National Landscapes Association

The Big Chalk Partnership is made up of more than 150 organisations with a common vision of creating nature-rich chalk and limestone landscapes that benefit all of us. This relies on an expansion in the scale, pace and impact of nature recovery activities across southern England, benefiting globally important habitats and species and delivering ecosystem services including natural beauty, clean water, healthy soils and our own wellbeing. The Protected Landscapes Partnership and Defra are supporting our Partnership to catalyse progress towards the UK s nature commitments across these special landscapes. The Nature Recovery Fund Manager will co-manage a significant grants fund on behalf of Big Chalk s Partnership Board. The Big Chalk programme is hosted by the National Landscapes Association. The National Landscapes Association represents and supports the UK s National Landscapes (Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty). The Association is a charity and non-profit membership organisation. The team advocates, communicates and fosters collaborative action which supports the UK s network of National Landscapes to be as effective as possible. We champion the interests of National Landscapes with governments and coordinate the delivery of national projects. We welcome applicants from a broad range of backgrounds the most important thing is that you are motivated to work collaboratively and effectively with Big Chalk s partners to help ensure our grant-making benefits nature to the greatest extent possible. With significant experience of grant making and donor reporting in the environmental or social sectors, you ll bring a collaborative mindset and be skilled at quickly building positive working relationships with new colleagues, our partners, our funders and other stakeholders. You ll have applied experience of working across the grant-making lifecycle, and possess excellent analytical skills, able to identify, summarise and communicate key issues and risks. If this sounds like the opportunity for you, then we d love to hear from you.