Chief Executive Officer, North Wales Wildlife Trust

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Overview

Senior leadership role responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership to fulfil the Trust's charitable objectives and deliver its mission effectively and sustainably while continuing to grow. This includes shaping and implementing the strategic plan, managing people and resources, maintaining financial health, and building strong relationships with membership, funders, and the wider community. The CEO will govern, lead fundraising, public trust and social impact, and represent the Trust as an active member of the federation of Wildlife Trusts to secure wins for wildlife beyond our borders.

The role is hybrid (after a settling-in period) and ideally based in North Wales with office facilities in Bangor or Aberduna. Regular travel to off-site meetings will be required.

Who We Are Looking For

• An experienced senior manager with a degree (or degree-equivalent qualification).
• Experience of organisational leadership within a financially accountable organisation, in the charitable, public, or private sector.
• Proven commercial strategy / business experience, with the ability to generate and manage diverse income streams, including through partnerships, grants, trading, or other business-related activities.
• Experience with a wide range of stakeholders and partners and working with them to achieve programme aims.
• Strong data and IT abilities
• Good public speaker with strong presentational skills
• Excellent project management experience
• A strong understanding of environmental issues, with a broad overview of ecology, conservation, agriculture, fishing, climate change and other environmental pressures.

Welsh language skills are not essential but highly desirable. The successful candidate, if not already fluent, should be committed to learning Welsh and to supporting Welsh culture, which is integral to our work in land management and nature recovery.

Benefits

• Discretionary relocation package up to £10k reimbursement against receipts for moving expenses.
• Discretionary bonus scheme of up to 10% of salary per annum, based on achieving agreed long-term performance targets.
• 32 days of holiday per year, including statutory Bank Holidays, increasing by one day per year of service up to a maximum of 38 days.
• Salary Exchange Pension (6% ER contributions – 6% EE contributions)
• Life Assurance (2x salary)
• Learn Welsh on us

Who we are

North Wales Wildlife Trust is an independent charity and one of 46 Wildlife Trusts working across the UK to protect wildlife for the future. We seek passionate, dedicated and resourceful individuals to join us. If you have an interest in nature conservation and align with the values of The Wildlife Trusts, we would love to hear from you.

With the support of our members and volunteers, and our funders and partners, we work to restore nature, empower people to take action for nature, and create a society where nature matters. We manage natural landscapes in North Wales, including over 750 hectares of land and 35 nature reserves, and protect the coastal waters of North Wales. We collaborate with landholders, businesses, organisations and individuals to create, improve and connect habitats in North Wales.

Seniority level

• Executive

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Business Development and Sales

Industries

• Wildlife Conservation