Bunloit Rewilding Ltd
Inverness, Highland
The two sister companies of aflagship nature-recovery project in the Highlands of Scotland, TheBunloit Rewilding Project, are hiring! Available positions: Chief Scientist: Bunloit Rewilding Ltdseeks a mid-career scientist with an outstanding research record in one or more areas of nature-based solutions (NBS), able as an all-rounder to lead a world-class holistic natural-capital verification-science research programme on the Bunloit estate, rooted in the business imperatives for rewilding. The successful candidate will also be required to lead the provision of expert consultancy on NBS operations to our sister company, Highlands Rewilding. , which operates on land elsewhere in the Highlands. Operations Manager: Highlands Rewilding Ltd seeks a talented all-rounder to manage the first land it has purchased for rewilding, the Beldorney estate in Aberdeenshire. We aim to manage this land economically, generating ethical levels of profitability by pursuing multiple revenue streams, some of them involving nature-based solutions credits (carbon and biodiversity), others not. The overarching aim will be to make rewilding generate prosperity for community and investors alike. Accordingly, candidates from a wide range of relevant disciplines are encouraged to apply, so long as they can demonstrate ability to execute multi-faceted plans and have passion for the rewilding mission. The Bunloit Rewilding Project wasfounded in 2019 with the purpose of enabling nature recovery and community prosperity through rewilding. On the 1,200-acre Bunloit estate in Inverness-shire, Bunloit Rewilding Ltd (BRL)conducted natural-capital science baseline work through spring and summer this year, after a year-long consultation process with a broad stakeholder base: from local communities, through nature conservation organisations, to regional and national government. Our first report (downloadable from our website) was presented at COP26 and received widespread critical acclaim across many sectors. The reception by land agencies and rewilding pioneers is particularly indicative of the potential we have going forward. We hope this report provides a good start in illustrating how carbon and biodiversity can be quantified at a granular level, using an array of scientific techniques, on a plot of mixed-habitat land measured in the hundreds of hectares. Scientific monitoring will continue with the aim of regular reports updating the inventories of natural capital and assessing the impacts of interventions the team make. The Bunloit Rewilding project aims to help take rewilding in Scotland to landscape scale, and so involves a scaling mechanism: a second company, Highlands Rewilding Ltd (HRL), created in 2021. Highlands Rewildingtackles climate meltdown, biodiversity collapse, and land inequality through landscape-scale rewilding on land it owns in the Highlands of Scotland (). Its mission is to help nature recover while growing community prosperity and broadening land ownership. Therefore, unlike Bunloit Rewilding Ltd, this company will enjoy co-ownership by a broad base of rewilding-advocate shareholders. It is in the process of buying 343 hectares of the 353-hectare Beldorney estate in Aberdeenshire, where pasture-dominated terrain is primed for fast nature recovery. Here, with the proceeds of a first capital raise (underway), Highlands Rewilding will create an exemplar of nature-recovery land management, including the planting \/ regeneration of a Forest of Hope as a legacy of the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow. In the next phase, we will repeat our model of land management on other tracts of land, aiming for landscape-scale nature-recovery, and allowing growing numbers of citizen rewilders to invest as we scale. BRL will act as specialist consultant to HRLas it grows, in a partnership secured by a framework agreement (for as long as it takes HRLto grow sufficient internal expertise) and will be paid an annual fee for that service. JOB DESCRIPTION: CHIEF SCIENTIST, BUNLOIT REWILDING LTD The Chief Scientist will have two main roles: To lead the natural capital research on the Bunloit estate, reporting to the Founder and Acting CEO, Dr Jeremy Leggett. To lead the expert consultancy provided to Highlands Rewilding, reporting to Dr Jeremy Leggett as Acting CEO, who in turn will report to the board of Highlands Rewilding Ltd (in process of being appointed). The detailed modalities of the Chief Scientist role we would like to discuss with candidates we invite for interview, as part of the interview process. These will certainly include coordination of a growing network of exciting academic and other innovation partnerships, as well as the identification, application, and management of suitable grant opportunities to further the research aims. Because of the focus on the Bunloit estate, the successful candidate will live within travelling distance of the estate or be prepared to relocate accordingly. The salary will be in the top quintile of comparables, depending on experience. We are building a team and a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, and experience. The Chief Scientist role is very much mission critical and requires a unique skill set, and we are advertising widely as a result. Additionally, as important elements of the Bunloit Rewilding model are its strong connection to communities in the Highlands of Scotland and its aim to create local employment, we will be interested in candidates who may have those connections. JOB DESCRIPTION: OPERATIONS MANAGER, HIGHLANDS REWILDING LTD The detailed modalities of the Operations Manager role we would like to discuss with candidates we invite for interview, as part of the interview process. These will include active leadership and management of all the potential revenue streams described below, and potentially others identified by innovative thinking within an HRL\/BRL team in which the Operations Manager will be a key player. HRL revenue streams will include both nature-based solutions (NBS) and non-NBS themes. NBS revenue will comprise carbon credits, and biodiversity credits, deriving from both woodlands and grasslands. We will target the thriving voluntary corporate carbon-credit market in our afforestation and soil improvement. We are meanwhile helping government policymakers to design the coming system-change in land management by sharing Bunloit science results. Non-NBS revenue streams are of four main types. We will fell monoculture plantations as an ecological imperative but also for income generation. Our woods and grasslands will be home to a range of sustainable farming activities. We will aim to become a premium venue for a manageable number of eco-tourists. Corporate retreaters will come on company-sponsored retreats for hands-on experience of nature recovery. Finally, we plan to build and sell a small number of timber eco-homes, ideally to estate workers. Other areas the Operations Manager will work on include: Team organisation & management Coordination of estate activity Developing & communicating health and safety procedures Liaising with researchers, accountants, collaborators, landowners and related organisations\/networks Property\/holiday let management Researching funding sources and submitting applications Community engagement and consultation Marketing and social media Because of the focus on Beldorney, the successful candidate will live within travelling distance of the estate, or be prepared to relocate accordingly. The salary will be in the top quintile of comparables, depending on experience. We are building a team and a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, and experience. The Operations Manager role is very much mission critical and requires a unique skill set, and we are advertising widely as a result. Additionally, as important elements of the Bunloit Rewilding model are its strong connection to communities in the Highlands of Scotland and its aim to create local employment, we will be interested in candidates who may have those connections. HOW TO APPLY If you are interested in either of these positions, please send a CV, and a cover letter of no more than 1,000 words saying why you are suited for the role, and how based on a reading of our report and two websites you might go about it, by email via the button below. (We recognise of course that detailed contact with the team, of the kind we anticipate during interviews, might change perspectives here). Applications close 31stDecember 2021. Job share-applications will be considered. Jason Beedell, Director of Research, Strutt and Parker:I have not seen this type and depth of analysis before. It is an extraordinary addition to the work being done on natural capital. Louise Alexander, Head of Forestry, Galbraith: This report is having a big impact. It is the talk of the town. Davy McCracken, Head of Integrated Land Management, Scottish Rural College, University of Edinburgh: The innovative monitoring programmes at Bunloit are exemplars of how biodiversity and environmental metrics can be used to inform regenerative management practices whilst maximising the use of local and regional expertise. Charlie Burrell, co-founder, Knepp Wildland: Ground breaking. Huge.
The two sister companies of aflagship nature-recovery project in the Highlands of Scotland, TheBunloit Rewilding Project, are hiring! Available positions: Chief Scientist: Bunloit Rewilding Ltdseeks a mid-career scientist with an outstanding research record in one or more areas of nature-based solutions (NBS), able as an all-rounder to lead a world-class holistic natural-capital verification-science research programme on the Bunloit estate, rooted in the business imperatives for rewilding. The successful candidate will also be required to lead the provision of expert consultancy on NBS operations to our sister company, Highlands Rewilding. , which operates on land elsewhere in the Highlands. Operations Manager: Highlands Rewilding Ltd seeks a talented all-rounder to manage the first land it has purchased for rewilding, the Beldorney estate in Aberdeenshire. We aim to manage this land economically, generating ethical levels of profitability by pursuing multiple revenue streams, some of them involving nature-based solutions credits (carbon and biodiversity), others not. The overarching aim will be to make rewilding generate prosperity for community and investors alike. Accordingly, candidates from a wide range of relevant disciplines are encouraged to apply, so long as they can demonstrate ability to execute multi-faceted plans and have passion for the rewilding mission. The Bunloit Rewilding Project wasfounded in 2019 with the purpose of enabling nature recovery and community prosperity through rewilding. On the 1,200-acre Bunloit estate in Inverness-shire, Bunloit Rewilding Ltd (BRL)conducted natural-capital science baseline work through spring and summer this year, after a year-long consultation process with a broad stakeholder base: from local communities, through nature conservation organisations, to regional and national government. Our first report (downloadable from our website) was presented at COP26 and received widespread critical acclaim across many sectors. The reception by land agencies and rewilding pioneers is particularly indicative of the potential we have going forward. We hope this report provides a good start in illustrating how carbon and biodiversity can be quantified at a granular level, using an array of scientific techniques, on a plot of mixed-habitat land measured in the hundreds of hectares. Scientific monitoring will continue with the aim of regular reports updating the inventories of natural capital and assessing the impacts of interventions the team make. The Bunloit Rewilding project aims to help take rewilding in Scotland to landscape scale, and so involves a scaling mechanism: a second company, Highlands Rewilding Ltd (HRL), created in 2021. Highlands Rewildingtackles climate meltdown, biodiversity collapse, and land inequality through landscape-scale rewilding on land it owns in the Highlands of Scotland (). Its mission is to help nature recover while growing community prosperity and broadening land ownership. Therefore, unlike Bunloit Rewilding Ltd, this company will enjoy co-ownership by a broad base of rewilding-advocate shareholders. It is in the process of buying 343 hectares of the 353-hectare Beldorney estate in Aberdeenshire, where pasture-dominated terrain is primed for fast nature recovery. Here, with the proceeds of a first capital raise (underway), Highlands Rewilding will create an exemplar of nature-recovery land management, including the planting \/ regeneration of a Forest of Hope as a legacy of the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow. In the next phase, we will repeat our model of land management on other tracts of land, aiming for landscape-scale nature-recovery, and allowing growing numbers of citizen rewilders to invest as we scale. BRL will act as specialist consultant to HRLas it grows, in a partnership secured by a framework agreement (for as long as it takes HRLto grow sufficient internal expertise) and will be paid an annual fee for that service. JOB DESCRIPTION: CHIEF SCIENTIST, BUNLOIT REWILDING LTD The Chief Scientist will have two main roles: To lead the natural capital research on the Bunloit estate, reporting to the Founder and Acting CEO, Dr Jeremy Leggett. To lead the expert consultancy provided to Highlands Rewilding, reporting to Dr Jeremy Leggett as Acting CEO, who in turn will report to the board of Highlands Rewilding Ltd (in process of being appointed). The detailed modalities of the Chief Scientist role we would like to discuss with candidates we invite for interview, as part of the interview process. These will certainly include coordination of a growing network of exciting academic and other innovation partnerships, as well as the identification, application, and management of suitable grant opportunities to further the research aims. Because of the focus on the Bunloit estate, the successful candidate will live within travelling distance of the estate or be prepared to relocate accordingly. The salary will be in the top quintile of comparables, depending on experience. We are building a team and a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, and experience. The Chief Scientist role is very much mission critical and requires a unique skill set, and we are advertising widely as a result. Additionally, as important elements of the Bunloit Rewilding model are its strong connection to communities in the Highlands of Scotland and its aim to create local employment, we will be interested in candidates who may have those connections. JOB DESCRIPTION: OPERATIONS MANAGER, HIGHLANDS REWILDING LTD The detailed modalities of the Operations Manager role we would like to discuss with candidates we invite for interview, as part of the interview process. These will include active leadership and management of all the potential revenue streams described below, and potentially others identified by innovative thinking within an HRL\/BRL team in which the Operations Manager will be a key player. HRL revenue streams will include both nature-based solutions (NBS) and non-NBS themes. NBS revenue will comprise carbon credits, and biodiversity credits, deriving from both woodlands and grasslands. We will target the thriving voluntary corporate carbon-credit market in our afforestation and soil improvement. We are meanwhile helping government policymakers to design the coming system-change in land management by sharing Bunloit science results. Non-NBS revenue streams are of four main types. We will fell monoculture plantations as an ecological imperative but also for income generation. Our woods and grasslands will be home to a range of sustainable farming activities. We will aim to become a premium venue for a manageable number of eco-tourists. Corporate retreaters will come on company-sponsored retreats for hands-on experience of nature recovery. Finally, we plan to build and sell a small number of timber eco-homes, ideally to estate workers. Other areas the Operations Manager will work on include: Team organisation & management Coordination of estate activity Developing & communicating health and safety procedures Liaising with researchers, accountants, collaborators, landowners and related organisations\/networks Property\/holiday let management Researching funding sources and submitting applications Community engagement and consultation Marketing and social media Because of the focus on Beldorney, the successful candidate will live within travelling distance of the estate, or be prepared to relocate accordingly. The salary will be in the top quintile of comparables, depending on experience. We are building a team and a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, and experience. The Operations Manager role is very much mission critical and requires a unique skill set, and we are advertising widely as a result. Additionally, as important elements of the Bunloit Rewilding model are its strong connection to communities in the Highlands of Scotland and its aim to create local employment, we will be interested in candidates who may have those connections. HOW TO APPLY If you are interested in either of these positions, please send a CV, and a cover letter of no more than 1,000 words saying why you are suited for the role, and how based on a reading of our report and two websites you might go about it, by email via the button below. (We recognise of course that detailed contact with the team, of the kind we anticipate during interviews, might change perspectives here). Applications close 31stDecember 2021. Job share-applications will be considered. Jason Beedell, Director of Research, Strutt and Parker:I have not seen this type and depth of analysis before. It is an extraordinary addition to the work being done on natural capital. Louise Alexander, Head of Forestry, Galbraith: This report is having a big impact. It is the talk of the town. Davy McCracken, Head of Integrated Land Management, Scottish Rural College, University of Edinburgh: The innovative monitoring programmes at Bunloit are exemplars of how biodiversity and environmental metrics can be used to inform regenerative management practices whilst maximising the use of local and regional expertise. Charlie Burrell, co-founder, Knepp Wildland: Ground breaking. Huge.
Bunloit Rewilding Ltd
The two sister companies of a flagship nature-recovery project in the Highlands of Scotland, The Bunloit Rewilding Project, are hiring! Available positions: Chief Scientist : Bunloit Rewilding Ltd seeks a mid-career scientist with an outstanding research record in one or more areas of nature-based solutions (NBS), able as an all-rounder to lead a world-class holistic natural-capital verification-science research programme on the Bunloit estate, rooted in the business imperatives for rewilding. The successful candidate will also be required to lead the provision of expert consultancy on NBS operations to our sister company, Highlands Rewilding., which operates on land elsewhere in the Highlands. Operations Manager : Highlands Rewilding Ltd seeks a talented all-rounder to manage the first land it has purchased for rewilding, the Beldorney estate in Aberdeenshire. We aim to manage this land economically, generating ethical levels of profitability by pursuing multiple revenue streams, some of them involving nature-based solutions credits (carbon and biodiversity), others not. The overarching aim will be to make rewilding generate prosperity for community and investors alike. Accordingly, candidates from a wide range of relevant disciplines are encouraged to apply, so long as they can demonstrate ability to execute multi-faceted plans and have passion for the rewilding mission. The Bunloit Rewilding Project was founded in 2019 with the purpose of enabling nature recovery and community prosperity through rewilding. On the 1,200-acre Bunloit estate in Inverness-shire, Bunloit Rewilding Ltd (BRL) conducted natural-capital science baseline work through spring and summer this year, after a year-long consultation process with a broad stakeholder base: from local communities, through nature conservation organisations, to regional and national government. Our first report (downloadable from our website) was presented at COP26 and received widespread critical acclaim across many sectors. The reception by land agencies and rewilding pioneers is particularly indicative of the potential we have going forward. We hope this report provides a good start in illustrating how carbon and biodiversity can be quantified at a granular level, using an array of scientific techniques, on a plot of mixed-habitat land measured in the hundreds of hectares. Scientific monitoring will continue with the aim of regular reports updating the inventories of natural capital and assessing the impacts of interventions the team make. The Bunloit Rewilding project aims to help take rewilding in Scotland to landscape scale, and so involves a scaling mechanism: a second company, Highlands Rewilding Ltd (HRL), created in 2021. Highlands Rewilding tackles climate meltdown, biodiversity collapse, and land inequality through landscape-scale rewilding on land it owns in the Highlands of Scotland (). Its mission is to help nature recover while growing community prosperity and broadening land ownership. Therefore, unlike Bunloit Rewilding Ltd, this company will enjoy co-ownership by a broad base of rewilding-advocate shareholders. It is in the process of buying 343 hectares of the 353-hectare Beldorney estate in Aberdeenshire, where pasture-dominated terrain is primed for fast nature recovery. Here, with the proceeds of a first capital raise (underway), Highlands Rewilding will create an exemplar of nature-recovery land management, including the planting / regeneration of a "Forest of Hope" as a legacy of the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow. In the next phase, we will repeat our model of land management on other tracts of land, aiming for landscape-scale nature-recovery, and allowing growing numbers of "citizen rewilders" to invest as we scale. BRL will act as specialist consultant to HRL as it grows, in a partnership secured by a framework agreement (for as long as it takes HRL to grow sufficient internal expertise) and will be paid an annual fee for that service. JOB DESCRIPTION: CHIEF SCIENTIST, BUNLOIT REWILDING LTD The Chief Scientist will have two main roles: To lead the natural capital research on the Bunloit estate, reporting to the Founder and Acting CEO, Dr Jeremy Leggett. To lead the expert consultancy provided to Highlands Rewilding, reporting to Dr Jeremy Leggett as Acting CEO, who in turn will report to the board of Highlands Rewilding Ltd (in process of being appointed). The detailed modalities of the Chief Scientist role we would like to discuss with candidates we invite for interview, as part of the interview process. These will certainly include coordination of a growing network of exciting academic and other innovation partnerships, as well as the identification, application, and management of suitable grant opportunities to further the research aims. Because of the focus on the Bunloit estate, the successful candidate will live within travelling distance of the estate or be prepared to relocate accordingly. The salary will be in the top quintile of comparables, depending on experience. We are building a team and a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, and experience. The Chief Scientist role is very much mission critical and requires a unique skill set, and we are advertising widely as a result. Additionally, as important elements of the Bunloit Rewilding model are its strong connection to communities in the Highlands of Scotland and its aim to create local employment, we will be interested in candidates who may have those connections. JOB DESCRIPTION: OPERATIONS MANAGER, HIGHLANDS REWILDING LTD The detailed modalities of the Operations Manager role we would like to discuss with candidates we invite for interview, as part of the interview process. These will include active leadership and management of all the potential revenue streams described below, and potentially others identified by innovative thinking within an HRL/BRL team in which the Operations Manager will be a key player. HRL revenue streams will include both nature-based solutions (NBS) and non-NBS themes. NBS revenue will comprise carbon credits, and biodiversity credits, deriving from both woodlands and grasslands. We will target the thriving voluntary corporate carbon-credit market in our afforestation and soil improvement. We are meanwhile helping government policymakers to design the coming system-change in land management by sharing Bunloit science results. Non-NBS revenue streams are of four main types. We will fell monoculture plantations as an ecological imperative but also for income generation. Our woods and grasslands will be home to a range of sustainable farming activities. We will aim to become a premium venue for a manageable number of eco-tourists. Corporate retreaters will come on company-sponsored retreats for hands-on experience of nature recovery. Finally, we plan to build and sell a small number of timber eco-homes, ideally to estate workers. Other areas the Operations Manager will work on include: Team organisation & management Coordination of estate activity Developing & communicating health and safety procedures Liaising with researchers, accountants, collaborators, landowners and related organisations/networks Property/holiday let management Researching funding sources and submitting applications Community engagement and consultation Marketing and social media Because of the focus on Beldorney, the successful candidate will live within travelling distance of the estate, or be prepared to relocate accordingly. The salary will be in the top quintile of comparables, depending on experience. We are building a team and a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, and experience. The Operations Manager role is very much mission critical and requires a unique skill set, and we are advertising widely as a result. Additionally, as important elements of the Bunloit Rewilding model are its strong connection to communities in the Highlands of Scotland and its aim to create local employment, we will be interested in candidates who may have those connections. HOW TO APPLY If you are interested in either of these positions, please send a CV, and a cover letter of no more than 1,000 words saying why you are suited for the role, and how - based on a reading of our report and two websites - you might go about it, by email via the button below. (We recognise of course that detailed contact with the team, of the kind we anticipate during interviews, might change perspectives here). Applications close 31 st December 2021. Job share-applications will be considered. Jason Beedell, Director of Research, Strutt and Parker: "I have not seen this type and depth of analysis before. It is an extraordinary addition to the work being done on natural capital." Louise Alexander, Head of Forestry, Galbraith: "This report is having a big impact. It is the talk of the town." Davy McCracken, Head of Integrated Land Management, Scottish Rural College, University of Edinburgh: "The innovative monitoring programmes at Bunloit are exemplars of how biodiversity and environmental metrics can be used to inform regenerative management practices whilst maximising the use of local and regional expertise." Charlie Burrell, co-founder, Knepp Wildland: "Ground breaking. Huge."
The two sister companies of a flagship nature-recovery project in the Highlands of Scotland, The Bunloit Rewilding Project, are hiring! Available positions: Chief Scientist : Bunloit Rewilding Ltd seeks a mid-career scientist with an outstanding research record in one or more areas of nature-based solutions (NBS), able as an all-rounder to lead a world-class holistic natural-capital verification-science research programme on the Bunloit estate, rooted in the business imperatives for rewilding. The successful candidate will also be required to lead the provision of expert consultancy on NBS operations to our sister company, Highlands Rewilding., which operates on land elsewhere in the Highlands. Operations Manager : Highlands Rewilding Ltd seeks a talented all-rounder to manage the first land it has purchased for rewilding, the Beldorney estate in Aberdeenshire. We aim to manage this land economically, generating ethical levels of profitability by pursuing multiple revenue streams, some of them involving nature-based solutions credits (carbon and biodiversity), others not. The overarching aim will be to make rewilding generate prosperity for community and investors alike. Accordingly, candidates from a wide range of relevant disciplines are encouraged to apply, so long as they can demonstrate ability to execute multi-faceted plans and have passion for the rewilding mission. The Bunloit Rewilding Project was founded in 2019 with the purpose of enabling nature recovery and community prosperity through rewilding. On the 1,200-acre Bunloit estate in Inverness-shire, Bunloit Rewilding Ltd (BRL) conducted natural-capital science baseline work through spring and summer this year, after a year-long consultation process with a broad stakeholder base: from local communities, through nature conservation organisations, to regional and national government. Our first report (downloadable from our website) was presented at COP26 and received widespread critical acclaim across many sectors. The reception by land agencies and rewilding pioneers is particularly indicative of the potential we have going forward. We hope this report provides a good start in illustrating how carbon and biodiversity can be quantified at a granular level, using an array of scientific techniques, on a plot of mixed-habitat land measured in the hundreds of hectares. Scientific monitoring will continue with the aim of regular reports updating the inventories of natural capital and assessing the impacts of interventions the team make. The Bunloit Rewilding project aims to help take rewilding in Scotland to landscape scale, and so involves a scaling mechanism: a second company, Highlands Rewilding Ltd (HRL), created in 2021. Highlands Rewilding tackles climate meltdown, biodiversity collapse, and land inequality through landscape-scale rewilding on land it owns in the Highlands of Scotland (). Its mission is to help nature recover while growing community prosperity and broadening land ownership. Therefore, unlike Bunloit Rewilding Ltd, this company will enjoy co-ownership by a broad base of rewilding-advocate shareholders. It is in the process of buying 343 hectares of the 353-hectare Beldorney estate in Aberdeenshire, where pasture-dominated terrain is primed for fast nature recovery. Here, with the proceeds of a first capital raise (underway), Highlands Rewilding will create an exemplar of nature-recovery land management, including the planting / regeneration of a "Forest of Hope" as a legacy of the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow. In the next phase, we will repeat our model of land management on other tracts of land, aiming for landscape-scale nature-recovery, and allowing growing numbers of "citizen rewilders" to invest as we scale. BRL will act as specialist consultant to HRL as it grows, in a partnership secured by a framework agreement (for as long as it takes HRL to grow sufficient internal expertise) and will be paid an annual fee for that service. JOB DESCRIPTION: CHIEF SCIENTIST, BUNLOIT REWILDING LTD The Chief Scientist will have two main roles: To lead the natural capital research on the Bunloit estate, reporting to the Founder and Acting CEO, Dr Jeremy Leggett. To lead the expert consultancy provided to Highlands Rewilding, reporting to Dr Jeremy Leggett as Acting CEO, who in turn will report to the board of Highlands Rewilding Ltd (in process of being appointed). The detailed modalities of the Chief Scientist role we would like to discuss with candidates we invite for interview, as part of the interview process. These will certainly include coordination of a growing network of exciting academic and other innovation partnerships, as well as the identification, application, and management of suitable grant opportunities to further the research aims. Because of the focus on the Bunloit estate, the successful candidate will live within travelling distance of the estate or be prepared to relocate accordingly. The salary will be in the top quintile of comparables, depending on experience. We are building a team and a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, and experience. The Chief Scientist role is very much mission critical and requires a unique skill set, and we are advertising widely as a result. Additionally, as important elements of the Bunloit Rewilding model are its strong connection to communities in the Highlands of Scotland and its aim to create local employment, we will be interested in candidates who may have those connections. JOB DESCRIPTION: OPERATIONS MANAGER, HIGHLANDS REWILDING LTD The detailed modalities of the Operations Manager role we would like to discuss with candidates we invite for interview, as part of the interview process. These will include active leadership and management of all the potential revenue streams described below, and potentially others identified by innovative thinking within an HRL/BRL team in which the Operations Manager will be a key player. HRL revenue streams will include both nature-based solutions (NBS) and non-NBS themes. NBS revenue will comprise carbon credits, and biodiversity credits, deriving from both woodlands and grasslands. We will target the thriving voluntary corporate carbon-credit market in our afforestation and soil improvement. We are meanwhile helping government policymakers to design the coming system-change in land management by sharing Bunloit science results. Non-NBS revenue streams are of four main types. We will fell monoculture plantations as an ecological imperative but also for income generation. Our woods and grasslands will be home to a range of sustainable farming activities. We will aim to become a premium venue for a manageable number of eco-tourists. Corporate retreaters will come on company-sponsored retreats for hands-on experience of nature recovery. Finally, we plan to build and sell a small number of timber eco-homes, ideally to estate workers. Other areas the Operations Manager will work on include: Team organisation & management Coordination of estate activity Developing & communicating health and safety procedures Liaising with researchers, accountants, collaborators, landowners and related organisations/networks Property/holiday let management Researching funding sources and submitting applications Community engagement and consultation Marketing and social media Because of the focus on Beldorney, the successful candidate will live within travelling distance of the estate, or be prepared to relocate accordingly. The salary will be in the top quintile of comparables, depending on experience. We are building a team and a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, and experience. The Operations Manager role is very much mission critical and requires a unique skill set, and we are advertising widely as a result. Additionally, as important elements of the Bunloit Rewilding model are its strong connection to communities in the Highlands of Scotland and its aim to create local employment, we will be interested in candidates who may have those connections. HOW TO APPLY If you are interested in either of these positions, please send a CV, and a cover letter of no more than 1,000 words saying why you are suited for the role, and how - based on a reading of our report and two websites - you might go about it, by email via the button below. (We recognise of course that detailed contact with the team, of the kind we anticipate during interviews, might change perspectives here). Applications close 31 st December 2021. Job share-applications will be considered. Jason Beedell, Director of Research, Strutt and Parker: "I have not seen this type and depth of analysis before. It is an extraordinary addition to the work being done on natural capital." Louise Alexander, Head of Forestry, Galbraith: "This report is having a big impact. It is the talk of the town." Davy McCracken, Head of Integrated Land Management, Scottish Rural College, University of Edinburgh: "The innovative monitoring programmes at Bunloit are exemplars of how biodiversity and environmental metrics can be used to inform regenerative management practices whilst maximising the use of local and regional expertise." Charlie Burrell, co-founder, Knepp Wildland: "Ground breaking. Huge."