6521 - Senior Reserve Manager - Southwest Cumbria
| Posting date: | 01 June 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £39,660 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 June 2026 |
| Location: | Penrith |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 4 days per week |
| Company: | Natural England |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6521 |
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: Recovering Nature for Growth, Health and Security - GOV.UK
Natural England Cumbria Area Team is seeking a Senior Reserve Manager to join the South Cumbria Area Team as part of its National Nature Reserve (NNR) group of staff. Our National Nature Reserves (NNRs) are at the forefront of nature recovery and people engagement and are at the heart of achieving Natural England’s ambitions outlined in our new 5-year strategy. This role is fundamental to the delivery of the NNR Management plans and the ambitions of NNRs, providing key operational delivery on the reserves, thereby ensuring the NNR series can achieve its role in delivering the Government’s ambitious 25-year plan.
Job description
The principal NNRs to be managed by this role are:
• North Walney
• Duddon Mosses
• Hallsenna Moor
The role will sit within a wider team in South Cumbria who are also responsible for :
• Gait Barrows
• Great Asby Scar
• Roudsea Wood and Mosses
The post will be based at our new NNR base at Earnse Bay, North Walney, within the Earnse Bay Hub. The building will act as the main operational hub for North Walnesy and Southwest Cumbria NNRs and will support operational and strategic partnership work that delivers nature recovery and public health benefits across Morecambe Bay. It will also provide a base for staff, volunteers, visiting schools and participants, and host a wide range of activities delivered by the Cumbria Area Team and partners. The post holder is required to have an active onsite presence and be based at North Walney for a minimum of 3 days per week.
The role may require some weekend, public holiday and evening work.
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: Recovering Nature for Growth, Health and Security - GOV.UK
Natural England Cumbria Area Team is seeking a Senior Reserve Manager to join the South Cumbria Area Team as part of its National Nature Reserve (NNR) group of staff. Our National Nature Reserves (NNRs) are at the forefront of nature recovery and people engagement and are at the heart of achieving Natural England’s ambitions outlined in our new 5-year strategy. This role is fundamental to the delivery of the NNR Management plans and the ambitions of NNRs, providing key operational delivery on the reserves, thereby ensuring the NNR series can achieve its role in delivering the Government’s ambitious 25-year plan.
Job description
The principal NNRs to be managed by this role are:
• North Walney
• Duddon Mosses
• Hallsenna Moor
The role will sit within a wider team in South Cumbria who are also responsible for :
• Gait Barrows
• Great Asby Scar
• Roudsea Wood and Mosses
The post will be based at our new NNR base at Earnse Bay, North Walney, within the Earnse Bay Hub. The building will act as the main operational hub for North Walnesy and Southwest Cumbria NNRs and will support operational and strategic partnership work that delivers nature recovery and public health benefits across Morecambe Bay. It will also provide a base for staff, volunteers, visiting schools and participants, and host a wide range of activities delivered by the Cumbria Area Team and partners. The post holder is required to have an active onsite presence and be based at North Walney for a minimum of 3 days per week.
The role may require some weekend, public holiday and evening work.