6627 - NRF Project Support Officer
| Posting date: | 23 June 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £27,590 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 July 2026 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 4 days per week |
| Company: | Natural England |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6627 |
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
Job description
The Role
The Nature Restoration Fund (NRF) supports development while delivering targeted environmental protection and nature recovery. It introduces new mechanisms to secure environmental improvements where development impacts protected sites or species. Through Environmental Delivery Plans (EDPs), the NRF identifies and delivers strategic, landscapescale conservation measures to achieve improved outcomes for nature.
A unique opportunity has arisen for an ambitious individual to join the NRF team, supporting the team in delivering key milestones and providing comprehensive administrative support. This role is varied and will give the successful candidate rare exposure to work in a highly sensitive, high pressure programme environment.
Key Tasks/Principal Accountabilities
• Provide administrative support, for example secretariat duties, event organisation, information collation to the NRF Leadership and Project Teams
• Provide project support to colleagues within the Nature Restoration Fund, including notetaking, event attendance in a supporting role and keeping accurate records of activity.
• Build relationships across the NRF project team, from communications and engagement, operational and project delivery.
• Provide guidance and support to colleagues where appropriate to ensure processes are followed.
• Support the delivery of projects and programmes.
• Answer routine queries as an initial point of contact in a timely manner, communicating and filtering information as required to the team.
Prospective candidates should be aware the NRF is a unique agile environment. The ideal candidate would be highly ambitious, comfortable in ambiguity and prepared to work flexibly.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
• Strong organisational and coordination skills – ability to manage multiple tasks, track progress, and ensure smooth delivery of activities.
• Effective communication and stakeholder engagement – confidently liaising with colleagues and leaders to share updates and co-ordinate actions.
• Proactive administrative support – ability to high-quality support to senior leaders, including diary management, meeting preparation, and follow-ups.
• Attention to detail and literary accuracy – ensuring data, schedules, and documentation are reliable and up to date.
• Ability to prioritise and adapt in a fast-paced environment – managing competing deadlines and responding flexibly to change.
• Good technical skills with Microsoft Office
Desirable Criteria:
• Diary Management experience
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
Job description
The Role
The Nature Restoration Fund (NRF) supports development while delivering targeted environmental protection and nature recovery. It introduces new mechanisms to secure environmental improvements where development impacts protected sites or species. Through Environmental Delivery Plans (EDPs), the NRF identifies and delivers strategic, landscapescale conservation measures to achieve improved outcomes for nature.
A unique opportunity has arisen for an ambitious individual to join the NRF team, supporting the team in delivering key milestones and providing comprehensive administrative support. This role is varied and will give the successful candidate rare exposure to work in a highly sensitive, high pressure programme environment.
Key Tasks/Principal Accountabilities
• Provide administrative support, for example secretariat duties, event organisation, information collation to the NRF Leadership and Project Teams
• Provide project support to colleagues within the Nature Restoration Fund, including notetaking, event attendance in a supporting role and keeping accurate records of activity.
• Build relationships across the NRF project team, from communications and engagement, operational and project delivery.
• Provide guidance and support to colleagues where appropriate to ensure processes are followed.
• Support the delivery of projects and programmes.
• Answer routine queries as an initial point of contact in a timely manner, communicating and filtering information as required to the team.
Prospective candidates should be aware the NRF is a unique agile environment. The ideal candidate would be highly ambitious, comfortable in ambiguity and prepared to work flexibly.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
• Strong organisational and coordination skills – ability to manage multiple tasks, track progress, and ensure smooth delivery of activities.
• Effective communication and stakeholder engagement – confidently liaising with colleagues and leaders to share updates and co-ordinate actions.
• Proactive administrative support – ability to high-quality support to senior leaders, including diary management, meeting preparation, and follow-ups.
• Attention to detail and literary accuracy – ensuring data, schedules, and documentation are reliable and up to date.
• Ability to prioritise and adapt in a fast-paced environment – managing competing deadlines and responding flexibly to change.
• Good technical skills with Microsoft Office
Desirable Criteria:
• Diary Management experience