Working with a great team of staff and trustees that punches well above its weight to help deliver a zero carbon Cumbria.

Overall responsibility for generating income from membership, merchandise, donations, grants and trust. Leading a four year major donor fundraising appeal with a £900k target.Ensuring GDPR implementation across the organisation. Managing the fundraising team.

Trees for Life is restoring the globally unique Caledonian Forest to the Highlands of Scotland.With the help of supporters and volunteers we're bringing back the wild, native trees and the wildlife that depends on them.

Nurture Lakeland (now replaced by Lake District Foundation) is a charity based in Cumbria which inspires people, communities and businesses to care for the natural environment of this precious place. It encourages tourism businesses to lighten their environmental footprint, turns tourists into happy benefactors and helps create places where people and nature can thrive.www.nurturelakeland.org

Ensured strong and effective relationships between Natural England and its priority national stakeholders across the sectors of: development; land management; marine; recreation and access; and biodiversity conservation.Undertook and delivered to senior management regular qualitative and quantitative assessments of the state of health of Natural England’s relationship with individuals, organisations and sectors.Worked closely with board members, exec directors and press, parliamentary and internal communications managers to identify current and likely future issues of concern to stakeholders and staff and ensured action agreed and taken. Monitored and evaluated changing government priorities and implications for organisational culture, processes and positioning.Responsible for team health and safety, individual and team target setting and performance reporting, recruitment, redeployment, budget and business compliance.Led the highly dispersed team through major change from16 members at it’s peak down to six in response to organisational restructuring and budget constraints.

Brief sojourn managing internal communications team and strategy at a time of significant team and organisational change.

Developed and managed the delivery of a campaign to create and strengthen public support for Marine Protected Areas by inspiring interest in the English undersea environment.Commissioned groundbreaking qualitative and quantitative market research which identified the appropriate campaign methods and messages.Developed relationships with key marine conservation organisations to ensure support for our approach, to amplify the campaign reach, share resources and develop a joint HLF bid.Oversaw the commissioning and delivery of a wide range of campaign communication products and interventions including: widescale media coverage; artwork; information boards; posters; sea creature and habitat craft kits; film (video and CGI); large scale public events all around the country; a cohort of skilled volunteers able to deliver events.Delivered a high profile conference on Marine Protected Areas involving partner funders, a ministerial address, speakers from around the world, 200+ delegates, panels, workshops, press.

Responsible for English Nature’s governance, health and safety system, corporate performance reporting systems, including the annual corporate plan, quarterly performance monitoring and analysis of results. Heavily involved in the management of the merger of English Nature into Natural England. Managed team of 15 staff.

Managed a complex 2 year, £2m project to transform English Nature’s online communication to diverse audiences. Involved coordination of multiple staff, contractors and partners.

Responsible for monitoring, analysing and influencing EU and domestic lowland agriculture policy and on the ground delivery, particularly agri-environment schemes and environmental impact assessment of cultivation of semi-natural habitats.

Coordinated and undertook national and international research projects on EU and domestic agriculture and nature conservation policy on behalf of a diverse range of organisations. Obtained and managed funding; delivered seminars and conferences; managed budgets; wrote, edited and published reports; analysed policy developments.

Responsible for a substantial backlist of non-fiction books, the management of which involved commissioning authors, negotiating contracts, editing manuscripts, and overseeing the process of full book production.