Executive Officer

Natural Cambridgeshire is looking for an Executive Officer to support Doubling Nature ambitions.

Natural Cambridgeshire is the Local Nature Partnership for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. We bring together representatives from local government, conservation groups, communities, landowners, farmers and developers in a shared ambition to double the space for and improve the quality of nature across the county. We are hosted by Nene Park Trust.

To support programme development the team is expanding, and we are now looking to recruit an Executive Officer to join us to provide business support across the breadth of our activities. The role will encompass a variety of tasks including but not limited to the following:

• Organising meetings and calendars, setting up a new shared filing system for staff and trustees, and dealing with day to day email correspondence.
• Minute taking and supporting the logistics of board meetings, with the opportunity to take on a formal role as company secretary.
• Support with monitoring and reporting both to the Board of trustees and to our funders.
• Working with the staff team, our partners and our agency to pull together press releases, website updates and content for newsletters.

In addition, the ideal candidate will naturally demonstrate the following characteristics:

• Excellent interpersonal skills including relationship building, collaboration and diplomacy.
• Ability to meet conflicting priorities whilst working under pressure
• Self-starter with initiative and drive.
• Flexible and adaptable approach to work – recognising the need to work outside of core office hours for the occasional evening meeting or weekend event.

Salary: £25,000 to £35,000 a year pro-rata depending on experience.

Location: Home-based or within the offices of one our Partners

Start date: As soon as possible.

Application process: By application form to be sent to recruitment@neneparktrust.org.uk no later than 12 midday on Monday, 18 November 2024.

Further details about the role, including a job description and person specification, can be found here or on the Nene Park Trust website here, where the application form is also located.

If you have any questions or would like an informal chat about the role, please email either pamela.abbott@naturalcambridgeshire.org.uk or helen.dye@naturalcambridgeshire.org.uk.

Partnership Director

Natural Cambridgeshire is looking for a Partnership Director to take forward Doubling Nature ambitions.

In 2019 Natural Cambridgeshire launched its ambition to Double Nature across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to deliver a greatly enhanced environment where nature and people thrive and businesses prosper. That ambition has been taken up as a policy objective by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority and has the support of the local authorities across the area.

The Combined Authority has recently agreed a budget of £70,000 a year for three years to support the work of the partnership. It has also agreed a £1 million investment in a Doubling Nature fund, designed to accelerate the delivery of nature recovery. This investment is conditional on the identification of an additional £2 million in matched funding from public and private sources.

This additional funding allows Natural Cambridgeshire to recruit a Partnership Director (part-time and flexible working options considered) on a three-year contract. This individual will lead our partnership work, recognising that their leadership role is to help create the strategic framework and the relationships within which the partner organisations can deliver the doubling nature agenda, and that Natural Cambridgeshire itself is not a delivery body.

Salary: £42,000 to £50,000 a year pro-rata

Location: Home-based or within the office of one of the Natural Cambridgeshire Partners

Start date: August 2022, or as soon as possible thereafter

Application process: CVs with a covering letter explaining why you feel you are suitable for this role (no more than 2 sides of A4) should be sent to Richard Astle, Chair of Natural Cambridgeshire (chair@naturalcambridgeshire.org.uk), no later than 12 pm on Tuesday, 21 June 2022.

Further details on how to apply, including a job description and person specification, can be found under ‘documents’ to the right.