.

Support herbivore monitoring across the estate, flagging where management effort should be focused, and help identify opportunities for ecological interventions that improve and uplift habitats.

Contribute to property maintenance, compliance and general estate upkeep, including routine checks across buildings and infrastructure.

Support ecotourism operations where needed, including the estate’s growing visitor offer.

If you bring a passion for conservation and a care for the environment, we’ll support you to create your dream role.

We will ensure you are provided with the equipment you need to be incredible in your role.

Most of our roles, unless site specific allow you the freedom to work from anywhere in the country, should you need help with this we too will be…