Nature and Wellbeing Manager

We are looking for an enthusiastic Nature and Wellbeing Manager to lead our exciting new
project expanding RSPB’s flagship ‘Nature Prescriptions’ Programme into Wales building on the
expertise and experience of our Scottish and English colleagues.

We have a wealth of evidence that individuals with a greater connection to nature experience
improved mental wellbeing, greater vitality and happiness, and deeper life satisfaction.
Research also shows that increasing your connection with nature can positively impact a range
of conditions, including stress, anxiety and depression, as well as outcomes for some physical
health conditions too.

RSPB ‘Nature Prescriptions’ are designed to encourage and prompt people to connect to nature in
support of their goals for better wellbeing. We believe that everyone, no matter where they
live or the challenges they face, has the right to access nature, and to feel this strong
connection to the natural world. Inspiring and enabling healthcare professionals and others in
the NHS to prescribe nature, is a key route for the RSPB to enable more people from more
diverse communities to access the natural world. In so doing we hope that those who feel more
connected to nature, will want to act to save it.

Working with healthcare professionals and local communities in Cardiff and surrounds, you will
use co-design to create materials in different formats that will support those who need it
most. This is a great opportunity to work with a brilliant team of friendly and enthusiastic
colleagues across the UK who have successfully implemented this approach elsewhere.

We’re looking for a someone who is: 

Passionate: About connecting people to nature to improve their health and
wellbeing.

Courageous: In sharing this passion to enthuse healthcare and other
professionals.

Inquisitive: A natural curiosity to explore and understand and meet people
where they are.

Bold: Willing to contribute innovative ideas, particularly when addressing
health inequalities.

Collaborative: Fosters a collaborative, enjoyable and solution focused way of
working with partners.

Comfortable Challenging the Status Quo: Nature Prescriptions offer a way of
improving wellbeing outside of the typical medical model of healthcare.

Key tasks will include: 

• Lead the development of and promote the delivery of three new RSPB Nature Prescriptions to
  people living in diverse communities within Cardiff and the surrounding area.
• Develop relationships with key stakeholders in the NHS, health care and social care
  professionals to inspire and enable them to feel engaged and supported to co-create and
  prescribe a Nature Prescription, and to connect RSPB with the health sector to help create
  doors for future work.
• Engage with local healthcare professionals and community groups to co-design Nature
  Prescriptions materials with local people, community groups and healthcare professionals so
  that they reach a large diversity of people, and those that need and can benefit the most.
• Develop the project plan and ensure that the right governance structure for project
  management is in place and RSPB internal project management practices are followed, so that the
  project stays on track, comes in on budget and risks are identified, escalated, and managed
  within tolerances.
• Work with local environmental networks to build a picture of nature-based activities
  available and identify opportunities for partnership working.
• Lead on developing ways to evaluate and measure the impact of the project, including
  engaging with those prescribing and local communities to gather stories and case studies that
  demonstrate the benefits to wellbeing and connectedness to nature.
  
  Build internal relationships with RSPB employees and volunteers working with nature
  prescribing and nature and wellbeing across the UK.
• Develop a strategy and plan for Nature and Wellbeing work legacy aiming to learn from the
  work done in Scotland and England and from the communities and health care professionals in
  Cardiff and surrounds to support development of future work in Cardiff and beyond.

Essential skills, knowledge and experience:

• Experience of working within or alongside the health and wellbeing sector.
• Project management experience with experience of leading on and developing and delivering
  projects with diverse communities.
• Experience of developing external partnerships and balancing the needs of multiple
  stakeholders.
• Experience in delivering workshops or training, ideally with a co-design element.
• Excellent verbal and written communicator able to communicate nature and wellbeing messages
  in a way that is understood by a range of audiences and that engenders their support.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills with the ability to manage and deliver a
  varied workload.
• Skilled in using Microsoft 365 suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams.

Desirable skills, knowledge, and experience:

• Experience of SharePoint management.
• Experience of recruiting and managing volunteers.
• Welsh speaker or learner.

This is a full-time role, fixed-term until 31/03/2026.

We are looking to conduct interviews for this position from 3 June 2024. For further
information please contact [email protected].

As part of this application process you will be asked to provide a copy of your CV and complete
an application form including evidence on how you meet the skills, knowledge, and experience
listed above.

The RSPB is an equal opportunities employer. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of
Offenders Act 1974.

This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship – the successful applicant will need to have
a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.