Landscape Developer

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Landscape Developer advancing Commonland’s nonprofit landscape-restoration network across the UK and Ireland. Building partnerships, fundraising strategies, and nature-finance mechanisms for regenerative change.

Responsibilities:

  • Support landscape partners across the UK and Ireland with direct strategic support
  • Connect with system-level actors, including companies, funders, government bodies, foundations, and knowledge institutions
  • Secure funding and financing mechanisms, including Ireland’s incoming nature restoration law funding
  • Engage with the UK nature finance and funding landscape
  • Matchmake between finance providers and landscape partners
  • Co-design innovative responses to systemic barriers and opportunities for holistic landscape restoration
  • Co-develop a comprehensive fundraising strategy
  • Identify and map UK, Irish, and European public and private funding opportunities
  • Support systemic innovations such as bioregional finance, payment for ecosystem services, and learning networks
  • Organise learning sessions to build partners’ fundraising and facilitation capacity
  • Collaborate with Commonland’s global learning community
  • Share insights and ensure strategic alignment with the European landscape restoration community
  • Travel regularly within the UK and Ireland, with occasional international travel

Requirements:

  • Several years’ experience in partnership development, landscape restoration and/or fundraising with a track record in the UK/Ireland
  • Solid understanding of the UK/Ireland’s environmental, agricultural, rural, or sustainable development sectors
  • Strong nature finance and funding literacy
  • Understanding of funding and market-based finance mechanisms
  • Interest in regenerative, new economy, and bioregional approaches
  • Fluency in English
  • Additional bioregional languages such as Welsh or Irish are a plus
  • Broad network of stakeholders working in landscape restoration in the UK/Ireland
  • Availability for 32–40 hours per week
  • Eligibility to work in the UK or Ireland
  • Willingness to travel regularly within the UK and Ireland and occasionally internationally

Benefits:

  • A purpose-driven role contributing to landscape restoration and a regenerative future
  • Flexibility to work remotely
  • Freedom to design your workday
  • Personal and professional development opportunities
  • Personal learning budget of 1,750 GBP / 2,000 euro per year
  • Supportive team culture valuing creativity, collaboration, and continuous learning