6371 - New Towns and Homes Accelerator Senior Officer
| Posting date: | 28 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £37,950 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 February 2026 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 4 days per week |
| Company: | Natural England |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6371 |
Summary
Join us in shaping a future where nature and people thrive. Whether you're drawn to hands-on conservation or playing a vital part behind the scenes, your work at Natural England will support lasting benefits for the environment and society.
Our Role
Natural England is the Government’s adviser for the natural environment and the Nature regulator with a wide range of statutory duties and powers. We provide the evidence, expertise and advice to recover Nature and shape better places for people to live. We do
this working through and with others.
Strategic Outcomes for Nature
Our strategy is framed through four strategic outcomes. Each of these outcomes reinforces and amplifies the others, and together they address environmental, social and economic actions critical to thriving nature.
Recovering Nature – Increased scale and quality of places where nature thrives.
Building Better Places – Greener homes and infrastructure create healthier, more
investable places, recognising we live better where nature thrives around us.
Improving Health and Wellbeing – Build nature into everyday life so people can support, access and benefit from nature, wherever they live.
Delivering Security through Nature – Nature helps us adapt to the threats of a
changing climate and improves our national security, supporting more resilient food production, healthy soils, clean and plentiful water and clean air.
Find out more about the work of Natural England at Natural England’s Strategy: Natural England’s Strategy: Recovering Nature for Growth, Health and Security - GOV.UK
The Team
Do you want to make a real difference, working in a high priority area, securing significant environmental gains in the present and the future? Do you enjoy working in and leading a team? If so, this role may interest you as an opportunity to create a better future for people and nature.
The roles are based across England in our Area Teams. Some travel may be required.
Natural England’s Area Teams use a range of mechanisms including land management and planning advice, engagement with stakeholders and direct management of our own land, to achieve the protection and enhancement of biodiversity and landscapes within its area.
Natural England’s new Strategy includes making a shift from isolated interventions to nature recovery happening at scale, ensuring our efforts deliver lasting improvement across whole landscapes and seascapes. As part of this, our sustainable development work is helping build better places and ensure nature is designed into development and improve health and wellbeing by building nature into everyday life so people can support, access and benefit from nature, wherever they live.
Natural England is uniquely positioned to shape the next generation of New Towns and help facilitate the government ambition to deliver 1.5 million new homes in the UK. This is an exciting opportunity to reimagine urban development and create nature rich, vibrant, inclusive and sustainable New Towns, and make a strong contribution to the delivery of housing development through the New Homes Accelerator programme, which focuses on unblocking and accelerating large housing developments whilst maximising opportunities for nature recovery.
Our Role
Natural England is the Government’s adviser for the natural environment and the Nature regulator with a wide range of statutory duties and powers. We provide the evidence, expertise and advice to recover Nature and shape better places for people to live. We do
this working through and with others.
Strategic Outcomes for Nature
Our strategy is framed through four strategic outcomes. Each of these outcomes reinforces and amplifies the others, and together they address environmental, social and economic actions critical to thriving nature.
Recovering Nature – Increased scale and quality of places where nature thrives.
Building Better Places – Greener homes and infrastructure create healthier, more
investable places, recognising we live better where nature thrives around us.
Improving Health and Wellbeing – Build nature into everyday life so people can support, access and benefit from nature, wherever they live.
Delivering Security through Nature – Nature helps us adapt to the threats of a
changing climate and improves our national security, supporting more resilient food production, healthy soils, clean and plentiful water and clean air.
Find out more about the work of Natural England at Natural England’s Strategy: Natural England’s Strategy: Recovering Nature for Growth, Health and Security - GOV.UK
The Team
Do you want to make a real difference, working in a high priority area, securing significant environmental gains in the present and the future? Do you enjoy working in and leading a team? If so, this role may interest you as an opportunity to create a better future for people and nature.
The roles are based across England in our Area Teams. Some travel may be required.
Natural England’s Area Teams use a range of mechanisms including land management and planning advice, engagement with stakeholders and direct management of our own land, to achieve the protection and enhancement of biodiversity and landscapes within its area.
Natural England’s new Strategy includes making a shift from isolated interventions to nature recovery happening at scale, ensuring our efforts deliver lasting improvement across whole landscapes and seascapes. As part of this, our sustainable development work is helping build better places and ensure nature is designed into development and improve health and wellbeing by building nature into everyday life so people can support, access and benefit from nature, wherever they live.
Natural England is uniquely positioned to shape the next generation of New Towns and help facilitate the government ambition to deliver 1.5 million new homes in the UK. This is an exciting opportunity to reimagine urban development and create nature rich, vibrant, inclusive and sustainable New Towns, and make a strong contribution to the delivery of housing development through the New Homes Accelerator programme, which focuses on unblocking and accelerating large housing developments whilst maximising opportunities for nature recovery.