We are seeking an experienced project manager to lead our new partnership project: Saving the Grey Long-Eared Bat, funded by the Natural England Species Recovery Programme. You will be extremely organised, with strong communication skills and used to working in partnership with others, including volunteer-led organisations. You will have a good understanding of financial processes, including claims to funders. Your track record of managing partnership projects within the conservation sector demonstrates delivery in line with aims, on time and to budget.

The Grey Long-Eared Bat is one of the UK’s rarest mammals, threatened by climate change, habitat loss and limited roosting opportunities. Although future temperature increases may improve climatic suitability across England, habitat constraints will continue to restrict the species’ recovery. This project aims to secure and expand populations by identifying new roosts, enhancing habitat within core sustenance zones and improving connectivity between key roosts. By creating habitat corridors and stepping stones across south western England (Devon, Dorset, Somerset, the Isle of Wight and Hampshire), the project will support long-term species resilience and enable range expansion at the edge of its current distribution.

This project is led by Bat Conservation Trust, working in partnership with a number of other organisations (please see the job description for a list of project partners) and a fantastic network of volunteers, landowners, ecologists, Local Environmental Records Centres and Local Nature Recovery Strategies across south western England.

The project will run until the end of March 2029.

We are a friendly and supportive workplace with an inspiring environmental mission.

As a hybrid working organisation, we are flexible about home-working, we offer a 4% employer pension contribution, an Employee Assistance Programme, and time for learning, development and volunteering.

BCT is a welcoming and inclusive organisation. We believe our work will be stronger with greater diversity and welcome applications from those who bring difference. We are committed to building a working environment in which all individuals are free from discrimination and in which opportunities are equal to all.

Please view the job description below for further details about the role and submit a completed application form. We ask you to return the optional equal opportunities form so that we can monitor our effectiveness in attracting diverse candidates.

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Deadline for Applications: 09:30 on Monday 17th August 2026

Interviews (held via Zoom): Tuesday 25th August 2026 (please note invitations to interview will be issued to shortlisted applicants on the afternoon of Wednesday 19th August). A short presentation will be required as part of the interview, and details will be provided to those applicants who are invited to interview.

Application Forms: Please send your completed forms to Siân Moore via the link below, or via post to the Bat Conservation Trust, Studio 15 Cloisters House, Cloisters Business Centre, 8 Battersea Park Road, London SW8 4BG

If you have any further questions, please contact Siân Moore on 020 7820 7167.

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