The Wild Path #50
Issue 50! From Chelsea Physic Garden to the Cairngorms
Issue 50 - Week of 6th July 2026
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📬This Week on The Wild Path
Next week we turn one! Twelve months of sending roles out into the world, and we’ve got something for our community to mark this moment. We’ve been building a tool behind the scenes to help you understand what pay in the sector looks like. We will be releasing it next week so watch this space!
For now, straight into this week’s roles, all 43 of them, from a Forestry Consultant with TreeStory to a Wildlife Rehabilitation Supervisor at Secret World Wildlife Rescue to a Head of Product role at Kew Gardens - so many ways to get outdoors.
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
Forestry Consultant – TreeStory
Lead woodland restoration projects across Scotland, from site surveys and planning through to delivery.
📍 Edinburgh or Inverness 🏷 Full or Part Time
💷 £38,000 - £45,000
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 20 July 2026
🏕️ Outdoor Education & Instruction
Natural Health Service Coordinator – Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority
Design and deliver a 10-week social prescribing programme that helps people reconnect with nature and improve their wellbeing.
📍 Grassington and Pateley Bridge 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Full-time
💷 £31,022 - £36,363
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 12 July 2026 ⏳
🛍️ Outdoor Brands, Retail & Commercial
Northern Cycle Representative – Lyon Equipment
Grow sales and customer relationships across the North of the UK for a cycle equipment distributor.
📍 Tebay 🏷 Full-time
💷 £32,000 - £35,000
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 13 July 2026
Allocator/Retail Trading Assistant – Mountain Warehouse
Manage stock allocation, sales reporting and store performance analysis for an entry-level merchandising team.
📍 London 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 18 July 2026
Visual Merchandising Key Leader – lululemon
Lead salesfloor operations, visual merchandising and team coaching at this Guildford performance apparel store.
📍 Guildford 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Product Developer – Apidura
Develop cycling packs from concept to production, sourcing fabrics and managing factory prototyping.
📍 London 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Senior Specialist - Media and Performance Marketing Analyst – On
Own global tracking taxonomy, data modelling and dashboard design across paid and organic marketing channels.
📍 London 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Head of Technology – Finisterre
Own technology strategy and AI adoption across ERP, data infrastructure, cyber security and IT operations.
📍 St Agnes 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Marketing Associate – Hoka
Coordinate campaign execution, product seeding and marketing operations across EMEA for a global performance footwear brand.
📍 London 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Store Manager – Rohan
Lead store operations and deliver excellent customer service at this technical outdoor clothing retailer’s Cambridge store.
📍 Cambridge 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 29 July 2026
Customer Care Guide – Trek
Support retailer accounts, manage orders and resolve warranty claims for Trek’s network across Czech Republic and Slovakia.
📍 Milton Keynes 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
People & Culture Coordinator – Rapha
Coordinate recruitment, onboarding, HR administration and staff culture events including company rides and cycling activations.
📍 London 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Customer Service Assistant Manager – Alpkit
Lead the day-to-day running of an e-commerce customer service team, from training and escalations to workload coordination.
📍 Nottingham 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Category Manager - Professional – Regatta
Own sourcing, development and buying strategy for a workwear and PPE range, meeting quality, margin and compliance targets.
📍 Urmston 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary not listed
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 15 July 2026
Senior Manager, Data, AI & Performance Analytics – Cotswold Outdoor
Lead the data, AI and performance analytics strategy driving ecommerce growth, customer insight and commercial decision-making.
📍 Swindon 🏷 Full-time
💷 £60,000 - £70,000
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 29 July 2026
Product Marketing Coordinator – Rab
Support the delivery of product launch assets and sales tools across an outdoor brand’s B2B and B2C channels.
📍 Alfreton 🏷 Full-time
💷 Salary not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 12 July 2026 ⏳
🌱 Nature, Conservation & Environment
Conservation Grazing Coordinator – Cairngorms National Park
Develop practical woodland grazing approaches with farmers and graziers, improving woodland condition across the Cairngorms.
📍 Grantown on Spey 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Full-time
💷 £30,626 - £32,953 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 27 July 2026
Project Officer – EOCA (European Outdoor Conservation Association)
Coordinate a global grants programme funding projects that conserve and restore wild places.
📍 Remote 🏷 Part-time
💷 £27,000 - £30,000 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
Senior Science Officer – Project Seagrass
Lead experimental lab, nursery and field operations restoring seagrass meadows across South and West Wales.
📍 Bridgend 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Full-time
💷 £37,260
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 23 July 2026
🐾 The trail doesn’t stop here - scroll on for more roles 👇
Member Spotlight
Meet Pete
Pete Carthy 📍Romannobridge - Scottish Borders
About Me
Founding Director of Instinctively Wild CIC (IW), Professional of Outdoor Learning- Institute of Outdoor Learning. Nature Journalist and Bushcrafter.
How did I get into the outdoors?
I have always been in the outdoors. I’m of that generation that played outdoors all day as a kid. No internet, no smartphones, no social media.
As a kid I went walking in the Lake District with my family every weekend. Got into photography and that lead me into my first career in photography and a skill that underpins my art/nature journaling.
Much, much later in life, I trained to be a teacher only really because I always wanted a job doing environmental education.
It was whilst I was on Forest Schools training in 2006 in Edinburgh, that I thought - ‘why am I waiting for the right environmental education job - why don’t I do it myself’. So that is what I did - researched it - eventually setting up IW. Sixteen years later still doing it, specialise in Forest Schools, Eco-therapy, Bushcraft and Nature Journalling. Although in the last few years I have become personally more specialised in Nature Journaling and Bushcraft.
I was awarded the status of Professional of Outdoor Learning by the Institute of Outdoor Learning.
Running a CIC is not easy, I do it around my teaching job - which has sometimes been full time over the years. I’ve taken a phased retirement from the teaching- I’m most definitely on my way out from that career.
If I could do just Nature Journalling and Bushcraft forever I would be happy with that. However anyone that knows the world of the third sector will know that the reality of that is - grants/selling/marketing - doing a lot of admin and paperwork behind the scenes - usually unpaid.
Favourite adventure or experience?
IW - Have loads of memories, countless for all the people we/IW has helped or made a difference too over the years. For my Nature Journaling- being interviewed by BBC Scotland - Artist paints daily nature journal for 16 months: check it out here
One mindset or bit of kit I always take with me?
I always have a Bothy Bag, and space blanket, mini inflatable roll mat. I was first aider once to someone who had broken their leg on a footpath in Lancashire. I had with me my Forest Schools Emergency Bag. When the Mountain Rescue and Air Ambulance came they thought I was part of the emergency team. When I said I was a passer by and did not know the person, they were taken aback by all the kit I had. So from that day my day rucksack always has stuff that would be useful in a similar situation.
I also always carry my nature journaling kit. Watercolour log books and a roll of Derwent Inktense pencils. Small amount of water and brushes. Binoculars.
What am I looking for?
Just looking to connect with individuals/organisations on a similar path. My time is limited - so would be interested in a consulting type role - that I can do remotely. Advising/supporting on project/organisational development.
IW - I am looking for new Volunteer Directors and Volunteer Research Volunteers also. Get in touch for more info.
🐾 The trail doesn’t stop here - scroll on for more roles 👇
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🛠️ Freelance Roles
Freelance Creative - Maker – Plant Designs
Craft preserved floral displays, props and seasonal installations for commercial spaces from a Milton Keynes workshop.
📍 Wolverton 🏷 Freelance
💷 £15/hour
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
🌟 Internships & Traineeships
Apprentice Digital Communications Officer – Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority
Create and publish digital content, from social posts to website updates, supporting campaign planning and delivery.
📍 Bainbridge 🏷 Apprenticeship
💷 £8.60/hour
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 19 July 2026
🧭 Operations, People & Systems
Head of Product – Kew Gardens
Lead strategy and delivery for a portfolio of public-facing digital products, including a botanical institution’s website and online shop.
📍 Richmond 🏷 Full-time
💷 £61,337 - £71,424
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 15 July 2026
Senior Civil Design Engineer (Infrastructure) – Canal & River Trust
Design and specify engineering solutions for repairs to historic canal infrastructure across London and the South East.
📍 London 🏷 Full-time
💷 £46,205 - £52,400
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 28 July 2026
Programme Support Officer - North East Farm Business Support Service – Northumberland National Park
Support farmers across the North East with funding applications, farm visits and workshop coordination.
📍 Hexham or Rothbury 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Full or Part-time
💷 £29,064 - £32,061 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 14 July 2026
Executive Assistant – Oceana UK
Manage the Executive Director’s diary, correspondence and stakeholder coordination across Cornwall and London offices.
📍 Newquay or London 🏷 Full-time
💷 £41,000
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 19 July 2026
Centre Host and Equalities Lead – Moniack Mhor
Cook for course participants while leading strategic equalities, access and diversity work at a writing retreat.
📍 Kiltarlity 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Part-time
💷 £27,000 - £30,000 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 17 July 2026
Secretary – Inveraray Castle (Argyll Estates)
Manage correspondence, diaries, records and day-to-day admin that keeps a working Highland estate running smoothly.
📍 Inveraray 🏷 Full or Part-time
💷 Salary not listed
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 10 July 2026 ⏳
Chief Executive Officer – Active Travel England
Lead a national agency directing £4.5 billion of active travel infrastructure investment to make walking and cycling everyday choices.
📍 York 🏷 Full-time
💷 £105,000
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
Lead Physiotherapist (Paratriathlon) – UK Sports Institute
Lead physiotherapy care for elite paratriathletes, from daily clinical support to major international competitions and training camps.
📍 Loughborough 🏷 Part-time
💷 £49,063 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 12 July 2026 ⏳
Planning Technician – Eryri National Park Authority
Validate planning applications, coordinate consultations and prepare GIS plans in support of Eryri National Park’s statutory planning services.
📍 Penrhyndeudraeth 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Part-time
💷 £26,403 - £29,064 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 13 July 2026
📣 Communications, Engagement & Impact
Social Media Executive – The Wave
Own organic social media content, paid campaign support and influencer partnerships for this inland surf lake destination.
📍 Bristol 🏷 Maternity Cover | Part-time
💷 £27,000 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Communications and Engagement Officer – Lake District National Park
Lead visitor communications campaigns encouraging responsible countryside behaviour across the Lake District National Park.
📍 Kendal 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Part-time
💷 £34,561 - £40,187 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 12 July 2026 ⏳
Nature Connection Producer – Super Culture
Build creative programmes that connect underrepresented communities across North Somerset with nature, landscape and the Mendip Hills.
📍 Weston-super-Mare 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Part-time
💷 £30,000 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 16 July 2026
Public Affairs and Water Policy Officer – The Wildlife Trusts
Build relationships with parliamentarians to influence Westminster policy on water and nature recovery.
📍 Remote 🏷 Full-time
💷 £36,380
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 12 July 2026 ⏳
Senior Policy and Advocacy Manager – River Action
Lead policy strategy and Parliamentary advocacy on sewage, industrial pollution and water scarcity to protect rivers.
📍 Remote 🏷 Full-time
💷 £45,000 - £55,000
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 15 July 2026
Engagement Manager – River Action
Build high-level relationships with decision-makers, regulators and communities to strengthen river protection campaigns.
📍 Remote 🏷 Full-time
💷 £42,000 - £52,000
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 15 July 2026
Landscape Observatory Officer (Evidence, Policy and Engagement) – Peak District National Park Authority
Translate climate and habitat evidence into policy, reports and engagement that shape decisions across protected landscapes.
📍 Bakewell 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Full-time
💷 £32,597 - £34,434 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 14 July 2026
Network Coordinator – Nottingham Growing Network
Connect and support 35 community food-growing groups across the city, building partnerships and encouraging biodiversity.
📍 Nottingham 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Part-time
💷 £30,000 pro rata
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: Rolling
Head of Learning and Public Engagement – Chelsea Physic Garden
Lead learning and engagement strategy across schools, families, community and public programmes at a historic London garden.
📍 London 🏷 Full-time
💷 £44,000 - £45,000
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 26 July 2026
Fundraising Manager (Operations) – National Trust for Scotland
Lead the systems, data and processes behind a national fundraising programme that raises around £10 million annually.
📍 Edinburgh 🏷 Full-time
💷 £49,798 - £57,272
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 19 July 2026
Nature Connection & Recovery Officer – Ulster Wildlife
Coordinate community-powered nature connection activities across Ards & North Down, building partnerships to drive local climate action.
📍 Belfast 🏷 Fixed Term Contract | Full-time
💷 £29,697 - £32,016
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 27 July 2026
🙌 Voluntary & Trustee Roles
Partnerships & Events Lead – Future Defenders Programme
Organise events, workshops and webinars while building partnerships that make conservation more inclusive and accessible.
📍 Remote 🏷 Volunteer
💷 Voluntary
🔗 Click here to apply
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
🎲 Wildcard of the Week
Wildlife Rehabilitation Supervisor – Secret World Wildlife Rescue
Lead a wildlife care team through daily rescue response, rehabilitation and release of injured and orphaned animals.
📍 Somerset 🏷 Full-time
💷 £27,400
🔗 Click here to apply 📄 Download job pack
📅 Deadline: 20 July 2026
That’s a wrap for this week 🌿
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