Environment Project Officer

Job Purpose

The Trent Rivers Trust has an ambitious and exciting vision for the catchment, and we require passionate, knowledgeable and skilled staff to deliver it. An environmental project officer plays a key role in the day-to-day delivery of our programme of projects that help wildlife and communities thrive.

The successful candidate will assist in the delivery of environment projects and related activities across the Trent Catchment. This will involve working with colleagues, funders and stakeholders on a range of practical river restoration, natural flood management, and other environmental improvement projects.

The Role

The role of an Environmental Project Officer is varied – where multiple skills are gained and utilised across our four work areas:

• Catchment Recovery
• Land Use and Water
• River Restoration
• Connecting People and Rivers

Consequently, the role will support on a wide range of project outputs – both deskbased and practical. Such projects may include biodiversity enhancement,
improving water quality, natural flood management, habitat creation and connectivity, river restoration and pollution reduction.

Day-to-day tasks will require the candidate to have a broad skillset and the organisational ability to work across multiple projects and tasks at a time. Being able to manage their own workload and priorities and effectively communicate this with colleagues is essential to deliver environmental projects. Taks and responsibilities will vary throughout the seasons and lifecycles of projects but will involve the various aspects of project delivery from conception (mapping catchments in GIS) to project scoping (landowner engagement), and capital delivery (site supervision). The successful candidate will ultimately help restore natural processes to a catchment with huge restoration potential – and be able to see the benefits their work produces.

Please see the attached job description for more details about the role, responsibilities, and requirements and visit Trent Rivers Trust's website to learn more about the organisation. 

Apply

To apply: Please complete the Trent Rivers Trust Application Form by midday Monday 16th November, 2026.  CVs and other forms of application will not be accepted. No agency applications, please.

For any queries, please email: [email protected]