Business Engagement Officer (Maternity Cover)

Part-Time: Ideally 28 hours 4 days per week or would consider less hours with minimum of 14 hours per week.

Temporary contract to cover maternity leave for approximately 7 months

Closing date for applications: 22nd October 2025

First interview: 29th October 2025

Second interview: 4th / 5th November 2025

About Us

The Wildlife Trusts are a grassroots movement of people from a wide range of backgrounds and all walks of life who believe that we need nature and nature needs us. We have more than 944000 members over 38000 volunteers 3600 staff and 600 trustees. There are 46 individual Wildlife Trusts each of which is a place-based independent charity with its own legal identity formed by groups of people getting together and working with others to make a positive difference to wildlife and future generations starting where they live and work.

Every Wildlife Trust is part of The Wildlife Trusts federation and a corporate member of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts a registered charity in its own right founded in 1912 and one of the founding members of IUCN the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Taken together this federation of 47 charities is known as The Wildlife Trusts.

The next few years will be critical in determining what kind of world we all live in. We need to urgently reverse the loss of wildlife and put nature into recovery at scale if we are to prevent climate and ecological disaster. We recognise that this will require big bold changes in the way The Wildlife Trusts work not least in how we mobilise others and support them to organise within their own communities.

About You

As the new Business Engagement Officer you will work with businesses to drive positive change for and investment in nature and climate. This will include engaging with companies within a range of sectors including food and farming infrastructure finance and technology.

You will be a credible motivated self-starter who is able to take the lead in enthusing business contacts and colleagues across the wider Wildlife Trusts family.

You will be an expert communicator experienced in the planning and delivery of commercial activities and deepening mutually beneficial relationships with businesses. You will ideally have a proven track record in successfully developing and nurturing sustainable business relationships and in driving income growth (desirable).

The Wildlife Trusts value passion respect trust integrity pragmatic activism and strength in diversity. Whilst we are passionate in promoting our aims we are not judgmental and are inclusive. We particularly encourage applications from people who are underrepresented within our sector including people from minority backgrounds and people with disabilities. We are committed to creating a movement that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities.

The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts takes our safeguarding responsibilities extremely seriously. Please click here to read our commitment statement. RSWT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk. For applicable roles applicants must be willing to undergo checks with past employers and Disclosure and Barring Service checks at the eligible level.

As a Disability Confident employer we are committed to offering an interview to anyone with a disability that meets all the essential criteria for the post. Please let us know if you require any adjustments to make our recruitment process more accessible.

RSWT are committed to increasing the diversity of its staff through its Levelling the Field recruitment pledge and will put any ethnic minority applicants that meet all the essential criteria for the post through to the next stage of recruitment.

Please be aware we may not accept applications if we have reason to believe they have been wholly produced using generative AI tools.

INDMED

We need nature and it needs us. Were here to make the world wilder and make nature part of life for everyone. Were helping to make life better for wildlife for people and for future generations.

The Wildlife Trusts are a grassroots movement of 870000 members 38000 volunteers and 2800 staff across the UK. We are at an exciting moment in our 110-year history with an ambitious new strategy in development setting out a vision of nature in recovery with abundant diverse wildlife and natural processes creating wilder landscapes where people and nature thrive.

Each Wildlife Trust is an independent charity formed by people getting together to make a positive difference to wildlife and future generations starting where they live.

The next 10 years will be critical in determining what kind of world we will all live in. We need to reverse the loss of wildlife and put nature into recovery at scale as a matter of urgency if we are to prevent climate and ecological disaster. This will require big bold changes in the way we think and operate and the development of a strong collaborative culture. It will require key stakeholders and the public to take action for natures recovery.

We want our people to be as diverse as society so we particularly encourage applications from people who are underrepresented within our sector including people from minority backgrounds and people with disabilities. We are committed to creating a movement that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities.

As a Disability Confident employer we are committed to offering an interview to anyone with a disability that meets all the essential criteria for the post. Please let us know if you require any adjustments to make our recruitment process more accessible.