This is an opportunity to do more than survey habitats and write reports — it is a chance to help redefine the relationship between nature and a modern urban community. As Blackpool GreenWave Ecologist, you will play a central role in one of the UK's most ambitious nature recovery programmes, helping to transform Blackpool's parks, schools, housing estates, coastline and community spaces into a connected network where wildlife and people can thrive together. Your work will leave a lasting legacy, creating greener neighbourhoods, improving biodiversity and building resilience to climate change for generations to come. Working at the heart of a pioneering partnership spanning local government, the NHS, housing providers, businesses and community organisations, you'll help turn bold ideas into investable projects and real change on the ground. From leading habitat surveys and shaping restoration projects to inspiring volunteers and engaging local communities, this is a role for an ecologist who wants to influence strategy as much as species, and who believes that nature recovery should sit at the centre of healthier, stronger and more prosperous places. This role offers the rare opportunity to see the direct impact of your work every day. Whether you're restoring habitats, supporting community-led projects or helping unlock investment for large-scale nature recovery, you'll be contributing to a vision that places the environment at the heart of Blackpool's future. If you're motivated by purpose, partnership and the chance to create meaningful change, this is a role where your expertise can make a genuine and lasting difference.
The Blackpool GreenWave Partnership brings together the VCSFE sector, Council, NHS, housing providers, colleges and businesses, all united by a vision of a healthier, greener Blackpool where nature thrives alongside our communities.
The GreenWave project is part of the National Lottery Heritage Fund’s Nature Towns and Cities programme. It will deliver a 10-year Green and Blue Infrastructure (GBI) Strategy, designed to transform Blackpool’s fragmented green spaces into a connected natural network. This includes parks, community gardens, schools, housing estates, our coastline and urban fringe – creating a framework that benefits both people and nature.
By tackling health inequalities, supporting biodiversity recovery, and embedding climate resilience across planning and regeneration, the project will ensure Blackpool is a healthier, more sustainable place to live, work and visit
The Ecologist will lead on identifying projects that can feed into the development of an investible pipeline of projects aimed at protection, enhancing and creating new Green and Blue Infrastructure. This will include undertaking habitat surveys, project planning, supporting funding applications and engaging with a broad range of partners from community members to senior partners.
We are looking for an individual that is excited by the idea of working with communities on nature-based activity and who has the skills and expertise to help achieve transformational change. Applicants must be dynamic and creative and will be required to engage and support local people in an effective and collaborative way.
For full details of the , please download the Recruitment Pack below.
- Blackpool GreenWave Ecologist Recruitment Pack
You will be contacted shortly after the closing date with an update on the status of your application. Interviews will take place in-person in Blackpool 4th - 6th August.
