Country Director

4 days ago

Northern Ireland, United Kingdom The Woodland Trust Full time
About Us

The Woodland Trust is a leading woodland conservation charity dedicated to creating a world where trees and woods thrive for both people and nature.

Our mission involves engaging and inspiring individuals to contribute toward tackling the nature and climate crisis through the protection, restoration, and creation of essential woodland habitats.

The Role

This is a key leadership role, responsible for leading the Trust's strategic delivery in Northern Ireland, managing, inspiring, and coaching a multidisciplinary team focused on prioritizing activities of greatest impact to take advantage of unique opportunities in Northern Ireland while ensuring alignment with our UK plans.

The role reports to the Director of Operations and People and is part of the Senior Leadership Team, responsible for deploying its resources and activities in line with Trust priorities. The role will work collaboratively alongside other Country and Regional Directors, fostering effective working relationships with colleagues located across the UK.

The role will represent the Trust professionally, promoting our work externally to high-level partners, funders, and stakeholders, with a particular focus on development and delivery of complex land-use projects, multi-organization partnerships, and political advocacy.

We're at an exciting time in our development, and we're looking for someone who can drive forward our ambitions in Northern Ireland.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead and manage a senior team in Northern Ireland, responsible for delivering the Trust's strategic plan.
  • Develop effective relationships internally and externally, influencing at a senior level, motivating, inspiring, and shaping strategy.
  • Responsible for the delivery of our strategic plan in Northern Ireland, promoting the work of the Woodland Trust with energy, flair, and imagination to high-level partners, funders, and stakeholders.
  • Experience in shaping and implementing organizational strategy, setting and managing multi-million-pound budgets, and reporting to executive levels.
  • Deliver operational leadership, change management, and high-performance across the Operations function, including multiple complex projects.
  • The role is based in Northern Ireland and will require the successful candidate to undertake travel across a wide area, with a full driving license required.
Our Organisational Nature

We empower our team to make an impact every day, enabling us to better understand what it means to be part of the Woodland Trust.

We want you to role model our values: 'Grow Together', 'Focus', 'Explore', and 'Make it Count', ensuring each of us plays our part in helping to protect, restore, and create our woods and trees.

Benefits & Wellbeing

We take good care of our staff, offering support and training opportunities.

We also offer:

  • Enhanced Employer Pension
  • Life Assurance
  • Flexible & Hybrid Working Options
  • Generous Annual Leave
  • Enhanced Parental Pay
  • Employee Assistance Programme
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

We embrace diversity and inclusion, wanting our team to reflect the UK's diverse community.

We support people from all backgrounds to apply, especially those who are under-represented.

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