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This is an exciting and dynamic leadership role that offers the opportunity to shape the future of some of Scotland’s most treasured landscapes and heritage sites. As Head Ranger, you will be at the heart of conserving and enhancing six breathtaking locations, ensuring they remain accessible, engaging, and inspiring for visitors now and in the future.

Your work will blend conservation with creativity—enhancing biodiversity, managing woodland, welcoming thousands of visitors, and fostering a deep connection between people and place. You will champion nature, culture, and community engagement at the region’s most heavily visited sites.

Beyond stewardship, you will bring energy and vision to visitor experiences, developing innovative ways to inspire and grow audiences while safeguarding Scotland’s natural heritage. You’ll also manage visitor operations, including visitor facilities, events, and key partnerships, ensuring these sites thrive sustainably. This is more than a management role—it’s an opportunity to leave a lasting legacy for Scotland’s landscapes, wildlife, and communities.

If you are a bold leader with a passion for conservation, people, and place, this role offers the perfect platform to make a real difference.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

Audience Engagement

Develop and implement strategies to enhance public engagement and access to the natural heritage across the sites.

Increase audience reach through events, interpretation, and community engagement initiatives.

Nature Conservation

Provide technical leadership on all aspects of nature conservation across the six sites.

Lead the development and implementation of appropriate management frameworks – for example the woodland management plans.

Use expertise and experience to influence and develop internal and external policy statements and positions and implement initiatives to protect wildlife.

Survey wildlife and habitats and feed this knowledge into management decisions, marketing of natural heritage, and further development of our voice.

Organising and implementing all ecological monitoring across six sites. All work feeding into national and international monitoring schemes.

Maintain and manage habitats and wildlife with the aim of protecting species and increasing biodiversity.

Contribute to the planning and lead the delivery of practical conservation to deliver the outputs agreed in the annual budget process.

Provide information to visitors to encourage more visitors and help people get more out of their engagement with natural heritage and give more back to it including “upselling” membership and events using face to face and by other means of interaction such as social media.

Maintain countryside estate infrastructure at small, day to day scale (e.g. paths, gates, signs, vegetation management) to achieve ecological, visitor services and safety outcomes.

Support Operations Manager and Regional Director by representing the Trust at external meetings as appropriate for example, Woodland management meetings, national media and local committees.

Application Deadline: Sunday 16/08/2026