The Wild Path #42
From the English Channel to the Arctic Circle. 45 outdoor roles inside.
Issue 42 - Week of 11th May 2026
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📬This Week on The Wild Path
45 roles this week across national parks, conservation, outdoor brands, education and more, including a summer season surveying whales and dolphins in the English Channel, if that’s not reason enough to dust off the CV.
Whether you’re looking for your first outdoor role or your next step, there’s plenty to explore.
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
Buildings Maintenance Officer – Lake District National Park
Keep properties across the Lake District in safe working order, covering reactive and planned maintenance tasks across the National Park and facilities support at the Kendal head office.
📍 Kendal 🏷 Full-time
💷 £25,688 – £27,248
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 7 June 2026
National Landscape Planning Officer – Chichester Harbour Conservancy
Provide planning expertise to help conserve and enhance Chichester Harbour National Landscape, responding to development applications and influencing emerging policy.
📍 Chichester 🏷 Part-time
💷 £44,075 – £47,181 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 1 June 2026
Recreation Craftsperson – Forestry England
Maintain car parks, cycle routes and accessible trails across Kielder Forest, keeping visitor facilities in top shape across Northumberland’s forests.
📍 Kielder Forest 🏷 Full-time
💷 £26,959
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 8 June 2026
Sustainable Tourism Adviser – Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park
Lead on sustainable tourism strategy and delivery across one of Scotland’s most iconic national parks, working with businesses, communities and partners. `
📍 Balloch 🏷 Full-time
💷 £39,130 – £46,856
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 27 May 2026
GIS Officer – North York Moors National Park
Support spatial data management and GIS across the National Park, contributing to landscape planning and environmental monitoring.
📍 Helmsley 🏷 Full-time
💷 £33,672 – £36,580
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 7 June 2026
🏕️ Outdoor Education & Instruction
Training Lead Instructor – NAYC/ACUK (Pioneer Centre)
Lead training for the activities team and deliver hands-on outdoor sessions for schools, youth and community groups at this residential centre in rural Shropshire.
📍 Kidderminster 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Full-time
💷 Salary not listed
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: Rolling
🛍️ Outdoor Brands, Retail & Commercial
Operations Support Assistant – Rab
Support day-to-day operations across the team at Rab’s Derbyshire base, contributing to the smooth running of one of the UK’s most respected technical outdoor brands.
📍 Derbyshire 🏷 Seasonal
💷 £27,276 – £30,739
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 17 May 2026 ⏳
Accounts Payable/Treasury Assistant – Cotswold Outdoor
Support accounts payable and treasury processes within one of the UK’s leading outdoor retail groups.
📍 Wiltshire 🏷 Full-time
💷 £26,520
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 12 June 2026
Junior Retail Merchandiser – Regatta
Support range planning and merchandising across product categories at one of the UK’s biggest outdoor clothing groups.
📍 Urmston 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary not listed
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 29 May 2026
Marketing Leader, EMEA North Cluster – Specialized
Lead marketing strategy and execution across the EMEA North cluster for one of the world’s most iconic cycling brands.
📍 Dorking 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Lead FP&A Manager – Passenger
Lead financial planning and analysis at this fast-growing sustainable outdoor clothing brand based on the south coast.
📍 New Milton 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Recruiter – Deckers
Manage end-to-end recruitment across the portfolio of brands at this global outdoor and lifestyle footwear group.
📍 London 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Full-time
💷 Salary not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Senior Lead – Staff Software Engineer – On Running
Lead software engineering across On’s rapidly growing global platform, driving technical strategy and development at pace.
📍 London 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
People Administrator – Vivobarefoot
Provide people and HR administrative support across the full employee journey at this purpose-driven barefoot footwear brand.
📍 Bristol 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
🌱 Nature, Conservation & Environment
Young Wild and Well Project Officer – Ulster Wildlife
Deliver nature-based programmes for children and young people across Northern Ireland, supporting mental health, wellbeing and employability through outdoor experiences
📍 Northern Ireland 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Full-time
💷 £29,697 – £32,016
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 22 May 2026
Species Recovery Officer – Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust
Support the delivery of species recovery work across Hertfordshire and Middlesex, contributing to habitat management and targeted conservation programmes.
📍 St Albans 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Part-time
💷 £25,810 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 20 May 2026
Conservation Evidence Officer – Woodland Trust
Support the collection and analysis of conservation evidence to help inform the UK’s largest woodland conservation charity’s ambitious nature recovery programmes.
📍 Flexible 🏷 Full-time
💷 £36,689
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 7 June 2026
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Member Spotlight
Meet Lydia
Lydia Durkin George 📍UK
About Me
I am a MSK physiotherapist with a special interest in pelvic health & helping women break down barriers to movement through all life stages.
How did I get into the outdoors?
I am a global traveller, moving around the world with my family, getting outdoors exploring our new local: there is so much to see. I am drawn to proactive movers, my tribe, interested in our world. My physio work helps people to keep doing what they love for as long as they can. That usually involves scrambling around nature and saturating the senses. Wonderful.
Favourite adventure or experience?
Walking on my favourite frozen lake in Lithuania - it’s literally everything your body and mind tell you not to do.
One mindset or bit of kit I always take with me?
Water!
What am I looking for?
To build my community of outdoor movers and shakers.
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📣 Community & Support
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🛠️ Freelance Roles
Wilderness Guides – Wilderness Scotland
Lead multi-day wilderness trips across Scotland’s most spectacular landscapes, delivering exceptional guest experiences for one of the country’s leading adventure travel operators.
📍 Aviemore 🏷 Freelance
💷 Salary not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Wildlings Learning Community Outdoor Learning Lead – Wildlings Learning Community
Lead outdoor learning sessions for a nature-based learning community in Cornwall, working with young people in a forest school and outdoor education setting.
📍 Cornwall 🏷 Freelance
💷 £20/hour
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 17 May 2026 ⏳
❄️ Seasonal Roles
Seasonal Assistant Grower – Blacklands Organics
Support seasonal growing operations at an organic farm in South Oxfordshire, getting hands-on with food production and market garden work.
📍 South Oxfordshire 🏷 Seasonal
💷 £12.71/hour
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Ocean Conservationist – English Channel – ORCA
Spend the summer onboard ferries between Newhaven and Dieppe, engaging passengers in marine conservation and collecting cetacean survey data across the English Channel. Candidates must be fluent in French and English!
📍 English Channel 🏷 Seasonal
💷 £12.71/hour
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 21 May 2026
Summer Mountain Ranger – Cairngorm Mountain
Support ranger operations across the Cairngorms, helping to manage the mountain environment and engage with visitors over the summer season.
📍 Cairngorms National Park 🏷 Seasonal
💷 £13.45/hour
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 15 May 2026 ⏳
🌟 Internships & Traineeships
Library Graduate Trainee – Kew Gardens
Gain hands-on experience across library and archival collections at one of the world's most iconic botanical institutions, supporting research and public access to Kew's extraordinary knowledge base.
📍 London 🏷 Traineeship
💷 £29,692
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 24 May 2026
🧭 Operations, People & Systems
Admin Assistant – Ocean Youth Trust Scotland
Provide administrative support across the day-to-day operations of this youth sail training charity, covering volunteer coordination, safeguarding compliance and vessel operations.
📍 Greenock 🏷 Part-time
💷 £24,479 – £28,000 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 22 May 2026
HR and Organisational Administrator – WWOOF
Support people and organisational functions across this remote-working team, keeping HR processes and systems running smoothly for the global organic farming network.
📍 Remote 🏷 Maternity Cover | Part-time
💷 £40,170 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 25 May 2026
Interim Director – WWOOF
Step into interim leadership of WWOOF during a period of organisational transition, providing strategic direction and operational oversight across the global organic farming network.
📍 Remote 🏷 Maternity Cover | Part-time
💷 £40,170 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 25 May 2026
HR Admin Officer – Northumberland National Park
Provide HR and administrative support across the National Park Authority, helping to keep people operations running effectively across one of England’s most remote and spectacular landscapes.
📍 Hexham 🏷 Part-time
💷 £25,989 – £27,254
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 19 May 2026
HR Systems Administrator – PGL
Maintain and develop HR systems across one of the UK’s largest providers of outdoor education and adventure holidays.
📍 Ross-on-Wye 🏷 Full-time
💷 £26,435
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Facilities Technician – Scouts UK
Maintain and manage facilities at Youlbury Scout Activity Centre in Oxfordshire, keeping the site in safe working order for the thousands of young people who visit each year.
📍 Youlbury 🏷 Full-time
💷 £33,370
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 31 May 2026
Weekend Plant Centre Supervisor – Walworth Garden
Supervise the plant centre at Walworth Garden in London across weekends, supporting retail operations and a great visitor experience at this community green space.
📍 London 🏷 Part-time
💷 £14.85/hour
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Wall Assistant – Depot Climbing
Support the daily running of Depot Climbing Manchester, delivering great customer service, running climbing sessions and keeping the centre safe and welcoming.
📍 Manchester 🏷 Part-time
💷 £12.90/hour
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 31 May 2026
Future Talent Specialist – Canal & River Trust
Lead on early careers and talent attraction across one of the UK’s most loved waterway charities, connecting the next generation with the Canal & River Trust.
📍 Home based 🏷 Full-time
💷 £35,000
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 27 May 2026
People Advisor – The Conservation Volunteers
Provide generalist HR and people support across this leading environmental volunteering charity, helping to look after the team behind the green work.
📍 Doncaster 🏷 Full-time
💷 £34,744
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 31 May 2026
📣 Communications, Engagement & Impact
Co-Director – UK Youth for Nature
Share strategic leadership of UK Youth for Nature, driving communications, engagement and impact for this youth-led nature organisation.
📍 Home based 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Part-time
💷 £45,540 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 18 May 2026
Head of Media Relations – The Wildlife Trusts
Lead media relations strategy across the Wildlife Trusts network, shaping how one of the UK’s biggest conservation movements tells its story to the world.
📍 Home based 🏷 Full-time
💷 £55,000
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 31 May 2026
Community Coordinator – Tir Natur
Coordinate community engagement and partnership activity for this Welsh land and nature organisation, working remotely to connect people with the natural environment.
📍 Remote 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Part-time
💷 £36,000 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 19 May 2026
Fundraising and Engagement Officer – Women in Sport
Support fundraising and stakeholder engagement at this charity working to transform sport for women and girls across the UK.
📍 London 🏷 Full-time
💷 £32,000
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 31 May 2026
Senior Policy Officer – Project Seagrass
Lead policy and advocacy work at this pioneering marine conservation charity, helping to drive protection for seagrass ecosystems across the UK and beyond.
📍 Bridgend 🏷 Full-time
💷 £40,000
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 29 May 2026
Social Media Manager – Compassion in World Farming
Lead social media strategy and content across channels for this global farm animal welfare organisation.
📍 Godalming 🏷 Full-time
💷 £36,825 – £41,000
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 5 June 2026
Digital Content and Communications Executive – Knepp
Support digital content and communications across the Knepp rewilding estate in West Sussex, helping to share the story of one of the UK’s most celebrated rewilding projects.
📍 West Sussex 🏷 Part-time
💷 £30,000 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 20 May 2026
Fundraiser – Walworth Garden
Lead fundraising activity at this community garden and social enterprise in London, building income streams to support their green space and wellbeing programmes.
📍 London 🏷 Full or Part-time
💷 £33,000 – £36,000 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Engagement Officer – River Holme Connections
Deliver community engagement and outreach work across this West Yorkshire catchment partnership, connecting local people with their river environment.
📍 West Yorkshire 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Full-time
💷 £26,760
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 25 May 2026
Head of Engagement & Reward – National Trust
Lead the National Trust’s employee engagement and reward strategy, shaping how one of the UK’s most loved organisations looks after its people.
📍 Swindon 🏷 Full-time
💷 £89,700
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 17 May 2026 ⏳
🙌 Voluntary & Trustee Roles
Independent Non-Executive Director – Skateboard GB
Join the board of the national governing body for skateboarding in the UK, bringing an independent perspective to governance and strategic decision-making.
📍 London 🏷 Volunteer
💷 Voluntary
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 26 May 2026
🎲 Wildcard of the Week
Tour Guides – Arctic GM
Lead guided tours across some of the world's most spectacular Arctic landscapes - Rovaniemi, Levi, Tromsø and Kiruna - sharing the magic of the far north with visitors from around the world.
📍 Rovaniemi, Levi, Tromsø & Kiruna 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
That’s a wrap for this week 🌿
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