The Wild Path #36
Rab, beavers, Shetland wool. 50 reasons to hand in your notice
Issue 36 - Week of 30th March 2026
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📬This Week on The Wild Path
A bumper week. 50 roles across national parks, outdoor brands, conservation, education and more, with five(!) different national parks hiring in this issue alone.
If you saw our beaver post on Instagram a few weeks back, the Beaver Trust is hiring again, this time a Policy Officer helping shape the future of beaver reintroduction across the UK.
Whether you’re looking for your first outdoor role or your next step, there’s a lot to explore this week.
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
Tree & Woodland Officer – Forest of Avon
Support tree and woodland delivery across the Forest of Avon partnership, contributing to planting programmes and long-term landscape strategy.
📍 Bristol 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £32,630 – £36,759
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 13 April 2026
Assistant Ranger – National Trust
Support practical ranger work across the Farne Islands, helping to manage habitats, maintain access and engage with visitors.
📍 Seahouses 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Full-time
💷 Salary: £25,838
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 5 April 2026 ⏳
Landscape Observatory GIS and Digitisation Technician – Peak District National Park
Support landscape monitoring through GIS mapping and digitisation of historic records across the National Park.
📍 Bakewell 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Full-time
💷 Salary: £28,142 – £29,540
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 12 April 2026
Nature Routes Project Officer – Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park
Help accelerate restoration of our woodland mosaic, addressing shared threats, and maximising shared opportunities for people and communities.
📍 Balloch 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Full-time
💷 Salary: £33,248 – £38,556
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 7 April 2026
Dartmoor Project Officer – Dartmoor National Park
Support project delivery across Dartmoor, coordinating landscape and community-focused initiatives within the National Park.
📍 Dartmoor National Park 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Part-time
💷 Salary: £29,540 – £33,699
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 5 April 2026 ⏳
Active Travel Officer – North York Moors National Park
Lead on active travel project delivery across the National Park, supporting sustainable access and connectivity.
📍 Helmsley 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Full-time
💷 Salary: £32,597 – £35,412
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 12 April 2026
Nature Recovery Senior Strategy Officer – Surrey County Council
Lead development and delivery of nature recovery strategy across Surrey, coordinating partnerships and policy priorities.
📍 Woking 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £47,142
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 19 April 2026
Marine and Coastal Team Leader – Norfolk County Council
Provide strategic leadership across The Wash and Norfolk Coast partnerships, driving nature recovery, climate adaptation and sustainable tourism across the National Landscape.
📍 Norwich 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £43,822 – £48,227
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 8 April 2026
Head Gardener – National Trust
Lead garden management and horticultural delivery across an Isle of Wight property, overseeing planting, team coordination and visitor experience.
📍 Isle of Wight 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £30,966
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 12 April 2026
Community Gardener – Northern Roots
Support community growing and green space programmes in Oldham, engaging local residents through hands-on gardening activity.
📍 Oldham 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Part-time
💷 Salary: £26,000 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 14 April 2026
🏕️ Outdoor Education & Instruction
Climbing Instructors – 270 Climbing Park
Deliver climbing sessions across the centre, supporting participants of all levels in a dynamic indoor and outdoor setting.
📍 Cotswolds 🏷 Part-time
💷 Salary: Not listed
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Head Coach – Chimera Climbing
Lead coaching delivery and programme development across the centre, overseeing session quality and team performance.
📍 Chatham 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £30,600
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Education Support Assistant – Field Studies Council
Support outdoor learning programmes and field-based education delivery on the Isle of Cumbrae.
📍 Isle of Cumbrae 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Full-time
💷 Salary: £24,785
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 7 April 2026
🎪 Adventure, Travel & Experiences
Trip Manager – The Wilderness Group
Coordinate and deliver multi-day adventure trips across the UK and beyond, managing logistics, client experience and on-the-ground operations.
📍 Edinburgh 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £28,000 – £32,000
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 5 April 2026 ⏳
🛍️ Outdoor Brands, Retail & Commercial
Head of Design – Rab
Lead design direction and creative strategy across the brand, overseeing product development and design team output.
📍 Derbyshire 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: Not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 19 April 2026
Manufacturing Engineer – DMM
Support manufacturing processes and engineering improvements within a leading climbing equipment manufacturer.
📍 Llanberis 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £37,000 – £39,000 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 3 April 2026 ⏳
Assistant Buyer – Cotswold Outdoor
Support buying and merchandising across product categories, contributing to range planning and supplier management.
📍 Wiltshire 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £26,000 – £28,000
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 26 April 2026
Social Media Coordinator – Passenger
Manage social media content and scheduling across channels, supporting brand storytelling and audience engagement.
📍 New Milton 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: Not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Amazon Marketplace Executive – Vivobarefoot
Manage Amazon channel performance, overseeing listings, advertising and marketplace strategy for a purpose-led footwear brand.
📍 Bristol 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: Not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Product Developer – Nikwax
Support product development from concept through to production, working across formulation, testing and specification.
📍 Wadhurst 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: Not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Community & Social Media Manager – Apidura
Lead community engagement and social media strategy for a bikepacking brand, building audience connection across channels.
📍 London 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: Not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Assistant Management Accountant – Retail & Overheads – Mountain Warehouse
Support financial reporting and analysis across retail in Europe, Canada, USA and New Zealand within a major outdoor retailer.
📍 London 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Full-time
💷 Salary: Not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 30 April 2026
Global Product Merchandiser – Finisterre
Lead the seasonal collection and category strategy across all Finisterre product lines and support the leadership to shape the long-term product vision of the brand.
📍 Cornwall 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: Not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 20 April 2026
Accounts Payable Assistant – Alpkit
Support accounts payable processes, managing invoices, payments and supplier reconciliation within an outdoor brand.
📍 Nottingham 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £27,421
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Marketing Assistant – Trail & Outdoors – SportsShoes
Support marketing campaigns and content across trail and outdoor product categories, contributing to brand visibility and engagement.
📍 Shipley 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: Not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
🌱 Nature, Conservation & Environment
Project Manager – Friends of the Dart
Lead project delivery focusing on water quality monitoring and community engagement work across the Dart catchment.
📍 Totnes 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Part-time
💷 Salary: £44,800 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Farm Liaison/Senior Reserves Officer – Wildlife Trust of South & West Wales
Support farm partnerships and reserve management across Pembrokeshire, engaging in land-based conservation delivery.
📍 Pembrokeshire 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Full-time
💷 Salary: £28,000
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 13 April 2026
Policy Officer – Beaver Trust
Support policy development and advocacy work advancing beaver reintroduction and freshwater ecosystem recovery.
📍 Remote 🏷 Part-time
💷 Salary: £29,403 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 20 April 2026
🐾 The trail doesn’t stop here - scroll on for more roles 👇
Member Spotlight
Meet Louise
Louise Allen 📍Faversham
About Me
I'm an integrative counsellor and Wild Therapist. I specialise in outdoor therapy and with life's transitions, drawing on ideas of biomimicry and nature's cycles as ways of helping bring awareness and acceptance to the therapeutic process.
How did I get into the outdoors?
I feel most alive and most connected to (at peace with) myself when I'm outdoors. Walking, exploring the land, getting lost and finding my way home - these ways of being out in the world have helped me to navigate challenging times in my life. There is infinite opportunity for awe and fascination outdoors - something beautiful or gross to observe, wild food to forage, textures to touch. And I don't feel judged by the forest, the sea, the mountains. I feel held and accepted as I am in whatever way that may be.
Favourite adventure or experience?
Undertaking a year long Wild Therapy training - 4 residential sessions in Lancashire and Bristol, connecting with movement, embodiment, animals, storytelling, ritual and ways to be with our wild selves. It was completely transformative and allowed space for a lot of grief, fear and anger to live within me more comfortably.
One mindset or bit of kit I always take with me?
I always have at least one stone in my pocket! Treasures from past travels...
What am I looking for?
Collaboration- blogs or podcast. I also offer group facilitation (away days, nature connection, self development workshops, team building) as well as individual therapy. I can hold bespoke group and individual workshops and circles. For example, creative and nature connection self development focused, walking journeys, death cafes and grief circles. I also deliver a day long in person Introduction to Outdoor Therapy training for counsellors, and a half day online taster intro for trainee counsellors through The Wild Space Kent project.
🐾 The trail doesn’t stop here - scroll on for more roles 👇
📣 Community & Support
Got a role to share?
If you're hiring and want to reach engaged, motivated people who are actively looking to work in the outdoor sector, get in touch.
Looking for support with your CV, applications or career direction? We can help.
🛠️ Freelance Roles
Outdoor Instructors – Greater Manchester Youth Federation
Deliver outdoor programmes and residential activity sessions in Cumbria.
📍 Appleby-in-Westmorland 🏷 Freelance
💷 Salary: £175/day
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Regional Project Facilitator – Friends of the Dart
Support regional coordination and stakeholder engagement across catchment-based conservation projects in Devon and Cornwall.
📍 Devon and Cornwall 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Freelance
💷 Salary: £15,000
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: Rolling
❄️ Seasonal Roles
Scottish Dolphin Centre Assistant – WDC Scottish Dolphin Centre
Support visitor engagement and centre operations at one of Scotland’s top wildlife destinations on the Moray Firth.
📍 Spey Bay 🏷 Seasonal
💷 Salary: £23,132 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 13 April 2026
Outdoor Activity Instructor – Oakerwood Leisure
Deliver seasonal outdoor activity sessions across a range of land and water-based programmes.
📍 Leominster 🏷 Seasonal
💷 Salary: £12.21/hour
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Forest School Practitioner – Willowbank Generation
Deliver seasonal forest school sessions, supporting outdoor learning and nature-based activity for young people.
📍 Kent 🏷 Seasonal
💷 Salary: Not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
🌟 Internships & Traineeships
Trainee Instructor – RYG Outdoor Education Centre
Gain hands-on instructing experience across land and water-based activities, working towards qualifications in a residential outdoor centre.
📍 Bala 🏷 Traineeship
💷 Salary: £160/week
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 3 July 2026
Apprentice Multi-Activity Instructor – Avon County Scout Council
Develop outdoor instructing skills through a structured apprenticeship, delivering multi-activity sessions across Scout programmes.
📍 Bristol 🏷 Apprenticeship
💷 Salary: £13,200
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 24 April 2026
🧭 Operations, People & Systems
Operations Support Officer – Project Seagrass
Support day-to-day operations across the organisation, contributing to project coordination, administration and delivery.
📍 Bridgend 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Full-time
💷 Salary: £24,479
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 10 April 2026
Wild Space Visitor Centre Assistant – John Muir Trust
Support visitor welcome, retail and day-to-day operations at the Wild Space centre in Pitlochry.
📍 Pitlochry 🏷 Part-time
💷 Salary: £10,019
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 19 April 2026
People Director – Zip World
Lead people strategy and HR operations across the business, overseeing culture, talent and organisational development.
📍 North Wales 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £80,000
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 3 April 2026 ⏳
People Assistant – Lake District National Park
Provide HR and administrative support across the National Park Authority ensuring there is quality provision given to the team.
📍 Kendal 🏷 Maternity Cover | Part-time
💷 Salary: £25,688 – £27,248 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 12 April 2026
Director of Finance and Operations – Paddle UK
Lead finance, governance and operational strategy across the national governing body for paddlesport.
📍 Nottingham 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £75,000 – £90,000
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 7 April 2026
Credit Controller – National Trust
Manage credit control processes across the Trust, supporting income recovery and financial administration.
📍 Trowbridge 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £27,612
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 12 April 2026
Learning and Public Engagement Operations Coordinator – Kew Gardens
Coordinate booking, ticketing, scheduling and logistics across learning and public engagement programmes at Wakehurst.
📍 Wakehurst 🏷 Full or part-time
💷 Salary: £34,216
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 12 April 2026
Project Officer – Keep Wales Tidy
Support project delivery across environmental programmes, coordinating activity and reporting across Neath Port Talbot.
📍 Home Based/Neath Port Talbot 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £29,124
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 13 April 2026
Head of Finance – The Wave Project
Lead financial strategy, reporting and governance across a surf therapy charity supporting young people’s mental health.
📍 Remote 🏷 Part-time
💷 Salary: £50,000 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 23 April 2026
📣 Communications, Engagement & Impact
Engagement Officer – The Linnean Society
Support public engagement programmes and events, helping to connect audiences with natural history and scientific collections.
📍 London 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £26,936
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 19 April 2026
Mackintosh Illuminated Project Curator – National Trust for Scotland
Lead curatorial delivery across the Mackintosh Illuminated project, coordinating interpretation, content and stakeholder engagement.
📍 South & West Scotland 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Full-time
💷 Salary: £45,502
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 5 April 2026 ⏳
Communications Officer – The National Biodiversity Data Centre
Lead communications delivery across the organisation, supporting public awareness and stakeholder engagement around biodiversity data.
📍 Waterford 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: €40,000 – €57,000
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 17 April 2026
Communications and Involvement Manager – Cairngorms Connect – RSPB
Lead communications and community involvement across the Cairngorms Connect partnership, supporting public engagement and programme visibility.
📍 Achantoul 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary: £34,018 – £36,319
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 27 April 2026
🙌 Voluntary & Trustee Roles
Fundraising Trustee – The Bat Conservation Trust
Support the Trust's fundraising strategy and governance as a voluntary board member, bringing experience in income generation and donor engagement.
📍 Nationwide 🏷 Volunteer
💷 Voluntary
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 8 April 2026
🎲 Wildcard of the Week
Woolstore Assistants – Jamieson & Smith
Support woolstore operations across sorting and handling at one of Shetland's most iconic wool brokers.
📍 Lerwick, Shetland 🏷 Seasonal
💷 Salary: Not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 17 May 2026
That’s a wrap for this week 🌿
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