Conservation Graduate Placement

The role
Are you a recent graduate passionate about nature, sustainability, and making a real impact? Join Natural Resources Wales (NRW) in a vital role supporting farmers to protect and enhance Wales’s most important natural sites through the Sustainable Farming Scheme.

As part of our new postgraduate placement programme, you’ll gain practical, hands-on experience that goes far beyond the classroom. You’ll be involved in a wide variety of exciting work, including:

- Carrying out field-based ecological assessments
- Analysing and interpreting environmental data
- Working directly with farmers to agree on practical, sustainable land management actions
- Supporting the consenting process for activities on protected sites
- Using real-world evidence, datasets and environmental systems to inform your work

You'll be based in local environment teams across Wales, meaning you’ll get to apply your knowledge in real-world settings where your work will make a tangible difference. While the team is centrally managed, the placement offers flexibility, on-the-ground experience, and a chance to grow your network across the sector.

This is a unique opportunity to build a strong foundation in environmental management, develop your professional skills, and play an active role in shaping a more sustainable future for Wales.

These placements are aimed at individuals who have completed a postgraduate degree, or undergraduate degree with relevant field experience.

As an organisation we support flexible working. You will be contracted to the nearest NRW office to your home and a suitable hybrid working pattern will be agreed on appointment. Any regular face to face meetings or training will be planned in advance.

To make an informal enquiry about this role, please contract

Callum Stone at callum.stone@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk or

Russell De’Ath at russell.de-ath@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk

Interviews will take place face to face, date and location to be confirmed.

Successful applicants will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) check. Appointments are normally made within 4 to 8 weeks of the closing date.