The Wild Path #35
Forestry England, DMM, Cotswold Outdoor and 40+ other outdoor roles inside
Issue 35 - Week of 23rd March 2026
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📬This Week on The Wild Path
A huge thank you to everyone who came and said hello at the National Outdoor Expo last weekend. We’re so proud of the community that’s growing around The Wild Path, and it was brilliant to meet so many of you in person. The conversations we had reinforced something we hear every week, there is so much opportunity in the outdoor sector if you know where to look!
And to everyone who’s joined us since Expo - welcome 👋. Each Thursday we bring together 40+ roles from across the outdoor world, from national parks and conservation to outdoor brands, adventure providers, education, outdoor wellbeing providers and beyond. We also share stories, career insights and practical support to help you take your next step with confidence. Glad to have you on the trail with us.
You can keep up with us on LinkedIn, Instagram, and find out more about us at teamwildpath.com.
This Week’s Round Up
🏞️ Parks, Estates & Landscapes
Head of Development for Western Forest – Forest of Avon
Lead fundraising and development strategy for the Western Forest initiative, driving income generation and partnership growth.
📍 Bristol 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £50,000
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 6 April 2026
Forest Resilience Programme Manager – Forestry England
Lead delivery of the Forest Resilience programme, coordinating cross-functional project activity and stakeholder engagement.
📍 Flexible 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Full-time
💷 Salary: £48,765–£52,557
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 19 April 2026
Director – London Parks & Gardens
Lead the organisation’s strategic direction, overseeing programmes, partnerships and advocacy for London’s parks and green spaces.
📍 London 🏷 Part-time
💷 Salary: £48,500 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 3 April 2026
Buildings Coordinator – Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority
Coordinate building maintenance for the Llanion HQ and project work across the National Park estate.
📍 Pembrokeshire 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £32,597–£34,434
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 12 April 2026
Environmental Learning Project Officer (Responsible Access) – The Broads National Park Authority
Support environmental learning initiatives across the Broads, engaging communities and visitors with the landscape.
📍 Norwich 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Part-time
💷 Salary: £31,537–£33,699 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 17 April 2026
🏕️ Outdoor Education & Instruction
Lead Outdoor Instructor – Mendip Activity Centre
Lead and deliver outdoor activity sessions across a range of land and water-based programmes.
📍 Mendip Hills 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £27,550–£29,250
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Outdoor Learning Leader – Peak District National Park
Support delivery of outdoor learning programmes, working with schools and community groups across the National Park.
📍 Glossop 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Part-time
💷 Salary: £30,024–£31,537 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 7 April 2026
Water Sports Instructor – Mitie
Deliver water sports sessions and support programme activity within a naval leisure facility.
📍 Portsmouth 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £24,000–£27,746
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Outdoor Instructor – Adventure Sunderland
Deliver outdoor activity sessions across a range of programmes, supporting participation and development.
📍 Sunderland 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: Not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
🛍️ Outdoor Brands, Retail & Commercial
Retail Pricing Manager – Cotswold Outdoor
Lead pricing strategy across the retail business, overseeing margin management and commercial performance.
📍 Wiltshire 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £50,000–£55,000
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 24 April 2026
Head of Grocery – Tenzing
Lead grocery channel strategy, overseeing retail partnerships and distribution for a natural energy brand.
📍 London 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: Not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Design Engineer – DMM
Design and develop technical climbing and safety equipment within a leading outdoor hardware manufacturer.
📍 Llanberis 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £35,000–£37,000
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 3 April 2026
Product Compliance Specialist – Finisterre
Manage product compliance and testing processes, ensuring regulatory standards are met across collections.
📍 Cornwall 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £32,000–£35,000
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 3 April 2026
Learning & Development Partner - Retail – Rapha
Support learning and development programmes across the retail network, driving team capability and performance.
📍 London 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: Not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Manager, 3rd Party Logistics, EMEA – Lululemon
Oversee third-party logistics operations across the EMEA region, managing performance and service delivery.
📍 London 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: Not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Credit Controller – Regatta
Manage credit control processes across the group, supporting cash collection and account management.
📍 Urmston 🏷 Fixed Term Contract
💷 Salary: Not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 15 April 2026
CRM Executive – JD Outdoors
Support CRM activity and customer engagement campaigns across the JD Outdoors brand.
📍 Bury 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: Not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Assistant Branch Merchandiser – Mountain Warehouse
Support branch merchandising operations, coordinating stock and visual presentation across stores.
📍 London 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: Not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
🌱 Nature, Conservation & Environment
Ecologist – The North York Moors National Park Authority
Deliver ecological survey, monitoring and advisory work across the National Park landscape.
📍 Helmsley 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £33,699–£37,280
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 12 April 2026
Research Officer, External Insight & Private Sector – Fauna & Flora
Support research and analysis on private sector engagement, contributing to the organisation’s conservation strategy.
📍 Cambridge 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £32,515
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 12 April 2026
Wilder Learning Officer – Sussex Wildlife Trust
Deliver nature-based learning programmes, engaging schools and communities with wildlife and the natural environment.
📍 Brighton 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £29,330
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 17 April 2026
🐾 The trail doesn’t stop here - scroll on for more roles 👇
Conversations on The Wild Path 🎙️
We’ve just released our latest Conversation on The Wild Path - our video interview series helping you discover the people, ideas, and careers shaping the future of the outdoors.
This episode is with Gemma Popejoy, a former Chief People Officer who walked away from a successful corporate career, spent a year adventuring across some of the world’s most iconic trails, and is now retraining as a mountain leader while running her own change and leadership consultancy, Pivot Forward.
It’s one of the most open and wide-ranging conversations we’ve had on the series. We talk about what it actually feels like to leave a career that looks right on paper but no longer fits, and the moment that made Gemma rethink everything. We get into what the mountains have taught her about leadership - why the best leaders she’s seen aren’t the ones doing the most, but the ones holding steady when things go sideways.
We also explore who belongs in the outdoors and the practical, structural barriers that still shape who shows up.
Whether you’re considering a career change, working in the sector already, or thinking about what outdoor leadership actually looks like, then this one’s well worth your time.
🐾 The trail doesn’t stop here - scroll on for more roles 👇
📣 Community & Support
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🛠️ Freelance Roles
Instructor – Grangewaters
Deliver outdoor activity sessions on a freelance basis across land and water-based programmes.
📍 Thurrock 🏷 Freelance
💷 Salary: £170/day
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
❄️ Seasonal Roles
Seasonal Instructor – Action4Youth
Deliver outdoor education and DofE expedition programmes across seasonal activity.
📍 Milton Keynes 🏷 Seasonal
💷 Salary: £24,455
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 28 March 2026 ⏳
Conservation Aviculturist – Curlew Country
Support seasonal curlew conservation fieldwork, monitoring nesting activity and delivering headstarting programmes.
📍 Shropshire 🏷 Seasonal
💷 Salary: £117.69/day
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 29 March 2026 ⏳
Activities Coordinator – Portland Charity
Deliver and coordinate outdoor activity programmes for groups, supporting engagement, development and wellbeing.
📍 Nottinghamshire 🏷 Seasonal
💷 Salary: £25,374 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 3 April 2026
Farm Assistant – Springtail Farm
Support day-to-day farm operations across seasonal growing activity on a small farm.
📍 West Dorset 🏷 Seasonal
💷 Salary: £12.75/hour
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 6 April 2026
General Assistant – Parkwood Outdoors Dolygaer
Support centre operations across a busy outdoor activity centre in south Wales.
📍 Bannau Brycheiniog National Park 🏷 Seasonal
💷 Salary: Not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
🧭 Operations, People & Systems
Managing Director – Grow
Lead the organisation’s overall strategy, operations and growth, overseeing team performance and stakeholder relationships.
📍 London 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £48,000–£53,000
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 22 April 2026
Senior International Projects Manager – Blue Marine Foundation
Lead delivery of international marine conservation projects, coordinating partnerships and programme activity across multiple geographies.
📍 London 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £40,000–£50,000
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 3 April 2026
Operations Officer – Duke of Edinburgh
Support operational delivery across programmes and partnerships in the North Essex region.
📍 Remote 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £29,366 - £34,548
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 29th March 2026 ⏳
Maintenance Manager – Community Sauna Baths
Oversee building maintenance, facilities management and operational upkeep across the community sauna sites.
📍 London 🏷 Part-time
💷 Salary: £41,600 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 7 April 2026
Project Coordinator – Cycle Sisters
Coordinate project delivery across community cycling programmes, as they expand beyond London.
📍 London 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Full-time
💷 Salary: £34,000–£39,000
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 15 April 2026
HR Advisor – The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester & North Merseyside
As part of a small team provide exceptional HR service with high standards of advice and support.
📍 Preston 🏷 Maternity Cover
💷 Salary: £32,748
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 7 April 2026
Customer Expert – Freeklime
Support customer-facing operations across a bouldering centre based in York.
📍 York 🏷 Part-time
💷 Salary: Not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Team Member – LancasterWall
Support day-to-day operations across reception, customer service and wider centre activity.
📍 Lancaster 🏷 Part-time
💷 Salary: £12.21/hour
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 30 March 2026
Duty Manager – LancasterWall
Lead shift operations, supervising team activity and ensuring a safe, high-quality customer experience.
📍 Lancaster 🏷 Part-time
💷 Salary: £13.11/hour
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 30 March 2026
📣 Communications, Engagement & Impact
Marketing & Communications Manager – The Sharpham Trust
Lead marketing and communications strategy across the Trust’s programmes, events and audience engagement.
📍 Devon 🏷 Part-time
💷 Salary: £37,050 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 13 April 2026
Social Media Manager – British Cycling
Lead social media strategy and content delivery across the organisation’s digital channels.
📍 Manchester 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £32,500
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 30 March 2026
Senior Individual Giving Coordinator – Trees for Cities
Coordinate individual giving campaigns and donor engagement, supporting fundraising growth across the organisation.
📍 London 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £32,000
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 1 April 2026
Landscape Connections Community Development Officer – Loch Lomond & The Trossachs Countryside Trust
Support community engagement and partnership development across landscape-scale conservation and access projects.
📍 Balloch 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Part-time
💷 Salary: £30,385 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 1 April 2026
Digital Content Creator – Wildlife Aid Foundation
Create and manage digital content across platforms, supporting storytelling and audience engagement for the charity.
📍 Leatherhead 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £30,000
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 31 March 2026
Communications & Marketing Assistant – Plum Village UK
Support communications and marketing activity across the organisation’s programmes and digital channels.
📍 Remote 🏷 Part-time
💷 Salary: £29,400 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 12 April 2026
Community Engagement Officer – Sea Watch Foundation
Deliver community engagement programmes focused on marine wildlife and citizen science along the Welsh coast.
📍 Anglesey 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Part-time
💷 Salary: £26,000–£27,000 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 5 April 2026
Community Manager – LeBlanq
Lead community engagement and member experience across a premium cycling and wellness brand.
📍 Remote 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: Not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Membership Officer – Heritage Crafts
Coordinate membership services and engagement, supporting growth and retention across the organisation’s community.
📍 Remote 🏷 Part-time
💷 Salary: £27,627 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 17 April 2026
Circular Economy Events Manager – Sustainable Merton
Plan and deliver community events focused on circular economy and sustainability initiatives.
📍 London 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Part-time
💷 Salary: £33,000 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 30 March 2026
🙌 Voluntary & Trustee Roles
Board Director – Parkrun
Join the Parkrun Ireland board, contributing strategic oversight and governance across the organisation's growth and community impact.
📍 Ireland 🏷 Volunteer
💷 Salary: Voluntary
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 7 April 2026
🎲 Wildcard of the Week
Sea Kayak Guides – Nordic Ventures
Guide sea kayak expeditions along the Norwegian coastline, leading multi-day trips for international guests.
📍 Norway 🏷 Seasonal
💷 Salary: £14/hour
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
That’s a wrap for this week 🌿
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