Head of Green Finance
recovery in the UK?
We’re looking for a senior leader in green finance and nature markets to drive the strategic
development and delivery of all aspects of Green Finance across The Wildlife Trusts federation,
ensuring our approach is ambitious, coherent, and aligned with our 2030 strategy to Bringing
Nature Back.
Drawing on your strong business acumen, you will build a robust pipeline of commercial nature
products to meet growing buyer demand, such as habitat banks for England’s Biodiversity Net
Gain market, or nature-based carbon projects for the voluntary carbon market. An innovative
problem-solver with an entrepreneurial spirit, you will help embed the systems, processes, and
resources needed to strengthen our green finance capability, manage commercial risks, and
improve efficiency across the federation.
It is essential that you have strong relationship-building and line management experience to grow
our national Green Finance team, and establish new and long lasting relationships with
colleagues across the federation, external partners and stakeholders.
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 945,000 members, over 33,000 volunteers, 4,100 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.