6794 - NRF Senior Communications and Engagement Officer


Company:	Natural England
Salary:	from £41,550 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London
Working pattern:	Hybrid - 4 days remote
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	17 Sept 2026
Closing date:	4 Oct 2026

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Summary

The team

Join us in shaping a future where nature and people thrive. Whether you're drawn to hands-on conservation or playing a vital part behind the scenes, your work at Natural England will support lasting benefits for the environment and society.

Our Role

Natural England is the Government’s adviser for the natural environment and the Nature regulator with a wide range of statutory duties and powers. We provide the evidence, expertise and advice to recover Nature and shape better places for people to live. We do this working through and with others.

Strategic Outcomes for Nature

Our strategy is framed through four strategic outcomes. Each of these outcomes reinforces and amplifies the others, and together they address environmental, social and economic actions critical to thriving nature.

• Recovering Nature – Increased scale and quality of places where nature thrives.

• Building Better Places – Greener homes and infrastructure create healthier, more investable places, recognising we live better where nature thrives around us.

• Improving Health and Wellbeing – Build nature into everyday life so people can support, access and benefit from nature, wherever they live.

• Delivering Security through Nature – Nature helps us adapt to the threats of a changing climate and improves our national security, supporting more resilient food production, healthy soils, clean and plentiful water and clean air.

Find out more about the work of Natural England at: Natural England’s Strategy: Recovering Nature for Growth, Health and Security - GOV.UK

The Role

The Nature Restoration Fund (NRF) supports development while delivering targeted environmental protection and nature recovery. It introduces new mechanisms to secure environmental improvements where development impacts protected sites or species. Through Environmental Delivery Plans (EDPs), the NRF identifies and delivers strategic, landscape scale conservation measures to achieve improved outcomes for nature.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the NRF Communications & Engagement Team, helping to support both our customers and colleagues understand their role in making the scheme a success.

The successful candidate will be responsible for building and maintaining strong relationships with customers, partners and stakeholders, ensuring they understand the Nature Restoration Fund (NRF) and their role in its successful delivery.

Whilst this role will focus on engaging our stakeholders as an immediate priority, there will be an expectation that successful candidates work flexibility across the Communications & Engagement function in NRF. Roles will evolve as the Programme matures.

Prospective candidates should be aware the NRF is a unique agile environment. The ideal candidate would be highly ambitious, comfortable in ambiguity and confident when faced with challenge.

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